OREGON CITY COUEffiM You can't talk too much If you talk right. Talk and factories have built up many a city, and will build many another. ..If you don't believe In Oregon City why don't you get out and make room for the fellow who does? OREGON CITY. OREGON. FRIDAY. MAY 24 1912. 29th YEAR. No. 1 WILL I RESIDENCES FOR WORKMEN, WITHOUT TAX OR INTEREST. SPLENDID INDUSTRIAL MOVE Willamette Paper Company Will Improve Labor Conditions. The Willamette Company's pa per mills, employing in mills and office, over 650 men, are again before the public in a role assum ed of late years, for which credit is due. The Live Wires have had up for three years the matter of homes to rent, or on. any plan so work ing men coming here for employ ment can properly have their families. Complaints have been registered from time to time be cause men of objectionable na tionality have been employed, but the trouble has always been tra ced down to insufficient homes to rent. The company has at last come to the rescue and decided to take matters- into its own hands. An option is expected covering a large tract near Oregon City, and at the sama time near the com pany's mills and if secured, will be subdivided and sold to the men in their employ on terms like rent without interest or taxes un til paid for. Many men have al ready asked for contracts and it is expected if the plan is carried out that at least fifty contracts will be made and an equal num ber of homes started this sum mer. There will be a large amount of work connected with the move ment, but the company will gain by having better men who appre ciate what is being done for them and men who will help build up the country instead of the tran- 'rrif. help now necessary on ac count of rentable houses not to be had. FULL COUNTY TICKET. Socialists Say They will Break In to Clackamas County this Fall. Tlw county Socialists conven tion was held in Knapp's hall Sat urday last and a complete county ticket nominated, and the Social ists will make an aggressive cam paign. Mr. Myers says that the time is just right to elect a part of the county ticket this fall and that they are surely going to do so. The following are the nomin ations: Representatives John Stark, Mother and Need an Electric Fan, Too CALL AT ELECTRIC STORE Portland Railway. Light & Power Company MAIN OFFICE SEVENTHS ALDER. PORTLAND Phones Main 6688 and A. 6131 Maple Lane; M. V. Thomas, Bull RunF. Mathews, Macksburg. County Commissioner V .W , Myers, Oregon City. Sheriff J. W. Braker, NewEra. County Clerk J. W.- ' Leiser, Canby. ' County Recorder, C. T. Hilton, Needy. ' ' County Treasurer D. Fredcr icka, Molalta. i Coroner Eli Criswell, Maple Lane. I County Assessor Claude How ard, Mulino. Superintendent of County schools, Robert Ginther, High land. Surveyor, S.. H. Perkins, Aber ncthy. There were a hundred delegates in attendance, and they were full of enthusiasm, believing that the chance to break into Clackamas county, and they say if they can once get a foothold and show to the voters what they stand for, that they can make rapid gains in this county . "Give us a chance to make good and show to the people, that there is nothing in Socialism but what is for the greatest good of the greatest number, and we will carry this county in two years," said an en thusiastic farmer. It is said the Socialists will have some of the best speakers of the country here during the sum mer. HORRIBLE ACCIDENT. Workman's Hands Caught In Ma chine and Fingers Pulled Off. Another of those accidents that make one shudder, the second one of the same nature, within a few days happened at the Hawley pa per mills Wednesday, when Geo. Marley, a workman, feeding a cal endar, had his fingers caught in the rollers, and before help came both hands had been, drawn in, the fingers horribly mangled, some of them being torn from the sockets, so it is reported. It is said that one hand was (lrst caught and in endeavoring to ex tricate it. the other was caught, iiie oauiy injured man was hur ried to the office of Dr. Strickland where he and Dr. Meisner dressed the mangled hands. It would seem that humanity would demand that these ma chines be safe guarded in some way and that these horrible ac cidents should not bo of so fre quent occurence. One man's hands are worth more than all the pulp the Hawley mills make in a year. Mr. Marley is 50 years old, an old resident of this city, a widow er and has several children. For Shoo Repairing go to C. Juhnke. It's as necessary to summer comfort as tha funiaco is to winter comfort. The 1912 Electric fans are fans that you'll be pi-ou l to take home light in weight, graceful, beautifully finished ornaments any place most economical fans ever made. Get one now and let the home share the comfort of the office. You wouldn't be without one in the of fice a single day, would you? EVER IE ft PRIVATE IF NOT, GET ONE AND ENTER THE BIO RACE. GET ONE THAT IS STEADY. And One That Will not Run Away With You. The man who has a little hobby and rides it for exercise, pleasure and diversion is the happiest and most contented man in the world. The world is full of men and hobbies, and the hobby is born with the man. Some crop out as soon as the lad cuts his milk tenth, while oth ers lie dormant, waiting for a cir cumstance to develop them, and unless that circumstance should happen along at about the right time the fellow's hobby is liable to die with him. These hobbies are very often inheritances handed down to us, and some times they are handed down from way up on the top shelf, where they have been cov ered with dust for two or three generations, and when you get them ouW groom them up and start them down the track, they often take the bit in the mouth and run clean out of the country. They have stood in the stable for so many years that when they get out and get a few oats it is hard telling what speed clip they are going to hit. There is a lot of difference in the breed of the hobby and a lot of difference whether one rides it or it rides him. In the former a man gets a lot of pleasure out of the ride, but in the latter he is apt to get mixed up in fast com pany and get turned over in the ditch. Cecil Rhodes had a hobby and he made his life fit it the hobby rode him. Away back down his family line there was a spark of something ambition we will call it and it cropped out and mixed with his blood. Circumstances lit a match to it and it was fanned into a blaze. His hobby was to enlarge and change Great Brit ain's map and he bent every en ergy of his life to this one pur pose. He made for himself a name for which he cared nothing, and he spent his life in a . work which 'few would appreciate and yet it was his hobby. He was a man loved, feared and damned. It is often said that Rhodes' tal ents, turned in another direction, Babv might have made for him a name for good that would have been handed down to history. But the question is would he have ac complished anything in any other work? Could he have ridden any other hobby? And was he really responsible for the traits that ruled his life? Russell Sage was another illus tration of a man making a bus iness of a hobby.and riding it in a direction which it is said he was powerless to change. His hobby was gold, gold, gold. He is dead. but before his body had grown cold relatives were scrapping ov er his hundred million dollars, and the American people were calling his a wasted life. But was ho re ally responsible for the inherited traits that were stronger than his will power? Sage was a man of brains and judgement, and he certainly must have known that the hundred millions of dollars were no more good to him than a hundred thousand, yet he kept on pilling them up just the same. Edison is another example of a business hobby, but his ancestors did more for him than for Sage. His genius ran in the direction the following of which would be of benefit to humanity. He is ac knowledged as a public benefac tor. Is he worthy of it? I don't think so not in the sense of a real public benefactor. His hob by carried him in one direction and he simply kept the saddle. It satisfies him to gain his ends, and if in gaining them and satisfying his desires others were benefitted, it was simply additional satisfac tion. But all this is not what I start ed to write and it has really been an argument against the line of thought I had in mind.. They say that every man has some particular liking for some particular line of work, that there is a something he is particularly adapted to, and that if he can on ly hit on it, ho will be happy and successful in the persuit.. But it is not always that a man can follow the work that he has a lik ing for, even after he has found it, hence the little side hobbies. Some take to dogs, horses, hunting, hens, drawing, inven tions, and so on, and the fellow who has one or more of theso lit tle side lines finds all kinds of en joyment in their persuit. The an ticipation makes his regular work easy and anticipation is much more to life's pleasure than real ization, because the latter is not worth what it seems, while the former is worth more. There is often a fellow who says he has not a hobby that there is no particular thing he likes better than another. If he is a man of some brains, he is sim ply fooling himself and he is but admitting "that he has not yet found the trail that would really lead him to the place he is looking for. His hobby is uneasiness. He is a derlict, drifting for any old harbor, and history is full of the stories of this man, and of how ho has finally found the harbor. But after all is said, the man who comes about as close to en joyment and contentment as a man can come is who has a regu lar business that takes him away from want, and at the same time gives him leisure to work out some of the things his heart has a yearning for. That man has a side hobby a safe hobby that gives him pleas ure and makes him ever hopeful and cheerful. Any man should have a side line. He will live longer and live happier. PETERING OUT. County Division Matter Said to be Dying Natural Death. County division is said to have had an attack of sleeping sickness, that enthusiasm has been followed with sober Judg ment, and that sentiment is very largely against the proposition. Talking with a farmer from Highland the other day ho stated that the farmers in that precinct were very much against the pro posal, that it simply meant dou ble taxation without correspond ing benefits, and that the farmers are now loking the matter over in 'seriousness, and that they can see 'no good results. I The day may como when it will be advisable to divide this county and give the eastern end a govern ment of its own, but the day has not come yet, and will not until there are thousands more of cleared acres in Clackamas and double tho present wealth. Division now would mean heavy taxation, and there is no getting away from this heavy taxation because there would be so few in ! the proposed new county to pay lit. I The people of the eastern part :of the county now have all the privileges they would have under a new county, except the heavier , taxation. They can do business where they please and go where they please. Estacada and those promised some of the plums under a new government, and those living near to Estacada, want a new county, and outside of these we do not find any clamor. We will will trust you for a year on the Courier, but we expect prompt payment then. 5; BUT LIVE WIRES TAKE UP THIS IM PORTANT MATTER. DIMICK FAVORS GRANGE BILL All Concede Roads Needed, but Will we Get Legislation? The Live Wires had an inter esting session Tuesday and sev eral maters of public interest, both local and general, were tak en up and discussed . The matter of good roads for Oregon was one topic. Mr. Sullivan stareld it, following a report from Mr. U'Ron that he did not think the differences between the governor and the Grange could be reconciled. To bring out discussion Mr. Sullivan made a half joking motion that the legis lative committee of the LiveWires be empowered to draw up a bill that would be acceptable to ev erybody; that the Live Wires had done things that had moved the United States government, and we should be able to handle this mat ter. And then the discussion that Mr. Sullivan wanted to bring out followed. Mr. IT'R.in said that, the situa tion as it. nnnenred at Roseburc: seemed almost unreconcileable; that the Grange thought the gov ernor's bills were for the main trunk roads first, and that main trunks were all that would ever bo built, while the supporters of l.ha covernoi-'a hills thoueht the same way of the Grange bills, that the latterals were all mat wouia ever be forthcoming. Mnvnr Diiniek thnnirht that the Grange bills were the best good mads nrnnnsition the state had fivop had mi fnp consideration, and i - . that they should be adopted, and that the Live Wires snouid go on rpp.nrH ns favorable to them: that what Oregon neoded was latterals first, and the main minus would AnmA without, anv trouble." He compared the offices of the state tax commissioner and the good roads, commissioner, and said that these offices were too far from the people to be effective; that the state tax commissioner gave orders from his office that Ihn iWHq hn examined and the considerations be computed and from the reports the commission added and substracted and made nrhilrnrv assessments that were unfair; that the good roads com missioner had neither the time, inclination or the ability to con sider the road work in the differ ent sections of the state and that in consequence there was little if anv Bvatnm In it.: that the Grange bills-provided that tho county court of each County have the au thority to designate what and where tho work of tho county should be done, ana mat no- ue lieved it would bo well for theLive Wires In study the Granite bills, and discuss them at tho weekly motings. President Ebv said that the matter of good roads was one of t.hn hiccrest issues of Oregon to day; that the roads and the pres pnt svstAni nf hnildinsr them were wrong, that they were not roads when completed, and that wo naa got to build different roaus lor ine future as we are only wasung money now This mailer is one that will nn Hnll hi ho clven considerable attention of the Live Wires later on. Mr. McBain reported that the Southern Pacific people did not think the matter of warehouses on lower Main street was practical, and that they would take tho mat ter up more fully with the asso ciation later on. The matter of sprinkling of Main Street, taken up with tho P. R. L. & P. Co., tho report was that the sprinkling would bo continued by the company. Mr. McBain reported that he had letters from five more rail roads assuring the Live Wires that they too were with us on the terminal rates matter, and would urge that these rates be given the city. This makes nine railroads that have announced for the rates and it is but a matter of awaiting the supreme court's decision when they will bo put in force and this city will be given all the favors in way of rates that Portland or any other city gets. Mr. Mc Bain also reported that the matter of dredging the chan nel would be taken up soon, that the U. S. engineers now had the mailer in charge. J. E. Hedges, as an official of the water commissioners, stated that two men from Seattle were circulating "lories on the streets had refused their bid in preferen ce to a local city bid, although their bid was over $1100 higher than that of the city bid, and he slated that he wished to explain the matter to the Live Wires. He stated that all bids for the water bonds were to be unconditional; that the bid of the Seattle parties was so full of conditions that it was not a bid, and that it could IT 1 not and would not bo given any consideration by the board as a bid. The matter of riding the river at tho falls from its annual crop of dead eels came up for a little talk, it arising over the proposi tion of R. E. Clanton, master fish warden, that if the city would pro vide $200 he would have two men patrol the river and take care of all dead eels. At the falls are thousands and thousands of eels, who like tho salmon try to climb tho falls. They crawl out on the rocks in the hundreds of fissures and the receding waters, during the dry months, leave them there to die. Tho matter of raising the necessary cash will be undertak en. MISTAKES IN HISTORY. Former Old Resident Says E. D. Dement Is In Error. Some wcks ago the Courier ran some interesting articles on old- lime history written by Edward Dement, a newspaper man of San- Francisco, formerly a resident of this city, and the articles attract ed no little interest from both old residents and the new comers. James D. Miller of Spokane, received a copy of the Courier in which was described the big flood of the old days, and he declares that Mr. Dement is wrong, very wrong, in his recollection of one or two incidents. Mr. Miller is over 80 years old, and was a for mer resident of this city. From a letter written to his nieco, Mrs. J. W. Norris, we reproduce a part. which will bo of intorest to the old residents: I am in receipt of your letter enclosing a clipping from the Courier, and Ed. Doment's his tory of tho flood of 1801 is in correct. At the time of the flood I was employed by James Guth rie, the owner of the Island Mills. John Chapman was the miller.My duty was to attend to the local sales of flour and feed and receive the wheat. 1 resided in LinnCity In the William Day house. The water got so high tho ferry re fused to run, which compelled me to remain at home. One morning wo saw that, thelslandMills bridge had been carried away during the night. I got a bowl, crossed over to Oregon City and found out baby were left on the island. I took ; a skiff and crossed over Joseph Lacey took another, and we pulled as far up in the can yon as we could, by keeping close in near the rocks, to get all the eddy possible, so when we started to make the eddy (made by the flour and saw mills) If we missed that eddy we would go down the river. I took in my skiff Mrs. Chapman and baby and Mr. Lacey took Mr. Chapman. The next morning wo saw that the great rush of water had swept everything off the island, also had carried away Dr . John McLaughlin's flouring and saw mills. I am quite sure that Mr.Chap- man will agree with mo as to what transpired at this time. Now the idea of getting a long rope or hawser across that can yon and fastened soundly on the other side is absurd. Who was there to fasten it? Chapman's baby? It was all bosh. I will remember as long as I live many of the things that hap pened at that time. We resided iu the two story house belonging to William Day. I remember the neighbors were coming to our houso for shelter after their homes had been carried away. At At four o'clock in the evening all tho houses in Linn City had been abandoned or had been swept away, except the Day houso we oc cupied and tho houso owned byG. W. Taylor, which was higher than our house by ten feet, and located on the side hill. While we wore eating supper tho water com menced to slush under tho floor, and I thought then it was time to begin to leave, and before I got all of our household goods out the water on tho floor was eight in ches or more deep, and during the night I had to move our traps threo times a little higher up on tho hillside. I remember also of seeing Captain S. R. Smith and Lou Vicars, engineer, run the lit tle side-wheeled steamer down over the falls and they landed just below the Catholic church, the place then called tho sand banks. I remember the tiller ropo broke and they ran into the eddy and then into a house sot ting in tho water up to the eaves. I remember many other incidents but think I have troubled you long enough. But getting that haw ser across the river to the island beats mo. There were not men enough in Oregon City to have accomplished it. It was impos sible. (To the new comers In Oregon City we would say that Linn City which was swept away in this flood, was located on the west side' of the river, and at about the place where the locks open.) Ed. Was Cross, Crabbed and Sulked. A divorse was granted to Geo W. Wilson, a Portland attorney, from his wife, Varie Marie Wil. son, this week, Mrs. Wilson being the daughter of County Clerk Fields of Portland. Mr. Wilson says she was cross, sulky and crabbed and rofused to speak to him for days at a time. BURNED T IN HIS HOME. JOHN R. DIMICK OF AURORA MEETS AWFUL DEATH. BROTHER OF MAYOR DIMICK. Doubtless Overcome While Try ing to Save Records. Nine months aero Wednesday of this week Hulnh Dimick. vonnerest brother of Mayor G. B. Dimick, met a traeic end bv escaDintr from the hospital while delerious from the effects of pneumonia. causing his death a few hours lat er. Wednesday of this week John R. Dimick of Aurora, lawyer and ranchman, and wen Known in this and Marion counties, was burned to death at his ranch home near Hubbard. Just, how he haoDened to lose his life is not and probably never will he known. He lived alone on his ranch near Aurora. Wednes day morning he told the two men who worked for him that he was ffoins: to a neighbors and would not bo absent long. About an hour later the workmen saw lire and smoko breaking out of the houso and by the time they got to it it was a mass of flames. The men had no thought at that time that Mr. Dimick was in the house , and they were working hard to save a part of the furniture and contents, and it was only when tho building was a roaring furn ace that it was discovered that Mr. Dimick was in the houso and . was perishing with tho flames, nut ii. was then loo late to help him. It is supposed than on his return he found the houso on lire ihnt. hn t.riol to save Bomo valua-. hie naners. and that he was over come from heat and smoke. He had fallen onto a cot under a wm rlnw. nn dnutt whilo trying to find his way out of tho burning house. Mr. Dimiok was a son of John B. Dimick, an old pioneer, one of a- fnmilv nf five bovs and one daughter, and a brother of Mayor Dimick of this place. Mr. uimics was 15 years old and was to have been married to Miss Weather- ford of Gilman county June 6. Ho trrafliiiil.fid from Multnomah college in 1889 and the Salem law school in 1904. After his gradua tion he practiced law for some years and later bought. the ranch and went into farming. His onnolnllv Ihn rnisimr of onion Sets in which ho was highly successful The funeral will be neia ai Au rora Friday . FREYTAQ MAIN BOOSTER. Sucoeeds M. J. Lazelle as Head of Publicity Department. O. E. Frevtag will succeed M. J. Lazelle as manager of the pub licity department of the commer cial club, tho committee at its meeting Wednesday night , ceing unanimous in their choice of Mr. Freylag to manago this import ant end of the club's work. It would be hard to find a man better qualified than Mr. Freytag for this position, lie has uvea in this county for more than 20 yoars; he knows the county, the land, tho farms, the fruit and has a general knowledge of the coun ty, the state and tho coast coun try that is absolutely necessary to conduct a publicity department and make it a success. As superintendent of tho horti cultural department of the state fair At Salem ho has made good; as fruiftnspector of this county ho has made more than good, and as a real estate dealer ho has been successful. Mr. Freytag will close out his eal estate work and givo his full attention to the publicity work of Clackamas county, including tho editing of "Publicity" and the general management of the ad vertising and publicity work . Mr. Freytag will make good, fully good, for ho ha3 every nec- esary qualification, and a better man for the place could not nave been found. M. J. Lazelle's resignation will take effect Junel, and Mr. Freytag will take charge of the work on this date. SERIOUS FIRE AT MOLALLA, MOLALLA HOTEL BURNED TO ASHES WEDNESDAY NIGHT. Big Loss In Property and no In surance on Buildings. Tho Molalla Hotel at Molalla, owned and managed by F. C. Parrv. was burned to the ground Wednesday night at about 12 o' clock. Nothing in tho building was saved, but no lives were lost. Oth er buildings consumed by the fire were a photograph gallery, wind mill tower and tank and wood shed all belonging to Mr. Perry, the pool hall building which was the property of J. J. Tobin of thi3 city, Fernams barn, and Huntley Bros. barn. There was no Insurance on any Continued on page eight