GITY
The Courier is AGAINST injustice
against the privileged classes, and FOR
the Weak Citizen and the Common
People.
.With $12,000,000 in Factories and
$ 1 00,000 monthly Pay Roil with plenty
of Power to sell, Ore Ron City can dou
ble its Population in Five Years.
29th YEAR.
OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY, FEB. 23, 1912.
OREGON
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HUNTING
COUNCILMAN BEARD IS
EASILY SATISFIED.
NOT
MANY WORDS, FEW POINTS,
Thinks the Man who Is Honest
Is Representing.
Councilman William Board does
not like what the Courier said
last' week about the council
and we don't blame him and in
the Enterprise he comes -back
with a half column article- in
which he states that he resents
the Courier's statements and
that is about all he does state.
Now the Courier doesn't want
any individual light with any in
dividual councilman over this
matter. There is tight enough on
now without enlarging the Held of
battle. It is already mixed up
with business, friendship.politics
and religion.'
Of Mr. Beard, and other mem
bers of the council as well, the
Courier can say it believes he is
honest, strictly on the level, and
that he will act as his convictions
tell him to act.
But and here's a little story
that illustrates the 'but."
In the senate chamber at Al
bany, N. Y the writer saw a man
stand up before the session, ruin
his political future, go back on
the men who made him and vote
against a bill which he knew
would pass by an overwhelming
majority.simply because he was
doing that which he was elected
to do to work for the best in
terests of his county and the men
who sent him there. This sena
tor stated with his vote that he
vote against his convictions, but
that as his vote was clearly in
the interests of the people he
represented, there was only
one course for him to persue
to vote for his county's best good.
Now here's the point:
A man may be as honest as G.
Washington and folfow his hon
est convictions s out into the
wodshed and yet be a hun
dred miles away from where he
should bo.
When the voters of a city elect
a man they don't elect him to ride
a conviction to death they elect
him to carry out that which is for
the greatest good of the great
est number.
No man on the city board does
the city justice, or does what he
was elected to do, when he takes
part in a protracted scrap.-
There are important matters
to come before tlte city and the
council this year.
A franchise of the P. R. L. &P.
Co. expires in November; there
are Dublic buldings to erect;
there are no end of important
matters to come up and to be dis
posed of and a deadlocked council
can't do them justice.
( I
Economical
Turn Down Lamps
Save 85 per cent
do them justice.
Mr. Beard evidently over
looked a part of the Courier's ar
ticle he is evidentally a trifle
near sighted on cloudy days.
He forgot to read, or at least
to comment, on that paragraph
which advised to get together.give
and take, concede and comprom
ise, shake hands and saw wood.
This can be done and the coun
cilman who doesn't work for it is
working against the city, and any
man knows this.
If necessary to stop the fight,
throw out every appointee or of
ficial over whieh there is trouble
and call for a new deck.
Oregon Cily-Jias plenty of good
men. It isn't vitally necessary to
sink or swim with one or two can
didate. We won't all go to the
dogs if the men scrapped over are
not landed.. .
A friend of the editor's, just in
from tho east, said that the first
thing he saw in a morning paper
when he got to Lewiston, Idaho,
was a humorous and belittling
article over the Oregon City coun
cil light an account -badly exag
gerated. There's the Tub.
The light makes a fool city of
us.
Now there are no two ways
obout it, the people are not going
to stand this state or wings long.
They are going to break it up if
the council doesn t, anu tney
should. '
Mr. Beard ends his article with
these words: ,
"In conclusion will say that I
hope the Courier will take this as
the opening of a Kentucky feud."
The Courier hardly expected
this challenge from Mr. Beard.
Hasn't he got trouble enough on
hand now? Does ne want more?
Does he want the newspapers to
mix it. and have a side scrap in
the hopes it will serve as a coun
ter irritant and detract from the
city scrap?
Mr. Beard would work far more
for the city's good if he would
come with an olive branch rath
er than with a club.
The Courier will not accept his
challenge. Let him finish the
little matter he has on hand be
fore he hunts for more trouble.
BANNON & CO. COMING.
St. Paul Firm will Open a Big
General Store March 15.
March 15 Bannon & Co., the big
St. Paul merchants will open their
new store in the present John Ad
ams quarters, in the Masonic
building, they having made a long
lease of the store building.
This firm has stores in St.
.Paul, Minneapolis and Portland,
it is said they have unlimited cap
ital and that the will give Oregon
City a strictly modern, city line of
goods, carrying everything that
the city stores carry.
The Adams store building is a
strictly modern store building, up
to the minute in all features, and
there is every reason why the new
firm could do a big business
here. '
Y L
OF CURENT WHEN THE SMALL ONE-CANDLE
POWER FILAMENT IS RURNING. USi UL
AS A AIX-NIO.nT LIGHT IN nALLWAY, HEP
ROOM, BATHROOM OR ELSEWHERE IN THE
HOUSE. FIT ANY ORDINARY SOCKET
A GENTLE PULL ON ONE STRING GIVES THE
FULL 10 CANDEL-POWER; ON THE OTHER,
THE LOW LIGHT OR OUT, AS DESIRED.
SAVE THEIR COST THE FIRST MONTH
Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company
ELECTRIC STORE SEVENTH!. ALDER.
PORTLAND
I
on
WORK ON THE BIQ CANAL
TO START SOON.
AFTER MANY YEARS WAITING,
Open River and Free Locks Will
Mean Much for Valley.
After many years of working
and waiting, the old Willamette
will have to give up its freight
barrier, and the river will be open
and free.
The proposition ts wound up
and tied up, and it is now but a
matter of getting the work start
ed. The government moves slow
but awfully-sure, and now it is a
matter of but a few weeks before
work will be started on the big
project.
The government has paid the P.
El. L. & P. Co. $375,000 for their
nresent locks, and about $300,000
additional will be expended to put
in a new, modern system."
With free locks 50 cents a ton
on all freight for up-river points
will be abolished, and tho Port
land Journal says if Willamette
valley snippers will now press the
advantage they nave gained tney
can almost work a revolution in
freight charges. A revolution in
freight charges would mean a
lowered cost for every article
consumed and a higher price for
every product sold.
The boats now running on the
Willamette must now eliminate
the fifty cents per ton that the
lockage fee has alwas added to
their charges. Freights that have
always been $2 a ton must now be
reduced to $1.50, and the freights
that were $1.50 must now be cut
to $i. If they fail to do so it will
be proof of an alliance between
the boats and the railroads, and
in which event Willamette ship
pers can easily secure independ
ent steamers to carry the trafllc
at other than monopoly raU
And as a matter of local bene
fit, an army of men will be em
ployed on the work for many
months, and a large amount of
money will be paid out here. With
this big'work and the ninny olln r
public and private enterprises to
start this spring, the outlook for
Oregon City is most rosey.
WE'RE HERE USE US
But If You Are Too Indole"' Don't
Blame Us. ,
. In the confusion of'installing
a linotype many local matters
have been overlooked or forced
out of the two last issues, and be
cause of this a reader sent word
to the Courrier asking if we used
the blue pencil on matters where
the printing was notdone at the
Courier.
If any of you people think such
a thing as this, forget it and try
to be ashamed of yourself.
We are running a public paper
not a personal benellt organ, with
a boycott and a censor. It doesn't
make any difference to this pa
per whether your printing was
done at the Courier otllce or in
San Francisco, if the matter is
on one of news or public interest.
One of our Prohi friends called
us down last week asking why we
didn't at least make a two line
item of. Eugene Challln s speech
here and nass up a little of the
commercial club doings?
Our answer wis that the com
mercial Club has some live ones
as to the -value of publicity, and
the Prohis have some hone heads.
We can t sit on all your door
steps and wait for you to come
out. . . '
If these matters are worth tree
advertising, they, are at least
worth phoning is. this office.
DON'T BE A SUCKER.
Don't Let the Moving Picture Skin
Game Get you.
According to reports there is a
nice bunco game being worked on
this coast country by smooth
steerers, with the aid of the mov
ing picture theatres, the scheme
being to give the lucky holder of
an admission ticket, a deed to a lot
in some far-away locality, and to
get same he must pay $0.50.
Hie bunco is tne ifb.au.
We understand that this
scheme, or something very near a
relative to it, has Deen worKeu oi
late in Oregon City and last week
Darties won lots in Washington
and California but none in Ore
gon. Now our advice to the places
who are helping to plug along this
game is to cm h out, ueiore me
people cut you out.
In the Santa Rosa (Cal.) Dem
ocrat Press of last week was a col
unin article about this bunco deal
stating that letters irom lot win
ners from Oregon. Nevada, Ari
zona, Washington, British Col
umbia come pouring into trie re-
order's oilice in Sonoma county to
be recorded, and the skin game is
in full blast.
And here's a quotation from
that paper. Read it and don't be
a sucker any more:
'Among the letters tne county
recorder receives daily is one he
found in his mail yesterday from
Oregon City, Ore., in which the
writer says he won at a Nickelo
deon in his city a lot in this coun
ty: andi he wants to know it tne
property is worth $0.50. D. An
derson that's his name inclos
ed with his note of inquiry a hand
bill of the show describing tne
mythical lot, and that description
is a gem; Two bubbling, dashing,
splaiiing, crashing, (like the la
niuos waters that came down to
I-odoiO branches of Rucian river
How through the idealic place; it
is on tho Northwestern Pacific
line, while Healdsburg, a c ityof
over 4000 inhabtants,.. is not.
Santa Rosa, "the ideal city of Cal
ifornia," and Luther Burbank'
"the plant wizzard," (with two
z's) are invoked to further the
"boost . And it ends up wnn a
request to como along and Bring
the Children and take Advantage
of These FREE DRAWINGS and
Secure a Home Site at this fa
mous Resort in Sonoma Cuunty
where a chance is given away
ABSOLUTELY FREE With each
Ticket."
The Courier believes this skin
tramo should end. The newspa
pers can kill it if they will, and if
they wont tne county court anu
grand jury should take a hand in.
WHAT KIND OF ROADS?
We Want Courier Readers to Tell
Their Opinions of Them.
What is your idea of good roads
in Oregon?
This nuestion is going to be
next in interest to the election of
a president in this state this year,
and we want to stir you farmers
up, you workmen, you - business
men, get a lino on sentiment and
bring out ideas.
Tho Courier editor has been in
Oresron but eleven months, com
ing from a stale (New York)
that has bonded for $50,000,000
for good roads, and he doesn't
know tne roaos oi uregon.
We invite you to come in with
your ideas and through these
columns give tnem to our reao
ers.
Now is Governor West right or
wrong? Do we want trunk lines
as a basis or do we want first the
side lines to make a basis for a
later trunk line? Do we want a
state bonding act, a county bonding-act
or road district tax levies?
Let us hear from you men who
have fore-otten more about the
road problems than the Courier
editor knows.
Laugh Too Soon
A month ago the Progress of
F.slacada read Oregon City i
moral a rod long over the council
scran, and wound up with the on
nerval ion" t hat town was sick of it
and would auit the county one of
llicsp rlavs.
And that paper preached its
sermon too soon.
Now it has a fight on, just as
Oregon City has a mayor and a
council at a deadlock over the ap
pointment of a marshal.
Probably they will say they
caught it from Oregon City.
And don't you readers think it
is about time for the voters to
elect every official and take away
these bones these councils light
over?
Turnips as Big as Pumpkins.
Gotfield Wallace of Highland,
was in the city Monday, celebrat
ing his 70th birthday, and h?
brought down to the promotion
office some turnips, one of which
weighed 17 and 5-8 pounds. Mr.
Wallace said this was simply to
show what kind of stuff was in
the land out there.
T
GRAND JURY TAKES A REST IN
HARVEY CASE
DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS BUSY,
So Murder Hearing Must Wait
Until April
The Hill murder case is resting,
ust why no one seems to know,
and the only reason we have
heard is that District Atorney
l'ongue has other business that
needs attention.
l'he Jury has not made any re
port it has just taken a vaca-
1011.
When it will re-convene no
one sems to know, but it is said
not until April.
If it is because tne District At
torney has important business
sewliere. wo would like to Know
nder what begree of importance
he classes the Hill murder the
most atrocious crime ever com
mitted in Oregon ?
But we do know the jury has
quit tho case, that no report has
een made, and mat is an wo no
now, except the hundred and one
umors that chase around, nut
which can,t be tied to anything
And it has been a peculiar case
from start to finish hasn't it,
Only In Old Oregon
Ripened wild slrawborrles were
picked at Forest Grove last-week.
some or our citizens nave plan
ted early potatoes.
rarmers are rustling , ineir
pring work.
Everything is in bud. much is
in blossom and some vegetation
n full leaf.
And at this writing a letter from
New York state says the therinoin
ter stands at twenty liclow zero
at 8 a. in.
Let Us Hope
The Oregon Electric will carry
passengers at the rate of one
cent per mile after March I.
And the P. H. I,. & t'. uo. can
carry passengers just as cneap
as tne Oregon "tueciric.
And some day pernaps tney win.
Keep the Wires Hot
Once more the Live Wires have
taken un the matter of the public
dock and our people will sincerely
hope tney will keep tne wires anve
and the present committee will
amount to more than former ones
who were appointed, reported and
discharged.
With tne coming oi iree iocks
I I L
and increased river iraiuc mere
is only one thing for the Live
Wires and live men to do, pro
vide a long needed public dock.
Subscribers Notice.
The Courier has adopted tho
card system for subscription
credits and the date on the paper
has been a bo ished. So many nave
written in that their dates are not
changed that this notice is nec
essary. ,
Almost Persuaded.
When the announcements are
all marie for tho congressional
race in this district'we will know
hist where we stand, where tno
Irrigator stands, on the question
We know now, .pretty near, aw-
fu 1 near llawoy.aniiy irri
gator. '"' ; 'V
NEWS OF THE COURT.
Grand Jury and Circuit Court
Matters Disposed or.
Following aro the indictments
found by the grand jury and made
until ip.
An imlielinenf. against George
r.mirlei'masch. W. G. Yanke and
Henry Meister, on the charge of
violating the prohibition law at
hstacada. . .
I). W. Ho brook. H. L. Johnson
and Thelma Payne charge of
stealing si verwear from Mrs. L.
Naylor. Holbrook Thelma Payne
nU.n(lirl not guilty.
Tom Maloney and George Henry
charge of stealing two dollars
rrom I'ranK soiuat, raaioncy wan
sentenced to from six months to
one year in tho penitentiary and
was then paroled. .
Perry Mosler and N. S. Lmdsey
of Oswego, charge of violating
tho prohibition law.
Richard Hyland pleaded guilty
to a charge of bigamy. Hyland ex
plained to the court that he had
virtually been forced to marry the
girl who came here from Albany
with him several weeks ago. He
was given a sentence of from one
to four years. '
Miller Logan pleaded guilty to
an indictment charging assault
with a dangerous weapon.- He
attempted to stab a policeman
here last month. Ho was senten
ced from six months to one year
in the penitentiary aand men
paroled.
JUST A BLUFF
Woodburn Paper Hands Hot One
To Our City Council
If you city guardians can quit
scrapping long enough the Cour
ier would like to have you read
the following and let it soak in.
It is from Hie Woodburn Indopen
rient.
One reason why so many peo
nl nrc. demanding the absolute
prohibition of the sale of liquor
as a beverage is that the laws to
n
IDE
regulate tne eaie are so poony n
'forced. At Oregon City the Cour
tier tells of a saloon keeper who
sold liquor to'a minoi, and on be
ing arrested by the policeman who
saw him do it, ho was fined fifty
dollars. That was all, although
the ordinance which provides for
that sort of a line also says that
the saloon keeper who is guilty of
selling liquor to a minor shall
forfeit any license ho may have.
The enforcement of such an or
dinance would put every saloon
out of business, but they are not
enforced and they aro not ex
pected to be enforced.
Bryan In Portland February 29.
William J. Bryan, the Common
er, will address a big political
mooting in Portland Thursday
night of next week, February 29,
and a large delegation from this
place will attend.
Here's a 1912 Line-Up.
A government canal locks at a
cost of $75,000.
A new postoflice building at a
cost of$75,000.
A new public library at a cost
of $12,5000.
A new Elks home at a cost of
$40,000.
A new Episcopal church at a
cost of $-40,0(10.
A new Main street business
block at a cost of $20,000.
A new armory building at a
cost of $30,000. This is a pros
pect as yet. ,
Then we have under way a pub
lic dock, deep wate r channels,
and any number of new residen
ces,
AFTER $30,00 ARMORY.
Movement Is Started to Secure,
Mu,ch Needed Building.
R. V. D. Johnston, a national
guardsman, one of a committee
of threo representing the coast
arliliary company of this city,
made a stiriug speech before tho
Live Wires luncheon Wednesday
night for an armory building in
this city, and the Live Wires are
going to give the matter prompt
attention.
Mr. Johnston compared this
city Dallas, Woodburn and Salem,
which have armories, and he. said
the soldiers' quarters here were
not suitable for dog fights or
chicken shows.
Tho building could bo used for
all public purposes, a site would
go far toward the city's third,
and as our city now pays $300 a
year for armory rent, it would be
a good investment.
The Courier will take this mat
ter up at more length next week.
GRANGE NOTICE.
The regular convention of the
Grange will bo held in the county
court room, in Oregon City, on
Tuesday, March 5 at one o'clock.
This convention is called tor
the purpose of electing delegates
to attend the Oregon State Grange
which will convene at Roseburg,
Ore., May 14.
Mary S. Howard, Deputy.
LATE LOCAL NEWS
You real estate men try the
class ads. niey aro nine reiiows
but full of big business.
Class ads on page 8 are always
on the job,
There is a well founded move
ment under way for a new armory
building in this city, and R. V. D.
Johnston, a national guardsman
Ouartermaster Spagio and uorpo
ral Mel'arland, as a committeo
are taking the matter up in deac
earnest, anil tho commercial club
will take hold of it with them.
This city, one of tho oldest in
Oregon, is far behind other coun
ties in the way of decent head
ouartei'B. and it is said we can
get a new armory building hero if
we go a ti er it bard and all to
gel her.
Important Court's Ruling
San Franclsco.That the offer of a
corporation to purchase land from
prospective entrymen as Boon as the
latter huve compiled with provisions
necessary to obtain from the govern
ment title to such lands in legal, 1b
the gist of a ruling made by W. B.
Gilbert, Judge In the United States
circuit court of appeals.
The case decided was that of the
government against the Darber Lum
ber compuny and others for alleged
conspiracy to defraud the government
of large tracts of timber lands In Ida
ho by the use of "dummy entrymen."
Judge Gilbert Bald:
"The decision of the present case
Is rufed by legal principles announced
In the Budd case and In the Clark
case. Those decisions are authority
for the proposition that a person or
corporation desiring to acquire title
to a large body of timber lands of the
United States under the timber and
stone act may express that desire by
another, and may enter Into an agree
ment with hhi) to buy lands upon his
obtaining title thereto, and may lend
him the money with which to acquire
title."
The case grew out of the filing of
applications by 210 entrymen on Boise
Basin, Crooked River and Six-Four
lands In Idaho In 1901-2.
FARM LOANS
w have the following amounts
500, $500, $500 $K00, $HO0
$1000. $1000, $10UU, $15000
$1800, and $2000, ail first mori
gage loans, 7per cent.
9 DIMICK & DIMICK,
Andreson Building,
Oregon City, Ore.
A STONE REGISTER
ONE OF OUR COUNTRY'S UN
KNOWN CURIOS.
HISTORY CHISELED IN ROCK,
Back In the wild Days of the
Great Unknown Southwest.
If a fellow only had time and
money enough what a lot of ,
wonders and strange stories he
could dig up in tho unknown
odd places of this country the
wonderland of the southwest.
But when a fellow has to count
his money every night before he
puts his -pants under the pillow,
and recount it evory morning, to
to see if dreams came true well,
then history has to shorten up a
bit
It costs six dollars a day and
expenses to dig for forgotten his
tory m trie southwest. The ex
penses are a dollar and a half for
the team, the samo for a driver,
and a little more for the digger.
Eleven dollars at the least, and
then when you turn -the driver
buck and relay to some interest
ing unknown spot, it then costs
at least twenty dollars a day .And
what man outside of the Smith
sonian, doing- business on his
own account, can lay over for a
week or two at places of interest
and history'?
1 have an idea tliatjpvery lel
low who ever wont down in the
southwest to review history was
about as short as 1 am, and that
he measured long ago events by
how long his treasury cloth
would pay livory rigs. I'll ex
cept one newspaper man from
tins, tno into f rame uusning,
who was adopted by the Zunas.
From a visit to that wonderful
coinmunial dwelling, Zuni, I took
a new trail. Back to tthe start
ing place, Gallop, there was lit
tle but sand hills, an occasional
pine tree, called tho forest re
servo on our maps) a lone trad
ing store and a few scattered
Navajo Indians. I had been over
this lonesome waste once and
1 didn't fancy a return trip.From
the trader at Zuni I learned that
one could turn tho driver back
fro in Black Rock, relay at a ranch
and see records of our history of
370 years ago that but pitifully
few whito men have ever soen.
So I sent tho driver back and
started for those sentinal rocks
of our early history the rocks
where early explorers wrote their
historyan autograph album 'that p'.
should be preserved by our coun
try a record written on eternal
stono.
Twenty miles east from Zuni
these history rocks stand in the
sunshine today ancient as tne
sun. Wind sand and erosian nave
tried to erase tho records of these
who first made a path from Mex
ico to tho Rio Grande, and who
wrote their efforts on thoso rocks.
But tho climate of the southwest
has dealt moro kindly with them
than man and our country ana
they yet stand to bo seen and
read by any man who can stand
tho hardships and six dollars a
day, expenses included.
f rom tne pueblo oi z.uni to tne
Rio Grando runs an ancient trail,
obliterated by years, and now a
thoroughlaro. Back in 1D4U H
was the only trail through New
Mexico to Santa .He and tne nio
Grande, and it would seem that
almost evory Spaniard left his
card there often a message of
history."
El Morro is tho great histtorio
rock that rises from the prairie
two hundred feet high and
thousands of feet long a wedged
shaped mass of solid stono that
long will remain a monument to
our first civilization, and on whose
face is tho brief register of many
a pioneer, whoso daring exploits
opened Now Mexico to the coun
try. El Morro was tho one common
camping place for the venture
some Spaniards, and each man
registered at Nature's great hotel,
li.l.l.ln thinking that the register
would some day become a part
of our oountry's history.
1 ho inscriptions read littio to
me. They were an in ispan-
(the old ones) and in abbreviat
ed Spanish that has taken years
to translate.
But I had read of this famous
nscrintion llock. and while I
could not make either. A. or Z
from the lettering, I knew it was
the writing of men who never
hoped to conio back from the un
known trackless, watorless,
foodless country ahead, lined
with savages wild beasts and
countless dangers. And I looked
with awe at tlieso old registers,
at tho writing of men who wrote
their-own epitaphs.
Later l found a book at santa
Vn which translated theso rock
writings and they meant much
more than 1 thought. One of tho
ofdest, and one well preserved,
is that of Onatc, which translat
ed reads:
"Passed bv here the officer, Don
Juan do Oneta to the discovery of
the sea of tho south, on tho lbtn
of April, 1605."
Another oim is dated 1520, but
it is claimed this is an error in
registering, as no white man had
ever set foot in New Mexico at
this date. It reads:
"By here passed the ensign,
Don Joseph do Payba Basconzelos
the year that he brought the town
council of tho kingdom (N. M.) at
his own expense, on tho ltjth day
of February ofl526 years."
And there is one that has ro
mance and tragedy:
"They passed on the 23rd of
March, 1032, years to tho aveng
ing of tho death of the Father
Letrodo."
Father Lotredo was the first
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