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31st YEAR OREGON CITY, ORE., THURSDAY, DEC. 11 1913. No. 29 "
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P Ml WILL
ALL THIS END?
WHERE WILL HAIR TRIGGER
DISCHARGES TAKE US TO?
ARE NEITHER LAW NOR REASON
Just Trouble Breeding Decisions that
Would Contempt for Courts
An Oregon circuit judge has hand
ed out an unconstitutional opinion on
an unconstitutional law.
Now it is up to the supreme court
to declare unconstitutional an uncon
stitutional decision on an unconstitut
ional law.
If we hd extra "n" and "u" chan
nels oh the linotype we would give
you some more of this.
But come on down the line, hold
vour hat on, and if you don't say
"deliver us from donkey judges you
are in line for the bug ward at Salem.
Salem wanted to cut out the booze,
and she did a good job, did it by a
500 majority, and no judge in Oregon
had a right to throw out the verdict.
But a handy man did. By a political
move he was jumped from the county
court to a circuit court judgeship, and
he shone.
His judicia.1 bone box was bigger
than the attorney general's and right
after the election it had a constitut
iolal hemorrhage, and its discharge
said the right of the people to rule
should not stand, because they had
not played the game according to
rule that the rules said on a "gen
eral" election day was the only date
on which the voters had a right to
speak, and that November 4 was
"general" only to voting on amend
ments. But Salem was game and came
back with the wallup.
She called another election and this
one so "general" that even Judge Gal
loway couldn't sidestep it. All he
could do was meet it and come back
with a low one under the belt.
A second election was held, this one
on the most "general" day Lord's
Oregon laws provided for Salem, and
it was voted as an amendment to the
charter of the city that no licenses
should be granted.
This was passed by the voters by
nearly a thousand majority and they
thought they had this second time
put themselves where the courts
couldn't get them.
Nitty. With the right kind of a
driver courts can run you down most
anywhere.
There came another decision, this
one that, as the state supreme court
had declared the late election law void
that Salem's charter election was void
because it was oted under an uncon
stitutional registration law.
Now get this:
The supreme court declared the el
ection law void because there was a
detail in it that would tend to dis
franchise an individual.
A circuit court judge disfranchis
ed 3,500 voters in order to sustain a
detail that MIGHT prevent one voter
from voting.
And court decisions are founded on
law and law is founded on reason.
Don't you believe it. Its just a say-so.
Law is founded on the way judges
may look at it. The supreme court
has recently turned a summersault
on a decision.
But back to Judge Galloway and
Salem decisions:
When the people registered under
the now void registration law, it was
LAW.
No one had ever questioned it. IT
WAS THE ONLY LAW UNDER
WHICH THE LAW WOULD AL
LOW VOTERS TO REGISTER.
It was NOT declared void until
after the people had registered and
voted.
Under its provisions was the only
wav the neonle could reeister, and
under it the only way the people
could vote.
If you didn't register you could not
vote, and if you did, your vote would
be thrown out.
And decisions are founded on law,
and law is based on reason.
(The place to laugh.)
And now down another road:
Let us acrree that the Salem
Solomon's wisdom wouldn't break the
back of the constitution of Oregon,
that it is law. founded on reason, and
that it will stick.
Then what?
Away goes the whole Oregon state
election of November 4 for it was
decided by the unconstitutional votes
of the illegal voters under an uncon
stitutional law.
Awav eo the state university ap
proDriations. the emDlover's liability
law, the county attorney law for
they were voted on under the same
registration law under which Judge
Galloway would annul the election
at the state capital, and the voterj
naa only the same qualifications. 1
Away go the recall elections in
Clackamas and Hood Hiver counties.
Unreasonable, unsound, unjust, un
popular, unsafe, unwise and uncon
stitutional. What's a constitution?
What the people make with their
votes;
What right has a judge or court to
step in and deprive the people of
what they voted for, because it con
flicted with some detail they had vot
ed on before ?v
If they must meddle, let them rem
edy the conflicting spot and let the
rest stand.
And why do we have so many va
. rieties of opinions in Orecon?
Why should a circuit court and
supreme court disagree so often?
If a ririMiit rnnW- dafiamn isn't nn
law, why should we permit men who
don't know law to hand it out to us ?
If a school teacher in Oregon City
-ugnt one thing, and a Salem teach
would wr Ant ht ttt
We would mighty soon find out
WhlPh wna in.l.t h
dler "B'i u ure tne med-
. But Oregon, and every other state,
is full of pin heads who make trouble
and breed sneers for courts and law.
. No judge or court should have anv
vu,u ule veraict 01 the
people, and the sooner we forbid that
usurped right, the better standing
Wll niir nnnrta V,o., B
WHERE THE RUB COMES
Silverton Writer tells Dr. van Brakle
to. Stick for People are With Him
Some time ago the Courier had an
article on the Dr. van Brakle health
officer appointment. The Silverton
Journal reprinted it and added this
comment:
"It is too bad that Dr. Brakle does
not belong to the medical trust (The
American Medical Ass.) He is unfor
tunate: he is an osteopath.
"He has qualified in bacteriology
and all the studies taught in any med
ical school, excepting materia medica.
He had to pass a rigid examination
before graduation, and then he passed
the state board of drug doctors, (only
one not a drug doctor) examiners.
Then the state recognized him as a
physician. But the members of the
trust did not want the office of Coun
ty Health Officer, probably because
the salary was not large enough to
satisfy them, as they all decided to
strike. The judge, 'looking out for the
interest of the people,' put one over
on them and appointed this osteopath,
who was not in the trust, and then
what a howl, and how bad all the
trust felt, and each gave the other a
shot of morphine to kill the pain.
Well, we do hope the judge makes it
stick.
"We have an idea why the trust
loves Dr. Brakle so dearly.(?) Prob
ably he has been able to raise some
of the drug doctors' 'almost dead
ones' (patients) to life and health, as
one osteopath has done here occasion
ally. This probably is where the RUB
comes in. Go to it, doctor. The people
are with you, and if you RUB hard
enough it will all come, out in the
wash."
And "Blackie" lies Laughed
Senator W. A. Dimick cleared the
twelve Oswego rioters, and they say
"Blackie" Illes, way down in Texas
had a convulsion when he -heard the
news, te
"Blackie" skipped his bail and
ducked for the cotton belt, and when
the case came to trial he was made
"the goat." About all the riot was
loaded onto him and he had to stand
for it he couldn't help it.
The jury did not find evidence
enough to convict the men on trial,
as "Blackie" was the boss rioter, so
they were acquitted.
They say what caused lies to have
that convulsion was the fact that the
other fellows being acquitted leaves
him tanding alone in riot, and that
as one man cannot riot, he is out of
it as well. And another thing that
contributed to his joy- was the fact
that the indictment was so drawn that
it left him a loophole, and a second
means of escape.
LOOK OUT FOR THE RECALL
Salem Independent Says Courts Must
Not Defy People Too Far
Commenting on the circuit court
decision of Marion county which
would annul the vote of the City of
Salem for the second time, the Wood
burn Independent closes an editorial
with his comment:
"It is monstrous that mere creat
ures of the people, clothed with a lit
tle brief authority as judges, should
assume to stay the hands of those
who created them and who have de
termined that they will have no more
of the saloon. And the more such
iudtres do to keep the drink business
going after the people have said it
should stop, the more wrath they are
h.aping up against the day oi wrath.
Let them persist and the recall win
not very long remain an unused club
behind the door here in Oregon.
"This isn't a storm that will speed
ily blow over. The dry votes of city
after city in Oregon will be followed
by a dry vote in the state eleven
months hence. The puny injunctions
and decisions which the liquor law
yers are demanding to save their bus
iness are just the things that are go
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ing to Iinisn u lor goou mm mi
the people rule."
Let
Court Will Go Slow
The county court is refusing to du
plicate the special tax levies for road
districts, on the grounds of expense
and unfairness, and it would seem
that, hnt.h grounds are eood.
For illustration, if Cherryville lev
ies a special tax and the county court
should give them the same amount
thev raised, it is entirely unfair and
unjust to force Wilhoit, or any other
far away locality, to be taxed to pay
for a road that will not be of the
least benefit to their locality.
Then too, the high taxes the pres
ent court has fallen heir to will be
a pinch to property owners this
year, and the court does not feel jus
tified in expending any more money
than is absolutely necessary this
year.
Downey is a Stayer
rnr the fourth time James Downey
has brought action against the as-
nr Shpntt Mass to ueciaie iviu
the tax levy of Willamette, and every
time he has maae n. s;, ""'"',
claims that the tax levy is illegal and
the charter itself void. A restraining
order is asked from the court enjoin
ing the entry and extension of the al
leged illegal assessment. Dimick and
Dimick and Clarence L. Eaton repre
sent Downey.
Judge Campbell Sits in Portland
Judge Campbell has been sitting as
judge in Judge Cleeton's court this
1 7 .1. -ano-e w th the Portland
..j ' .v, w heen heanne cases at
Hillsboro, in which MgeJ&W
was interested in and did not wish
try.
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AND PUT COUNTY INTO FOUR
BIG ROAD DISTRICTS
FOUR COMPETENT ENGINEERS
This is Said to be Intention of Judge
Anderson and Commissioners
It is stated that Judge Anderson
and the county commissioners are ser
iously considering a complete change
of the road building system of this
county, the main change being the
abolishing of the present supervisor
system, the division of the county
into four districts, with four com
petent road makers for the divisions.
We do not know if this is more
than a rumor, but we' hope it is.
The present road building system
in Oregon has failed.
We have as many road districts
and as many varieties of road making
opinions as Heintz has pickles, and
the system doesn't get us anywhere.
The present system is a failure. We
all know it. It is a wanton waste of a
lot of money. Under it we get about
one dollar's worth for three dollars
expended.
This county has been putting up
about a quarter of a million dollars
yearly for roads, and after years of
expenditures we have, it is said, the
worst roads of any county in western
Oregon.
As we understand it, under a law
passed at the last legislature, any
district expending over $1,000 on
roads must let the work by contract
to the lowest bidder.
This is a step right, but only a
step. This means there shall be an en
gineer, there shall be specifications,
grades, drainage, plans and contracts.
If this is good for one of our 54
road districts, why not good for all,
and why not have a road plan that
will be general for the country?
One district may raise $1,000 and
build a piece of road under a compe
tent engineer a section of perma
nent road.
The district adjoining may refuse
to follow, and the second adjoining
may vote the $1,000. Then we have
two permanent stretches of road, with
no connection between, and a chain is
no stronger than its weakest link.
If Clackamas county was divided
into four road districts, and four
road-building engineers were put in
charge, well-paid, competent men who
knew the business, we would get
something for the $225,000 we dump
in annually.
The right idea is to once get a
start, getting a footing of the kind
of roads they build in Ohio and other
states, and when once started it will
be easy to yearly lengthen, for the
people wil be almost unanimous for
roads that are roads.
The biggest drawback to Clacka
mas county developement today is
our awful roads.
The supervisor system is a flat
failure. Under it we take $200,000,
split it in 64 pieces and tell the su
pervisors to spend it as they please.
Politics enters, jobs are more de
sired than roads, and years after we
find we have made but a pitiful small
showing for the money.
One head, one policy management
would give us something, and it
should be tried out.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Commencing January 1, 1914, the
Courier will be one dollar per year to
any subscriber who pays in advance.
It will be one dollar and a half
to any man who does not pay in ad
vance it will be this price if he is
one day late, for a rule is not a rule
unless it is rigidly enforced.
There are two reasons for this
change.
The Courier has built up so large
a subscription list that it can afford
to print a dollar paper. It has more
than doubled in two years.
The other reason is that when the
Farmers Society of Equity made the
Courier its official paper we made a
reduction to Equity members, when
subscriptions were received through
the secretaries and sent in in bunche3
of five or more, paid in advance.
This rule has gradually laxed until
it has been taken advantage .of. and
the result has been two rates, confus
ion and injustice.
The onlv wav to remedy it is a flat
one dollar rate to everyone who will
pay in advance, and this will be the
rate to every Courier subscriber who
wants to accept it after January 1.
And it will also, we believe, put the
paper on the only basis any newspa
per should stand on cash in advance.
Now bear in mind this dollar rate
will apply to only those who pay and
keep paid one year ahead.
Big Grange Meeting December 20.
Saturday of next week, December
20, there will be held a big grange
meeting in Oregon City, when Past
master Leedy of Corvalhs, Mr. Blanch
ard and other prominent grangers
will be present. Matters of state-wide
i.ct mill ho taken ud. More de
tailed notice will be given next week.
Wanted!
WOMEN
and Girls
(over 18 years of age)
To operate SEWING Machines
in garment factory
all ... ii-ii
tojQregon Ulty WOOien WIIIISI
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SUPERVISORS
Shooting Match at Carus
Saturday of this week, the 13th,
there will be a turkey shooting match
at Carus, given by Fred Spangler, to
which all are invited.
The Real Latest
The "bunny hug," "Texas Tommy,"
"turkey trot" and that line of stuff
are now wall flowers, pushed back to
give place to the real late one from
N'York, the "pussy cat sneak."
WOMAN VOTER SPEAKS
Gives Her Ideas of What is and is Not
Needed in Oregon
Editor Courier:
Please allow me to say some
things to the women voters of this
country. It seems like the men have
made laws and run the affairs of the
county and have got so mixed up and
crazy they don't know, where they
are at. Now what I want to say is
for us all to try our very best to have
a law passed that the people must
and shall rule. Why should a few that
don't care how the common people
live-as long as they get their money,
have all power to say how it shall be.
Hear the people, mothers and wiv
es cry out for the saloons to go. But
a few wretches say no, they shall not
go.
Let us try to send good, honest
farmers to the legislature or half, of
them ought to be farmers, and the
other half good men that we can
trust to work for the peoples' inter
est. If they don't do so, have them
step down and out. Make fewer laws,
but good ones, and then see that they
are enforced.
Don't you realize that if there
isn't a change in the way of running
things the common people will be
slaves or surfs for the nabobs in a
few years ?
Another law I want to see made
and enforced is: One moral standard
of purity for man and woman. We all
know what is wrong for a woman to
do wrong and for a man to do, and
vice versa. But do we treat them the
same? No indeed. May God in Heaven
forgive us.
The prodigal son can come back
and society will receive him with
open arms of love and admiration,
but when the prodigal daughter com
es back, or wants to well, you all
know how she is received. I say there
ought to be just one standard for both
man and woman.
A really good, virtuous man,
young or old, will not go in where he
would be ashamed to take his mother,
wife, daughter or sweetheart with
him.
Mrs, J. L. Mumpower.
WILL HE EXPLAIN?
Mr,
U'Ren Asks George Hicinbotham
home Rather light Ones
Oregon City, Dec. 10, 1913.
To the Editor:
I cannot understand George Hicin
botham's reasoning. I never saw or
heard from him a word of opposi
tion to the bill submitted last year by
the wealthy men and the state tax
commission, to exempt household fur
niure, jewelry and other similar prop
erty in actual use from all taxes.
You know that very few farmers or
wage workers ever have enough
household furniture, "jewelry and
similarly personal effects in actual
use" to bo assessed for more than
$100. But there are hundreds of
Mr. Hicinbotham's wealthy friends
have household furniture and other
property exempt from tax by the law
passed last year which is worth any
where from $1,000 to $20,000. Some
of them were assessed as high as
Christmas is' ahead of you
hut were ahead of Xmasl
We've been industriously se arching the market for
the best things that the ma kers and importers have
prepared for this Christma s of 1913 for all these
best things are ready for " the trade" long before
Christmas. You'll be immensely entertained by
them, and looking around involves not the slightest
obligation to purchase.
See list of articles suitable for Christ
mas gifts in our ad o n page 5.
BURMEISTER & ANDRESEN
Oregon City Jewelers
$16,000 for household furniture and
other property which is all exempt
by the law they passed last year.
Yet Mr. Hiccinbotham never rais
ed an objection of any kind to the ex
emption of these wealthy men. Now
that we are offering a $1600 exemp
tion of the dwelling house, tools and
live stock and similar property which
men use to make a living, to make
the tax burden lighter for the com
mon people whose household furni
ture and jewelry never was assessed
for more than about $40.00 a family
on an average, Mr. H. kicks hard.
As to the young people just start
ing, it will help them at the begin
ning much more than the rich man's
household and jewelry exemption
does, and will help them more and
more from year to year as their sav
ings increase. We think it is good
to make tne tax Duroen a nuie ni;nv
er on the common people instead of
giving practically all the exemption
to men whose furniture and jewelry
and other property of the same kind
is worth anywhere from $1,000 to
$16,000.
Yours truly,
W. S. U'REN
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Free
Demonstrations will be made
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WHAT TH
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FARMER GIVES HIS IDEAS AS TO
CAUSES
ROAD MATTERS DISCUSSED
Thinks Each Neighborhood Should
Work Out Own Problems
Editor Courier:
Apparently the county court is up
against the necessity of levying a 20
mill tax' this coming year, and no. way
to get away from it. Yet I am satis
fied now that many people will find
fault on account of the high taxes
without looking for the real cause.
We had a very extravagant legisla
ture and if we want to pay high sal
aries and be lavish with our money
for the higher educational institutions
and other things in proportion we can
not expect anything else but high tax
es. For instance the legislature rais
ed the salaries of the circuit judges
from $3000 to $4000 per year. Now as
far as leal merit or benefit to the peo
ple, they never earned $3000 let alone
$4000. In fact the kind of decisions
we get in the American courts are
are such that if they worked for
nothing they would be expensive
barnacles on society. The whole leg
islature for instance pased a registra
tion law. This legislature was made
up of many lawyers, and by passing
this act they say it is in harmony
with the constitution. The counties
go to considerable expense to live up
to the law, a bum judge says the law
is unconstitutional and the whole
thing goes up in smoke and the dear
people foot the bills. They passed a
county attorney law and where we
paid the deputy before $500 we will
now pay our county attorney $2000
His work will be about the same as
before we sent a tool of the corpor
ations from this county, knowing be
forehand that he was such to the leg
islature and that he stood for every
thing that was not for the best inter
ests of the people,. The only thing he
accomplished was a law to raise the
superintendent's salary to $1600.00
and $300.00 for expenses from $1,000
and $200.00 for expenses.
It cost me more than what my
share of that tax would have been for
many years, to defeat this bill and if
I had felt able to stand the expense
I don't think the circuit judges would
be getting their raised salary.
Now what we need is a working
organization in every school district,
which would be ready to take hold of
such bunco games, also be in shape to
dictate to the men we elect to the leg
islature, the kind of laws that we
want passed, until we adopt this or
some similar plan.
Our Republican form of govern
ment is a failure. A good king would
beat it. Of course we don't want a
king, for we occasionally would get a
poor stick and then we would be up
against it for a life time.
We are all calling for aid to build
good roads and when they cost $4,000
per mile to build and the tax only
equals about $20.00 or $30.00 per mile
it will take a long time to get around
to all the roads. In fact the repair
work the rock roads built, will al
most equal this amount if kept up in
shape.
We hear a good deal of fault find
ing with the present methods of
building roads but anyone can find
fault and all will make mistakes. I
liinW we have some eood road build
ers in this county, as good as can be
found anywhere. We must remember
this is a new contry in many places
sparsely settled. Much of the money
must of necessity be spent in clearing
the rnarfs of stumps, loes and hills to
be graded down before we wn expect
to do permanent worn.
cnmo twlvnrate state aid and roads
building to be placed in the hands of
engineers but if this plan or anything
of that Kind is ineo mey win mm
the roads costing much more than
thou An now.
They are working some along this
line in Washington and one mile of
road near Chchalis, Washington, cost
$30,000. How far would we get on
that rate. It is out of the quetion.
Some day the State of Washington
iil find hat it can not stand this tax.
The more red tape you attach to your
road building system the less roads
..,. will trot, fnr the money.
finr road are costing us almost
,)klo what thev did ten years ago.
Then we paid the help $1.50 per -day
for 10 hours; team $3.00. Now we
tonn fnr eirht hours and $4.00
with Uam, and everybody calling for
aid on the different roads. All seem to
MATTER
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thir.k the county court should help
them.
The facts are that each' neighbor
hood ha3 troubles of its own and
when you call on the court for special
help you are asking some other neigh
borhood to help you. You should then
be willing to help them, so it resolves
itself down to the fact that in the
end to be fair, you should foot the
bill of the cost of the road in your
own neighborhood. The sooner we get
this in our minds the sooner we will
quit finding fault and build such
roads as we are willing to pay for
and be content.
Unless we adopt the Coxey plan
of building roads or something simi
lar, we might just as well keen on
building such roads as we can afford
to loot the bills and let it go at that.
State aid will not help. Government
aid will not help matters if the money
is raised by taxation.
I believe we have a eood county
court and am satisfied they will make
a special effort to keep down expens
es to minimum rate if possible, and
consistent with good work.
I find they are buying nails now
for 20 cts to 45c per keg less than
they formerly paid for the same nails.
This indicates to me that we are get
ting a business-like system in work
ing order.
The Court has called a meeting of
the tax payers to consult with them
about the next year s appropriations
and the estimated amounts have been
published. If anyone has any fault to
find go to this meeting and give your
reasons, otherwise it will be out of
place to kick later on.
R. Schuebel.
DEEPER IN THE HOLE
Rev. Spiess Shows Up the Ridiculous
Position of Dr. Schultze
Gladstone, Ore., Dec. 10. Mr.
Editor: Dr. Schultzo says he "will
not chew the rag with a small cali
ber preacher." Ho was of sufficient
calibre to force tho admission from
Dr. Schultze that h'j knew nothing at
an aDout tne matter himself; also to
cause him to retreat precipitately
from the field, disowning and aban
doning all his previous productions,
hiding behind the association, and
continuing until ho reached the office
of Dr. Norris, and hiding behind him
shieks: "Now come on, and I will
havo Ur. Morris tend to you.
His admission disqualifies him as
a witness in any court, lodge or com
mittec. No court would allow him to
give hearsay testimony alone. Now
will tho association accept his trif t?
Will he be able to show any minutes
of the association whore they request
ed him to publish what ho did? Will
the committee (Dr. Mount and Strick
land), who both testified in the Nor
ris. case say over their signature that
he was requested to publish what he
did? Unless he can show either of
the above we are forced to the con
clusion that it is false, like the rest
of his statements,
If Dr. Norris, as he intimates,
wishes to become the chief "tongue
lasher" I will await his request and
come to his office, if he desires it. To
those who wish to know what the
charges were, also the time at which
they were made, I will give a copy of
the charges and two letters from Dr.
White.
I submitted the following allega
tions: "That Dr. J. W. Norris, acting as
secretary of the Board of Health of
Clackamas county, Oregon, has wil
fully neglected and refused to observe
and enforce the statutes of the state
of Oregon, relating to the public
health or to enforce or observe the
rules and regulations of the Oregon
State Board of Health."
I also made specifications to sup
port the charges. As to the time,
here is a letter:
"January 25, 1913.
"I have asked Dr. Norris to inves-
tigate at once, and if he does not
make arrangements you can advise
me so that I can investigate the ma.t-
ter in person.
"Yours very truly,
CALVIN S. WHITE,
"State Health Officer."
Dr. White did investigate in person
and early in March Dr. White and
Dr. Pierce conducted a public investi
gation in the court house In Oregon
City.
On March 14 1913, Dr. White wrote
as follows: "We have now tran
scribed the testimony and will bring
it before the board on the 27th.
Higned
"CALVIN S. WHITE"
As to Dr. Schultze's suggestion in
regard to the function of a minister,
he neglected to give Scripture where
the minister is forbidden to assist in
political houRecleaning. The liquor
interests used to make that argument
and might give the Doctor a job next
year.
As to the doctor's Scripture for my
prayerful consideration, I will say,
first, that I never have heard of his
being accused of being "a Shepherd of
the Sheen," or n "Example to the
Flock." In the next place an exposi
tion of any Scripture must be appli
rnhln tn the nerson snoken to.
I certainly have been very "pat-
: ttf n.iiU UiM rnkan T Lnaui fKot H W.
knew absolutely nothing about what
he was writing.
I will break this news to him very
gently.
It is not alwavs best to be of good
report to all that are "without" for
Paul's Master in the Sermon on the
Mount eaid: "Woe unto you if 'all
men speak well of you," and "Happy
are you when you are persecuted,'
etc. "Blessed are ye when men shall
reproach you, and persecute you, and
say all manner of evil against you
falsely, for my sake," etc. I am also
trvinir to keep out of the doctor'i
"Knare."
Paul also stirred up a "hornet'i
nest' in Ephesus. Read the 19 chapter
of 'Acts', please, 23rd verse. There
arose no small stir: "A certain man,
named Demetrius, a silversmith, who
made shrineg of Diana, brought no
little business unto the craftsmen."
He gathered them together when they
were told Paul's teachings endanger
i their craft. "Thev cried out saying
Great is Diana of the Ephesians, and
the City was filled with confusion.
When a small calibred preacher en
BOTH FRANCHISES
ARE GRANTED
CLACKAMAS AND CARVER
LINES MAY COME INTO CITY
COMMON USER FRAHGR1SES
And Clackamas Must Not Sell to S. P.
or P .R. L. & P. Co.
At the meeting of the city coun
cil Wednesday night franchises for
both the Portland and Oregon City
and Clackamas Southern railroads
were passed to the second reading and
final passage, December 22 at 8:30
m.
Each railroad is given a single
track franchise over two blocks, and
the Portland & Oregon City is given
a double track franchise the length
of Water street, excepting the two
blocks where the Uackamas South
ern was granted a single track.
There is a common user in both
franchises, and the Carver road must
commence work within three months.
A clause voidinz the Clackamas
Southern franchise in case it should
sell to the P. R. L. & P. Co. or the
Southern Pacific, goes with the fran
chise, however we do not understand
that this would forbid selling to John
Doe and John subsequently transfer
ing to one of these roads.
The council certainly responded to
public sentiment in granting these
franchises, for the opinion was al
most unanimous in the city for fran
chises.
Mary R. Franklin Dead
Mary R. Franklin, a well known
lady of this city, died at the home of
Mrs. Curtis Wednesday night. She
was mother of G. W. H. Miller of thiu
city.
West Linn Special Election the 29th
Monday, December 29, West Linn
will vote on the adoption of a char
ter. There is a fight being waged
over the prohibition of saloons in
the new city, and it is said should it
be defeated, some of the saloons of
this city, which will go out of busi
ness January 1, will open in West
Linn.
Very Dry at Bolton.
A local temperance worker, 'who
recently made a house to house can
vas of Bolton, on the west side of the
river, states that 33 out of the 4U
homes signed up for state-wide pro
hibition.
Postoffice Robbers Convicted
The federal court in Portland last
Tuesday found James Bliss and'
Frank Morgan guilty of robbing the
postoffice at Willamette October 14.
They will be sentenced today.
How "Dry" Works in Salem.
One saloonless week in Salem prov
ed astonishing to the police and estab
lished a precedent for the capital city.
Not a single drunk was taken in dur
ing the entire week, and one one ar
rest was made, and this was only a
beggar. Eugene Register.
Stillness reigns in the police sta
tion only the ticking of the clock is
heard or the scratching of the ser
geant's pen as he makes out reports.
About all the chief of police and his
officers have to do now-a-days is to
serve street assessment notices.
Salem Statesman.
LILLIE WINS OUT .
Fights Own Case for a Year and Sees
It Dismissed
About a year ago William Lillie
was arrested on a criminal charge
against his daughter. There has
been chapter after chapter of the
case, and expense after expense. It
has gone through justice courts,
grand juries and to the circuit court.
The sheriff's department had a posse
out, and after nearly a year Lillie
has won out and the case has been
dismissed there was no evidence
against him.
Mr. Lillie gained much notoriety
during the case, some that he did
not care for, and some that showed a
man does not necessarily have to have
lawyers to defend him. From the
first he was his own attorney, and
would have defended himself at the
circuit court trial, had Judge Camp
bell not dismissed it. He had a lare
number of witnesses subpoenaed in
his defense, among them Drs. Mount,
and Norris, R. B. Beatie, Mrs. Lew
enberger of Clackamas; Mrs. Wright
of Wilhelmina; E. C. Hackett, W. A.
Holmes, John Hatton, Mrs. Nannie
Mumpower, Mrs. Alice Carr and oth
ers. Only one witness was sworn, Mrs.
Carr, and her testimony was that the
daughter, Hazel Lillie had said to her
that her father, Wm. Lillie, had never
harmed her but that her mother, Lil
lie's divorced wife, wanted the child
to make the charge against her fath
er and she intended to stay by her
mother, whether it be right or wrong.
Mrs. Carr's testimony also showed
that a Mr. Mumpower had given as
sistance to Mrs. Lillie in the matter.
Lillie says the whole affair wag a
conspiracy to ruin him in the com
munity and was the outcome of fam
ily troubles of several year's stand
ing. He says he told the grand jury
just what there was to it, and would
have shown it up had the case gone
to trial.
dangered the graft. Dr. Shultze called
them together and for the space of
months, cried out "not knowing what
he said" and then retreated behind
fortifications still crying out, etc.
HENRY SPIESS.