or
COURIER
The annual meeting of the stock
holders of Clackamas Co. Fair will be
held in Oregon City, Saturday, Feb.
7, at 9:30 A. M.
If you want to buy, sell or trade, try
a small ad in The Courier the best ad
vertizing medium in Clackamas County
and you will get, the desired results.
31st YEAR
OREGON CITY, ORE., THURSDAY, JAN. 15, 1914.
No. 34
SPECIAL
ELECTION
AT PRIMARY DATE
COUNTY BONDING WILL BE
SUBMITTED IN MAY
NO EXTRA EXPENSE INCURRED
And Strong Effort will be Made to
Change Expensive System
'The good roads matter crystalized
into definite action last week, when
a committee appeared before the
county court to determine .its ideas
on the matter of a bonding proposi
tion for $600,000 to build 100 miles
of hard surfaced roads in Clacka
mas county.
Under the new law a county may
bond for two per cent of its assessed
valuation; the court may call a spec
ial election on its own initiative; it
may call one on a petition of the
voters, or it must call one on a pe
tition of 25 per cent of the register
ed voters. .
The talk with the court was simp
ly "to ascertain its wishes in the mat
ter, and no demands or requests were
made or refused. The court stated it
would not wish to take the respons
ibility of calling a special election
unless the., request was Strongly
backed by requests of the voters, for
if there was not sufficient sentiment
of the taxpayers to warrant the
bonds being carried, it would have
been a waste of county funds.
Those presenting the matter to the
court were W. T. Sullivan, B. T. Mc
court were T. W. Sullivan, B. T. Mc
E. D. Olds, M. D. Latourette, M. J.
Brown.
At a later private talk with Judge
Anderson and Commissioner Smith,
both suggested that the election
could be called on the date of the
primaries in June, thereby saving the
expense - of a special election, at
which time they believed the court
would call an election for this pur
pose. ,
The committee appreciated the po
sition of the court, and as no action
had been taken to secure petition
signatures, they agreed to the sug
gestion, and an active campaign will
be started throughout the county
along the lines of the advantages and
the investments of guaranteed, last
ing, hard-faced roads for this county.
The Courier looks at it this way:
In the last five years this county
has expended OVER ONE MILLION
DOLLARS on roads and bridges, and
we haven't gotten very much to show
for this million dollars.
This sum would have built one
hundred and fifty miles of hard sur
faced roads throughout the county.
This year in the general and spec
ial levies we will put $318,000 more
onto the roads and bridges.
And it DOES seem that we are
paying an awful price for , what we
are getting, and that it would be far
cheaper to hereafter spend these
huge sums on stone roads on some
thing that will last, and paying a
price for roads that has a guarantee
and bond behind for ten years. '
And that would get us something.
Certainly the present system won't
do. We can't stand it.
We are building roads that require
from 30 to 50 per .cent yearly main
tainance. We are building them under
59 varieties of a supervisor system,
wherein about 50 per cent of the ac
tual xash goes into roads, and this
with the maintenance added .is far
too high a price for what we get.
Later on this paper proposes to
show how the present taxation for
roads (the average amount we . have
paid for the past half dozen years)
will pay off every dollar of the bonds
in twelve years, leave over $100,000
per year for work on the roads that
will not be included in the hard sur
faced 100 miles, pay the interest and
pay the maintenance on the bonded
roads for the 12 years.
We propose to show this from fig
ures of competent men, engineers and
those who know.
And if these propositions can be
verified, if we can build all the year
around lasting roads for this county
at the price we are now paying for
our roads, it would seem that the tax
payers and farmers would certainly
sustain the proposition, and only re
gret that the system was not started
years ago.
Railroads are needed in Clackamas
county, but wagon roads are more
needed, and we positively will not
get any rapid settlement of our
county until we provide substantial
roads throughout the county.
Hard surfaced roads are coming
all over Oregon and all over any
state that needs them. You may op
pose them and argue against them,
but they are coming just the same.
Our country is far behind almost any
civilized nation, and our people are
becoming alive to the great import
ance of this work.
Now leave your head open on this
county bonding proposition. Don't get
"set" and refuse conviction. You have
until the middle of May to decide.
Head it, tflk it, argue it and decide
weeks later on.
An Explanation
The Courier wishes to make an
explanation and apology for its omis
sion of a story regarding the splen
did success of the Odd Fellows anni
versary and ball.
The affair was thoroughly covered
by this paper, but the copy was turn
ed in New Year's day, too late for
the paper then on the press, and it
was held over until the next week.
By one of those oversights that
are bound to occur in all newspaper
offices, "the copy was laid by and ab
solutely forgotten the following week
slipped into a copy hole and left
" there unnoticed until the next week's
paper was out and the ommission
noted.
We regret this very much. The oc
casion was a splendid affair and de
served the splendid write up which
the reporter gave it.
Strange News
Strange news from Oregon City;
appointive officers were confirmed by
the council, and without a -row.
Journal. '
Dr. Turner, Please Answer
If typhoid inoculations is a fake
as you state, please explain how the
United States army only had two
cases of typhoid last year.
, B.
"We'll Have to Hurry"
A scientist reported the other day
that the earth is only going to stay
on the revolving job fifteen million
years longer. Now we hope the au
thorities will get on the job and get
the city elevator and the locks canal
jobs finished by quitting time.
Typhoid at Lawton Heights
. Mrs. H. E. Van Way and four year
old daughter, who live at Lawton
Heights, west of the city, are both
ill with typhoid, the little girl ser
iously ill. Where the fever was con
tracted is a mystery, as both the
water and milk have shown pure
tests and the little girl had not been
away from home for three months.
Every Month Growing
A mail carrier put in a protest the
other day because of the growing
: i i .
suuscnpuon list, sam u was loaning
down the R. F. D.
For a year and a half the Courier
has added to its circulation about one
hundred new names each month. In
fourteen days this month 49 new sub
scriptions were sent in.
And it is a list of readers, not
deadheads of people who take the
paper and pay for it.
How Taxes will be Collected
County Treasurer Tufts has receiv
ed an opinion from the attorney gen
eral on the new tax law, and he says
that all taxes shall be due April 1:
All unpaid taxes will bear interest or
penalty of 1 per cent a month for
five months or until September 1, at
which time all unpaid taxes become
delinquent. At that time there will be
accumulated 5 per cent penalty and
10 per cent further penalty will be
added to the total amount, making 15
per cent penalty due at that time.
Then that full amount will draw 12
per cent interest until paid.
$17,000,000 Wasted
A news story from Salem to the
Oregonian says $18,000,000 has been
expended on the roads of Oregon in
the last ten years and of this vast
sum of money, assessed from the
taxpayers, $17,000,000 represents the
actual loss through depreciation.
Only $1,000,000 of the $18,000,000
spent on Oregon roads is still serv
ing the public. And this last million
will go down in the mud before the
end of another year.
This is an awful cost for Oregon.
It should make the tax payers come'
alive and make a change.
Clackamas county alone has spent
$1,000,000 of this money, and has lev
ied $318,000 for this year.
It's time to demand a dollar's
worth of results for the dollar.
CAN'T YOU SEE THIS?
Can't You See how the Exemption
Amendment Will Help any Worker? ,
The farmers of Clackamas county
are paying a good many thousands of
dollars in the aggregate for the
"crime" oA having a roof over the
heads of their families and their live
stock.
It i3 a crime in Oregon punishable
by an annual fine to do anything in
the diiection of earning a honest liv
ing on a patch of land. "
The farmers of Oregon should join
hands with the workingmen of the
cities and wipe this crime off the sta
tute books.
This can be done by supporting the
Home-Tax Amendment that will take
the tax off the home to the extent of
$1,500 of the assessed values, if any
taxpayers have so much, of his or her
improvements and personal property.
Most of the farmers and working
men of Clackamas county have less
than this limit of exemption, but all
of such will find it to their advan-'
tage to be relieved of taxation on
what they have got of roof, tools and
live stock, vehicles, household fur
niture and orchard trees.
A Clackamas county farmer who
works for his living and who does not
own ten times more land than he can
possibly use, will be ahead of the tax
game if this measure passes. -
So will the mechanic who thinks
he pays no taxes because he gets no
tax receipt, for it will make a demand
for his skill and labor.
So will the man who has land to
sell, for it will bring tens of thou
sands of people to Oregon looking for
opportunities to build homes and
can't Clackamas show 'em where?
The real estate men should see
this, but they don't. When it has been
pushed over on them they will wake
up and yell in delight at the pros
pects and realizations of commissions
on sales. Right here in Oregon City
we have real estate men who do not
realize that if this measure gets on
the ballot it will pass, and that if it
passes they will do more business in
a week than they now do in a year.
The blindest man on earth is a real
estate dealer who does not see that
if you want more homes and more
home builders and more money in cir
culation in Clackamas county just
quit the fool practice of fining men
and women for building homes. Ore
gon City is a blind asylum for real es
tate agents who won't see. v
Meanwhile, help out the Home-Tax
Exemption League with a little
money to pay printing and postage;
and get a few signatures yourself. At
least call in the Courier office and
sign the petition. That and an X
mark for it in November is as little
as any farmer in Clackamas county
should do for it.
There is urgent need of getting
this measure on the ballot early, of
paying the necessary bills, of putting
it over with enough surplus measures
to make the "powers of darkness"
forget to start any hair-splitting suits
to keep it from going before the
people.
Who will send in their name for
a petition ? Who will drop a few dimes
or a "bone" or two in the contribu
tion box? The Courier will act as
hat passer with pleasure.
COURT
APPD NTS
ROAD SUPERVISORS
LIST OF 59 APPOINTMENTS FOR
CLACKAMAS COUNTY
SOME NEW, SOME RETAINED
Judges and Clerks of Election are
Now Being Taken Up
Thursday night the county court
finished its appointments of road
supervisors. The list follows:
No. 1 C. E. Battin, Milwaukie.
No. 2 John Bennett, Clackamas,
Rt. 1.
Herman Siebert, Damascus.
No. 4 J. A. Kitching Currinsville.
No. 5 M. N. Wheeler, Boring.
No. 6 Chas. Krebs, Boring.
No. 7 Frank McGugin, BulRurt.
No. 8 -John Buehhaltz, Bright
wood. No, 9 A. N. Jensen, George.
No. 10 Chas. Duncan, Estacada.
No. 11 E. L. Pope, Park Place.
No. 12 Fred Gerber, Oregon City
Rt. 2.
No. 13 J. F. Fullem, Oregon City
Rt. 2. .
No. 14 Henry Henrici, Oregon
City, Rt.,3.
. No. 15 L. Mattoon, Oregon City.
No. 16 Frank Engle, New .Era.
No. 17 Geo Koehler, Canby.
No. 18 Gus Schuebel, Beaver
Creek.
No. 19 Robert Schuebel, Mulino.
No. 20 John Putz, Colton.
No. 21 W. G. Gorbett, Colton.
No. 22 H. G. Rastall, Molalla.
No. 23 Geo. Oglesby, Aurora.
No. 24 Louis Spagle, Aurora.
No. 25 W. Baty, Aurora.
No. 26 Steve Douglass, Molalla.
No. 27. C. N. James, Marquam.
No. 28 Lem Shank, Molalla Rt. 1.
No. 29 Geo. Gray, Aurora, Rt. 3.
" No. 30 Geo. S. Bullock, Oswego.
No. 31 Fred Baker, Sherwood.
No. 32 W. C. Heater, Sherwood,
Rt. 2.
No. 33 Frank Millard, Spring
water. .
No. 34 Wm. Kiser, Oregon City,
Rt. 7.
No. 35 Wm. Booth, Boring.
No. 36 L. A. Rail, Woodburn, Rt.
2.
No. 37 C. W. Kruse, Oswego.
No. 38 John Bawmgartner, Mil
waukie. " v
No. 38 Herman Fisher, Oregon
City, R. F. D.
No. 40 Dan Erbman, Boring.
No. 41 H. H. Udell, Eagle Creek.
No. 42 John W. Watson, Hub
bard, Rt. .
No. 43 A. D. Burnett, Eagle
Creek.
No. 44 P. W. Meredith, Oregon
City. ;
No. 45 W. P. Bitner, Elwood.
No. 46 J. J. Hatton, Oregon City
Rt. 2.
No. 47 O. P. Rothe, Milwaukie.
No. 48 O. P. Rothe, Milwaukie.
No. 48 Max Anderson, Boring.
No. 49 G. T. Hunt, Estacada. -
No. 50 F. M. Townsend, Clacka
mas, Rt. 1.
No. 51 A. D. Heacock, Boring.
No. 52 H. W. Kanne, Lents, Rt 2.
No. 53 C. A. Beugli, Molalla, R.
F. D.
No. 54 W.' F. Stanton, Woodburn
Rt 2.
No 55 A. Allen, Springwater, Rt
No. 66 Nat Scribner, Oregon
City Rt. 4.
No. 57 Albert Iman, Aurora, Rt.
4. .
No. 58 John C. Miller, Barton.
No. 59 George A. Brown, Oregon
City, R. F. D. .
Parents Should Attend These
The following dates, locations and
speakers have been arranged for a
series of social hygiene talks in this
city, and husbands and wives should
realize the importance of these talks
and the meetings should be largely
attended.
Jan. 20, all east of Van Buren
St., including east side of Van Buren,
B. T. McBain, Dr. H. S. Mount; Jan.
28, all south of 9th St, including
south side of 9th, including Elyville,
W. A. Huntley, Dr. H. S. Mount, at
High School.
Jan. 16, all Falls View Addition,
all east of Jefferson to Van Buren,
W. A. Huntley, Dr. H. S. Mount; Jan.
23, Included east side of Jefferson
and west side of Van Buren St., B. T.
McBain, . Dr. H. S. Mount, at High
School.
Jan. 14, all west of Jefferson and
north of 7th St.; W. G. Elliot, Jr., Dr.
W. L. Williamson; Jan. 20, west side
of Jefferson and north side of 7th,
J. W. Loder, Dr. W. E. Hempstead,
at Commercial Club parlors.
Jan. 16, all west of Jefferson and
south of 7th, J. E. Hedges, Dr. W. E.
Hempstead; Jan. 23, west side of Jef
ferson and south side of 7th, J. W.
Loder, Dr. W. E. Hempstead, at Com
mercial Club Parlors.
Elks Ball February 23
Among the social events of the
year, which is being looked forward
to with much pleasure, is the ball to
be given by the local order of the
Elks at Busch's hall February 23.
This will be an invitational affair,
when many members of the lodge
from other cities will be extended an
invitation. The best of music will be
secured. The hall is to be elaborately
decorated for the occasion, and those
having the affair in charge are Harry
L. Young, H. L. Kelly, Jr., and H. E.
Williams.
State Grange Meeting Saturday
Saturday of this week, in the Com
mercial Club parlors the quarter
ly meeting of the State Equity soci
ety will be held. A large attendance
is expected.
Commercial Club Election
Saturday night of this week, at
eight, will occur the annual election
of a president and three governors of
the commercial club. B. T. McBain,
who has been president for two
years, announces he will not be a
candidate.
It's Usuary Indict Them
Oregon's laws make the legal rate
of interest ten per cent, yet tne
State of Oregon will charge fifteen
per cent to the taxpayer who can't
dig up nis taxes until next Septem
ber. A movement is now in order to
indict the last legislature, which
passed the bankers' aid tax law, for
usury. ,
Rushing the Season
The pussy willows and cherry
trees are budding; roses have never
stopped blooming; the grass grows
almost as fast as in spring; the ther
mometer has not gone below 34
above zero this winter; the grey
squirrels are out doing sprign work;
wheat is up to the second joint; and
not a flake of snow in Oregon City.
Under New Lease
Jack Frost' and Gilbert Thomas
have a new lease on Busch's danc
ing hall, and will give dances as
long as the patronage warrants.
There will be a dance Saturday
night of this week, the 17th and Sat
urday night the 24th. Hutchinson's
orchestra of Ladysmith, Wis., will
play.
A Handsome Block
The new business block on the
corner of Eighth and Main is nearly
completed, and it is certainly a hand
some building and a decided orna
ment to the street Almost its entire
front and side are glass, and the par
lors on the upper floor, for the com
mercial club rooms, will certainly be
a handsome home.
Rebecca Lodge Officers
A. J. Ross, noble grand; Mrs.
Walter Wentworth,. vice-grand; Mrs.
T. Beard, past grand; Mrs. McGa
huey, chaplain; Mrs. Jeanette Scott,
recording secretary; Mrs. Waldron,
conductress; Miss Hamilton, warden;
Mrs. J. J. Cooke, R. S. N. G.; Mrs.
Miles L. S. N. G.; Mrs. Sol Walker
R. S. V. G.; Miss Draper, L. S. V. G.;
Mary Scott musician; Mrs. J. O.
Staats, inside guard; A. H. Longley
outside guard. After the installation
a banquet was served.
McBain is not Candidate
When asked about a rumor to the
effect that he was again a candidate
for the Presidency of the Commercial
Club, Mr. B. T.- McBain stated for
publication:
"I am not a candidate for re-elee-tidn
as P-esidenC "? The Commercial
Club of Oregon City, In fact never
have been a candidate, though I have
now served the Club two years in
that capacity, both elections being
entire surprises to me. My business
connections, however, command more
of my time now than ever before and
I will not be able longer to spare for
Commercial Club work the amount of
time necessary to properly fill the of
fice of President, as I understand the
duties of that office. It is my opinion
also that others should be given a
chance to act and that a change at
this time would be of advantage to
the Club."
These Look Good
The county fair directors and offic
ials this year are going to give es
pecial attention and encouragement
to juvenile work and exhibits, and ex
pect to inaugurate a general cam
paign in every school district in the
county to encourage the boys and
girls along the line of exhibits. It is
a good move and one , that should
meet with hearty encouragement.
Another matter will be brought up
at the annual meeting next month,
which, we understand Secretary uee
strongly advocates, that of abolishing
half fare admissions and admitting
free any child under the age of 16
when accompanied by parents, ibis
change would much encourage our
young Oregonians along the lines of
juvenile lines and it would take quite
a burden from the shoulders of the
parents of large families. And it re-'
solves itself to about this size: The
father of . a big family can only af
ford about so much fair money. If
he has to pay for the children he
simply cuts the days of attendance
to his means and the fair is little, if
any ahead of depriving the family df
part of the attendance.
NOT STOLEN GOODS
So Receiver Could not be Caught in
the Trap as Set for Him ,
A decision strictly in accord with
statute law, but perhaps not so
close to moral law, was rendered by
Judge Campbell Monday, when he
instructed the jury to acquit S. Hoif
man on the charge of having received
stolen property.
The story as gathered from the ev
idence is that the paper mills having
for some time been aggrevated by
thefts of copper and brass, arranged
to permit some goods to be stolen,
which it is claimed were negotiated
for by Hoffman, and when he receiv
ed the goods he was arrested by hid
den officials. He was indicted by the
grand jury.
Judge Campbell held that while
the defendant might be morally guil
ty, nevertheless he was indicted for
having received stolen property, and
that he could not be found guilty on
this indictment, as the property he
received was not stolen.
Wintl WOMEN
and Girl
(over 18 years of age)
To operate SEWING Machines
in garment factory -
Oregon City Woolen Mills
CITY 1ST HAVE
MOUNTAIN
IT'S A MATTER OF HEALTH AD
A MATTER OF BUSINESS
CAN'T TAKE TYPHOID RISKS
And Expect City to Grow, ret'.ile
Must Make ChanB'J
Business men, professional . men,
and mere men are giving lots of time
and going down into their pockets to
bring a pure water proposition for
this city that voters will sustain.
There i are very, very few men or
women in this city who are opposing
a new water system. In fact it takes
a pretty nervy person to stand up and
say our river sewer is good enough
for the people of this city.
Soon the matter of a mountain
water supply will be up to our peo
ple to the people who saw two ser
ious typhoid epidemics during the
year 1914, and to many of the peo
ple who paid big doctor, drug and
nursing bills.
We have had repeated epidemics
of typhoid in this city, and we will
have them again when filth condi
tiosn of water are right, regardless
of how much filtring or "hypos" we
give the water.
The proposition is not to put a
lasting bond debt on the city, but
rather to increase the water rate to
each family to gradually pay for the
proposed new system, and pay off
the bonds yearly.
That the people will vote for a new
water system there is little doubt.
We have simply got to do it if the
city is to go ahead or even hold its
own.
There are any number of people in
this city who are hanging on, boiling
water and trusting the fever may not
get them until the city gate in a new
sysem.
There are physicians in this city
who do not allow a drop of water to
be consumed in their homes under
any circums trices boiled, baked or
fried.
This city can't afford to stand pat
on the present water system. It
can't afford to play politics or' favor
itism for the few at the expense of
the city's growth.
A mountain water system, at wha
every cost would b the biggest inves
ment the city ever made of mora
importance a hundred k times - than
docks, railroad:!, elevators or cluster
lights.
When there Isno typhoid, we are
apt to forget and become careless;
we are apt to think it won't come
again.
But it WILL come again, just as it
continues to come to all towns and
cities of the Willamette valley which
drink from the drainage canal of the
valley.
And let-it come a few times more
in this city, and the "To Rent" and
"For Sale" signs will stare you in
the face for parents won't take ty
phoid chances long if they can avoid
them.
The leading business men of this
city are working night after night to
present a plan for pure water that
the people will accept.
These men know it will never do to
present the proposition and have it
turned down.
They know it would be years be
for it would be undertaken again, and
that they must go slow, go right and
present a' relief the people will sus
tain. One thousand dollars was raised
by personal subscriptions to the pay
the expenses of investigating and
surveying the source from the south
fork of the Clackamas, up in the for
est reserve.
The same individuals will go down
in their pockets for more if neces
sary. The people of this city ought not
and will not fight such a course.
There will be a lonesome few, with
personal reasons ahead of patriotism
and public health, that will obstruct
from ambush, but the Courier believ
es when the water proposition is pre
sented right, the people will carry
it, carry it willingly and cheerfully.
A second engineer ij now going
over the work of Engineer Rands,
cheeking it up and verifying his re
port. If it is sustained, the matter will
then be put to the people as fast as
thoroughness and safety will permit.
And this paper feels absolutely
confident the people will declare for
i't by a large majority vote.
MAY GO TO LOGAN
Surveyors Running Lines into that
Section for Carver Road
Farmers between Clackamas Sta
tion and Logan, who have for the
past two years been trying to se
cure direct rail transportation with
Portland, waxed enthusiastic and
hopeful last week when surveyors
in the employ of the Portland &
Oregon City railroad appeared along
the main valley highway and plotted
a preliminary survey for the Carver
road, Ihe line of stakes which they
drove parallels the county highway,
and members of the party declared
that they were under orders to run
their survey clear through to Logan.
While tapping virtually the same
territory as the survey made some
14 months ago by the East Side Bus
inessmen's club of Portland, the Car
ver partyjaid their line somewhat
nearer the county road, and from 200
to 500 feet north of the first survey.
Members of the party made no se
cret of their mission, and assured all
the farmers along the route that
"Carver meant business."
Harvey E. Cross, attorney for the
Portland & Oregon City . road at
Or gon City, seid that he firmly be
lieved it was Mr. Carver's intention
to build an interurban line up the
Clackamas valley, the proposed road
to branch off the Portland-Oregon
City survey at Clackamas and then
continue east and south. In this plan,
Mr. Cross said. Carver had the en
thusiastic backing of many of the
East Portland merchants, all of
whom were anxious to secure the
trade of the Clackamas valley. The
East Side Businessmen's club has
spent considerable money in running
tentative surveys up the valley, and
a profile and .map of one route was
last year presented to James J. Hill
for his consideration.
If the Carver road builds along its
valley survey it will not only tap a
country in which it will find no com
petition, but it will be assured from
the very start of a heavy passenger
and freight business. The lower
Clackamas valley is thickly settled.
and practically all the farmers there
in drive into Portland each week
with their produce. All this material
will be ready freight for the new
railroad line, and in addition the pro
posed road will gain practically all
the business of the Clear Creek
creamery, nd of the various dairy
ranches in the Damascus district
Further up the valley there is an
abundance of timber, and the new
road would probably result in impor
tant lumbering operations.
a armers along the proposed route
are willing to give the Carver line
right-of-way and in some instances
even a cash bonus, so anxious are
they to get rail communication with
Portland markets. The haul to Port
land over thep resent county road is
a hard strain on stock; yet in spite
of this the tonnage dragged over the
highway year in anl year out keeps
the road badly rutted and in con
stant need of repair.
Ihe Logan extension of the Carver
road, if made, will accomplish a great
deal in developing the Clackamas val
ley, and following the appearance of
the surveyors there was general ju
bilation among the farmers along the
line and in the several thriving com
munities reached.
New Auto Truck Service
Commencing February 1, Williams
Bros, of this city will start an auto
truck, freight and express route be
tween this city and Portland. New
auto trucks have been ordered.
Decision 13th or 20th
The Oregon City local option ap
peal as argued before the supreme
court, is expected to be decided by
that body next Tuesday or the follow
ing week. Of the several cases ap
pealed, Oregon City was the only el
ection that did not have irregularities
contrary to the provisions of the el-
ecion laws.
EQUITY ENTHUISIASTIC.
Stockholders Elect Officers and In
crease Capital Stock to $5,000
The stockholders of the Equity
W&rehouse Co. met at the . couit
house in Portland Wednesday where
thef ollowing directors were elected:
l". A. Harper, Dundee, WllliAM
Gnshnwaite, Oregon City, J.
Schnvoke, Mountaindale; J. L. Kruse,
Tualitin; A. R. Lyman Gresham.
Voted to increase capital stock
from $2500 to $5000. Much new stock
was subscribed for. Managers re
port was enthusiastically received. A
resolution changing by-laws making
he warehouse manager the secretary
of the warehouse board, was passed.
Another resolution was passed.
giving the directors power to require
the contracting of produce by mem
bers.
The new board of directors held a
meeting at the close of the share
holders' meeting to elect officers as
follows:
T. A. Harper, president; Wm.
Grisenthwaite, vice-president; I. M.
Tees, secretary. They also appointed
a committee to file the papers neces
sary io increase me capital biock.
Ihe prospects for success ar now
brighter than ever. The loyalty of
members only is required to make the
warehouse one of the largest con
cerns of its kind on the coast.
After the stockholders' session, a
conference of the Equity, Grange and
Farmers' Union, was held to consider
the 'question of confederating the
three organizations into one business
body with Wm. Grisinthwaite chair
man. A committee was appointed from
the organizations to draft by-laws
and report a future date agreed upon
by the committee.
Ihose present were, for the
grange: C. E. Spence, Oregon City;
Chas. Shaw, Albany; F. C. Blanch
ard, Grants Pass; A. F. Buscton, For
est Grove; B. G. Leedy, Corvallis; J.
II. Huffman, La Grande.
For F. S. E. Wm. Grisenthwaite,
Oregon City; A. F. CCtting, Port
land; J. M. Tees, Linnton; T. A. Har
per, Dundee; O. Whitecotton, Salem;
H. E. Corowell, Dundee; J. Schmitke,
Mountaindale.
For Farmers' Union Mr. Shum-
way, Milton; T. A. Logsdon, Corval
lis. NO MORE MACADAM
Templeton and Tooze Have Taken
Right Stand for City Streets
The Courier believes that Council
men Templeton and Tooze are dead
right in demanding that future im
proved streets be hard surfaced.
The present system is terribly
wasteful in repairs. Only two years
ago Sixth street was macadamized
and only last year the city was haul
ing off macadam in loads in the form
of liquid mud.
Center street has been one con
stant bill of repair expenses, and
now must be improved.
The saving of maintenance on hard
surfaced streets makes them far
cheaper than the present system.
Narrow the streets, extend the
parkings and make the streetway
hard surfaced that's the dope.
If it is necessary to eo slower and
improve less streets, then go slower
but give the city something for the
big expenses give the city streets
mat win last ana wear.
Mrs. Bert Hall of Portland insnt
Tuesday in the city as the guest of
mrs. naries . iaqdj.
IRK OUT IN CLARK
MURDER
WENT OUT AT 12 AND HAD NOT
AGREED AT 2:30
PROBABLY NOT FIRST DEGREE
As Judge Campbell Instructs Against
this Verdict .
A part of the city list had been run
when the jury brought in a verdist of
not guilty.
The case went to the jury at
noon Thursday, and up to press time
no verdict has been returned. Judge
Campbell instructed the jurors that
not sufficient evidence had been
brought out to give them grounds for
a first-degree verdict; and opinion in
thee ourtroom when the trial closed
seemed to be that the jurors would
find Clark guilty of manslaughter.
Testimony to the effect that marks
made when the body of Yelkis was
dragged to one side of the road had
been covered with dew seemed to im
press the jury strongly, one of the
jurors asking that this particular bit
of evidence be read again just as the
venire was leaving the court room.
Pleading absolute ignoranco of the
manner in which Henry Yelkis, "the
last of the Molallas" met his death
last summer, Harry Clark took his
stand in his own dofense in Judge
Campbell's department of. the cir
court Wednesday, and pleaded that
he was dead drunk at the time at
which. the state accuses him of mur
dering the old Indian. Clark also pro
fessed the greatest friendship for
Henry, and declared that he was the
last man in the world that he would
ever have thought of killing.
Trial of Clark for the murder of
Yelkis began Tuesday with Grant B.
and W. A. Dimick assigned by the
court to defend the man accused of
the crime. The case attracted a large
crowd to the courtroom, and every
seat in tne chamber was filled thru-
out the greater part of the hearings.
County Attorney Gilbert Hedges han
dled the prosecution, and by numer
ous witnesses sought to weave a web
of circumstantial evidence about the
defendant that could not be broken
down. The burden of this testimony
was to the effect that Clark had every
opportunity to murder Henry at the
time the crime is alleged to have been
committed, and that many of his
statements regarding the happenings
of the fatal night were false.
In handling the defense Judge
Dimick and his associate introduced
witness after witness to testify to the
excellent friendship that had aDDar-
ently existed between the defendant
and the man he is accused of slay
ing, Drougnt out the fact that the
two often shared a common Durse.
and fought at every inch the efforts
of the prosecution to get damaging
testimony upon the records. Twice
application was made to the court
for the prisoner's release; once when
tne prosecution closed its case, when
a discharge was sought, and again
just before the closing argument,
wnen an instructed verdict was ask
ed. Exceptions were taken to the
court's refusal to so order.
The gravity of the murder trial
was relieved at frequent intervals by
some of the testimony offered. Start
ling accounts of the capacity of both
the defendant and his alleged victim
were cited, when testimony showed
that both men frequently drank
large quantities of all sorts of linuors
and lacking these, imbibed alcohol,
either diluted or straight. Another
on being asked what Yelkis usually
did when he came to town, replied:
"Well, he usQally asked for Harry
Clark, and then the two went and s-ot
drunk."
Clark was a good witness for him
self when on the stand, and gave no
sign of nervousness, in spite of the
gruelling that he received when on
cross examination. Neither did he
wince when, during the prosecution's
closing argument, County Attorney
Hedges directly accused him of the
murder, and gave a detailed account
of how the deed might hav been
committed.
Court adjourned Wednesday after-
noon, the closing argument of the de
fense and the charge to the jury com
ing mursuay morning.
SPECIAL AFFAIRS
Mrs. M. D. Latourette was the
hostess of the Wednesday Afternoon
Auction Bridge Club on Wednesday
afternoon of this week at her home
on Fourteenth and Main Street. The
rooms were prettily decorated for the
occasion, when poinsettas and ferns
were used with artistic effect in the
reception hall , living and dining
rooms. The hoctess was assisted in
the entertaining of the guests by her
sister. Miss Bess Daulton. After sev
eral hours being devoted to cards,
tne pnzew as awarded to Mrs. Clyde
Mount
Mrs. Latourette's euests were:
Mrs. L. L. Pickens, Mrs. L. L. Porter,
Mrs. E. P. Rands, Mrs. C H Moissner,
Mrs Theodore Osmund, Mrs. E. A.
Chapman, Mrs. A. A. Price, Mrs. W.
R: Logus, Mrs. E. E. Brodio, Mrs. G.
A. Harding, Mrs. W. E. Pratt, Mrs.
Nieta Barlow Lawrence, Mrs. Clyde
Mount, Mrs. E. C. Latourette, Mrs.
H. E. Straight, Mrs. L. E. Jones,
Mrs. W. S. U'Ren, Mrs C. G. Huntley,
Mrs. L. A. Morris, Mrs. F. G. Grif
fith, Mrs. Charles Griffith, Allen El
lsworth of Portland, Mrs. E. J. Daul
ton, Mrs. C. Di Latourette, Miss Bess
Daulton.
Dr. and Mrs. C. H. Meissner had
as their guests at their home on
Tenth and Washington Street Friday
evening the "Newly Weds." The ev
ening was devoted to cards, Mrs. A.
A. Price winning the prize