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mow city eouin ..The Courier has an average sworn circulation during the year 1912 or over 2,000 weekly. Its ad. vertlslng columns are gold. No votlnq contests, premiums or other "InducementsThe Cour ier stands on Its own bottom and its subsorlptloi. ilst talks. 30th YEAR. OREGON CITY. OREGON. -FRIDAY. DEC. 27, 1912. No. 33 01 ONE THAT LOOKS QOOD. Ogle Mining Stock Looks Like a Safe Play for Investment. The Courier editor has no in terest in Ogle mine, not a cent's worth of stock or any personal connection with the project. We don't get a cent- for advertising it through these weekly articles. We do it because we know the proposition is a good thing and when it gets to developing it will be about the richest thing this county ever took on. For the gold and silver are there, any man who knows anything about metals and ore know this. The proposi tion is to get it and that is what the company is now after. For twenty years mining men have known that Ogle mine had the gold, the proposition was how much did it have? And to And out how much it contained meant a big expenditure of money. The mine is far back from the rail roads. It must show what it had before money would be put into its development. It has taken eight years of hard work and all kinds of going down into pockets to keep the work go ing at the mine and to dig tun. nels long enough to absolutely prove there was enough of the ore to warrant the installing of a big plant. But the fellows have stayed with it and today it is there for anybody to see who cares to- a mine that has ore enough in sight to make it one of Oregon's richest producers for many years to come. i ; It will cost about $50,000 to put in a cyanide plant to extract the gold from Ogle mine. The best engineers of the country say this process will do the business, and it is this project the company is now raising money for.'selling its treasury stock for. When a gold mine does make good it is about the softest in vestment a man ever had, for it is but taking the money where na ture hid it, and it continues to come year after year, and usually a mine grows better and richer with development. The work of raising the neces sary -money to install the cyanide system is coming far easier than the - company considered. The reason is that people have confi dence in the mine and the people behind it. There is nothing in the "blue sky" order connected with it. It's a mine with all kinds of rich ore and eight years' develop ment behind it. The day will come when stock can't be bought for anywhere neai" the present ..price. When The At a company can get out the gold there is no stock for sale. , It is when money for development will bring more money that stock is sold low. It's a chance, but there is mighty small returns on a sure thing, for you have to pay all the sure thing is worth. John Fairclough, who has been on the job at Ogle mine for eight years, and who knows every foot of the tunnels as well as you know your dinning room, says he is as sure as it is possible to be sure of anything you cannot pos itively see, that Ogle mine will yet produce dollars where there are only cents in sight now, that future development will lead the way to the main chimney from which this ore comes, and that when that is found, Ogle mine stock will not stay on the same list with Standard Oil. If you have a little money that is not working and want to take a chance that looks good for the future, Ogle stock presents the chance. It looks good for a win ner. Legislature will Convene Jan. 13 The state legislature will con vene at Salem the 13th of January and it will be a legislature the people of the state will watch withkeen interest. There are many important matters to come up, and the members have it in their hands to shorten the initia tive measures that go on the bal lot if they will only make good. When representatives will legis laae in the interests of the people the people will not ask to legis late. Can You Find the Moral? While running for a car Sun day morning, that he might not be late at church, T. A. Burke of this city lost a ten dollar gold piece and he is yet hunting for it. At least this is the story the' young attorney put up to Mrs. Burke and she pretends to be- ieve it. While we do not want to discourage this Sunday morning doings, yet we feel it our duty to state that no one connected with the Courier office has ever lost any gold pieces in the hurry to get to church. Christmas Running Light The Courier is something like string of empties this week for the reason the wheels did not turn around in the Courier office WaHnoarlnv Tho force took a day off to eat liver and bacon. Sunshine and roses for Xmas. Best Eight the Lowest Cost 'ELECTRIC LIGHT is the most suitable for homes, offices, shops and other places needing light. Elec tricity caa be used in any quantity, lar'? or small, thereby furnishing ny require amount of light. , Furthermore, electric 'amps cat' be located in any place, thus affording any deshed 1!strlbut: m of light. No other lamps possess V.w oualificatio.i i, there fore it is not surprising that electric lamps are rapidly replacing all others in modro establishments. 4 Portland Railway, Light & Powe Company MAIN OFFICE SEVENTH ALDER. PORTLAND Phones Main 6688 and A. 6131 S1L WE ACT OR GO BACK TO SLEEP FURTHER TALK WON'T DO THE CITY ANY GOOD. IT'S NOW PUSH IT OR DROP IT And It's for You to Decide Which will be Most Expensive. "You are dead right on the mat ter of the water works. Keep it up." This or similar pats on the back the Courier has received in bunches since it first took up the matter. But the Courier is not going to keep it up unless someone ' else kicks in and plays. You might put a powerful talk ing machine on the court house and have an attendant to wind it and keep it yelling all day long on something that we all know is dead right, but keep it running a hundred years and it would never remedy the matter by talking. When someone else will take a stick in, when men will organize for what they talk and urge this paper to keep going, then we will stay by the job until we get pure water or die with typhoid, but we are not going to keep this first page hot every week with two col umns just to hear men say "those are my sentiments." Sentiments won't do away with drinking Willamette valley filth any more than talk will buy the baby a new riighlgound. ' It takes action to change things. When there is some disposition for this, then this paper will stand by to the finish, but until there is some signs of doing this we are going to lay back. If you want to drink it, pay doctors' bills and die, go to it. If you want to get in the game and take some step that means a remedy, then you won't have to ask this paper to help. And while you are making up your mind which way you. had rather take it just remember The Willamette river is the drain for ten thousand square miles of Oregon. For many months during the dry season of the summer months the filth accumulates all over the land in western Oregon and when the fall rains come they do the washing for this part of the state and dump the wash water in the river for us to drink. And that water is bound to be and is a mess of filth. Then added to this every city above us uses this stream for a gutter to dump all its nastiness. Eugene has a great nine-foot sewer stream of filth dumping in to the river every day in the week, and if the typhoid germs don't get busy on this mess then they don't know a good thing. Salem, adds another river, of that city's refuse to the stream and Corvallis, Albany, and all the rest of the towns and cities along the river contribute their part and when the water gets dow nto this city it has a right to stink and it does. It has a right to be filled with filth and typhoid and it is. It has a right to bring on epi demics wherever it is drunken and it does. : The question is simply whether the people of this city want to continue drinking it and continue having typhoid, or whether they want to get" what they should have gotten in the first- place pure water from the mountains. The condition of the river's wa ter is beyond any defense. The state of Oregon itself designates it as a common sewer. That point is beyond any argument. Physicians and medical books all agree that while filtering may remove filth typhoid germs can not be filtered out. In all the con troversary over this matter of ty phoid we have yet to see any claim, with any substantiation that these germs can be eradicat ed from water by pumping it up the hill and letting it run down again. So We get right back to the same place again shall we remedy it or stand it? . . ; It looks very much to this pa per as if the people wanted to stand it, but wanted to discus it for a few weeks before they shut their eyes to it for another year. Now if this is the situation this i tin paper closes tne aeoaie. wuen you get around to do something we will get back on the job and do what we can to help remedy, but until somebody does some thing besides talk, there is no use in keeping the matter going. But after what nas occurred and after the state wide advertis ing this city has had over the rec ent epedemic, we believe the peo ple can better afford to go ahead and do something. than to let it drop we believe letting it drop will be the worst possible thing this city could do. The last issue of Sunset had a nasre ad. setting forth the advan tages of soil and climate of this county, and setting forth the big advantages of Oregon City -as the manufacturing center of the coast. If that ad. could have stated "Absolutely pure water from the Coast Rango""it would have done more good in two big black lines than the whole page will do. The people of the whole country know what the soil and climate are of the Willamette val ley, and too many of them know too well what the water supply of its cities and towns are. Portland made our mistake and then remedied it. She could not afford to just talk about it. She wants the people that might come to this city. There isn't a town that has tried drinking water from the state sewer but what has, or has under way, means to get moun tain water except Oregon City. And you know, we all know that this city has simply got to face and remedy its water system sooner or late there are no two ways about this. And it would seem that tne one time to do it was now, to tell the people we are going to remedy this unsafe condition, and get as much valuable advertising out of it as we have had of the other kind. But until some one has sand or ambition enough to get busy with a protest petition or to have a mass meeting called to consider this matter, the Courier will discuss the weather and other things. We are not going to trive the city any more of this kind of advertising until there is some little prospect of its doing some good. Time to Do Something. To the Editor: I want to express my hearty ap preciation and approval of your articles on the typhoid epedemic inflicted on this city. But the next step, it seems to me, should be to look for a practical source from which to obtain pure water. This must be had, whatever the cost. We know now that sewage cannot be taken out of the Wil lamette river by filtering. Perhaps a joint committee from the city council and the LiveWires could seek the remedy as well as other organizations. There should be no delay. W. S. U'REN. E COUNCIL ENDS YEAR WITH AN OTHER HORSE PLAY. TURNS COMPLETE FLIP-FLOP Revokes License Saturday. Re stores it Monday Morning. If the city council needed one more farce to keep its record a vi vid green for ridiculousness, it pulled it off at 8 a. m. Mcwiday morning, when it met and agreed to disagree on what it did Satur day night; resolved to expunge the records of its Saturday night meeting and reversed that meet ing's, action. Saturday night this law-mak ing and council-serving body of men revuKeu me license oi J. Ud derman, who runs a saloon on up per Mam street. Mr. Beard told the council Sat urday flight that the assembly had been made ridiculous on many oc casions and that it was time for them to get down to business. He held that when a saloon man had been found sruiltv before the city recorder the -only thing for the council to do was to do just what the city charter said they must do, revoke the license. He holds that the council is nnl Ihu place to re-try men after the city had found them guilty, but that if there was any defense it should come before the trial and not be fore the council. And those are pretty hard arguments to , get away from." Monday morning a special meeting was called as soon as the councilmen (or a part of them) could gel their weekday clothes on, and this august body sto,od on ns neau and rescinded, annulled, erased, blotted out and expurged from the records, what it did the night before and handed Mr. Ua- derman a Christmas present of his license just as good as - it was before they took it away. Now here's the point: If the councils action Saturday night was an injustice to the sa loon man, why did they pull it off and get the jeering squad to go ing again? And if it was justice why did thege City governors change their minds over Sunday? Isn't it to laugh? 1 he charge against Udderrnan was selling liquor to an habitual drunkard a man who was on the "Indian list." Policeman Frost arrested the saloon man, he pleaded guilty and was lined $10 by Recorder Stipp. , At a later meeting of the coun cil. Mr. Tooze asked that his li cense be revoked, according to the provisions of the charter. Al bright , Holnian voted against re voking the license. Mr... Pope went home before the matter came to a vote. The rest of the councilmen voted to revoke the license, and it was duly revoked. At eight o'clock Monday morn ing a special meeting of the coun cil was called and the resolution offered that the record of Satur day night bo expunged from the records and that the license be continued. Messrs. Holnian, Pope and Al bright voted for the resolution; Messrs. Beard, Horlon and Myers voted against it; Messrs. Tooze, Rooke and Hall were absent. Ill ness in the family prevented Mr. Tooze from being present. The vote was a tie, and Mayor Dimick voted off the tie, and in favor of returning to Mr. Udderrnan his license. Now here is how the Courier looks at the matter and right where you will find it 52 weeks in the year: The voters of this county and city have expressed themselves as favoring the sale of liquor, and so long as the majority says it may be sold, and the liquor sellers live up to the law in selling, to the Courier they have the same place before the law as the bookstore that sells Bibles, and they are en tilled to just as much protection and just as full justice and open hearings as is given to ministers of the gospel. ' When a saloon man lives up to the law the Courier will give him a dead even break with any man or business. When he doesn't this paper will go after him the same as it would a thief. Mr. Udderrnan pleaded guilty to the charge of selling to a posted drunkard. He says he is guilty, but not knowingly guilty; that the city does not afford him any means of knowing who the for bidden men are; that he has only been in business here for about two months and had absolutely no means of knowing who the man 01 MO IDIG 1110 SESSION was or that he was on the black list. He says the violation was one any newcomer is liable to make because they have no means of knowing a posted man, abso lutely no identification. Now there is a lot of justice in this man's defense. How is a new man in a saloon going to know a forbidden man. His name is nothing. When a man is for bidden, why not have some means of identification why not have a photograph filed with the no tice, and give the man who wants to obey the law a chance to do it. A saloon license does not carry .a mind-reading permit with it. If the defense of Mr. Udderrnan is true, then why didn't the city council have him come before it and give him at least a rabbit's chance before it revoked his li cense. The same evidence could have been had Saturday night, as was produced Monday morning, and it would have saved this body irom making a pair of plays more in line with a cage of monkeys than that of the deliberations of city governors. The man was either guilty or innocent the first time on trial. Two verdicts are ridiculous and no wonder the council was again the joke of the town Monday. Now just a word before the in coming year brings on a new ad ministration. Some of you coun cilman will sneer at it, but it means just what the words spell out. This paper has no personal or individual grouch against any member. A new year is coming on and it is our heartiest wish that the scrapping, side-stepping and upper-cutting will end and the ten men get on the job they are elected for not to fight, but to uphold law and work for the best good of the city. The Ctuirier will report the ses sions of 1913, report them fairly, as we see them, and comment on the transactions as we see them. When you are right, or we think you are, we'll be with you. When you are wrong, or we think you are, we'll be against you. GUARANTEEED TO PAY 6 PER. Good as Ogle Mine 8took and will not Cost Half as Muoh.. A newspaper thinks it is its "duty" once a year to hand out a few paragraphs of New Year dope ' which subscribers won't read and which the editor will not come within a hundred miles of following himself. But if is a petrified "custom" and here's ours: Never mind turning over the new leaf and betting someone a new hat you won't, and all that nonsense. You always lose out, if you bet you won't, for there is something about human nature that tells you to. do the thing you have told yourself not to do. If you want to make any change in (ho coming year, if you think you should follow custom and resolve, just don t do any. "swear off" stunts or make any wagers. Just simply start in the morning of the first a little dif ferent and stay different that's all. This "swear off" business sim ply shows up how weak about nine out of ten men are, and makes them a little weaker. When you resolve and fall down over it it will be a lot harder to make it slick next time. And on the other hand, every time your will power gets the best of some habit or de sire, then every time it gets a lit tle stronger, and after a little you will find out that your head is the boss over the stomach,. Just simply start in next Wed nesday morning by being a little better follow. It doesn't matter whether that means skipping a drink, being a little more kind to the wife and kiddies, stying at home nighls and getting acquain ted with your family, or going to church. You are the chairman of the committee on program. Sim ply put on some new number and see that it goes through. If you make a little slip the first day or two.don't give it up and think you have got to wait until next Janu ary to start again, but simply got a mw hoM and trv it attain the next daVi and efip trying it until you get away with it Try being a little better along certain lines for next year. Try being a good fellow. It will pay dividends for 1913. Fit His Case Exaotly "When father was sick about six years ago he read an adver tisement of Chamberlain's Tab lets in apaper that fit his case ex actly," writes Miss Margret Camp bell of Fort Smith, Ark. "He pur chased a box of them and he hsa -nnl. hefln nick since. Mv sister had 'stomach trouble and was also ben edited by them." For sale by Huntley Bros. uo. The Courier is the paper that goes Into more homes and is read h mnro nnnnln than anv other county paper in Oregon, AGREE AND DISAGREE. Strange Ending of the Famous Shaw Controversy. If we ever see the end of the police contest in this city, the proper move would be to call a public thanksgiving meeting, dec orate the hall with olive branches, release a cage of doves, and ev erybody give thanks. . The people simply will not tol erate another year of it not as long as the convenient recall lays around. We have all had a stom ach full; the city has been adver tised far and near because of it, and now it is time to put it in cold storage. Judge Eakin has held that Mr. Shaw is not chief of police and never has been. Mayor Dimick has always held he is not nor has he ever been. And Mr. Shaw himself Says he is not and never has been. There is one poinT where all agree now, yet they still disagree because they do agree. Mayor Dimick thinks the dis claimer that Shaw's attorneys put up at the last minute of the year A"ul uo never was umei uuu nev er claimed to be, but that he is city jailer and deputy sheriff) was the dofonse forced by defeat and by a weak case. Chief Shaw's friends look at it as slipping one over on the mayor and keeping Shaw on the job un der an assumed name. Just what the city council, which fought so hard to make him and keep him as chief, thinks, has not been given out for publi cation. They are in about the same position as was President Taft and Secretary Hillis on the 6th day of November, A. D., 1912. They had nothing to say. They had been fooled ahd made mon keys of. In his talk to the court Mayor Dimick said of Mr. Shaw and his backers in the year's controversy: "Those very men who are now playing the baby act, are the bull-headed ones. From the very moment I stepped into office here, they have thwarted me at every turn, and this defendant whom they now try to claim has ne ver been the chief, has been the main instigator in a well laid conspiracy. ' ' "I wish to close nry admin istration in a business-like manner. Why, your honor, they have even concealed from me the jail records, which the charter says must be kept in the jail." , Mr. Shaw says the charter does not say any such a thing and quotes Sec 45, third paragraph, on page 18 of the charter, which reads: "He (the mayor) shall make all necessary and convenient rules and regulations for the organiza tion and conduct of said police force; for the care and manage ment of the city prison; for re-, ceiving and hearing complaints against any member of said force . . . .such rules to be submitted to and approved by a majority of the council and filed with the record er," And Sec. 56 of Chap. XI. on page 21 of the charter, which reads in part: "The chief of police shall keep in his office a book of arrests in which shall bo entered by him, or under bis direction, the name of every person the cause . of arrest, by whom arrested and the date thereof." Mr. Shaw says this book has been publio property for a year in the recorder's office where Mayor Dimick or anyone else might have access to it; that the charter does not say it shall be kept in jail, and that ho kept it in he only office he held as city jailer. And now Mayor Dimick says the matter is not ended, but that he will ask for a restraining or der to prevent City Treasurer Latourette from paying tho-salary warrants lo Mr. Shaw. Mayor Dimick has never signed one of Shaw's warrants, but the council took advantage of a tech nicality and during the absence of the mayor, has signed them, These warrants have been cashed by the first national bank, but have not been paid by the troasur. er. And here you have the muddle, and there is something weak in a charter that says a mayor shall appoint a chief of polico but per mits a legal means to prevent tho official from serving; and which permits an official who has been removed by a mayor to stay on the job, get his pay regularly, and to all knowledge of the public be chief for a full year. And now may these city strifes and political games end; may the city officials get on the job for the people and may we have har mony a foot thick. Let us bray I Harsh physics, react, weaken the bowels, cause chronio con stipation. Doan's Regulets oper ate easily, tone the stomach, cure constipation. 25c. Ask your druggist for them. i