OREGON
The Farmers Society of Equity is
spreading over this county and the
Courier is spreading with it. Its ad
vertising columns are good as gold.
A, factory pay roll of $100,000 a
morith makes some town. Oregon City
is the best city in the state outside of
Portland. .Keep it on the move.
30th YEAR.
OREGON CITY, ORE., FRIDAY, FEB. 7, 13J3.
No. 39
THE GHEMfCALS
ONLY RELIEVE
SYSTEM DOES NOT KILL ALL
TYPHOID GERMS.
IT SIMPLY THINS THEM OUT
Facts and Authorities on the Hypo
chlorite System.
All over the United States cities are
. trying to get pure water. It is the one
dominant matter, and as the country
settles up it becomes more and more
an issue.
Years ago thousands of cities of
this country installed systems from
water sources that were then pure
and they thought they were fixed for
the future.
But they couldn't foresee.
, The country" settled up and the
streams and springs became polluted
and they were up against typhoid.
And now they are seeking a remedy.
They are just where Oregon City is
today.
Many of these cities expended huge
sums or money in the days gone by,
and they do not want to abandon
their plants, and some of them are so
situated that a pure water supply is
impossible, so they turn to any means
that promises relief, and the present
means seem to be the hypoclorite
system.
The Courier has been trying to get
together some good authority on this
chemical process, to determine def
inite results from places where it has
been used, to see whether it is a cure
for typhoid. The city council went on
record as favoring the installation of
the chemicals here, then afterward
took up the matter of a new water
supply. Whether the hypoclorite idea
has been dropped or not, pending the
report of enginers on a new water
supply, we do not know.
But from the best knowledge this
paper can obtain, this chemical pro
cess only minimizes the typhoid dan
ger it does NOT cure and our people
would have to continue boiling water
forever to be absolutely safe.
And of what possible good is a
system of chemicals when we boil the
water after its use what possible use
is such a system only to burn up more
money?
The Journal of the American Medi
cal Association should be some auth
ority, shouldn't it? Some of the people
here say Dr. Mount doesn't know
what he is talking about when he says
the hypo will only thin out the danger,
so we quote from this highest of med
ical authorities: "
and asked which was the est physi
cian in the city.
We told her that there were a dozen
but that we were not in tha individ
ual boosting business, and then she
asked for the paper to look over the
locations from the professional cards
She couldn't find the card of a single
doctor in town, and she couldn't under
stand it.
We explained. We-told her Oregon
City physicians considered advertis
ing as unethical unless they perform
ed or assisted at the operation. Then
it was entirely proper for the Cour
ier to give them a column a free
ad., you know.
But she couldn't appreciate the dis
tinction.
What the U.S. Says Goes
And the U. S. Says you Can't Have
the Courier Over One Year Un
less You Pay for I .
The U. S. postal department has
taken a hand in the management of
the Courier, and the Third Assist
ant postmaster general has notified
this office that no weekly paper shall
be sent to a subscriber longer than
one year -unless renewed, is to be lit
erally enforced in Oregon. The letter
under date of January 28, encloses a
blank to be sworn to and reads:
Editor Oregon City Courier:
I have to advise you that similar
forms have been, or are being, sent
to all publishers whose papers are
admitted to the mails as second class
matter.' The regulation governing ex
pired subscriptions, which is printed
on the form referred to, applies to
all publications of the second class
and all publishers are expected to
comply with its provisions.
Respectfully,
JAMES J. BRITT.
Third Assistant Postmaster General.
THE HEALTH IN
ARE AFTER YOU
YOU MUST CLEAN UP OR
CLEANED UP. ,
BE
STIRRING LIVE WIRE SESSION
Club Will Take Clackamas Southern
t Trip Next Tuesday.
The Live Wire sessions are livelv
ineBungs mese aays and the only re
gret is that the sessions are so lim
ited for time. Every minute is occu
pied and men go away with ideas un
spoken.
And this interest is healthy. It
means things are going to be done.
and that this historic old city is com
ing oui o iits trance and that things
are going to go forward from now on.
Ihe feature of the sesion Tuesday
was the report of Dr. J. A. vanBra-
kle, chairman of the Civic Improve
ment Committee that President Cross
appointed some time ago.
Mr. van Brakle stated that the
committee covered the territory from
seventh street south to the city lim
is and irom the bluff to the river
then the c'own town portion of the
city, and then the hill section., and
the doctor stated that in this first sur
vey the committee found one hundred
and twenty-one specific violations of
reasonable cleanliness,
He stated that it was the purpose
of the committee to make a genera)
report to the Live Wires at first and
a detailed report to the city council
committees, and he urged that the
individuals of the city and the or
ganizations co-operate with the com
mittee and city for the purpose of
securing a clean and wholesome city
to live in.
Because of their vital relation to
the health of the public as a whole.
the committee reported for concerted
action the following,
1 A considerable amount of sew
age empties into the Abernethy creek
A high value may attach
to hypoclorite treatment of water
under proper conditions. While no
experienced sanitarian can regard
the use of this chemical as a pan
acea, there is no doubt that it
has added greatly to our re
sources for dealing with a pollut
ed water supply, particularly
under emergency conditions and
pending a permanent system of
purification.
Here are some other facts the
Courier has obtained regarding this
water treatment, and these facts are
authentic they are from the vital
statistics of he cities : - '
In Cleveland the deaths from ty
phoid fever in the four years 1907-
1911 (October to June) numbered re
spectively,. forty-six, fifty-two, sixty-
six and sixty-five. In September, 1911
the hypoclorite treatment was begun
and for eight months, October 1, 1911,
to June 1, 1912, only twenty-eight
deaths were reported.
In Jersey City the average death
rate from typhoid for 1905, 1906, and
1907 was 18.5, while for the three
years following the use of hypoclorite,
1909-1911, it was 9.6.
Terre Haute, Cedar Rapids, Mon
treal, Grant's Pass, Ore., Baudette,
Minn., Nashville, Cincinnati and Dan
ville, 111., show a marked reduction in
the number of bacteria in the city
water after inauguration of hypo
clorite treatment.
"North Yakima, Wash., Council
Bluffs, la., Cleveland, Erie, Pa., Tor
onto, Baltimore, Evanston, 111., Minn
eapolis, Omaha, Jersey City and Kan
sas City, Mo., are among the cities
where a noteworthy reduction in tp
phoid fever has followed the use of
hypoclorite.
Yet in all these cities and all the
places cited by the Journal of the
American Medical Association the
chemical process has only reduced the
typhoid fatalities. It has not taken
. away the fear of typhoid. In Jersey
City it cut the death rate in half, but
it left every family wondering wheth
er they would be included in the next
half.
And this would be the situation in
Oregon City.
There is just one thing to do, get
water that NEVER has bacteria; get
water that is pure and which source
will never be polluted. Go at it
RIGHT.
It's the ONLY thing to do now, for
the people of this city will live under
the fear of tyhoid until we do.
We can't boil " the water forever.
When summer comes it is a great in
convenience. Our children wjll drink
water then where they can get it.
We will live in constant uneasiness
until we quit the river water. Let us
quit it as quick as possible.
The blank referred to requires a
sworn statement , of the BubscriDtion
business of the Courier office, and if
a publisher makes a false statement
he may be fined $500.
Now let us make this plain: The
Courier may send you the paper for
12 months, may extend you credit for
this length of time, but it may NOT
send it longer unless the publishers
want to take a $500 fine chance to via Jnn Adams street and by means
get $1.50. And the most of us do not ' an Pen drain,
care for these long chances. 2 The present river bank provides
We will trust you for one year, but tne unpleasant spectacle of an inter-
we cannot longer. . mittant but continuous dumping
Hereafter the Courier parts the ground,
ways with the subscriber who will not 3 The alleys of the city, esoecial
pay within one year. We will wait 'y those of down town, are' many of
and look pleasant for 12 months and tnen ln deplorable filthy condition.
then you must come through or read 4 In H parts of the city manure
weekly chunks of wisdom from a neaps are remarkable for their gen
borrowed Courier. And the devil of it eral prevelance.
is your neighbor will then know you ' 6 Retaining walls, or the lack of
are forced out.
We will send every subscriber a
notice when he is one year behind,
we wil give him reasonable time to
renew and then we will' simply take
him from the list.
And taking the name off doesn't
take the debt off.
We'll stop your expiration at the
expiration of the year if you will ask
us to. If you foget to ask us, you can
stop it by telling your carrier or
postmaster you do not want it longer,
but DON'T be a cheap skate and take
it regularly for the second year and
refuse payment because you didn't
pay for only one year."
Now when you get the notice of
expiration just bear in mind that the
government at Washington (which
still lives) won't stand for any mon
key business with us, and we CAN'T
do any different than make you get
in or get out.
Just be a good fellow, pay up
promptly when you get the notice
and we'll try and deliver the $1.50
worth of goods.
them, in several districts, maintain a
menace or obstruction to the passage
of pedestrians and vehicles. In some
instances the permanent removal of
these obstructions cannot be accom
plished until the rainy weather abates
6 Any persistent relief from the
presence of much of our constantly
accumulating refuse can only come
thru the installation of a garbage col
lection system.
A Distinction in Ethics.
The other day a lady, a stranger in
the city, came into the Courier office
Is This True, Mr. Randall?
Here's a good one a fellow told on
Postmaster Tom Randall the other
day. He said he had been letting it
season since last summer.
Randall, with several others went
deer hunting in Cow Creek canyon,
in Southern Oregon, and one day he
was out alone when an old timber
claim man found him, and sizing him
up for a city sportsman he said:
"I seen some mighty big b'ar tracks
just north o here."
"That so, asked the postmaster
anxiously looking around, . "Which
way is south?"
They say the settler beat Randall
to camp and told the story.
at
The Signs of Spring. .
Spring opened on ' February 1
the drop of the hat. The Oregon mist
quit -work and the sun came out in
all its spring splendor. - A Chinook
breeze took a ha,nd in and the ground
hog went back disgusted. In the eve
ning the strets, were simply packed
with people and Oregon City looked
like Portland.
And to round the day up and make
it seem like sure 'nough spring, in the
evening a fellow with a long heavy
overcoat and wearing a bright straw
hat went down Main street, and he
appeared 'utterly indifferent to. the
attention he attracted. To him spring
had come.
Good Thing, Push It.
The woolgrowers in convention as
sembled at Cheyenne declared in fav
or of a congressional appropriation of
$200,000 to kill off wolves and pay
bounties on their scalps. Surel Let's
have a paternal government that will
help us all out! We are in favor of a
similar appropriation for the print
ers and publishers, to be used to kill
off delinquent subscribers and pay a
bounty for the scalps. Contra Cos-
tan, Richmond, Cal.
Following the report of this com
mittee Councilman Tooze made a de
cided talk on the conditions that are
permitted io exist in the city today
and the obstacles that the council or
others met in endeavoring to have
these conditions remedied. He stated
that every time the -council had at
tempted to force the city to clean up
and observe the city ordinances in the
way of keeping the weeds cut and
other provisions of the charter the
council had been right up against it,
and found many of the people in a de
fiant attitude and ready to fight
them. ' He said the council commit
tees worked hard last summer to
have the streets cleaned up, the side
walks improved and the weeds cut,
but that they could hardly accomplish
anything.
Mr. Tooze then spoke of other ob
stacles the council had been up
against without results. He spoke of
the efforts of the council to stop the
discrimination in telephone rates in
this city, and finally the action of the
voters in putting the wire corpora
tions under the railroad commission's
jurisdiction, with the provision plain
ly in the bill the people made a law
that the rates of 1911 should prevail,
but that we yet paid the present rates
and that the public service commis
sion makes no move.
He said that the people would re
spect and. observe the ordinances of
the city when some arrests and pro
secutions for violations were made,
and not until this was done; that
ordinances and orders were ignored in
many instances now; that there were
sidewalks that people cannot walk on
because they are dangerous, but that
the time he believed was here when
these conditions would all be changed
and that our city would show much
improvement in the coming summer.
Dr. van Brakle said the committee
on better conditions in the city-were
now trying to arouse public sentiment
in favor of these improved conditions
and when that came the changes
would come easier.
Recorder Stipp Baid the city pro
posed that the city should not only be
thoroughly cleaned up, but that it
should be KEPT clean; that they pro
posed first to try publicity; that the
roof of the town would be raised un
less these conditions of filth Were ab
olished, and that when publicity did
not bring about the results then ar
rests and prosecutions would follow.
He made it emphatic that Oregon
City is going to be made a clean city.
M. D. Latourette stated that the
present charter was loaded with or
dinances of the long ago, laws that'
were obsolete and inactive, and yet
laws, and he suggested that this mat
ter should be taken op and the dead
statutes removed. This matter will
be taken up later.
Judge Dimick, secretary of the
Clackamas Southern Railroad, exten
ded an invitation to every member of
the Live Wires to take a trip out to
the. Newell Creek bridge next Tues
day afternoon, after the Live Wire
luncheon, and inspect the progress of
the railroad. The invitation was un
animously accepted, and directly af
ter the luncheon next Tuesday the
dub will go in a body. An engine and
cars will be provided. The bridge is
of itself well worth the trip. It is 120
feet high.
Superintendent Gary made an in
teresting report on the profits of
sheep and goat raising in this county.
He stated that one farmer had
made a profit of $156 from 22 head of
sheep; that Jim Smith of Macksberg
received $6 a head, from a bunch of
goats and that the expense of their
keep was but one dollar a head; that
Mr. Randall had made 200 per cent
profit on his goats.
President Cross suggested that in
the matter of city cleanliness the
present Live Wire committee and the
council committee on health and po
lice co-operate.
E. C. Dye suggested that the city
should have charge of the matter in
places where streets are improved
and cuts made and that a regular
grade slope be established by an en
gineer, instead of building retaining
walls straight up as is the present
custom of the city. He said there
were one hundred blocks in the city
where cuts had been made and no at
tention had been given to the slope
from the street line back to the resi
dences. Mr. Tooze replied that this
had been attempted by the city, but in
nearly every instance the property
owners opposed it, and that as the
property was theirs there could not
be any ordances framed to regulate
this matter.
THREE ELEVATOR
PROPOSITIONS
COUNCIL WILL' CONSIDER
BEST FOR CITY.
ONE
TKE'T INCLINE LOOKS GOO
This
Would Serve Both Sixth
Seventh Streets.
and
- JUST PLAIN RASCALS.
The Type of Man the Oregon Pub
lisher Has to Deal With.
There are a few people who will
take a newspaper for a year or more
and then refuse to pay for what they
have received and used, on the flimsy
pretext that they did not ask to have
the paper sent beyond the time paid
for. And if all people were like those
few there wouldn't be any such thing
as credit in this world, and we should
be reverting rapidly to the methods
of barter that prevail among savages
When all people get to be as defic
ient in honor and honesty as a few
people are, this will be a mighty
mean world to llvo in. Woodburn
Independent.
Every country newspaper ' in Ore
gon has to deal with a few of this
class, and they should make a black
list of them and every paper in the
state refuse to accept them as sub
scribers until they make good with
the newspapers they have trimmed.
These men are half-breed dead
beats,- They subscribe for a paper
with the purpose of getting two years
subscription for one year s pay. When
their year expires they will never
tell the postmaster or carrier they do
not want it longer, but they take
it and read it for another whole year
and then the office sends them notice
then they say "I only subscribed for
one year.
But this class of petty swindlers
grows less and less every year, for
they can t afford the advertising they
get for the free reading they get.
FIRE ALARM SYSTEM.
Tower Nearly Ready and 20 Alarm
Boxes Will Be Installed.
The large tower for the new fire
alarm System is being installed on
the bluff just north of the Chase res
idence. The tower is 50 feet high and
the' new system will consist of one
automatic storage battery at fire
headquarters, two manual transmit
ting boxes, these to be located. in the
telephone offices and three fire alarm
boxes, these to be located in promin
ent places of the city.
It is determined to have the city
well supplied with fire alarm boxes
in the near future, and there will be
over 20 in all. The fire system is to
be installed by Byron O'Day, repre
senting the Gamewall Fire Alarm,
Police Telegraph Company of Seattle,
Wash., and he will be assisted by
W. A. Long, chairman of the fire de
partment committee of the Oregon
Citv council. These two men are
well posted in their work and will
be of great assistance to Mr. Day.
Oregon City has been m need of a
fire alarm system for many years,
and many of the buildings that were
ruined or destroyed by fire was due
to the misunderstanding as to the
location during the fire, or where the
fire alarm was not heard. The pres
ent fire bells on Main street, rung
during fire, are not heard in many
sections of the city. There is no doubt
but that the new system will be op
erated satisfactorily to all.
It is to be regretted that when th
elevator proposal was submitted to
the voters it did no definiely locate
it.
When the matter was first voted
on, while it gave the location to the
city council, yet it was known
just where it would be located.
committee had made satisfactory ar.
rangements with Mr. Chase and the
elevator would have been erected at
Seventh street, by the depot, and on
the bluff in front of Mr. Chase s resi
dence, with walks leading both ways
to the streets.
And the location was what the peo
ple supposed would he carried out
when they voted an appropriation for
the elevator at the second election. It
was the general opinion that the for
mer arrangements-were to be carried
out.
And now we find there is dissension
on Main street and in the residence
section that the petty jealousies
which hold this city back, which have
for years prevented a public dock
from being put in and that there is
log-rolling and hair-splitting over
where the elevator is to be located.
Some want it on Seventh and some
on Sixth and both sides are on the job
urging these locations, and there
general uneasiness in the city that
unless the city council decides the
matter soon there may sufficient sec
tional strife grow to delay, and per
haps abandon the matter.
The city council wants to do what
the most of the people want .done, but
it is a very difficult matter to deter
mine this sentiment, so they will go
ahead with all three propositions and
accept the one which in their judg
ment is the best one, cost and service
considered.
A competent outside engineer.
man not in any manner connected
with the elevator companies, has been
engaged to make plats and estimates
of three propositions, one straight up
the bluffs from the depot and two in
clines,' each starting at the depot and
running both ways, to Seventh and
Sixth street, like a V.
It doesnt' matter so much wheth
er the elevator is located on Sixth or
Seventh although the people when
they voted, understood it was to be
on Seventh as it is that it be install
ed for the future, that it be RIGHT,
permanent and adequate. If it could
serve both Sixth and Seventh streets
from the depot location, this would
be a most satisfactory settlement of
the location, but whatever is done, it
should not be slighted in a single es
sential that will give service or per
manency. We should build for twen
ty years hence, not today. '
Wherever the location is, it will
be necessary to tunnel under the
Southern Pacific, it is said.
Our "Awful" Winter.
B. J. Helvey, a farmer, was in the.
Courier office the other day and he
said he had lived in Oregon over 20
years and this was one of the worst
vinters he could remember.
And the Courier editor, putting in
his second winter, wonders what an
Oregon mild winter wou'd be like.
We have hardly had a frost thu
winter. We had five days of snow, but
the thermometer stood above freez
ing during the entire wsek, and FranK
Moore, who keeps an accurate reooM
of temperatures, says that only two
days of the past winter did tho ther
mometer go as low as 22 (above zero)
and that our average temperature
compares wi'h Los Angoles this win
ter.
Oregon City has had less cold
weather than Houstan, Tex., this
winter, and its temperature has not
gone as low.
Pay Your Taxes.
If you pay your taxes before March
15, you can save 3 per cent. Sheriff
Mass began collections Monday. Af
ter April 1, a penalty of 10 per cent
will be charged and one per cent in
terest each month. Persons desiring
may pay one half taxes due before
first Monday in April and the last
half before the first Monday in Oc
tober. Persons paying in installments
will not be given rebates.
The Mothers' Favorite.
A cough medicine for children
should be harmless. It should be
pleasant to take. It should be effect
ual. Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is
all of this and is the mothers' favor
ite everywhere. For sale by Huntley
Bros.
This Won't Stay Dead.
It seems almost incredible that
trough men elected to work for the
best interest of Oriyon could have
been rounded up and driven or led .
if. .to defeat Representative Scheub
el's water power bill.
But they did it Tuesday, and had
two votes to spare.
This bill only asked for honesty,
fairness and justice. It said every us
er of water power should pay some
where near what it was worth, and
each user should pay alike. And it
was defeated defeated by men who
were elected on the issues of working
for the taxpayers' interests and for
the state's best good.
But take it from the Courier this
bill won't down. The voters of Oregon
have a means to get an even break
and they will do in 1914 what the
house refused to do Wednesday.
, was guarding the "dead line" for
: salmon fishing. Two men in a boat
crossed the dead line one night and he
ordered them to halt; they did not
and he tired. He claimed that he shot
to mark the boat, but the bullet hit
Douthit in the arm. Douthit claimed
he did not hear the order to stop and
that he was not violating the fishing
laws.
Following the shooting there was
much trouble resulting in hand-to
hand encounters and indictment by
other members of the family by the
grand jury. There were bad stories
circulated of violation of the fish
laws that the warden winked at, and
the affair caused quite a sensation at
the time.
BIG CELEBRATION PLANNED.
Portland and Oregon City Will Cele
brate Canal Opening Here.
Just as soon as that bobbin of red
tape runs out and the government of.
ficials will give us the chance, there
is going to be a celebration in Oregon
City over the commencement of
work on the government canal here
that will be some doings.
Portland is taking the initiative
in this matter and will ask the Com
mercial Club, Live Wires and people
generally of this city, to join with
them.
That city has made arrangements
with the Oregon City Transportation
Co., for a steamer to bring 400 of
Portland s business men here, and
just as soon as Major Mclndoe gives
the word that the deal is nailed down.
a date will be fixed for the excur
aion and celebration.
The Commercial Club and the Live
Wires will take up the mater with
the Chamber of Commerce in Port
land and a big day will be put on
here.
What of This?
Both houses of the legislature pass
ed a bill giving Portland's assesor
and deputies $43,620 a year. The as
sessor fearing the governor would ve
to it, signed a contract that he would
give back to the state $10,000, and the
governor fearing " the legislature
would puss it over his head, accepted
the rebate contract and signed the
bill.
Shall we call this intelligent legis
lation? Is this retrenchment? Isn't
it a monkey-play exhibition?
DO
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DISBAND
OREGON
ILITIA
PATRIOTIC DEFENSE BY DR. L..
L. PICKENS.
TREAT SOLDIERS LIKE MEN
Oregon City Soldiers are Treated
Like Tramps by Oregon Citizens.
Dimick Wins Out.
Senator Dimick passed his bill
through the senate Wednesday giving
the people of this city the right to ex
tend thei corporation limits to in
clude the paper mills and subject
them ,to', taxation. The contest was
one of the fiercest of the session, and
Dimick's anneal fort he hill nnH Hp.
nunciation of the corporations was asle1ougn to furnish a11 our battleships
Editor Courier:
A recent issue of the Courier con
tained an item commending Mr. Dim
mick for introducing a bill to abolish
the Oregon militia. In the eyes of
the military law there is no such or
ganization as the militia. The mil
itia is the unorganized forces of the
United States, all able bodied men ov
er 18 and under 45 years and are li
able to draft into the armies of the
United States in case of war. The list
of these unorganized forces known as
the militia is kept upon the records of
each county in every state in the un-
n.
There has not been anv bill intro
duced in the senate or house to abol
ish the national guard, but the bill
referred to above was introduced by.
Mr. Dimick to abolish the naval re
serve, a naval organization based
on the same footing as the national
guard. The naval reserve has been
unfortunate in the selection of its of
ficers, and a few unscrupulous offi
cers of bad character have brought
disgrace in a way upon that organiza
tion and have put the naval reserve in
bad light with the people, and there
is a loud but unjust cry for their dis-bandment.
There are a lot of good men in the
rank and file, also many good officers
in this organization who are willing
to serve the state and the United
States without pay, and subject to the
uncomfortobleness of miliary "disci
pline and it is a shame to disband
these men. Better turn the rascals
out who have made the trouble and
put the organization on a sound mili
tary basis. Uncle Sam needs every
sailor or marine that the. nation can
furnish to man the great coast for
tifications and battleships in case of
We have not enough men today
in the regular service to keep the rust
from destroying the new guns in our
coast fortifications; not one-half
a spectator expressed it: "Carbolic
acid one moment and maple syrup the
next." I
To Bridge the Clackamas
Over one hundred property owners
have presented a petition to the coun
ty court asking that a steel bridge to
cost about $100,000 be built over the
Clackamas river near its mouth, that
public highway be laid out from
Oregon City to the bridge, that a
shorter route to Portland may be had
This petition was presented by Chas,
Risley of Risley. A conference
with the county court will be held
next week.
Doctors Want Pure Water.
Oregon City will certainly find a
means to get another water supply,
because everybody is interested and
wants it. And there is always a way
ahead of public sentiment.
At the meeting of the county med
ical society Saturday last it was
unanimously agreed that another
source of water supply should be in-
cstigated at once and obtained as
soon as possible.
City to Have Garbage Collector.
Commencing next Monday tta city
will start a free garbage wagon. It
ill make Seventh street between
Jackson and the bluff Monday; Tues
day between Taylor street and bluff
and Wednesday down town. The first
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of
every month the wagons will make
this service. .
Good May It Pass.
Representative Spencer has e bill
the house providing for the election
by the voters of national committee
men. This will take away about the
last thing left of the "old guard" in
Oregon.
Suit to Remove Yale.
Suit has been filed by the district
attorney on information of Henry
Meldrum, formerly city engineer, for
the purpose of removing from office,
George C. Yale, present city engineer,
on the ground that he was not a resi
dent of the city when appointed by
Mayor J ones.
A Lame Duck One.
Only sixty bills were introduced at
Salem Wednesday and some fellow,
fearing there might be a drouth,
ipped one in asking for $10,000 for
the Multnomah Duck Shooters' Asso
ciation.
DOUTHIT GETS $750.
Circuit Court Gives Him Verdict In
Shooting Scrape Two Years. Ago
' The sequel to a shooting affray of
nearly two years ago was in the cir
cuit court Tuesday, when Alex Douth
it was given a verdict of $750 again
st Henry Trembath for damages he
sustained by being tthot by Trembath,
in June, 1911.
Trembath wai a fish warden and
Another Good One.
Representative Gill has introduced
a bill providing that county clerks
shall mail sample ballots to the vot
ers before election, that they may
have time to study them. May it pass.
Clackamas Much In It.
Senator Dimick and Representa
tives Schuebel and Gill have certainly
kept Clackamas county before the
legislature this session, and have
made reputations fo rthemsclves as
scrappers until the last bell rings.
with full complements in time of war,
and what are we going to do if we do
not train some of our citizens to do
the work in time of stress.
There is a small body of infantry
in the state of Oregon known as the
Oregon National Guard, (also called
militia), and you have one company
in Oregon City, but you don't know
it; you don't know anything about it;
instead of treating them like a body
of patriotic young men ready to pro
tect you with their lives if need be,
you citizens of Oregon City and
Clackamas county treat them aa you
would a band of tramps when they
should have every encouragement you
can offer them. The time has not yet
come to dispel patriotism from the
breasts of our young men. The nat
ional guard in time of war, will have
to be the first line of battle until the
organized reserves are whipped into
shape, armed, uniformed, drilled and
made ready for field service, hvery
state except one or two new ones has
its national guard. It is under direct
command of the president of the Uni
ted States and the war department at
Washington. There are about one
hundred thousand of these men in the
United States and they are armed
and drilled as are the troops of the
regular army. It does not cost much
to keep these patriotic young men
and they are ready for service just
a3 our minute men were in 76. Dis
band them if you like, and congress
will probably increase the regular ar
my. That's wnat tne regular army
officers want.
The Oregon national guard is well
officered and drilled and many offi
cers and young men of the old 2nd
Oregon volunteers who saw good ser
vice in the Philippine Islands are . in
the Oregon national guard. This is an
organization that all good citizens
should take an interest in. You sol
diers who never shouldered a gun,
find out what it is for and stop knock
ing. We are not putting down mill
strikes with mill men nor laboring
men of who the national guard Is
largely composed. We leave that for
the regular army. They annually
have to do it anyway if it is. done for
the national guard is notorious failure
at puting down strikes.
There is a class of people who dis
believe in all military organizations,
deeming them a waste of money." We
are doing it cheaper here with our
national guard system than they are
with the large standing armies in oth
er countries. I believe war to be one
of the worst calamities that can bo
fall any country. I would like to see
every battleship made into a freight
carrier. I would like to see every rifle
and sabre beaten into plowshares,
but while other nations are keeping
on their boxing gloves and ordering
new ones in great quantities, 1 think
we would be very unwiRe to throw
ours away.
A lot of scandal in regard to a ais-
obedience of orders occurred at the
last encampment of the Oregon Nat
ional guard. A general of the regular
army probably issued an unwise or
der and two or three leading officers
and a few men rebelled against it.
The batolliDn in which this mutiny oc-
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