Undverslt
Eugene,
Ore
Many take the Courier be
cause they like it; many be
cause they don't like it, but
the P. M's receipts show that
many' take it for some reason.
The Courier has the largest
sworn and undisputed circu
lation in the Willamette Val
ley it's a paper that's differ
ent and a paper that's read.
OREGON CITY., OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1915
Number 47
32d Year
OREGON
CITY
CQURIEFi OFFICE
SOD
ENTIRE BUSINESS WILL BE
TRANSFERED THIS WEEK
E, R. BROWN IS NEW OWNER
Frost Will Remain as Foreman
Brown Will Leave City
Probably there are not half a
dozen business places in Oregon City
for sale, but probably every last one
of them could be bought.
The Courier has not been for sale
but it has been sold the entire prop
erty, plant, building and the Roos
residence. Possession will be given
Saturday of this week.
E. R. Brown of this city, for three
years business manager of the En
'.erprkc, has purchased the proper
ty and will hereafter be omer and
luaiager.
It was simply a case where there
was a price which would buy the
paper and the. business. Mr. Brown
paid the price, and the property is
his. This paragraph tells the whole
story.
For a year Mr. Brown has been
looking for a newspaper and job
printing plant. He has investigated
several properties in this state, but
did not find any that suited so well
as the Courier.
Before coming to Oregon about
three years ago, he had considerable
experience with several eastern news
papers, and he knows the newspaper
game. As a business getter few can
equal him, and he has held several
important positions on. larger news,
papers.
As to his plans for the Courier's
future, he has not completed them.
The transfer of the business has been
done suddenly and there has not been
time to arrange the plans for the
future, but doubtless the only change
in the office force will be that of the
editor.
Last summer when the - Courier's
handsome new building was complet
ed, the owners, A. E. Frost and M,
J. Brown, had little idea than in six
months it would be the property of
others.
The new building was built on the
substantial growth of the business
Every year the business has mater
ially increased until today it has a
most substantial, dependable, profit
able business.
And such newspapers are the
properties buyers look for. The price
was paid, and that is all there is to
it.
Of the Courier's friends ' and
enemies we can certainly state they
have been of the positive classes.
We have friends who would not
wait to pull their coats, if we were
in deep water, and we have enemies
who would pull a life preserver out
of reach, if they saw us swimming for
life.
They are actors in the newspaper
play. Any newspaper that makes
anything, makes both kinds and we
have made both.
But now when' we drop the pencil
we believe we have far more friends
than last week. By this we mean
that the enemies are not personal
but rather that they have disagreed
with the newspaper, disagreed vigor
ously and scrapped us all along the
line.
And to such we have not the least
resentment.- We like 'em.
We have run the Courier for three
years past dead honestly the right
way according to our understanding,
No man ever slipped us a dollar
Never a line in the paper has been in-
influenced by a piece of gold. Friend'
ship may have swayed us at times
but a piece of money never.
Sometimes we have gotten
wrong, and when convinced, we have
'fessed up, and righted it. Some
times no doubt we have been wrong
but couldn't see it, hence stayed with
it. But above all we have been
honest and both owners feel that
people give them credit for this one
virtue at least
In the past the Courier editor has
owned and worked on several news
papers in widely scattered states of
the country, but he never left a news.
paper and newspaper Mends with!
the regrets that he will leave those
in Oregon City.
A. E. Frost, half owner of the
Courier, and for over twenty years
resident of Oregon City, will remain
with the new firm, as foreman of
the composing room.
M. J. Brown is entirely undecided
as to the future. He will leave in
few weeks for a recreation trip thru
California, into Mexico, taking in the
expositions at San Francisco and San
Diego on his return. He may locate
in southern California or at Hous
ton, Texas.
Adios.
Another Council Mixup
One councilman says if the action
of the Council that reduced Chief
Shaw's salary doesn't hold, neither
does the council action that increased
it from $60 hold, and that $60 is his
salary now.
Fishing Bill Next Monday
Again the vote on the bill to close
the Willamette river to net fishing
has been postponed in the senate un
til Monday of next week. Both sides
claim they are confident.
NOT FOR PUBLICATION
Criticism of a Local Minister who will
be Surprised to eee it in Print
We have had quite a deluge of re
sponses to our requests lor inu
cims on the Courier.
The most of them have been direct,
some of them flattering, and some of
them anything but flattering. We
have printed everyone received with
out the change of a word.
But here is one that didn't come
direct. It was a plain enough crit
icism, but the preacher who made
it will no doubt be very much sur
prised to see it in print, for he hadn't
any idea or desire that it would be
printed. -
But we are more game in prim
ing it than he was in saying it.
February 2 this local minister was
on a Portland bound car, sitting in
seat with a lady of this city.
Doubtless he did not take particu
lar notice of the two ladies sitting in
the seat ahead, and from force of
habit he may have talked in a louder
key than was necessary.
In the course of conversation tne
matter of a church announcement
came up when the lady stated she
had not seen it as she did not take
either of the city papers, but was
going to order one of them.
"If you want to read all tne am
of the city, you should subscribe for
the Courier," advised our friend, the
minister. "The editor writes what
ever comes into his head without any
thought of the consequences."
And here we are proving his state
ment. It came into the editor's neaa
to write what this minister thought
of the Courier, along with other
criticisms.
And the editor has an idea the
reverend gentleman will size up the
consequences of saying whatever
comes into his head, and the next
time he will look over the occupants
nf the seat ahead and whisper his
criticisms.
A MIND PICTURE
Snap Shot of an Indiana Editor of
Man he Never baw
Back in little ol' Indiana the Cour
ier editor has a friend of several
vears' standing who he never saw,
Several years ago when the courier
editor (then in the newspaper busi
ness in New York) was writing de
scriptive articles from the southwest,
the Daily Republican at Rochester,
Ind., printed the letters and later
letters were exchanged between the
newspaper men. Albert W. Bitters
is the editor.
The correspondence has always
been carried on and out of it
grown an acquaintance and sincere
friendship between men who never
saw each other and who never saw a
likeness of each other.
But the mind snaps the picture,
Editor Bitters has a photo of the
writer, and no doubt has it framed-
as we have his. And later on we will
exchange.
In connection with the travel let
ters we wrote for the Republican,
Editor Bitters made up a pleasing
little story and presented the follow
ing picture of M. J. Brown. When
Mrs. M. J. sees her husband as a
"red-headed stout-built man," Albert
W. Bitters had better keep away from
Oregon.
But here is the photo, You judge
how close he hit it, with the red hair
and beef taken out:
"We have never met Brother
Brown, nor seen his portrait, but we
assume his characteristics in a degree
of psychometric observation, and
when at night we close our eyes for
rest, after "now I lay me," fain can
be seen the measure of his identity
in a man about five feet seven inches
tall, rather stout build, with a rotund
ity common to happy-go-lucky jokers,
hair dark red. right arm given to
shaking with Tom, Dick and Harry.
He is a natural follower of the quaint
and curious, humorous, ludicrous and
ridiculous, despises hypocrisy and
adores virtue. We judge him to be
an admirer of winsome women, but
a lover of his wife and a typical
daddy for his kids. Not much given
to spiritual fervor, but practices the
cardinal principle of nature s relig
ion, "Do unto others as ye would that
others should do unto you." tie is
not prone to taking the ipse dixit of
priest or preacher, but is endowed
with the mentality of the Missourian
who has to be shown. His likes and
dislikes are marked to a distinct de
gree. He thinks more of a dog and
gun than of Shakespeare, but lives in
harmony with the beautiful as ex
pressed in flowers and plants and
animate life in evolution from prim
itive to modern form. He is aggres
sive and progressive (but detests a
Bull Moose) and is a business booster
worthy the citizenship of a city of
a million population. He is char
itable, generous almost to a fault,
happy in well doing and has a rest
less bug in his bonnet which induces
wanderlust. Being a mixer he still
likes seclusion, where he can "draw
within himself," commune with the
silence and draw inspiration for his
pen out of the realm of the unbeaten
path and this is our mental picture
of M. J. Brown, and well bet a cop
per coin with a hole in it that his
wife will endorse this character read
ing at long range.
TRIG TO
STAND
0
PETITIONS FOR BONDS
AND
CAMPAIGNS AGAINST THEM
A STORY OF INCONSISTENCY
Mr. Starkweather's Amusing Contor
tions on Matters of Road Building
The Bible, Ayar's almanac, or
,. -j it :i.
some otner recognized uuuiumy,
once defined consistency as a jewel,
and the man who carries around
these jewels in considered "some
chicken."
Webster defines consistency as a
state of harmony between things can
exist in the same system, or of state
ments that can be true at the same
time.
Now the question we want readers
to decide is whether or not Harvey
G. Starkweather is a jewel or not
In last week's Courier he, in a
roundabout way, connected the Cour
ier editor with Ananias, because ot
a statement he made about the taxes
of the river road between here and
Portland.
Now Ananias wasn't the only old
scout in Bible times "that got in bad
There was another geek named
Judas, who wasn't very popular with
certain faction of the people along
about crucifixion time.
Judas was a double-crosser. . He
was out for the thirty pieces of silver
and further than this he wasn t con.
sistent.
One day he was the hard-working
secretary of the national committee
that was standing by the Saviour and
the next night he was sneaking over
to the Bull Moose faction and agree
ing to sell out for the coin of the
realm, and a job on the side if the
killin? went through according to
program.
This illustration is perhaps a
little far fetched to apply to the river
road and Harvey G. Starkweather,
but it is dragged in to show our
friend down the line that Mr. Iscariot
would be aitout as envious of his
double-crossing, on road matters as
would Ananias of the Coruier editor
in beating him at the lying game.
And then, too, inconsistency is a
half brother to treachery, and they
both live on the same side of the
same street.
Harvey G. Starkweather is a
pretty good sort of a scout. He's a
man of good judgment, a , likeable,
polished all-'round good fellow.
But before he began to steer the
politics and policies of the county
Grange and try to make the Grange
sav it favored having each road dis
trict keep all its money and build its
own roads, he should have taken his
consistency out of the closet and
polished it up a bit.
Here are the several positions we
believe Mr. Starkweather has taken
on road matters. Size them up from
the point of consistency and see how
many jewels he has.
Until the mam roads in his dis
trict had been built, there is nothing
on file to show but what he consider.
ed the present general fund .system
was the only real way to buildroads
After the river road had been fin
ished and the general fund had con
tributed to its expense, then he in
troduced a resolution to have each
district keep its own money and
build its own roads, and goes on
record as advocating the policy of
each district being a community unto
itself a sort of a close communion
society
Now a few months ago there came
up a . proposition for Clackamas
county to bond itself to' build about
100 miles of hard surfaced road
the expense to be paid for by the
WHOLE county (not by the districts
the roads would traverse.)
In view of Mr. Starkweather'!
recent action you would naturally
think he would have , opposed the
bonding scheme right from the jump
and that he would have favored that
each district pay for its own paved
roads by its own taxation,
Did he?
Well, go to the Court records and
see if you don't find his name AT
THE HEAD OF THE PETITION for
the bonding proposition for paved
roads in certain districts to be paid
for by GENERAL COUNTY TAXA
TION.
But this isn't quite all.
Let's read another chapter in con.
sistency, while we're at it
During the bonding campaign.
which was voted down. Mr. Stark
weather was generally known as be
ing opposed to the bonds. In fact
he went out with State Grangi
Master Spence and campaigned
against the proposition AFTER
HAVING SIGNED THE PETITION
FOR THE BONDS.
Now isn't this flip-flopping some
Summarized, we have this state
ment:
Mr. Starkweather passive to the
general fund system until his district
gets its main roads completed.
Mr. Starkweather offering
Grange resolution that each district
pay for its own roads hereafter,
Mr. Starkweather signing a pe-
tition calling for a county bond issue
for roads.
Mr. Starkweather out campaign
ing against the bonding scheme he
petitioned for.
If this record doesn't put tnat
gentleman as near Mr. J. Iscariot as
the Courier editor is close to Ananias,
then we'll buy.
Just a Suggestion
There is nothing more lonely than
the tick of a clock in a store that
does not advertise. This observation
made as a suggestion to two or
three Main street business places to
remove their clocks.
Starting Off Good
We dropped into Treasurer Dunn's
office Monday to see if the war panic
scare had stopped tax collections en
tirely, but the records showed that
the receipts of the first week far
exceed the first week of 1914, so the
chances are Clackamas county will be
solvent for 1915. During the first
six days of 1914 $4,334.46 were
collected. The same period this year
gathered in $7,891.07. ...
A Lawyer, but Dead Right
Senator Dimick has hold of the
lght idea in his senate memorial to
congress, asking that the postal sav
ings deposits, now loaned to private
banks at two and one-half per cent,
be used as a basis for the formation
of a rural credit system for the
farmers of the country.
There is no good reason why
these funds should not be loaned on
real estate at the same rate they are
loaned to banks, but it is rather un
usual to see a lawyer senator advo
cating it.
The resolution passed the senate
Wednesday.
Suicide at Gladstone
Mrs. Katie Wines, a widow of
Gladstone, killed herself at her home
Saturday afternoon, by taking car
bolic acid. She was unquestionably
deranged and had threatened to com
mit suicide. Coroner Hempstead
made an examination and pronounced
death as a result of carbolic acid.
Mrs. Wines had lived at Abernethy
for many years, moving to Gladstone
after the death of her husband.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Bollinger Saturday night of
last week.
Waiting and Hoping Tire
Last week it was given out that
all that was needed to complete the
government deal for the canal kcks
here was the signature of some
Washington dent in the pan.
Haven t heard whether he has had
time enough in the past two weeks to
sign his name, but the chances are
if he has, the matter will have to be
taken up in congress and a commis
sion appointed to determine if the
signature is genuine and to lnvseti-
gate whether the t's were all crossed
with a uniform slant.
Three and a half years ago our
people were jubilant over telegrams
received " from Washington that the
$700,000 deal had gone through.
Now the steenth announcement
that the final details are about com
plete does not even create interest.
Which Merchant is Game?
A dealer in Oregon City made the
statement a few days ago that he
did not think the people read the ad
vertising.
We think they DO read it.
Whether reading it is profitable to
the advertiser depends entirely on
the advertiser and the ad. he prints.
Some merchants have paid good
money for space in this paper in
the last three months that did not
make a dollar.
Not because the people did not
read it, but because they did not
believe it.
But to prove to doubting mer
chants that people DO read the ads.,
we would like the permission of any
skeptic to write an ad. for him, not
to exceed an inch in space, set in the
smallest type we can find in the of
fice, and put it in the most obscure
place in the Courier we to furnish
our own copy for the ad.
Are you game, Mr. Merchant?
May we show you?
Why This Flip-Flopping?
The state senate has had too many
changes of mind during the present
session to look just right to the fel
low in the audience.
The Courier has every week dur
ing the session related instances of
where the senate has stood on its
feet one day and on its head the next
where they have almost unanimous
ly passed a resolution only to recall
it a few days later and almost unan
imously kill it.
January 25 the senate passed the
resolution by Senator Kathryn Clarke
to put the proposition on the next
state ballot giving the governor
power to remove sheriffs, district
attorneys and other officials who fail
to do their sworn duties.
Last Monday the senate recalled
this resolution and killed it forbade
the people to pass on the matter.
Such actions lay that body open
to strong suspicion by many sus
picions that outside influences have
brought about these many changes of
mind.
But take it. You voted for it last
November. May you have all you
voted for.
The Big Railroad Dance
At Busch's hall, Saturday night,
February 20. Come to tho railroad
celebration and finish the day at the
dance.
WATER
FOR MARCH!
WEST LINN WILL VOTE ON THE
SAME; DATE
WHY PROJECT SHOULD CARRY
Best Proposition City will Ever Have
to Get Mountain Water
Oregon City will vote on the ques
tion of a gravity mountain system of
water March 3rd. West Linn will
also vote on the same date.
The resolution passed the council
Tuesday night with but one dissent
ing vote.
For about nine months the mem
bers of the water commission have
been working almost steadily on the
project, and no proposition was ever
presented to the city in a more com
plete way.
It is not a matter of guesswork.
There are no loose ends. Every
minute detail has been figured out.
If the proposition carries the appro
priation will complete ,the undertak
ing to the last detail, and many who
have been in the work declare that it
will not take the sum asked for; that
allowances have been made for al
most every possible, but not probable,
emergency.
Here are some of the men wno
have worked out the big problem, and
who will next week present to the
people 'the actual cost in dollars and
cents that consumers will have to pay
for the mountain water.
There will be figures that may be
absolutely banked on and we be
lieve they will be a pleasing surprise
to the people.
William Andresen, Ernest Rands,
B. T. McBain, Dr. L. A. Morris, W.
S. U'Ren, Dr. Hugh Mount, L. L.
Porter, Dr. J. A. van Brakle, L Stipp,
M. D. Latourette, W. A. Dimick, C
Schuebel, W. A. Long, William Sher
han, Don Meldrum and John V
Loder.
Thflnft men have nut no end of
work and considerable personal cash
into this water proposition. Every
man has ability, and the proposition
that will be presented to the people
March 3 is the outcome of hard-head,
ed work, practical business and s
proposition that will stand against
any opposition.
Now it is up to the people to ren
der a verdict of whether we shall
continue the present water system
and take the chances, or whether we
shall put in a gravity system that
will furnish the best water that ever
came from mountain springs.
The proposed pipe line will last
for 75 years, and long before its
limit the bonds will have been paid
and no doubt our people will be get
ting a water rate of 50 cents.
The system will have a capacity
of 9,000,000, water sufficient for
30,000 people.
Only one-third of this capacity will
be used by Oregon City and West
Linn with their present population,
and we will have 6,000,000 gallons to
sell and for future growth.
Estacada stands ready to nego
tiate for a supply for that city, and
the Courier is in receipt of letters
from the Progress and other business
men wanting to take the matter up
with the commissioners and arrange
for a contract if the proposition
carries.
With this great reserve supply
every home along the right of way
could be supplied with water, and we
believe this one matter is of far
greater importance to the settling up
of the county than many realize.
When a family can do away with the
dug well and the bucket, and have
the conveniences of running water
and the bath, there will be far more
five and ten acre tracts put under
cultivation.
As to Oregon City, as firmly as
we believe that manufactories make
cities grow, do we believe that this
mountain water will be a dollar and
cents investment to the city that we
will get back far more in growth and
increased property values than we
will pay out in increased water rates.
We believe the proposition is a busi
ness asset, one we will lose out on if
we refuse it, and one that will contin
ually come back to us until we accept
it.
In the past three years Oregon
City has been advertised throughout
Oregon on account of its water supply-
City drinking fountains have been
closed; the public drinking fountains
in the schools have been closed
general orders have been given o'-t
for the people to boil the water he
fore drinking and we have had two
serious epidemics of typhoid fever.
These matters have gotten into
the press dispatches and have been
spread over the whole state, and Ore
gon City's dangerous water is known
far and near. Many people would
not come here on this account if
given a home, and many a family has
moved away on this account. The
Courier can give you a list of them.
And the same dispatches would
announce that Oregon City had shak
en off its hoodoo, if the water propo
LECTION
sition carries, and that the city would
have the finest water system in all
Oregon, Portland not accepted.
From the point of future growth,
added values to property, present
safety in fact from any angle you
may take, it does seem the people
would sustain the proposition.
West Linn will pay one third of
the expense if the proposition carries
March 3.
Five years from now, three years,
two years, she will not, for she will
have Bull Run water.
And five years from now, three
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years, two years, tnis matter win
come up again, keep coming up, until
we solve it.
We have GOT to have pure water.
It's a question of time, and time will
be mighty expensive to Oregon City
after West Linn has put in its own
pure water.
We want to drive this fact into
your dome.
Just as surely as big and little
apples grow in Oregon West Linn is
going to have a water system, BE
CAUSE SHE'S GOT TO HAVE IT.
The big car shops are going to be
located there; a city is going to be
built up over there. Water is the
ONE proposition that holds them
back.
West Linn is Oregon City proper.
Only a suspension bridge makes a
distinction. What booms one side
booms the other, for all is one city.
But if West Linn Bhould procure
Bull Run water and Oregon City
stayed by the Willamette sewer
source, then there would be a division
that would be more than a distinct
ion, that city would then have an as
set that would NOT boom both cities,
but an advantage that would cost this
city of renters mighty dear, for
other things considered equal ' the
renting people would very soon go to
the pure water side of the river.
Everything considered, it does not
seem possible that the proposition
could be turned down. Pocketbook
reasoning alone should carry it.
All kinds of rumors of excessive
cost of water under the gravity sys
tem are being circulated in the city.
It doesn't cost much for water to
run down hill. There does not have
to be expensive pumping plants, fil
tering plants and chemical plants and
pay rolls when the,system is install
ed. Next week wa will show you what
Che water will cost; will give you
figures you can't get away from, and
we believe they will make converts 6f
many men and women who do not'
now thoroughly understand the mat
ter. ',
BIGGEST THE,
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OREGON CITY WILL ENTERTAIN
COUNTY FEBRUARY 20
Saturday of next week, February
20, there will be a county celebration
in Oregon City, and the committee
proposes to make it a big one.
It is a sort of a jollification or
celebration of the completion of the
W. V. S. railroad, and Oregon City
invites the whole county to come
here and have all kinds of a good
time, as guests of Oregon City, and
the good time will be free to all.
Plan to take a day off a week
from Saturday and come to this city.
A splendid program of entertainment
has been prepared, which will be add
ed to, and you will have an enjoy
able time.
The first trains over the Willa
mette Valley Southern will come in
at 10 o'clock and will be met by the
Oregon City Moose band and 100
business men. Mayor Jones will de
liver a speech of welcome. The par
ade at 10:45 o'clock will be the
feature of the morning session and
the concerts and speeches in the af
ternoon. Three bands have been secured:
the Oregon City Moose band, tho Mo
lalla and the Mt. Angel organizations.
The Willamette Navigation company,
the -woolen mills and tho Hawley Pulp
& Paper company have co-operated
with the committee and the visitors
will be conducted through the plants
and given a ride to the falls. The
formal events of the day will end at
4:15 o'clock in tho afternoon when
the farewell reception will be given
at Fifteenth and Main streets.
The complete program follows:
10:00 Arrival trains over Willa
mette Valley railway.
Address of welcome, by
Mayor Jones.
10:30 President G. B. Dimick of
Willamette Valley Southern
railway will pull the golden
spike at Fifteenth street, and
present the same to the may
or of Mt. Angel.
10:45 Headed by Moose band pa
rade will march as follows::
1 Moose band.
2 Autos with distinguish
ed visitors.
3 Oregon City business
men.
4 Mt. Angel band.
5 Mt. Angel visitors.
6 Molalla band.
7 Molalla visitors.
8 Clackamas county citi
zens, etc.
(Cntinued on Page 10
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SCHUEBEL AND TERRIL GO IN
TO THE OVEN
CAUSTIC REPLY TO LETTERS
Says if Schuebel was in Heaven he
Would Start Something
Editor Courier:
I see in last week's Courier the
irrepressible Bob Schuebel has broken
out again in a new spot.
Bob has these bad spells every
little while, and I am wondering if we
hadn't better try to do something for
him before the wheel house at Salem
gets him.
Robert of Eldorado wants the dis-.
trict attorney to be more lady-like
in prosecuting his cases. He would
have him do the Alphonso and Gas
ton stunts, would have him open his
examination of witnesses with "How
ard's Rules of Etiquette" and close
with the Lord's prayer that is
Robert's style you know, he is al
ways so considerate of his words and
grammar.
Robert of Eldorado and Farmers'
Society of Equity wants his brother
to be the next district attonrey
hence his letter, and if his brother
was nominated and elected I will bet
the pair of pants I wear that Brother
Bob would start out with a recall be
fore he had held office a year.
The Lord himself couldn't run the
county to suit Bob. Nothing ever did
suit him, nothing ever will, not over
15 minutes at a time.
No matter which department of
the hearafter catches Bob (and there
isn't much doubt of which) he will
start something.
If he SHOULD by any chance get
into heaven he won't Btay there over
thirty days. He would propose some
scheme of lining up the ..' country
against the city and he would have
to be fired out to prevent' tho over
throw of the government. j .
If he went to hell he would want
to change the furnace system and see
if he couldn't line up a corner on the
brimstone supply. , If he couldn't put
the deal over he would send a wire
less down to the Oregon City Courier
and raise hell witH things.
Robert is not "hooked up right
there is emery powder in his gears,
the friction irritates him and he irri
tates the public. He never could
stand unhitched over three minutes
at a time and then It would need
three to watch him. In the recall
election he was one of the boss noise
makers up until it was clear the re
call was going to carry and then he
shifted over to the other side just to
argue with himself. He can't even
agree with himself but a few days at
a time.
Robert should be referended. He
is becoming very much of a joke. A
year or two ago it was announced he
was going to Mexico to live, and just
as the people of the county had made
arrangements for a ratification meet
ing he changed his mind and remain
ed at home just to spite them and
disagree with himself.
I am going to write to Senators
Chamberlain and Lane and see if
there isn't some appointment in Mex
ico, full of danger, that he could be
appointed to, and then if the people
of the county would hold a big protest
meeting against the appointment,
Bob would take it to spite us. Then
if he could only be landed by boat on
the extreme southern point of lower
California, Clackamas county would
have -a rest until he could walk home.
I don't know Mr. Terrill. Per
haps he knows what he is writing
about, but does he think it is the duty
of the county attorney to bring every
petty matter to trial or every heresay
kid antic before the grand jury? If
so, how about the expenses to the
people of the county? Wonder if he
wants to pay any more taxes if he
pays any, and I'll wager my shoes he
doesn't We would have our courts
busy if every little infraction of the
law was brought to trial, and the
Courier recently stated that it cost
$100 a day to run the circuit court.
About the Hill murder case, it has
been printed and not denied that the
county court signed a contract with
the detective to pay him a certain
amount to investigate the murder.
When his bill was presented the dis
trict attorney approved it for pay
ment. They both say that the detec
tive has fulfilled his contract by pro
ducing valuable evidence in the case.
Now what would Mr. Terrill have the
district attorney do ? Would he have
him approve the court's action in
making the contract and then fight
that contract in the courts? Would
he have the county attorney do'
Robert Schuebel stunts of changing
his position every 30 days? No man
who wants one of the foulest crimes
cleared up could ever object to the
action of a district attorney in taking
any means to clear it up. Probably
Mr. Terrill is peeved because he
wasn't selected as the Burns' detec
tive to unearth the crime. .'
Give us a rest you agitators.
Don't try to pile more expenses and
trouble on the country give old
Clackamas a breathing spell. '
Common Sense Justice.
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ROASTS