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.
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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.
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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
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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
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