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31st YEAR
OREGON CITY, ORE., THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1914.
No. 46
MR. MULVEY OUTLINES
THE COUNTY NEEDS
States What he will Work for if
.Nominated for Judge
If I am nominated and elected I
win administer the affairs of the of
fice with the highest efficiency and
honesty and at the least possible
cost to the taxpayers. I believe that
a public officer is a public servant
whose duty at all times is to conduct
his office with as high standard of
honesty, morality and integrity as a
man would his private business.
In auditing claims against the
County none of the loose unbusiness
like methods heretofore used will be
permitted by me. I will carefully
scrutinize each and every bill pres
ented and will allow none unless the
same is verified and itemized. I will
always exercise the greatest care
in the expenditure of the taxpayers'
money and will oppose any unwar
ranted expense.
, When good . gravel or macadam
roads are built I will insist that the
same be kept in good repair by a
road patrol. The road patrol is a reg
ular employee in the road organiza
tion in the European countries and
in a gerat many states in the Uni
ted States, but no attempt has ever
been made in Clackamas County to
. keep in repair the roads which have
been built.
I will favor a less number of road
districts for the County, since some
of the districts formed have only
$432.00, $423.00, $419.00 and one haa
only $219.88 without the Special tax
which amount will do very little good
to any district; I believe the best in
terests of Clackamas County would
be served by the consolidation of dis
tricts. We now have 59, the Supervi
sors of which are appointed by the
County (Jourt, who can if they so de.
sire, build up a formidable political
machine. The practice of putting pet
ty politicians in control" of a vital
public utility, like a county road for
the purpose ot paying a political
debt, must be stopped. A public road
is a public utility which is a neces
sity to all of the people who have oc
casion to use it; it is a liability upon
all of the people who have to pay
taxes upon it; the building of it re
quires work, mohey and knowledge,
and wherever lor political considera
tion any of these features are ignor
ed or modified by the County Court,
the public must suffer. I maintain
that the road system of this County
must be treated as a great business
enterprise and conducted honestly,
wisely and with reasonable balance
between benefits and burdens.
I ask your support for this office
because I know I can . render the
County a service which means econ
omy, a thing which you will agree
with me is badly needed. I am well
aware of the importance of this of
fice and am thoroughly familiar with
its duties, having worked in conjunc
tion with the County Court for the
past four years.
I am against a County Court play-
ing politics in any manner whatever,
and am not and will not be, if elected
County Judge, the candidate of an;
Dolitical ring, clique or set of men.
come straight to the people for this
office on my merits, and gsk that you
investigate my record my character
and my ability. I have passed the bar
examination of this state and have
been admitted to practice law; I am
thirty-four years of age, the age
when the mind and character of man
have fully matured, when he is en
tering upon the period of his great
est efficiency and usefulness and be
fore inactivity and mental decay ren
der him unfit for active public set
vice. '
If you are satisfied that 1 am the
right man for this place I will ap
preciate having your support and
vote on May 15th.
W. L. Mulvey.
ji J
J Voters of City and County l
. Warned They Must Register J
v All voters of the city and J
county must re-register now
for the two-year period. All J
J registrations made before J
J January 5 are now absolutely
v void, because of the recent de-
cision of the supreme court,
declaring the 1913 election law
J invalid. Persons who have not -J
Jt registered cannot vote at the J
J primaries May 15 . Register
early and avoid the crowds
J of the last few days.
JP If
T
WHEN WILL WE
E A
WHEN WILL WE PUT CITY ON
. BUSINESS BASIS? -,,
WOULD SAVE TIME AND MONEY
City has Passed from the Country
Town and Needs New Methods
The mere proposition of asking
men to govern Oregon Citv without
pay is ridiculous.
Go to a council meeting and there
will be present the chief of DOlice on
a salary; the city engineer on pay;
the street commissioner, the city at
torney, city recorder all 1 on flat
salaries.
And there are the . mavor and
councilmen, with responsibilities
greater than any of these salaried
officials, managing a corporation of
6,000 people, and giving their time
and work free.
There is no sense or justice in it; I
no business or economv. '
They say that there is honor in be
ing elected a mayor or councilman.
But it is a mighty empty honor
and
The mayor or councilmen get
more cussing in one week than they
wuuiu in a nieume in private dusi
nessv
It is utterly impossible to please
all the people. They may possibly
please a bare majority and have 49
per cent out with clubs for 12 months
in a year.
The system of charity work in our
Dig and little cities is dead wrong,
and dead costly.
We elect non-paid officials because
they announce themselves as candi
dates not because of their fitness
or ability to manage the largest
corporation in Clackamas countyt
We don't know anything about
the business ability of half the men
we select for the governing job.
Some of them may have been
highly successful in their own line of
work, but at the same time in no
manner qualified for the work of
managing a city.
And when they are elected and
tied up to work free of charge for
one or two years, they make of the
work a side issue, an over-time job,
and get together for from one to
four hours a night on certain nights
to manage a business many times
more important than the work these
men devote eight to ten hours every
day to. '
It's all wrong and awfully expen
sive and wasteful.
If the nine men who manage Ore
gon City as a side-line should go to
one of our big mills here and offer
to manage the industry free of char
ge for a year, and do the directing
at odd times nights well the owners
of the mills would laugh them out of
the office.
Business concerns know more div
idends, more business and more
economy come through the high paid
manager who knows the game than
a council of nine who would serve
without pay and when they had the
spare time.
If this city had a business mana
ger who knew city work and needs,
he would save many times his sal
ary, and our city would have a di
rect responsive head.
Such men can be had, just as bus
iness concerns, all over the country
find them. There are plenty of them,
but they won't serve free.
And when a good man is secured,
becomes thoroughly familiar with
city work, then keep him 'as long as
he makes good.
If we had had such a manager
during the past three years we
would not have an elevator up tnere
in the air with legal suits and con
demnation proceedings standing be
tween it and its connection on the
bluff, for the reason it would have
been the duty, the paid business of
the manager to have had every .ob
stacle removed before the proposi
tion was presented to the people to
vote on.
If we had had such a manager
IK
CHANGE
EMOussiceniieiit
he Ogle Mountain Mining Company offers ion public
Subscription 10,093 Shares of its Treasury Stock at the par value of $1.00 per share. WORK WILL COMMENCE AT THE MINES ABOUT
APRIL 6th. The machinery ha3 all besn installed and is capable of milling from 100 to 150 tons per day. There are 4700 feet of tunnel work com
pleted, with seven tru? fissure veins, carrying values in gold and silver in paying j'quantities. These fissures are all located on parts of the first three
claims opened by this company. There are eighteen additional claims owned, and when developed (in the judgment of competent mining engineers)
will produce equally rich if not richer ore. Tnis company has complied with the provisions of Chapter 341 of the laws of Oregon known as the Blue
' Sky Law, THIS WILL BE ABSOLUTELY THE LAST BLOCK OF STOCK SOLD IN THE OGLE MOUNTAIN MINES. The mines, the men
behind it, the assays, are known to the people. Developement work has been going on for 10 years. If you want to Invest, now is your chance and
the last chance. v
OGLE MOUNTAIN MINING COMPANY, Oregon City, Oregon
during the past two years we would
not have had two chiefs of police
during the year of 1912, nor litiga
tion, carried to and pending in the
supreme court. -. ,
If we had but what's the use?
You know a corporation as big as
this city should be run on business
lines.
The present councilmen give their
time and all the time they can spare
to the work, but that time isn't
enough. It needs someone on the job
every hour of the day, a man di
recting the work of the entire city.
We are getting wise and after a
little we will come to this common
sense plan, because we know it is
not only business, but economy tax
saving. ' ...
All that is now needed is the right
men to draw up the right kind of a
charter and submit it.
But the right men have to be vol
unteers in the work.
Clerk-Carrier Examination
The U. S,
Civil Service Commis-
einn annnnnroa if. o
examination will be held at Oregon
City, Oregon, April 11. 1914, to es-
tablish a register from which selec- exterminate every particle in the
tion may be made to fill one vacancy ' water that looks or smells like ty
as substitute carrier in the Oregon phoid.
City Post Office. Men only will be What then? ,
aire limits ar from 18 4S vpnrs.
Applicationts should apply at once
to the Secretary, Board of Civil Ser-
vice Examiners at the Oregon City
Post Office, or to the Secretary, El-
pvontll nivil Sorvipp Tiiofrint. Koattlo
Washington for application blank local applications to a cancer or tu-f.-n
i4-: . fpu j. i-
aim J.UH 1111.u1111a1.1u11.
A MIGHTY BIG COST OVER
A VERY SMALL VERDICT
Eleven Months' Litigation and Costs
and a Verdict of Six Months '
The "Blackie" lies case came to
guilto aJault ird battel and
Z,tv tntr? mnthS in
And as iu is permissable to scam-
ble first uaee news stories and edi
Die iirsi page news siones ana em-
tnrials in the (.miner, here's a com-
ment or two:
Has the case been worth while?
Has the end justified the expense?
Almost a year ago tnere was a
strike riot at Oswego over Home Tel
phone Co. differences a union and
non-union trouble. One man was shot,
and others were injured.
Thirteen men were arrested, and
indicted by the grant jury for riot
ing, lies was let out on on $300 bail,
which he jumped, and skipped for
Texas but you all know the story.
The twelve were tried and acquit
ted. They dumped everything' onto
lies, for they knew he .could not be
indicted for rioting alone. ,
Sheriff Mass and a deputy went to
Texas, remained there for weeks,
and came home without lies, for he
fought extradition through the high
est Texas courts. ,
Finally the courts gave him up
and two officers brought lies here
from Texas.
Thus there has been the expense
of four men two return trips to Tex
as, three days' trial of the rioters at
$1U0 a day, no end of side expenses
and cost of extradition fighting, and
the end of it all is a plea of guilty
to assault and battery charge.
Has it been worth the cost ! Does
justice feel it has been vindicated?
Does lies feel he has been duly pun
ished? This assault and battery convic
tion has . come high in-' dollars too
high for the results.
Every Week it Lengthens
Every day of every week the
Courier's subscription list grows,
i From 15 to 30 new names go on
every week, and very few come off.
This week 30 new names go on;
Last week 28 were added.
. Tuesday of this week eight new
subscriptions were received, four
within the noon hour.
The Courier not only covers Clack
amas county, but is getting into
Washington, Yamhill, Polk and Mar
ion counties. .
We Don't Appreciate.
Oregonians do not half appreciate
spring because winters are too much
like spring. There is no keen de
light in watching the first green bud
because it is always green in Oregon,
and there is not a month in the year
when open a'r flowers do not bloom.
Oregon s winters are too mild and
too short to give us a real relish for
spring.
A BIG UITY
1 OREGON GUY
DRINKING WATER HOLDS BACK
ITS GROWTH
GET AWAY FROM THE RIVER
Get a Mountain Water System and
'
Make the People Safe
Just for the sake of argument, on
no argument, let us admit ( fingers
omtaaaHl that tha' n,nt To, 1
ter, and the hypodermics we have
joined with it, will pounce upon and
mP.nnino- with an 8-W. t R.iPoor pencil-pusher down the street to
gene, every town and city of the val-' pVi "Vri ,gw.,; P i w vhe
ley dumps its sewage and refuse into ' hn Hni L ?I ttl w bSS;
the Willamette river and Oregon'0 doe8nt aPPrve of the News at
City is nearly the river's mouth. , $ hlm- .s. bss has
Tt Hneon't Aa miinh fA t .ll . canM(l Other Of hlS minions for
mor. ihe only permanent relief is
the knife and cut to the roots.
And its the only thing to apply to
our water source cut it out.
The Willamette water isn't fit to
drink. It isn't wholesome or safe,
even with the fear of'typhoid elim
inated and we all know that typhoid
isn't eliminated. We know the river
jJ frefd P"
Wen"anddThe starboard of
h?? wil1 substantiate it, that the
chlorlde process now fighting typhoid
it, fi . f h.oin, r cof0
- . . . . .
j iui tuuataiii, use. xiia luuceoa is all
1. rnu: Z i
emergency eApcuiem, a remeuy 10
lessen the danger until the danger
can be eliminated. It is not intended
for regular consumption.
There is one and but one thing to
do get a new water system, get the
source while we can get it. .
As the Willamette Valley settles up
the river will become more and more
polluted and filthy.
We all know this, all know that it
is but a question of 'time when the
water will become so unsafe we will
have to quit it and why not do it
now?
It is expected the special election
to vote on this proposition for a sup
ply of water from the Cascades will
be held April 8. m
The cost of ' the te system will
not add a dollar to the tax levy. It
will raise the price to water users 78
cents per month, which will decrease
as the indebtedness is paid off.
Tile present water system is a
heavy liability on the growth of the
city.
Mountain water would be an asset.
Nine dollars a year is cheaper than
deaths, nurses and doctors' bills, fun
eral expenses and uneasiness.
The voters of Oregon City should
give the city what it positively must
have and they might so much bet
ter do it now than five years from
now.
COURIER IS NOT -ISOLD
STORY IS PLAIN BUNK
Report Sent to Portland Papers is
Made Out of Pipe Dreams
Principally because "a dog that
will carry a bone will also fetch a
bone," The Courier desires to an
nounce that it has not been pur
chased by the Portland, Railway,
Light and Power Company. Frost
and Brown still own The Courier,
and no negotiations for its sale are
under way. And now for a word or
two of -explanation of . the above.
Sometime ago one of the sensa
tional Portland dailies carried a
story from Oregon City about a ter
rible street-fight between two local
people, and the story included the
news that both Oregon City papers
had been "fixed" and had supress
ed news of the affair. Maybe one of
the papers was "fixed," but The
Courier was not. The altercation was
such a trifling affair, and withal so
much like a poor joke, that The
Courier didn't thfak itwoilthy of,
mention. However, since the eaunt-
let has been thrown down by the sen-
toUnl ;i .. ..X
pondent, in a way, The Courier be
gan some slight inquiries.
As a result of this comes up this
Portland Railway bunk, alluded to in
the opening words of this outbreak.
The same men who sent the exag
gerated reDort of the strefit. hrawl
, to the Portland paper became imbued
I with further ideas about two or three
I weeks later, and sent to the same
paper a "dispatch" containing the
startling information that The Cour
ier had been purchased bv the P. R.
I L. & P. Co.. that it was coin? in the
future to be a "corporation paper,"
j il.i j: a- j i i ,1
; V satisfied local folk were
, going to start a new daily paper
here.
The Portland daily to which this
story was sent knew too much about
i ur J l. Blso e r-..- u
T'L. "i : i i 1 1
' ftf ' . fJ A0 e,1Y 'f' w,as
! uw" " WBSte-DBSKei. JBUt me
brilliant youth who sent it in has
done his best to spread it by word of
mouth, just as he did with the other
yarn about the terrific street fight.
Therefor the Courier gives the poor
lie at least the dignity of a denial.
And. in passing it would advise the
WHAT COMPETITION DOES
FOR COUNTY AND CITY
Companies Get Oown and Bid Only
wnen they Have to
While E. D. Olds' bid was $14i5
higher than the Coast Bridge Co.
last week and he lost the contract on
lower Eagle Creek bridge, yet he
saved Clackamas countv S2.565.80.
and made this big company, which
nas nao mines pretty much its own
way in this country for years, get
down to reasonable profits and put
in a Dnage Did lor what it was
really worth to build a bridge for.
In this case the big bridge com
pany was smoked out so they had no
place to hide. The bridge advertised
for was from plans and tracings
from the Eagle Creek bridge that
the Coast Bridge Co. was given the
contract for under a former county
court in 1912, which cost $4,592.30,
without the steel joists, approach or
concrete piers, which was left for
the county to furnish. Had these
been specified in the contract and
at the same ratio for steel and erec
tion, the bridge would have cost the
complete S6.865.80.
The Coast Bridge Co's bid last
week was $4,300 for a duplicate
bridge and Er D. Olds' bid was' for
$4,446. ' .
Mr. Olds says that under his bid
he would have made money, and
that the Coast Bridge Co. will make
money at its bid.
Then arises the question, why the
Coast Bridge Co. took the same job
in 1914 for $2,500 less than it did
in 1912?
They are not doing charity work
for the county now, therefore what
kind of profits did they get in 1912 ?
Nothing like poking a little com
petition up to the concerns that have
had a cinch.
For three years the Enterprise
had had its own way and own price
for doing the official city printing
25 and 35 cents an inch. '
When it came to competition un
der sealed bids that paper reduced
its price to FIVE AND EIGHT
CENTS AN INCH
There was no' competition the
Courier didn't bid but the Enterprise
thought there was' hence this great
reduction.
Competition and the sealed bid are
pretty handy things to have around
for the county and city in these high
tax times.
Girls Wanted
(over 18 years of age)
To operate SEWING Machines
in garment factory
Oregon City Woolen Mills
F
STIRS UP COUNCIL
GAS COMPANY. OFFICIAL SAYS
"SIDE PAYMENT" URGED
EDITOR BRODIE IS BROUGHT IN
Impression is Given that Franchise
Hinges on Money Being Passed
In Tuesday night's Portland Jour
nal was a disprtch from thi3 city to
the effect that an effort had been
made to hold up the transfer of a
gas franchise given to A. L. Beatie
to the Portland Gas & Coke Co.,
which has purchased the franchise,
and that the hold up was to force
money considerations.
No names were printed.
Wednesday the Journal's corres
pondent, Lloyd Riches, was notified
by Councilman Templeton to appear
before a meeting of the city council
Friday night and tell the members
where he got his information.
Since the publication of this ar
ticle in the Journal, there have been
all kinds of comments and auestionA
on the streets and one of the ques
tions is:
How does it haoDen that E. E.
Brodie, editor and publisher of The
enterprise, is charged with having
requested tne payment of $500 from
the Portland Gas & Coke Company
to make it easier for that concern to
obtain from the city council a trans-
ter of the franchise granted t
time ago to A. L. Beatie ?
This is one of the questions that
is puzzling Mayor Linn E. Jones,
some members of the council and
other city officials, following the dec
laration made by Samuel C. Brat
ton, commercial manager of the
Portland Gas & Coke Company, that
arodie Bent for him on last Sunday
and suggested .that )the gas com
pany pay $500 to "make Dr. Beatie
withdraw objections" to the transfer.
According to the account given of
the peculiar proceeding by Mr. Brat
ton, Mr. Brodie first called at his of
fice in Portland; that he was absent,
and that Sunday, he (Brodie) sent
for him and told him that Dr. Beatie,
tne original grantee of the franchise,
declared he was not being treated
fairly; that he had not received suf
ficient consideration for transferring
the rights to lay gas maint in Ore
gon City, and. "might make objec
tions to the council's giving its for
mal approval of the transfer "unles
he received $500. Bratton understood
that Brodie was acting for Dr. Bea
tie in the matter, and that if the
Portland Gas & Coke Company de-
cided to pay the suggested $500 it
was to be paid to Brodie.
After this interview, which term
inated without any agreement being
reached, Mr. Bratton went to Mayor
Linn E. Jones and informed him of
the circumstances. Mr. Jones inform
ed the gas company representative
that he knew of no reason why any
sum should be paid to anybody to ex
pedite the formal transfer of the)
franchise rights, and suggested that
Mr. Bratton state the facts to the
members of the council when the
franchise matter came up for discus
sion and consideration at the special
meeting Monday evening. His hon
or assured Mr. Bratton that ample
opportunity would be afforded him to
state the circumstances to the city
fathers.
As events transpired the' majority
of the council appeared to be entirely
satisfied with the proposed transfer
of the franchise, and the document
was passed beyond first reading and
ordered published, final action to be
taben upon it at a special meeting
called for March 27. The only objec
tion offered to this action was made
by Councilman Tooze, who persisted
in declaring that the gas company
was not seeking the transfer of the
Beatie franchise, but was instead
asking the city to grant it an
entirely new franchise.
After Monday night's council
meeting Mr. Bratton was asked by a
MYSTERY 0
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Courier reporter why he had not in
formed the council of the interview
he had had with Mr. Brodie, and he
replied that he did not deem it nec
essary. "I will bring the matter up
at the meeting on March 27," he add
ed "if there is any attempt then to
block the granting of the transfer
that seems to have an ulterior mo
tive behind it."
The franchise over which this pe
culiar situation has arisen was first
granted to Dr. A. L. Beatie some
three years ago, and the grantee
was given 18 months by its terms
in which; to install mains. At the ex
piration of this period, practically no
work having been done, the council
granted the franchise again, extend
ing the initial term another 18
months. This made it necessary that
mains be installed by September 1
of this year.
Some time 'ago the Portland Gas
& Coke Company, operating under
the name of the Clackamas County
Gas Company, purchased, the trans
fer of the franchise rights from Dr.
Beatie, and took a deed for the same.
This document was made out in du
plicate and signed by all parties con
cerned, and one of the copies of this
deed was exhibited by Mr. Bratton
to Mayor Jones after Mr. Tooze had
first opposed the approval of thei
transfer by the council. It was also
shown to the Courier editor.
In asking the approval of the
council to the transfer the new com
pany is also seeking to have insert
ed in the franchise permission to sell
gas for fuel and heating purposes
the original franchise providing for
illuminating sertvice alone. This is
the only change of any importance,
desired in the document. The new
concern is willing to agree to have
the installation of its mains under
way by September li of this year
the time originally set in the second
Beatie franchise, and therefore is
anxious to get early action on the
matter by thee ouncil.-
Councilmen declare that if Mr.
Bratton's report of his interview
with Brodie is correct, the whole af
fair gives the impression that Brodie
was'posing as a dictator of the mun
icipal law-making body; and they re
sent the fact that any such impli
cation should be given circulation.
The Journal's story has caused no
end of comment and speculation in
the city, and if a council investiga
tion is called, according to Mr.
Templeton's notice to the Journal
correspondent, there will no doubt be
other witnesses beside Mr. Richej
who will frive information about this
decidedly interesting "side payment
part of the story.
P. R. L & P. CO. WILL BACK
WILLAMETTE SOUTHERN
And this insures the Speedy Com
pletion of the Road
The P. R. L. & P. Co have gotten
in behind the Willamette Valley
Southern (formerly Clackamas
Southern) and it is said now that
completion work will be rushed as
fast as men can rush it. 1
A mortgage of $3,000,000 was re
corded Thursday and this money it
is said will go into construction work.
In letters being sent out to bond
buyers Franklin T. Griffith con
firms that the P. R. L. & P. Co. is
behind the new road and will back
it .
This means a sDeedv coniDletion of
the road.
Will Be Handsome Streets.
The imDrovement of Center street.
between Eighth and Ninth, is going
ahead rapidly under the favorable
weather, and following its completion
will no doubt come some handsome
residences along the bluff the most
sightly sites in the city. -
The work .of improving High street
is also well along and the mountain
of solid rock near the Mrs. Chase res
idence is now being blasted out. High
street improved, will be a handsome
and convenient residence street, and
will no doubt build up rapidly.
Mrs. Samuel V. Francis returned
to Oregon City Wednesday evening
after being the guest of her daughter
Mrs. Joseph Guerber of Portland for
several days.
FOR SALE 3 room house, lot 55x
Vi'i, 8 minutes' walk from Main
St. on 15th St. Price $750.00. If
you want a home this is a snap.
Macdonald & Van Auken.