CITY
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1912 of over 2,000 weekly. Its ad
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30th YEAR.
OREGON CITY. . OREGON. FRIDAY. JOV. 29, 19I2.
No. 29
COURIER
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THEGE PROVISIONS
SHORT TERM AND COMMON
USERf! CLAUSE
LOOK TO THE CITY'S FUTURE
A One Street City Should Be Care
ful of its Frnachises
This paper believes thai this
franchise pending before the city
council is a matter that should be
taken up and weighed carefully
and one to go very slow on.
One great trouble with giving
away or selling the future is that
no man san see it, and he only
guesses, or ignores what twenty
years 'y bring forth., ,
Oregon City is a peculiarly sit
uated city. There is probably not
another like it in Oregon, in the
way that we have ONE business
street because we have no room
below the bluffs for more..
i'f we had dozen of parallel
streets, as many cities have, and
where a dozen franchises could be
granted if the future growth of
the city warranted thern,. then it
would not be such a highly inui
. portant matter just what the pro
visions of the pending franchise
were, but with one business street
and no chance lor any other prin
cipal street, wo should get every
thing that it is possible to get for
the future growth of the city- :
and in the position the city coun
cil is in it is possible to get al
most anything reasonable.
The Courier believes that there
should by all means be a common
users' clause in the franchise.
We don't know what the future
may push up to us in the way of
growl!; or necessity, but we DO
know we have but one inlet and
outlet on this side of the river and
we should go slow about giving
any one railroad or company the
exclusive use of tkis one outlet
and inlet. A common users clause
will keep.. It won't do any harm
, to have it around. It won't spoil
or wear out, and the day might
come when it would be of wonder
fi l value in the way of affording a
means of competition for. this
city.
This common users' clause, as
we understand the provisions, al
lows other to use the right of
way by paying a proportion of the j
expense ot tne work.
Oregon City is growing and
growing fast, and it will continue
to grow because it has the big
mills back of it, and they are ; in
turn backed by the big water pow
er. We want to look ahead and
anticipate the . future,' and the
more we can retain in the way of
privilege, and the least we can
At
SHOULD
The Best
give away, the safer will be our
future.
The common users' clause is a
safe bet for the future, and it
would seem to the Courier it is the
safe play for the city council if
they are after the. city s future
good, A one street city giving
an exclusive lranchise to one cor
poration is most too tight a fran
chise.
And another consideration is
that of a short franchise. The
day has gone by when men should
contract for the rights of their
children. Men have no business
willing away privileges that will
come after they are dead and for
gotten. There is no gCDd argu
men in a long franchise, and there
is every argument for the short
one the ten year lease. A com
pany under the short form is go
ing to do the right thing a hun
dred times where they would not
do it if they had fifty years, or
even twenty ahead of them. A
short franchise is a big club. The
club may never be used, but it
does. not. cost a, cent for storage.
And the city can get just as much
service and'just as much for the
short form' as for the one that
lies up your children.
And if you are interested, the
time to make the noise is before
the franchise is granted. A pro
test alterward doesn t get you
anything.
WHAT SHOULD BE,
Central Freight Station for all
three Roads on Thirteenth St
Here'o what should he done.
and with the right kind of agita
tion and people behind it it
might be done.
There should be a: central
freight depot at Fifteenth street,
to be U"ed jointly by the Southern
Pacific, the- P. R. L. & P. Co and
the Clackamas Southern.
Such a depot, with shipping
yards and loading places is one of
the serious Dig needs or tnis city
and it will grow bigger every year,
an the city grows bigger.
Shipping is simply driven away
lrom tnis city now because mere
is simply not room to handle the
stuff, and shippers take it to other
places. The Southern Pacific has
hardly room for a ,man to turn
around, and conditions are not
much better at ' the 0. W. R.N.
. With a central depot at this lo
cation the question of freighting
through our streets would be
largely done away with, leaving
only the log trains.
infill woypp kaftmobigwkyyup"u u
This is a matter that should be
taken up by the three companies.
We have the tip that none of then
would oppose it very hard, for
they are all wise to the loss of bu
iness through tne present sys-
Inn.
AU together they would give
us shipping facilities that the city, er P'cked this railroad proposi
needs.and individually each would 1 for winner, if enough sup
have its separate depot in a diff-lP? cou,ld be &uar,a,nte.e.d1 lS ?et ll
opmi innntinn , well under way. We didnt fore-
erent location.
The time is surely coming when
the freight business will have to
be done in this end of the city,
and it would seem that the three
companies could get together and
do it right. :
Oregon has been having some
beautiful weather ...
the Lowest Cost
ELECTRIC LIGHT is the most suitable for homes,
offices, shops and other places .neding light." Elec
tricity can be used in any quantity, 'larr. or small,
thereby furnishing .any requin-i amount of light.
Furthermore, electric 'imps car be located in any
place, thus affording any desned ("strlbut? :i of light.
No other lamps possess tV oualiflcstio.t i, there
fore it is' not surprising that electric lamps are rapidly
replacing all others in modro establishments.
Portland Railway. Light &
Powe Company
MAIN OFFICE SEVENTH (Si, ALDER.
PORTLAND
Phones Main C688 and A. 6131
WILL LAY THE
RAILS NEXT WEEK
STEEL FOR ROAD IS ON SIDE
TRACK HERE.
BEAVER CREEK BY JANUARY 1
Funds Now Available to Complete
Road to Mount Angel
The rails are in Oregon Citv
ready to lay to Beaver Creek on
the Clackamas Southern.
two weeks ago when we stated
they were on the way some doubt
er said this shipment would be
come side-tracked or lost, and
would get along about next July.
But the rails are hern, all t.hnf
can tie handled at a tune, and the
rest are in i'oruana. As soon as
the connection with the P. R. L. &
H. Co. can be made and the rails
transferred to the Clackamas
Southern, the laying will com
mence. It is a matter of but a day
or iwo. .
The Clackamas Southern has
purchased the Tooze block and
is leveling and improving it for
a terminal site, and l.ivinir a side
track.
Ihe company has now funds
enough to complete the toad to
Mt. Angel, all the steel is ordered
and 600 tons are on the way.
' In raising money for railroad
tiil.-ns.-w i ifihlly where: lb.
are no big- capitalists . financing
the project, it is always neces
sary to guarantee that the . money
subscribed in a certain locality
shall be expended in that locality.
And the Clackamas Southern has
been more favored abroad than
at home, in regard to this sup
port, nence it is tnis end, Between
this city and Beaver creek, .: that
lunds are needed. v
Mayor Dimick told the Live
Wires Tuesday that $6,000 was
subscribed in the vicinity of Mt.
Angel last week, and that one
man in Molalla had done more to
make this road possible than all
the men in Oregon City; He said
$10,000 was needed to ballast the
road to Beaver Creek, and he ask
ed the Live Wires to help out on
this end 'not as an act of char
ity, but in the way of an invest
ment that will bring good future
returns.
Nearly two years ago the Cour
see the obstacles that would come
and probably the officials and
directors didn't either; that is,
they didn't know they would come
in bunches and quite so fast.
But they have stayed by the
woodpile and pushed the bucksaw
and that means sawed wood.
They have been up against the
ight
real sharp pricks but they have
stayed on the job and kept on
building a road out into that for
bidden Molalla country.
But the completion of the road
is now certain, so certain that the
interests have been fighting it for
two years, have quit, and they say
Swift now gets a natural sleep
once in a while.
And when the laving of the
steel starts, Oregon City should
have a rousing ratification meet
ing. IT'S THE ONLY WAY
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Help The Deserving
Editor Courier:
In the merchants' voting con
test for an auto prize, I note there
are young men candidates whose
fathers could step out and buy
autos for them and never miss the
money. And I also note that there
are men holdings public offices
trying for the prize.
There is no law to prevent this
class from entering, if they are
determined to, but it seems to
me much like asking unneeded
charity.
And there are contestants for
this prize who need it, to whom
the auto would be of great prac
tical good, and who are not able
to purchase one.
Help these . candidates,
your voles where they will
some one who needs help,
office holders and sons of
Give
' help
The
rich
fathers don t need hem.
FAIR PLAY.
J. J. Cooke, who is an applicant
for the postofllce at Oregon City,
Oregon, to succeed T. P. Randall,
was born at Damascus, Clacka
mas County, Oregon, and came to
Oregon City 32 years ago; for the
past 22 years he has been the jun
ior member of the firm of Wilson
& Cooke. . ,
In 1898 he was elected sheriff
of Clackamas County and inl900
was re-elected. He has always
taken a great interest in politics
and always worked for the suc
cess ofhe democratic ticket.
Anticipating.
Here is the way an eastern
paper relates a personal item:
' 'Our esteemed iellow citizen,
John G. Harris, will go to the hos
pital tomorrow to be operated
upon for the removal of his app
endix by Dr. Smith. He will leave
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a wife and three cniiaren.
LET HS CONTINUE
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CITY CANNOT AFFORD TO BACK
UP AT THIS TIME
ELEVATOR MEANS PROGRESS
And Big Growth to Residence
Seotlon Is Sure to Result.
They say New York City has a
greater uent man the govern
ment.
It's the Denaltv for benefit) of
Dusiness or progress.
Portland is the real live doings
of the Northwest, but it has obli
gations that will surprise you
, when you see the totals.
I . .
AnV real 110186 0f a Clty' any
, nusiiing, iaikea-or city, where
! thev do hnsmesa siv. rtnv in tho
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nas ooiigauons otherwise l
' wouldn't have business,
I The ttwns where public im
i provemenfcs are few and taxes low
are the towns where trains stop
on signal." ' ' v
Wouldn't you rather be a live
one, do more Business, pay more
taxes and know you were living?
It isn't st) much the expense, as
the income. If you are doing the
business, you will always have to
pay a proportionate expense.'
Oregon City hasn't got to have a
public free elevator up the bluffs.
yve oan get along without it
We didn't have to have Main
street paved; we didn't have to
have a suspension bridge over the
river. Our forefathers got along
with a ferry. We' haven't got to
have a commercial club, a oublic
ity office, fire alarms. Dublic li
brary, locks, canal, or any of the
many public improvements, that
we have now, and are going to
have. '
Here's the nronosition:
There will he submitted to you
next Monday a ballot to say yes
or no, on tne question or a public
free elevator, for service to the
residence section of this city.
-n provides mat jpt 2,ooy or so
much of this sum as is necessary,
shall be issued in bonds of $500
a year for 24 years, to pay for this
service.
Now look at it.
If you own a place that is worth
$2,000 a year, your share of this
tax to pay these yearly bonds will
bo about eighty cents.
How much more will it make
your property worth, to say noth
ing about personal convenience
and public welfare? -
Wouldnt it advance the Dnce
of your property from 25 to 50
time. as much a your original
taxes? .
But you say the initial cost of
tho elevator is only a part of the
cost, that there must bo added to
this the salary of a man to run
it every day in the year.
Certainly, it won t run itself.
but add $100 a month to your as
sessment on a $2,000 property
and then you have less than $3
a year added to your taxes, a hun
dred dollars or two added to the
value of your property and a val
ue added to it that is a market
value if you want to sell for the
heights will be a pretty good lo
cality to live in then.
mere s a hunch of men in the
Live Wires who pay $12 a year
dues to this Commercial Club in
order to be eligible to the Live
Wires, where they pay $60 a year
more, and besides this $72, many
of them pay $24 a year as a pub
lic subscription to the Commerr
cial club. -And there is a special
tax of $100 a year.
ir these men had to nay half
this amount in a special tax lev
ied on their property, they would
leave the city.
As near as it can be figured, av
erage property owners would
have to pay an extra tax or about
$1.50 a year for the elevator.
Why you would simply nop to
it. if n public subscription paper
were circulated for this purpose,
and you were asked for this
amount. ' - .
We don t have much snow, but
when we do have a fall, the stair
ways are impassible to women
and the older people.
ine stairways are always im
passible to baby carriages, and
women have to go seven blocks to
get one.
in midsummer tne stairways
are a dread to many men, who
lake lunch down town rather than
to make the climb.
Old people and people with poor,
health or weak hearts cannot
climb them, and they live on the
bluffs only because they cannot
find houses elsewhere.
The time saved by an elevator
would pay for its. upkeep every
year, if your time is worth any
thing, j
Some object to the project on!
the ground that those -directly
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name seuaumiiK uiticui; uu. v. I
having a public dock. It is too
narrow a view. li. T. McBain
lives on the west side of the ri
ver, his home and his interests
are there, and he probably would
not use the elevator a dozen times
a year, but he is out working
hard for it, because he looks at
it as progress, for the best good
of the many, as a means to a big
ger city.
That's the Idea.
Now you ladies, this is as much
your interests as your husbands
for they say over half the homes
in this city are your property.
Look this matter over, and
then VOTE. There is little con
test over city officials and half
your indolent husbands won t
vote. You women of the woman's
club take this matter and see if it
is not along your line of work of
doing things. If it is, organize
and get your voters out.
The Courier believes the ele-
PRObRES
vator would be a splendid invest
ment for the city and would do
wunoers to Duild up the residence
secuon. ine yearly payments
are no ioaa, ine ueniits are many
Think it over.
GLENN GAULT HELD.
Young Man Bound Over to Grand
Jury Without Bonds
Glenn Oault. self-confessed
murderer of his step-father, was
bound over to the irrand inrv
without bonds Tuesday, hnfm-n
Justice Samson. Monday a cor.
oner s jury over the skull o the
murdered man found that, the
deceased had come to his death
by blows inflicted from an axe, in
the hands of Glenn Gau t. ' Th
young man will be kept in jail
uiun ins iriai comes up.
baturday last, he accompanied
ine local omcers to tne iocs nv
of his crime and pointed out the
gruesome spot, where two years
before he had dragged the body
oi u. m. i.eitzei, out in the Crab
apple Prairie country, 33 miles
south of Oregon City, and buried
the remains under a foot of dirt,
anu a pno oi logs. The young
man men, ior tne rirst time, dis
played emotion over his crime and
sobbed hysterically.
Rumors have been floating
about, among the people of the
locality to the effect that there's
another story connected with the
killing, but the rumors are vague
and Deputy Stipp has little infor
mation, besides the confession of
the boy, that would support the
state's case. Deputy Davis, from
out in that district is here con
tending with the local officers in
egard to the affair. He worked
several months on the case, on
the supposition that foul play had
been committed, and even went
so far as to excavate for the body
at one suspicious looking place in
that wild locality.
Lest You forget.
There are just throe more is
ues of the Courier that will do a
Christmas ad. any good.
Last year some ol you waited
until the Courier could not offer
you any dosireable position for an
ad and then you kicked.
You want to come in early and
stake out your claim. We have the
readers in Clackamas county
these days. You may look them
over, count them for yourself.
But if you want a holiday ad,
you want to plant it next week.
We will see that it comes up all
over northern and western Clack-
mas County.
MRS. NEWTON CANDIDATE.
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Will Run Against Linn E. Jones
for Mayor of City.
Two weeks ago we stated that
Linn E. Jones would have no op
position for mayor and that he
would he a 100 to 1 shot on elec
tion day.
But Mr. Jones isn t going to oo
lonesome starter he i going
to have company, and you can't
get quite so big odds at tho pad
dock. .
Mrs. Kate Newton of Tentn and
(J. Adams street is a candidate.
It is said the matter started as
ioke. when several petition pa
pers were circulated in the mills
and on the streets, but when Mrs.
ewton was informed or the mat
ter, she said she would play the
joke out, would play it for all it
was worth, and would be a candi
date against Mr. Jones.
And then tho Portland newspa
pers got busy horo, wired their
eporters to roature it, and tnoy
lave been making first page stor
ies of it.
Mr. Jonoa takes tho matter
good naturedly, and they say he
.started to say "may the best man
win." He said the office was but
bunch of trouble and worry and
Mrs. Newton would relieve him
' it. he would certainly remem
ber her witli a Christmas present.
Mrs. Newton -is a well known
lady of Oregon City and a large
property owner. She has been a
widow for thirty-five years, but,
has carried out many successful
business deals and is fully cap
able of taking care of almost any
thing in the lino or business.
Mrs. Newton will not make an
active campaign, leaving tho mat
ter entirely in the hands of her
friends. She does not believe in
the constant inharmonious feel
ing which has characterized tho
work of tho council in the past.
Bigger Rigs For Carriers.
After January 1. the cost of
shipping a parcel of merchandise
out from town on a rural route
will he live cents for the first
pound, or fraction of a pound, and
a cent a pound after that, up to
eleven pounds, which is the limit.
This makes it 15 cents for eleven
pounds.
Must Serve His Sentence.
William Hardin of this county,
convicted of intimacy with his
sten dauKhter in the circuitt
court here some months ago and
sentenced to twenty years in the
state prison at Salem, must serve
his sentence. The case was ap
pealed to the supreme court and
its decision refuses a new trial.
The rancher has been out on $10,
000 bail and will be surrendered
to Sheriff Mass today.
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Railroad Must Pay ZVi Per Cent
Without a. dissenting vote the
city council Wednesday evening
voted that the new franchise for
the V. R. L. & P. Co. must pya to
the city 3 per cent of its gross
earnings on its freight business
in thiR city.
Franklin T. Griflllh of the com
pany strongly objected To this
charge, which he declared was ex
cessive and a greater charge than
is exacted anywhere in the state.
He declared the railroad would
not and could not accept this
franchise with this provision.
-STORY HOTEL
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THIS HOTEL NEED NOT EXPECT
MUCH PATRONAGE.
MUST KEEP UP WITH DATE
Practical, Convincing Reasoning
by 8. P. DAVIS.
Editor Courier:
A gentleman of my acauaint-
anee was thinking of purchasing
property for a home on the hill
in this city; but he said he would
not buy the place thought of un
der any consideration if he knew
tho talked-of elevator would not
be built.
And 1 have heard many other
home-seekers express their ob
jection to a location which would
mean so much stair-climbing.
We lose to Gladstone and oth
er places even more distant, many
good people whom we might have
as citizens of our town, if we had
tho proposed elevator.
As to the question of debt
about which a correspondent re
cently tried to alarm our citizens
let niti say that what should have
been tne limit a quarter of a cen
tury ago, need not be the. limit
now. A man worth $50,000.00
may assume obligations which the
man worth only $500 would not
dare consider.
If 1 owned a building with top
floors as high above ground as
s the top ol our biun from tne
street near the railroad station,
and had provided no better mode
of ascent than the old time stair
way, 1 would regard it as good
business policy to. have something
more modern, l would Know mat
an elevator would be a good in
vestment, even if I had to go in
debt for it. It would enable me
to get better prices for my floor
space. And ir i duin t proviue tne
elevator, everybody would need to
make that ascent of six or eight
stories, either daily or only oc
casionally, would think of me as
utterly lacking in humane consid
eration for the comfort and con
venience of others.
Where is the building on this
continent six or eight stories in
height so much used that two
thousand or more people go to its
top floor every day, that doeg not
have an elevator? And yet, what
nobody would think of in case of
a buildinsr. we are requiring in
case of a bluff.
To tho aged and infirm, to the
lady with a baby carriage, to the
weary workman at tne ciose oi
his day's toil, to these and to all
others, if we-vote against an ele
vator, wo would thereby say: "Get
up to the eighth floor the best way
vou can. or else move to some
other locality. We havn't room
for you on the lowor stories, ana
rather than provide anything so
modern as an elevator, we will let
you go to places where they care
more ror you. ,
a. i'. uavis.
Qinther-MoGahney Wedding.
At the home of Mr. and Mrs.
unk Schoonborn Wednesday
evening occurred the marriage of
Mis, Hazel uintner, aaugm.er oi
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest lunthor of
Schubel, to Frances McGahnoy nf
this city. The wedding was
attended by only a few near rel
atives and friends of tho family
and the ceremony was performed
by Rev. Landsborough.
City has Been Full of Teachers
There have boon about 200
teachers of the county in the city
during tho past three days, at
tending tho institute that con
vened in tho high school building
County Superintendent T. J. Gary
had charge of the program, and it
has been one of the most success-
fu institutes ever held in trie
county.
Gladstone Levies 7 Mill Tax.
At a meeting of the taxpayers
nf UladMlnne Wednesday night it
was decided to levy a tax of 7
mills for school purposes, an in
crease of four mills over the levy
of last year. This tax will provide
for several improvements in the
way of larger grounds for the
school and new departments in
the school.
Estacada Votes 7 Mill Tax
Last week Estacada voted a 7
mill tax by the close vote of 19 to
t6. Last year's tax was 12 mills.
Find It On Pages 2 and 6.
Pages 2 and 5 are local pages,
and on every page you will find
interesting matters,
Flagged Train With Shirt.
Tearing his shirt from his
back an Ohio man flaggod a train
and saved it from a wreck, but
H. T. Alston, Raleigh, N. C, once
prevented a wreck with Electrio
Bitters. "I was in a terrible plight
when I began to use them' he
writes, "my stomach, bead,
back and kidneys were all badly
affected and my liver was in a bad
condition, but four bottles of El
ectric Bitters made me feel like
a new man." A trial will convince
you of their matchless mrit for
any stomach, liver or kidney
trouble. Price 50 cents at Hunt
ley Bros, Oregon City, Canby,
Hubbard and Molalla.
Strayed from my place a moose
colored Jersey heifer, 18 months
old. Reward for return. Peter Sa
ger, Orparon City Route 4, phone
Bnaver Mutual.
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