OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY NOV 6 1913.
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OF TH& DEGERT
MORE VENOMOUS AND DEADLY
. THAN THE BATTLE .SNAKE
STRIKES, BITES, THEN VOMITS
Stories of Centipedes, Scorpions, Tar
antulas and Snakes of Arizona
GILA MONSTERS
You have heard of the Gila monster,
haven't you? -
But I wonder how many really know
what the monster (?) is, or much
about it?
s Monster , implies something huge,
enormous," coupled with ugliness a
' brute, a horror. , - V -
But the Gila (pronounce it' Heela)
monster is anything but a monster in
appearance. It is handsome, sluggish,
and won't harm anyone who doesn't
molest it. But if you step on it you'll
join the angels in a very few minutes.
They live along the Gila river
in Arizona. They "are nearly as nuiUr
erous as rattlesnakes, and a heap
more deadly. It is said no person or
tnimal wa3 ever bitten by. one and liv
ed. Two hours is the time limit to. pre'
pp. re for the hereafter., , . ..' ..- i,'
But let me tell you what these mon-
sters are before I stell ,.ypu of my- ex
perience and. fright. '.' " ''' '
A G:ty monBter is a lizard, just a
common lizard, with a skin of beauty.
He is no relation tothe many, other
lizards that abound in the arid coun
tries; I never saw a lizard in the south
west or in Mexico that wa poison
ous, and many of them are as quick
as a revolver bullet. , ;
The .Gila monster i3 slow and 'slug
gish, and its movements remind you
of the alligator. ' Some grow to two
feet in length, but the average size
is about 18 inches. They have beauti
ful skins or scales, that look like bead
work, in designs like the Navajo
blanket and by' the way many an
Indian has woven a Navajo with the
skin of a Gila monster for a pattern.
History tells us these, monsters
have poison sacks on the lower, jaw
'and fangs like a serpent in fact de
scribes their poison works as very
similar to the diamond rattle snake
that abounds in the southwest. -
But the residents, of Arizona, the
" men who lived for years along this
river (and I have been told the same
in parts of Mexico where this rep
tile lives) give you aVi alhtogether
. tile lives) gives you an altogether
j different version and I am satisfied
it is true. If "you are not, go down in
southern Arizona and let one bite
you. t ,
Here is Arizona history, and back
ed up. '
' The Gila monster, like the rattle'
snake, will let you alone if you do
', him, but unlike the snake he does not
warn. But as he lives only along tne
streams, you do not have to be con
stantly on the lookout, as. you do for
rattlers. ',: ' -,
Their bite alone is harmless, as
harmless as the bite of a ground squr-
rel. This is a new one to many, but I
have every reason .to believe it is
true. They strike you and fasten the
fangs in your flesh, cling and then
vomit into the wound, arid that vomit
is deadly they say there is absolutely
nothing to successfully counteract it.
No man or animal can live over two
hours.
The victim swells up and dies of
blood poisoning, and dies in horrible
agony and convulsions. The certain
and horrible death has given , the
lizard his scarey nane, and they are
dreaded and shunned. - -.
And yet there are Mexicans who
will handle these reptiles as Texas
kids do the horned toads. They hunt
them and sell them to the shows,
i pick them up with bare hands.
. The secret is, so they say, extreme
gentleness andlowness. If you do not
make a quick motion or squeeze them,
' you can pick theni up with perfect
safety. But irritate them and it is all
off with the Greaser. The stomach of
the reptile is a cesspool " of deadly
poison, and when made ugly they give
you all they have eaten for a week.
Now for the story. You can appre
ciate it more after having heard the
grewsome death means. I had just
heard them,, and stories of how a hit
ten man swelled up, turned black, and
in the death convulsions, writhed like
a snake., v .
The next morning I went down to
the river to 'look for Gila monsters.
The rancher said they were numerous
and cduld be found most any time
along the water's' edge.
,v With a cane pole" I walked and prod
ded for an hour and was about to
give it up, when I saw one of the
' handsome fellows, with his fat belly
and thick tail, about-four feet below
me at the water's edge, on a little
strip of baked mud. . .
v Remembering the stories, I went at
him smooth and gentle like. Mind youJ
1 did not try any of the bare hand
Greaser stunts, but experimented from
the end of a six foot tole. I moved the
bole slowly toward him and he never
' batted an eye. I touched his body, and
he only sljghtly moved. Then I "put
the cane pole on his back along his
sides, and becoming disgusted with his
laziness, I tried to madden him, prod
ded him and tried to roll him over. He
- stood it for a few minutes, then
"crawled off into the water. He never
attempted to bite. Perhaps he knew
the difference between a pole and man
'flesh, and didn't want to waste his
poison.
As he went into the water I turned
to go back, and there, not over two
feet away, was another brown and
hlick monster, walking toward me,
. his yellow trimmings glistening like
gold in the sunshine.
One yell I'll ' bet it carried to
Phoenix. One standing high jump, and
I'll bet it broke Lanson's record.
I thought there were monsters all
. y round me, that I had been sitting on
them." I dropped my pole and it fell
down the bank." About -fifty yards
' away my fright and breath ran out,
'l.rrd my nerve came back. I found some
"tones and went after that slow old'timony. 50c all stores, b oster-Milburn
.. . . ... r. Tl 1 T T 11.1,1 IT
" lizard. I narrowly missed
him, aad
he crawled over the bank
' v Th?re is absolutely no disputing, but
that these monsters are venomous and
i(?idly, vet I am told very few are
i:tten. Kids swim in the river where
. "'the reptiles abound, but they say they
'drive them out before they undress.
" .- The Gila monster and the rattle
snake are said to be the only venom
ous reptiles in Arizona. I have travel
, ed nearly all over Arizona New Mex-
uco and Texas, and I have never seen
v any. other poisonous specie. On the
Devil's River,-Country of Texas, I
.killed a monster nake that was busy
'swallowing a-'nest of -young rabbits,
.He was too full of rabbits to run,
hut he raised his great head and his
sed at me like a cat. V
, . The gowboys afterward told me this
big": reptile 'was absolutely 'harmless;
that one can pick them up. .They will
wind around your leg- or varm and
squeezes-some,' will strike and bite,
leaving fang wounds like a pin prick,
and - as harmless, as they are not
poisonous.
I'll take their word for it. ."-
There is another lizard, the Blue
Mountain Boomer. I never could dis
cover. how he got his name. He lives
on the desert, in the hottest places in
America, and they say never takes
.moisture. This fellow is a hundred
times more scary than the Gila reptile.
and is 'the quickest bit of life I ever
saw so quick in his movements that
the eye can scarcely follow him. You
can get very close to him, then he will
simply scoot away six to eight feet,
and before you have .sized up where
he went to, he is back again. Like
lightening. ; they will dart , out and
back in a second of time. '
With a .22 rifle, standing not over
six feet from a boomer, with a- dead
rest over a rock, I shot at him. In the
wink of an eye he darted-away and
back- again. Three times I tried to
shoot him and failed. Perhaps I am
no sure shot, then again perhaps the
story is true, that you can t kill them
I remember years ago, in a cow
camp in West Texts, I worked for a
week to trap one. He lived in a little
scrub oak, and got his board regularly
from the camp scraps. Their skins are
beautiful, with nearly all colors beau
tifully blended. I wanted him, because
it is' said they cannot be caught. I
had 18 hours of daylight 1 to while
away day after day, and only those
who have endured the awtul monotony
of the dry land can appreciate what
little -trifles interest. -' .. ' '
I rigged up a box trap, similar to
squirrel trap and had it down so
fine that it hung on a linen thread. I
covered up all the scraps arouncr the
camp, and put a nice bait in the box.
It was three days before he would go
near it; then he grew .bolder and bold
er, and finally would slip in, grab a
crumb and dart out again like a flash.
And when he became bold I laid for
him. Four or five rods away I held a
knife over the back thread. The minute
I saw him dart for the box I cut it. It
was guess work, but it happened to
be rightly timed. The lizard started
in and started out when the lid came
down and caught him,' half in and
half out, and so badly injured him he
died in a few minutes. I did a splen
did bit of prairie taxidermy on "the
boomer, disemboweled him, put him
to soak in sheep dip, stuffed him with
tobacco and cotton and laid him on a
rock to embalm. The next morning
there was no boomer.'
The devil's horse is a huge cross
between- a bug and a grasshopper, and
the Mexicans have a deadly fear of
it. I nevef found or saw but one. It
was a livid green, about two inches
long and an inch or so tall, somewhat
resembling a big locust Some say they
bite and are deadly; others that they
get in your food and- poison it. The
one I found would not bite, or do any
thing wicked or out of the ordinary,
and when I dosed it with tobacco juice
it just setiled down and died.
The vinegarroon is another deadly
resident .of Arizona and West Texas.
He is of the scorpion family and when
disturbed emits a sickening odor. Poi
son is exhuded through the legs.
The scorpion is something like a
crab, with pinchers in front and a
tail behind, armed fore and aft. With
the tail he stings. Stories tell us the
sting is deadly. It isn't. It is poison--ous
and will cause severe swelling and
inflammation, but won't kill.
The centiped, that great worm that
grows to a length, from eight to nfhe
inches, is also exaggerated in killing
records. Stories tell us that if this
worm crawls over one the flesh will
slough off and the "person dies. They
are poisonous, but not fatal. "
The tarantula, the monster brown
and black spider, abounds in the
desert spots, and he is a spider to keep
away from. But like the others he is
not as deadly as he is printed.
In an open space I found one of
these big fellows, far away from his
hole. I cut a long brush and tantalized-him,
and would not let him es
cape. I had heard they would jump,
butjl never saw one do it. This one
did After I had prodded him he -leaped
at me. fully three feet. I knocked
him down with the bush and held him
while the Tancher put a tomato can
over him. At the ranch house I killed
him with gasoline. He measured five
inches across from the tip of his legs
and was covered with hair.
But most to be dreaded is the di
amond rattle snake. While some live
after having been bitten, the most of
them die, and the death is horrible.
Nearly everyone wears high tooped
boots or leggins.
Yet with all these poisonous worms,
snakes, spiderg and lizzar,ds, very few
are bitten and the people apparently
use very little caution. None of them
will bite if they can escape, and it is
only when one steps on them or ac
cidentally puts hands, on them mat
they are bitten.
, . -M. J. Brown.
GREAT MASS
OF PROOF,
Reports of 30,000 cases of Kidney
Trouble Some of ihem Uregon city
Cases
Each of some 6,000 newspapers of
the United States is publishing from
week to week, names of people in its
particular neighborhood, who have
used and recommended Doan's Kidney
Pills for kidney bachache, weak kid
neys, bladder troubles and urinary dis
orders. This mass 'of proof includes
over' 30,000 testimonials. Oregon City
is no exception. Here is one of the
Oregon City cases:
Li. Noble, 714 Mam St., uregon uity,
Ore., says: "Doan's Kidney Pills have
been used in my home and I am glad
to say that they are a good medicine
for kidney troubled
Mr. Noble is only one of many Ore-
eon City people who have gratefully
endorsed Doan's Kidney Pills. If your
bach aches if your kidney bothers
ymu, don't simply ask for a kidney
remedy ask distinctly for Doan's
Kidney Pills, the same that Mr. Noble
had the remedy backed by home tes-
Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. "When Your
Bade is Lame KememDer tne name.
-. .A Maker of Health
A good honest medicine like Foley
Kidney Pills gives health to many
families. Mrs. O. Palmer, 635 Willow
St., Green Bay, Wis., was seriously ill
with kidney and bladder trouble. Mr.
Palmer writes: "My wife is rapidly
recovering, her health and strength due
soley to use of Foley Kidney Pills."
f dpE(SN (EJI1T NEWS f
Some crops some seasons, are prof
itable. -
Therefore all others must be term
ed unprofitable. ,
If they continue to be unprofitable
the farmer must necessarily cease to
produce them.
' It requires several years of prep
aration for some crops, mat is wny
we sometimes have a famine in some
crops like hops, beef and others.
That is why we are facing a famine
in most crops now and yet the big
trusts, through their associated press,
are blaming the farmer for the high
cost of living.
When any one crop' becomes prof
itable too many farmers jump into
it and glut, the market, destroythe
profit and then too many , quit
and we have a shortage again.
Sometimes the market, as far as
profit is concerned, is destroyed by a
combination of middlemen, who rob
both the producer and consumer.
It is the price paid the farmer
which determines the acreage for the
next year or years and now only a
imall per cent of farmers are mak
tig a profit on beef cattle.
Tske the prune crop for an example.
very short crop last year and a
'ight one this season, coupled with the
'act that the market was almost bare
if nld fctnrk. the nrice should have
been high ,but it is hard to even sell
u all if the prunes are Bmall. is there
any inducement to set prunes on high
priced land?
We have the high tjost of living and
the high cost of dying. We have the
high cost of land, and our taxes say
we have high cost of government.
We have the . high cost of schools
and the high cost of roads and ther
high salaried scientific farmer trying
to teach us how to raise more stuff
at a loss. '
The cost of government has almost
doubled in the last ten years and the
population has increased only 25 per
cent. All these high prices and added
costs are traced to arWf icial condit
ions produced by combinations of mid
dlemen who now contrpl the trans
portation, . banking, government and
all price-making and all the evidence
we" need -' is the ,; accumulation of
wealth by these same people who
never produced anything but poverty.
Where the farmer has made his
great mistake is depending on other
people to fight his battles for him.
The " carpenter, bricklayer, printer,
railroad man and about everybody
else have organized and get their
wages raised every time the cost of
living goes up, but the farmer sees
interest, rent and profit soaring in
the skies of prosperity while he sees
his own labor a drug, on the market
in the form of farm produce. He has
known for years there was something
wrong. -s
The farmer is now on the right
track, and that is ORGANIZATION.
We must meet organization with or
ganization. We must meet price mak
ing with price making. We must meet
discrimination with counter discrim
ination, rebates with rebates, influ
ence with influence, and class legis
lation with class legislation. If we
ever expect to be -anything ihthe
business world under this system we
must form tne biggest, strongest
compinac'on and control the price on
our products and be sure of a profit.
The Farmers' Union claims almost
one third of the farmers of' the U. S.
now and the Farmers' Society of
Equity is growing five times faster
than ever before. Congress has ex
empted the farmers from the pen
alties of the anti-trust law. We are al
most sure of a special rural credit
banking system and if we keep on
organizing and grow in power and in
fluence we can get every thing we
need, even more we can get evely
thing we want, and we are almost
sure to want it all with the other fel
low's goat thrbwn in.
We farmers have been the hew
ers of wood and drawers of water thru
the long centuries of , what we' call
civilization- and the man with the hoe
!'o kro4 witli nil inf. tnil nnH his
children bear the imprinl of drudgery
for others to reap the degeneracy of
inherited, idleness. All we demand is
simple-justice. Deny us that for which
our forefathers fought, and we have
come, not to bring peace, but trouble
tor the judges:-
We are coming to the front and we
are going to keep on coming. The top
round in the ladder of citizenship,
knowledge and affluence is our goal.
We Drooose to beein with better mar
kets, better systems, better laws and
end with a better government with
better people.
We have -oe many toll gates between
the Droducer and consumer. We have
too many "obstructionsbetween the
working people and the wealtn tney
produce. Too many barriers between
idle men and a means to a livelihood.
We have too little reward for hon
esty and industry and too much for
graft and crime.
We have too few paths to virtue
and too many highways to prostitu
tion. We have too manyi laws for the
rich to evade justice and too few for
the poor to gain it
Who understands the ups and downs
of farming better than those who have
spent their lives with it? Who under
stands the condition and -trials of the
farmer and family better than the
farmer himself, and his brother far-
Who is interested in the uplift of
the farmer more than the farmers
themselves? Then, in the name of all
that is good, why not trust in your
self and brother farmer, and quit
dancing every time some millionaire
whistles a gig 7
Why don't our agricultural colleges
work for our interest, in teaching
scientific profits and scientific mar
keting? Why don't our foreign min
isters tell us how to combine our
produce and prepare it for foreign
countries? They do all thisfor the
poor trusts now. , '
Our national government is so par
ticular -about what kind of food the
people get that we must have a pure
food law, which would be O. K. if the
law gave us pure food, but it doesn't.
It simply contiscates the farmers
crcfos and feeds the soldier on embalm
ed beef and bankrupt stock of com
mercial refuse. And pure clothes? No,
nothing said. m -
We can buy shoes made of paste
board, silk dresses made of tin and
x rays. Woolen goods from cotton
rags, and clothe ourselves in authority
woven from graft. The tin can is made
by the can trust owned by the tin
plate trust, which is owned by the
steel trust. No! nothing said about
that either.
Hundreds of thousands of school
children go to school in the U. S. A.
and do not have sufficient nourish
ment to acquire an education. Under
the pure food law? Yes. They can't
learn it. Some cities furnish lunches
for these children and soup houses for
their parents, and when these chil
dren grow up to manhood and woman
hood you may expect to find the boys
in Congress, but the judges send them
to the nen for stealing nies. Thn
girls? Oh! they earn their living for'
ashort time then disease erases their
history and the public's last duty is
to assign them positions in the pot-
tor's field. All this happens every day
with a doctor's medical association
looking on like so many agricultural
colleges on a $100,000 donation by the
beef trust.
BrotheFarmers! You are the big
part of this government and you are
responsible for the big part of all
this. You ought to be punished and
you have been. You have depended on
the wrong set of men. You failed to
organize like the bankers, doctors and
commission men. Get busy.
P. W. Meredith.
ISSUE CURRENCY DIRECT
Why Must the Farmer be Exploited to
' Profit the Money Sharks?
All of you farmers, whether you be
long to the clod-rushers Union or not,
must be aware that there are many
agencies at work overtime for our
benefit. Among them are the great
trusts, hiring experts on how to grow
more crops, and the use and need of
new equipment. All of these innova
tions call for an outlay of money,
which, if I am to judge by personal
experience, the farmer is not possess
ed of. Now enter another class of ben
efactors, those who propose means of
loaning money to us. I have been read
ing some of the plans brought for
ward. One document, by David Lubin,
under the alluring title of "Land
schaft," which I read with interest un
til I read this: "The Widows and Or
phans of the land."
- These are to furnish the" money the
farmers borrow. I had thought these
people had done stunts enough for all
kinds of grafts, but the Honorable
David thinks they should keep right
on the job. Perhaps his scheme has
merit, but lam suspicious' when wi
dows and orphas are used as decoys.'
i nave also a speech by Hon. ft. K.
Bathrick, M. C, from Ohio, which
is quite interesting. L,et me quote a
few "figgers from his speech of Sen-
tember 10, of this year:"Farm home
farms are mortgaged for $1,726,172,
851; tenant farms $1,320,000,000, to
tal of farm mortgages $3,460,172,851.
These are the statistics for 1910. Now
what do you think of that? The inter
est is over $7 for every man, woman
and child in this prosperous land,
wnose nappiness we are soon to cele
brate Vith one of those hypocritical
Thanksgiving days.
Farm tenancy increased about 50
per cent in thirty years, being at last
report 37.1 per cent. Since 1910 the
increase in tenants has been 16.3 per
cent, while the mortgaged farm homes
increased from 28.2 to 33.6 per cent
from 1890 to 1910.
There is nu4h more of interest in
the Congressman's speech, which I
wish, every farmer, be he an Equity
member or not, might reau.
He is not witnout a remedy, and is
so far as my investigation goes, the
best as yet proposed by any of the
well fed crowd. He wants the govern
ment to take the matter in hand and
become the money lender, just as is
the case with National banks. ,
It is when he is providing the money
that the cloven hoof appears. .He pro
poses toissue interest bearing bonds
at a three' cent rate, then re-loan the
money at four and a half cents to the
farmer. The government in its offic
ial capacity,, to pocket the difference,
less the cost of transacting the busi
ness. Making a net profit of about
$136,000,000 per year. 0
- Now let us look the matter straight
in the face until -we see the different
plan to that of National banks.
In dealing with banks the govern
ment prints a bundle of bills, which.
.altho in fact not legal tender twixt-
you and l, never-the-less pass for that
as they are legal tender in many
other respects. It does not borrow
these bills, it merely prints them and
hands them over the counter. But
when he comes to us "horny handed
sons of the soil," he proposes to create
a market for those same bills and
guarantee the banker a straight rake
off in interest on the gratis bills; then
the banker takes these same bonds
to the treasury department and gets
another bundle of bills. Do you see
the cat? It is a case of perpetual mo
tion and we are to be soaked for the
whole cheese.
Why not issue the emergency cur
rency direct to us at about two and a
half, or three per cent?
Only recently Meredith wrote a pro
test against bonds for road purposes.
The same reason applies here. Bonds
mean bondage, and bindage is slavery
just as surely as, Iron chains mean
slavery.
Beware of the gift-bearing Greek! i
All this noise about the farmer comes
from the exploiter, and while in our
present state of ignorance we permit
ourselves to be ruled Jby the exploiter
and are helpless, in fact as the farm
legislation takes. We must pay for
the folly of electing nonproducers to
office, instead of members of the pro
ducing class. When we could govern
ourselves if we but choose to do so.
It is high time we sent farmers toi
Congress; surely an industry at which
more than half of the people work,
should prescribe the rules for govern
ment. Will we do it?
The speech is a good one, full of
interest to every farmer.
I have no doubt you can obtain a
copy as well as I. Write to Hon.
Ellsworth R. Bathrick, House of Rep
resentatives, Washington, D. C, for
speech of Sept. 10, 1913. It will repay
you well to read it.
Stark.
WORKING TOGETHER
(Portland Journal.)
Co-operation by farmers should be
general throughout Oregon. It should
be the rule, not only as to social cen
ters, but also in all matters affecting
the farmers' wellfare. Full advantage
cannot be secured except through co
operation. Neither can the farmer
make his farm investment pay as it
should except throug co-operation
with his neighbors.
Middle western states have grown
rich by means of the co-operative
creamery and cheese factory. These
institutions have guaranteed to the
farmer every penny to which he was
entitled for his milk and cream. They
are proved successes both as individ
ual business enterprises and as mar
kets for the farmer's products. They
have saved to the farmer much money
which otherwise would have gone into
the pockets of middlemen.
Portland residents pay ten cents a
quart for milk, and much of this milk
is bought from farmers by privately
owned creameries at a fraction' of that
price. Sdbie time ago farmers near
Gresham attempted to organize a co
operative creamery ,but the attempt
was a failure.
Today consumers are paying a max
imum price for milk and butter, while
the Gresham farmers are taking any
price which is offered them. Coopera
tion would ultimately benefit the con
sumer and be a boon to the producer.
Sunnyside Local.
Sunnyside Local Union No. 6840 of
the F. is. of IS. met in regular session
October 25, 1913.
Minutes of the last meeting were
read and approved.
Communications were read by the
secretary. Five members piesent paid
their dues for the year.
Farm listed for sale by M. C, Col
son; 20 acres of good land, 10 acres
under cuvltiation, good water; $7,000,
including about $1400 worth of farm
implements, stock and feed; $2,000
cash, balance to suit.
Sec.
Officers of State Union
Pros. Wm. Grisenthwaite, Oregon
uity, K. 3.
Vice-President, J. Schmitke, Banks,
R. 3.
Sec. Treas. F. G. Buchanan, Oregon
City.
Directors: A. R. Lvman. Gresham:
S. M. Hall, Clatskanie; E. L. Hellyer,
Beaverton, R. 2; P. H. HcMahon, New
berg, R. 2; J.- W. Smith, Aurora, R. 1.
, Officers of Clackamas Co. Union
Pres. S.' L. Casto, Oregon City, R. 3.
vice-president, J. -fi. Bowerman,
Clackamas, R. 1.
Sec. Treas. F. G. Buchanan, Oregon
iny. .
: Directors: W. J. Bowerman, Clacka
mas, R. 1; J. C. Rover.' Clackamas R,
1; Wm. Grisenthwaite, Oregon City,
R. 3. - . .
Sec. of Washington Co. Union', T. J.
Ultora, HUlsboro K. 3. ,
Sec. Yamhill Co. Union, H. E. Crow
ell, Dundee.
Sec. Columbia Co. Union, Henry
ftratse, uatskame.
Sec. Multnomah Co. Union, A. R,
Lyman, Gresham.
Officers of Clackamas Co. Locals
Damascus: Pres. J. C. Royer; Sec.
H. T. Burr, Clackamas.
Clackamas: Pres. C. T. Day wait;
Sec. W. S. Daywalt, Clackamas.
Eagle Creek: Pres. J. T. Rowcliff;
Sec. C. C. Longwell, Barton.
Beaver Creek: Pres. Fred Kamruth;
Sec W. W. Harris, Oregon City, R. 3.
Maple Lane: Pres. H. M. Robbins;
Sec. G. F. Mighells, Oregon City R. 3.
New Era: Pres. Aug. Staeheley;
Sec. G. F. Knowles, Oregon City, R. 1.
Logan: Pres. W. E. Cromer; Sec.
P. M. Kirchem, Oregon City, R. 2.
Canby: Pres. Geo. Koehler; Sec. R.
C. Brodie, Canby, R. 2.
Macksburg: Pres. C. D. Koesling;
Sec. J. W. Smith, Aurora, R. 1.
Sunnyside, J. M. Besseler; Sec. E,
E. Oeschlaeger, Clackamas, R. 1.
Alberta: Pres. Jesse Mayfield; Sec.
Ferris Mayfield, Springwater, R. 1. '
Stone: Pres. T. ci. Brown; Sec. M.
J. Bycrs, Clackamas, R. 1.
Clarkes: Pres, Albert Uasser; Sec.
John L. Gard, Oregon City, R. 4.
Shubel: Pres. Chas. A. Menke; Sec.
Elmer Swope, Oregon City, R. 4.
Mt. Pleasant: Pres. P. W. Meredith;
Sec. F. G. Buchanan, Oregon City.
Carus: Pres. A.. J. Kelnhofer, Ore
gon City, R. 3; Sec. S. L. Casto, Ore
gon City, R. 3.
Colton: Pres. & r, Sandall; sec. U.
A. Branland, Colton. '
Wilsonville: Pres. M. C. Young;
Sec. R. B. Seely, Sherwood, R. 5.
West Butteville: Pres. James Par
rett; Sec. J. R. Woolworth, Newberg,
R. 2.
Needy: Pres. J. D. Rider; Sec. E.
Werner, Aurora, R. 2.
Highland, Pres. M. K. Kandle; Sec:
N. E. Linn, Estacada, R. 1.
Viola: Pres. J, A. Randolph; Sec.
F. E. Cockerline, Springwater, R. 1.
Molalla: Pres. J. W. Thomas; Sec.
I. M. Tolliver, Molalla.
Springwater: Pres. i. M. Moger;
Sec. C. F. Aue, Springwater.
Crescent: Pres. F. A. Jones: Sec. N.
J. W. Eichner, Oregon City, R'. 2.
Fruitmen! See Here!
If you ware to ak the fruit growers
of Hood River and other noted points
as to how they make their moneyj
they would say, as tliey have actually
told others, that it was due to the
proper growing of fruit AND TO EX
CELLENT MARKETING ORGANI
ZATIONS. The same organization that markets
60 per cent of all the high grade
Northwest fruit and potatoes would
be glad to help out Clackamas county.
They are rea'dy to take fruit this
year, if graded and packed according
to their rules, but this must be deliv
ered to them by our county growers in
carload lots.
If vou have any fruit to ship this
concern, call at the Courier office for
information. This mutual organization
has distributed $5,000,000 in the last
three years.
AOV.
A Night of Terror
Few niirhts are more terrible than
that of a mother looking on her child
choking and gasping for breath dur
ing an attack of croup, and nothing
in the house to relieve it. Many moth
ers have passed nights of terror in this
situation. A little forethought will
enable you to avoid all this. Cham
berlains Cough Remedy. is. a certain
cure for croup and hag never been
known to fail. -Keep it at hand. For
sale by Huntley Bros.
a wearing and dangerous because the inflamed,
mucus-filled tubes interfere with breathing and the
fresh air passes through that unhealthy tisav.
Probably no other remedy affords such prompt
and permanent relief aa Scott's Emulsion; it
checks ihe cough, heals the linings of the throat
and bronchial tubes and strengthens the lungb to
avert tuberculosis. This point cannot be empha
sized too strongly that Scott's Emulsion has
been suppressing bronchitis for forty years and
will help yOUm
Be careful to avoid uiVistitutei and insist on SCOTT'S.
AT ANY DRUG STORE. 13-77
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Market Report
The grape market of thejocal
firms has been steady, but the season
is about exhausted. Concords are a
thing of the past. The yield was good
this year and the price was satisfac
tory to the growers.
Excellent varieties of apples are
daily arriving in the markets with a
good demand at 75 cents and upwards.
There are a few peaches found in
the markets, but are of the cling stone
varieties, and by the latter part of
the week very few will be found in
the markets.
The melon season has come and
gone, with a supply at the local mar
ket that was equal to the demands.
The following is from the Portland
Union Stock Yards Company.
Receipts for the week at the stock
yards have been: cattle, 1719, cdlves,
60, hogs, 3813; sheep 6531.
An enormous volume of business
has been transacted in the cattle mar
ket during the last five days, parti
cularly Monday and Tuesday. Re
ceipts totaled a 1913 record for a short
period and as they followed an ab
normal liquidation the week before,
beef outlet would have been hopelessly
closed -il prices had been firm. But it
was a buyert market mostly, but
good steers did not sell under $7.25.
The bulk of steer transactions averag
ed $6.75 to $7.15. Butcher stock was
weak only in spots. Cows and heifers
snlH Hlmrnlv lower, but bulls and
stags maintained some degree of firm-
ness. A small lot ot hellers selling at
$6.75 featured at $6.35 and $6-50.
Swine market suffered very little
from an advanced liquidation and
steady bear pressure. Best light hogs
were sold at $8.25 and $8.30 right up
to the close and demand was steady.
The week's receipts have been above
the average, both in quantity and
quality. Smooth heavy stock brought
good prices. Trade does not seem to
be oversupplied at present, but No
vember receipts are likely to be heavy.
Sheep house came to life once more.
The first opportunity it has had in a
fortnight. Receipts were not record
breaking, but of fair volume and a
A MESSAGETO WOMEN
Who Are "Just Ready to Drop."
When you are "Just ready to drop,"
when you feel bo weak that you can
hardly drag yourself about and be
cause you have not slept well, you
get up as tired-out next morning as
when you went to bed, you need help.
Miss Lea Dumas writes from Ma
lone, N. Y., saying: , "I was In a bad
ly run-down condition for several
weeks but two bottles of Vlnol put
me on my feet again and made me
strong and well Vlnol has done me
more good than all the other medi
cines I ever took."
If the careworn, run-down women,
the pale, sickly children and feeble
old folks around here would follow
Miss Dumas' example, they, too, would
Boon be able to say that Vlnol, our
delicious cod liver and iron remedy,
had built them up and made them
strong.
It Is a wonderful, strength creato
and body-builder, and we sell It un
der a guarantee of satisfaction. You
get your money back If Vlnol does
not help you.
FOOTBALL!
SEE
Big Annual Game
BETWEEN THE
II. of 0.
AND
THE
AT
Albany,
THE
lUGOENtibrtAaiAl
ROUTES
THC Exposition Line 1915
Has authorized a round trip fare from Portland to Rose
burg Inclusive to Albany of
One and One-Thitd Faes
Tickets on Sale November 8th
good for return until Nov. 10
Call on nearest S. P. Agent for further formation, as
to specific fares, train schedules. Etc. -
JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Atent
good proportion was wethers, lambs
and yearlings. Ewe stock was not
choice, but demand is good for this
class. Prime yearlings are up to a
quarter to $4.75 and wethers at $4.25
to $4.50 and ewes at $4.00, with one
load of extra fine wethers sold off the
cars Friday at $5.10 land one load of
the fill at $5.00, but they were except
ional, the best seen on the market.
Lamb trade is firmer at $5.75, altho
few sales were made due to short
supply. Generally the lamb and sheep
markets are steady to higher.
POTATOES 85c and $1.00.
FEED (Selling) Slibrts $28.00;
bran $25.00; process barley $31.00 per
ton.
FLOUR $4.40 to $5.20.
HAY (buying) Clover at $9 and
$10;. oat hay, best $10 and 11; alfalfa,
$13.
,OATS 14c-24c; wheat $1.00 bu.,
oil meal $45 ton.
Live Stock Meats
BEEF (live wt.) Steers 6 and 7c;
cows 5 and 5, 1-2; bulls 4 1-2.
MUTTON Sheep three to five and
a half cents.
VEALi Fancy 12c to 13c; medium
11 and 12 cents.
PORK 11 cents.
POULTRY (buying) Henrs 13c
and springs; roosters 8 cents, ducks
15c, Pekin ducks 13c; geese 11c and
turkey 18c.
Sheep pelts 40c to 90c.
Hides 10 and 9c.
Fruits
Apples 60c to 90c.
DRIED FRUITS (buying) Oregon
prunes on basis 6c to 8c.
Dried pears 7c.
Butter
Ranch Butter 65c, Creamery 75c.
While the result on Tuesday's state
vote on the referendum measures will
not please all, yet wee an't get away
from the fact that it represents ma
jority sentiment of hose who have
endugh interest in such matters to
vote, and we must abide by majority
verdict. And if Jonathan Bourne s bill
was a law tne people would not hav
,had the opportunity to have voted on
a single one of these bills.
Report of Beaver Creek Cemetery
The following report of the receipts
and disbursements relative to the sur
veying and platting of the Methodist
Cemetery at Beaver Creek, as made
by Dan Williams: .-
Receipts
Pledged and Paid , . . $82.50
Pledged, not paid 10.50
Total of pledged and paid .... 93.00
' Disbursements
Surveying and Platting 90.TJ0
Recording of Deeds 16.00
Making of Deeds about 14.00
Cutting brush in Cemetery .-
4.00
Horse and Buggy 4.00
Minister s Expenses to Conference
2.00
Advertising 1.50
Deficit .... 38.60
Total Disbursements 131.50
Respectfully Submitted,
Dan Williams.
Would Make Them Better If
They
Could
Them akefs of Foley Kidney Pills
know that they have absolutely the
best combination of curative and heal-j
ing medicines for kidney and bladder'
ailments and urinary v irregularities
that it is possible top roduce. That is
why Foley Kidney Pills are the best : .
medicine for the purpose you can buv.
Huntley Bros. Co. . , .
FOOBALL!
THE
Oil
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