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OREGON
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31st YEAR
OREGON CITY; ORE., THURSDAY, OCT. 23, 1313.
No. 22
A VILLAGE OF AN
UNKNOWN PEOPLE
A MONUMENT OR ANTIQUITY IN
THE ARIZONA DESERT
MONTEZUMA'S GREAT CASTLE
Crumbling Ruins of a Forgotten
People and a Wonderful Civilization
All over Arizona are . what is left
of ancient ruins. Some have been ex
cavated and throw much light on an
cient America. Many, probably hun
dreds of them, have never been uncov
ered.
In Central Arizona, through the cow
country, very often will be found a
mound of earth, a large mound. If
thi? Koil is free from stones or large
lucks it is a safe bet it is an ancient
ruin, a former home of the Aztecs or
any old antiquity you care to guess.
A ranchman snowed me a hill near
his ranch house which he said he
was positive covered a remarkable
ruin, from the fact it was similar in
every way with mounds the Smith
sonian people had excavated in dif
ferent parts of the state, only much
larger. He said he had long wondered
why this mound had not been, examin
ed. The hill Was like hundreds of
mounds you will see everywhere, and
it was covered with live oak scrub
trees that had grown there for many
years. There was no rock, just dry
earth, and the rancher said "Some
day" the boys would dig into it, for
pottery and relics. He had lived there
19 years, waiting for the favorable
some day.
But these speculative ruins are
not what I am going to write of. I
am going to tell you of one of the
most wonderful Visible ruins in Amer
ica today most wonderful excepting
the Puye cliff dwellers' ruins,
v I have never been very much in
terested in the excavated communial
ruins, for the reasons that there was
so little to see, and so much to imagine
and then I have always had the opin
ion these "came after" the cave house
and cliff dwellers were more modern
as it were, in ancient days.
But I heard so much about the great
ruin near Florence, and the scattered
ruins around it, that I put the cliff
people in the attic, and went to see
this prehistoric locality.
It goes by a half dozen names, but
the two that seem to stick tightest
are Montezuma's Castle and Casa
Grande. And there are as many le
gends and stories concerning it as
there are names. Anyone can spring
one and it has got to go for there is no
way to disprove it. The great walls
are standing there today, slowly
crumbling. They have stood there
hundreds of years. None know who
built them nor when they were built,
and none will ever know oositively.
There it stands out in the Arizona
sunshine today. Its great walls are
now roofless and in places have fall
en, leaving great holes. It is a monu
ment of antiquity for we who have
come after, to guess about.
The building proper is about 60
x 100 feet, but the excavated walls,
small buildings, in i connection with
this "castle" cover much ground, and
for years were covered and hidden by
mesquite trees, sage brush and
great cacti.
The walls of this once great build
ing were, I judged, fully seven feet
through, made of 'dobie mud mixed
with some sort of mortar, and those
walls are far older than United States
history.
The inside of these walls were fin
ished almost as smooth as a plaster
ed wall, and there are places where
the polish yet is almost as good as
the day it was laid.
Once the building was four stories
high, so it was said, and the piles of
crumbled dirt bear this out, but now
the highest points of the ancient
walls are not more than three stories,
and the roof and its beams have long
fallen and rotted. It is cut into rooms
and halls by partitions, which are
about four feet thick, and it is
claimed that the great building once
had wooden stairways and ceilings,
but that hundreds of years ago the
Apaches set fire to the interior.
This castle was the big central
building of a community of homes,
the entire village being surrounded by
a wall. Inside were many small build
ings, subteranean rooms, ceremonial
rooms, burial places, courts, plazas,
terraces and much that shows this
ancient ruin was occupied by a civiliz
ed people. There are the outlines of
irrigation ditches from the Gila river,
there are plans of drainage for sewer
age,, and the excavated pottery shows
the inhabitants of this city were not
the Indians.
The entire ruins as inclosed by the
wall were as nearly as I could place
them about 250x450 feet, and there is
every evidence that it was densely
populated.
Five years ago Congress made an ap
propriation for the excavation of this
inclosure and for part of two years
men and teams worked taking out the
dirt and exposing the wall around the
whole village and the walls . of the
many smaller buildings around the
great ruin. I had no doubt the Inter
ior Department has detailed descript
ions and official guesses on this place,
but I would rather take the lengends
and little scraps of history handed
down to those who have lived in this
vicinity for many years. It is eo
much more interesting than a govern
ment circular. About half of the en
closure has not been excavated.
It is however reliable history that
this ruin was first seen by Spanish
priests in 1694 and it was a ruin
then and its legends, told me that it
was undoubtedly at least 900 years
old.
The question who built this city is
a question that probably will never be
answered, for the answer was lost long
before a white man ever saw America.
It was doubtless occupied for hun
dreds of years and then abandoned.
Some of the old fellows will tell
you it was built by the Aztecs. Again
others claim that Montezuma was the
founder, and that his spirit lives there
today. The superstitious Mexicans and
Indians fully believe this fairy tale;
think the place is haunted, and many
of them could not be induced to enter
the grounds. It is said the Mexican's
cross themselves whenever they pass
near the ruins.
Over in one corner of the ruins a
man showed me where some skeletons
were found and he said the bones were
in a fairly good state of preservation.
and he judged from that the ruins
could not be anywhere near 1000 yews
old as many claim. But to me this
was no argument, for the drv and
petrifying air of this locality, and the
earth which seldom sees rain, help to
preserve everything and prevent de
cay. But for these conditions the great
earth walls of the castle would have
long since have been but a mound of
earth. '
Some beautiful specimens of pot
tery, vases and other ornamental
pieces have been excavated, proving
that the ancient inhabitants were not
only civilized but cultured.
This ruin differs in many particu
lars from the scores of other ruins
that have been partially excavated in
Arizona, and it is said there has never
been a piece of pottery, implements
or shells found at the castle that in
any manner correspond to other like
relics in ruins less than 100 miles dis
tant. Whether this ruin was older,
younger or of a distinctly different
people, we can only guess.
After I had returned to town, an
old man, I would judge 70 years old,
stopped me on the street and asked
me , if I was interested in ruins and
relics. I answered that I had a weak
spot for these antiquities. The old fel
low looked me over, said he was sick
and that if I had the price of two
ginger ale highballs, he would tell me
something that would be worth more
to me than the two-bits.
I fell for it. I thought his story
might be worth the quarter. We went
to the rear room of a saloon. He or
dered two cocktails a big glass of
whiskey with the same quantity of
ginger ale, and after he had put them
both under his belt, he warmed up,
got strictly confidential, and told me
the following story and hitched on a
proposition.
He said he had long been a hunter,
prospector and trapper in Arizona,
and knew most of the country and
ruins; that four years ago he was
trapping about 20 miles from there,
along the Gila river; a Mexican who
lived in a hut near his tent died,- and
that he and another white man, a
prospector, buried him.
He said they dug a grave at the
foot of a mound, when the pick
brought to light the rub stone that
goes with a matette, and digging fur
ther he found the companion stone.
(The matette stones were the an
cient methods of grinding corn into
meal.)
He said they buried the Greaser, and
both knew the mound was an ancient
home, where the walls had fallen in,
Vegitation had grown over it, and to
all appearances it was simply a prairie
hill. They talked it over and decided
they would wait until the Mexican had
partly rotted, then they would ex
cavate and get the relics, pottery etc.,
but that the prospector soon left for
Texas, and that the mound had never
been opened.
The old man made me this proposal:
I should hire a camp outfit, furnish
the chuck and a team to take us out
and come after us a week later. We
would excavate the mound and go
halves on what was found.
It was a plausable story and I have
no doubt was true, for later inquiries
established the old man's honesty, but
I knew from the mounds that I had
seen that it would take from six weeks
to three months for two or three men
to open up a ruin with any care, and
as I sized up the old trapper I realiz
ed Brown would be the whole thing
in the shovel gang, and that I could
never get away with the job within
the time limits of the trip, and so I
bought him one more and turned down
the alluring proposition.
And what established the truth of
the old man's story, was his flat re
fusal to a counter proposition that I
made that I would pay for the rig and
give him $7 for his day's work if he
would show me the mound and the
grave. I thought I would locate it
and perhap next year come back.
The old man remarked that if I was
afraid to dig open new graves, he
would commence work on the opposite
side of the mound and not disturb the
Mexican.
For miles and miles 8 round this
part of Arizona the country is cover
ed with outlines of fallen ruins, walls
and ditchess, and fragments of pottery
can almost be kicked up.
Once this section was densely pop
ulated, in fact in ancient times the
whole southwest was populated.
And why (the question is so often
asked) did these hundreds of thou
sands of people live in this barren,
waterless land, when to the east and to
the west were verdant lands and
plenty of rainfall and game.
The wise man of today will tell you
there have been great climatic chan
ges in the strange old southwest, and
that in the unknown age when these
people lived here the country had
rains and many running streams.
I was formerly one of the wise
geeks, and have often advanced this
theory, but when I saw the outlines
of a great reservoir at the cliff dwell
ers' ruins in the Santa Clara Valley,
the old irrigating ditches at Casa
Grande, and many other evidences of
the fight for water of the prehistoric
people, I have considerably changed
my mind, and have half concluded
these first unknown Americans lived
in that desert country because they
liked it, as the Arabs like the desert,
and perhaps some of the reasons were
they did not have to often shingle
their house nor wear rubbers when
they went to the meat market.
Zuni, a communial pueblo in the
southwest corner of New Mexico,
which is and has been inhabited for
about 900 years, is in a barren prairie
E
TO EIGHTH ST.
MOVEMENT ON FOOT TO STOP
FURTHER TROUBLE
EXPENSE LESS, NO LITIGATION
Change of Posloflice Makes this Log
ical Location for Elevator
A movement was started in this
city this week looking toward a solu
tion of the elevator proposition, with
out injunctions, condemnation of prop
erty, litigation or any added expense
to the city.
Briefly the proposition is this:
A petition will be circulated for
signatures asking that the elevator
be erected at Eighth street instead of
Seventh. If a substantial backing of
the people is secured, and it is claim
ed by those back of the project that
there will be little trouble to get a
large petition, the same will be pre
sented to the city council, and argu
ments galore will be presented with
it.
This movement is the outgrowth of
dissatisfied people, who voted for the
elevator, who have waited for nearly
a year for it, and who see in the re
cent injunction proceedings, and cer
tain ones to block the erection of the
elevator, no end of delays, litigation
and costs to the city.
It is stated that if the elevator
would be changed to Eighth street it
could there be erected entirely on the
city's property; that the promised li
tigation with Mrs. Chase would be
avoided and no landing property
would have to be purchased.
It is proposed to have the derrick
elevator at the end of Eighth street
close to the track, and the landing
just west of the fire alarm house,
near the fir tree.
This would make the overhead span
a little longer than the proposed span
on Seventh street, but the elevation
would not be so high, and the expense
of the elevator alone about the same.
but there would not be any property to
purchase, no delay over condemnation
proceedings, no costly legal expense
and the city would be as well served.
. One other argument advanced for
the location on Eighth street is that
with the erection of the new postoffice
building opposite the court house, the
hundreds of workers in the mills, as
well as the business men and women,
will nearly all go to the postoffice as
they leave their work at night, and
that this location would accomodate
more people than it would at the pres
ent location, and as it is the tendancy
of the city to grow north, this location
would be much better for present and
future accomodation than the present
site.
It is also proposed, should the coun
cil look favorable toward the change,
to offer to reimburse the city for the
expense it has been to in putting in
the present foundation, the amount to
be raised by subscriptions.
This proposed movement was start
ed this week, and there are some men
behind it, who if they decide to go
ahead with it, will certainly start
something.
There are hundreds of people in this
city who are simply disgusted with
the repeated delays and holdups on
this matter, and they see two or three
yea'rs more to wait and no end of ex
pense, as the outgrowth of the dif
ficulties arising over the Mrs. Chase
property. There is every probability
that it will go to the supreme court,
rind little probability of getting an
elevaor on Seventh street for many.
months, and perhaps yoars to come.
The proposition looks good as a
way out of trouble.
Nearly Ready at Ogle Mine
The coming annual meeting of the
Ogle Mining Co., November 3, will
probably fill Knapp's hall with stock
holders, for the big cyanide plant will
have been completed at this time and
the mine about ready to start opera
tion. Boys in from the mine state that
all the machinery for the cyanide
plant is at the mine, and that it will
soon be ready for operation. It has
been a big undertaking to get this
heavy machinery into the mountains
over the rough roads, but it has been
done, without any serious mishaps,
and now the company is finishing up
the work and getting in the winter
supplies for remember they have
winter at Ogle mine, with heavy snow
fall. It is but a question of weeks now
before the plant will be In operation
and the developement of the mine
commence, and if the faith of the
Fairclough boys i3 anywhere near
justified, Ogle mine will be some
mine, and that old mountain will
give up the gold in it.
country where rain seldom falls. Bnt
the Zuni's think it is a regular alfalfa
life and that their city marks the
center of the world.
The barren ranges of Arizona and
New Mexico are covered with ancient
history we cannot read. Their canyons
show the homes of the lowest types of
human beings (cave homes) and their
prairies show ruins of walled villages
that men of high civilization erected.
And it seems too bad that all his
tory and trace of these people should
have been lost And it seems too bad
that the walls of the great castle at
Casa Grande should be left out there
to crumble, fall over and be forgotten.
The rains are fast undermining these
thick walls, and it is but a question
of a few years when they will fall
over and become like other myster
ious hills that cover portions of the
weird old southwest.
M. J. Brown.
CHANG
ELEVATOR
Catching 'Em Some
Smyley Lovelace is the champion
fisherman of late. It is said that he
went to the river near town one morn
ing last week and caught 17 nice sev
en pounders. Going again in the after
noon he got another basket full. Mo-
lalla Pioneer.
Short Change
An Oregon City man may board a
P. Ry. L. & P. Co car at Lents and
ride to St. Johns, a little over 19
miles for 5 cents.
An Oregon City man boards a car
here, rides to Portland, a distance of
12 or 13 miles and pays 20 cents.
Molalla Will Vote December 22
Molalla has called its special elec
tion for Monday, December 22 to vote
on the adoption of a charter, after
which she will take her place among
the corporations of Oregon as about
the latest and very much the liveliest.
Molalla has everything to make a
booming little city, and plenty more
cpming.
Notice of Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Ogle Mountain Mining
Co., will be held at Knapp's Hall, Ore
gon City, Monday, November 3 at 1:30
P. M., for the purpose of electing of
ficers and directors, and for the trans
action of any other business that'may
come before it. All stockholders are
urged to be present.
THINK ON THIS MATTER
Look at it in the Light of a Purchase
Instead of a Tax
A voter was in the Courier office
the other day talking over the county
library matter, and he was inclined
to vote against it on the ground of
higher taxation.
The argument we made to this far
mer is the one we want to make to
all you farmers.
Une must not make a nightmare of
taxation. It should not be dreaded to
the extent of depriving a family of
what it should have, what it needs.
The county library proposition will
tax property owners 15 cents onv one
hundred dollars worth of property.
The average assessment in this
county is $1500, and the average as
sessment in this county for the fam
ilies of this county would be 45c ents
per year no more, no leess.
Now if a private library concern
was to canvass the county and pre
sent a proposition whereby each fam
ily could have access to an establish
ed library, where each farm home
could have the latest books, encyclo
pedias, books of reference, magazines,
etc., and havejehhid that proposition
a guarantee that the library would be
under the control of the county court,
and that you could have this service
for 45 cents a year what would you
do?
You would be afraid the people of
fering it would change their minds
before you could sign the contract.
You would jump at it at double the
price. If it cost three times 45 cents
you would snap it up.
Now just because this proposition
comes at you in the form of taxation,
don't shy at it.
Eggs are worth four cents apiece,
but you eat them. Skip a dozen and
your family would be provided with
all they could read for a year, and
would get the education that goes
with it.
There is no object behind this mat
ter other than to give the country
what Oregon City has and give it to
them at less expense.
The men and women working for
this library are doing it for the com
mon good. The country people should
appreciate this and should help it
along.
They will wait long for a similar
opportunity. A county library service
for 45 cents per year should not be
turned down by any man or woman
who read or who has children.
It should be carried, and carried big.
312 Yes will carry it, if the country
will vote it.
.Church Men in Banquet
The Congregational Brotherhood
held its first meeting of the year in
the banquet hall of the church Tues
day evening and a large number of
men attended. President C. J. iSush
nell, of Pacific University, was the
main speaker of the evening and he
spoke on the "Church and Social Prob
lem" after which a general discussion
of the subject was had by the men
present, eight or ten taking part.
The death of M. J. Lazelle was re
ferred to and a committee appointed
to draft resolutions of condolence on
his untimely death.
Messrs. JMetchner, woodfin ana
Peckover furnished the music for the
evening.
The banquet was In charge of Mrs.
Latourette and Mrs. Walker.
Hallowe'en Masquerade
Friday night of next week. Octo
ber 31, there will be a big masquer
ade ball at Busch's hall, to which all
are invited. Baker's full orchestra of
Portland will be Dresent. and a bier
ciowd is expected. Prizes will be given
for lady and gentlemen wearing neat
est costume, and lady and gentleman
wearing most comical costume. The
bill is $1 for gentlemen, ladies with
masks free 25c.
. The Right Soluton
All over the city largo patches of
cement walks are being laid. This
is the only way to settle the sidewalk
matter. It settles it right, and is
far cheaper in the long run.
WonHI WOMEN
it aiiicui
and Girls
(over 18 years of age)
To operate SEWING Machines
in garment factory'
Oregon City Woolen Mills
SI
AS SIDELINE
WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM
SUCH MANAGEMENT?
STAATS SHOWS WEAK SPOTS
And Argues for a Business Manager
as .the Only Remedy
Editor Courier:
We givo a hearty second to your
motion for a' business manager for
Oregon City.
The city has an assessed valuation
of about $3,000,000 and derives a re
venue of approximately $30,000 each
year.
The income from water rentals
amounts to something like $17,000
yearly.
Property owners tributary to streets
being improved Xire assessed from
$15,000 to $18,000 per year for these
improvements, the amount vanng in
proportion to improvement done.
This gives the city an annual in
come of about $60,000 and we have
the nerve to elect a mayor and city
council without pay and ask and ex
pect them to expend this money ju
diciously and be able to show results,
and if they don't do according to our
idea, there isn't anything too mean
to say about them. The whole system
is wrong. We cannot expect men who
have a business of their own, to neg
lect that business and devote their
time to the welfare of the general pub
lic without a just compensation. Any
private individual or corporation who
has a business, the income from whioh
amounts to $60,000 a year, will give
his undivided attention to that busi
ness or place a competent man li
charge to look after his investments.
Jivery dollar paid into the citv
treasury is contributed by the citi
zens for the express purpose of being
invested in such a manner as will ben
efit the city as a whole, in making
better streets, sewerage, water, light
ing, parks, etc., and the citizen pay
ing the bill has a perfect right to de
mand, and expect to get, the full val
ue of his money.
But hec annot do this unless an ar
rangement is made whereby someone
is responsible for the manner m which
the money is invested, and -no sane
man, who is honest, is crows1 to make
himself responsible for the proper ex
penditure of $60,000 a year without
giving his undivided attention to that
particular work.
A competent manaeer. such as could
be secured for $2500 a year, could
save the city four times his salary, or
save enough in one year to nav for all
the machinery necessary to grade and
pave all of the streets in Oregon City.
ii me eauor aoes not consign this
to the waste basket I will trv and
give some definite, examples next
week, where this saving could have
been made the past year.
J. O. Staats
For Sale 2 inch wacon. team
plow, No. 2 Iowa dairy separator.
Call for information 802 Washington
St
AN EXPENSIVE LESSON
Dr. Mount Undertaking to Teach
Portland Man Auto Road Laws.
There is one auto owner in Port
land who doubtless has a litte re
gard for the road laws, and when Dr.
Hugh Mount gets through with him
seo.ooa oil
ES
Red Letter Day !
10 SMK Stamps Free
TO ALL CALLERS
and
DOUBLE STAMP
ON
All
JvIaSQNIC temple bldg.
he probably will have a lot more.
Dr. Mount was responding to &
special call to Clackamas, and when
between this city and Parkplace he
nice a car driven by Jj . L. JJel
schneider, who the doctor asserts
would not give half the road, and the
machines collided.
Dr. Mount stated that although his
machine was badly damaged, had the
owner of the other car acknowledged
his tault and been anywhere near de.
cent and courteous, he would have let
the matter go, but he says the Port
land man was most abusive, and he
thought perhaps a lesson might do
him some good.
He was arrested in Portland and
brought here and the case was tried
before Justice Sievers Tuesday. The
court went to the scene of the accident
loked over the road and auto tracts
and after listening to witnesses fined
the Portland man $25 and costs.
Immediately after the trial Dr.
Mount brought a civil action in the
circuit court for $400 damages to his
car.
Whatever the outcome, it is a safe
bet that auto driver will give a good
half of the road in this county for
some time to come.
CLEAR FIELD FOR JONES
Will Probably Have No Opposition.
Staats, Andrews and Renner for
Council
There has been the usual-before el
ection political gossip of a half dozen
candidates for mayor, Jones, Adams,
Staats, Scheubel, Dye, Tooze, et. al,,
but the gossip alone had to do with it
and the most of "those mentioned"
knew nothing of the mentioning, and
and one after another, when inter
viewed, declined to make the run,
and Mayor Jones will undoubtedly
have a clear field for re-election.
L. Adams, who has been urged to
run -for mayor by a great many of
his friends, has declined, as on account
of his large business he could not
give the office the necessary time.
Mr. Adams feels that Mayor Jones
is entitled to a second term, especially
as he has given representatives of
"The Committee of 100" the assur
ance that he will see that the law
is enforced when the city goes dry.
The general sentiment seems to be
that when a mayor has made good he
should at least be given a second term
for the purely business reason that
it takes many months to thoroughly
understand the city and its business,
and it is poor policy to put a new man
in the work, have him learn it all,
and then be retired in turn. A good
man should be kept on any city job
so long as he makes good.
As to city councilmen there will
doubtless be some changes. In ward
1, petitions are at for J. O. Staats.
He will have a big voting support and
will be a strong man on the council.
' J. D. Renner in ward 2, and E. B.
Andrews in ward 3, have petitions be
ing circulated for them. Both are able
men and would work for the city's
best good. All three candidates stand
high in their wards , and the "dry"
fighters are working for their elec
tion. The retiring councilmen are Hol
man, Horton and Hall.
Next Friday, Watch Out.
Next Friday night is Hallowe'en.
Anything that is not nailed down had
better be taken inside.
Attention Moose Members
The Loyal Order of Moose will
meet at the Moose hall 6th and Main
Street Friday evening at 7:30 to form
in line on Main street, to be led by
G. A. R. drum corps to take part in
the parade for the benefit entertain
ment to be given for Mrs. Anna Sny
der, the blind woman.
For Sale for week only several
counter show cases. Enquire at Lents
next door to Postoffice.
ATURDAY
is
ALL PURCHASES
Day Saturday
EEll5iygB
IS
BUT REFUSES TO QUIT THE
WATER WORKS JOB
NO END OF TROUBLE COMING
Waterworks Plant Barricaded , and
Board Defies City Council
Now for scraps, lots of them, bitter
and long to be carried on.
The Portland Journal some time ago
stated Oregon City could be depend
ed on to have something going all the
time.
The Journal is right.
Wednesday night the city council
removed the entire water board.
Thursday morning the water board
refused to be removed.
They defy the city council, and state
if any committee tries to enter the
water plant they will be thrown out.
The council removed tho board for
the reason it has refused to obey the
orders to furnish water for the public
elevator.
The water board says refusal is not
grounds for firing, and they won't
be fired.
This in brief is the second round of
the fight, and the referee calls it an
even break.
How the next round will terminate
is guesswork, but it is certain that
Marquis of Queensbury rules will not
govern, and they will "go" as long as
they can stand.
And doesn't it make you a disciple
to commission government?
Don't you think it about time we
had a manager to manage business,
instead of men to stage fights?
Now will come litigation, heavy
costs, bad blood, ill feeling.
It will work into our water propo
sitions and other public welfare mat
ters. We will scrap, pay the freight,
drag along and many of our people
move to Gladstone.
And the people who can rule, who
have have the power to stop this Lad
scrap, will sit by and pay the freight.
There is a brilliant opportunity for
a leader in this city just now.
Is he here, and has he the kidney to
kick in? -
BE A GOOD FELLOW
Help the Widow and Kiddies, Help the
Moose Order ' in this Fine Work
The benefit entertainment to be
tendered to Mrs. Anna Snyder at the
Boll Theatre Friday evening, October
24, under the supervision of the Or
der of Moose, promises to be a most
successful affair, and is deserving of
the patronage of the public. Mrs. Sny
der is a well known Oregon City wo
man who is totally blind, having re
cently lost her sight, and is striving
to support herself and two small
daughters. With the small funds left
her last year she was able to attend
the blind school at Salem, and she has
been able to assist her children, and
has been faithful to her duties dur
ing the summer.
Winter coming on, the big hearted
Moose Lodge realize that the little
family needs and deserves assistance
and the benefit 'entertainment was
planned, and is being carried out.
Walker & Fields, managers of the
Bell Theatre, have donated the use of
their theatre for Friday evening for
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