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30th YEAR.
OREGON CITY, OREGON. FRIDAY. DEC. 13, 1912.
No. 31
OR
CITY
OF
OREGON CITY
COULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN
THIS MATTER?
WOULD MEAN MUCH TO YOU
Could't You Fellows Pull Togeth
er for a Year's Trial?
Here is a mailer the Courier
editor has long had his eye on,
and when he saw how Gresham
had sprung it, he wished he had
lighted the fuse a little earlier.
Would it be possible to round
up the merchants of Oregon City
and get them all into a project
that would bring them a line of
business from all over Clackamas
county, bring hundreds of people
here to trade and stop the money
cars that carry gold into Portland
and bring back goods?
Would you fellows forget your
jealousy, give an inch to agree
wilh Lbe other fellow, and all come
in on a deal that would bo un
questionably for your gqpd, and
for the city's good?
Would you? Would you talk it
over and consider its proposi
tions? Or will you simply glance over
it, and forget it, and expect the
newspaper men to yell themselves
into quinsy because Portland gets
a big part of our city's trade and
Canby a big part of the farmer's
business?
Well, here it is.
Every merchant in Oregon City
to get together first, and every
man must take the other fellow
on honor keep his hand off his
watch and not growl, bite or pull
hair.
Form an organization and tie
it up tighter than an Oregon wed
ding for one year.
One day every week have a sale
day, where every merchant agrees
to sell a certain list of articles
at one and the same bargain price
no matter to which store the cus
tomer goes.
Once a week have a merchants'
meet, a week in advance, and line
up a list of goods that they will
all give the same reduced prices
on.
Work out a system of collective
advertising for this day. Adver
tise and advertise right, but let
every merchant in the associa
tion pay his part, and pay in pro
portion to the extent of his busi
ness, or what he might gain from
enlarged business.
And in the organization work
out a credit organization and a
collection system; get up close
and touch elbows, and find out
whaL co-operation can do.
Do this, fellows, organize along
these or similar lines, and you
will get trade from Sandy.
The editor of this paper has
Fhe
At
MERCHANTS
seen it worked out and knows it
will work.
Gresham knows it will work,
and has formed a Retail Merch
ants' Association, entered into an
agreement for one year to work
it.
If Oregon City could only keep
its own it would Jiave the most 1
lively and prosperous city if its 1
size in this country. I
The trouble is Portland gets
too much of money earned here, 1
and that farming trade that'
should come here doesn't. i
Get together you fellows, call
a meeting, talk it over and see if
something won't come of it.
These trade days would grow;
they could be added to and made
to grow as big as you want them
anu once a week we "could make
this city look as it. looks on horse
show days and carnivals.
W hatdoyousay?
A CONFUSING PAIR.
Oregon City's Twins Keep Hospi
tal Doctors Guessing.
The Misses Ruby and Pearl
Francis, the popular daughters of
Mr: and Mrs. S. V. Francis of this
city, who are taking a training
course in nursing at the Good
hamaruan Hospital in Portland,
are a puzzle to the pnysicians at
the institution. ,
These two young ladies are
twins, resembling each other very
much, so much tluit it has caused
considerable confusion when they
nave ueen piaceu on cases Dy the
different physicians.
A lew uays ago Miss Ruby was
placed in charge of a natient in
ward No. 30, and after the phys
ician had given her instructions
he hurried .to another room and
entering ward No. 35 was sur
prised to llnd Miss Franceis, who
he thought he' had placed in ward
No. 30, and then he was puzzled,
thinking the nurse had not obeyed
his orders by remaining: in the
ward he had just assigned to her.
After talking of a certain patient,
of whom the sister knew nothing,
she stated to the physician that
this must be her sister's patient.
But even now the physician is
wondering "who's who."
The Mises Francis completed
their high schol in this ci.ty in
June last and took up their duties
in the hospital in September. They
are well known in Oregon City as
"The Twins," while at the hos
pital they are as familarly called
"The Gems."
FIRST WOMAN OFFICEHOLDER
Tull Family of Barlow are Pretty
Much the Whole Works.
Mrs. M. E. Tull of Barlow was
elected to the city council of that
city by a large majority, she be
ing the first and only women in
the council of that citv.
Mrs. Tull is well known in, the
southern part of this county. Mr.
Tull, her hu-sband, is mayor.while
William Tull is treasurer and
Cass Tull is councilman. Mrs
Tull has the distinction of being
the first woman in Clackamas
county to hold public office while
Gladstone boasts of the second
woman office holder, Mrs. G. W.
Church, who was elected to the
office of city treasurer.
Best Light,'
the Lowest Cost
ELECTRIC LIGHT is the most suitable for homes,
offices, shops and other places ceding' iisrhl. Elec
tricity can be used in nny quantity, lar'. or small,
thereby furnishing any requin-d amount of light
Furthermore, electric .'amps car be located in any
place, thus affording any desiml t1!strlbut.5 :i of light.
No other lamps possess Vmw oualiflcatio.i i, there
fore it is not surprising that electric lamps are rapidly
replacing all others in modern establishments.
Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company
MAIN OFFICE SEVENTH ALDER.
PORTLAND
Phones Main 6688 and A. 6131
GET AFTER THE
S CAUSE
QUIT SERVING. THE DANGER
OUS CITY WATER.
DO MORE THAN LOCATE DANGER
Get a Pure Water Supply for the
City If It Costs a Million.
I read with keen interest the
solution of the typhoid problem
in the Enterprise and the won
der is how all . we great thinkers
overlooked it.
How simple I Just employ an
other public official at $400 per
to take little drops of water after
our $60,000 filter plant has fil
tered them pure, analyze them
daily and warn our thirsty peo
ple when NOT to drink it when
it is NOT pure.
To be sure we have a state
health department, hired and paid
for the very purpose, a depart
ment which will analyze samples
of water sent them at ANY time,
free of charge; a board of men
picked for their fitness for this
very purpose, and who will make
tests every month, every week,
every day, if we will only be to
the trouble to put a little bottle
under the faucet.
But that" isn't the idea. We
should paronize home first. Our
city needs more jobs and what
a typhoid 'outbreak good for if it
won't get someone something.
By all means hire a local,
chemist and pay him $400 a year
to do what the water commis
sioners or board of health are
elected to do.
And for. fear he might get" a
little careless and forget some
day to tell us the quantity and
quality of germs that are running
races in- our water mains, let us
have another "made in Oregon
City" official as assistant, and
pay him, say $200 a year to make
tests and semi-weekly germ re
ports, in the event the board of
health, water commissioners or
"official city tester" should skip
a day or two.
It's a splendid scheme. It deals
entirely with effects. It would be
like the label Linn Jones puts on
poison bottles. We might have
a. set of signals on the Dluff and
every morning have the bulletins
warn the people whether or not
(he fluid would be poison for that
day. :...', -$
Now let's blow away the non
sense and meet conditions.
We don't want to know how
OFTEN our water is dangerous
WE WANT T OKNOW THAT I"
IS SAFE, want to know it is pure
every happy minute of the year.
How often do you have typhoid
in Oregon CityT
Every single year.
Had it every year for twenty
TYPHOID
years, haven't you?
And you'll have it for twenty
years more unless you remove
the cause.
You put in a $60,000 filtering
Elant five years ago, but you
ave grim old typhoid doing busi
ness at the same old stand.
The water commissioners
make a public statement that the
reservoir is cleaned every year
and was cleaned in August this
year. . ,-
Then what?
Then they admit that the filter
DOES NOT eliminate the germs
of typhoid.
I have asked opinions of doc
tors in Portland, in Oregon City,
and have talked with several
nurses, and every one of them
declares that typhoid cannot be
filtered out of water.
The Doctors Mount emphatic
ally state that as long as we take
our water from the state's sewer,
the Willamette river, just so long
will we have fevers to a greater
or less extent.
Medical books will tell you that
typhoid germs will permeate an
earthen dish and contaminate
water on the inside of that dish.
Why did New York City expend
millions of dollars for a water
system when it could have filter
ed it out Of the Hudson? . .
Why did Portland go to Bull
Run instead of taking it out of
the Willamette or Columbia? '
Because these cities knew they
would be right up against the
conditions we now have.
Jbuifalo filters water out of big
Lane iM-ie, but that city has sel
dom a year that misses an out
break. Oregon City has got to settle
this matter and settle it right, or
it will have- fevers every time the
siate sewer rises ana brings down
tne filth lor us to drink.
There are several ways to set
tle it right, but they all get right
Iiuck to the one point remove
Hie cause, get a pure supply.
. "But we wouiu burn up the
$60,000 we have put into our wa
ter plant," a citizen protested the
olher day.
Sure nough, but would this
man enlist as a martyr? Would
he die lor Oregon City? Any of
you leliows want to put your
names down as volunteers to run
-up against typhoid to save a'$60,
ouu water plant? If so come in
we want to see how many there
o.i e.
if it means o back In t he font-
hills to get mountain snrinirs.
tnen hop to it, and don't stack up
the cost against human life. If
it means pay Portland good mon
ey to tap Bull Run mains, then
pay and tap.
In a few weeks the epidemic
will have passed, a few will have
uiea and we will havef orgotten it
until next November.
nut let me teu you there is
something the OTHER fellow
nasn t forgotten.
Almost every newsDaner that
comes to the Courier office has
given Oregon City some mighty
expensive advertising free of
expense.
from 3-heads ' down to the
condensed state news items they
nave told hundreds of thousands
of people of the typhoid out-
Dreak here.
They have done more in one
month to hurt Orecron Citv .than
the commercial bodies can do in
a year to get back.
And this is too exnensive ad
vertising we can't afford it.
un my way to Oregon Citv a
year and a half ago, a Portlander,
on nis way nome trom Chicago,
advised nie not to locate in the
Willamette Valley, for he said
most or tne cities and towns used
river water and they all had ty
phoid.
lo an easterner tyDhoid is
deadly and to him the word car
ries fear. They don't know that
the disease here is mild.
I know one of the most beauti
ful spots in Texas, the richest
valley on the Brazos river, that is
almost depopulated because of
yearly typhoid outbreaks and
mat section cannot get pure wa
ter. .
Eliminate typhoid and it will
do more for advertising purposes
for this city than anything could
possibly be done.
I know two families in-this city,
both came here less than a year
ago, one has typhoid and the oth
er lives in daily dread of it. Both
men declare they will leave Ore-
gun "as quick as God will let
them."
And can we afford to let these
kind of missionaries go back east
and preach? Can we?
Let's go after the matter right,
face conditions and remedy them.
Getting another chemist to tell
us howoften our water is danger
ous is kid nonsense.
Getting a pure supply of water
is men's talk.
Boiling water week after week
is only half a preventative.
Washing a hunch of celery un
der a faucet will undo it. Wet
ting a toothbrush under a faucet
will give the fever to the right
person. And our boys and girls
will drink water where they can
get it when they are thirsty.
The plan is to get a supply of
water that does not have to be
doctored before it is safe no
matter the expense.
You can't measure human life
by dollar signs and figures you
can't put a price on your boy or
girl.
Typhoid is worse than con
sumption. Let us fight it as we
fight the white plague.
What say you?
The Two Big Items.
Two of the largest individual
items of expenditures of Clacka
mas county for October, accord
ing to the published procedings
of the county court, were Coast
Bridsre Co. $2,342.73 and the Ore
gon City Enterprise, $745.62 for
printing. Estacada .progress.
Only 8een in Oregon.
The first of the week there was
a heavy white frost and it was an
unusual sight to an easterner to
see the young lads coasting and
sliding on white sidewalks, fring
ed with budding and ful blown
roses.
THE FIRST
SPIKEJS DRIVEN
RAILROAD RATIFICATION DAY
A SPLENDID SUCCESS.
BIG CROWDS IN ATTENDANCE.
People Show Hearty Approval of
Work of the Directors.
ClackamaS Southern day was a
great big success. The weather
man plugged the success along by
handing out one of the balmiest
sunniest days, and everything
worked together to make the day
a big ratillcation meeting.
The Live Wires did a deserved
thing when they started this cel
ebration meeting, but one cannot
but think if we had taken hold of
this project with this vim and en
thusiasm two years ago, how
much easier it would have made
the work for those who have had
their noses on the grindstone.
But the past is gone.
'If there was ever a skeptic as
lo the final and quick completion
of the road Tuesday convinced
him he was lugging the wrong
fancy. The road is far beyond
the speculation. It IS a railroad,
it is ready for the ties, it will be
extended as fast as workmen and
the weather will permit to Mount
Angel for the money is in the
bank to extend it, and the rails
are in the yards here ready to lay
lo Beaver Qreek.
The Courier is not going to
print the details and program of
the big day of Tuesday, for the
most of the Courier's subscribers
were present and to them it would
be a twice told tale. The golden
spike was driven by that loyal old
veteran to the cause, George A.
Harding; speaches were made by
many of the prominent men of
the county; there was music, eat
ing, decorations, delegations, and
everything to cause enthusiasm
and make the people fully realize
that the long-hoped-for railroad
into the Molalla country has
come. . .
The Courier would rather talk
of the future of this railroad
than of the details of the celebra
tion day.
It is going to boom every part
of Clackamas county that it will
provide an outlet for. It has al
ready greatly-advanced the values
of real estate ' through Beaver
Creek, Liberal. Molalla and the
other places along the route. It
will boom Oregon City. It will
open the big Atkins lumber mill
n this city. It will bring the en
tire output of the country served
to this city. It will develon and
start townsites along the rich
country it traverses, whoso busi
ness will largely come to this
city. It spells progress and
growth for this part of the coun
ty-. . .
And when wo see the road in
full operation and developing the
richest section of country that
lays in any state, then will we
look back and wonder why it was
not built thirty years ago. When
tnere is a demand a railroad us
ually finds a way to it. The de
mand has long laid out here and
many a financier has acknowledg
ed it, but it has waited for 450
of just the farmers and business
men to reach the demand to sav
we can build a railroad without
New York s money.
Ano tney nave.
Tuesday's meeting has been
worth more to the men who have
worried and worked for two years
man siock suuscrinuons. it nas
sh,own them that the people of
this city and the surrounding
country appreciate and recognize
men eiioiis.
CLEAR CASE OF LIBEL.
Ladies of Oregon City, Rise up
and Go After this Editor.
There are still many who think
that woman suffrage is not the
best thing for the country, and
their sentiment will be most eas
ily and wisely overcome by show
ing distinct betterment in gov
ernment in states where women
vote. We observe that the wom
en in Oregon City have made a
bad start in this direction. They
urged the men associated with
them on the election board to
smoke.Clenliness in public places
was one of the reforms hoped to
be accomplished. The Oregon
City example is a poor beginning.
McMinnville Register.
It seems very strange now
such an absolutely truthless story
could gain enough credanco !U
the newspapers to get into the
editorial columns.
Thore isn't a woman on the el
ection boards of any ward in Or-
egon City, nor never was, nor a
woman in any possible
manner
connected with the voting places
1 he Telephone Register had
better label his shear clippings
or the women of historic old
Oregon City will bo over there
and pull his hair out.
rur TVDunin stiTHATinN
City Is Full of Fever, but It Is
Thought Crisis Is Passed.
The tvnhoid outbreak presents
a serious asnect. and the neonle
are very much in earnest that has an eucaliptus tree, probably
immediate steps be taken to stop the only one in the state of its
the epidemic and end the causes kind. It was while on a visit to
that have started it. California that Mr. Walker pur
One of the scrius conditions Is chased tho tree, bringing it to
that of the poor families, who
cannot hire trained nurses,
and ili said that because of the
lack of sanitary knowledge of
these people the danger of con-
laglon is great.
A movement is on foot to have
Portland nurses come here, visit
every home in the city that has
the fever and see that needed
aid and the necessary precau
tions are available.
Hundreds of men are having
the typhoid scurum injected, and
ii is said to be an almost sure
preventative if taken before the
fever sets in.
The published reports tha
there are but 50 cases in the city
is anything but true there are
many more and the situation is
certainly grave.
There is high indignation that
the condition of the water was
not made known to the people at
the beginning of and before this
outbreak. The people hold that
the cily is responsible for this
neglect, and that it was the duty
of someone to havo had the water
tested and the condition of the
water made public. Hal this
been done the fever would have
been confined to a few cases.
There are many who threaten
damage actions for I nis neglect.
And out of it all grows a strong
sentiment for a change in the
water supply a protest against
the present contaminated Wil
lamette water and a demand
that the city take immediate
steps to this end. There are
talks of starting petitions to the
city council asking for immed
iate action.
The fact that can't be gotten
away from is that this comliti'm
of the water should never have
been allowed to be served to an
unsuspecting public. Had the
people been warned of the danger
I ho epidemic could have been
prevented. Whose neglect it is,
we do not know, but certain it is
that it should be fixed, for the
city is in our judgment as liable
for the results of this condition
as would be the power company
for the damage resulting from al
lowing a hundred live wires to
hang down where people could
unconsciously come in contact
with them and be killed or in
jured. , " -
No doubt the worst 'of the out
break is now over, for very little
unboiled water has boen used in
the past two weeks, and it is not
expected there will be many more
cases.
But the people should not let
thiis lesson be ' forgotten wtien
I he epidemic passes. We should
see that none follow.
Give the Nurse Full Credit
There are two little girls, both
under two years of age, both very
ill with typhoid on Fourth street.
The Courier editor called at the
house a few days ago and talked
with the nurse regarding them.
"Do you think they will pull
through," asked the newspaper
man, and quickly came back the
confident answer "oh yes, they've
GOT TO." . ...
A man should take off his hat
every time he meets one of these
faithful trained nurses.
And how few of us give them
the credit that is theirs.
If the patient lives, we praise
the physician, while the nurse, the
faithful attendant who stands ov
er the bed night and day, day af
ter day, is where the big end of
the credit is due.
These nurses go for weeks at
a lime without a nicrht's sleen.
just catching a few minutos here
and there in their chairs. They
wai.cn every symptom, almost ev
ery heartbeat, and when the doc
tor comes the exact condition of
the patient is before him.
Ono good nurse is worth a doz
en doctors in typhoid, for this
fever is one where nursing counts
for more than drugs. And when
ono of these low-voiced, confident
nurses comes to the baby's bed
and says the little ono has GOT
to get well oh, what a load of
worry and anxiety. she takes off.
FIRST TYPHOID VICTIM.
Edna Prater of Gladstone, Died
Tuesday from Dread Fever.
Miss Edna Prater, a well known
young lady of Gladstone, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Prater,
is the first victim from the effects
of typhoid fever. Miss Prater,
who had been employed in the
woolen mills in this city, was
taken ill about a week ago, and
while everything that could pos
sibly be done for her was done,
yet death came Tuesday after
noon at 5 :20.
MisR. Prater camo to Oregon
City with her parents from Mace,
Idaho, last June and the family
settled in Gladstone. li.s Prater
was held in the highest esteem-by
all who knew her. At the time of
her death she was 23 years and
5 month old.
She is survived by her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. J. II. Prater; two sis
ters, Mrs. Edwards of Gladstone,
Mrs. Carrie Conneoke of Missoula,
Mont.; two Brothers, A. G. Prater
of Dutch Flat, Gal and Chester
Prater of Gladstone.
A Portland View.
Editor Courier:
I like tho Courier better every
week and your plain manner of
sneaking out. I am glad that Lynn
( Jones has been elected mayor, as
he is the right man in the right
place, and 1 am also glad or tne
nig free elevator you are going
to build. It looks a if the people
were going to do things m Oregon
Gity now
Let the Courier continue to
stand for what it now stands for
w. i.. muuiijr
8ome Grower, This Tree.
8. H. Walker, who resides on
S. S. Walker, who resides
Twelfth and Madison streets.
Oregon with him. The trcei snow
12 feet high, and during tho pest
year it has grown si feet. The
leaves have a peculiar odor and
are used for medicinal purposes.
u mases a very nanusome orui-
mental tree as well.
I50JOOP1T
FOR OGLE MINE
S3MVIM J.U0d3U 8.U33NION3
NIV1U33 NOIXOV 83MVIM
RICHER THAN WAS HOPED FOR
Meeting Tomorrow will Take Im
mediate Action for Big Plant
There is going to be a 100-ton
cyanide mining plant put in at
Ogle mine, and that old mountain
is going to give up his gold and
silver.
For eight years Tom and John
Fairclough have worked on that
hill to convince the people that
the yellow and white stuff was
there, and a company of loyal lo
cal fellows has stood behind them
and helped-put up the cash when
Hie gold seemed elusive and far
in the future.
But tney held on like bulldogs
and Englishman and plugged a
mile of tunnels into the old hill, -and
when they had laid- bear the
ore that was hidden there, they
then proved their judgment anu
sand. r.iWM
t hey secured the services of
Charles F. Spaulding, one pf the
best mining engineers in the
country and took him to Ogle
mine six weeks ago.
This engineer is from a big cy
anide plant in Mexico. He knows
mines and mining. He had not a
dollar in Ogle mine, nor had he
ever heard of it. He was brought
here because money could bring
him.
And after four weeks of inves-
Ligaiiuii ui me ujjiu nunc, 110
simply says the metal is there,
gold and silver in paying quanti
ties, and ore in sight to last far
into the future; that a 100 ton cy
anide plant should be installed;
that tne ore will run from $7 to
ID per ton; that the cost of mill
ing will be $3 per ton; that in la
ter years a bigger plant can be
installed to work up the poorer
quality of ore, and that the mine
is a rich one.
That is all there is to it in a
very few words.
The assays and findings of the
engineer show the mine To be ev
en richer than the Fairclough
Bros, have ever claimed for it,
and one hundred tons a day cap-
awi wfctii in (J l uiiuiUB Alum 91
to S'J per ton; is sure some prof
its. The Wells-Fargo company
isn't in it. And the peauty of a
paying mine is that it simply
brings more wealth into the
world. It does not take it from
the other fellow but simply
makes it produces it.
The stockholders of the com
pany will hold a special meeting
dI l?nn.,rvo V. 1 1 CI. ,..,).,.. .U.
at jviiui'ij a nun ouiuiuajr alim
noon, hut already the matter Is
practically certain that thoy will
simply go head at once on
the
ninllur it miltino in thiu nlani
and that with the opening of
spring everything will be ready to
mine Ogle mountain. : .
The engineer has made com
plete blue prints of the process,
which the company has at its of
fice at 1003 Main street. The
Fairclough boys say the plant will
be run from water power, which
is available in that vicinity,
which will greatly reduce the ex
pense. The proposed plant will
cost $50,000 installed.
The stockholders of the com
pany are jubilant over the report
of the engineer, and there will
be no trouble in raising the mon
ey for the plant.
And the stockholders' meeting
Saturday will be some ratification
meeting, too.
Canby Man on 8erlous Charge.
On a charge of criminal inti
macy with his step daughter Geo.
Taylor, a farmer who lives near
Canby, was arrested by Sheriff
Mass Wednesday. The girl is but
fourteen years old. The farmer is
about fifty and married. The
complaint is made by the neigh.
ors. He was brought to this city
and the girl is in charge of the
court matron.
Notice of Stockholders' Meeting.
Notice is hereby given that
there will he a meeting of the
stockholders of the Ogle Mining
CO. at Knanp's hall, Oregon City,
Saturday, December 14 at 1:30 at
which tune tho matter of the en
gineer's report will be read and
tho proposition of installing a
cyanide mining system will be
taken up.
Don't Take Chano&s.
Superintendent Howell is re
ported in the Enterprise as stat
ing iiu is coniiuuni me waier nere
is pure.
In
the face of the present epi
demic such a statement is very
unwise. No matter who says it
is pure, don't you drink a drop of
it until it si thoroughly boiled.
Confidence on the part of the
superintendent or the water com
missioners won t filter typhoid
germs. Don't take anybody's con-
ridence just nut tne rir-wooa
under the tea kettle.
Chris. Schuebel Dangerously III.
We learn at the time of going to
press that the condition of Chris
Schuebel, who underwent an op
eration while ill with typhoid, is
very grave, but that the physi
cians think he will recover.
Frank McCafferty, a black
smith, was sentenced to a year's
imprisonment in the county Jail
Wednesday for non-support of
his family.