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OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JNUE ll, 1914
Number 6
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TEMPLETON
5TH STREET DEAL
SOME FACTS THAT SHOULD IN
TEREST TAXPAYERS
AN IRREGULAR, ILLEGAL DEAL
City Law and Taxpayers Utterl
Ignored in the Matter
A week ago Wednesday Council
man Templeton declared from the
floor of the council chamber that
the editor of the Courier was so
"steeped in falsehood" and the paper
so generally given to misrepresen
tation that it would not tell the true
facts reeardiner the illegal improve
ments of Fifth street. Mr. Temple
ton made these remarks after a
rather weak "whitewash" of himself
had been delivered at his earnest
. solicitation bv Mayor Jones who
knew nothing about the real history
of Fifth street and by Councilman
Meyer, whose testimony was peculiar
in the extreme.
All this happened too near the
Courier's time of going to press for
detailed reply to have been made last
week, so the Courier takes this op
portunity of letting its light shine
with some concentrated focus upon
this Fifth street matter. Before go
ing into it, however, the Courier de
sires to state that the controversy
has been entirely of Mr. Templeton's
making, and that ample opportunity
has been given him to clarify all
cloudy points in mystery. So far
Mr. Templeton has done nothing but
abuse the Courier and generally com
plicate the situation.
In December, 1912, the city coun
cil passed an ordinance declaring that
the "life" of Fifth' street should ex
pire December 31, 1912. The ordin
ance also put the same limit on Sev
enth street and' on Main street.
"Declaring the life" of a street in
Oregon City means setting a time
after which no repairs shall be made
on that street save at the expense of
the owners of abutting property.
The "life" was declared on the
three streets grouped above because
property owners on Seventh street
were doing exactly what property
owners on Main street are doing at
the present time they were trying
to get the street repaved at the ex
pense of the general fund. The ma
jority of the council objected to this,
and they objected to resurfacing the
street at the expense of the general
fund. In spite of their objections
somebody ordered rock laid on Sev
enth street, and after a block had
been partly resurfaced the council
passed the ordinance, and stopped it.
When the council took this action
it did so with the intention of stop
ping any further outlay of money
from the general fund on these
streets. It did it to stop all resur
facing or other improvement of the
streets except at the expense of the
owners of abutting property. There
was no "understanding" at that time
that any of these streets should first
of all be put in first class condition.
Councilman Meyer, in defending Mr.
Templeton said that he believed there
was such an agreement or compro
mise, and that the resurfacing of
Fifth street this year was merely
the fulfillment of that agreement
a sort of "side agreement" that did
' not go on record.
Members of the street committee
who endorsed the declaring of the
"life" of these streets knew why it
was done, and this is what they tell
the Courier about it:
"To my recollection there was no
understanding that Fifth street
should be redressed before its life was
declared. The street committee never,
ordered any redress of that street,
as I remember it, and the sole de
sire in declaring the life of the
street was to stop further expendit
ure of the general, fund upon it." :
Ex-Councilman Horton, who was '
chairman of the street committee at
the time the "life" of Fifth street
. was declared.
"The whole matter came up In
connection with Seventh street. When
the council decided to stop repairing
that at the expense of the general
fund, it also determined to declare
the life of Fifth street and of Main
street. I know of no understanding
that anv of these streets were to be
repaired first, or that they were to
be repaired even once after the life
was set. As I recall it the life of
these streets was declared expressly
for the purpoe of shutting off any
further expense of city money upon
them. It was done, I believe, to stop
work then being started." Ex-Councilman
Tooze, who was a member of
the street committee at the time the
"life" of Fifth street was declared.
"I never heard of any understand
ing that Fifth street was to be re
paired at the city's expense after its
life - had been declared. I introduced
the ordinance declaring the life of
Fifth, Seventh and Main streets, and
I did it because the council did not
want to pay for any more work on
these streets." Councilman Al
bright, who was a member of the
street committee at the time the
"life" of Fifth street was declared,
and who is still a member of that
committee.
"The life of Fifth street was de
clared in 1912, and no further work
could have been done legally upon it
at the expense of the general fund."
Livy Stipp. who was citv recorder
at the time the "life" of Fifth street
was declared.
The men who make the above
statements were looking after the
ity's business at the time the "life"
of Fifth street was declared, and
they know what they meant to do,
and why they did it
The minute book of the city coun
cil shows that an ordinance was
passed setting December 31, 1912, as
the limit of the "life" of Fifth street.
And the minute book does NOT show
that there was any conditional agree
ment to the effect that Fifth street
should be resurfaced at a later date
and the work paid for by the general
fund. . .
When the present city council or
ganzed in January of this year Coun
cilman Templeton one of the three
new members was appointed chair
man of the street committee. His
maiden speech upon the floor of the
council chamber was a protest
against the improvement of Fifteen
th street. He said he opposed any
further street work because Oregon
City needed to exercise the strictest
economy. Mr. Templeton did not live
on fifteenth street he lived on
Fifth street.
Before the winter weather had
ceased it was observed that crushed
rock was being put on Fifth street
Councilmen and other city officers
wondered how it happened, but they
supposed due authority had " been
given from some source. At the
same time that- work on Fifth street
was being done by the city, property
owners on seventh street were die
ging down into their jeans to pay
heavy assessments for the repair of
seventh street. -Yet both Fifth and
Seventh streets had been declared off
the city expense list after December
ai. 1912.
Six weeks ago the Courier
started on the trail of this Fifth
street improvement. The trail led
right up to Mr. Templeton. The
Courier said so. Before it said so it
gave Mr. Templeton a chance to go
on record, over his own signature,
and deny that he had ordered the im
provements of Fifth street at the ex
pense of the general fund. Mr.
Templeton has steadily refused to
sign this statement.
Street work of any considerable
extent is not supposed to be done in
this city unless ordered by the street
committee. Here follows what the
members of the street committee told
the Courier about this year work
on Fifth street.
"I signed no order for the resur
facing of Fifth street. I know of no
report made by the street committee
authorizing any person. to order the
resurfacing of Fifth street." Coun
cilman Van Auken, member of the
itrcet committee.
"I have never signed any report
luthorizing the improvement of Fifth
itreet. When I saw that work was
leing done on the street I spoke to
Templeton about it and told him that
the life of the street had expired two
years ago. He said it hadn't."
Councilman Albright, member of the
street committee.
"I don't know who ordered the
work done" Councilman Temple
ton, chairman of the street commit
tee. Street Commissioner (Babcock
supervised the resurfacing of Fifth
street. He told a representative of
the Courier that he believed the work
had been ordered by the 1912 council
and then stopped temporarily, and
that when he was ordered to complete
the resurfacing of the street he sup
posed it was all right, and went ahead
with it. Mr. Babcock is supposed to
obey orders that he receives from the
chairman of the street committee.
Who ordered this work done? The
Courier has already intimated quite
pointedly that Councilman Templeton
ordered it. Councilman Templeton
has said that the Courier is so
steeped in falsehood" that it can't
tell things straight. He has also said
that he didn't know who ordered the
work. And he has also said that he
had all the details about Fifth street
written down in his memorandum
book. More of that shortly.
iNow, the issue being as it is, the
Courier is just willing to take a
chance on the libel laws of Oregon,
and state here, in simple language:
Councilman Templeton ordered
Fifth street resurfaced at the ex
pense of the general fund more than
a year after the life of the street had
been declared.
Six weeks or so aeo, when the
Courier was seeking light on Fifth
street, one of its representatives met
Mr. lempleton downtown, and asked
him a somewhat carefully worded
question. This was the question:
"Mr. lempleton, how much rock
did YOU order placed on Fifth
street?"
And Mr. Templeton said:
"I can't tell you offhand, but I
have all the figures as to the amount
of rock and cost of the work in my
notebook up at the house. J m'just
oing home, and if you'll call me up
;n ten minutes I'll be glad to tell you
all about it."
The Courier reporter waited fif
teen minutes and then he called the
number "Mr. Templeton had given
him. And the dulcet voice of central
replied: "That number "does not
answer." Central was asked to try
again, and again she replied sweet
ly: "I cannot get that number to
answer.. And the Courier reporter
was not really surprised.
in seeking information about
Fifth street, a Courier reporter asked
Street Commissioner Babcock what
the work cost. He said approximate
ly $1,400. The Courier printed this.
And then Mr. Templeton, who
says he doesn't know who ordered
Fifth street improved, came down to
the Courier office and said that the
reporter who wrote the original
Fifth street story was a liar.
"And I'll prove he is a liar," said
Mr. Templeton. "He said that the
work cost $1,400. It didn't, it cost
$1 fiRO. So you see he's a liar."
The Courier , subsequently made
the correction in regard to the cost
of the work being but $1,400, but
stll Mr Templeton says that its
editor is "steeped in falsehood."
No bill for the illegal improve
ment of Fifth street was ever turned
into the city council.' The labor was
paid for among the great mass of
street labor, and the 800 yards or so
of rock that was used was all a part
of the general "omnibus" bill for
crushed rock that comes in each
month. It appears, however, that
$600 was paid in March, and the bal-
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E
li CITf AFFAIRS
MASS MEETING CALLED FOR
SATURDAY JUNE 20,
NEW MANAGEMENT PROPOSED
Recent Disclosures Arouse Citizen
and Petitions are Heaviyl Signed
For many months the Courier has
been endeavoring to convinc i the peo
ple ot this city that its present sys
tem of government is too small and
coo loose for the impartance of its
ousiness.
Today there are petitions in cir
culation caling a public meeting of
the citizens for Willamete Hill on
Saturday night, June 20, to take the
initial steps for a change in the
management in this city.
The petition reads;
"We the undersigned citizens
and voters of Oregon City, re
quest that a public mass meeting
be held in Willamette hall, Ore
gon City, on Saturday night,
June 20, for the purpose of for
mulating a more businesslike,
economical and responsible form
of government for the city."
This call for a public meeting sim
ply requests the people to meet and
take the initial strfps for a changed
system that will give this city a
BUSINESS administration; put re
sponsibility where it is DIRECT and
cut out the extravagence under which
yve now suffer.
It is a call of the people to get to
gether and remedy the present sys
tem which is a joke aind almost a
scandal today.
It is a request of the people for a
city administration based on business
principals, whereby the present loosest
of management may be changed to a
systematic, practical basis, and waste
and extravagance eliminated.
It is a demand of the people for di
rect responsibility; where one coun
cilman can not hide his actions by
the statement "I did not do it;" and
where any man can know by asking
what is being done and WHO is do
ing it.
The sentiment for this change is
almost . unnimous. Present (Jouncil
raen favor it; county officials back it.
Of perhaps two-hundred citizens in
terviewed only two have stood pat.
One of tKe circulators, O'Don-
nell, said that during a part of one
day, Tuesday, he secured over 200
signatures in the down town district,
and "if I should go up on the hill
the paper would not hold out." He
said he had nearly all the Main St.
business merv, the attorneys office
holders 'and four of the city council-
men. He said not more Than a half
dozen men had refused to sign the
petition.
The loseness of the present sys
tem is a scandal, and the wonder is
how the people have stood for it so
long.
That Fifth street deal has opened
the eyes of the people to the way the
city is being mismanaged.
today Twelfth street has been re
surfaced. It is aperfectly legal ac
tion, and the street needs the repairs.
BUT WHU UKDEKEU IT?
Find out if you can.
The Courier asked a member of the
street committee about the matter an
he replied: .
I have never been consulted. I
never ordered it. -1 did not know it
had been ordered. The council does
not know it was ordered, or ever gave
it sanction."
Mr. Templeton seems to be the onlv
man who does know anything about
it. He seems to be the only man
who knows anything obout that JTifth
street deal.
What kind of management is this?
Do you wonder that the people are'
at last calling a halt?
So far as the petetitions are con-
cerened, they are simply in circula
tion to measure sentiment. A citi
zen who will sign one will naturally
be interested enough to attend the
meeting and help to remedy condi
tions There are absolutely no politics or
factions in the movement for a new
form of city government.
It is an open meeting to get the!
ideas of the people as to the best!
means to remedy present conditions,
and the best form of management for
our city.
As we understand, the obwi of
i Li ,h :i n tr to take initial st3n to
brine about a chanced form of gov
ernment to be formulated and put
up to the people at the next city elec
tion. W. S. U'Ren to Speak
Dr. Ford, pastor of the First Me
thodist Episcopal church, has arrang
ed for the four candidates for gov
ernor, Dr. (J. M. Smith, Democratic
nominee; Hon. F. M. Gill, Progres
sive nominee; Dr. James Withyeom
be, Republican nominee, and the Hon.
W. S. U'Ren, to speak in his platform
pulpit, and Mr. U'Ren will speak next
Sunday evening at 8 o'clock on
"Needs of Oregon as I See Them."
Mr. U'Ren will speak , with entire
freedom. The public if cordially in
vited to hear Mr. U'Ren, and all the
other gentlemen.
Will Appear Next Week
Although a night shift has been
put on at the Courier ,yet several ar
ticles are ommitted from this issue,
for want of time to et them in type.
A large rush of printing has made
the newspaper a side consideration
this week.
The Courier is not a one-page
paper. Every column on every page!
is a live one.
FO
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GREAT LIGHT If
CULTURE
HEART-TO-HEART CONFLAB ON
PERSONAL TASTE
FUN, FROLIC, AND FRIVOLITY
An Innocent Sermonette By a Poor
Preacer on Amusements
Occasionally some stunt is "pulled
off" in this county which deserves
the hearty commendation and support
of every man, woman and child with
in its boundaries.
This fact was most forcibly
brought home to the Courier editor
this week as he perused the program
for the coming Chautauqua follow
ing a wasted half-day at the Port
land Rose Show, from which he re
turned feeling rather empty both
mentally and financially.
Viewed in the broad light, what a
difference between the two forms of
amusement! What a wealth of intel
lectual treats, good music, mental in
spiration and rest on one hand; and
what a giddy, dizzy whirl of nonsen
sical so-called festivities on the oth
er! The Chautauqua thought of from
year to year with most pleasant
memories of something really worth
while; the Portland high jinks fading
away onthe morning after, with a
yawn and a head-ache.
Mebbe- it's a case of sour gfapes,
but the Courier man believes the
Gladstone Chautauqua has the annual
frolic of the Portlanders backed off
the boards from the standpoint of
genuine community upbuilding the
sort that produces a better as well as
a bigger citizenship.
Not that the Portland show isn't
a thine of beauty. It is all of that
and more, but the point is that the
pretty festival isn't the joy forever.
It costs money to join the mi
throng of the great light way, to "do"
the festival as it should be fittingly
done under the 1914 Queensbury
rules. And when the mad exhilara
tion of the grand evening is over you
slink off the 1-G. M. car at the Sev
enth street landing and try your best
to figure out just what the total gain
is on the night's revelries. Ever
been? Of course you have.
- It's all a question of taste and
perhaps a dark-brown taste at that.
Compare the Gladstone outing id
days of the best in music, art and
lectures, refined entertainment and
amusement, innumerable morning
classes of vital interest, daily base
ball games and countless other fea
tures, and all taking place before
your eye in the prettiest and most
ideal camping spot in Oregon Glad
stone Park. Twenty-six big pro
grams in the main auditorium, fifty
mornine hour sessions and all 'the
rest for the magnificent sum of $2.50.
Can you beat it? Well not at the
rose festival.
The editor does not profess to be
up to snuff on the latest Taneo mel
odies but as he sized up the Chau
tauqua program to be given next
month, he was visibly reminded of
the late Broadway hit: "How Can
She Do It on $6.50 Per?"
the answer is dead easy. The
Chautauqua is not a commercial pro
ject in any sense of the word, and
therein lies its success. It is engi
neered by public spirited men and
women of Clackamas county who be
lieve that the Chautauqua is one of
the great factors in the upbuilding of
the social, moral and mental life of
the community. These men and
women give their time and shoulder
the responsibility for the success of
the assembly without reward, and
the beautiful park has been donated
to Chautauqua for fifty years, that
the grand old institution mav more
easily realize its ideals.
the coming assembly will be the
21st birthday of the institution. The
program is a dandy and it looks as
if the directors intended to celebrate
in a fitting manner.
the Courier coneratulates the men
behind the Chautauqua guns for the
success of theft assembly our as
sembly, in fact.
Chautauqua is something really
worth while. You should plan now
to help celebrate the birthday party
next month.
Bridges at Barton and Molalla.
The state highway engineer has
drawn plans and the county court
advertises for bids in this issue for
two steel bridges, each 210 feet in
length, one across the Molalla river
at Molalla and the other across the
Clackamas at Barton.
Some Recommend This.
Undertaker TomMyres, who re
cently took the emblamers' examin
ation, received the following letter
from Dr. Calvin S. White of the state
board of health:
"I have the pleasure of in
forming you that you have not
only passed the examination
for licensed embalmer but that
your paper was the best this
board has ever had, and you
have been given a grade of
100." .
Chief Catches Fugitive.
Late last week Chief of Police
Shaw arrested C. S. Coleman, 24
years old, and held him as a fugit
ive from Portland. Earlier in the
week Chief Shaw had received a tele
gram from Captain Baty of the de
tective department in Portland ask
ing him to .look for the man. Baty
sent a good description, except that
he estimated Coleman's age as 34.
Ed "made'-' his man on the street,
again proving his detective ability.
Coleman is charged with laceny by
bailee.
DOCTORS AFTER
VAN BRAKEL AGAIN
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH HELP
ING THEM TO "GET" HIM
STATE HEALTH LAWS IGNORED
And Vital Statistics in County Abol
sihed by Calvin White
The fight of the local physicians
against County Health Olticer, Van
Brakle, an osteopath, has broken out
again, and this time in tne form oi
ignoring the state law by ignoring
the health officer.
The state law directs physicians
to send all vital statistics, and reports
of contagious diseases to the county
health olticer each month.
Dr. Calvin S. White, who is the
czar of the state board of health, or
ders the physicians to ignore Dr. Van
Brakle, the county health officer, ig
inore Oregon'3 laws, and report all
vital statistics to his office, in Mult
nomah county.
May 28th, there was a meeting of
the Clackamas County Medical As
sociation, at which time it is said this
matter of ignoring Dr. Van Brakle as
health officer, and the btate laws re
garding vital statitics was taken
up. The Enterprise quotes Dr.
Strickland as replying to the inquiry
as to what action the physicians took,
"it is none of the public's business."
A Courier reporter went to Dr.
Van Brakle Saturday last, regarding
reports that there were several cases
of typhoid fever in the city and coun
ty, and asked him regarding the mat
ter, lite replied that no cases had
been reported to his office, and there
were no county records of such cases.
So we have the situation as report
ed by physicians, of Dr. Calvin S.
White directing the county physicians
TO IGNORE THE STATE HEALTH
LAWS.
And we have Dr. M. C. Stricland,
as quoted in the Enterprise , saying
the action of the County Medical As
sociation as "NONE OF THE PUB
LIC'S BUSINESS."
What does the public think of these
actions?
For ' nearly a year the county
physicians have been playing foot
ball with health conditions in this
county to "get" Dr. Van Brakle.
Twice they have brought actions
to remove him and made them ridic
ulous by failures.
Court actions have been brought in
"the name of the people" so that the
dear tax-payers would have to pay
the expenses of litigation the ex
penses the doctors should have went
down in their jeans for.
And failing in the courts, the State
board of health directs, and the coun
ty medical association obeys, that
plain state laws be violated that the
medical doctors may harass a doctor
who does not prescribe medicine.
This is SOME delegation of power
and authority.
This is SUME right ot mignt ex
ercised by a person in virtue of his
position of public trust.
This is SOME usurption of power
and conferring of authority by an
official who is no more than a hired
man of the tax-payers of Oregon.
And the Courier wonders whether
the people will stand for it, or wheth
er they will rise up and abolish a pub
lic office that plays medical favorites.
Dr. Van Brakle says that he wel
comes the new attack, as it gives him
an opening to bring to conclusion
whether or not the office of county
health is to be made a farce of, or
whether it is to be recognized ac
cording to law, and no doubt there
will be some interesting develope
ments in the near future.
MRS. W. A. WHITE
FOR SCHOOL DIRECTOR
Petitions are Out Nominating Compe
tent and Popular Lady for Place
Several petitions are in circulation
in the city, which we understand are
being freely signed, requesting that
Mrs. W. A. White of Jefferson street,
become a candidate for school direc
tor, and that her name be placed on
the ballot at the regular election,
Monday, June 15.
Mrs. White is a thoroughly com
petent and popular lady of the city.
She has always been thoroughly in
terested in school and parent-teacher
work and the active interest of the
people in this matter would seem to
indicate the people think the board
of education would be improved by
having her as a director.
Of late there has been considerable
dissension in the schools, and much
criticism of the board of education
m its several actions. It is an open
secret that the board is not harmo
nious; that is ha.ving all kinds of
troubles and bickerings, and it seems
to be the sentiment of the people that
when wrangles 'start in school matters
it is time for new members to step
in. i
The Courier believes that the elec
tion of a lady of Mrs. White's capa
bilities to the board would be for the
best interests of the board and for
the schools at this time of factional
strife.
It believes if we had more women
on the board we would not have se
cret sessions, where the minutes, of
the meeting were denied to people
requesting, and that we would have
more economy and better feeling gen
erallv.
A large majority of the teachers of
our city schools are ladies, and there
is no argument against the justice
of havine competent lady represen
tation on the board to be consulted in
the selection of these teachers. A
woman takes far more interest in
these matters than men.
It is regrettable that politics and
factional differences have entered our
board of education a nd schools.
It should be stopped. A lady
member on the board will do much to
end it.
A petition has been left at the
Courier office to place Mrs. White in
nomination, where any one may sign
it who desires.
Teusday is School Election
Next Tuesday. June 15, is the an
nual school election for the election
of a director. Wrs. W. A. White has
been placed in nomination by large
petitions, with far more than the re
quired number of names, and will be
a candidate tor the place.
Easy Picking
Sure tiling, Economy is worked to
death in Oregon City. There was no
money to grade East street, where
the owners are willing to be assessed
for the improvement. Lots of dough
for Fifth street. Lots of coin for a
semi-private tennis court. Lots of
ducats lor a water tall about sz.uw
and then that nasty water wouldn't
fall. Oh! you blue-sky bunch.
Lucke Warehouse Started
William Lucke, a commission
merchant of Canty, was in this city
Monday arranging for the erection
of a building on Eleventh and Center
street, this to be used as a commis
sion house in connection with the one
at Canby. The building will be of
one story, the dimensions to be 40x60
feet. A siding from the main track
of the Southern Pacific to be con
structed at the completion of the
building.
Mr. Lucke has been in the commis
sion business at Canby for the past
soven years, having made a success
nf this business. He is to handle all
kinds of produce in this city,
Brings Suit for $25,000.
A damage action for $25,250 has
been brought in the circuit court here
by Henry McNaughton, guardian for
his son, barl, against William Mum-
power and Norville Kirchem of
Stone.
Last July young McNaughton and
a companion were motorcycling along
tne Clackamas river when a bull dog
ran out at them, when McNaughton
shot the dog. The dog was owned
by Kirchem.
William Mumnower. a deDutv
sheriff, chased the boys in an auto,
caught and arrested them. A few
minutes later the McNaughton boy
jumped on his motor and rode off.
mumpower shot him twice.
1 he complaint alleees the bov will
be a cripple for life.
SNAKEY EELS, NASTY
- EELS,. STINKING EELS
Mr. City Council, Please Take the
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Shakespeare once defined stink
as "the rankest compound of villain
ous smell that ever offended nostrils,"
and the wonder is if there wasn t
an eel factory in his vicinity when
he wrote it, with the wind blowing
toward him.
Facing Water street on the river
bank is an eel factory, where they
boil 'em up, cut 'em up ,fry 'em up,
or something, and the stench from
said extractor would stink a dog off
the river front. A glue factory or
phosphate plant would be otter of
roses in comparison.
Why this place was allowed to be
erected where it is, keeps one guess
ing, it is said the proprietors have
permission from both the city, which
claims title to the land and private
parties who have title (tax) to the
property, and that they have legal
right to make oil, hen feed and stink
24 hours a day. And they are certain
ly putting in the full-hours on aroma.
We would suggest to the city
council to. see how very suddenly the
nuisance can be abated or moved,
and during the waiting would further
suggest that they scatter asafetdia
and burn-a quantity of old rags as a
couter irritant. '
This dead eel fryerv or live eel
fricaseery rrfay be an infant industry
in disguise, and may grow in size and
smell and payroll, but it occurs to us
it should be located nearer the free
raw material, that it should be
speedily and forcibly shoved about a
half mile up the river, near the falls
where Canemah and West Linn could
share in the suptile quality of its
Hoyt's German Cologne-like odors,
and have equal credit in the industry
as it grows bigger and stinks louder.
lhe Courier voices a lone strine
of supplicants when it entreats please
take the thing away.
Never more will it raise a whisper
against the sulphur fumes from the
Jiawley paper mill; never more will
we protest against the dead eels and
salmon on the falls rocks. Take
away the infant eel industry before
it grows on us, and give us aloes fc
chew in the meantime.
Canned Goods
If vou are hrnkft or nnnrlv bnnfpH
don't ltrpjik t.hft lnw in Orpo-nn Pilv
for you'll got soaked the limit. If
you nave a pull and influence you
can do as you blame please. The of
ficers will t'entlv tell vnu that mn
had better be careful, as somebody
nas reported you as an offender. Per-
n,ipn your line win be uncollectable
like Stewart's? Pprhnnn vnu will a
to old and respected a citizen to give
evidence in a Blind-Pig case, espec
ially ii you are an accessory before
the fact and own a drug store? Per
haps there is a hell and some people
will go there? Perhaps?
UNK WHO KNOWS.
Girls Wanted!
(Over 18 years of age)
To OPERATE SEWING MACHINES
IN GARMENT FACTORY
Ogreon City Woolen Mills
T
ENDS SIFT'S LIFE
LOCAL RAILROAD MAN DIES AS
RESULT OF ACCIDENT
FOUR OTHERS BADLY INJURED
Willamette Valley Southern Terminal
Scene of Sudden Disaster
F. M. Swift, construction manaer
of the Willamette Valley Southern
railroad, was fatally injured in the
Oregon City terminal yards Monday
afternoon, and four other men were '
so seriously hurt that they were all
sent to hospitals. Early Tuesday
morning Mr. Swift died of his inju
ies, after making a brave but futile
battle for life. Mr. Swift sustained
a fractured skull and internal injur
ies in the accident, and attending
physicians at no time had hopes of
his recovery.
The accident occured when a new
electric hoist, just installed to drag
gravel ballast and other material
from the river to the terminal yards
at the foot of Fifteenth street, was
being tried out. Though there was
no load in the big bucket of the hoist
the joists and supports that upheld
it proved too frail to stand the strain,
and the big timber that bore the
greatest stress; snapped, its shattered
parts mowing down the men standing
nearby like chaff.
Those injured were: Edward Rain
ey, conductor on the construction
train, who sustained fractures of the
right thigh and left leg, as well as
lacerations about the head; J. Eby,
timekeeper, cut on head and shoul
ders Harvey Dix, laborer, injured in
the back and badly bruised; A. G.
Sullivan, an employee of the P. R. L.
& P. Co., badly bruised. All the above
will recover, physicians in attendance
say, though Rainey may be crippled
for the remainder of his life.
The men injured had gathered near
the head of the hoist to watch its
operations. The powerful electric
machinery replaces a gigantic don
key engine that had been used by the
Clackamas Southern management.
When the local road was re-financed
by the Portland Railway, Light &
Power . company, the donkey engine
was discardeu ai,:",. an electric hoist,
operated by power' from' the interur
ban line, installed in its place. It
wus this hoist that was being tried
out.
The windlass and motors of the
hoist are upon a platform erected
some 18 feet above the level of the
terminal yards, so that cars may be
run underneath and loaded with the
material hauled up from the river.
Apparently the framework support
ine the hoist was not heavy enough
to stand the strain of its operation,
and when a part of this gave way hve
of the men watching the operation of
the contrivance were flayed by the
pieces. i p
Particular sadness attaches to the
death of Mr. Swift. He has been
identified with the Clackamas South
ern project since its inception, and
has worked with all his heart and
soul to make it a success. Day and
night he was ever ready to do his
share towards bringing the local "road
to completion, and the recent pro
gress that has been made on the line
since outside capital was secured de
lighted him greatly. His fellow
workers on the line found him a con
stant insniration for their enthusi
asm, and his death is mourned by all
with, a sincerity they can but half ex
press. A MATTER FOR MR. TEM
PLETON TO EXPLAIN
Will He Tell the People Under What
Authority He Improves Streets I
If Mr. Templeton, chairman of the
street committee, is not too busy
trying to find out who ordered the
crushed rock put onto Fifth street,
we would ask him to answer these
questions, he being chairman of the
the street committee, ne anuuiiU
know.
Paee 33 of the city charter, sec.
87, says the council shall have power
to award contracts for street improv
ments "such contracts TO BE LET
TO THE LOWEST BIDDER."
When he has finished this section
we would ask him to look up a con
tract for crushed rock, dated Sep
tember 23, 1912, signed by G. B.
Dimick, then mayor, for 1500 cubic
yards of crushed rock.
Now we would like to ask Mr.
Templeton under WHAT contract and
under WHAT authority he is having
crushed rock put on the several
streets of the city?
I his contract was lone airo filled
and has expired.
The charter says this material
SHALL' BE BROUGHT UNDER
COMPETITIVE BIDS.
It isn't beine boueht under any
bids.
It isn't being bought under any
contract.
It isn't beine boueht with the
knowledge or consent of the other
members of the street committee.
It isn't being bought legally.
tl is just being put on.
If you want to know how much
and the cost, you can't find it in the
city records, out in a private book
Councilman Templeton carries in his
INSIDE POCKET.
This column is vours, Mr. Tem
pleton, to explain the LEGALITY of
this crushed rock deal, and to explain
what right you have individually,
and as ONE member of the street
committee to run up these big
cost bills without contract or author
ity from tne city council.
The Courier and twice a week
Journal, both one year, $1.75.
BREAKING
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