SOMETHING NOTHING GAM E BAD PLAY FOR MERCHANT AND CUSTOMER. WANT LAWS TO ABOLISH IT, Trading Stamp and Premium Schemes are Played Out CITY 30th YEAR. OREGON CITY, ORE., FRIDAY, JAN. 24, 1313. No. 37 . Wednesday and Thursday of this week the Oregon Retail Mer chants' Association held its an nual convention in Albany, and now a committee will go to Salem and ask that a bill be introduced abolishing the trading stamps in uregon. Tacoma, Wash., now imposes a . fine of $100 annually on all mer- cnants who give trading stamps ana the lederal courts have sus tained the ordinance. You may talk about the family senuing to sears, Roebuck & Go for merchandise, but this trading siamp Dusiness is just as bad. The east long ago cut it out be cause the dealers themselves re alized that it was working dead wrong, that only the few were be ing benefitted (or thought they , were oeing) and that it was sim ply driving the rest to the mail order houses where they did not nave to pay for the others' trad ing stamps and premiums. This system of stamps, prizes, contests and premiums is all dead wrong, and the consumers are getting wise to it. Customers have the idea (they may be right or wrong) that they nave to pay ror those premiums just the same if they do get them ', given to them in exchange for a dook or stamps, and the customer !who does not save them for him self, or herself, but who gives them to her neighbor, thinks he or she is having to help pay for the premium twice and then does not get a look at it. And the contest that is worse than the stamps. Only one can win, but the customers line up and' take sides with the contestants, ,and when the weeks and month of campaigning are over, one per son win. out and the rest are disappointed, then they are sick of the whole job and just ripe for the catalogue house to do business, with.. . r Where is the newspaper that ever had anything to hold sub scribers on that ever found a con ( test or prize scheme profitable? ,i ine wnoie system or prizes ' ' trading stamps, contests and guessing schemes are for the pur. pose of getting trade that is un natural, of hiring people to pat . ronize them and such a trade is not worth the getting, and it will not stick ' Here is the way Coliers, that national newspaper, sizes up the niatter: We know few instutions better deserving attention from such machinery of sup pression as public" opinion possesses than those news paper contests which pur ' port to discover the ten most popular school teachers .or the ten most beautiful sten- ographers. Do the relatives and friends of these young women realize that they are being daubed with vulgarity to make money for newspap- ers' whose heed has become extreme by the time they ad opt this device? There is nothing to this some hitng for nothing business and the people' know it. ,' ' IThe big trading stamp syndi cates have a soft snap on , the pfemiums, but the merchant must go down .on the expense list for about five per cent of his sales or he must raise the price of certain goods the people are not too fa , miliar with to get this back and Ihe people have an idea this is just about what: he does, ;and that they are indirectly paying for the printing of the stamps and the premiums that come from way back east the place where YOU must not buy your goods from, but the place where the MER CHANT gets his from. - - If the merchants -would get to gether on this matter and cut out the stamps, and give the people sale dates and the price of these stamps and premiums in special prices, how much better the peo ple, would feel and how much bet- , ter the trade would be ror tne .merchants. - " You can't find a trading stamp, a premium or a contest in the "cast. They all tried it, and they all quit it quit it before it fin ished them. - The manager of one of the big gest mercantile concers in west ern New York told the Courier ed itor the trading stamp and con test business injured their busi ness to an extent that it took four years to get back after the schemes had been stopped. He -said it simply drove customers to )the catalogue houses, but they never realized it until they dis continued the contests then they found that the better class of trade, thouse who knew there was nothing in the something-for-nothing game, had gone to trade with the mail order houses. t The merchants of this city should form an association, cut out the hiring trade schemes, and put on a series of sales that would reach out and bring in a class of trade this city does not get. They could take the same mon ey they put into stamps and pre miums put it into reduced prices give all the people the benefit of the bargain (instead, of the few) and bring in a line or business we do not have now and will never get through trading stamps. The people ought not to be compelled to ask for state law or ordinance protection against the stamps and contest schemes, the merchants should see the folly of thing ror nothing business and cut them out. , ' : LET GEORGE DO IT? But What Variety of Newspapers Would Wo Publish? A Newberg business man whose name does not appear on the mailing list of either of the home papers, recently ' approached the Graphic with a broad hint that we should "write up" a certain man who sent to Portland to get some work done, when said business man was sure he could have given as good sat isfaction as the Portland man rendered. Let George do it. Newberg Graphic. It's the same old story. When the matter of a public elevator came up here the business men of Seventh street patted the Cour ier on the back until it was sore for the way we boosted for it, for it meant much to these' business men, but nine out of ten ef them had to borrow the Courier to read what we were doing for them. , On the matter of a pure water supply these business men of the hill section are fully awake to the importance, and they' know what a refusal of the city to take act ion would do toward building up the west side. They pat us on the back for boosting their game and RAISE LESS TRUCK E STOCK M DAIRYING AND SWINE RAISING ARE MONEY MAKERS. WIRES TAKE UP THESE TOPICS Get Blooded Foundation Stock 'and Get Rich. The only-objection one Can have with the Live Wires these days is that there is not time enough, and the fellows have to jump to get a chance to say anything. But this is lar better than to have to prod members to get them started. It shows an interest in matters and a healthy condition of the club. Darying and live stock raising that he had had the same analyzed in Portland; that there was con siderable sediment arid orgajnic matter, but no typhoid germs. C. H. Dye heartily endorsed the proposition of incouraging live1! stock breeding and agricultural stock breding and darying; that we had a better sou than any county in the valley and that we could make these pursuits a great success in this county. G. L. Hedges related how one man was getting io per cent per month interest from one cow nine years old and that was valued at $75. x . . ; ' On the various subjects that came before the members at a re cent meeting, President Cross ap pointed committees for each and he says he expects these commit tees to dig in and report on every one of them, and if they are what A BILL TO KILL, HELP TO KILL IT A MOTHERS' PENSION BILL WITH BIG JOKER Class Legislation and the Widest Discrimination. There has been or will be intro duced at Salem, a Mothors' pen sion bill. On the face of it this looks good, and any fellow with a urn noorl onH nrotuifhin nnr Tuonh I nrnnnaoa c cm attar IKiartt ' I heart in the right snot will Just say goou ALL BUT FINISHING. read the title and thing, let's have it." And there is the trouble with too many of us we only read the Locks Canal has Only Few Thou-,uues a"d ,.B1l lhem ""P m Jkers . ' . .enough to block a highway, sand Miles More of Red Tape. This mother8 penion bill fts The Courier stated two weeks we understand it, should never cnrnA in for hio- nmi nnii iit , aK. ar,d 11 wasn t a guess but a puss, ior the reason it is rank ing time of Tuesday's meeting statement. that it was expected class legislation, open discrimin and every man was anxious and lransfer of( the fa'ls cks a"n and ,.drawn for a certain ron.iv in nn hi. faat J u i the government would be com-. class of mothers and children. to uush the nrnipM ninn pleted by the 18th of the month.1 .As we understand the proposed Live Wires realize what this will' Ilwas a bum steer and a lonir I mil i There has been a stronar nrein dice against it from the first and unless the legislature heeds the protest and abolishes the law the voters will certainly continue the protests and in Oregon you know the voters can pretty nearly sei wiiut mey want when they be come sufficiently aroused. Get Ready for It. Washington's birthday. Febru. ry a, is tne date ror the fti nm. bia Hook & Ladder Co's 43d annu- uance. It is the event of the year and will of course have great crowd. Fox's full orchestra or Portland will furnish the in spiration. ize what this will mean to the county, and they are going to get in the game and do all they can to in every way as sist the farmers in making this industry the main line instead of the side line. . ' - -' W. A. Shewman, editor of the Western Stock. Journal, was the text speaker, and then the others then read their neighbor's paper; But it 8 a part of the newspap er game and one must play the njuring our own business, and 'joined, in.) Shewman gave a most lnterosting-and practical talk on what, dairying and swine raising, when gone into right, will do for cards as they come. If the news any community, and he showed papers always waited for George how it would particulary advance to do" it, and only boosted' those this county for the reason that it who boosted them, they would be is especially adapted to this pur- weak sisters in a community. Pleaded Not Guilty. t G. W. Taylor of Canby, pleaded not guilty to the charge of criml inal intimacy with his adopted daughter before Judge . Campbell in the Circuit Court Saturday. He will be tried. . , . s Holds Up Road Levy. j Robert Clark, who lives in road district 44, asked Judge Campbell to restrain the district from levy ing a 10-mill assessment, and the judge granted; the order. Clark claims that he was . prevented from voting at the road meetings1; that if he had been allowed to vote the count would have been a tie and the levy could not have been authorized. :. i Boy 8 tabs Himself. The little son of John. Costello of Redland, was playing with .-a jack-knife and in trying to close the blade he pushed it against nis abdomen. ..The. blade slipped through his clothing andpenetra- ted his body, piercing the ;iver. Dr. Mount rushed the lad to the city hospital where it was found the knife blade had severed the end of the liver. The wound was dressed and he is fast recovering. Frost Arrests Troublemaker, i Constable Jack Frost arrested a man named Roy Ellis Saturday night, turned him over to 'Sheriff Mass and Justice Samson fined him sn nr IRVIava'in iail. The man was -drunk, constable Frost says, and iiewent to the home of William Bruce on DivifiL ion street and demanded hospital ity, Bruce fed him but the fellow became quarrelsome, started & rough-house, and drove the fairi- ly . out. into the snow. Bruoe could not find a policeman so he called on Constable Jack Frost, who gathered him in. The fellow had a partner and both had been drinking and panhandling. way from facts. The date will come nearer the 18th of next August for the final title business ; for here is the spool of red tape ; that tired old deod has to b , wound from yet: To the U. S. district attorney for him to run his legal eye ovar and see if the "be the same more or less" is in proper order; then to General Bixby, who doesa t know any more about deeds than the Courier editor does about as tronomy; then the attorney gen eral of the U. S. will have a look and see there are chains and link enough to mate it hold; then Bix by will have another look to see .the attorney general observed all suit. . Ha staled that $12,000,000 Af ilnirtr ni.irliinf u A t(i AHA ! rf nrtrir 'nriH 9r nun Ann i ' (otlthe periods and comas, and ther, n hru (Ki ." V it will go to the Secretary of War Stimson, and if he fmds is all dotted and t's all crossed and ih document in "due and ancient form," then will he put his O on it and biff, we will be ready to commence to prepare to dig government ditch around the fall of the Willamette j Maccabees Elect Officers! The installation of officers of the Order of Macabees took place last week . when the. following were installed-by State Comman der Sherwood: Commander, F: E Walling; Lietenant commander, F. B. Hayward; record keeper, Jv Follansbee; chaplain, G. B Phillips; sergeant, William Bur- gres; master-at-arms, , iouis Conkliri; first master- of guards, D. H. Bottemiller; second master of guards, J. F '. Wallace i;-sentinel, D. J. Finucane; picket, M. Brungard; trustees,- A. B. Buck les, C. W. Parish, F. Betzel. ; The members pf this lodge went to Portland on Thursday evening, where they had been ex tended an invitation to visit the lodsre at that place. The special car left here at 7:30 o'clock, i Suggestions to Senator Dimlck Senator Dimick has introduced bill to abolish the mililiai We farmers are in very stringent cir cumstances and we. can do away ith the militia and never jmiss . We can not build $20,000 arm ories with our school houses now nder bonds.. We are not in favor of war. We are for peace on earth good will toward men. We t'aise ogs and cattle for slaughter not our sons. You are making good, Mr. Dimick, as a servant of the people on this line and iftyour bill is lost have the law so amend ed that none but millionaires can enter the army, then corn stalks will do as well as muskets. were brought into this state for consumption, while we might and could: easily produce this import, and ship to other states as well. He showed how we had the soil, the crops and everything partic ularly adapted to dairying, live stock and swine' raising, and he cited how other places in the east and . in: Washington state had made of their localities the rich est of communities by stock rais ing and dairying and had changed the 'kle of trade to a large bal ance in their favor.' He said the idea was to start right, get the blooded foundation- stock and then raise the crops 'this valley was especially ' adapted to for feed. He said the banks in many places vere greatly aiding the farmers to get the right sires for their stock and ! that the : banks here stood ready to help: He al so advised that there be a live stock exhibit in connection with the coming booster; day celebra-l tioa in May, and the suggestion met with hearty support. T. W. Sullivan , hydVaulic en gineer. of the P. R. L. & P. Co., warmly endorsed Shewman's talk. He said the welfare of any city de pended on the welfare of the far-J ming country and the- manufac turing; that the manufacturing was able totake care of itself (if they were not tied down with in jurious laws) but that the manu. factories were ready and. anxious to help any cause that would help to niake the country more pros perous; that this county was close to a ready market, that it had the soil and'.climatje for anything and that live stock and dairying would makej it a, rich country quicker thai) any other- proposition. O. E. A. Freytag stated how he learned while in Chicago that the state of Montana was shipping hundreds of carload of swine in to Portland,, and he could not un derstand why the people right in the front yard of the big city and with everything that any country could ask for, permitted this condition. M. D.. Latourette suggested that there be a live stock and swine show, in connection with the May booster, celebration. .. . . Speaker Cross related how these things started in a small way grow into substantial industries later on, and he illustrated it by stating that he drew the origi nal organization for the Clear Creek Creamery for $10,000 which had niw grown to upwards of $100,000. He also cited how he bought two pigs for $5 a piece, let them run on the ranch, never paid out a cent on them and sold them for $35 each. B. T. McBain spoke briefly on the need of a pure water source for the city. He said the city of Salem, which takes its water from the Willamette river, boiled the water and had ever since that city had the typhoid epedemic and that the state capital had but in a wa ter boiling plant. He said at the opening of the legislature half of the members were taken sick be cause or drinking the river water and it was necessary for the state to boil it. Dr. Picking brought up the mat ter of an armory for the city and Mr. McBain stated that the appro priation for the state had been exhausted and that unless the leg islature made further appropria tions there would be no more of slate aid. Mr. Olmstead of the Willam ette Paper company, staled that he had analyzed the sample of water that M. J. Brown brought before the Wires last week, and Laws to Enforce Laws. The Salem Messenger, c6m menting on the bill of Represent alive Chris Schuebel of this coun ty, providing for the assessment of appropriated, water power says: " This doesn't seem a bad move, but we 'had all along supposed that this very thing ) was one of the duties of the , state tax , commission the ? assessment of appropriated', water power and publio ser- ,. vice corporation franchises. ' But in Oregon it seems to be often necessary to make a law t enforce a law. We see it in this instance and in Governor West1? bill permitting him to appoint temporary sheriffs, district at torneys and other officials, when the regular officers will not do their duties. BEATING US TO IT. West Side After Water System, ' While We Fuss and Talk. Th; . eople of the west side are not going to wait until the dry months of next summer to inves tigate a water supply for that side of the river. As the southerner would say they have done investigated and have let the contract for drilling six wells 100 feet deep if neces sary, for a water supply to sup. ply the newly platted addition the Willamette Paper Company will build and also. to supply water for all the west side and its projects, down the river to Bolton. s Last week the Courier pre. dieted that this would be the out come o f Oregon City's waiting game, that the west side would beat us to it, and that men who value life more than loyalty would be going over there to live, The Willamette people are go ing to build up their own little city over there. This is not con jecture but a certainity. They all ready have the project all worked out and ready to commence on tne coing summer. The addition will have all the city conveniences including a sewer system, elec tric lights, paved streets and an artesian water supply. North of this other projects are in view, and the Southern Pacific or its interests expect to build up a res idence locality and manufactur ing plants. And the longer this city delays getting a pure water supply the more will it induce its citizens who do not own homes, to go over there and live, and the min ute the west side beats us to pure water, and can offer a man a home to rent or buy, that man is going t omove across the river. And it seems so strange our city does not wake up to this matter. It is easy enough to stop the exodus, but it will be the dev il to bring them back when once they cross the big bridge. The first well will be drilled near the WeRt Side School house, where there are several springs and it is hoped to find water that will raise itself. If not other wells will be sunk in different localities. Us purpose is to pension mothers (certain mothers) who have children under 16 years old If the pother has no income she will bi given a pension of $10 a month rfor the. prst child and $7. 50 for the others, until theyare 16 years ' bid, PROVIDING the father is dead or is an inmate of one of the Oregon institutions There's the joker, the injustice, and so big you can t jump over it It will provide a pension for the children of a man who is in pris on, but it will not provide for the children of the man who has de serted his children. , It will take cars of the man who has debauched himself into insanity, but it will not provide for the little tots of the man who has secured a divorce from their mother and -married another woman. It will take care of one little child and let the next one suffer or accept charity. It will provide home and com forts for the child of a criminal but force the waif, and the desert ed to go to a charity institution. It will provide for the children of the dead father, but will not aid the children of the devorced mother. The rank injustice of this prop osition, the utter unfairness, is that it visits on the children the sins or follies of the father in one family and pensions the sins and follies in another, The Courier is for a mothers' pension seven days in the week, but it is for a pension that will help ANY child. The little tot is not to blame for his father's acts, and the child of a father who abandoned it suffers just as keen ly as the child of a man who i9 dead or insane. To the everlasting credit of the Woman's Club of this city, it re fused to endorse this measure, its members saw the injustice and unfairness and turned it down, but we are sorry too many iff the women's organizations in this state took the lobbyists' view of the bill and swallowed it. Every man and woman in Ore gon should protest against the passage of this infamous bill, which is not only tho worst class of injustice, but which would place a aligma on hundreds of little children in Oregon. Start It, Mr Cross. Years ago. Oresron Citv shnulH have had a public dock. It would nave paid big dividends in in creased business and IowpppH rales.', ii in one of the public im provemenls we should stay with until we get. A little' enthusiasm and a pull all together will get it. iur. t-ross, start it going. Farmers Want This Mr. Schuebel's bill to make ev ery road supervisor a fire wardt en, and permit slashings and timber cuttings to be burned with in the now closed season (under certain conditions) is a bill the farmers of this County hope to sen a law. Under the present law the open season is when fires will not burn and it is a hard matter to clear land. Two Interesting Bills. There are two minimum hour bills for laborers introduced at Salem that are being watched with keen interest., and both in troduced by representatives from this city, one an eight hour day applicable to the mills of this city introduced ty Senator W, A. Dimick, and the other, a ten hour law, applying to any mill or fac tory in Oregon. Hoth bills will be bitterly od posed. - . COUNCII TAKES READY ACT! UNANIMOUS i VERDICT FOR PURE WATER SUPPLY. $500 TO START THE WORK Sources of 8updIv will ha at Once Investigated. Back to the Farm. Representative F. M. Gill of bHlacada, is going back to Wasco county, cut out school teaching, and tackle the simple life. The papers state his father has deed ed him a 200 acre farm there, and if there is a legislator at Salem who would not quit his job and Ins county if given a 200 acre farm, he must have some joker Dills in nrosnect that will nav pretty well. ... Dimick Bombarding Militia. General Finzer has found out that Senator Dimick is about as big as he and his whole army, and there is going to be a deep prone into Mr. Finzer, the naval militia and. the national guard nerore Oregon hands over anolh er $25,000 appropriation. Diinick's resolution to this ef fect passed the senate, and Dim ick and other senators stopped the army lobyists from plugging through the appropriation. GENUINE WINTER WEATHER. Willamette Valley Qets Tall of California's Bad Storm . Oregon has been having some winter, the real winter tho tail end of California's big blizzard and the greatest fall of snow that as been recorded in this valley (so the oldest residents say) for twenty years. Last week Friday the clouds imply opened and let down those great soft, heavy flakes just as thick as they could wedge in ana Saturday morning there was a foot of the white stuff, and every conceivable arrangement that What Is A License Good For? F. M. Gill has introduced a bill to prohibit hunting or fish ing on another s premises with out the consent of the owner, and violation will be a fine of from $25 to $300 or by imprisonment from 25 to 100 days. This puis tho hunter between the devil and the deep sea. He buys and pays for a license that gives him the right to hunt and when he goes out to exercise that he is jumpod with a fine or im prisonment. Oregon had beter close its streams and fields entirely, dis charge its hundreds of fish and game wardens, abolish its licens es and call off Sport. NO "RAILR0ADINQ." Mr. McLoughlin Says Schuebel's Letter Is Wrong Aoousatlon. Editor Courier: I read with intorest an article from R. Schuebel, accusing our County School Superintendent of "railroading" through the School Officer's Convention a resolution would slide and could be called a favoring an increase in the sal- leiirh was hitched onto and our ary of the office. In justice and people certainly made the most of fair play, I wish to say that I in- And it lasted ror rive aays. troduced tne resolution on tne spur of the moment. I went for ward to sign the petition without any thought of offering any mot ion or resolution. After signing it I thought it would be a comple ment to one who has served the public faithfully and well for a very small salary. I made the motion which was seconded by at least three persons at one time. I then put the question unanim ously. I have no recollection of any delegate 'offering to discuss it. If there was any "railroading" I am the guilty party, not Mr. Gary. I had no intention of doing anything out of the way and do not think that the delegates at the convention will say that there was anything wrong done. Mr. Schuebel wants fair play. I wonder if he told the people at Eldorado that Supt. Gary's salary hill would save money for the county? I wonder if he invited Mr. Gary to explain his side of the case to the peoplo of the Eldorado school? I do not wish to enter into a discussion of the matter but feel that it is wrong to accuse Mr. Gary wrongfully. R. S. McLaughlin. it 'he mercury held around the freezing point and it melted slow ly, and the youngsters had tho one i(f time of their lives. The heavy fall of snow did great amage to the wire corporations and to trees and shrubbery. All over the city the broken wires were hanging down, and the trees were badly damaged by the weight they are not trained to near. The snowfall has been general over the Pacillc coast, and Cali fornia and Washington had a much heavier fall and sustained more damage than Oregon. School Districts are Busy. The laxnavers in the rural dis tricts are unquestionably firmly and strongly against the present supervisor law, and if the legis lature heeds public sentiment it will stand by Senator , Dimick s ill and abolish the law. The school districts do not be- ieve they Ket value received for what the supervisors cost them, and all over the county they are holding district meetings and protesting against the law. The law has never neen popular Oreg.-n Cily will nave a pure supply of waler, if it. can bo found in thh icinity. nml we all know it can. , . The city council took . decisive action at its meeting Wednesday night, and steps to have a compe tent engineer investigate our re ported water sources will ha to ken at once, and when a supply is located the city will take active measures to get it v The council rooms wero nrn;H ed. " The people understood tho water niatter was to be brought p mm me people are interested. Mr. Tooze opened the d iscuss- lon, which became general, with the statement that parties had reported to him that we have a supply within easy reach of the city that would provide two mil lion gallons a day, that oould be brought here at no more cost . to the consumers than now. shnnM have engineer investigate this and other sources, and he moved $225 be appropriated as initial exnAn dtlure to this end. Mr. Beard said he favored an- propriating from $1,000 to $5, 000 for work on definite lines; that the state or national treolnarl- cal departments should be able to tell us at what depth we could get water here; that he believed it would be wise to secure 10 acres around the present reservoir and make well tests, that there were artesian wells on the hill the same as the west side. Mr. Long though! $500 would be small enough to make investi gations with, and Mr Myers took the same view He said the South ern Pacifio had men locating wells all the time, that they paid hem well and they got the water. He said the city council was not the water board, but that the most of the people seemed to think so; that council got the the criticism and the water board the smiles. . Mr. Horton said if we could get the 2,000,000 gallons supplied to us, as Mr. Tooze reported, that should be investigated first. B. T. McBain said council could start with small appropriation and conlinuo it if necessary; that we should get busy ut once on this work; that he believed we could get water from wells at small ex pense; that he thought the pres ent and past water system and supply should be investigated as well as the future; that he did not beliove the present supply could be made pure; that he might be wrong, but we should find out for the benefit of people and council and that the cily employ a chem ical engineer independent of the investigations of the water board. Mr. Sullivan said we must have pure water; not necessary to in vestigate present plant, as water board was doing this: should go slow and sure; that present water was in good condition, but pople are afraid and should oontinue to boil it; should appropriate at least $500; that the supply t Mr. Tooze spoke of would furnish much more than 2,000,000 gallons daily; that cost would be big to go to forest reserve; that the city should advertise that it is open for a water supply for the present and 25 years in the future. Mayor Jones said the council stood ready to take any necessary action for a pure supply of water. Mr. Randall said we must have pure water but there was no evi dence the present source was not pure; should give present system a test; wanted to know why water was impure one time and pure at another. Mr. McBain replied that one engineer might find contamina- ion in present water plant condi tions and another not; that if the chemical system would make wa le r98 per cent pure, we did not want to drink 2 per cent poison; that there were 100,000 people up the river and we took their sew age; we have had fever before and will have it again if we drink it; that a person may drink germ8 today and have fever six months hence, and he advised that we have two reports on present wa ter works system. Mr. Tooze agreed that we hould have independent investi gation from that of the water board. Mr. Holman thought that a big well could be dug on second hill and sufficient supply oould be se cured. , Mr. Tooze increased the oppro- priation to $500 for investigation, and it was unanimously carried. Mf. Beard said he thought the matter of who pays for or stands behind the saloon licenses should be looked into; that when a sa loon got into trouble they trans ferred the license, and that he believed such dodges were against public policy. A committee was appointed to investigate. The committee reported Moun tain View fire house worthless and that it should be torn down. Mr. Myers said conditions were unfit for cattle and that a new building should be erected. Mr., Holman took the same view. Mr. Tooze said we had five fire houses and that the system was antiqua ted; that we should look into (Continued on Page 8) 0