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OREGON
The Courier is the Official State
paper for Oregon for the Farmers So
ciety of Equity, and haa the largest
circulation from Portland to Salem.
Clackamas County Fair
September 24, 25, 26, 27
Canby, Oregon
31st YEAR.
OREGON CITY, ORE., THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 1313.
No. ii
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FAIR
IS
EVERYTHING TOINTS TO A
RECORD BREAKING 1913
ENTRIES WILL BREAK RECORDS
And Everything Promises 'a Great
Big September Fair
The big gates of the Clackamas
County Fair will be opened to the pub
lic Wednesday morning , September
24, at which time the Hubbard and
Redland bands will be on hand to
furnish the music. The address of
welcome will be made by the Presi
dent, Judge G. B. Dimick, who" will be
followed by the Secretary, M. J. Lee,
of Canby, and other representatives
of the Claqkamas County Fair Assoc
iation. The wheels of the machinery
on the grounds will be set into operat
ion, and Clackamas County will be
celebrating her seventh annual fair
an event that is looked forward to
from year to year by the farmers,
stockmen, dairymen and the general
public. Everybody attending to the
fair goes with the intention of hav
ing a good time, and if they don't
have it it is their own fault.
Thursday, September 25, will no
doubt be one of the Red Letter days
of the fair. This will be Oregon City
and German Day. It has always been
the custom of holding Oregon City
Day on Friday, but as the people
of Molalla have asked for that day
it was decided to have Marquam, Car
us, Molalla and other outlying dis
tricts have that day. This will also be
Elks' Day, and members of that lodge
will be represented from all over this
county, Portland, Salem, Albany and
other cities. There will be on for that
day special attractions. The Mt. An
gel and Aurora Band will furnish the
DRAW NG
NEAR
music for Oregon City and German
Day, and the Molalla and Marquam
bands for Friday. On Thursday there
will be a monster barbecue of beef in
charge of the Germans, while on Fri
day there will be a barbecue of goats
for the benefit of the Elks. These are
not worn out goats that have been
used by the lodge in its initiatory
work, but young bucks that are now
enjoying the hilltops near the City of
Canby, little realizing what is in store
for them. The Elks order will have
charge of this barbecue, and it will
be done in proper shape.
Saturday is Juvenile Day, the last
day of the fair, and the "kiddies" will
have a "time of their lives." One of
1 the features of that day will be the
baby show, which will take place on
the grove at 11 o'clock. There will be
small babies, big babies, dark babies
and light babies. There will be judges
who know their business, but as there
are dozens of mothers, who are to en
ter their youngsters . and are deter
mined that theirs will win, the manag
ers have provided plenty of prizes for
the little tots.
From all indications the Clackamas
County Fair of 1913 will be the great
est ever. Already many entries for
the horse races have been made by
some of the best racers in the West.
Hon. C. N. Waite, a well known res
ident of Canby, who has been clerk for
several years, has again been selec
ted for that position for this years'
fair. Mr. Waite's experience and sat
isfaction heretofore given while per
formingi'his duties at the fair, assis
ted in making the races of last year
satisfactory to all. The starter of the
races will be Edward Fortune, a well
known horseman, who was starter last
year. Mr. Fortune is at present at
Newport, Oregon," but will return in
time to take his position at the race
track.
The livestock exhibit is to be
among the main attractions. The
Guernseys from the Hughes farm at
Logan, which attracted much atten
tion at the recent livestock show held
in Oregon City, and that carried off
the sweepstakes in their class, will be
for the first time in the history of
the Clackamas County, exhibited at
Canby. The fine Jerseys from the R.
L. Badger dairy farm near. Beaver
Creek, will be at the fair this year
to share in some of the big prize
money. The Lazelle Jerseys are to be
exhibited for prizes. This will be the
first time that these cattle have been
at the County Fair. The Red Polled
cattle have heretofore been Mr. La
zelle's hobby, .and have always been
winners of prize money, but Mr. La
zelle and son, M. J. Lazelle, are now
turning their attention to the Jersey
breed, having recently started a dairy
at their farm at Mt Pleasant.
Many of the swine-growers in this
county are applying for space to ex
hibit either the Poland Chinas, Berk
shires, Chester Whites or "razor
backs." There will be very few of the
latter, as the farmers today are realiz
ing the value of growing the best of
stock, and are disposing of grades
and devoting their time to the grow
ing of registered stock. Judge G. B.
Dimick, whose swine caused wide at
tention at last year's fair, has arrang
ed to have his pens enlarged on the
fair grounds under the supervision of
E. J. Lankins, manager of the stock
farm at Hubbard.
Thfcbig pavilion will be bulging
with exhibits of all kinds including
grains, grasses, fruits, vegetables,
grange exhibits, community exhibits,
needlework, etc. The lower floor will f
be devoted to the displaying of farm
exhibits, commercial booths, commun
ity and grange exhibits, while on the
second floor will be found the Juvenile
exhibit, domestic science and general
exhibits.
Many of the concessioners have
made application for concessions. All
concessions will be closed Wednesday
and no one will be allowed by the
management to enter the last two or
three days to operate any .concession
The ladies of the Methodist church of
Canby will have charge of the cafa-
teria as in former years. Besides there
will be several lunch counters.
The management being aware that
the music at the County Fair is among
the chiel attractions, there will be
pie ty of good music provided this
year. Among the bands which will ap
pear during the four days' session
will be the Aurora, one of the best
bands in the state; Hubbard, Molalla,
Kedland, Estacada, Marquam and the
Mt. Angel German Band. .
The horse races have always prov-
ed attractive at the fairs, and the
purses this year will be larger so that
this will tend to encourage horsemen
to enter their horses. Wednesday there
will be one of the old-fashioned races,
when about 25 running horses will be
entered. Besides the running race will
be trotting and pacing races. During
the races the band will furnish the
music so as to enliven the events. The
Redland band will be among the mus
ical organizations to furnish the music
for this day.
At the last session' of the Oregon
Legislature a bill was passed appro
priating $1500 towards the Clacka
mas County Fair, and this will assist
financially, in the awarding of priz
es. Heretofore the Clackamas County
Fair Association has been under a
great expense since purchasing the
grounds at Canby and erecting the
exhibit building, and the Association
has had to depend upon the gate re
ceipts for the prize money and for
paying off the debt. Altogether there
will be about $3500 in cash given as
prizes this year.
Gustave Schnoerr, of Oregon City,
who is president of the German Ve
rein, will be among the speakers on
Thursday, German Day. The German
Society will arrange the musical pro
gramme, which will consist of chor
uses, solos and duets. The Mt. An
gel German band will make its initial
bow at the fair grounds on that day.
This band is not like the "Hungry
Seven" in Portland with its few mem
bers, but is a large organization com
posed of many of the leading music
ians at Mt. Angel can do when it
comes to "making music!" They know
how to do it too, and are always gen
erous with their encores. The latest
catchy selections will be played at
the fair.
Several business houses of Oregon
City, Canby and Portland will have
exhibits in the pavilion. Prizes will be
awarded the most unique booth.
Special arrangements are being.
made with the Southern Pacific Rail
road Company to give reduced rates
during the fair. There will be hun
dreds of people from all over the
county to attend the fair this year.
It is estimated that there will be about
5,000 in attendance on Oregon City
and German Day, and about that
many more on Friday, Elks' and Mol
alla Day.
Hedges Handsome Horn
One of the handsomest and most
modern home in this city is the one
nearly completed for Joseph E. Hedg
es of this city, on Adams and Fifth
streets. This handsome and commod
ious home has every detail up to the
minute.'
Greatness Thrust Upon
Editor M. J. Brown, of the Oregon
City Courier, has been indicted by a
Clackamas county grand jury for
criminal libel. But these days only
the great are indicted. Brother Brown
puts out a live newspaper. He says
things and hits some one occasion
ally. McMinnville Reporter.
Purest in the State
The Enterprise says the state board
of health "repeated its belief that the
city water is the purest in the state."
"Repeated its belief" is good. No
doubt Portland will now throw out its
Bull Run system and petition to tap
our sewer, lor cterainly Portland
wants the "purest in the state."
Don't Blame Him
A new sign on an awning before
the law office of Brownell & Stone
reads:
"GEO. C. BARNELL, LAWYER"
The front name abbreviated and
the last name made over.
Only the original "C" left to denote
former greatness.
And this only three weeks after a
recall election.
A man has as much right to change
his name as his shirt, they say, and
I don t know that I blame George,
after counting up the dead and wound
ed he was largely responsible for.
An Editor's Version
The value of the press in bringing;
about a change in public sentiment
has been fully shown in Oregon City
lately, where Editor Brown, of the
Courier, believing that certain county
officials were not keeping their pact
since election, began a campaign for
their recall, and at a vote on the sub
ject they were removed from office
by a large majority. The people of
Clackamas county took the editor's
word for it that these men were not
performing the duties they were elec
ted to and and showed a supreme con
fidence in him by recalling them.
Polk County Itemizer.
IS RICH. AND THEY
SAY IT IS
E
DOCTORING LEAVES ONLY THE
STINK AND BAD TASTE
LAP IT UP. IT IS GOOD STUFF
Let Mind Triumph Over Matter and
Pour it Down
Oregon City water "is the purest in
the state," so the announcement is
given out as coming from the state
health board.
That settles it. Go to it. Lap it up
The Arabs take with them across
the sands what is known as "desert
soup." It is both nourishment and
thirst quencher, and this appears to
be about what- Oregon City has in
a fluid way.
It is wet and it MUST be nourish
ing. it has the richest deposits of a
great valley to make it rich. It has
decayed animal and vegetable life; it
lias the juice of hundreds of thous
ands of dead eels, it has the deposits
of thousands of water closets, livery
barns, saloons, hospitals, and meat
markets. The river is an official state
sewer where anybody may dump any
dead or nasty thing he doesn't want
to bury.
"The water is pure," they tell us.
It is almost thick in its richness of
filth.
The great Chicago drainage river,
a literal river of filth and poison at
its source, is said to filtdr itself pure
after about fifty miles and tests show
is absolutely devoid of fever germs,
but you couldn't get a white man to
swallow a spoonful if his tongue was
hanging out with thirst.
A medical note in a recent magazine
tells of a chemical solution the quan
tity of which will cling to a pin head
will kill the fever germs in a . quart
of poluted water. It is used in "emer
gencies" when it is a choice of pois
ons.
We take our water out of the filthy
Willamette. It is filtered through an
alum preparation and sand and then
t is given a chemical hypodermic, the
process that was installed so quietly
and secretly several months ago.
And we drink what the processes
leave of the original, dear old stink
ing Willamette.
The state board says there is no
fever left in it and few organisms.
This statement can be readily taken
on trust.
The question is do you want to
drink what is left in it? If you do,
there is plenty of it.
. At Eugene, far up the Willamette,
where the. water hasn't the filth con
sistency of cream, 'the same protest
is being made, and the Register says:
Repeated tests every week
show that there is absolutely no
trace of colon bacillus in it, and
only a very small number of
harmless " vegetable organisms.
There is however, at times an un-
pleasapt taste and smell due, In
; the opinion of the water board, .
to conditions existing at the water
; intake. This fact causes many
people to use water from wells
that are far from safe.
Citizens may be led up to -the city
faucets, but many of them can't be
made to drink.
1 A man from Canby was in the city
thef irst of the week looking over the
proposition of establishing a regular
three-times-a-week delivery for drink
ing purposes.
But if the state board of health says
this water of ours is the real rich
goods, and the people of Oregon City
will accept the verdict without ap
peal,, well and good.
But the matter will never stay set
tled until it is settled right, and at
what a cost it will be to the interests
of the city during appeals.
Canby hasn't had a case of typhoid
originate in that city for twenty
years.
Gladstone, next door north,- is free
from it.
Neither city drinks Willamette
water.
THE GAME OF BOOST
And What the Newspaper Men Have
to Stack up Against
Take "the newspaper business, for
instance.
How many ever look at it as a bus
iness proposition, that is run for a
profit to the owner, and that to make
it profitable the owner must' give buy
ers what they call for.
Way up the line, someone tells
someone to see the newspaper and
have it conout favorable to a cer
tain political line that the someone
up at the head of the line thinks is
the kind of dope that the readers
should be given in hot weather.
This may be a line of work tl.t
will hurt the paper financially. It may
be against what the newspaper knows
is sentiment among his readers, yet
great, small, short and tall politic
ians along the line will insist on it
until after it is printed, and the ed
itor is knocked as a lame duck by the
readers whT know the source of the
dope and the influences which forced
its publication.
The man with an enterprise to pro
mote to swell his pseronal bank ac
count; the man with something to sell
that its merits won't make am arket
for; the man with personal schemes,
they and a hundred others want the
newspaper to boost their 'game and
stand guarantee for something they
can't make good on.
And too often the newspaper plugs
these games, does it rather than to
turn down friends, and loses out as
it should.
The boosting game is a flat failure
to any newspaper that plays it. The
more you hand 'em out the less does
the boosted appreciate, and after a
little they think they favor you by
giving you the first chance to print
their free advertising that your paper
is honored by by being given a lever
and a place to pry.
Newspaper men ought to learn
these things and add to the value of
their papers by pulling them out of
private and political aid societies-
MEETS NEXT WEEK MONDAY
Change in Law Changes Equalization
Board Meeting in this County.
Courier:
An important matter appears to
have been overlooked, the publication
of the notice of the meeting of the
Board of Equalization, and as the
county officials have not given it to
the. Courier, as in former years, I
would ask that you publish it as a
news matter.
Heretofore the board has met on
the third Monday In October, but a
change in the law changes the date
this year to the second Monday in
September, which will be next Mon
day, the 8th.
Hidden among the legal notices in
the Enterprise this announcement' is
made, but I would ask you to kindly
publish where taxpayers will see and
read it. .
A Farmer
CONVENTION BIG SUCCESS
State Rural Carriers Give Good Roads
a Big Boost
Eighty-six delegates from the dif
ferent counties of the state assembled
in this city Sunday and Monday and
held a most successful and beneficial
eleventh annual convention Oregon
Rural Lettef Carriers, and better
roads for Oregon received aspendid
boost from these men who know the
needs.
Sunday the delegates convened here,
but the real session was Monday and
the real best part of Monday's ses
sion was Monday afternoon, when the
delegates and the business men of
this city went on special cars to Glad
stone park. There the commercial
club served the mail boys a fine lunch
and then the men, got. together and
talked things over.
Mayor Linn E. Jones of this city,
Councilman F. J. Tooze, and Judge
G. B. Dimick were guests and speak
ers at the luncheon. The discussion
was generally along -that of good
roads. The association endorsed the
plan for good roads in every county
in the state and advocates a system
that will result in material improve
ment for the post roads. Each county
court in the state will be asked by
the association to appropriate a sum
necessary for operating split-log
drags during the winter season as this
method the carriers claim helps many
almost impassable stretches of high
way. The Bourne highway plan was
heartily endorsed.
The convention named McMinnville
as the place for the next state con
vention and elected the following of
ficers: J. H. Maxwell, president; Nelson E.
Willetts, first vice-president; D. F.
Whiteman, second vice-president; W.
Boyd, secretary; W. H. Squires,
new member of executive committee.
.The convention was an enjoyable
success and the good roads movement
has been materially helped by these
boosters.
ONE KILLED, SEVERAL HURT
Car of Slab Wood Dumps into Party
of Sunday Picnicers
One of the most, curious as well as
serious accidents that ever occured on
the Southern Pacific happened at Os
wego. A party of picnicers were stand
ing on the narrow depot platform at
Goodwin station, waiting for a train
into Portland, when a freight train,
loaded with logs and wood, came
around. a sharp curve at a high rat
of speed, and just opposite the stat
ion the car of slab wood broke loose
and a part of the load fell into the
picnic party. .
Mrs. John Kelley, aged 35 years,
was instantly killed by a slab strik
ing her on the head, and several oth
ers had arms broken and were other
wise injured. "
Coroner Wilson of this city brought
the body of Mrs. Kelley here and an
inquest was held here Tuesday.
Wanted to. Walk Out
Six steel saws were slipped through
the jail door to Vergin Perrine, the
Milwaukte bank robber Saturday last,
and but for the fact that one of them
caught and was left in the door,
there might have been a jail delivery.
The hole through which the steel
bands were passed was only about a
quarter of an inch, and one of the
Raws stuck and was found by Sheriff
Mass.
Mass searched the prisoner and the
iail and found the saws hidden under
the jail floor.
Curfew May Ring Again
The removal of the fire bell from
the city building to the tower on the
bluff has silenced the curfew for some
time, but now it is in place and will
be on the job again.
IS IT THE PUREST
WATER
OHEGDN
REV. MILLIKEN SAYS NO, AND
HE FULLY PROVES IT
o .
UNHEALTHY AND DANGEROUS
And Typhoid Should Not be Shoulder
ed All Onto the Dairies
Editor Courier:
For weeks we have been resting
under the menace of a new typhoid
epidemic. But now our hearts are at
ease seeing that "All the typhoid cas
es in town are traceable, directly or
indirectly, to an unfortunate dairy.
We are rejoiced by the information
that we have the "Purest water in
the State."
Since my return to the1 city last
week I have been busy visiting ty
phoid patients, and, incidentally, con
ducting an investigation of my own.
Of some dozen cases that have come
under my -notice, ONE . ONLY had
anything, directly or indirectly, to do
with that dairy. One family only us
ed water from a well. The only mem
ber of that family who has typhoid
worked in the woolen mill and drank
the water there. EVERY OTHER
CASE USED CITY WATER. Com
paring notes with another pastor he
says that his experience parallels my
own. Now, Mr. Editor, we have the
purest water in Oregon. The Enter
prise says so, so it must be true. All
these cases who have been so incon
siderate as to get themselves sick
with the fever can only have contrac
ted the disease from the offending
dairy. We are permitted to consider
no other source. This brings us, sir,
to the eve of a wonderful discovery
that we should lose no time -in report
ing to the Society of Physic Research.
Our medical men have claimed here
tofore that typhoid germs must actu
ally have been taken in through the
mouth into the alimentary tract, be
fore the disease can be contracted.
In the light of the above facts we have
discovered -a new medium of infec
tion. Those friends of mina who are
ill must have contracted the disease
through telepathy a sort of "absent
treatment," as it were. We respect
fully submit' this ' important and far
reaching discovery to the attention of
the Scientific world.
Our morning paper says we have
the "Purest water in the State." What
colossal fools those Portland people
are in going to the expense of putting
in Bull Run water when the admixture
of a little chemical dope in a mechan
ical filter would have proven a magic
talisman to transform the sewage of
a populous valley into wholesome and
sparkling nectar of the gods! All
boats and trains from Portland adver
tise to their patrons thafthey carry
Bull Run water, and Portland is
making a bid for Oceon patronage by
offering to fill the. tanks of all sea
going vessels that have called at her
wharves, with Bull Run product, and
that free of charge. What a blunder,
when all that was necessary was to
look down at the stream that washes
her feet and to lave up the "Purest
water" on earth, or at least in Ore
gon. Typhoid epidemics are not due
to water anyway can't be. The
gentlemen who control the Oregon
City water supply will not permit
such a thing to occur for a minute!
It may come from daifies or Chinese
gardens, or even from wells (they
will concede, that.) But perish the
thought that the clear and limpid
Willamette could in any sense be re
sponsible! Portland's immunity from
epidemic since installing mountain
water must be due to their subsistence
upon canned cream, and artificial
cabbages. The water has nothing to
do with the matter. It absolutely can't
have!
The recent reports of the State
Board of Health upon this matter
affords some interesting reading. Ac
cording to these, in the last ten years
typhoid has had 10 times the mortal
ity of smallpox, 4 times that of scar
let fever, and twice that of diptheria.
In 1908 there were 597 cases of ty
phoid reported with 124 deaths.
In 1909 there were 990 cases with
142 deaths.
In 1910 at Willamette alone, in a
population of 300 there were 39 cas
es with 2 deaths.
In 1912 there were 845 cases with
216 deaths.
Typhoid is purely a filth disease,
hence is preventable. If I suffer from
my own filth without injuring anyone
else I am merely a suicide, but if thru
my culpability or my carelessness
another dies, I am a homocide.
In 1905 there were epidemics of ty
phoid in Portland and Ashland, one
traced by the State Board to the Wil
lamette, the other to the stream from
which the city drew its supply.
In 1908 the epidemic at Eugene wa
traced to the Willamette. A few cas
es were due to wells contaminated
from adjacent cesspools.
In 1909 the Salem contagion was di
rectly due to the waters of the Wil
lamette. In 1910 there were epidemics at
Grant's Pass,, due to Rogue River
water, at St. Helena due to contagion
from the poisonous Willamette slough,
at Willamette, contracted from
springs which had been infected by
the overflow of the Willamette, at
Eugene from the Willamette again
and at Roseburg, traceable to the
Rogue River
In 1911 Eugene and Klamath Falls
had severe runs of fever, traceable in
the case of the former to the Willam
ette.
In the light of the foregoing is it
not true that one might almost as
safely drink poison as water from the
Willamette river? The State Board of
Health blames it for most of the
trouble, yet some people have the
temerity to say that we have the pur
est water in the State. What motive
have they in so insulting the public
intelligence I
Note the following quotation from
the 1911 Report of the State Board of
Health: .
"A question of grave importance to
the health of all the people of the
State ...... is the pollution of the
fresh water streams of the State.
"These streams, from the smallest
rivulet up to, and including, such nav
igeable streams as the Columbia and
the Willamette rivers , arise from
pure and undefiled sources in the
mountains, and remain pure and
wholesome until such time as they
descend to a level where they come
in contact with mankind. From this
point on until they lose themselves
in the sea, they became a conduit into
which, in increasing quantities in di
rect proportion to the increasing den
sity of the population, along the
banks is cast offal and filth until
nearly all the streams of the State
have become MERE SEWERS, THE
WATER FROM WHICH IS NOT
ONLY DANGEROUS TO DRINK,
BUT IN MANY PLACES TO BATHE
IN. Even the very fish, which have
no means of escape are largely in
fected and unfit for food. This con.
dition is rapidly growing' worse, and
has become a PERIL OF NO MEAN
IMPORT and IS A GRAVE REFLEC
TION UPON THE INTELLIGENCE
AND DEGREE OF CIVILIZATION
OF THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY,
and should be stopped at once, and
forever."
Do you still believe the Willamette
river to be the purest water in the
State?
What about the State Board's cri
ticism of the intelligence of those who
patiently submit to such conditions?
I would like to see what they would
have to say about the intellectual stat
us of those who claim that such water
plus a little dope, is the purest water
in the State.
Just here someone rises to ask:
"But does not our chemical filter pur
ify the water and make it healthful
and good? ;" , '
I will answer by quoting the fol
lowing paragraph from the report of
the Biologists selected to investigate
the Clear Lake Water Supply (1913.)
"In the year 1906 and again in 1910
the people of Eugene were afflicted
with an epidemic of typhoid fever,
and in 1909 a similar and equally
serious epidemic also traceable to
the water supply was in Salem, but
ONLY TEMPORARY REMEDIAL
MJ3ASURES have been adopted in
two cities, looking towards more ac
ceptable water supply."
What are those TEMPORARY RE
MEDIAL MEASURES that must be
soon set aside in Eugene and Salem?
The report goes on to say that both
cities have installed HYPOCHLOR
ITE of LIME FILTRATION plants,
but that these are only temporary ex
pedients, adapted merely to relieve
matters a little until the installing
cities get pure water. But in Oregon
City, with many square miles more
of populous territory emptying its
filth into the river, all a hypochlor
ite plant has to do is to say "Boo!
to make the festive typhoid germ
turn up his toes and give up the ghost,
or to send him post haste into deep
water, thus making our thirst-erad-icator
the purest in the State, if not
in the world.
But read what the Report has to
say about HYPOCHLORITE FIL
TERING PLANTS:
"While this action (adding solut
ions of hypochlorite of lime to the
water to render it practically sterile)
is endorsed by the Board for a TEM
PORARY SUPPLY, THE ADDITION
OF ANY AGENT AS STRONG IN
ITS CHEMICAL ACTION AS HY
POCIILORIDE OF LIME FOR A
PERMANENT SUPPLY IS NOT EN
DORSED BY THE BOARD, and every
city and municipality is urged to take
steps to get and protect an unpolluted
supply rather than depend upon thiB,
or any other chemical agent."
Am I right in objecting to have my
domestic economy made a junk shop
of dead Bacilli Typhosus Ebarthi, and
a dumping ground for unsalubrioutu
drug-shop dopes every time I attempt
to satisfy Nature's demand for water?
But maybe the reported "tests"
for purity of the water bother you.
Now I am ready to stake my repu
tation for scholarship in biological
matters upon the - following state
ment. Write any reputable bacteri
ologist and he will endorse what I
say. So will any physician who under
stands his business. It is useless to
hunt for the Baccillus Typhosus Ebar-
thii with a fine comb, or even with a
pocket microscope. Being Bacillii they
are shaped like little rods or pencils.
They are exceedingly minute, so much
so that few labratories have the
means of detecting them. Their very
existence was only surmised until
Ebarth found them In 1880. They are
usually somewhere around the larger
and more easily detected, but possibly
harmless (so some authorities to
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HUSTLING THUGS
ALL ALONG LINE
FOUR CREWS ARE PUSHING THE
CLACKAMAS RAILROAD. .
BALLASTING TRAIN IS NEXT
Liberal Financial Backing Makes the
Completion Look Easy.
Look this over Clackamas South
ern stuff:
A crew is working from Mt. Angel
to Monitor, four miles this side, and
the grading will be completed in three
weeks.
Another crew is starting at Monitor
and working toward Mulino.
Another crew has started at Stew
art's, between Beaver City and Mon
itor.
Another crew is completing the
track to Beaver Creek.
Preperations are being made at
terminals to get gravel from the Wil- .
lamette river for ballast; a big steam
scraper will be put to work; another,
and larger engine will be put on, with
a string of flat cars for ballast:
work, and to begin operation of road
to Beaver Creek.
This looks some like a railroad,
doesn't it? The fellows that said "it
couldn't be swung, It had been tried
too many times," will find this pro
gress interesting reading.
Subscriptions are coming in liber
ally now. Nothing succeeds like suc
cess. Oregon City and Portland busi
ness men are taking an active finan
cial interest in the completion of the
road. The Willamette Pulp & Paper
Co. have purchased - a substantial
block of the stock, and from Mulino,
Beaver Creek and other places finan
cial backing is readily secured.
The time has passed when the
Clackamas Southern was a specula
tion, or a long chance on low priced
stock. Today the company is on a
substantial basis and the completion
of the road is an absolute certainty.
Any number of big business concerns
would jump at the chance to take it
over now. It has passed the risks and
the pinches. It is so near completion
that only an earthquake could stop
it.
But the directors are steadfastly
staying with the proposition that this
is and should be a Clackamas County
railroad, controlled and operated by
Clackamas county men, and that i
why the little fellows with the few
dollars, have been solicited and big
money passed up. This is why the
road has gone forward slowly but
steadily and safely and when It is
completed we will have something.
It's a proposition that will do a lot
for Clackamas county and more for
Oregon City. It has everything in
front of it, behind it and both sides
of it to make a railroad pay, and it
will from the day the first train be
gins to bring in and carry out.
It's beyond the "good bet" stage.
It's but a matter of time to complete
it, and the above outline of activities
is proof that the people of this county
who have waited for thirty years,
won't have much longer to wait.
FROST STOPS DANCE
And Says There will be no More
Public Sunday Dances at Canemah
Sunday the Forresters of Portland
held an afternoon and night dance at
Canemah Park, and after the lodge
members returned home the dance
took on the "free and easy" program
when Constable Jack Fros, tired of
being a floor manager, ordered the
orchestra to play "Home Sweet Home"
and closed the place, and he served
notice on the leasees of the park that
no more public Sunday dances would
be permitted in the pavillion.
The grounds are outside the city
limits and beyond the jurisdiction of
city officials. There has been consider
able complaint against the place and
the character of the dances. The Con
stable has time and again taken danc
ers from the floor and repeatedly
warned the managers that the place
must be run decently or close. And it
was closed.
Complaints Made Against Lighting
Company
Prof. F. J. Tooze and Deputy Stipp
were before the state railroad com
mission in Portland Tuesday and pre
sented complaints against the P. R.
L. & P. Co. for service here. The
charges were fluctuations in rates,
excessive charges and arbitrary rul
ings in extensions of lighting service,
and too high charges for power rates.
The decision of the commission will
be rendered in a short time.
Will be Lively Street
When the elevator is completed,
Seventh street will be about the live
liest short street in the city. Over
half the residence population of the
city will use the elevator, and all irill
have to reach it from the end of
Seventh. This will be some thorough
fare mornings, nights and noons.
Men on the Job
Godfrey Marauardt. who has tke
Henry Jones farm near Clarkes, is
certainly some farmer. This man has
corn six feet high and it took 60 lbs.
of twine for 13 acres of wheat. He