OE1SGOM CITY GOTO
You can't talk too muoh If you
talk plght. 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. JUNE 28 1912.
30th YEAR.
No. 6
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FOR WEST IE.
WILLAMETTE PAPER CO S BIG
DEAL GOES THROUGH.
WORK WILL START AT ONCE,
Houses will be Sold to Workmen
on Easy Monthly Payments.
Some time ago the Courier an
nounced that a deal was under
consideration whereby the Wil
lamette Pulp & Paper Company
would build llfty or more new
houses on the west side for their
workmen,
i Now we are authorized to an
nounce that the deal has gone
through, been tied up, and work
on the big project will start at
once.
The Willamette Paper com
pany has purchased 56 acres of
land on the west side, adjoining
the school house land, and a
force of workmen will be put on at
once to clear and plat the tract
for the erection of ilfty new resi
dences for the workmen of the big
plant. Mr. McBain says the land
will be cut up into city lots of
the size of 50x100 feet, streets
will be laid out, and a handsome
little city suburb will be built up.
There will be a - public sports
park of one block. The houses will
vary in size from five to eight
rooms.
The proposition of the com
pany is to build these houses for
the workmen, sell them at the cost
of building and allow the work
men to pay for them on easy in
stallments, without taxes or in
terest, paying', each month the
amount they now have to pay in
rent.
The proposition is a good one,
and it .will do much to weed out
the undesirable class of workmen
and get in their places home own
ers and good citizens.
Some weeks ago Mr. McBain
explained to the Commercial club
that the company could not hire
white men to live in shanties and
as the city had r.o empty houses of
that class and rent that workmen
wanted it was up to the company
to hire those it could or provide
better means for housing better
workmen . And the purchase of
this tract is the result. -
It, is thought ihe work of clear
ing and grading can be done in
six or eight weeks, and that build
ing may be commenced by the
middle or last of August.
The houses will be bungalow
style, will be neat and warm, will
r
A Cool Kitchen
EVEN IN
MIDSUMMER
With A REAL LIVE BREEZE
blowing away the sultry air and
cooling the whole room
That's Yoti Kitchen and all others, toothat
HAVE AN
Electee FAN
be pfastered, and a new street
from the suspension bridge wil,l
connect with the new city. ,
May Have to Show Them.
Last week's Canby Irrigator
had a rather nasty Southern Pa
ri lie inspired article regarding
the construction of the Clackamas
Southern railroad, an article that
the directors of the company re
sent, and -it is reported that this
wise editor from, Canby may be
given a chance to make good his
libels or pay the fiddler.
WHAT THEN?
One of the Bills of the Future we
Must Face Payment On.
Some day there is likely to :
be a diminution of the build
ing activity inl'ortland, when
contractors will bo idle and '
labor have less employment.
What then? '
Some day the limit will be
reached in the inflation we
can pump into our town lots
whereby speculators and -the
thousands employed n real
estate activities will find
their revenues reduced. What
I hen ? Portland Journal.
These are questions that many
a far-seeing man is asking as he
looks into the future.
There is no part of this big
country so situated as the Pacillc
coast. Nature did loo much for
it, made it to desirable in the way
of climate and richness, and the
result is that it is simply over
balanced in the number of people
looking for work, and in the num
ber of people engaged in business.
A friend of the Courier editor
name out here from New York a
few months ago to go into busi
ness, and he told the Courier he
had been in every place of any
size from Portland to SanDiego,
that he found the business places
out of all proportion to the size of
the places and the means of em
ployment, and that in eight cases
out of ten the business men were
simply making both ends meet
inst existing and living on the
hopes of what the Panama canal
would do for the country. He said
the city of SanDiego, with a popu
lation of about 70,000, had as
many business planes 'as Buffalo,
N. Y., with a population of half a
million.
It is indeed a peculiar situa
tion that a country that is wallow
ing in crop richness is almost on
a panic stage because too many
people have come to the country,
ton jnany business houses, too
many workmen.
The thing to do is to untie the
thousands of acres-of land in Ore
gon that the speculators are fold
ing out, to develop Alaska and get
cheap coal and to manufacture
the goods here that we have to
send back east for.
Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company
MAIN OFFICE SEVENTHIt&IALDEfc
PORTLAND
Phones Main 6688 and A. G131
CUTLERY FAGTORY
JE
WOULD BRING FIFTY NEW
FAMILIES TO OUR CITY.
SKILLED LABOR, HIGH WAGES
Live Wires and Commercial Club
are Taking up Proposition.
There is before the Live Wires
and the Commercial club a prop
osition to secure to this city an
eastern cutlery manufactory that
will bring about fifty new famil
ies to this city, and become one of
the permanent labor-employing
industries.
This (Thursday) night the
matter will come up for discus
sion before the Live Wires and it
is to be hoped that the matter may
be worked out and this new indus
try added to, Oregon City's big
bunch of mills.
The Courier editor knows noth
ing of the proposition that will bo
presented by the company, but he
dixesiknow the people, know that
they are on the dead level, that
they know every detail of the cut
lery business and that they will
make a success or the work here
r anywhere else., S
1 no- writer- nas uvea a great
part of bis life in tne cutlery man.
ufacturiug towns of the east
states, and he knows what these
faotories have done and will do
for the town or city where locat
ed. He has seen t.iem, one after
another, branch out from the big
concerns, start first perhaps in
the jobbing business, and a few
years later grow into large fac
tories employing many workmen.
The manufacture of cutlery is
different than most any manu
factory in this particular . that
at least eighty per cent of the pro
duct is labor and the twenty per
cent material. The labor is
skilled labor, wages are high and
the class of workmen desirable
citizens. .
While all the cutlery factories
are! back in the east end of the
country,' yet'the markets for the
output is very largely west of the
Mississippi river, and the coast
country-is the best market in the
country.
These ciuiery faotories are com
ing west. It will be but a short
time before there will be several
of them west of the range, and it
is but a question of whether our
city my not see in this matter an
investment, and that the location
of one of (he first factories may
be made here. '
WOULD
OCA
mi win sou see in Oregon
what the east is now seeinsr.a i on
union or fewer. and larger chips,
and tho city that has the nulls
and factories will be one of the
fewer and larger. With a pay
roll a city may go through pan
ics, crop failures or any other
tight place and never know it is
raining.
Oregon City has a great group
of mills, but it can provide for
many more. It has the power
and the public spirit. And if we
are going get more factories
we must get them wnen they are
ollered.
T..- proposition tnat will be of
fered to. the Live Wires and the
Commercial club snould be most
carefully considered before we let
some of the cities, up the valley
cop it out.
WATCH FOR THE JOKER.
Writer Says Petition Circulators
will Bear watohlng.
Editor Courier:
I was on the city streets Sat
urday, when I found three men
circulating initiative petitions
They were talking about single
tax and capital punishment, but
they had sheets of carbon pape
in between the. sheets. One of the
petitions was to change the law
from twenty-five' per cent of the
voters to a majority. That would
make it much harder to get a bi
nefore tne people ana that is
one of the jokers. The other ob
ject was to make the ballot so
large and clumsy and so loaded
down with propositions that' the
people will become disgusted witl
the initiative and referendum.
Now the people will have to be
very careful over this Imatter o
signing every petition that comes
along, or they will lose, the init
iative and referendum.
I asked one of these men who
sent him out and he replied a man
in Portland, and I will bet'acoon-
skin against a cnew or lonacci
that it was a corporation lawyer
or some of the big business bunch
that hired them at so much a sig
nature, to work for the downfall
of the people.
Watch these fellows closely. If
a man comes to you with a peti
tion look throngh it carefully and
f you find any carbon paper be
tween the leaves it is a safe bet
to turn the whole bunch down,
man and all.
" G. E. Rogers.
Getting Ready for the Big Fourth
of July Celebration.
- The Willamette - Paper- Com
pany's fourth of Jury celebration
is certainly going to be some do-
ngs, and the several committees
are now on the job working out
the details.
A complete program of sports
and events will be put on, there
will be plenty of music aHid en
tertainment, and it will be cole
bra lion tliat will without doubt be
long remembered by the employ
eos of the paper company.
I he celebration will be held in
Schnoerr's park and it will be giv
en to the employees of IheWillam-
ette Company by the company
John Lewthwaite, William Shea-
han and B. T. McBain have the af
fair in charge and no expense will
be spared to give the employees
and their families a. big celebra
tion and a bigger time.
Going After the Paolflo Company.
The city council is doing the
righMhing to investigate the mat
ter of the discriminating rates
charged by the Pacific Telephone
Company, and they will no doubt
go fully into the. matter and de
termine how often this company
is going to increase its rates.
A member of the Commercial
flub and the Live Wires told this
office that he should bring the
matter up before the next lunch
eon, for he thought this w.as one
of the matters the Live Wires was
organized to protect the' people 01
. There is plenty of proof of the
discrimination in the charges, and
there are many residences that
pay three dollars a year more
than neighbors who have exactly
the same service. This discrimi
nation will not hold in law, and it
simply needs an action that has
some strength behind it to make
the company come to time.
Molalla Stars Won.
The Molalla Stars were return
ed the victors in their game at
Molalla with the Molalla Greys.
Loose playing, on both sides was
the main feature of the game.
Stars 0 00301 31 19
Greys 10100032 07
Batteries Stars, Lake and Pape.
Greys Hart, Anderson and
James.
Umpire, Ed Reckner.
Next Sunday the Stars play
Shuble at Shuhle.
No Wonder the Governor Is Tak
a Hand In
Governor West is after the road
houses and says he is going to
clean them up with his own offi
cials if the county ofllcers can't
do it. And last week's Milwaukee
Appeal had an ad. headed in dis
play type "Parlor Hell.
Running Light This Week.
A delayed burner for the lino
type has put the machine on the
retired lil for two days this week,
and, the Courier is not up to its
usual standard of local news and
communications.
1
NVESTIGATE
E RATES
COUNCIL WILL TAKE UP MAT
TER OF DISCRIMINATION
NEW STREET IMPROVEMENTS
Many Important Matters Consid
ered by the Council.
I he matter of discriminaf. inc
teiepnone rates, which the Courie
has been making public, was tak
en up, and Councilman Tooze
asked that a committee of three be
appointed to make an investiea
tion, and probe the charsres that
umerent rates were made to dif
ferent residents for the same ser
vice.
Thecity council took the right
action at its Monday night meet
ing wrten it passed a resolution to
call a public meeting for Monday
nignt next to take up and discuss
the proposed revised charter to be
voed on next month. The meeting
snould be well advertised, and the
citizens generally should attend
and have the new provisions in
the proposed charter explained.
A petition for the improvement
of Division street was presented
and was referred to the street
committee to report on same at
the next meeting.
A conference with tho Portland
Railway Company, regarding the
matter of improving the Canemah
driveway will be held Juno 28.
City engineer Montgomery
recommenced mat tne worK on
Monroe street between Ninth and
Eleventh, be deferred until next
spring was adopted. A sidewalk
will be built between the two
streets.
James Iloake presented a reso
lution that no further contracts
be entered iuto. with tho Oregon
Engineering and Construction Co
until the company completes the
work it now has on hand. Mr,
Roake thought that too much
time was being taken for the work
on Washington and, Monroe Sts,
The council did not take any ac
tion on the resolution.
Bids Jor the improvement of
John Q. Adams street from Eighth
to Fourteenth, Sixteenth - street,
between Division and Jackson and
a portion of Jackson street were
opened and considered, but none
of them will be accepted until at
the meeting Friday night of this
week, when the matter will be
taken up. The bias were as fol
lows:
John Q. Adams street Oregon
Engineering & Construction . Co.,
$13,138.00; Kibbo-Wilten Co $14
459.45; North Coast Contract Co.
$15,442.14.
Sixteenth street Oregon Engi.
neering & Construction Co$7,-
840.25; Kibbo-Welton Co$8,36t,-
41; Nrth Coast Contract Co. $8,-
009.04. ' " .
Jackson Street Oregon Engi
neering & Construction. Co $7,-
782.10; Kibbe-Wcllo Co $8,50.
28,; North Coast Contract Co. $8,.
780.04.
Complaint that,'" tho Oregon
Co. was obstructing the streets
considered by the council and the
matter was referred to the street
committee. - ' , .
The ordinance for tho hard-
surfacing of Main Street to the
Abernethy bridge was read, and
no remonstrancV was made.
The Oregon City band asked
that the city provide a band stand
on the Singer Hill lot for summer
evening and Sunday band con
certs. As the matter of the title
to the lot is not clear, the petit ion
was laid over for later action.
.The council passed an ordin
ance for the purchase or 3, Olio
yards of crushed rock for street
Improvement.
An ordinance providing for a
modern fire alarm for the city was
passed, the matter to be given to
the people for expression by vole
at a later election. J'
The recorder was instructed to
install telephones ' in the lire
houses not now supplied.
Two police signal lights will be
installed on the hill as soon as the
ommittee decides on the loca
tion. Tho mailer of installing of
police telephones on the hill is al
so. bMiig considered.
"HEAP BAD INDIAN."
Harry Clark, Trouble Maker, Is at
the Same Old Game.
Harry Clark, that Indian who
has probably given Sheriff Mass
and the police department of Ibis
city more trouble than any dozen
men together in this county, is in
jail here again, this time for the
robbery of theVtore of A. E.King
at Mount Pleasant. The store was
robbed Monday night, the Indian
claims ho had an accomplice in
the job, John Howell of this cjty.
The store was entered by breaking
in 'through a window. Mr. King
heard the breaking glass, and he
and F. R. Andrews surprised the
thief and held- him until Sheriff
Mass and Policeman Jack Frost
came.
Clark says John Howell plan
ned the burglary, and he was ar
rested. He was found hiding in a
closet.
Clark is certainly a trouble-
TELEPHON
making half breed, and why ho is
(itmtinually let go and paroled,
lime after time, is one of the
turns of justice hard to under
stand. When- drinking he is a
decidedly ugly Indian, and then he
simply has to bo hammered into
subjection or unconsciousness
before the police can do anything
with him. He is now under a sen
tence of seven years in the peni-
tenliary for robbery, and is out
011 parole. Howell is also said to
have been sentenced to a long
prison term, and was paroled.
1' rom tho many repeated
troubles Clark has had, it would
seem that mercy does him abso
lutely no good, and now it would
eem to bo aboutHime to give him
a little real punishment and put
11 mi where he would have to take
a vacation.
TAKE HIS BODY HOME.
Warm Springs Indians Come here
for Indian's Bones.
About a dozen Indians from the
Warm Springs reservation were
in the city Tuesday, where they
came to exhume the body of Jos
eph ltenning, who was found in
the river here last fall, and whose
body was buried on the banks of
the Willamette.
Joseph Henning, the father of
tho dead boy, was at the head of
the parly. He said he could not
sleep well until tne body of his
boy was taken back to the reser-
ation homo. 1 ho young fellow,
it will be remembered, had just
returned from hop picking, had
more or less money with him, and
his body was found in tho river
here. He had been seen drinking
with two other Indians on the day
of his disappearance, and his com-
ades declared there had beon foul
play. Tho young wife and little
son watched the river for many
lays and would not return to the
eservation until his body had
beon found. Some effort was
made to determine how he met his
oath, and. then tho matter was
dropped..
An Explanation.
Headquarters Battery A, Field
Artillery, O. N. G.. Portland, Ore,,
uno 24, 1912. To the Editor.
We wish that you would give us a
ittlo of tho valuable space in your
paper to publish this letter of
apology to the people of Oregon
City who cut roses for our battery
for use in the Rose festival pa-
ado. On the afternoon that we
were supposed to oouie to Oregon
City and get flowers we found
that we wore so short of men and
that two of tho machines that we
had depended upon for assistance
could not bo used, that it was ut-
erly impossible to make the trip.
We wish to thank the cilizons of
your city for having the flowers
eady, and will say that we could
hitve used them to good advantage
could wo have gotten them hero in
tfmo. We sent a man up on tne
car next morning to get as many
as he could and, if we had had
more men wo would have sent
hem up, but all the boys of the
nttory havo to work, and those
who found it possible to lay off
had to assist in decorating the
arriages, collecting the flowers,
r bringing in tho horses from
the Clackamas range.
Again expressing our regrets
ir this unavoidable failure on
ur part to collect the beautiful
flowers that could have been so
ell used, and assuring tho peo-
lo who gathered them that we
appreciate their position fully we
beg to remain, most truly yours,
Battery A Field Artillery,
Per Retruiting Committee.
Miss L. Thompson of Portland,
Guild School of Music, London,
England, formerly senior profes
sor of music, LaMartiniere Girls'
college, Luoknow, India. On the
musical program at Gladstone's
Chautauqua in July.
James Partlow Asks for Divorce.
Friends of James W. Partlow
were taken by suprriso Wednes
day when he filed an action for
divorce against his wife, charging
harshness, severity and inhuman
treatment. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Tartlow were
married in December last and . it
was thought they were living hap
pily. .
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If! THE LAB EL.
PORTLAND, EUGENE A EAST
ERN A S .P. BLUFF.
COULDN'T STOP OUR ROAD
So Starts a Road of Its Own, and
Hopes to Get the Business.
The title Portland, Eugene
& Eastern, moans but little to
the ordinary reader. He does
not know whether it is the
namo of a railway or a new
stage lino, but down in the
Molalla valley, east of Canby
whore a large number of men
are at work on the right-of-way,
it is pretty generally
believed that it is the
name of a railway corpora
tion, and that they will soon
have a road constructed and
trains in operation. Tho
Oregonian.
And down in ';the Willamette
Valley, north of Canby, where ov
er two hundred men have been
hard at work for many months to
get a road into the Molalhi coun
try, it is pretty generally under
stood WHAT the name of that
corporation is and WHAT the ob
ject of the Canby road, and the
above Southern Pacific editorial
in the Oregonian doesn't sound
half so poetic to them as it may to
one on the outside of the deal.
The Portland, Eugene &
Eastern is simply a new label put
on the old Southern Pacific bot
tle to induce tho fellows to take
the medicine and not know what
they ares wallowing. That's all
there is to it,, and while perhaps
the Southern Pacific's editorial
writer in the Oregonian doesn't
know it, but the farmers of
Clackamas county are very wise
indeed to the namo, and Portland,
Eugone & Eastern means that
the Southern Paciflcj nosed out of
the territory it has held for thir
ty years, is now trying to cut the
corners of the little farmers' rail
road it could not buy up.
The Southern Pacific would not
build a railroad into the- Molalla
country and the eight different
projects undertaken by others
have died a-borning, for reasons a
half smart fello,w could guess.
Every inducement has been
made, even to the pledging of
cash bonuses by the farmers, but
the S. P. would not make a move.
What was the use of going af
ter business when it could com
pel Clackamas county to bring
that business in?
And as for any other railroad
going into Molalla valloy the S.
P. had no uneasiness about that.
It had been tried before, and the
men at the head of it got "dis
couraged." It is so much easier
to get "discouraged" than to get a
railroad.
But when a bunch so large and
so determined went into the pro
ject, it was not so easy to dis-
courago them. Too many of
them had their fingers crossed
and too few their hands behind
them. It was a railroad they
wanted. These nicn were not
selling out.
And the road is here. In a few
short weeks it will bo completed
and the hope of almost a quarter
of a century realized.
And now the S. P. is fast
enough to build. It doesn't wait
to bo asked, it doesn't wait for
rights of way to bo donated, or
any other old things. It Just goes
to railroading, but under an as
sumed name.
It will show that Oregon City
hunch. It will start out of Canby
and make tho Falls City realize
what it is to build a railroad with
out the permission of the Octo
pus.
It is said tho road will hurt the
business of this city, that it will
tako business to Canby that would
otherwise como here; that Canby
will boom and that Oregon City
will know bolter than to buck the
big bunch.
But this is only talk. The
Clackamas Southern was built be
cause there was a demand for it,
because it will open a country
that will support it, and a twelve
mile logging road out of Canby
won't stop it even if the Ore
gonian's editorial does claim it
will bo extended on to Chicago, or
something like that.
Scottish Plonlo, July 4.
A Scottish picnic will be held in
the Canemah park on July 4, and
several hundred Scotch people are
expected to be in attendance.
. The affair is given under the
auspices of tho Clan Macleay and
Caldonian Club of Portland, and
the Robbie Burns society of this
city.
Highland dancing, bag pipe mu
sic, races for men, women and
children and a basket luncheon
are some of the features of the
afternoon.
Liberal prizes have been put up
for the various races.
The sports will begin at 11:00
o'clock, as this will give every
body a chance to get to the
grounds on time. A prize has been
offered for the best dressed man
in Highland costume.
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