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31st YEAR
OREGON CITY, ORE., THURSDAY, OCT. 9, 1313.
No. 20
A TRIP T
HIE HUB LAND
THE AMERICAN INDIAN AS SEEN
AT CLOSE RANGE
THE NAVAJO DOES NOT CHANGE
Lives as he Lived in the Days Before
the Spaniard
(NoteThis letter was written arid
mailed before the visit to the cliff
ruins, but was sidetracked somewhere
in the mails and was over three weeks
in finding its way out. It therefore
has its wrong place in the series.) ...
Chin Lee, Arizona, Sept. 20, 1913
Theodore Roosevelt was up in this
country last month, and while the as
Aw'iated cress crave him a.lot of Out
look advertising, and will pass me up
entiiely, I'll bet I beat him an Arizona
section on the finish.
Roosevelt had with him his two
sons, a nephew, and every newspaper
man who could dig up the price, or
form a trip party. .
I had with me (on the finish) a
Navajo Indian who couldn't speak a
word of English and who would not
even grunt for companionship, only
when he wanted a match.
Roosevelt went to the snake dance
and I went to the cliff ruins. I simply
make this connection for advehtising
purposes, but I guess he gets the best
end of it.
One of the places I had down on
this trip was the Moqui pueblo and the
weird and ancient snake dance. I had
long supposed this ancient rite was
held in September of each year, but
what was my disappointment to find
August was the date. I had confused
the rites with the Chalico festivities
of the Zunis.
Sn I irnt an outfit at Gallup and
four davs through the
weirdest and strangest country that
ever laid out under the sun, ana wnen
I had finished it this little mission
ctiit.inn (with a Chinese name) I felt
pretty well satisfied that I was thirty
days ahead of hundreds of thousands
of Americans who call themselves
tourists, and who think they have
"seen America." ;
But before I tell you about the cliff
dwellers, (my hobby) and that ride up
the canyon on an Indian pony (my
back aches yet,) I want to write of
some of the interesting little things
that too many never see, because of
the discomforts of the trip, and of
which too many of the writers sit in
"a Pullman car and write about.
Out of Gallop, as soon as you cross
the Arizona line and get into that
sun-baked, waterless Navajo country,
there is fascinating interest and wild
day history in almost every mile
providing you don't stub your toe on
them and fall down on them without
ever seeing them.
T had a driver who had for 30
a freighter and Indian
trader in this country. He sized me up
as the ordinary tourist, and I knew it.
Mv clnt.hss looked too dustless and
hands too soft. I wanted to limber up
to the old scout for I knew he could
make every mile interesting to me if
he would. The night before he asked
me to tell him just what I wanted for
an outfit and chuck. And there was
where I got next. I told him I could
stand anything any white man could;
-to get what he wanted and that was
good enough; that I could eat bacon
and frijole beans week in and out and
a blanket was good enough for a rain,
snow or sand storm.
And then he limbered.
For hours lie reeled off stuff and
pointed out old wild day historic
spots.
For instance, about the first in
teresting spot he showed me was a
mound of dirt with yellow looking
pieces of soft stone all over it. He
explained how a tourist went out with
him last year, and when the cross bar
broke near this mound, and it took a
half hour to make one from a cedar
scrub, this fellow came back with his
shoes covered with the ocre (it was
raining) and damning the Navajo
country for its monotony and the soil
because it had daubed his patent
leathers.
This mound, Jndians have come to
for hundreds of years. They take this
ore or clay, mix it with sheep tallow
and paint their faces, not to make
themselves look fierce and to scare
New Yorkers, but simply as a protec
tion against the fearful rays and heat
of the Arizona sun,w hich in midsum
mer will blister, crack open and peel
off thes kin of even an Indian. The
squaws use it especially, and more es
pecially when they have a long ride
in the saddle. .
On the point of a mesa I saw a pile
of rocks, and while we stopped for
lunch I climbed it for inspection, for
I saw it was one of the few curious
formations that the volcano did not
make.
Two piles of stone, built up pyra
mid shape. That was all, so far as I
saw, but Dan told me they had stood
there since before the white man, and
that they were ancient Indian water
signs; that near was an arroya where
water could be found for digging in
the quick sand; a spring or Indian
well.
A most interesting natural forma
tion is Kit Carson's monument near
the opening of the Boneita Canyon,
And by the way, Kit Carson has a
bunch "of monuments scattered over
the southwest At Taos he is really
buried. There he died, there his bones
have crumbled and there is his real
monument; pretty much chipped off
and carried away by the vandals and
relic hunters. At Santa Fe, capitol of
New Mexico, is another monumept of
around.
On this mesa Carson and a little
buncli of white men stood off the Nav
ajos for a week, so the Indian legend
goes. As to standing them off he cer
tainly had a cinch, for he was on top
of a rock hill that simply stood up in
the air, and how the Indians could
ever have gotten to him was more
than my military eye could see. They
say he and. his band killed hundreds
of them, but finally exhaustion
amunition and lack of water weaken
ed the white men, and at night the In-
dians scaled the mesa and killed them
all.
It is no doubt true that Carson had
a great fight at this rock. On one side
the most easily accessible, are plain
evidences of barricades. It is also
history that the Indians won out. But
it is also plain U. S. history that Car
son didn t die on that desert rock. H
rrust have made a get away that
night while Lo was raising the hair
off .his comrades.
But the Indians thought they had
him canned and his scalp is stowed
away with the sacred hair. Soon
after (mind you I take this on trust)
a great chunk of the red flint rock
parted from the main mass, slid down
a hundred feet, and there it stands
today, in form like a gigantic monu
ment and in workmanship far ahead
of anything puny sculptures can do.
And when I sized it up, and the his
tory surrounding, I thought it had
Toas and Santa Fee skinned a thou
sand ways in memory of "The Man
Who Blazed the Trail," and that
was content to let Lo and his legend
stand as southwest history. .
Caught in a cold rain, at eating
time, we saw (and smelled) a smoke.
and nearby we found a Navajo ho
gan a house. The brush was wet
and we wanted some wood to boil our
coffee. The Indian readily (by signs)
gave us the cedar wood, arid for an
hour I sat under a blanket and eizcd
up the domestic relations of this wan
derer of the reserve and let it drizzle.
A hogan is about 7x7, only round
It is teepe-shaped. The Big Indian
cuts the longest cedar poles the lo
cality affords; puts the tops together
and shovels the dome dirt over it all
The size of the home depends on the
length of the cedar growth, and the
length of the brush depends on the
oarticular location of the reservation
The squaw does the most of the work.
sometimes a smoke hole is lett at the
peak of the house, but usually it is
more conveniant, and involves less oi
labor, to build the fire outside, giving
the entire interior to parlor, sitting
room, billiard room, kitchen, etc.
There was the buck, squaw, and six
kids, ranging from about two years
to fourteen. When the winter comes
on I wondered where they were all
stowed away but that was their bus
iness. I could not see a thing inside
the hogan but an iron pot or two, a
few robes, saddle, some skins hanging,
and a few odds and ends.
The papooses gathered around and
watched us open the canned goods,
but Mr. and Mrs. Indian, despite the
rain, went a few rods away and sat
it out and any time I thought they
were looking at us, they weren't. The
sqaw was bareheaded (they all are)
and she wore a sort of a jacket, re
sembling a summer shirt-waist. Aside
from this and a blanket she might
have had on much or little, but my
guess was little. A half dozen dogs
growled at us and a mixed bunch of
goats and sheep gathered around, no
doubt smelling the salt of our supper.
We did not ask for all night accomo
dations, but shoved along.
I saw a squaw, probably 50 years
old, trudging along with a keg of
drinking water at her back, while her
lord followed, smoking a cigarette.
The cask held 25 gals., and I know she
had carried it for at least a half doz
en miles, for there was the last wet
place, and where we filled our water
bags. The Mrs. Indian carried the
weight from a band over her fore
head, the cask resting on her back.
Any of you ladies who read this
want to go back to the simple life?
Splendid opportunity down here in Ar
izona to start in.
Nearly every writer of Arizona and
nearly every person who has visited
the territory, will tell you it is a dried
up, barren waste, where it forgot to
rain about Columbus' time, and has
never thought of it since. I have been
down here several times, and never
found any direct evidence on which
to change history.
But I was never here in September
before, and I want to give it out as
real new history that you can get
more variety of climate on a 1913 Sep
tember day than any spot on Uncle
Sam's claim to this ball of mud.
In twenty-four hours I have seen,
and realized the four seasons of the
year, summer, fall, winter arid spring.
Coming out of the shut-in, but
beautiful, Bonita canyon, I thought I
never would get a breath that would
do any good. The sun beat down into
this ravine something awful in its
heat, and we simply looked at each
other and wondered who could stand
it the longest.
And when we came out at the head
a blast of wind and hail struck us
that made us hunt our blankets in two
minutes. Just a handful of clouds to
the north of us, but you could see
the streaks of white hail. It covered
but a small area, but it was the real
change. That night, it had cleared and
the moisture and cooled atmosphere
was all that one could ask balmy
spring to get together. And before
morning there was A killing frost that
made our blankets too thin, and made
us crawl out and light a fire.
As nearly as I can figure it out
commencing with about September 10
it does sometimes ram in some parts
of Arizona, but I can't figure it out
WHY it does or should. Nature must
have forgotten it's schedule? It
doesn't do any good, for the reason
that at this time of year, after ep-
tember, even the glaring, awful heat
of the sun can't offset the high ele
vation, about 14,000 ieit ac Chinn I eo,
and as fast as the mw,im breeds
a mouthful of grass for a g'Kit, a loll
ing frost beats the goit to it.
It doesn't ram when it should in
Arizona. If it did there would be less
snakes and more society, which is true
of another locality you may be able
PHYSICIANS ARE SO
VERY HULL IIC
NOT TRYING TO DICTATE, TRY
ING TO HELP
WANT TO ASSIST THE JUDGE
Amusing Position Taken by One of
the Society's Members
There was a letter in the Enter
prise the other day, regarding the
county health office appointment,
written by Dr. W .C. Schutze, that
was certainly amusing, worse, laugh
able.
One of the laughable paragraphs
reads :
The Clackamas County Medical
Society emphatically disclaims
any intention to dictate to or co
erce the county judge. They are
anxious and willing to aid him in
making a proper selection.
What makes the doctor's letter a
joke is the fact that he himself was
appointed health officer, that he would
not accept the office, and that the
people well know that it was a frame
up to force Judge Anderson to re-an-
point a physician who the state board
of health had removed from office. I
The physicians thought to put Judge
Anderson in a hole. They proposed to
torce him to do what- they wanted
done, to compel him to put back in
office a physician the state board of
health had removed.
Judge Anderson slipped one over on
them. They were taken unawares. It
was a bomb. Now they wish thev
hadn't.
It was a bungling play on the part
of the physicians. Whoever advised
the move should have a lunacy com-
mission look him over. It was a re
sort to force. They would show the
county judge where to head in; they
would show him he MUST do what
they wanted done.
It didn't work.
Judge Anderson appointed Dr. Van-
Brakle, an osteopath, to the position
and a balloon went up.
A dozen physicians do NOT renre-
ent the people of this county.
J. his is a whale of a county, bigger
than some states, and the neonle of
this county lead the state in inde
pendence of thought and action.
What these people want is a health
officer who can get away with the job,
and they don't care a tinker's darn
whether he is a "pill pusher" or a
rub doctor."
Dr. Van Brakle can get away with
the job, if he is given half a chance,
nd the Courier knows the people
want him to have that chance; the
Courier knows that he will make the
best county official we ever had, and
we know that he is. the quality of a
man who will make the medical crowd
go some before he kicks out.
Van Brakle has been in the city only
bout two years, but his untiring work
for a cleaner city and better health
conditions have given him a warm
place in the hearts of the people. He
has built up a splendid practice here
nd has made many warm friends
who are going to stand with him and
help him play the cards the physic
ians dealt him by oversie-ht or short
sight.
All this business seems uettv to
the fellows on the side lines. What
the people want is a health officer
who will see that the health laws are
fully enforced, and they don't care
whether he graduated from a drug
factory or a rub factory. It is not his
duty to doctor them.
Under the circumstances Judge An-
erson did just what he should have
done. State Health Officer Calvin S.
White simply added to his blunders
when he came down from Portland
and took a cue in the play333333
and took a cue in a -game that was
not his to play.
What the doctors should do now is
to let the'matter drop. Health con-
ltions are too vital to play politics
with. Van Brakel is entirely compe-
ent to fill the position. Fighting him
won't do the people any good.
card of thanks.
Neighbors do friendly turns, help
each other out of tight places; every
day a Good Samaritan rubs salve on
someone's wounds, but there is never
a card of thanks.
And then someone is taken sick, and
death follows.' Neighbors willingly as
sist the bereaved family and do all
that they can to make the grief eas
ier, and then follows a card of thanks
signed by pretty nearly every near
relative of the deceased.
It is dona because of a foolish cus
tdm, a heathenish matter of form
and because we do not think about it.
Years ago someone started it, and now
all the rest of us look at it as the
windup of the sad affair, and at once
blossom out in a card of thanks to
neighbors who do only what humanity
calls them to do, and what almost any
man or woman in this country stands
ready to ao, as his or her duty.
It s a foolish, senseless, uncalled-for
custom. This world is full of sympathy
and help for the sick and dying, and
those wno render their assistance
don't ask any thanks.
Let s cut it out.
PROPOSALS
FO
ITER
AND
OUT OF THESE SHOULD
COME SPEEDY RELIEF
BULL RUN OR THE CLACKAMAS
Are the Two Most Favorably Discuss
ed Figures Will Soon be Ready
The Salem Way
The council meeting was closed
Monday night with prayer by Council
man lurner m which he fervently
asked that the eyes of some people
might be opened sufficiently to permit
some light and truth to seep in. Sa
lem Messenger.
Those Who Don't Know
With millions of dollars cominir inti
the Willamette Valley for hops and
prunes, with the growers of these
products receiving prices seldom be
fore otlered, it isn t any wonder that
there is contentment, peace and nros-
perity throughout this greatest and
best of all countries. Who wouldn't
live in the Willamette Valley and be
happy? We guess only those who
don't know anything about it. Salem
Messenger.
Remember
The season is now open for China
pheasants and hunters should remem
Der that no more than five may be
killed in one day, nor more than 10
in any one week. The season is open
only during the month of October for
male China pheasants the hen cannot
be killed.' Also remember that you
are not permitted to kill over one cow,
wound one calf nor break over a doz
en panes of glass in a farmer's house
in one day.
Big Credit to the Women
Everywhere at the Clackamas
County fair the work of the women
was apparent and contributed in no
small degree to the success of the ex
hibits. In the "eDmltmnity exhibits of
Barlow, Mt. Pleasant and New Era
(Warner Grange) the work of the
ladies was staongly in evidence. In the
juvenile department women's influ
ence predominated. In the individual
exhibits and the commercial booths,
the very best were the result ot wo
men's work. In fact, the Clackamas
County fair would have been but a
partial success without its feminine el
ernent. Aurora Observer.
THINK THIS OVER
the
Kit. the first Mason in the southwest.
and out here in the Arizona desert i to think of.
I find another. And I am told there This letter starts and end? at Chinn
are about a dozen more scattered Lee. Next week will tell you some-
Be a Boy Once in a While
There is something in patriotism
that does a man good, and the man
or woman who hasn't experienced that
ntoxication of seeing a favorite horse
stick his nose under the wire first,
is boy cross the tape first in a foot
race or the home team win out in the
nth in a ball game the man who
has never had these goose pimples of
satisfaction run up his spine, has lost
lot of sensations that are his by
ght.
I like to see a man get a little batty
ence in a while. I like to see him yell
is head ott at a ball game, throw his
hat on the ground and stamp on it, if
e feels that way. It brings him out
of himself, makes him forget every
thing in the world but the man at
bat, and he's a boy again.
If I didn't have a hobby I'd culti
vate one and I'd stay with it until it
was a husky growth. The only danger
to guard against is not to allow it to
run away with you.
A MATTER OF FORM
Senseless, Useless, Card of Thanks for
Help in Distress
A farmer driving along with a load
and gets stuck in the mud, a neighbor
hitches on and helps him out.
Why doesn't the farmer publish a
card of thanks?
An automobile goes dead and the
first car that passes helps him out
with repairs.
And the owner never publishes a
thing about that wonderful canyon
where some sort of men lived, died
and passed away before Spain" and
Mr. C. Columbus ever got uneasy.
M. J. Brown.
And the More you Consider it,
More You Will Favor It
. On the ballot at the election Novem
ber 4 will be a proposition for the
voters of this county to vote on the
matter of having a county library in
connection with the Carnegie library
in this city the matter of enlarging
the present library so that every town
may have a branch library if it de
sires, or may have as good library
s rviee as the people in this city.
The proposition is an assessment of
three cents on one hundred dollars.
The average assessment in the county
is less than $1,500, jwwl the average
cost would be 45 culits (per property
owner. . -
The county court wants an express
ion of the people on this catter be
fore it takes action, and the matter
will be put to a vote.
In the judgement of the Courier
this is a means of education at so low
a cost that the voters of this county
cannot afford to turn it down.
' It will give to every farm home the
best encyclopedias, the latcsts tandard
works, theb est fiction, children's
books in short give the farming com
munity just what Oregon City has in
its Carnegie library.
It is just what every farm needs
and what every farm home owes to
the children. Every country school dis
trict can have its delivery station and
send to the library here for what it
wants. Every town can have a branch
public library.
This matter is one the voters of
til is county want to thoroughly think
over. It is too good a proposition to
turn down. It gives the farms all the
library advantages of the city and at
a cost so low that any farm can afford
it. Multnomah, Hood River, Wasco and
Klamath counties have taken up this
same ptoposition and have branch li
braries, and the farmers would not be
without the service.
This matter does not in any way
effect Oregon City. The same tax for
the Carnegie library will be collected.
It is simply offering the people of the
country the use of the library here
at a cost just sufficient to cover the
expense.
Look it over, think it over, and then
see if you can afford to turn it down
at a tax of three cents on a hundred
dollars.
Why Farmers Forbid Hunting
Farmers all over the county are
posting their farms, and sportsmen
are bitterly complaining that after
they pay for their licenses they have
no place to hunt.
The farmers say they are posting
their farms for protection to stock,
that the reckless shooters can see
nothing ahead of the gun but the
China pheasant, and that they are as
liable to kill farm stock as birds.
A farmer was in the office this
week and stated that a valuable calf
had been killed, and on being opened
seven shot were found.
Under these conditions you cannot
blame the farmers for posting their
farms.
Oregon City is going to have pure
water this much seems to be pretty
thoroughly determined upon.
But from just what source seems
to be very much up in the air at
present.
Doubtless there will be four prop
osition put up to the people in some
form Bull Hun, the south fork of
the Clackamas, the Englebrecht wells,
and the Canby gravels.
The first two propositions are the
main topics of discussion in the city,
and there are many strong supporters
ot both. Which will be accepted is a
matter ot speculation.
Last week the proposition of city
going to the south fork of the Clack-
amas and having a direct service from
this mountain headwater, took active
and aggressive form. Many prominent
business men favored the project from
the start, and contributions ranging
irom $10 to $100 were quickly pledged
to raise a fund of $1,000 for the pre
liminary work. The proposition is for
the city to acquire this water source,
which is out in the mountains about
25 mies from the city, is unquestion
ably all that Bull Run is in purity,
and is unlimited in its volume.
The P. R. L. & P. Co. has tendered
the committee the services of their
engineer, 11. A. Rands, for thirty days
and will pay one half of his salary.
Mr. Kands will start on the survey
at once, and it is thought that in
thirty days he will have completed
his work, and will be able to give to
the people a very careful estimate of
the entire cost of the undertaking. It
is variously estimated that the work
will cost from $150,000 to $200,000,
but these estimates are little less than
guesses and will be until Mr. Rands
completes his work- and submits his
report, lhon it will be down to brass
tacks.
Then it' is proposed to place the
proposition to a vote of the people
through the initiative, and let them
pass on it.
The Pure Water Association behind
it emphatically state that this move
is not in any munner a knock against
the Bull Run proposition, but is sim
ply a proposition to be put up to the
people with it and left to them to
decide.
They argue that the city must have
pure water, and that the right way
to get it is to do as Portland has done;
to build for the future and to be pos
itively certain of an inexhaustible
supply for all time to-come.
While there is absolutely no ques
tion but that the Bull Run supply is
us pure water as can be had anywhere
an earth, yet they claim it would be
hazardous to spend lurge sums of
money to pipe here from Bull Run,
with the possibility of being cut off
at the end of ten years with nothing
to show for the expense but a dead
pipe line.
The men composing the association
are Dr. L. A. Morris, president; E. P.
Rands, secretary; M. D. Latourette,
treasurer; W. A. Dimick, press agent.
The executive committee is the above
officers, Don Meldrum and B. T. Mc
Bain. The Bull Run proposition is one that
has been worked on many weeks, and
in the course of a few days the facts
and figures, the cost of the pipe line
and the cost of the water will be made
public.
The only fact definitely known is
that this city can have the water,
chat the Portland officials have made
this certain.
It is estimated that this undertaking
will cost about $50,000, but until the
committee gives out the official re
port these figures are pure guess
work.
Supporters of the Bull Run system
contend that the fear of the service
being cut off at the end of ten years
are utterly groundless; that Portland
has enough water at command to
supply a city as big as New York and
that Portland is only too glad to sell
a part of its surplus.
It is argued that this system will
save the city at least $150,000 and
will be all and more than would be
the water from the Clackamas, and
would give Oregon City advertising
equal to Portland for Bull Run
water is famous.
The proposition of the Englebrecht
wells, just north of the city, would
cost, it is estimated, about $20,000.
This water would of course have to
be pumped, as would also the Bull
Run supply. Many ho Id that these
wells are as good water as can be ob
tained anywhere, while many claim,
and the stand is supported by htate
Officer White, that no well in the
Willamette Valley would be safe from
pollution..
The fourth proposition is the Lanby
gravels source. This is a franchise
proposition and would not cost the
city a cent. That the water is pure
there is little doubt, and it was one
of the sources recommended by En-
t-- mi. i : A
gineer uieK. l ne arguments against,
this is that the supply would not be
equal to the growth of the city.
West Linn, across the river, is very
much interested in the water proposit
ion. That city has repeatedly failed
to find water .Several wells have been
drilled without sufficient supply, and
that city is in the same position as
Oregon City.
ft is reported that Portland will
only give Oregon City the Bull Run
supply, and will not permit the city
to sell or supply any other city. This
would leave the west side In a bad
hole, for it would only have the Wil-
lamette river for a. supply, and with
mm itun m uregon Uty it would ma
ttrialally retard the growth of the
new city over the river.
Hence West Linn will be only too
glad to co-operate with Oregon City
in me wacKamas project, and be sup
pneu irom me same source.
uniu tne several projects are
brought down to facts and figures, the
masses .are not going to take any
definite stands.
But certain it is that out of these
different projects will come a source
ot pure water and that is what Ore
gon City needs the most of anything
on eartn.
All over the state our city is ad
vertised as a typhoid hole. It has done
no end of damage. It has retarded
growth, scared people away.
The city must get the hoodo off, and
the sooner the better.
We will soon have some of these
propositions to face. The thing to do
is to select tne Dest, walk into it and
advertise to the country that Oregon
city nas tne best water m Uregon.
inow, up at Salem, they have signs
posted "Pull the string, Oregon City
vvants a drink.
THE GLADSTONE WAY
Along Many Lines it has Oregon City
Left at the Quarter Pole
Our little neighbor, Gladstone, haa
a minimum rate of 50c for electric
lighting in the summer months, while
our city with several times its
population lays down one dollar for
the same service from the same com
pany. The reason is that Gladstone fights.
The people there won't stand the gaff,
it took them two years to win, but
they won, and now they lay down one
dollar where we lay two, and they
laugh at us as Easy Marks.
The street improvement work costs
Gladstone just about one third what
it costs this crty, for the reason the
city owns its own gravel beds, its
own road maKing machinery and they
get tne woric at actual cost.
Oregon City lets its work to con
tractors, and pays them a big profit
over uiaastone s cost.
And by the way that little city,
Gladstone, has pointed a moral for
many a valley town. The council and
the city fight the common enemy, and
ngni. naru, out tney pun together and
work together among themselves
l'hey are progressive and have a beau
tiful faith in the future of Gladstone,
yet at the same time they work care
fully, do things moderately and build
as tney grow.
And this kind of an administration
wins and the fast growing city
allows how well it wins.
And Oregon City might do well to
follow Gladstone along many lines;
with profit.
JU
ACQUITS
11
in
AFTER SEVERAL HOURS' DELIB
ERATION IS TURNED FREE
INDICTED FOR SHOOTING BOY
Defense was that he Shot to Puncture
Tire and Not to Wound
Two Local Propositions
On the ballot November 4 will be
two city propositions for the corpor
ation to pass on, one for the city to
purchase 4 and a half acres of the
Englebrecht property, just north of
the city, for public purposes, and the
other that hereafter city bonds shall
be in denominations not greater than
$50.
Both amendments were submitted
to the council by Councilman Tooze.
The Englebrecht property, Mr. Tooze
thinks, would be a good investment
for the city, that it would always af
ford a future water source in case of
emergency, and that the property
could be used for several purposes to
che city's advantage.
The purpose of the small denomina
tions of city bonds is to put them
within reach of the people, rather than
to have them purchased by eastern
concerns and the interest go out of
the state. This is a good amendment,
and there will be absolutely no doubt
as to its being carried.
William Mumpower of Stone, was
acquitted by the jury in Judge Camp
bell s court at Midnight Tuesday, and
ne is a free man.
In July last Mumpower. acting as
a deputy sheriff, shot and wounded
barl McJNaughton, who was motor
cycling along the river. McNaughton
nad snot and killed a farmer's dog.
The farmer, appealed to the deputy
to arrest the boy. Mumpower follow
ed in his auto and overtook the boys.
and while under arrest McNaughton
jumped on his motor and attempted
to escape. Mumpower fired two or
three shots at him, two taking effect.
Judge Campbell charced the iurv
than an officer was accountable for
the results of his acts, and that his
intent must be judged by the results
of his acts; that an officer had a right
io use the degree ot force necessary
to make an arrest and no more.
The jury evidently looked at the
matter in the light of the defense,
chat the officer did not shoot to kill
or wound, but that he was shooting
to puncture the motor tire and scare
the boy to stop.
Gordon E. Hayes and George C.
Brownell were attorneys for the de
fendant, while Livy Stipp appeared as
prosecuting attorney.
TIME TO END SCRAPS
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Tell the Courier Readers and Help us
Make it a Hummer
The Courier has doubled its circu
lation in the last year and a half, and
one of the reasons for its popularity
was because of the many interesting
letters, on a variety of subjects, writ
ten by its subscribers.
Now that the farm work is about
done, and the rainy season due, we
want our subscribers to get in the
game again.
We want letters and opinions on any
subject. These different views make
us all think and they make the col
umns of a newspaper interesting.
As we have said many times before,
it doesn't matter whether or not you
spell every word correctly or get in
the proper punctuation marks. It is
the ideas we want we will fix the
rest.
If you have a pet hobby, a new idea
let us see what the other fellows
think of it.
The long winter evenings are com
ing, and we want to make a Courier
that will keep you awake nights.
Help us do it.
A Punctuation Mark in Texas
Houston and Galveston are rival
cities, and the newspapers never miss
a chance to throw the harpoon. Re
cently a Houston family moved to
Galveston, and the Chronicle stated
that the little girl got on her knees
and said: "Good bye God, we're going
to Galveston."
The editor of the Galveston paper
said that he hadn't an idea but that
the child had said that alright, but
that he failed to punctuate it right. He
said it should be punctuated like this:
"Good! By God! We're going to Galveston."
Made in Oregon
Out of a box of apples in the Hub
grocery the other day a man picked
out three which weighed 2 and three
fourths pounds. And it is pleasing to
note that the farmers of this county
are getting the Hood River habit, and
giving the fruit more attention and
the quality and size of apples are
much improving.
The time is short to register, for
the November elections.
Oregon City has Had Hwo Years of it,
Now Let's Quit a Spell
What the outcome of the scrap be
tween the city council and the water
commissioners on the public elevator
will be, we don't know.
But we DO know there should not
have been the fight.
We know Oregon City has had a
ring staged and a mill going of some
kind continuously for two years.
It doesn't pay. Other cities aret
along without these constant wrangles
and other cities get along faster than
uregon jity.
Continue these fights and thev be
come almost feuds, and when the
sores get real deep and smarting, then
tney won t heal.
1 actions line up with the boss smar-
ters, and then let anything come up, -no
matter how much needed .and the
other side will line up and try to kill
it, for no other reason than that a
rival faction was for it.
lhis city is getting in bad. No mat
ter what comes up, a scrap is sure
to result. The elevator matter, citv
council proceedings, the water works
question almost any and every,
thing proposed, starts something.
I'or the city's good these fights
should be stopped. There is a way to
get around the elevator matter; there
is a way for the council and the com
missioners to get together, and there
is a way for the different clans to
quit throwing the hook in and all get
in the game for a bigger city.
If the boys of these men had as
much trouble with their playmates,
the fathers would spank them and
make them shake hands with each
other.
If there was less scrap and a little
more patriotism in our office holders
this city would go ahead faster.
The people voted for the elevator
almost a year ago. It was carried by
a big majority. They should have it.
Cut out the fighting and it would go
ahead smoothly, for none of the ob
stacles are serious.
And remember, the people will
stand a heap before they move, but
once aroused, they do things.
Let's call it a draw, shake hands
and saw wood.
Bust a Bank, Kill a Town
Sum folkes don't think nuspapers
amount tu mutch. But ef they took a
noshun any nuspaper cud bust a bank
in a month ef they set out tu. If th'
nuspapers uv Newark shud both quit,
this town would drop out uv site in
less'n a yere. That's what nuspapers
amount tu in a town, but sumtimes
folks don't all think so. Jedekiah in
Newark Union Gazette.
Picturesque and Sightly
Mayor Jones is remodeling and re
building the home he recently pur
chased on the bluff at the end of
Sixth street, and when it is completed
it will be one of the most picturesque
and sightly residences of the city.
EQUITY COUNTY UNION
Quarterly Meeting will be Held at
Colton Saturday, October 11
The Quarterly meeting of the Coun
ty Union of the Farmers' Society of
Equity will be held with the Colton
Local at Colton, Or., Saturday Oct.
the 11th at 10 A. M.
S. L. Casto,
Pre3,
A Splendid Showing
We understand the County fair
cleared about $2300 this year, above
all expenses, and this velvet will go
for new building and improvements.
With such a showing for a few years
this fair could be made almost a rival
of the state fair.
Notice
Hereafter the Courier will be mail
ed Thursday noon instead of Thurs
day morning, one half day later.
If you want to vote November 4,
you must register.