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OREGON
CITY
COURIER
nirnniatinn The Curier has the
lirUUiailUll largest circulat i o n
of any weekly newspaper between
Portland and Salem, and the best ad
vertising medium in the valley.
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, FEB. 19 1914.
No. 42
TIE "BOGIE
I
BIG SCARE TRICK
A NEAR RELATIVE OF THE OLD
BOY "DOUBLE CROSS"
ANOTHER LITTLE INSIDE STORY
Of how they "Get Them Into Line,"
and the Part the Courier Plays
"In the final analysis," said wise
old Joe Cannon, "you will find the
settlings."
And Joseph of Dansville said some
thing. , ' ,
When a man isn't on the level you
are dead sure to find the settlings.
When he doesn't play the game
straight he is going to be caught at
' He can come in and purr and get
away with the soft stuff for a time,
but some day, perhaps months after,
a careless word dropped by some one;
a little circumstance that fits in, a
leak here or there, and the man with
his eye open will soon have it all
pieced together, and frame the pic
ture of a fellow who did-not ring true,
of the man who played fast and loose
the two-faced. '
Only the headlines of the double
cross council story last week sug
gested a possible motive for men
blowing hot and cold in the same
breath. ... -i
It suggested that certain council
men were using the Courier to pull
someone's real hot chestnuts and
when they cooled off the councilman
ate them.
If the suggestion was wrong, we
beg seven kinds of forgiveness, but
there will have to be some alibis sub
stantiated before we do the kneeling.
Here's another little story that
looks as if the cross-out was resorted
to after the hammerlock and strangle
holds had failed.
But, as the prosecuting attorney
would say, let us first point out the
"conclusive circumstances" that will
show a motive.
One of the ways to make a child
cave in and promise obedience, when
coaxing has failed, is to tell it "the
bogie man will get you."
And some children, as they grow
up, ever have a haunting fear of the
"bogie."
Down the street is 8 newspaper
that sees the "bogie" very often. .
Two years agp it didn't know there
was another newspaper in Oregon
-.:t XT, tnotr rntW think THERE
JH,. um-J .-.. --
IS, and editors come and go (the last
one went Monday j alter vum
to banish the "bogie man."
And all the foregoing could have
been boiled down to the one sentence:
mi -,, ohsnlutnlv refuses
henceforth to be used as a club to get
the Enterprise into line.
And now for the story a little
ci.nrifps. Manv a man
CimiU VX ,MmmmUn. w
has heen convicted on a snorter
string. ' .
in tk norliT Hnva nf December. A.
All wio j - t ' -
D., 1913, when the lowering clouds of
' ' . . HI 1.1 1.-1.
the Pacific nung like a dihiiimsi
Oregon City, Clackamas county, Ore
gon, and the P. R. L. & P. Co's Maz
da lights were working a time and a
Voir tit Iraon thfi darkness out in the
liaiJ. W nvwjj ,
street, there came to the Courier of
fice a man bubbling over with false
hlJnannounced and uninvited he
came, like an unexpected Christmas
: L .1 fVa mnntinr in whlP.n nfi
present, mm mo in . ---
held out the glittering goods made
the front omce so nappy wio
pressman got a $1.50 raise and the
Courier adopted the 8-hour schedule.
nr. T7 .n rr monillFVr nf tVlP. Till V)-
licity end of the commercial club,
:j iunt micainn war tn have the
sum man mo t ...
Courier publish its semi-monthly
newspaper ruDiicivy.
TJ ;,! Tfritprnrisp had ftlWSVS
lie oam .us - ----- -
published it and he thought it only
right and fair that we should have it
set. tn the same 'mu
sic that Councilman Tooze sang to us
and the same accompaniment!
Nn.. mind VOU. WE DID NOT
a ov rriT Tms Wo hnvn never ask-
non ivxv . -
.1 it- nana, in Pnll nnSSlhlO WOV
CU 1U1 liv-.w J I
intimated we wanted it, never asked
anyone else to lobby ior it.
tt WAQ OPtfF.RF'.n TO US.
11 T I J IkJ w .
Tk rinir oHitir la a member of
the commercial club. The Courier
-.frlhntm 30 n vear to help pay for
Mr. Freytag's salary, $12 a year dues
to the club, and from $5 to $10 at
booster periods.
We had a lingering idea that some
Anmt tYia manaTOM miffhtjwise UP:
unjr v..w r ; o --- -
it.4 fkd Ai-minifatinn cnnllln not D6
biiaif w"! ----
an Enterprise Aid Society, and that
, w.irhf .rot a lnnlc in. hut until the
club managers came honestly to that
conclusion we aid not propose w u
any moaning. So we just paid our $42
ami murmured not.
Mr. Freytag asked our price for the
n..L Wo cmr it. He said it was sat-
nuifci Pi " - - ,
isfactory, and that the Enterprise
had always thrown it into them on
extra copies, of which they had many
during the year. .
But why prolong the agony T We
....... nnt fna irsVv
Iievci guv " J""
Wo nnlloM th chestnuts. The 'Tk-
eie" trot someone back "into line."
Mr. Freytag got his job for another
tViero was a ntrontr dispo
sition to put another man in his
plaoe, and Editor Brodie, who de-
. UB1CU 111. l icbcg " " j
JUST HAPPENED to be made one
of the board of governors, the treas
urer, and be put on the publicity com-
J 1 - 1 1 1 1. Hjf
mivtee, ana ne neipeu mj e
r.m.fo lia inli -fnl anAthap VPAr
1'lcjWig ma jwm aw. ..vv... J
And Brodie got the chestnuts the
Courier pulled out for Freytag.
Wa novpr aclrA) fnr this fah Tl(1
we don't want it in the way we would
have to take it
KT Ar wa w nf. f TTVottq 0 fT
any other man to dangle something
oeiore us w scare auiueuue uiuj
"playing the game."
Keep ths printing yu councilmen
and you commercial club. We don't
need it, but don't try to make a mon
key of us to scare someone else into
doing tricks.
Mr. Freytas has complained that
this paper has not given his depart
ment publicity, remaps it nasnt
and perhaps there were reasons.
Listen.
Last summer when the recall cam
paign was at its, height (a recall
which won by 600 majority) Mr.
Frevtae twice stated to our know
ledge that the Courier editor should
have been run out of the city for
sustaining the movement. At anoth
er time he taked ol having the cou
rier editor suspended or expelled from
the Live Wires.
He didn't expect we would find this
out. He never said a word or made
protest to the Courier managers,
but on the contrary always met us
with a smile, and was SO affiable.
And when the recall won, he hard
ly waited for the new judge to warm
his seat before he put in an applica
tion for the job of sealer of weight
and measures.
He wanted one more job to go with
his family group of publicity mana
ger and county fruit inspector, and
he had nerve enough to ask it of the
man he worked his head off to defeat
The Courier has known these for
many monts, and it would have kept
them locked in memory s attic if Mr.
Freytag hadn't tried his Judas Is-
cariot play on us.
We didn't ask any favors of him.
We kept on sawing wood and paid
over our taxes toward Mr. Freytag's
$100 a month salary.
We didn't ask him for the printing
of the Publicity. He could have con
tinued to give it to the Enterprise forJ
hundred years for all we cared.
But when he OFFERED IT TO US,
and when he told us our figures were
better than he was paying, then we
expected him to be a white man, to
be on the level, and make his bluft
good. And when a man doesn't play
square we are going to come back and
come hard whether he is playing
with us or someone else.
But if the commercial club mana
gers had been real wise geeks they
might have played the situation into
a "bargain day, in the same way the
council did, for Oregon City will get
some of the cheapest printing it ever
got, if they insist that the Enterprise
make good its own bid.
The Enterprise had been getting
35 and 30 cents per inch for publish
ing the ordinances for the past three
or four years.
Councilmen playing fast and loose,
asked for bids: the Courier bid
leaked" and the "bogie man" scare
was played for all it was worth.
In some mysterious way (please
DON'T accuse the Courier as the me
dium) it was tipped off to Editor Tay
lor ol the Enterprise that tne paper
which got the printing on the second
bid would have to get down below ten
cents per inch. j
The Enterprise fell for it, reduced
its price to FIVE and EIGHT cents
per inch, and then found out IT HAD
THE ONLY BID IN that it had bid
against itself from 30 and 35 to 6 and
8 cents. .
And the next day it commenced to
curtail expenses by firing Editor Tay
lor. If Mr. Freytag had only adopted
the "bogie man" a little stronger, he
could not only have saved his job, but
could have had the Enterprise bidding
its head off on the Publicity printing
and bidding against itself as be
fore. But of course the subsequent re
trenchment would have cost another
Enterprise front office man his job.
Funny deals, cuts and passes in
this old town.
And then some people wonder we
don't all get along in harmony.
Will Keep Court House Open
To the Legal Voters of Clackamas
Countv:
I have announced my candidacy for
the office of County UerK, ana u
nominated and elected. I pledge my
self to keep the office open during
the noon hour for the accomodation
of farmers and out of town people
and those wishing to tranasact bus
iness during that time.
Iva M. Harrington.
MULVEY FOR JUDGE
Present County Clerk will be Repub
lican Candidate for Judge .
Countv Clerk W. L. Mulvey will
be a candidate for county judge. This
statement is authentic. He states
that if elected he will always work
for the best inteiests of the coun'y,
will as far as within his power keep
down expenses: will see that taxpay
ers' money is not wasted; favors
pood roads for the country, will nevi
favor a hieher levy than now, and
will endeavor to lower the present
levy. He says he has no interests to
serve but the interests ol Clackamas
v ;
county. "
GET INTO LI OR
IT'S GOV. 0'
BROWNELL GIVES WARNING
TIP TO STAND-PAT PAPERS
PLATFORMS ARE WHAT COUNT
Tells Oregonian Republicans Must
Line up and Take Stand
As an answer to the editorial criti
cism in the Oregonian, George C.
Brownell of this city sent the follow
ing open letter to that paper, which
of course it did not publish.
Oregon City, Feb. 16.
To the Editor of the Oregonian :
I notice in your issue of the 14th
inst. your article reflecting upon my
platform. I am somewhat surprised
that you would take this position.
Will you have any objection to point
ing out in detail your objections to
the different planks in my platform?
You certainly do not want the people
of this state to suppose for a moment
that the Oregonian is opposed to the
liquor traffic. If you do, will you
kindly explain in detail or otherwise
what your objections are based upon;
or do you feel that it is a question
that ought not be raised in the Re
publican primaries. I feel that it is
just as much a political question as
slavery ever was. The Repubilcan
party destroyed that, or at least was
opposed to it. What is there objec
tionable: if the liquor traffic is wrong
from a moral and economic stand
point, for it to be made an issue .in
the Republican primaries ? It is self
evident that any man nominated in
the Republican or Democratic pri
maries this year, will not be permit
ted to dodge this proposition. He will
have to say that he is in favor of it
or he will have to say tnat ne is op
posed to it. He cannot play the game
of politics this year, as George
Chamberlain has always played it in
this state, with 1 foot in a north end
saloon and the other in the M. E.
church, trying to be on both sides and
on all sides of every proposition, i
take it that the people of this state,
this year are going to demand open
and frank declaration either in favor
of or opposed to the abolishment of
liquor tramc Dy constitutional ajnenu
menL r
Then again, do you oppose National
Suffrage to the women of this coun
try? That is also in my platform, if
so will you kindly inform me what
your reasons are for such opposition?
Then again, can it be possible, that
force and power of the Oregonian,
can be opposed to that other plank
in my platform; "free speech and free
press. it you are opposea to tnis,
will vou also explain in detail the
grounds of your opposition?
Then again, l nave a declaration
in my platform, in opposition to the
Asiatics and Hindus, and other kinds
of cheaD labor of that class, coming
into Oregon and on this coast, ana
competing with the progress ana op
portunities of the laboring men now
here. You know very veil, that H l
happen to be erovernor of this state
that if I could not get rid of this kind
of people in any other way, I would
make the militia of the state throw
them out. The time has come when
we have got to take a stand and pro
tect and defend the laboring people
of the state. If you are opposed to
this proposition of mine, will you
kindly and in detail tell the people
whv. and for what reasons :
Will you also explain in detail how
you expect any Republican candidate
who should happen to be nominated
for governor, to be elected, unless he
takes a sauare position on this ques
tion of the adoption oi a uonstuu
tional Amendment against the sale
and manufacture of intoxicating liq
uor in the state of Oregon. You cer
tainly know that the vote is very
evenly divided in this state, upon this
proposition: Suppose now that Mr.
Moser or Mr. Stevens or any other
gentleman should happen to be suc
cessful in the primaries, how far do
you suppose these gentlemen would
be able to go in their campaign, be
fore the people would rise up in the
meetings and elsewhere, and demand
to know just exactly how they stood
. .i i.: T 11-! 2. 1
upon mis question : 11 una is true,
then whv is it not better to meet this
proposition openly and frankly in the
primaries, 'and settle it there. Yon
may rely upon one thing, that it does
not make any aireerence wnat position
you take, or I take, or anyone else
connected with the Republican party
in this state, the people will demand
a full and complete explanation and
declaration from every candidate
from United States Senators down to
Constables in the present campaign,
Please remember this, that just as
sure as there is a failure upon the
part of leading newspapers, Jike the
Oregonian, and leading Republican
candidates in this state, taking a po
sition frankly and avowedly in favor
of this Constitutional Amendment,
Mr. W. S. U'Ren will be elected gov
ernor of the state of Oregon. This
prediction of mine, please kindly file
away lor reference alter tne election.
There cannot be, ' in the logic oi
things, any other result. My posi
tion, if adopted and accepted by the
influences that you represent, will re
sult in the nomination and election
of some Republican and in the defeat
of Mr.. U'Ren, and you cannot do it
in any other way. -
Sincerely yours,
GEORGE C. BROWNELL.
Girl Dies of Typhoid
Jessie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
IT r Walloon an. IK A,kA Iron. in.
11. V. WllDSIl. H IV, UICU 1 ' ..111 VJ
phoid fever, at the city hospital Mon
day night, after a severe illness. Her
parents live in Camas, Wash., and the
girl had been living at Maple Lno
Wilson is Out for Sheriff
W. J. Wilson who has for several
weeks been talked of as candidate for
sheriff, makes the definite statement
that he will make the run. Mr. Wil
son is a Republican, stands well with
the people and party and is recog
nized as a strong candidate for the
nomination.
Take Their Choice
On complaint of neighbors Juvenile
Officer Jack Frost investigated re
ported serious conditions in the home
of Frank McCofferty in West Linn
last week, and laid the matter before
Judge Anderson. Frost said he found
the worst conditions he ever found
at the home and the Judge ordered
the parents to clean up and reform
their ways of living or he would take
the children from them.
MAIN STREET TO REMAIN
JUST AS IT IS FOR YEAR
Council Tables Proposal to Repave
and Lay New Sewer Downtown
Property owners along Main street
Monday nieht told members of the
city council that they didn't want a
new sewer on tnat thoroughfare, nor
did they want the street repaved.
Some of them wanted it patched up
here and there but the majority
didn't want any money spent on it
unless it came out of the general
fund. This opinion was expressed
when the city fathers met to con
sider plans and specifications pre
pared by City Engineer Noble for a
12-inch Bewer, ten feet deep, from
Third to Tenth street, at an estimated
cost of $8,900.64.
In telling of his plans, which had
been prepared at the request of the
last council, Mr. Noble said that the
proposed sewer would drain base
ments eight feet below the street
level, and would make possible the
improving of much of the business
property on the street. Councilman
Hackett invited comment from the
property owners present, and his in
vitation was readily responded to.
The majority of property owners
on the western side of Main street
said they were already cared for with
private drains that led to the river,
or else were adequately cared for by
the present sewer, which is but four
feet below the street grade. Those
owning property on the eastern side
of the street also seemed satisfied
with present conditions, or else would
have the city build short lateral sew
ers through the alleys and side streets
to the river. With few exceptions the
property owners declared against
any further expenditures by the city
at this time.
After lone discussion of the matter
Councilman Hackett moved that all
consideration of the proposed sewer
be delayed for a year, and that the
matter of repaying the ..street be left
m the hands of the street committee.
The motion lost, three to two.
Following this, brief discussion of
the relavinsr of pavement on the
street was indulged in. but few of
those present even conceded that this
would be advisable. Tne sentiment
of the gathering seemed to be sum
med up in the remark of one of those
present, to the ettect that "for years
Oregon City has been throwing mon
ey into her streets and hirinf men to
sweep it up." Part of the blame for
the present condition of Main street's
paving was placed on the Home Tele
phone Company, wnicn it was de
clared had not properly relaid the
bricks after placing its wires under
ground. This criticism moved Supt.
Howell, of the Water Board, to re
mark that "the Home Telephone com
pany went through this town and tore
it up, and it cost the city $400 to put
the paving back."
Councilman Hackett ended the dis
cussion by moving that both the sew
er and street improvement matters
be laid on the table, and this motion'
carried without dissent. There were
nresent at the meeting Councilmen
Templeton, Metzner, Hackett, Meyer,
Andrews and van AUken.
INCONSISTENCY
City Writer Points out the Loose
Spokes in the Bond Plan Campaing
iThe following note was handed in
Wednesday by a city resident, and we
refer it to any one interested to find
a way out. Ed.)
Oregon City, Feb. 18, 1914.
Courier:
If you can find room to squeeze
t.hU in hetween the 74 columns Of
good road dope crowded out of last
week s issue, let it run:
The boosters for a county bond is-
sua fnr o-ood roads say road money
is largely wasted under the present
county court system, yet they would
hand over $600,000 more to go with
t.hpjaoo.OOO now on hand to be used
by the court unoer exactly tne same
system. Consistent.
UrPCOn V.11V UOUBWIB lUt KUUU
roads tell the farmers it is a waste
of money to build macadam roads,
and yet Oregon City builds mile after
i : i 4. :
mile of tne same Kina oi mreeui
the city that its citizens condemn in
th pnnntrv. More consistency.
There is not a shadow of a plan
or anything that looks like policy or
system in the present road bonding
campaign.
No one knows where the roads will
be built or what they will cost.
The men behind the good roads
proposition remind one of the city
council on certain occasions.
- Under its present no-plan cam
paign, it will be foyy to bring it to
a vote.
A Resident of the Hill.
Had to be Driven out of Jail
Last week a prisoner who was on
the last end of a 80-day sentence was
offered a job and Sheriff Mass told
him he was discharged.
But instead of yelling with joy and
putting on a tango stunt, the fellow
received the release with marked dis
appointment, and remarked to the
sheriff "I iust CANT leave now," and
he made all kinds of excuses that his
washing wasn t dry, and that he
wanted to stay.
Sheriff Mass let him stay until the
next day and then drove him out.
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NAME BREEDS ANTAGONISM
WITH COUNTY TAXPAYERS
LEADS TO UNFAIR CRITICISM
And Holds Back Good Roads Prop
osition in this County
There are two words that work
against the hard surfaced roads pro
position in this county harder tnan
any other form of opposition. They
are
"Pacific Highway."
Its certain location along the river,
paralleling the railroads, and at the
extreme western edge of the county,
does not appeal to the farmers, and
the general impression that the whole
highway from British Columbia to
Mexico is an auto and tourist route,
makes the people, and especially the
farmers, oppose it to a fare-you-well.
But here is something we want to
bring out, a point that has not been
half brought out or understood, and
we believe that fair-minded taxpay
ers, be they farmers or others, will
consider fairly.
You will find on another page of
the Courier a resolution from Hard
ing Grange condemning the proposed
bond issue to build 100 miles of hard
surfaced roads as being a benefit pro
position for the Pacific Highway.
Wow as we understand tne matter
there are 21 miles from the Multno
mah line on the north to Marion coun
ty on the south through which the
Pacific Highway would pass.
The state has levied a -mill tax,
under a law passed by the last legis
lature, which tax will be collected for
two years, and the purpose of which
(to be plain) is to help build the Pa
cific Highway through this state.
Now in this 21 miles of Clackamas
county, north to south, are the in
corporated cities of Milwaukie, Glad
stone, Oregon .City, Canby, and Bar
low. These cities would have to build
their own hard surfaced roads if
dozen bond issues were voted..
The -tnill tax is expected to take
care of one-half the expense of the
Pacific Highway in this county.
Therefore, taking one-half the
trunk line 'road out for the state to
build s and ' taking "out '"the - cities
through which it would pass, there
will be left SEVEN MILES TO BE
BUILT UNDER THE BONDING
PROPOSITION.
And where is the taxpayer, if he
favored the proposition at all, that
would not be willing to let the west
ern end of the county have seven
miles of the one hundred miles of
road ?
The Courier believes the people of
the county want to be fair on this
proposition, and we believe when they
understand it they WILL BE.
It is up to you to vote for or against
the bonding proposition, that is your
right. Vote as you will, but DON'T
vote it down because the wefit end of
the county would get seven miles of
the road, and the county the other
93. '".
The Pacific Highway is a night
mare and the county court could take
no more proper action than to utter
ly ignore it forget there is such a pro
position and just go ahead and lay
out its road north and soutn, asK ior
state aid to build half of it, let the
cities take care of what is in their
limits, and then let the Pacific High.
way use it or build a path of their
own.
And one ""more point the voters
should nlav fair on. Just remember
that the COUNTY gets all the roads
if the bonds are voted, and that all
Oregon City or any other city gets
is the privilege of helping pay for
them.
Remember also that Oregon City
will have no more to do with the lo
cation of the 100 miles of road than
Boring. The county court will lo
cate them, with the assistance of the
state engineer, if they want him.
There are many public sptntea men
in Oregon City who want to see hard
roads for Clackamas county, and they
are working hard for it.
And the people should not be quite
so hasty to , criticize and condemn
them.
"BLACKIE" ILES DUBBED
DESPERATE "BAD MAN"
Fugitive Wanted "to Lick All Texas"
Say Arresting Officers
According to Patrolmen Irwin and
McClure, of Dallas, Texas, E. E.
("Blackie") lies is "some bad man."
The two officers, acting as special de
puties for Sheriff E. T. Mass, reached
Oregon City last week with lies, who
was extradited from the Lone Star
state on request of Governor Oswald
West, to answer to charges of tak-
mg.a leading part in tne Home .tele
phone strike riot at Oswego last July.
When arrested lies "wanted to lick
the whole state of Texas," according
to the two officers, and again, when
crossing the Oakland ferry, at San
Francisco, he attempted to break
away and escape. After that he was
quite "tame," the policemen said, but
they modestly refrained from saying
what they did to quell Blackie s tur
bulence. When he got to Oregon City
lies greeted local officers pleasantly,
and walked along without handcuffs
or other restraint.
lies, a fugitive from Oregon, was
located in Dallas by agents of a pri
vate detective agency, and the police
were notified of his whereabouts. Ir
win and McClure arrested him, find
ing him asleep in a disreputable re
sort, they say, and slipped handcuffs
on him before he awakened.
"He was some angry when he woke
up, said Irwin, telling about it, "and
offered to lick the whole state of Tex -
as if we would take off the bracelet.
HIGHWA
ITi
I advised him not. to, telling him that
no Texan had been licked yet. I ad
mitted a few of them had been bro
ken up some, and one or two had been
killed, but told him that no Texan had
ever been licked. With the 'cuffs' on
Blackie had no chance to show what
he could do, and he was pretty peace
able after that. On the Oakland fer
ry he wanted to leave us, but we per
suaded him not to, and after that he
was as tame as a kitten."
Both the Texans were much im
pressed wih the scenery in the West,
and before returning home will make
a side trip to Seattle and the Puget
Sound country.
"You all out heah have some pow
erful fine country," said McClure,
"and you needn't be a mite ashamed
of it. You shuah have some moun
tains, too; we went through one that
must have been five miles long. And
when we go off the cyars heah. we got
off alongside a mountain, too."
lies was reindicted by the grand
jury Saturday on two counts, one of
assault and battery and the other of
assault with a dangerous weapon.
This step was taken to expedite pro
ceedings in his case, as it wos not be
lieved that he could be held on the
former indictment of rioting, those
indictea with him on the initial charge
having been acquitted.
Measles
The city is literally plastered with
measles, but the most of the cases are
light and parents seem to think it is
a good time to "have it over."
Do it While You Smart
After you have paid your taxes
at the court house, step across the
street to the Courier office and sign
the petition to exempt $1,500 of your
nouse, barn, stock and improvements
from taxation and see if vou don't
pay less taxes next year.
Thome out for Sheriff
D. J. Thome of Maple Lane, a well
known farmer and resident of the
county, is out for sheriff on the Dem
ocratic ticket, : and his official an
nouncement on page 4 states Just
where he stands without any side
stepping or hedging. And the Demo
crats say "Look out for Thome."
M. E. Dunn for Treasurer
M. E. Dunn, a well known, likable
and popular Republican of this city,
will be a candidate for county treas
urer before the May primaries, and
it is generally conceded he will be
a strong man. He has been a resident
of this county for 15 years and of
the city for five years. He is assoc
iated with the Williams Bros. Trans
fer Co. .
Dr. Hempstead - for Coroner
' Dr. W. E. Hempstead of Glad
.stone, associate of Dr. C. H. Meissner
of this city, will be a Republican can,
didate for coroner. .
Politics will not, and should not,
enter into such an office. A physician
is a logical candidate for the office.
for a physician has to be present at
an inquests, and a physician who will
can save a county a lot of money.
Dr. Hempstead has been in prac
tice in this city for two years; coming
here from Oklahoma, where he was
coroner of Custer county for five
years. He has made a big string of
friends in the city and county and his
nomenation looks easy.
ANDERSON FOR JUDGE
Will be Candidate on Republican
Ticket to Succeed Himself
Judge H. S. Anderson will go be
fore the May primaries as a Repub
lican candidate for county judge to
succeed himself. This statement is
authorative.
Judge Anderson has been six
months in office as judge, being elec
ted last August at the recall election.
There have been various rumors that
he would not be a candidate, and that
he would run on an independent tick
et, etc., and asked for a statement
Thursday morning. He stated frankly
that he would run before the primar
ies and would cheerfully submit to
the decision of the people thus ex
pressed. SCHEUBEL AND CLYDE OUT
Will Run as Republican Candidates
for the Legislature on Popular
Platforms
Attorney Chris Scheubel, present
member of the legislature, will be a
candidate for representative at the
May primaries, and his stand is one
that will be generally popular with
the voters of this countv.
He says he will work for legisla
tion that will assess franchises of
public service corporations, based on
their net earnings computed at 6 per
cent; for the abolishment of useless
commissions; fewer and better laws;
legislation to better labor conditions;
economy in appropriations; for legis
lation increasing the people's power,
and that he will endeavor to pass a
state law prohibiting liquor being
shinned into dry territory.
Mr. Scheubel has always been an
aggressive temperance worker and
he made a splendid record at Salem
at the last session.
H. S. Clyde of Clackamas will al
so be a candidate for the house at
the May primaries and will run as
an independent Republican. Mr. Clyde
says his planks will be few, and con
fined to voting against and work
ing against any appropriation bills
that are not urgently needed for the
government of Oregon. He has long
held that taxes are needlessly high in
this state caused largely by wasted
money in appropriations for needless
boards and commissions.
Girls Wanted
(over 18 years of age)
To operate SEWING Machines
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ECONOMY RULES
COUNCIL'S WORK
STREET IMPROVEMENTS HARD
HIT BY CITY FATHERS
"SEARCH LAW" IS SOFTENED
Schuebel Ordinance Modified in Int
erests of General Harmony
Economy was the watchword at
Wednesday night's council meeting,
and several matters that came up and
which called for an expenditure of
municipal funds were promptly
squelched. Proposed street improve
ments fared the hardest, Councilmon
Templeton and Hackett taking turns
at putting all such proposals to sleep.
Prohibitionists, who attended the
meeting in considerable force to wit
ness the expected passage of the
Schuebel ordinance against the im
portation of liquor, seemed to approve
the marked economies, and smiled
with satisfaction at the stand taken
by the city fathers.
The strict Schuebel . ordinance,
scheduled to be the most important
matter of the evening, was laid on
the table, and an amended form of it
was placed on nrst reaumg as a
brand new measure. In its new form
the ordinance is "without the sting of
the search provision," as its author
said; and will receive the unanimous
support of the councilmen. Mr. Sch
uebel explained he had modified the
measure so as to nave tne council
solidly behind him in the enforce
ment of prohibition statutes, and add
ed that he believed that the new form
of the ordinance would give peace of
ficers all the authority they needed
to stop the bringing of liquor into r.he
city by "trippers" to Milwaukie or
Portland. The new measure also carr
ries an emergency clause, which Vfili
make it effective immediately on its
passage, which is scheduled for Mar:
ch 4th. .
Improvements Curtailed . ,
; Report of the board of appraisers
appointed to view the property ef
fected by the proposed improvement
of John Adams street, from Third to
Fourteenth showed an aggregate val
uation of $39,000. Macadam im
provement of the street is estimated
to cost $17,000; oil-bound improve
ment is estimated at $22,000, and
hard surface at $27,000. . On motion
of Councilman Templetjn plans for
the proposed improvement were la'd
on the table, with the-understanding-that
no action was to be taken on this
street during 'the year 1914.
The petition 'for the improvement
of Fifteenth street, from Madison to
Jackson, met a similar fate, Council
man Hackett declaring that he was
opposed to any increase in the city
debt, and that he would be unwilling
to have the improvement work dnne
unless the property owners would
agree to assume the entire cost.
Installation of an arc licht at the
intersection of Holmes lane and the
Plank road was denied, on the
grounds of economy. On recommen
dation of the street committee, how
ever, an arc was ordered installed at
the intersection of Third and Jeffer
son streets.
Rebate is Granted
Investigation showing that undue
assessment had been made on the Os
born property on Monroe street, the
council ordered a rebate of $50 paid.
Property owners on Warren street,
west of Molalla avenue, were ordered
to install lafour-foot siHewalk to
connect with the sidewalk leading to
the Catholic cemetery. If they fail
to do this the city will do the work
and charge it up to them.
Councilman Templeton reported
that the difficulty over the laying of a
new water main on High street had
been adjusted between the board of
water commissioners and the con
tractor, on the work, and that no fur
ther action by the council would be
necessary. The water board asked
a delay in the matter a week or so
ago, reporting that pipe could not be
put down until the wet weather
ceased.
Premium for Bonds
A voluntary bid from Morris Bro
thers for $22,000 worth of improve
ment bonds to clear up Btreets not as
yet bonded for improvement "work
was accepted by the council, the bond
buyers bidding par and interest and
a premium of $115. ThoRe bonds will
be in denominations of $500 and $1000
and will run for ten years.
Much to the contrary was the lone
bid submitted for the $12,000 eleva
tor bonds. C. H. Coffin, of Chicago.
offered $12,125 for the issue, and
promised to throw in "handsome li
thographed bonds free of charge,"
provided that the city would allow
him $250 for execution charges. This
brought the ultimate total of the bid
under par, and it was refused. New
bids on the elevator will be sought.
nans ior a set of ten-ton public
scales in the business section of the
city will be taken up later, the coun
cil desiring first to ask the county
commissioners to pay part of the cost
or installation. The council granted
a permit to the Hub Grocery to place
a six-ton scaie on center street near
Seventh, providing that the work was
done at their expense and under the
direction of the street committee.
Old Tangle Reviewed
The improvement of Division street
which is partly city property and
partly county road was taken up ond
discussed at some length during the
session. If the work is done as plan
ned, property outside of the city lim
its will have to bear an assessment of
$2,075.16, and it was finally deter
mined to take the matter up with the
county court and ascertain if arrange
ments could be made to utilize county
funds in this work. It is also a mat
ter of doubt if the abutting property
can bear the cost of the proposed
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