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OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1914
Number 23
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CITY
LEPERS OF THE
HAWAIIAN
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A VISIT TO DETENTION COLONY
NEAR HONOLULU
LEPERS HELD FOR M0L0KAI
Receiving Station for the Island for
Those Accursed
It was by sheer accident that I
learned there was a leper colony out
side of Honolulu, and through sheer
persistency that 1 found it.
One afternoon I was loitering about
the capitol building and reading the
queer legal notices pasted on the bill
boards or the estates of deceased lep
ers, when I overheard a Hawaiian say
to a white man that he could find a
witness at the leper hospital and he
said he would go out with him on
bunday.
I asked the white man where the
place was and . he said about six
milesioutside of the city and he told
me how to find It, and he added that
all I could see would be through the
enclosure as visitors were not per
mitted. The next morning I started out,
and start was about all I did do for
an hour or so.
I took the car as directed and had
ridden a few blocks when the con
ductor got to me.
I told him where I wanted to go,
but he said he did not know of any
leper community, and that probably
it was on the other side of the city.
I piled off and took a car in the
opposite direction, but the conductor
was but little more of an information
source than the first native,. and then
he asked me if it was not a hospital
I was hunting? He named a hospital,-
the name being a native word
and beginning with K. (I have for
gotten the way it was spelled.)
In despair I told him that was my
destination. I realized I wasn't get
ting anywhere, and thought I would
chance the lead.
And he had me hike off again and
go back to the place of starting. I
told this conductor the name of the
hospital I was careful not to men
tion leper, for I concluded under
another name I would be more likely
to find the place.
He carried me two or three miles
and transferred me to another line,
where I again declared I was hospital
hunting.
After a ride out into the country
the native conductor told me to get off
at a country road and walk about two
miles.
The road was shut in on both sides
by dense foliage and there was not a
breath of air. The tropical sun beat
down something fierce, but I pulled
my coat and hit the pike. Oh, but
it WAS hot. I walked about half an
hour and had about concluded I was
wrong again, when ahead I saw the
buildings of the place I was hunting.
The hospital grounds and buildings
were in a circle, about the circumfer
ence of a quarter mile race track, en
closed with, a high stockade, with big
gates under an arch in front.
From some distance I sat down
and sized up the proposition. I had
come too far to miss seeing some
thing and learning something.
Through the stockade I could see a
number of people on one side of the
circle, while on the other side not a
one was in view.
And then I took a chance.
The big gates were. open and there
was no one near them. I walked in
and turned to the right, never risking
an eye down the other side where I
had seen the people.
I had figured if I could get half
way around before I was stopped I
could then take my choice of the re
turn, and I would come up the other
side where the lepers were.
I had got about two' hundred yards
when I heard a call. I did not notice
it, but kept marching. Then other
calls and a shrill whistle. I stopped
and looked across. A native, badly
crippled was coming across the circle
toward me, waving his arms, and be
hind him a half dozen other men.
He called to me in English and told
me to turn back. I put my hand to
my ear as if hard of hearing. He
limped along toward me and I walked
toward him.
I knew he was a leper and I wanted
to get close enough to observe him
closely.
He came to within about tour rods
of me, and we both stopped. He was)
dressed in white, bareheaded and was
very lame. I rfrerward learned his
lanuress was rot the result of the
malady, but an accident.
He asked me who I wanted to see.
I replied I was a stranger and just
looking around. He told me this was
a leper colony and none were allowed
within the gates; that it was a rule
of the doctors and was solely for
safety.
I noted the man carefully. He was
about 25 years old, and evidently in
the first stages of leprosy. He was
bareheaded, and I could see the swell
ing. above his ears, and I noted his
hands were partially closed and his
fingers appeared stiff.
I did not want to quit so soon, so
I asked him where the superintendent
was. He pointed out a building near
he gate and I went back a dozen
or more lepers, men and Women, cur
iously watching me from about the
enclosure, and hurrying to the man I
had talked with as soon as I started
back.
A big Hawaiian, a man who would
weigh 250 pounds came out of the
building and curiously asked me what
he could do for me, when I told' him I
was a stranger and wanted to learn
something about lepers. He smiled
and asked me to come in.
I went into a small office, from
which an arch opened into a bed room.
He gave me a chair in front of a big
roll-top desk. I sat down, when he
excused himself, reached in front of
me and closed the desk. I wondered
why, but he did not explain.
The big fellow spoke fluent English
and was very courteaous. He told me
I could only visit the place under a
permit or in charge of a doctor; that
he would talk with me a few minutes
and then I must go. And then .look
ing at one of my hands he said:
"If you had a dozen permits, Mr.
Brown, I would not permit you to
visit the grounds today."
To explain this remark I would
state that before leaving my room in
the morning I had reached into my
grip for a handkerchief, and had run
my finger onto the point of a razor
that had come open, cutting the fiesh
to the bone.
To stop the blood I had used cfgar
rette papers. During my walk, swing
ing my hand, the blood had started
again, and the cut was bleeding a very
little. .
"You are more in danger with that
finger," said the superintendent, "than
you would be in sleeping with a small
pox patient. I want to warn you to be
exceedingly careful when you leave.
Do not touch the hnger to anything,
tree, seat, shrubbery, or gateway. It
is such carelessness that makes lep
ers.'" And from then on I lost about sev
en-eighths of any leper curiosity. That
bleeding finger seemed to be stiffen
ed. I could not keep my eyes from it.
He asked me outside and pointed
to a group of lepers in front of a
house a few yards away. There were
about a dozen, half women, two of
them girls of about 18 years. They
were well dressed, one wearing a big
black straw hat with ostrich plumes.
They were laughing and singing.
As 1 watched them a woman came
from behind a building nearby, hault
ed and looked back, as if. someone had
called her. And she held her hand
on the railing a leper hand. '
It had the appearance of scrofula
or eczema, there were scars and
white scale-like formations, and ulcer-like,
dry sores. The hand only
remained a minute, but it's picture
will remain forever. It was a hand
of death. That woman would go to
Moiokai the next trip, and she would
die there. She was branded. There
was no help or hope death was the
only release.
One of the women I noted had ban-
danes on her hands. The superintend
ent said she was trying some Ha
waiian remedy for a cure, but it was
only a hope, that they all went to
Moiokai in the end.
He explained to me that the place"
was a detention hospital, where those
having symptoms of the disease were
brought and where they were kept for
six months before deportation to the
leper island. He said some did not
have leprosy, only a form of skin
disease, and a detention of six months
gave the physicians time to pick them
out and save them from the island.
The .man told me he had been 17
years among the lepers; that for the
first six or eight years he was very
uneasv. but now fear had absnlutalv
banished. ' He said if fie was positive
there was not an abrasion of the skin
on his hands he would not fear to
hold a leper's hand, and if in good
health would not fear to eat or mingle
with them. But he said the least
break of the skin, no larger than a
pin-head, permitted inoculation with
contact, and that carlessness in this
particular was where leprosy was
contracted.
As I sat in the office a little black
girl, about six years old, came in with
a mop, and went into the bedroom.
I asked the superintendent if she was
a leper. He said she was a leper child
and the hrst symptoms were appear
ing. This little girl did his room
work, mopped the floor, made the bed
and took care of the room.
I wondered if some day the man
would not have a cut finger and it
would come in contact with something
the girl had touched. And I felt this
would be the result, and that the day
would come when instead of taking a
colony of lepers to the death island,
he would be one of the lepers and
would be taken there.
I asked him if he was not afraid
of inoculation through the medium
of flies or mosquitos. He laughed and
pointed to the bed, double screened.
But I thought that these screenes
would not protect him only at night,
and that an able-bodied mosquito
might be able to get in a little extra
work on his hands or face in the
early evening.
There were only 35 lepers In the
colony, 150 having been transported
to Moiokai a few weeks before.
The superintendent held that the
disease was not contagious, only in
fectious, but medical authorities differ
on this point. He said it was -unquestionably
hereditary and he never
knew of a child born of leper parents
that escaped the malady.
I asked him if he thought leprosy
would be finally stamped out in the
island and he replied that only
through complete isolation of the sex
es, sterilization of the men and a rigid
search of the islands for all lepers.
He said many lepers were living hid
den on the several islands, that they
lived in the mountains and were pro
tected by their friends and relatives.
He asked if I wanted a drink of
water. I thought a minute and decid
ed I was not thirsty. He offered me
a cigar from an open box on the table.
Again I thought, and I did not smoke.
I even forgot to shake hands with
him.
After an hour's talk I walked out
of the gates into the free world and
the sunshine (keeping the cut finger
well protected) while the Hawaiian
went back through the gates to the
lepers. And I wondered how long
it would be before he would come out
through the gates as a leper, under
the care of another superintendent,
and bound for Moiokai.
No matter what the place and the
risk there is ever a man ready for
the job.
. A half mile down the road I met
and talked with a native, and he
showed me where a leper recently
committed suicide. He had been con
demned to Moiokai. He slipped out
the gate, ran down the road, hid in
DO YOU LIKE TO
ATTEND FUNERALS
IF YOU DO, GET SOME POISON
AND HELP To'KILL
OR DO YOU PREFER LAUGHTER
Take Which you Like, Either Can be
Served on Demand
. It has often been proven that a
perfectly well person can be made
sick by a number of his friends tell
ing him how badly he looks.
If kept up long enough, and the
subject doesn't get wise, he will go
to bed and send for a doctor.
Suggestion mind over matter.
A panic may be started by an or
ganized effort several national
ones have been.
Let a dozen or two men in Oregon
City put on long faces and go up
and down the streets preaching that
Oregon City is going to the dogs,
and in a few days you will see the
dogs and hear them bark.
A real estate man told the Cour
ier he had a deal well along for the
sale of city property when the En
terprise's "receiver" story came out
and it scared the prospective buyer
out of the city.
We can all join the anvil associa
tion, persistently preach panic and
we won't need any paving on Main
street in a few weeks.
Or we can all cheer up, become op
timists and look for rainbows, and
the hoarded dollars will begin to come
out of scare holes and go to debt
paying.
Oregon City will never go into the
hands of a receiver because the En
terprise said so, and it shows a woe
ful want of thinking when men of
brains will let this blue music influ
ence them.
The city is worth at least $8,000
000 and it owes $250,000.
A private business wouldn't be
considered shakey in this condition,
would it?
If you think so ask Bradstreet or
Dun.
Men are easily scared, and then
they run like a bunch of sheep. They
don't question what scared them uri
till they have run down.
And the thing to do is for the op
timists of this city to line up and off
set the scare story show it up as ri
diculous. Let it remain a scare and it will
knock values, put a brake on growth
and business and boom Gladstone and
West Linn.
The whole country has the war
fear on and it is in bad business
shape. Portland is far worse than
Oregon City.
In fact Oregon City is in better
condition than any town or city on
the coast, for the reason it has its
great mills that run night and day,
year in and year out, and the pay
rolls that make a permanent and ab
solutely dependable business.
Oregon City has the laugh on the
whole coast country and the city
should use it.
The big war abroad .is going to
make an unequalled . demand on
everything Oregon produces, and the
big ditch just finished is gonig to
provide a short cut for delivery.
Forget the foolish scare story of
the Enterprise. Smile and the other
fellow will catch it.
Two new railroads building in
$700,000 soon to be expended on the
locks canal and the greatest pay roll
in Oregon.
And then get scared stiff because
a fool at the end of a pencil stated
the city might go into bankruptcy.
Yes, we are much like sheep.
Notice '
Those having nominating petitions
for C. E. Spence are requested to
send same in at once, in care of the
Courier office.
Committee.
the brush and when he heard the
searchers coming he sawed his wrist
with the ragged edge of an empty to
mato can-and bled to death.
Before annexation I was told the
leper settlement of Moiokai was a
horror and conditions frightful and
that it was used very much as Siber
ia is by Russia to get rid of unde
sirables. It is said that in those days
many a man unfriendly to the govern
ment was simply railroaded to the
leper island to be rid of, and that the
conditions on the island were awful;
that very little care was given by the
government and the lepers lived more
like wild beasts than humans.
There is a gruesome fascination
about Moiokai and the lepers. There
is not one pleasant sight or thought
in connection, yet the harrowing con
ditions hojd you and make you want
to see more. You want to talk with
them; want to see the life as they see
it. You try -to comprehend a living,
hopeless hell in America.
But one trip is enough. I would
never care to see the iepers again.
M. J. BROWN.
Crowded out This Week
Several communications go over
until next week, for want of space.
We print them in the order received.
Rains Delay Elevator Work
Rains have delayed work on the
elevator approaches, yet the work is
progressing and the foundations will
soon be ready for the cement walks,
The walk to Seventh street is an ex
pensive job as it has to be cut thru
rock for a good part of the way,
while the Sixth street approach is
rlevel and easy.
Horse Thief Makes Haul
A horse, wagon, two sets of har
ness and a saddle were taken from
three barns in Milwaukie Sunday
night by an unknown person, and so
far the authorities have been uable
to locate the thief. He simply walked
into the three barns, took what he
wanted and then got out of town.
Playing With Gun, Boy Killed
Raymond Ritfenhouse, aged sev
en, was shot and killed by a playmate,
Alfred Harrington, aged twelve, in
the Ellyville section of the city Satur
day afternoon.
The two boys were playing with
a .22 caliber rifle, which was believed
to have been unloaded, when the gun
was discharged, killing the Ritten
house boy. He. is the son of L. G.
Rittenhouse of this city.
Coroner Wilson held an inquest and
exonerated the Harrington boy from
any blame. The funeral was held
Monday afternoon.
Kills Babies, Shoots Herself
Mrs. William Sohn, who lives
about 12 miles south of this city in
the Boone Ferry 'district, shot and
killed her two children, a boy two
years old and a girl six months old,
with a .38 calibre revolver Tuesday.
She then shot herselft twice in the
brgast. She is alive but it is not
thought she call live.
Sheriff Mass and Coroijter Wilson
went to the Sohn home Tuesday night
and held an inquest. The mother was
conscious and talked freely. She
said she killed the children to save
them from the wickedness of growing
up.
Rands Makes Water Report
The report of engineer, H. A Rands
on the mountain water routes and
surveys, Was made to the city coun
cil Thursday night, and will be print
ed next week. It was a most in
teresting and comprehensive report.
" Three surveys have been made by
Mr. Rands, but he " recommends the
first survey ,the low line, as being
cheaper and that the source of sup
ply would be entirely within the for
est reserve and safe ...from future
contamination. This route is estima
ted to cost $268,850, including the
reservoir at Elyville.
The project can be completed and
ready for service in twelve months.
Everything is now ready for the
specifications, and as soon as they
are printed bids can be asked for and
the city know almost to a dollar what
the system will cost.
CRIDGE ASKS JACK TO
MAKE HIS BLUFF GOOD
Defies Him to Show How Measure
Would Favor Rich Class
Editor Courier:
Owing to the street fair and other
things F. M. Gill and I did not have
much of a crowd at the debate on the
10th. Surely there are people in
Oregon City who want to hear that
measure discussed. I will be pleased
to meet any organization at any time
and give them the right of it. I will
answer questions asked from the au
dience, or debate it turn about with
an opponent.
It is not right to ask freinds of the
measure to hire halls. There are
plenty of organizations in your city
that could be interested.
Your county assessor said that this
exemption measure would exempt the
rich more than the poor. I will defy
him before any audience to prove it,
or to show any poor man in Clacka
mas county who will not be better off
if this measure passes. I think that
if the people of Clackamas county
were to investigate your assessor
they would find that he could reduce
the taxes on working farmers right
now over twenty per cent. Does he
want me to come up to Oregon City
and tell him how?
It has been done,- and it can be
done. Does he want to reduce the
taxes on poor men in Clackamas
county? If not, why not? The way
for. the farmers of Clackamas county
to pay less taxes is to shake up their
assessor. They have already shaken
up the county commissioners; they
would be good. Does any body of
citizens anywhere w Clackamas coun
ty want to know the how of this?
If so get me before that body and I
will tell them. Does any organiza
tion care to find out who should and
who does pay tho taxes? Is the tax
question worth investigating if it
is worth talking about? WHOSE
property will pay the increased levy
this $1500 exemption measure will
cause? Your assessor says he knows.
Does he? Alfred D. Cridge
MILWAUKIETAVERN
IS RAIDED AGAIN
MASS AND DEPUTIES BREAK
UP SUNDAY FUN
35 MEN AND WOMEN NABBED
Beer Drinking and Dancing Going on
After Sabbath Breaks
Once more the .state famous Mil
waukie Tavern has been raided and
once more the case will be taken
through the courts.
Sheriff Mass planned a raid and
got away with it Sunday morning,
and 35 men and women, inmates of
the place, were arrested and brought
to this city, and among them were
J. Wilbur, W. Wilbur, Joe Harris and
Frank Moore, who had charge of the
Club. The charge is selling liquor on
Sunday.
Those who made the- raid were
Sheriff Mass, deputies Staats, Miles,
Eddy, McCowan, Streibig, Frost, Wor
thington, Morris and Ervin. .
McCowan and Streibig went to
Portland Saturday night, took in the
grills and apparently were having a
"glorious (hie) good time." At mid
night, when the bars closed, they
asked a taxi-driver to take them
where they could get something more
to drink. The driver took them to the
Friar's Club at Milwaukie, but they
were told they must join the Club be
fore they could be admitted. Thev
paid $1 each, the waiters recommend-'
ed them, and they became members of
the Club.
Outside Sheriff Mass and his depu
ties threw a line around the building
and waited for the signal to close in,
which came about an hour later, and
the place was completely surprised.
No resistance was offered and but two
or three escaped, who went to the cel
ler and dug out.
Mr. Streibig, who with McCowan,
was admitted to membership of the
Club, said the place was being run
wide open, and beer was ordered gen
erally. He said there were 18 wo
men and 25 men present and that
dancing, drinking and singing were
the program, although the crowd was
not boisterous or vulgar. .
When Mass and his deputies en
tered the building there was a rush
for the exits, but they were guarded,
and the crowd gave up and submitted
to arrest. Sheriff Mass phoned the
barns for a special car and the people
were brought to this city.
The four managers of the Friars
club were brought before Justice
Sievers Thursday morning, waived
examination and were held for the
grand jury in $250 bail. Justice Kel
so of Milwaukie furnished the bonds.
LAZELLE ROAD NEARLY READY
FOR TRAVEL
Mile of Impassible Road is Improved
by New Process
But for the rain of the past week
the new stretch of road in the Twi
light district, known as the Lazelle
road, would have been finished this
week and opened to travel, but the
wet weather has delayed the spread
ing of the asphalt composition.
This piece of road is something
new in county road construction, and
it will be watched with interest. The
strip has been about as bad as any
in the county, and during the rainy
season almost impassable, as the soil
is a soft gumbo.
This section of road was first given
a foundation, then six inches of gra
vel were applied in different sizes, and
thoroughly rolled down, after which
a mixture of hot asphalt was applied
spinkled onto the road from a ma
chine, which mixture cements the
road dressing and gives the road
practically an asphalt surface. The
road is nine feet wide and has a rock
shoulder on either side.
The gravel for this new road has
been taken from the county elevator
plant at New Era.
The improved section is a little over
one mile, and during wet weather a
mud hole. It is claimed for the new
process that it is very durable and
needs but little repair. If it proves
a success other bad sections of road
in the county will no doubt be im
proved. Unable to Explain Injury
Charles Burnier, the Greenpoint
man, who was found with his skull
crushed about four weeks ago, has
been discharged from the Portland
hospital and has returned to his home.
He is yet confined to his bed,.
He is unable to explain how he was
injured, further than that ho fell out
of an apple tree, and he says he has
no recollection of events until he
awoke in the Portland hospital.
WANTED several fresh milch cows
A. Pressey, Rt. 5, Oregon City,
Phone Farmer 76.
Playing in Hard Luck
With every department full of ex
hibits the eighth annual fair promis
ed to beat all former records by a
mile, but Wednesday the clouds
shook down a slow drizzle which has
continued the most of the time, and
which has kept hundreds of people
away from the fair. There is some
talk that there will be postponed
dates, and it is hoped there will be.
THE POLITICAL GAME
Ouk Grove Writer Reveals Some of
the "Inside" Moves
Oak Grove, Ore. Sept. 14, 1914.
Editor Courier: .
Heretofore it has been the custom
that when the elections were over,
some of the bargaining an trading
of candidates for public offices were
exposed, but since we -live in a pro
gressive era, it may not be amiss to
let the voters of Clackamas County
know how the cards are manipulated
at present according to a casual ob
server's point of view.
One stumbling block has been,
and is to this day, the postmaster-
ship of Oregon City.
There were in the start four candi
datesSheriff E.' T.-Mass, J. J.
Cooke, Mrs. Nash, and W. C. Green. .
In order to have a "free hand" the
Mass following induced J. J. Cook to
withdraw from the field, and in re
turn it is said promised him support
for County Judge. Then in order to
get Mr. Green out of the way, it is
said, he was pursuaded to come out
for County Clerk against Miss Har
rington. Both of these gentlemen took the
bait and are chasing now after a for
lorn hope.
The race has dwindled down, to Mrs
Nash and Ernest Mass, and, accord
ing to general opinion, the latter
stands the best show of landing the
plum, because he has the support of
our secretary of" state, Ben Olcctt,
(an intimate friend of Mr. Mass;)
of Gov. West and of the major part
of the Democrats of Oregon City, and
also the moral support of the Port
land R. L. & P. Co., his former em
ployers. ,
There is also a Mr. Kelly, former
ly bartender for Rucconick and Fred
Johnson, deputy assessor, spoken of
as candidates, but it seems that they
are way behind. In case J. J. Cooke
should be defeated for County Judge
then he will also enter the race for
P. M. again. t
Our county judge Mr. H. S. Ander
son, has the Republican nomination
and undoubtedly will be elected over
Mr. Cooke. Of course we all know
that the wishes and whims of every
body cannot be complied with, and
consequently there are a few sore
heads, but this cannot be avoided.
For sheriff we have W. J. Wilson,
Republican, of Oregon City, and H. W
Koehler, Democrat, of Oswego, and
it seems that it will be nip and tuck
between the two. Both good men.
Then comes the office of County
Commissioner now occupied by Mr.
Smith.
Everybody knows Mr. Smith is
hated by the Beatie and Blair gang,
because of the part he took in their
recall campaign. In order to beat
Smith this crowd sent two good Dem
ocrats to Canby to get Mr, Adam
Knight to come out as a candidate
against George Oglesby and W.. H.
Harris on the Republican - ticket.
Just think, DEMOCRATS picking a
REPUBLICAN for office. Don't
this beat you? Well, I am told Mr.
Knight is a gentleman, and the com
mittee pleaded, promised and ca
joled with him a whole half a day un
til at last he' consented, and the vot
ers, not being onto the game, nomin
ated him at the primaries.
Through this trick the old gang
knocked out. George Oglesby and Mr.
W. H. Harris and . are trying
their level best to do up Mr. J. W.
Smith, the present incumbent. (Won
der if the Democrats will stand for
this?)
W. If. Mattoon's (the other com
missioner) term expires two years
hence and should the old gang suc
ceed in electing Mr. Knight they will
control the County Court again, and
the taxpayers will be in the same
fix as before the recall election as
Matfoon still sticks to his former col-
legues and is knifing Judge Anderson
whenever he can so say some of
his former neighbors from Viola. .
For County Clerk Miss Iva Har
rington has the Republican and Mr.
W. C. Green the Democratic nomina
tion. At the primaries Miss Har
rington won out. by a large majority,
but Mr, Green is a hustler and the
outcome seems to be in doubt.
If consistent with your anatomy,
Mr. Editor, I will take up our legis
lative ticket and other matters in
your next issue.
Observer.
Referred to Peace Commission
A resident asked Councilman Van-
Auken Thursday if a stick of dyna
mite was left on Main street and if
the council posted signs that it was
there, if it relieved responsibility.
Van Auken said he would refer it to
the Hague.
L
QN UN STREET
AND THE CITY IS MADE RIDICU-.
LOUS ONCE MORE
PROPERTY OWNERS STAND PAT
And City Council is Forced to Make
its Threats Good
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called the council's ultimatum, and
now the city will post signs on Main
street warning the public that Oregon '
City is a one-horse town, not able to
keep its principal business street in
safe condition, and that all who use
the street do so at their own risk of '
life and limb.'
Nice advertising. ; , .
: It will certainly strengthen the
market for Main street property, and
bring many buyers here.
And it will establish a precedent
for other property owners.
Said a Center street resident:
"When sidewalks In front of any
property become unsafe, an official ;
city notice is posted ordering me to
build new walks. ' If I do not, the
city builds it and charges it against
my property.' On Main street prop
erty owners don't hve to repair the
street unless they want to, and if
owners would stand out they could
not be made to build new sidewalks.
The principle is the same.".
Property owners on Main 'street
did not make any move to repair or
re-pave Main street, and it is up to
the city to hang up the red lanterns.
; And what the next move will be
remains to be seen. Instructions have
been given to post the signs.
The city appropriated $75 toward
entertaining the state editorial asso
ciation in this city next month and
$225 for purchasing a Burroughs ad
ding machine.
The contract for the improvement
of a block and a half on Third street
for $1,417.95 was awarded to J. W;
Shea. Only one bid was submitted.
The contract for the erection of a
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roe street was awarded to Harry
Jones for $885. Only one bid was
received for this work. .
Bids for the construction of the
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The Oregon Engineering & Construc
tion company submitted the lowest
bid by $2,000. Their bid was $6,565,
GOVERNOR WEST COMING
Will Speak in Oregon City Saturday,
September 26
Governor Oswald West will sneak
in this city Saturday of next woek, .
September 26. He will talk on the ;.
subjects of high taxation, his ad
ministration and politicians, and the
subjects and the speaker are guaran
ties of lively interest and a large at
tendance. Governor West is a forceful speak
er. When he talks he says some
thing. ' He never speaks to mark
time. He says what he thinks and
ne says it in iorceiui jMigusn.
It is not definitely decided where
the speech will be made. Many
think Willamette hall would not
hold the people and that the opera
house would be none too small.
Registration Opens September 24
Some ancient fool provision of law
has closed the registration books for
two weeks, but they will again open
September 24. And you. want to
burn the date into your memory and
be there. There are hundreds in this
county that have not yet registered.
There are 29 bills to be voted on in
November. Oregon makes every vot
er a legislator. Be a voter.
Nutmegs, Mormons and Horse Doc-,
tors Agree. ,
Before the "harmony" dinner in'
Portland Tuesday night Dr. James
Withycombe made another bad , , one
when he said:
I believe that the American
nation made a 'great mistake
when it turned down that great
statesman, Taft,
Withycombe, Vermont and Utah
were right the rest ( of this great
country made a big mistake when it
snowed Taft under and put Woodrow
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And if Mr. Withycombe was a
close student he would know Taft was
turned down because he was a weak-,
ling. . . .
Ciirls Wanted!
(Over 18 years of age)
To OPERATE SEWING MACHINES
IN GARMENT FACTORY
Oregon City Woolen Mills