OUlffiE "A MILE OF MILLS" and more coming Is what makes Oregon City the best on the coast outside of Portland. Oregon City ships 300 tons of goods every day and reoeives 700 tons. That's why Its the best city In the state. 30th YEAR. OREGON CITY, OREGON. FRIDAY. AUG. 16, 1912. No. 13 OREGON CITY C DEPENDS ON WHICH SIDE OF Rill. LID DOWN ON ONE SIDE, WIDE OPEN ON THE OTHER. STATE LAWS ARE JUST JOKE. Matter the District Attorney Might Qet Interested In. Editor believes The Courier that the federal laws, Lord's Ore gon laws, the City laws, or any,tkm of u I)rilu.ipal instruments r(M!ealedWS enforced or and agencies for' tne production Public sentiment put them1 and distribution of wealth the there. Law oflicials should en- land, mines, railroads, steam force them. I boats, telegraph and telephone And some call this demand lines, mills, factories and modern that laws be obeyed, knocking. I machinery. mis paper aoesn i neneve there is justice in putting a liqu or dealer in this city in jail for selling or giving away liquor on unaay anu leiung a wiue open beer garden do business across the river. We believe that Lord's Oregon Laws are broad onough to cross llie suspension Dridge and pros ecute Sabbath liquor selling at a public picnic. We don't believe they were framed and passed to be enforced in one place and winked at in another. Last Sunday .there was a pub lic picnic at Schnoer's park for the benefit of Willis Mosier, the blind fireman. It was a worthy object and one that people gener- ally contributed to ny buying tickets. But wa3 it necessary to make this picnic a "success" to have hundreds of gallons of beer and make the day a fourth of July cel ebration? Lord's Oregon Laws, Sec. 2129, as plainly as type can spell it out says "no person shall give or sell or otherwise dispose of intoxicat ing liquors" on Sunday. There are some pretty nasty stories of booze and drunkenness told of Sunday's picnic stories of girls reeling home after the evening session, and boys who have not yet commenced to shave having a "glorious (hie) good lime." Now if we people do not want these Sunday liquor laws en forced, let us repeal them, run everything "wide open" and drink beer out of a trouth if we want to. But until we do so express our. selves, until these state booze restrictions are let down, and so long as the plain law says "Thou Shalt Not," then let us enforce them, or see that they are en. forced.. Let the officials who are elected by the people to enforce these laws, and who are sworn to enforce them, get on the job. There are six days and six A Cool Kitchen With A REAL LIVE BREEZE blowing away the sultry ait and cooling the whole room That's Your Kitchen and all others, toothat HAVE AN Electee FAN nights in every week when a man can lake on all the booze bin stomach will stand for, and he can do it lawfully. There is no ex cuse for his tongue hanging out or cracking open if he has to skip the Sabbath day. And this paper believes that the state law and one of the ten commandments should both be a.fnT.naH nnH Hi a lha nnnnln IN SIST THAT THEY BE EM''ORCEI) Correcting an Error. Editor Courier: r In a recent issue of the Enter prise there was an editorial stating that it was the purpose of Socialism to divide up the prop erly and own in common. No purpose is further from the principles taught by the party. 'socialism .stands for public or collective ownership and opera Th s the ma n urogram and the ultimate aim of the whole Socialist movement and the po litical creed of all Socialist ad herence, and admits of no limit ation, extension or variation. Whoever accepts this programme is a Socialist, whoever does not is not. A READER. Try It Prove It. "Uneida" put into the news papers and magazines of the country made a biscuit grow into millions of dollars. "Uneida" a man to use a club on you to jar it into your head that advertising will bring you in ten dollars for one expended, if you will make a business of it. How much of the farming trade is Oregon City getting? How much of the city -trade is going into Portland? Watch the cars each day and see. It is only those who pass the stores that sets the display win dows and the prices. An ad. in the Courier is seen all over the county. Will Try it Again August 31. Gladstone will have another special election August 31 to submit the matter of a high school to the voters. At the el ection last month the proposition carried by a close. shave, but it is held that the ballot did not make the proposition clear to the vot ers and that the vote was not. rep resentative. Dance at Clarkes. There will be a big dance at Clarkes, next Saturday night, Aug., 17th., and every one is in vited to come and have a good time. EVEN IN MID SUMMER Portland Railway. Light & Powe Company MAIN OFFICE SEVENTHIe&IALDER. PORTLAND Phones Main 6688 and A. 6131 I ARE IIII TIPID FEVER. "SWILL SWILL BOXES" ABOUT CITY ARE WORSE THAN POISON. BOARD OF HEALTH SHOULD ACT And City Should Provide Means for Garbage Disposal . Here's a matter that should re cieve mighty quick and mighty rigid attention. It's a matter that should not be hummed over or considered. It's a matter that should be met and REMEDIED and ramediod AT ONCE. All over this city is a fever breeding, putrid mess of decaying vegetation, and the only wonder is that grim old Typhoid hasn't come in for a long stay. Here's a city of thousands of people with no provision made (or at least enforced) for the disposal of the refuse of hun dreds of residences the potato parings, the water mellon rinds, the ufrit refuse, the taable leav ings, bits of meat, bread and all that go to breed fevers when thrown into a heap and left for the flit s and maggots. The ec!itor, during the past two weeks, has seen corruption boxes and typhoid nests so awfully rot ten and stinking that a slaughter house would smell like a bunch of roses in comparison. ' There are three or four owners of hog ranches outside the city who solicit this refuse and make a bluff at collecting it, but often they will skip a week or more and the boxes the residents accumu late for them become a mess of festering corruption, where the worms fight for the rottenest place and where the fumes from these receptacle's when disturbed ed would have a dozen glue lac- lories stunk out of the state. . These people simply don't know what to do with the mess when the swill man neglects to come. They, simply have no means of disposal. Many of the residences have no gardens and cannot bury it, and even if they have they cannot do it week after. week; they cannot burn it and they cannot throw it on the strict. So they pile it up, let it fester, rot down and dry up. And then ihe city will appoint medical authorities- to examine our water supply later to de termine the cause of the out break of typhoid. Now this condition should nev or be permitted to continue a- nolher 2i hours. It is not a case oi waiting lor authority, or "bringing the matter up." The health officers in an emer gency, of this kind have more power than Congress and there is not the least excuse for inaction. The residents of the city would willingly pay a small con tribution to have this refuse taken away, and (here is no doubt but what the City Council or health olncers could make ar rangements with one man who owns a hog ranch to hake regular trips. If not the city should see to it itself, charging the properly owners with the expenses, if they deem best, but doing it in any event. Ihere is more danger in a handful of cabbage leaves rotting around a residence than in a whole cow carcass decomposing. There is more danger in one putrid swill box than a dozen un clean alleys. mis is a matter that rea v should be given prompt attention, for it is cheaper to pay garbage bills than to fight typhoid fever. Ann unless something is done. we will have it to fight. UNCLE SAM CAN'T COMPETE. City Banks Equal In Confidence, and Beat out on Interest. In nearly every city and town Where government postal savings banks have oeen established the papers make periodical mention of the large patronage and show the amounts of monthly deposits. Oregon City was one of the first cities in the state to open one of these banks, but its amount of business have not as yet made newspaper stories. The fault has not been with Postmaster Randall or any em ployees .but there is a reason just the same. Postal savings banks were es tablished because there was a clamor for government guarantee of deposits because the people wanted absolute assurance- that their money was safe and that they could get it when they want ed it. And then the cracking of wildcat banks all over the coun try had much to do with it. The reason why the postofflce bank here has not been more pop ular is because of the two banks in this city the banks are the reason. This is nota hidden ad. for the banks, but it a little puff that they are entitled to, as, a matter of comment. The two banks in this city are held in just as much conn dence by the people as the gov ernment's banks are, and as the city banks can do a lot better by depositors than the government can, the people simply patronize them in preferance to the gov ernment. That's the why the postal bank here doesn't do a larger deposit business. The men who manage the banks here are not speculators nor wildcaters . They know person ally almost every man they do business with, and their business s as safe as the bank of England. Their money is loaned to farm ers who pay, on lands that are he richest in the world, loaned right here in Clackamas county, and on values that the world couldn't start a panic on. The men behind these bank9 have grown up with Clackamas county. hveryhody knows thorn and has the fullest confidence in hem and that is why the gov ernment doesn't do half the pos tal savings business that it does in other cities of this size. And everybody is glad of it but he government. WANTED ECONOMY. Writer Makes Some Suggestions for Lower Taxes. Oregon City, Aug. 0. Taxpayers of Clackamas County: What has become of the Tax payers' League? We do not hear them suggesting any more reme dies for the relief of high taxes, and here are a few that I would suggest to them: 1st. Elect only men to office who will work and attend to bus iness of the office eight hours per day and that will dispense with much unnecessary clerk hire.This plan would save to this county $5,000 or $6,000 a year. Then repeal the school super visor law, and see to it that the men who are candidates for the legislature pledge themselves to repeal that law before you vote for them, and make them promise not to pass any more fool legisla tion that works a burden on the taxpayers . The repeal of the school supervisor law would save from $3,000 to $4,000 to the coun ty, and it is no more needed than are (We wheels to a wagon. Economy is the road to wealth and we want to begin practicing it in this county. And it would save consideable money to the county if the roads were well rolled or traveled after grading, before gravel was put on them, and teams be required to haul at least one yard of gravel per load. I have noted the waste of money in road construction and if we can only economize and pay off the county debt of $100,000 or more we will save $7,000 annual inter est. Yours for economy, II .8. CLYDE. WHEN MEN BUNCH I AND TALK SOMETHING IS BOUND TO RE SULT FROM IT. THE WIRES HAVE DONE THINGS And they Will Do More Things the Coming Year. Let two dozen men get to gether, talk things over, and then let tne newspapers tell what they talked of, and something is star ted. On the other hand let a matter come up that greatly interests everybody, but let each man re frain from talking of it with anyone, and it will die a natural death In two days. What this is leading up to is a bunch of flowers to the Live Wires, and a little talk about future doings. x Say what you will, this organ. ization has the Commercia Club chased down the highway and Dack into the logged oil for starting and doing things. When a matter comes up in this city that needs public sen timent aroused, the first thing that any man says is "let's bring it up before the Live Wires." It is brought up, representative men express their opinions on it, the newspapers pick it up and out of it comes publio discussion and usually public action. In order to do things and got things, men have simply got to organize and pull together. The Live Wires is a medium for finding out sentiment and bunching it up where it will ac complish something. , Otficialy the organization has no more power than a church choir, but indirectly it has been the means of doing a heap of things for the good of this city and it will do a heap more. The Live Wires ' of Oregon City has a state wide reputation for the things it has taken up, started, and completed, and its resolutions have found their way and been considered by the house of - representatives at Washing, ton. : In local and county matters an expression of the Live Wires has counted for much; the city council members have asked for expressions; propositions from all over the county have first been taken up with this organ ization, and the initiative of al most every improvement in this city has been at these luncheon gatherings. And now here is a point the Live Wires want to let soak in: Next month the meetings will bo resumed and in the next year to come, there are going to be a lot of live matters put up to this bunch of men. One point is that the Live Wires want to go slow, go care ful and then go hard. They want to bo exceedingly careful of going on record for or against a matter until it has been thoroughly investigated, and when they have taken a stand they want to stay by it un til it wins if it takes a year. In this way this organization can really necomo a power just as big a power in the way of do ing things or slopping things as it cares to bo. It wants to make of itself a body of deliberation and action. It should take up matters, defer expression until it has gone to the very bottom of them, and then when it acts it wants to stay by its action until the Will amette freezes over. Next month the weekly sess ions will start again. M. D. Lat ourette will be the Big Chief and he is a worker. The organ ization welcomes new members. There aro no dues but to pay for a good dinner. Come in, help make the bunch stronger, and let us do some needed things during the next twelve months. THE L08T CITY. Makes Splendid Job of Hunting . for Qovernment Officials. Big bodies move slow and big jobs last longer when they do move slow. Linn City is still lost with the chances about equal to Charlie Ross of ever being found. And some day when trie uov- ernment has run out its entire spool of red tape, then condem nation proceedings will give them a title and tne big work on tne lock canal will begin. ' Once upon a time the County records were not kept in the shape County Clerk Mulvey keeps them now. They were mea men just simply filed and all a man bad to do to unfile one was to let the plat stick to his fingers and presto I a city is lost. Once upon a time mere was a regularly recorded city site south of the present dam site. Hut after the big flood there was NO city by a darn site or any other site. Then one day the filed plat disappeared from the Clerk's office. It has never been definite ly determined whether this was carelessness on the part of the office boy while sweeping, or malice aforethought on the part of some who would destroy Ore gon history. Then a building, which marked a boundary of Linn City, was burned, and it was never clearly determined just how all this hap penod. And an iron post driven in the earth quit its job. Whether the wind blew it away or it sunk in the earth of its own weight, is another of the mvstteries of Lost Linn City. Anyhow all records are gone. There are several who hold deeds to lots in Linn City, but they can't find the city. There are several who know about where the cor ner monuments once were, but "about" don't go in law, and their deeds are just about as valuable as stock in a California gold mine. And, as before stated, some of tnese days tlie slow government at Washington will tell it's fel lows to get on the job, but it won't for a time yet. Record hunting is easier than running steam shovels, and the job lasts longer. S. P. BUYS ELECTRIC LINT. And will Build west Side Route on This Right of Way. The Southern Pacific has pur chased the electric line on the west side of tho river, running from Willamette to Bolton, of the P. R. L. & P. Co. and will extend it from Portland to Salem and use it for the main line of tho west side passenger route: This will do away with one of the right of way surveys the S. P. recently made, and it is said that work will immediately start on changing this trolly roadbed into a standard railroad bed. While there has been but little doubt but that the S. P. would build through on the west side, yet there are always slips and changes in railroad enterpri.es, and the west side people have been waiting to see things nailed down and work commence be fore they were shure. And soon you are going to see things move across the river. There are many big projects for building up that side under way, and now they are more than rum. ors they aro certainties. Tho Willamette Paper Co. will build up 55 acres into a residence section for its employees: the Moody Land Co of Portland has purchased 130 acres and will lay it out into residonce blocks, fac tory sites and build it up: the government canal will help to boom things, and the general manager of the Southern Pacific company had many things in view for the west side. And the most of the peoplo of this city look at the matter in the way they should look at it, that this development simply means a bigger city, more houses, more nuns, more ranroaus. more people. ine county court and railroad oiuciais went over the route in this county this week and laid out tne highway crossings. The rail road olllciala say the road will be completed to Oswego by Septem ber 1. W. P. Klrohem Injured. W. P. Kirchein. Dresidont of the Clear Creek Telephone Co., and one of the best known farm ers in this vicinity, was mixed up in a bad runaway Tuesday, and badly but not dansrerouslv in jured. A young colt he was driving became frightened at an automo bile and ran into a fence, wreck ing ino rig ana mrowing Mr. Kirchein out, rondering him un conscious.. The auto took him home and Dr. Mount was called. He was badly bruised and cut, but tho doctor savs he will bo all right again in a few days. We Can Show You. It's pretty natural for a news paper to blow its own cornet, but there is a heap of difforonco between making a noise and showing the music. The Courier hols put on 200 new names in the past sixty days and' tho 200 wont onto a list that was some circulation. Our list is open for any adver tiser to como in and look over and count. We cover Western Clack amas like an umbrella. Wo will show you any. tirno you are a Mis ourian. Talk is one thing, count ing is another. Gladstone Wins Fight. For two years Mavor H. E. Cross and others have been aflor the P. 11. L. & P. Co.. to compel better service for Gladstone and they have got them. The com nanv tins nl. Inst. irrnntf'd ulnn at Hereford street, making three in mai cuy. When Mayor Cross thinks ho Is right on a proposition he will stay with it until it snows in Death Valley, and all the while he will bo getting in new holds. He says the franchise entitles Glad stone to the service and he serv ed notice that unless it was granted he would have the mo- tormen arrested. And it was granted. NOTICE. The Portland Journal's local office is now with the Portland Railway Light and Power Com pany in tho Beaver Bldg. All sub. seriptions, collections and adver tising matters will be taken care of by the local agent. J. 1). OLSON. Are You Interested? Senator Jonathan Bourne. Jr. has for distribution a number of copies of bulletins issued by the bureau of mines and of particu- ar interest to managers of cower plants, coal mines, metal mines, or quarries, and he will be glad upon application to send a copy to any person interested. DOINGS AI IDE CANDY FAIR. OUTLINE OF THE SPCIAL AT TRACTIONS FOR THE WEEK. MONSTER BARBECUE A CARD, Ball Games, Night Dances, Elec- trlo Lights and Other Things. There are lots of people who would swim a river to see a horse race, and then again there are lots of them who would not cross the street to see one. The Clackamas County Fair directors realize this, and this year they are arranging for a big bunch of special attractions that will please everyone, and Secretary O. D. Eby says when the program is fully completed even the blind will want to go to Canby The first thing you want to let soak in is the dates September 25, 26, 27, 28. And the next thing is that this year there will be four days of entertainment and sport the like of which has never neon pulled off in old Clack amas. Here are a few of the attrac tions that Secretary Eby says have been decided on in the way of special attractions, and mind you all this is extra to the regu lar splendid racing card and the usual fair attractions: There will be live bands, not all in one day, but each one of the county's mucical organizations will be given a chance to let the people know what they can do. The first day the Redmond band will furnish the musio, and the second day Hubbards musical bunch will try to lay it all over thorn. The third day is Oregon City day, and of course the best band in the state will roll up the inspiration for this date, and on the fourth day (which is farmers' day) there will be two bands, the Canby and the Oak Grove cele brated girls' band. The second day of the fair i3 to bo Germans' day, and it will be tho real big day. There will be a barbecue and potato bake, for everybody and there is nothing like an ox roast to bring people together. Gus. Schnoor, famous for his man agement of such affairs, will have entire charge of the barbecue, and this guarantees this will be some ox roast. Mr. Schnoor is presi dent of the German societies of the county,' and it is a safe bet a pretty accurate census of the Gorinans could be taken on the fair grounds on' this day. The potatoes for the barbecue will be donated by the commission mer chants of Canby. Tho ball games are going to bo now and interesting features of this year's fair. There will be a series, one game every day. The teams selected are are the old rivals, Molalla, Beaver Creek and Canby. Each day there will bo a gamo, each team playing with each other toam, and then on, tho last day the two teams of the highest score will play tho fi nal for the championship of the county . There will certainly bo some hot stulT ball games. In addition to tho regular race program (which by the way is a good one for this year) there will bo special races for county horses. There are a number of fast local horses in this county, and some of those who are ex pected to get in are H. C. Salis bury and Sheriff Mass of this city, II. M. Robbins, who lives near here, J. M. Hallowell of Glad stone, W. F. Young, Sherwood, Louie Kollemeier, Stafford, A.D. dribble of Macksburg. Another movement under way with the directors is to have the grounds lightod with electric lights for the campers, and for a series of dances that will be giv en every night during the fair. The Methodist ladies or canny will again have charge of the dining hall under the grand stand the restaurant which they made famous by its great dinners. The fair is going to bo a great holiday week this year and the biggest of crowds is expected. There will bo excursion rates Dn the railroads. Make your plans to havo four days olf for the big fair. WOLVES TACKLE MAN. On. Way. to Ogle Mine, Timber Wolves Hold Him Up. This sin't told to scare you out from hucklo berrying, or to keep you away from Ogle mine, but it is a true incident, and proof that not far from our hustling city things are yet wild and you had better take your gun along. T. J. Choeney, or 1'endlolon, and II. Kruger, of this city, went out to Ogle mine a few days ago. J lie road isn t a boulevard, as you get out in the mountains, and when the rig got to Beaver Creek basin six miles this sido of the mines, young Cheeney got out and was walking about 100 yards ahead of the rig, when four large timber wolves attacked him. At first he thought they were dogs from the mines, and he call-- ed to them. They camo within four feet, ran back and came again , and men (Jheeney knew that were not dogs, but wolves, and ho knew that they were after him. He had a revolver and he cut loose, wounding one, when the noise of the gun and the rig coming up scared them away. Wanted, good milk cow. F. F. Whitcomb, Park Place, Oregon, Si