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
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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
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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
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