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OREGON
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31st YEAR.
OREGON CITY, ORE., THURSDAY, JAN. 8, 1914.
No. 33
THE WDRKINGMAN
AND THE X IRK
WHAT HE HAS DONE AND CAN
DO WITH IT
CRIDGE GIYES HIM A SERMON
He Can Stand Taxation Gaff, or he
Can Throw it Off
Editor Courier:
I have recently been over the State
making a campaign here . and there
when opportunity i offered for the
Home-Tax Exemption measure.
Found the "common mut" reason
ably in favor of it. Got his signature
easily.
Found the lawyer and the 'real es
tate agents and the money loaners al
most a unit against it. Out of over
2,000 signatures obtained, less than a
dozen lawyeis signed it, and most of
them were personal friends. All ad-
admit that it will be constitutional
that it will probably carry.
Found very few dollars to help out
the necessary expenses. .People who
are m favor of it the great major
ity very hard up.
The corporation-controlled local
newspapers did not enthuse over it.
Ye average country editor is afraid
to discuss the tax issue, or to help the
little fellow secure justice in taxation
to the slightest degree. -
In Medford secured 300 signatures
on the streets in two days. In the lit
tle town of Gold Hill over 40 signed
it in an afternoon. Many took petl
tions and promised to send in names
lor their localities.
In Grants Pass, the mayor, a law
yer, took a petition, and the city aud
itor another. A preacher with a large
congregation agreed to secure some
signatures.
In Roseburg over 300 signed up
and there are men and women at work
there for more.
In Albany over 150 signed, and
several are circulating petitions.
A total of 12,000 signatures must
be secured.
The only argument against the
measure so far is that it will raise
taxes.
This is true. It will raise taxes on
the other fellow the fellow, who can
stand it, and the fellow who now dod
ges it.
Which one are you, gentle reader?
The average millionaire dodges
taxes, on 971, per cent. Some on a
great deal more. Carnegie admits he
beats his taxes on three hundred mil
lions in New York. Don't you suppose
some of our Oregon millionaires do
as well as they can in proportion I
This measure will enable any 3,000
farmers in Oregon to play even with
the ounch of millionaires who are
dodging taxes here equal to Qarnegie
in New York.
That is the only way to play even.
Exempt the home, the tools, the
implements. Let the man now asses
sed for $10,000 and over, and the fel
low with a lot of speculative, idle land
make it up.
We do not need to exempt the sky
scraper, and the railroad train, the
bank building or the palatial hotels.
ihey always take care ot themselves.
The average workingman and small
farmer has walked the floor too many
million miles worrying over how the
rich-would pay their taxes if the poor
men did not pay.
Here is a chance to quit that prac
tice.
What is needed is a few dollars
more to finish putting this measure
on the ballot. Then a few more hust
lers to get some, more signatures. We
are about half .way over the hill at
this writing. The sum of $300 will do
It. v
A few years ago the workingman
paid poll taxes in Oregon.
He made a few X marks on the bal
lot and quit it.
In California the poll tax collectors
are hot after the workingman for $6
poll tax. He will make a few X marks
next November on his ballot there
and stop the habit.
In Oregon we can lead off by an in
vestment of X marks that will net ev
ery working man and woman in the
State from $50 to $500.
Unjust taxation makes countless
millions mourn.
Unless the "common mut" exempts
himself he will be taxed more than
ever next year. One-sixth more ? Well,
and then some.
If you want to get out from under
high taxes on your home take hold
with the Home-Tax Exemption Leag
ue and help.
Wanted, 150 men and women to
pledge themselves" to get 40 signatur
es each.
There are men donating more than
the $300 needed for this measure
donating to the heathen, to fake char
ities, to cat hospitals, to all sorts of
things except the matter of getting
the tax dodger off the backs of the
working people.
The workingman has the power to
to doge taxes. Has he the sense ?
Any woman will know that the tax
on her home is taken from the backs
and mouths' of her children.
What could a working farmer's
wife do with the taxes now paid on
the cows, the barn, the orchard, the
clearing?
Would she not beautify and sancti
fy the home more?
Women of the homes of Oregon,
help use your ballot1 and your power
of the initiative to free the home from
taxation.
Alfred D. Cridge.
. Local Option Case Next Tuesday
Next Tuesday, January 13, the
matter of whether Oregon City shall
or shall not remain dry will be argued
before the supreme court at Salem.
C. Schuebel, B. N. Hicks and C. H.
Dye will present the arguments for
the "drys" and C. D. Latourette will
represent the liquor men.
A Bit of Old History
Fred Lockley in the Portland Jour
nal says the first " newspaper to be
published on the Pacific coast was is
sued from the press of the Oregon
Printing Association at Oregon City
on February 5, 1846. The officers of
the Oregon Printing Association were
W. G. T'Vault, president; J. W. Nes
smith, vice president; John P. Brooks
secretary; George Abernathy treas
urer, and the directors were John
H. Couch, John E. Long and Robert
Newoll. Most of these men with W,
H. Gray and a few others, were the
same ones who had been instrument
al in the formation of the provisional
government and in starting the Mult
nomah circulating library.
Where Winter is Spring
The warm Chinook rains, with the
thermometer at about 65, have been
melting the snows in the mountains
and the old Willamette has been tear
ing down with a big volume of water,
With spring only about three weeks
away winter has not yet commenced
in the Willamette valley. Not a flake
of snow has fallen in Oregon City
there has been but one white frost
roses are in bloom, grass is green
and growing, rose bushes are putting
out their leaves. Vegetables are green
in the gardens and the lowest the
thermometer has gone this winter has
been 34 above zero just, down to
frost line.
Winter is always spring in this
part of Oregon.
A Strange Hobo
In the round up of hobos Sunday
night a rather unusual fish was found
in the net; an Esquimaux. He was
gathered in by the night force, and
when they were turned loose in the
morning Chief Shaw noted that the
man acted peculiarly and he held him
for investigation.
The man was a big fellow and had
No. 11 feet. He couldn't talk English
and a Jap was hunted up. The Jap
quickly stated he was not his country
man, and then a Chinaman and Dago
were tried ,with the same result. The
Chief thought he might be an Esciui
maux, and phoned Portland, when it
developed the man was Om Kom, an
insane Esquimaux, who had escaped
from the sanitonum at Montavilla
MacDonald Will Make Good
Many readers of the Pacific Pat
riot know of S. McDonald of Oregon
City, and still others know of him,
He is the man who led the dry forc
es of Oregon City on to victory in
the recent -campaign and he was call
ed from field duties in order to give
him fieedom to enter the local fight
in his home city. He made good.
And the committee is glad to wel
come him back to the Out to Win
work. Mr. McDonald has started out
to win Clackamas county for the Pro
hibition party.
Those who know Oregon- City ap
preciate the fact that it is a political
hothouse, and not at all an easy field,
but MacDonald is making good, as
his Scotch ancestors made good on the
field of Cannockburn. PacifL Pa
triot.-
WILL STAND BY REPORT
B. T. McBain Says he will Argue Mat
ter with Mr. Hedges
Last week's Enterprise had a letter
from Joseph E. Hedges, a member of
the water board, criticising B. T. Mc
Bain's report to the Mountain Water
League, to which Mr. McBain makes
the following reply:
"1 have received no letter from Mr.
Hedges and have said nothing to any
one which I am not prepared to stand
by. My report was to The Mountain
Water League but was copied by the
Press. If Mr. Hedges, or anyone else,
wishes to argue the matter before the
League, or any meeting of individuals
called by him for the purpose, I am
ready and willing to explain why 1
feel that my figures are correct and
his conclusions drawn from some
other source, as there was nothing in
my report about an income of $27,000
per. annum or 1293 consumers.
"I was not talking for West Linn,
but for the interests of the people
at large; for those who can not af
ford to have sickness in their homes;
for those who have lost those dear to
them through disease said to come
from the present water supply; for
the interests of the Commercial Body
of Uregon City and Clackamas Coun
ty. I am not a member of West Linn's
committee on pure water and can not
peak for the people there, except to
state that West Linn does not want
water from the Willamette River."
CHIEF SHAW'S ANNUAL REPORT
Outline of Year's Work, Arrests,
Fines and Hobo Record
Following is a rcondensed report
as made by Chief of Police ohaw to
the city council:
229 arrests were made during year
1913; 215 prosecutions - were made
during year 1913; 1 boy arrested and
sent to his home at Ashton, Mary
land; 2 boys were returned to their
homes at Portland, Oregon; 3 Indian
boys were returned to the Chemawa
Training School; 1 boy was returned
to Boys & Girls Aid Society, Port
land; 1913 hobos were provided with
beds during year in jail; 6 arrests
were turned over to Justice of Peace
Court; 2 arrests were turned over to
S. Authorities; $243.10 paid for
meals served inmateo iof city jail;
$1200.00 was taken in by Police De
partment and paid to City.
The report of dog licenses, sales,
etc., show 18 dogs ware sold, 2 re
deemed and the receipts for same
were $36.50. There were 87 dogs dis
posed of during the "year and 182 li
censes issud.
For the month of November the po-
lic record shows:
498 number of hobos taken in and
kept over night; 14 arrests made dur
ing the month; 8 tried before the Re
corder; 3 tried befors the Mayor; 3
forfeited bail and did not stmd trial.
$120.00 taken in for fines during
the month and turned over to the Re
corder, i
From Dec. 11 to Dec. 31 the num
ber of hobos taken in and fed with
coffee and buns, 258 at 6c per, $15.48.
is umber of meals served to inmates
of jail, 23, at 25c per meal, $7.00
MOUNTAIN
WATER
OR SEWER1 WATER
QUESTION OREGON CITY
MUST SOON ANSWER
SOME POINTS TO CONSIDER
Can We Offer Pure Water, or Can We
Afford to Reuse it?
Almost every man you talk to
about it will admit that Oregon City
made a mistake when it installed a
wattr system and attempted to filter
sewage for its people to drink.
We are tiot going to enlarge on
mistakes. We all make 'em and all
will. . .
The point we are after is, if we are
in bad, let's get right, and get mere
just as quick as possible.
The Willamette river is a great
sewer for the Willamette valley, and
is officially known and designated as
such.
As the valley becomes more thickly
settled, and it is becoming more so
every month, the river will become
more and more filthy and dangerous.
As a permanent future supply for
drinking water, none win advocate it.
I doubt if there is a resident of this
city who will take the stand that the
present source can be considered as a
drinking water cupply n the years to
come.
And if it is but a question of time,
why not call the time now, and re
move from this city tlie biggest draw
back it has ever had or probably ever
will have?
Why not meet it, remedy it and
give this city a chance to grow (
You can t make people believe that
foul water can be made palatable and
safe by filtering, even if it were true
We have a modern filtering plant,
and we have, added to it a hypoder
mic injection of disenfectant, used
and recommended in cases of emer
gency, and yet there are many of ouf
people who would not drink it from
a faucet any sooner than they would
drink some poisons.
Month niter month, day after day,
many a mother boils every drop of
drinking water betore she win allow
her children to have it.
There are stores and offices on
Main street where IMPORTED water
is used, brought from Portland and
other places.
A situation is before us that posi
tively must be remedied if this city
is to go ahead.
It is not a question of "can we af
ford to," but rather "can we afford
not to?"
There is no price too high for pure
and safe drinking water.
it is not a matter to be measured
by dollars and cents.
Pure water is the greatest asset
any city can have, and all over this
country cities are being forced to get
it and in some cases, Los Angeles
for instance, it. comes at a price that
almost staggers.
But Los Angeles knows she must
get it or suffer.
In Oregon City a proposition will
soon be presented to bring mountain
water from the Clackamas river, far
up in the unpolluted forest reserve.
It is going to cost about $280,000
to bring it here. :
It is going to raise the price per
month to consumers about 50c per
month, for the first few years, then
it will gradually lessen, as the bonds
and interest decreases.
This paper believes this is the I
cheapest typhoid insurance any fam
ily in this city can take out.
It believes that outside of typhoid
entirely, it is far more than worth
the price, the satisfaction that the
water is pure; is from the mountain
snows and springs, and free from
dead carcass juice, and the offal of
every city and town up the entire
length of the Willamette.
Centralia is now getting the adver
tising this city has had. and all over
the United btates the press dispatch
es are telling the people it is a good
town to stay away from. There have
been hundreds of cases and twelve
deaths. The authorities have agreed
that the cause is polluted water.
Invariably this is the cause, and the
first question easterners ask is
Where do you get your water?"
We have got to get away from the
Willamette sewer. At times it is not
safe to bathe in (doctors will tell you
so) and yet we DRINK IT dope it
and swallow it.
And if we have got to make a
change let us make it now, not five
years from now, after we have been
an aid society to build up surround
ing towns at our expense.
We want public opinion on this
mater from our citizens short. snaD-
py direct-to-the-point expressions.
we want helpers, boosters, men
and women who love the old city and
want to see it go ahead.
This is a matter too important for
personal and factional differences. It
is a matter for the safety of homes
and firesides and the future wellfare
of the city.
And if you are with it, boost.
SEQUEL TO TELEPHONE MYS
TERY IS GHOST YARN
Phantom is Not Seen, but Patrolman
Lowe and Operator Butler Are
Sure They Heard Something
This is a little story about the abil
ity of men to fly without the use of
wings, aeoroplanes, or inflated bal
loons. It is an account of some events
that transpired in Oregon City last
Sunday evening.
It happened thusly. About ten
'clock, or sometime after the even
ing church service had let out. a
young telephone "central" .in this
town who hag recently been "seein'
things o' nights" called ud ODerator
Butler of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany, and told him that some myster-
iouB person was calling her from the
public telephone in Holman's under
taking rooms. Mr. Butler at once hied
himself to the rescue, and gathering
up Special Policeman Lowe, proceed
ed to the rear of Holman's establish
ment, desiring to catch the myster
ious telephone user at work.
Policeman Lowe, by virtue of his
authority, entered the rear of Hol
man's premises first, with Butler
creeping along close at his heels.
Cautiously the two crept through the
various eerie rooms until they reached
the chamber where Mr. Holman's
choice array of coffins is kept in up
right cases against the walls. But one
room further on was the telephone,
and perhaps the mysterious person
who had been calling "central" and
providing some newspapers with a
sensation.
Policeman Lowe moved cautiously
across the coffin-display room, with
Butler at his heels. And suddenly,
without reason or warning, there was
a crash, and one of the black boxes
wherein ore consigned human dust,
fell to the floor right in front of Po
liceman Lowe.
Lowe went "straight . ud." Lowe
admits that he did, and Butler vouch
es for it. Lowe admits that he jump
ed at least four feet, and that his head
hit the ceiling. "And when I was ud
in the air, scared to death, I could
feel that pesky operator climbing
still higher over my back." adds
Lowe.
And Butler confirms that. too.
"Lowe jumped so high that I had to
jump to get on top of him," says But
ler, '"and when he started to come
down, I just naturally had to scramble
up his back to keep away from the
floor."
Both men, shortly after, came back
to earth, and then they burst simul
taneously and hastily from the front
door of Holman's place, and nearlv
knocked over Patrolman Henry Cooke
in tneir nurry. it was through Henrv
Al A AL- -A .A j A . " "
mat me aiory iirst got out.
INo, no sign of any mvsterious ner-
son was found at the telephone.
HOW IT WAS DIVIDED
Fifty Answers are Received to Prob
lem Recently Printed
Two weeks ago M. V. Thomas of
Sandy, gave a problem to the Courier,
which we printed and offered a year's
subscription to tihe Courier to the
first person giving a correct solution.
Over fifty answers were received,
and we wrote Mr. Thomas for the
answer. His reply follows:
"That problem is like lowering the
price of trustified articles by lowering
the tariff it won't work."
The judges have decided that Prof.
G. Buchanon, principal of the
Mount Pleasant school, and Henrv
Spiess, Jr., of Gladstone are the win
ners, both having given the first cor
rect solutions at ..the same time. Mr.
Buchanon said there was no .solution
to the problem; and Mr. Spiess sent in
the following amusing solution:
Gladstone. Ore. Dec. 26. 1913.
Editor Courier:
The answer to the problem vou
published in your last issue of the
Courier SHOULD be as follows. The
man paying $0.75 per acre gets 200
acres and tne man paying $1.25 per.
acre gets 200 acres. This makes the
320 acres. Each man has spent $150,
the remaining $20 going to the real
estate man. This is a little more than
the usual per cent paid to the real
estate man, but owing to the high
cost of living the per cent of the real
estate man was advanced according-
y- ... '
When will you begin sending me
the prize Courier? I shoud feel great
ly disappointed if I did not get it as
I feel that I deserve it for my SKILL
in solving the example.
lours respectfully,
Henry Spiess, Jr.
HEDGES GETS VERDICT
Again Wins Out on County Damage
Action and Cleans the Slate
Cbunty Attorney G. L. Hedges won
another suit for Clackamas county
Monday and cleaned the slate of dam
age actions, when he won a verdict
in defending the county against the
damage action of R. M. Bradshaw.
The jury was out about an hour.
- The action was brought for dam
ages for injuries alleged to have been
sustained on the Aimes-Bull Run
county road, about two years ago. The
plaintiff alleged that he was driving
down a hill on a plank road, and as
the wagon left the planking it drop
ped into a two feet deep rut, throw
ing him out, and so injuring his leg
that amputation was afterward nec
essary. He asked for $2,000 damages.
Mr. Hedges defended by evidence
showing that the plaintiff had driven
over the same road two days before
with the same team and that he could
not have been ignorant of the alleged
rut or hole; that loaded teams were
constantly passing over this place;
that plaintiff drove over it in broad
daylight, and then with a two-foot
rule he showed to the jury how it
would have been impossible, if the
drop off was two feet, for loads or
wagons to pull over it, as the horses
would be pulling against a dead cen
ter. The case evidentally largely hing
ed on the veracity of the witnesses.
Dimick & Dimick and Mathews &
Morehead were attorneys for plain
tiff, and Sheriff Mass did good work
for the county in the matter of wit
nesses. Answer to Dr. Turner
Dr. Turner
I note you ridicule hydrophobia.
Please explain the death of the man
who died in Portland last summer,
the papers stated in horrible convul
sions, as the result of a mad dog bite.
B.
Wanted!
(over 18 years of age)
To operate SEWING Machines
in garment factory'
Oregon City Woolen Mills'
THE AWFUL PRICE
OF
S
$847,744.17 EXPENDED IN
PAST FOUR YEARS
THE
AND WHAT ARE THE RESULTS
It is Time Clackamas County Changed
its Wasting System
This year there will be expended on
the public roads of this county $318,
560, a' sum sufficient to build fifty
miles of hard surfaced roads.
The amount expended by Clacka
mas county on its county roads dur
ing the years 1910-11-12-13. was
$847,744.17.
If we were getting these miles of
lasting highways, or if we were
getting one half of them, this article
would not be written
Annually we have been expending
upwards of $200,000 a year on roads
and bridges in this county, and we are
pointed out as having the worst roads
of the 33 counties of the state.
Public highways, well-built, lasting
roads, are of just as much importance
to the development of a county or
state as railroads, and all Oregon is
waking up to this tact.
You can't get quick settlement of
any locality until there are induce
ments offered, and good roads are the
biggest possible inducements for
county settlement.
ta :a ,.j. .ua ...;n At, ij
1, 1011 l jU 111U1.11 WllOb Will bilO lOllU
raise, as how it can be gotten to mar
ket after it is raised
Clatsop, Jckson, Marion and Mult
nomah counties are getting into line''
and will build hard surfaced roads.
And this county has simply got to
get in line or this will be a good
county to skip when easterners come
here looking for farms.
The drawback in this county is
want of concerted action a lack of
pulling together. The farmer more
than anyone else realizes the awful
cost of taxation in bucking up the big
road taxes, but the heavier indirect
cost of wear, wheelbarrow loads, bog
ging up, and the cost of having to
sell his stuff when the roads are right
so that he can deliver not when the
markets are right.
And it would seem that under these
conditions that a system might be
worked out for the best good of the
county, whereby we could sart, and
keep lengthening, lasting stone or
hard surfaced roads, over which
teams could haul the heaviest loads
every week in the year.
The last legislature passed a bill
under which counties may bond 'for
improved roads up to two per cent
of their assessed valuation. This coun
tv is assessed at S30.000.000 and mav
bond for $600,000. This amount will
build one hundred miles of lasting
hard 'surfaced main roads in this
county.
Once let the system be started and
its value practically demonstrated,
and section after section, precinct af
ter precinct, will be added to the main
roads with feeders. They will have to
or suffer, and they will want to, and
one half of the great sums we spend
on poor roads will be expended on
good roads and the system will rapid
ly extend.
We understand a movement will be
started to put in 100 miles of hard
surfaced roads, and submitted to the
people, and that the 100 miles will be
mapped out by state engineers to the
best advantage of the county, with
eighty per cent of the mileage given
to the counrty roads, back from and
leading to the railroads and market
places
If this proposition is presented in
this way, and we are informed it will
be so presented and tied up before
being given to the voters, it is a
proposition that every farmer and
every business man should think over
pretty thoroughly, for you can't get
away from the fact that our present
system is a sad and wasting failure,
and too mighty expensive to continue.
If we must expend upwards of
$200,000 a 'year on roads and bridges
in this county, let us put at least half
of it wheie it will LAST.
Once start the system and it will
spread. The expense of keeping these
permanent roads in repair will be as
nothing compared with our present
system, for we are spending hundreds
of thousands of dollars almost entire
ly on repairs and they are but tem
porary repairs after they are made,
and must be made over and over
again.
Let us arrange for meetings to get
the cities, towns and farmers togeth
er and see if we cannot devise a
means that will benefit all and do
away with the present expensive load
this county is carrying on its back
every year.
When 28 precincts of this county
vote special taxes on top of the $200,
000 county appropriations, it is a dead
sure indication the farmers are alive
to the road matter.
It's a question of get together. .
We can do it.
Damages of $1,800 Given
A verdict of $1,800 was awarded
by a jury in Judge Campbell's de
partment of the circuit court Wed
nesday to Olive May Ball against the
Aurora Electric Company for the
death of her husband, Charles Ball,
who was killed by sitting on a live
wire, said to have become charged
through the negligence of the defend
ant concern Judge Campbell allowed
five days for the filing of a bill of
exceptions in the case.
Barlow Falls in Line
II. T. Melvin, secretary of the Bar
low commercial club, states that or
ganization has passed resolutions
favoring the improvement of the Pac
ific Highway, its location on the east
side of the river and asking that the
teke 8Ction theM
POOR
ROAD
FROST AFTER LOAFERS
Constable Starts Campaign to Pro
tect Girls from Young Scamps
"I believe that there is an organ
ized effort being made in all the Nor
thwest Coast States to procure young
girls for immoral purpuses in San
Francisco in anticipition of the crowds
that will visit California during the
year of the Panama fair; and I think
that agents of this scheme have been
active in Oregon City. Even if this
should not be so, I do know that there
is a gang of worthless, cigarette-
smoking young loafers who hang
around the corners in Oregon City
and insult and ogle every girl that
passes down the street; and both as
an officer of tho law and as a man I
intend to do what I can to break this
gang up, and force them to go to work
or to be put in jail as vagrants till
they are willing to work."
This was the declaration of Con
stable Jack Frost this week on his
return from Astoria, whither he went
to arrest Jack Davis, an Oregon City
boy, and three young Oregon City
girls, all of whom are said to have
gone to the seaport town together.
Tuesday the Davis boy, who is lust
over 21, was bound over without bail
to await the action of the grand jury
on a statutory charge. Warrants are
out for two other Oregon City youths
both under age, who are believed to
have been implicated with - Davis m
the flight of the three girls; and ac
cording to the authorities, warrants
for other local young men will issue
shortly. All the warrants are in con
nection, it is said, with a series of
delinquency cases that have been
brought to the attention of County
Attorney Gilbert -Hedges.
Alleged iregularities of behavior
closely bordering on the criminal, are
said by the authorities to have taken
place in Oregon City, Marion county
towns, and in Portland lodging hous
es. In all these instances, it is said,
a certain clique of Oiegon City youths
have been implicated. It is the pur
pose of the authorities not only to
issue warrants for some of the alleg
ed leaders of this clique; but also to
present evidence of a sensational na
ture in regard to these gatherings, to
the grand jury. Determination to
"clean up" conditions is expressed,
and it is rumored that the action of
the authorities will bring out start
ling disclosures, and that a number
of youths of excellent family will be
implicated.
LIVE WIRE TOPICS
Various Interesting Matters Discuss
ed at Tuesday's Luncheon
The flax mill proposition came ud
before the Live Wires Tuesday noon,
when T. W. Sullivan, who has work
ed hard to land .this industry, stated
that he had received very little en
couragement from farmers and busi
ness men and that unless some per
sonal work was done the project
would fail. He stated that one hun
dred letters were sent out to farmers
in different sections of the county, and
only one had made reply.
M. D. Latourette offered a motion
which passed, that the publicity man-
tiger, Mr. Freytag, canvass the coun
ty, and have personal talks with the
farmers who have been addressed.
Mr. Sullivan said the towns along
the east side of the river were all ac
tive in the endeavor to have the
state highway located on this side, as
the state will materially aid this
trunk line out of the two mill tax
which will be levied for two years,
this county has twenty miles of the
prbposed ronte on the east side of the
river. He said the proposition is for
only permanent work and a trunk line
that will last 40 years with proper
maintenance.
B. T. McBain reported that indica
tions were the title to the locks
would be wound up and the transfer
to the government completed this
mortth.
Mr. Hazel reported that the grand
council for the Royal Arcanums had
been secured for this city for April,
and a motion extending them a wel
come was passed.
Mr. Hazel stated that the county
court had appropriated approximate
ly $318,000 in special and general
levies for county roads and bridges,
which would be divided into 54 pre
cincts for 64 varieties of roads. He
urged that action should be taken to
get the farmers interested in a con
certed movement for permanent roads
that farmers were deeply interested
in the road problem; that nearly all
want a change from the present sys
tem, and a ' general proposition he
thought could be worked out.
Main Trunk Meldrum said" there
was an agitation to widen the present
20-foot alley running parallel with
the S. P. tracks between Fifth and
Eighth streets, by purchasing 20 feet
from .fronting lots, and making the
alley a 40 foot city street.
. Wanted, Names and Change
There has been a little fund start
ed at the Courier office to help along
the expenses of initiating the $1500
homes' exemption bill. .
I his is a poor man's bill and there
are no big business concerns to back
it. About $300 must yet be raised to
complete the necessary signatures and
get an argument in the state pamph
let. Signatures and change are needed.
If the bill becomes a law it will re
lieve workers from a part of the
heavy tax burden and put it on to
those who can and should nav it. Heln
along the fund and the petition. Any
sum from 25c up will be gladly re
ceived and the little amounts in the
aggregate will be the best invest
ment the workers of Clackamas
county ever made.
Come in and read the law and hnln
the cause along.
It Often Hannerm
The rich man in his 'years of toil
Burned barrels' and barrels of mid-
&tojAtagSSS2r
SCHEUBEL
A
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TAKE PLACES OF STONE AND
STIPP IN NEW COUNCIL
BOTH FRANCHISES ARE PASSED
William Beard Resigns, and Place is
Filled by E. D. VanAuken
With strict attention to business,
and an apparent intention to do their
best for the city, the new municipal
council got down to work Wedesday
night, listened to annual reports of
city officers, passed two railroad fran
chises to second reading, transacted
much routine business, and laid the
way for the appropriation of $300 to
secure the services of D. C. Henny,
consulting engineer of the Reclama
tion Service, to make a final report
on the south Dork of the Clackamas
as a source of water supply for the
city. "
Among the annual reports present
ed to the council were those of the
water board, the city treasurer, the
chief of police and a special report on
the condition of city finances. This
last showed that warrants due since
the last call was issued amount to
$63,976.15 on which there is approxi
mately $2,400 interest; and that
chargeable to general fund are im
provement claims aggregating $32,-
815.96, on which there is interest am
ounting to $913.73, making a total in
debtedness of $100,705,84 on the books
at the start of the new year. This sum
is in addition to outstanding amounts
due on various bond issues.
The report of the water board
showed that collections last year
showed an increase of $415.92 over '
collections for 1912, and that $6,642
had been disbursed. There are out
standing warrants yet to be paid to
the extent of $46,854.68, an amount
that must be added to the general city
debt when considering general fi
nances. Police Make Money ',
The report of Chief Ed Shaw, of
the police department, showed that
his branch of the city had been a mon
ey maker. But $243.10 was spent for
feeding city guests, while $1,299 was
taken in through fines. By a curious
coincidence the report shows that
there was an average of one hobo a
day given shelter, there having been
1913 hoboes given lodgings during
the year 1913.
Three pool and billiard halls appli
ed for licenses for the first quarter
of 1914, and their applications were
granted after Chief Shaw assured the
counsel that no charges were pend
ing against any of the places.
Applications for several saloon li
censes were received, and on motion
of Councilman Hackett were laid on -the
table. Councilman Meyer endeav
ored to have Mr. Hackett amend his
motion to have consideration of these
applications until "such time as the
supreme court should rule; on ithe
recent local option election,' but Mr,
Hackett said he prefered to have his
motion stand.
Early in the session Mayor Jones
named the committees for the com
ing year. They are as follows:
Committeemen are Named.
Financial Meyer, Tooze,' Hackett '
Streets and public property Tem
plton, Albright and VanAuken.
Fire and Water Long, Metzner
and Andrews.
Health and Police Albright, Long
and Hackett.
Cemeteries Metzner, Andrews and
Meyer.
Parks Tooze, Templeton and Van
Auken.
Councilman Beard of the third ward
tendered his resignation and the coun
cil elected E. D. VanAuken to fill
the vacancy. Mr. VanAuken was nom
inated by Councilmen Meyer and An
drews.
Appointments for the coming year
were made by the mayor. Chris
Schubel was named city attorney.
Charles Noble was reappointed city
engineer, Charles Babcock was re
named street superintendent, and Ed
Shaw was continued in office as chief
of police. At a later session the
health and police committee will name
the members of the night police re
lief, and probably will make no
change in the present force.
IXHlvr Is Recorder.
On motion of Mr. Tooze the coun
cil then nominated by tallot for the
office of city recorder, and a unani
mous vote was cast for John W. Lod
er, and a few minutes later he was
sworn in, and took his chair beside
the mayor, former Recorder ' Stipp
stepping down from office.
Councilman Tooze next called the
attention of the council to a plan to
reduce expeses and Councilman Meyer
introduced a resolution providing that
henceforth the city attorney be al
lowed a flat salary of $90 a month, be
allowed no fees, and be at the service
of the various city departments when
need might arise.
City Attorney Schuebel, at the sug
gestion of Councilman Meyer, was
then instructed to prepare a resolution
to be presented at the next meeting,
providing that henceforth the city re
corder Bhould receive $85 a month,
and that out of this sum he should pay
for the services of a clerk or stenog
rapher. Special Police Refused.
An application from business men
on the hill, asking the city to defray
a part of the expense of a special
night watchman, to guard against
fires, was turned down by a vote of
tho council. Councilman Albright
made a strong plea for the stationing
of a policeman in the residence dis
ti'ictall night, and this matter was
left in the hands of the committee of
which he is chairman.
Mr. Tooze brough to the attention
of the council a charge that telephone
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