I, M. J. BROWN, BEING DULY SWORN, SAY THAT I AM EDITOR AND PART OWNER OF THE OREGON CITY COURIER, AND THAT THE AVERAGE WEEKLY CIRCULATION OF THAT PAPER FROM MAY 1,1912 TO MAY 1, 1913, HAS EXCEEDED
2000 COPIES, AND THAT THESE PAPERS HAVE BEEN PRINTED AND CIRCULATED FROM THE COURIER OFFICE M. J. BROWN. Subscribed and sworn to before me. .this 5th day of May, 1913. Gilbert. L. Hedges, Notary Public.
OREGON
The Farmers Society of Equity Ii
spreading over this county and tht
Courier is spreading with it. Its ad
vertising columns are good as gold.
Clackamai County Fair
September 24, 25, 26, 27
Canby, Oregon
30th YEAR.
OREGON CITY, ORE., FRIDAY, MAY 9 , 1313.
No. 48
CITY
COURIER
TO
OFF THE RECALL
LAWYERS HAVE FOUND WIG
GLERS IN THE CHEESE
INVOKING THE TECHNICALITIES
To Keep the Matter From Going to
Vote of People.
The recall is no good in Oregon.
A technicality has wormed into its
vitals.
A technicality is like a maggot in a
cheese. So long as the eater is in
nocent of the little wiggler, the che
ese is the real goods and eaters put
it away. But once let some person
with a sharp eye discover the little
rascal, and the whole cheese is a drug
on the market.
Some one has found a skipper in
the recall cheese. It has been found in
this city since the reacall petitions
were started against the county court
It's a little "tech" that can't wiggle
unless the state legislature furnishes
the movement. It is like a baby bug
gy someone has got to push it. It's
not self-operative. Like an auto that
is out of gasoline.
It just won't work, that's all, and
the men behind the recall might just
as well get off the job. The election,
so it is given out, will cost from $5,000
to $6,000 and "there is no provision in
the law that definitely sets it forth as
the duty of the county to pay the
costs of such an election,"
Here is the way an Oregon City at
torney sizes up the short-comings of
the recall law:
"Evidently the people in adopt
ing the amendment with such
language contained in it contem
plated further legislation before
the amendment should become
operative. As far as $ have been
able to determine, no such legis
lation has been passed that makes
the measure operative in this
county."
Note the "$" mark in the sixth
line.
Perhaps Attorney J. E. Hedges did
not put that dollar mark there. He
may have written it a capital "I," and
.force of iiabifm the Enterprise office
slipped in the $ mark, but to the com
mon fellows it will appear to be just
about right as the Enterprise printed
it "So far as $ have been able to de
termine." Judge McBride, W. S. U'Ren,
Franklin T. Griffith and other able
lawyers drew the recall law. It was
largely taken from the provisions of
the referendum law, and we believe
the provisions for the signatures (a
technical point advanced) is tfcp same
as under the referendum and the
referendum has been tried out and
sustained.
Whether the recall petitions will
have enough signatures to warrant a
recall election, or whether the move
ment has enough grounds to base it
on, is not at this time apparent, but
it is certainly mighty early in the
game to defend the movement on
technicalities.
If the people of Clackamas county
determine that there is sufficient
cause for a recall of the county court
it is a pretty safe bet they will pull
off that recall technicalities to the
contrary notwithstanding.
It is barely possible that the elec
tion would not cost $5,000 or $6,000.
If the printing of the ballots and elec
tion stationery were opened up to a
little competition, perhaps there
might be a little saving over former
years.
If the county will not authorize the
payment of the election expenses, it
is just possible that there are enough
men in this county who would give
one day's work as election officers and
serve free of charge.
If the county will not pay the bills
of such an election, it is just possible
there are enough men with red blood
in their veins in this county to go
down in their pockets and dig up the
cash for an election.
Certain it is that if there are
grounds for a recall in this county it
will take something bigger than a
wiggler in a cheese to stop the ex
pression of the people.
We all know what that recall law
was made for. It was provided as a
means for the people to pass on pub
lic officials. A technicality wasn't sup
posed to stop it. It was framed that
the majority might get a verdict. And
when some keen lawyer digs up a
"tech" that says to the people "You
shall not deliver your verdict" then
look out for something to happen.
The Enterprise says the present
recall movement is "an abortive ef
fort." Perhaps so, but what of the
technical defense effort?
Isn't that just a little premature?
Does that paper fear that it will be
invoked, and fear the verdict?
Wouldn't the records of efficient
and honest county officials be better
defenses than law technicalities? Is
the Enterprise afraid of the verdict of
the voters of Clackamas county? Is
the Enterprise opposed to the recall
law? Is it against rule of the major
ity? And when these questions are ans
wered we will box them on the first
page.
A Woman Inspector
Dr. Van Brakel reported at the Live
Wire luncheon that the civic commit
T
RYING
tee was preparing a draft for an or
dinance providing for the appoint
ment of a woman inspector for the
foodstuffs of the city, which would be
ready at the next week's meeting, and
if the Live Wires sanctioned it, it
would be presented to the city coun
cil for action.
After a New Bridge
A committee of five was appointed
by Main Trunk Stipp Tuesday to work
along the lines for a new bridge
across the river at Gladstone. The
new route will cut off 2 and a half
miles and Gladstone will join in the
effort. The committee was D. E. Mel
drum, Chas. Parker, W. A. Huntley,
Chas. Risley, O. D. Eby. This commit
tee is also appointed to look into good
roads legislation and report.
WILL HELP MOLALLA
Commercial Club to go There Next
Week to Help Start Things
B. T. McBain proposed something
to the Live Wires Tuesday that the
boys walked into heartily that the
Wires and commercial club members
go to Molalla Tuesday night of next
week and do what they can to help
that prosperous little city get a good
start on prosperity. ,
Mr. McBain related how the Port
land commercial club came to this
city a few years ago and helped us
when we needed enthusiasm, and he
thought it would be a fine thing to
pass it along to Molalla. The propos
ition was heartily approved. Nine au
tos, carrying 50 men were offered, and
no doubt several others will be offer
ed. They will leave here at 6:30 next
Tuesday night.
A NEW CITY HALL
Outline of Plans Presented to Live
Wires for Four Story Building
One of the interesting things
brought out at the Live Wire lunch
eon Tuesday, was the report of J. W.
Loder, representing a committee on a
new city hall proposition. In outline
the report advocated:
Remove the present structure and
jail, build in its place a four-story
conerete building; have the city jail
in the basement; on the ground floor
have two business apartments; the
second floor office rooms for renting;
third floor, firemen and city office de
partments;, fourth floor commercial
club apartments and free reading
room.
The need of i"v jy w city hall is great,
but owing to the many expenses of a
growing city the people have been a
little backward about starting an ag
itation. If a building could be erected on
plans something like these outlined by
Mr. Loder, where the city could rent
enough of the building to make the
proposition an investment, then there
would probably be little opposition to
the undertaking.
The city owns the present property,
and it is valuable property. The lot is
most centrally located and is very
deep. It would make splendid busi
ness and office locations and no doubt
contracts could be made in advance
of the building to insure an invest
ment. PUSH THIS ALONG
Hogs and Cows will Build Up Clack
amas County Fast
At the Live Wire meeting Judge
Dimick made a few remarks on the
work of dairying and hog raising to
build up the county, which was decid
edly interesting.
He cited the creamery at Clear
Creek which started in a little way
seven years ago and which will this
year go far above the $100,000. He
said this was one of the most impor
tant matters this county had before
it; butter fat can be produced for 13c
that finds a ready market at 49c, and
Mr. Dimick said that soon his com
mittee would report facts and figures
from men who have made good in this
line that will be convincing.
Then Mr. Dimick went to his hob
by, hogs, and read a letter from a far
mer of this county who started with
one brood sow and in one year sold
$362 worth of pork and pigs almost
a dollar a day on an investment of one
sow. He said the banks should and
would help to get the farmers start
ed along the lines of hog raising and
dairying with notes on long time and
low interest, as these lines are coun
ty builders and the whole people prof
edit; that the farmer.? who raise .iftun.
make two per cent on their iniot
ment while hogs and ows ray big.
B. T. McBain suggoyted that the
commercial club take up the matter
the way the club at his home in Cal
ifornia did. They bought thoroughbred
young bulls and let them out to the
farmers on contracts, and he stated
that in five years all the cattle in that
section looked like thoroughbreds;
the scrubs were gone and the butter
fat doubled on the same head of stock.
He said this could be done here and
that the publicity department of the
commercial club already had it under
way.
Geo. Armstrong, of .Redland, won
the prize as having the most unique
car in the auto parade on Booster
Day. This was announced last week
as Logan being Mr. Armstrong's ad
dress, and he is desirous of Redland
getting her full quota of honors.
Redland furnished one of the bands
mnd also some of the prize winning
stock.
Mrs. E. A. Sommer, of Portland,
was visiting friends in this city Monday.
MASS
MEET NG
GALLED SATURDAY
INVESTIGATION COMMITTEES
WILL MAKE THEIR REPORTS
LARGE ATTENDANCE EXPECTED
Meeting is Called for Ten O'clock at
Woodmen Hall
Saturday of this week the adjourn
ed mass meeting, called to investigate
the public affairs of Clackamas
county, will meet in this city, at
which time the committee it appoint
ed, and the Live Wire committee ap
pointed to work with it, will make
their reports.
April 12 a public mass meeting was
held in this city when charges of ex
travagance and mismanagement on
the part of the county court were
made, and a committee: M. J. Brown,
Robert Schuebel and S. L. Casto, were
appointed by the chairman, J. W.
Smith, to investigate the charges and
report their findings to a later meet
ing of the people. The Live Wires lat
ter appointed O. D. Eby and J. W.
Loder to represent that order and
work with the other committee in the
investigations.
The charges and the publicity given
to this matter has aroused keen in
terest in the county over the matter
of county management, and no doubt
there will be a large attendance from
all ovr the county at Saturday's me
eting. .
Themass meeting was called for
two o'clock in the afternoon, and it
was a decided mistake as the time was
far too short for the many matters
under consideration. Chairman Smith
has called Saturday's meeting for 10
A. M., which will give plenty of time
for any matters that may come up.
The meeting will be public and will
be held at Woodman hall, the same
place where the mass meeting was
held at 10 A. M.
BACK IT, OR LAY DOWN
A Little Invitation to Mr. Haskins
to Come Out
Who's Haskins?
Two weeks ago he diagnosed the
Courier editor and had him down for
mental, moral and physical operat
ions. All he overlooked was a corn, a
filled tooth and a mole. And if the
surgeons left anything he would have
the rest defending libel suits and
serving time in Salem.
Who is Haskins? Nobody knows
him and two weeks' search fails to
locate him. Like Charlie Ross, only a
name remains.
Like the party who recently assail
ed the Red Men, he jumps into the
Enterprise over a "Haskins" signa
ture, throws his acid and hides.
Now "Haskins," old top, why didn't
you tell the dear people of the city the
specific cases where the Courier ed
itor is open for libel and the peniten
tiary? And why don't you go after him?
It would be much more interesting
to the people to show where this pa
per is in wrong than that Brown has
dyspepsia or an ingrowing toenail.
Why don't you cite the specific cas
es? Why don't you take them up one
by one and show how this paper is a
"knocker" and character assailer?
If it is "character assailing" to
show to the people a . legal opinion
written by a city attorney under
which blind pigs can operate in de
fiance of law then we are guilty.
If it is "knocking" when this pa
per comes out for the taxpayers and
asks that the system under which the
money is being expended be investi
gated, then we are knockers knock
ing for the common good.
Mr. "Haskins" says that were it not
for charity on the par of those as
sailed, the Courier editor would be de
fending a libel action or be in the
penitentiary.
Mr. "Hn skins" don't sneak this on
to charity. You know where the Cour
ier editor is. h'o doesn't hide. Come on
with your libel suits and state prison
offe.ises. We don't want any charity.
V"'.s are not whimpering, and never
will. We aren't asking for any sym
pathy. We simply call your puerile
bluff and dare you to make it good.
The Courier editor knows to his
own satisfaction who wrote the let
ter in the Enterprise. Now let him
back it or lay down.
Don't Pet the Dogs.
It is reported thre have been several
cases of rabis in this county, and as
the summer is here and dogs are like
ly to be cross, warn your children not
to touch any dog, and be on the safe
side.
What Specializing Does.
An illustration of the investment a
man may get from land by specializ
ing is the revenue of a quarter of an
nire nf asnaratrua erown bv W. B.
Stafford of this city. He is cutting
and selling one dollar's worth Jfrom
each row 110 feet long, and says that
the quarter of an acre will produce
. . ---- . i
mm $2UU, ana propsny womea an
acre of asparagus will produce $1000.
He Wonders Why.
If the same law holds good in Ore
gon City as in Wilsonville, this county,
pool rooms, which operate on Sunday
are violating the state law.
Thomas Kay, special prosecuter for
Governor West, arrested John Law
rence of Wilsonville, Tuesday, on the
charge of keeping a pool room open
on Sunday, and brought before Justice
Sievers, of this city,he pleaded
guilty and paid a fine of $20. And Mr.
Lawrence wonders why he is singled
out at Wilsonville, while Oregon City
has several pool rooms open each Sun
day.
Reward
$50 will be paid for leading to ar
rest and conviction of thief who stole
a gray colored bicycle "Flyer No.
396" with name of F. P. Keenan on
front bar from premises of Dr. M. C.
Strickland, 619-7th St.
Rose Society Meeting
There will be a meeting of the Rose
Society at the Commercial Club par
lors next Tuesday the 13th, to which
all members of the society are urged
to be present. At this meeting the
final arrangements for the Rose Show
to be held June 7, will be made, and it
is urgent that there be a large at
tendance. Courtesy of S. P. Davisi
The beautiful panoramic view of
Oregon City and surronding territory,
printed in last week's Courier, . was
furnished the Courier through the
kindness of S. P. Davis of this city.
Mr. Davis took the picture recently
and the view approaches perfection
from the photographer's art.
A Good Idea
George Randall, at the Live Wire
session, proposed that a sign be plac
ed on McLaughlin home, that ' stran
gers might know the historic place.
J. E. Hedges said the , matter would
be taken up with the trustees. And
while we are at it we should go fur
ther and point out many of the his
toric points in this city.
NOTICE
The Courier is asked to state that
those circulating referendum petitions
on the Oregon university and the
county salary increase law should
send them in, properly executed be
fore a notary public, not later than
May 25. Circulators should be very
particular to have petitions properly
acknowledged before notaries, as un
less so acknowledged they are worth
less.
West Side Would Incorporate
If the expression of the people who
attended the meeting at the Commer
cial Club Tuesday night was represen
tative, and it no doubt was, thaWest
Side will incorporate into a little city
of its own, including West Oregon
City, Bolton and the new town the
Willamette Pulp & Paper Co. is go
ing to build. There were 59 voters
present at the meeting and 50 voted in
favor of the action. A committee is
making out the charter and bound
aries, and the proposition will take ac
tive form next month.
v A Ball Team To Win
' It looks now as if this city has a
ball team that will win back the re
putation the city once had a ball
team that can win games.
It is the Commercial Club team,
and it has the talant to win. It is a
picked team, players picked for ability
and place. They are nearly all seas
oned men, some of which have played
in former fast company. Defeating
Mt. Pleasant team 6 to 0 was the re
sult of their first game.
May 25 they will play the Stellettos
of Portland; June 1, Salem in that
city; June 8, St. John's College team
at Vancouver; June 22, the same team
here, and then they have dates with
Hood River, Dallas, Astoria and other
cities.
The boys have bought new suits and
are now working out nearly every
day.
STOPS TIMBER CRUISE
Clatsop County Men Ask for Injunc
tion to Stop Nease Cruise
Clatsop County is up in protest over
the way county funds are being ex
pended by the county court, and the
people of that county back their pro
test by actions.
The court proposed to build a new
jail in connection with the court house
and to let a timber cruising contract
to the Nease Lumber Company of
Portland, to cruise the timber of the
couney.
Then the Taxpayers League at once
broueht suit in the circuit court ask-
ine for an injunction to restrain the
court from these expenditures, on the
claim that the price for cruising is un
reasonable and extravagant, and a
needless waste of county funds, and
that the jail building should wait un
til there were more funds in the coun
ty treasury.
The time set for hearing the injunc
tion is May 16, and Judge Campbell
will hear the arguments.
WANTED!
Girls and Women
Tp operate Sewing Machines
in garment factory.
Oregon City Woolen Mills
BE
S
BEST FISHING STREAM IN THE
U. S .AT OREGON CITY
WOULD CLOSE RIVER TO NETS
And Make the Willamette Fisher
men's Paradise of North America
A movement is being organized in
this city, county and state to pass an
initiative law to close the Willamette
river enirely to net fishing, and a well
organized effort will be made through
sportsmens clubs and organizations
to put the matter up to the voters at
the next state election.
It is not a fight against the fisher
men or anyone else, but a proposition
to save to sportsmen a fishermen's
paradise the finest fishing stream in
the United States.
The Willamette river at this place
is indeed a realization of fishermen's
dreams. There is no better fishing
nor gamier sport in North America
than can be had in a mile of the Will
amette river below the falls. Sports
men cross the continent to catch the
gamey salmon here fish that run
from 20 to 65 pounds. Noted writers
have fished here,anglers come from
every part of the country and the mov
ing picture companies find ready de
mand for the realistis reol showing
fisherman landing the big salmon here
And just as the season gets started
and hundreds of boats cover the
water, just as the gamiest water sport
in theUnited States is well under way
and Oregon City is receiving national
advertising there opens the gill net-
ters season and it is all off with the
sportsmen with the rod and reel
Sport has been changed to slaughter.
Game gives way to meat, and the
hundrers of men and women reel up
their lines and call it off.
If the Willamette river was closed
to all but anglers, this city would be
come national in its reputation for the
best fishing locality in North America.
, The falls make it a fisherman's para
dise and will for all time guarantee it
such. The salmon come up the river
in great schoofS from the ocean. They
come up to spawn. The falls stop
countless thousands of them and for
a, mile below the falls they almost
golden the water at times.
With a boat, a reel and a spoon
hook, the sportsman finds ideal condi
tions. Like the trout and the musca-
lunge the salmon keeps one guessing
Today you get him, tomorrow he re
fuses to strike. , Today a school girl
hooks a forty pounder and tomorrow
a veteran fisherman sits it out all day
without a strike. But salmon can be
caught here if anywhere in water
the Columbia is no comparison.
And May 1, just as the sport has
reached its height the gillnetter string
his seine from shore to shore, -and his
anglers must quit.. Then for a month
the big nets draw in the fish by the
ton and the river is utmost cleared of
fish.
It is a meat proposition' then, a
commercial business, a cannery deal.
If gillnetting was a means of liveli
hood for many men it would be some
different, but as it is, it is a side line.
For one month only they are allowed
to clean the river of the salmon. They
make good money during the month,
but it is not a livelihood.
If there is a state in the union that
besides Oregon, that permits netting
or dynamiting, we would be glad to
learn of it, and this state should not
permit either.
The Coulmbia is open to dragnet
ting, but that stream protects itself to
a big extent. It is so wide a net can
not span it and there are no falls to
hold back the salmon. Here the fish
are simply trapped between the falls
and the nets that cross the river, and
it becomes a proposition of pulling
out the salmon in ton lots.
Close the stream to netting, make a
long open season for angling and
sportsmen will come here from every
state in the union. And they are a
class of men who can afford to fish
and pay for the sport. Their coming
and going would advertise the town
and county more than any other pub
licity means.
We would like to hear from the peo
ple on this matter would like to de
termine how the city and country
people think of it.
THINGS ARE MOVING
Clackamas Southern Fast Stretching
Out these Fine Days.
They are making railroad while the
sun shines these fine days and every
night the Clackamas Southern is near
er Beaver Creek. For the pas two
months the rain has forced slow pro
gress, but now the company is mak
ing up for lost time and the road is
fast reaching out toward Molalla.
The Company is now getting after
the matter of equipment for the road
and that looks good. The minute
it is finished the Beaver Creek busi
ness will commence business that
has long been waiting. This locality
alone will furnish a lot of good bust
ness for the road, and from Beaver
Creek to Mt Angel almost every rod
will open up business.
The Clackamas Southern will be a
success, nobody never doubts the suc
cess of the road when completed,
They doubted the completion. It was
GOULD
MM
WORLD
1
long chance, but it has shown what
few determined men can do when
they just go to a thin gand won't fail.
Clackamas county abounds with all
that makes a railroad profitable.
From the minute the rails reach the
sections, the business is ready. It is
not the case of taking a long chance
of the road develoDinc the countrv
and making business. The business is
made. It is waiting. There is no end
of it. Business is making the Clack
amas Southern Railroad.
You couldn't stoD the road with
dynamite now and the future will sing
praises to the men with some money
and bushels of sand who have simply
made good.
Salmon by the Ton
In one night this week a fishing con
cern landed 2700 pounds of salmon.
Several other fishermen made pretty
good catches.
Question
The dispatches say that Johnson,
the pugilist refuses to have other than
Republicans to sit as jurors in his
white slave trial. Is this a complement
or otherwise to our Republican fri
ends ?
CITIZEN.
Beautiful Oregon
Oregon is one beautiful bouquet
these days a panorama of fragrance
and beauty. Everywhere is the luxur
iant green, the Oregon green, with the
beautiful dogwood and countless vari
eties of flowers to give it a setting.
And over all is the soft spring glow,
the mellow warmth, that makes one
rejoice that he lives in Oregon.
GLENN GAULT FREED
Took Jury but 45 Minutes to De
termine Lad Innocent
Glenn Gault, the Scotts Mills boy,
on trial for the murder of his step
father, M. D. Leitzel, in June, 1911,
was acquitted by a jury in just 45
minutes last week.
There was general sympathy for
the boy, self defense was the defense,
and he was ably defended. That trio
freed him easily.
Readers will remember that Litzel
suddenly disappeared two years ago.
It was said he had gone to Eastern
Oregon, and various other stories
were circulated to account for his ab
sence. '
About a year later young Gault
went to the police station in Portland
and confessed to killing Leitzel. He
said he did it in self defense; that
Leitzel came to his cabin and attack
ed him while splitting wood; that he
struck him with the ax, . killed him
and buried the body.
The boy led Sheriff Mass and As
sessor Jack of this city to the grave
and the body was exhumed.
Gordon E. Hayes opened the sum
ming up and made a ringing plea in
behalf of his client, which was argu
mentative and carried conviction with
the jury. Among other things he said:
There are but two questions in this
case. First, did the defendant kill his
stepfather? Second, if he did kill him
was it in self defense, and was he
justified in the killing? It is admitted
that the defendant killed Mr. Leitzel,
and now the question for you to de
cide is whether or not the killing was
justifiable. There was no one present
other than the defendant and the de
ceased, and in reaching a just and
logical verdict you can only consider
the confessions of the defendant, his
character as a peaceful and even-
tempered boy, and the disagreable dis
position and viciousness of his step
father. It is in testimony by seven
persons of reputable character who
have known the boy for many years
that he was of a kind and loving tem
perament, extremely devoted to his
mother, and always ready to obey the
commands of his step-father.
"Is it natural to presume, Gentle
men, that a boy of seventeen years
attached to his mother, of a kind and
sensitive nature would wilfully and
maliciously beat to death with an axe
a human being without reasonable
provocation? We have shown by W.
H. Leroy, Mr. Hawley, Bertha Froh
lich, Charles Phillips and Dan Maj
ors, that Leitzel repeatedly threaten
ed to take the boy's life and mistreat
ed him on various occasions. The wife
of Leitzel testified that her husband
choked the boy when he was but thir
teen years of age, and shortly before
the murder knocked him down with
a shovel handle, and the boy was un
conscious for some time, and Leitzel
frequently said to his wife that he
would kill the boy. Leitzel's own son,
Curtis testified that the summer be
fore his father was killed, that he tri
ed to run a pitchfork through the de
fendant and would have succeeded but
for his interference. That he after
wards complained of his son for inter
fering with him when he was endeav
oring to take the life of the young de
fendant at the bar with that deadly
pitchfork. What a spectacle, a man
fifty-four years of age, strong and
active, his eyes sparkling with rage
being held by his own son and beg
ging to be released that he could com
mit the dastardly crime of murder,
and wiping out with a Bingle blow the
life of his stepson, and yet the State
would have you believe that this
young defendant whose life has been
one of love, sympathy and affection,
would deliberately kill with malice in
his heart his own step-father in cold
blood without justification 7 ,
"It is further shown that the defen
dant was splitting kindlings with an
axe in the kitchen, and that Leitzel
assaulted the defendant with a knife
and young Gault struck him in the
head with the axe, which was neces
sary to save his own life. Would any
THE PITTSBURG
OF T PACIFIC
P. WILL BUILD MILLION DOL
LAR CAR SHOPS HERE
WOULD DOUBLE OREGON CITY
Railroad Story that has Everything
but Confirmation to Back It
It's only a railroad story, but it
looks goo'd, and has much to back it.
The story is, and it is being publish
ed and generally talked in Portland
and in this city, that the Southern
Pacific will build its big car shops on
the West side, between Bolton and the
suspension bridge shops that will
employ 1500 men and bring enough
families here to double the population -of
Oregon City.
Those who attended the Commercial
club meeting several months ago will
remember that the general manager
of the Southern Pacific said that com
pany had in view projects for Oregon
City greater than our people antici
pated.
This matter was commented and
speculated on after the meeting. But
Mr. Campbell would not make it more
definite. And perhaps this car shop
industry was his reference.
It is said that those on the inside,
those behind the movement to build
up the west side, have had knowledge
of this contemplated move for many
months, and their developement plans
have been based on it.
Over twenty acres have been laid
out for the car shops, it is stated and
that the investment will be over a mil
lion dollars, and that from 1500 to
2,000 men will be employed. This with
the 2,000 now working in our mills,
and with new mills almost reader to
start up, Oregon will be the Pittsburg
of the Pacific.
The location of the proposed shops
is ideal, perfectly level, and it is said
the Beaverton shops and barns will be
abandoned and removed here.
While this is what .many will term
a "railroad story," yet there is every
thing but confirmation of the com
pany to back it, and the story looks
very plausible and good.
And if it comes through, Oregon
City will be somecity.
. To My Friends
The handsome Howard automobile,
which was awarded to me last week is
greatly valued and appreciated, but
the means through fchichi it was re
ceived is more so I value the action
of my friends great's?.
Words poorly exprssj my heart
felt thanks, but to the many friends
who gave me this, handsome compli
ment, to the friends who worked for
me when I did not work for myself,
to those who showered the millions of
votes on me and made my winning
easy to you one and all, accept the
heartfelt thanks and fullest appreci
ation of
FRANK WHITEMAN
Grand Jury May Investigate
The grand jury is considerably
wrought up over a sensational dis
patch sent out from this city and
printed in the Portland Journal to
the effect that one of the jurors on
the Gault murder trial had been ap
proached with a bribe.
The county officials cannot find
anything on which this story was bas
ed and it is safU the grand jury pro
poses to take the matter up and find
out how and whyx it started.
$5 a Day in Washington
The Courier is in receipt of a let
ter from a subscriber in Washington,
which says the county let the timber
cruising contract in Klickitat county
for $5 per day.
George Lepley, who has been en
gaged in farming at Hubbard, waa in
this city Wednesday. He will soon
leave for Union, Iowa, where he will
remain for about a year. His family
will accompany him.
of you gentlemen stand in a room
with an axe in your hand and willing
ly be disemboweled by a man who was
enraged and who had threatened your
life upon divers occasions, and to
many persons? No, you would wield
the axe with deadly force, not that
you wanted to do bodily harm or com
mit murder, but you would do it to
save your own life which under such
circumstances would be both morally
and legally justifiable.
"Here is a boy full of ambition,
hope and promise, whose life has been
almost blighted by the cruelty of the
deceased, and now the state asks you
to surrender up the life of the. young
man for killing in self-defense."
George C. Brownell followed Mr.
Hayes, bringing out one after anoth
er of the telling points that had
weight with the jury. Mr. Brownell
is a past master in making every bit
of evidence count, and he had plenty
at hand with connecting arguments at
his tongue's end.
District Attorney Tongue worked
hard on the prosecution, using the
evidence and his bright logic to the
fullest advantage, but sympathy and
self-defense were too strong.