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OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1915
Number 18
OEm
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FATES ARE
TO DETECTIVES
PAROLE BREAKER TOSSED IN
WAY OF SLEUTHS WHEN
VICTIM IS NEEDED
HOOPER BLAMED FOR GRIMES
Man Who Left Folsom Penitentiary
- After Serving Ten Years Will
Be Returned for Rest of Life
It' is great to be a detective, or a
special agent for a railroad, or some
thing like that. Even being a sheriff
has its glorious sides. Take the case
of John Austin Hooper, for instance,
who was arrested in The Dalles this
week; and who is now proclaimed to
have been a second Jesse James, and
' is said to have stolen over $25,000
in the four months since he was pa-
. roled from a southern penitentiary.
Hooper's present trouble started
when somebody "stuck up" an inter
urban car at CanemaTi a fortnight
ago and got a dozen or so dollars
from the crew. That "stick-up" was
one of several that had occurred
hereabouts, including the pictures
que and serio-comic holdup of an in-
- terurban train while it traveled from
Courtney to Glen Echo. Nobody had
made a good pinch on any of these
holdups, and certain railroad treas
urers were beginning to ask the spec
ial agents to "show something''' for
their expense accounts.
Hooper was a burglar. His line
was robbing houses. For doing this
he was sent to Folsom penitentiary
ten years ago, with a life term hang
ing over his head. In the "pen'' he
behaved himself; outside of the "pen"
his aged mother pleaded with execu
tive after executive for her boy's re
lease; and finally four months ago
they let Hooper 'out into the world
again on parole. A few days after
he got out he went home to , his
mother with $2,500 and a bruised cut
on his face. Probably this $2500 was
cached away by him before he went
"in" for, the long stretch nobody
ever told the police that it had been
stolen recently. But just the same
that time on Hooper was a marked
man he was an ex-convict on pa
role, and he had money.
Nobody knows where Hooper went
after that. It appears, however, that
finally driven desperate he wandered
' into Canemah, and "stuck up" the in
terurban car, getting a few paltry
dollars. Then he went his way, leav
ing a slight clue behind him; and
eventually he turned up in The Dalles
and was arrested. Special Agent
Lou Wagner, of the P. R. L. & P.
company, was largely instrumental in
getting Hooper Lou Wagner and
Joe Day, dean of Portland detectives.
When Hooper was apprehended he
had two guns and a whole lot of
money in his custody but the detec
tives don't know where he got the
money. However, they hooked the
Canemah car robbery on to him.
Sheriff Wilson was out in the nor
thern section of the county when the
pinch was made, and pausing only
long enough to suggest to the Enter
prise that it say he had aided in
tracking down Hooper, he went to
The Dalles to "get in" on the pris
oner. So did a lot of special agents
and bunk "detectives, who if they
really ever saw a "two gun man''
wouldn't be able to move normally.
And this band of expert criminolo
gists sat around and told the news
paper boys what a heluva swell pinch
they had made' in overhauling this
Ifooper party.
Hooper was said to have robbed a
stage in the Yellowstone park, rob
bed safes and depots at Grants Pass,
was tangled in an attempted train
robbery at Sedro-Wooley, in .northern
Washington, had raged like a wild
and devouring beast through northern
California and Southern Oregon, and
had robbed every car on the P. R. L.
& P. that has been touched off lately
And in addition to this they said he
had a "lair'' in the Siskiyous, had
given the "Indians" $400 worth of
automatic revolvers so as to make
friends with them, and was alto
gether the worst thing that ever hap
pened and all this in four short
months since he was paroled.
It was a fine chance for the
"bulls." They alibied right and left,
and they hung every unsolved crime
they had been investigating onto
Hooper. One sleuth, who had a "red
hot clue" in British Columbia, and
who was on the way there when
Hooper was casually picked up in
The Dalles, so far forgot himself as
to get in on the general chorus and
identify Hooper as the man he was
going to Canada after. It was a
lovely session and as they got
Hooper ready for a trip to Portland,
each special agent told the newspa
per boys a little bit more about what
he had done.
And then a funny thing happened.
Here was this desperado pinched and
in custody this man whom the
"dicks" had said was worse than
Jesse James this man who had
stolen millions, more or less. And
nobody wanted him! NOBODY! Not
a single special agent, when it came
down to cases, thought he could tie
ROBBERS NOT. MOLESTED
Series of Daylight Burglaries in Oak
Grove District Continues
Unidentified robbers entered the
home of Mrs. J. E. Gelinskie, Niear
Lakewood, Tuesday afternoon, during
the absence of the occupants, and
leisurely ransacked the premises from
attic to basement. When Mrs. Ge
linskie returned late in the afternoon
she found everything scattered around
but after a careful checking over of
her effects was unable to discover
that anything of value had been tak
en. It is believed that while the
thieves were at work somebody call
ed at the house and frightened them
away before they could collect their
"swag."
After the robbery was reported
Sheriff Wilson went to the scene but
was unable to find any clues. The
sheriff spent most of the 'evening in
the vicinity and at the notorious Mil
waukie resorts, but was unable to
find any trace of the robbers who
have been terrorizing people in the
Oak Grove district ever since the
sheriff's office saw a change of ad
ministration. . . . -
WEST LINN BIDS OPENED
Even Dozen Firms Offer to Put
In
Water System for New City
Bids for the installation of West
Linn's distributing system, to be us
ed in conjunction with the South Fork
pipe line, were opened this week, and
contracts for the work will be award
ed next week. Twelve firms bid on
the job, which the engineers estimate
can be done for less" than $75,000.
The work will include the laying of
nine miles of mains and service pipes,
ifrid the construction of a reservoir.
The following firms bid on the
work: Boyajohn-Arnold company, of
Portland; Andrus & Bode, Portland,
Oregon Engineering & Construction
company, Oregon City; Giebisch-Jop-lin
company, Portland; F. S. Taylor,
Portland; Standifer-Clarkson com
pany, Portland; James Kennedy Con
struction company, Portland; J, F.
Shea, Portland; Lundstrom, Akes'on,
Bloomquist company, Portland; Montague-O'Reilly
company, Portland,
and Harold & Burdsell, Salem.
BIG POW-WOW DUE
Oregon City Red men To Make Merry
At Canemah Sunday
Wacheno Tribe, No. 13,, Improved
Order of Redmen Oregon City's
thriving fraternal order, will hold a
pow-wow und picnic at Canemah park
Sunday, and some big things for the
braves are on the program. 'Among
other festivities will be a baseball
game between the Wacheno nine and
the team of Lelu Tribe, . No. 62, of
Portland. This game is expected to
settle a long-standing argument in
the Redman's circle, and should be
worth going far to see.
In addition to" this there will be a
program of open sports, in which
redmen, pale-faces and all others
may compete. Bowker's orchestra, of
Portland, will furnish music for a
dance in the evening, and a thorough
ly enjoyable time is promised. "
We are NOT NEUTRAL we re
fighting for more business.
enough evidence on to Hooper to
convict him. Lou Wagner thought
they MIGHT stick him for the Ca
nemah holdup but after all the bunk
and bluster, NOBODY WANTED TO
TAKE A CHANCE IN COURT.
Into this fumy situation came the
guiding advice of County Attorney
Gilbert Hedges a man who doesn't
get as excited as some other people
hereabouts every time a railroad cop
says he has got the arch-fiend him
self. District Attorney Hedges sug
gested to Billy Wilson, our amateur
sheriff, who lost the keys to his hand
cuffs during the excitement, that
Clackamas county didn't want this
Hooker guy, either.
"He. has broken his parole with
the Canemah holdup,'' opined Mr.
Hedges. "We can probably prove
that. He has, therefor, a life term
hanging over him in California. I
guess the best thing we can do is to
turn him back to California for pa
role breaking, and let them put him
away. That will settle him, will save
the expense of a trial here, will make
it impossible for the prisoner to 'beat
nis- case,' and IFhe should be the
demon that they have made him out
to be, it will satisfy justice."
And so Hooper is going back to
Folsom, to put in the rest of his life
meditating upon the perils of the
stick-up business, and marvelling-at
the wonderful crimes that the special
detectives tried to hang upon him
for the last four months so that they
could justify their own expense ac
counts. And, gentle reader, remember
this: if Billy Wilson comes round and
tells you how he "sat in" on the pinch
of "the greatest bandit who has -ravaged""
the Northwest in years;" you
just smile at Billy, and tell him that
you know he didn't know the pinch
had been made until somebody tele
phoned the happy tidings to ihm.
And as for Hooper pity him. He s
a poor unfortunate, with somewhat
too much brains to enjoy day labor
on the streets; and with not enough
brains to be either a good crook or
a good professional man. If. he had
been half the crook they blamed him
for being, he'd never have been so
coarse as to stick up a streetcar at
Canemah on a dull night
SCHOOL MIENS
ARE CONCERNED
WRANGLE OVER GLADSTONE'S
HIGHSCHOOL SHOULD BE
VIEWED SERIOUSLY
NEW PHASE IS BROUGHT OUT
Correspondent Thinks that Matters of
More Import than Petty Jeal
ousy Should Be Considered
Editor Courier: I have been quite
interested in the efforts of the old
Jennings Lodge district to block the
plan of Parkplace, Gladstone and
Clackamas to establish a union high
school at IGadstone park, where H. E.
Cross has donated ground for modern
n?hool purposes. Like other people
interested in this matter, I have heard
various reasons assigned for the ob
jections on behalf of the Jennings
Lodge obstructionists; but I have not
yet found any of these reasons that
will outweigh the arguments that to
me seem to be in favor of maintain
ing a highschool at Gladstone for the
UEe of Parkplace, Clackamas, Jen
nings Lodge and Gladstone.
Primarily, it seems to me, it is
good logic and good sense to have a
school as near home as possible. It
being impossible for every district to
have a highschool, union highschool
districts come nearer to solving the
problem; for they make possible a
highschool within reasonable distance
of every home. If the proposed union
highschool for the four districts con
cerned is defeated by litigation on
the part of Jennings Lodge objectors
children in these districts will have
to go to the Oregon City high school,
to Portland's high schools, or they
will have to not go to any. I know of.
a number of people in the proposed
union highschool district that are un
able to -pay the daily carfares that
would be needed by the journey to
either of the cicy highschools, so if
the union highschool fails, their chil
dren simply wilt not get an advanced
education. Under such circumstanc
es I would hate to live in Jennings
Lodge and know that my actions had
deorived Rome other man's child of
a chance to get highschdol training.
However, there is another point at
issue that seems to me to outweigh
any and every argument that Jen
nings Lodge people may put up
whether their arguments are in good
faith or not. And that is this: if the
proposed union highschool at Glad
stone is blocked and is not built,
children of highschool age in Clacka
mas Parkplace, Gladstone and Jen
nings Lodge will have to go to a city
for the last four years of their edu
cation. They will be in the city alone,
they will be away from home, away
from sheltering influences, and they
will be subject to the evil influences
that are found in every city. They
will meet boys of questionable char
acter, they will have to travel. daily
to and from schooll on the cars, quite
possibly with these same boys; they
will be more likely to yield tqthe
temptation ' to "spend the day away
from home."
Girls of highschool age are just
blooming into womanhood. They
may, or they may not, have the
judgment that their increasing years
should give them; but whether they
have the judgment or not, they have
the daring that comes with older
years and in the city every oppor
tunity is offered them to do things
which this daring and awakening may
suggest. If they go to a high
school nearer their home their temp
tations will be less, they will have
less excuse for remaining away from
their own communities, and they will
constantly be with people whom they
know, and who will .thus exercise a
certain restraint upon them. The
same is true of boys young people
on .their way to and from school in
their own home localities will never
think of doing things that they might
consider if they were among strna
gers, either in Oregon City or in
Portland.
The school and the home should
work together. They should be situ
ated as closely together as possible;
and there cannot be the harmony and
co-operation between the school and
the home if the school is located half
an hour's ride away on the streetcar.
For this reason I believe that the
man1 who objects to a union high
school at Gladstone for the children
whose homes are near this site is
deliberately working against the best
moral, ethical and educational inter
ests of the boys and girls concerned.
Then there is the matter of recrea
tion. At the proposed union high
school at Gladstone there will be
ample playground, and there will be
ideal surroundings for the school.
Children after the study hours are
completed may play games of ball or
tennis, or may romp in the park; and
yet return to their homes in time for
the late afternoon. Yet many of
these children, if they have to go to
Oregon City or Portland schools, not
only will lose the natural playground
space offered at Gladstone, but will
have to spend so much time travel
ing to and fro that there will be no
time for play.
BOND VOTE SOUGHT
School Patrons Expected to Approve
$20,000 Bond Issue Saturday
Saturday from two in the after
noon to seven in the evening the polls
will be open in the county seat for
voters to register their approval of
the proposal to issue $20,000 worth
of bonds to build an addition to the
Oregon City highschool. The cost
of the bond issue, it is pointed out by
the Commercial club committee that
is favoring the plan, will" be borne
entirely by tuition received from pu
pils who attend the school from out
side districts; and will not in any way
increase the school taxes of the coun
ty seat district.
Oregon City's highschool was built
to accommodate- but 140 pupils. In
spite of this there was an average
daily attendance of 252 last year, and
of these 108 children were from out
side districts. Tution for outside pu
pils received last year amounted to
$2,160.
Last year the grade schools out
side of the county seat district gradu
ated 452 pupils, who will be seeking
highschool training this fall. Fully
half of these will want to come to
Oregon City yet Oregon City
schools themselves turned out 105
grammar graduates, who will prob
ably seek admission to the highschool.
To accomodate these children the en
largement of the highschool is abso
lutely essential.
Oregon City pays less school taxes
than any other city of its size in the
state, and mn well afford to author
ize the bond issue; as this will not
add to the present tax. Outside tuit
ion, it is pledged, will take care of the
interest payments on the bonds, and
will also provide a sinking fund for
their payment. School taxes in Ore
gon City last year were 5.7 mills. The
lowness of this figure can be seen by
comparing it with the tax of 11 mills
in Marshfield; 12 mills in LaGrande;
12 mills in Newberg, 11 mills in For
est Grove, 10 mills in Medford and
8 mills in Gladstone.
Every person paying taxes on real
or personal property, or holding stock
in a corporation that pays taxes in
Oregon City, is a legal voter at school
elections, and may vote in favor of
the bond issue.
Practical Joke Played
uuy oianouer, a .Portland insur
ance man, was "arrested" by Chief
Shaw in the county seat Tuesday af
ternoon, charged with "stealing an
automobile belonging to K. V. Lively,
of the McCarger, Bates & Lively,
Portland. Standifer had gone to
West Linn with Lively, and had "bor
rowed the car" ,to come to Oregon
City to obtain a lunch. Standifer
failed to appreciate the joka and
after he was "paroled'' in the custody
ot Lively refused to buy cigars.
Don't fail to attend the great Bene
fit Concert and Dance, given by the
Oregon City Moose Band at the
Spiritualists' Camp Ground, at New
Era, Thursday, July 29, 1915. Every
body invited. Refreshments on the
grounds.
Poison Weeds Examined
The Forest Service is making a
collection of speciments of lupine and
loco weed plants which often poison
stock at this season of the year
for the Bureau of Plant Industry, in
order that this bureau may carry on
experiments with these plants in
order to determine their toxico prop
erties. Seed in the pod will also be
sent to the.Experiment Station at Sa-
lina. Ntah, for the same purpose. 1
Examination Monday
Dr. George Hoeye, a member of
the state board of chiropractique ex
aminers, will be in Roseburg Monday,
wherehe will examine candidates for
the state license to practice. Dr.
Hoeye, who is well known in Oregon
City, has been holding examinations
in other parts of the state during the
month.
U. S. Gets "Sweeter"
The consumption pf sugar per
capita in the United States is esti
mated to be more than ten times
what it was a hundred years ago.
During the past five years, the con
sumption : has averaged about 83
pounds per capita. A hundred years
ago the consumption of sugar varied
widely. It was usually however, be
tween 4 and 10 pounds a year.
Carus Man Dies
Ellis Owen, of Carus, died at his
home early Tuesday morriing in his
83rd year. Mr. Owen was a native
of Wales, and came to Oregon from
Kansas, where he lived while a young
man. Mr. Owen is survived by nine
grandchildren, one daughter and two
sons. The remains nave been sent
to Emporia, Kansas for interment.
It seems to me that the wellfare
of the children is the thing that is at
stake in this highschool wrangle, and
not the personal desires of this man
or that. And I trust that this will
be realized, and that for the sake
of the children and particularly for
the sake of the girls of Clackamas,
Parkplace, Jennings Lodge and Glad
stone, it will be possible to have them
enjoy their highschool training and
the healthful surroundings of their
home district; and that they will not
be compelled to travel to the distant
cities to get a schooling that will in
no way be belter than that which will
be offered at Gladstone.
AN INTERESTED FARMER
E
COURIER READERS INTERESTED
IN SUNDAY SCHOOL PROB
LEM, IT SEEMS
MANY YIEWS ARE EXPRESSED
Majority of Writers Seem to Believe
Good Christian Training May
Be Obtained at Home
Letters in reply to the question of
Alexis Ferguson continue to come to
the Courier. It will be remembered
that two weeks ago Mr. Ferguson
wrote to this pajjsr, saying that he
desired to give his nephew a thor
ough Christian training, but that as
he was not a church member himself
he hesitated to arbitrarily select any
one Sunday school to which to send
the lad. After outlining his own
views in regard to religion and ethics,
Mr. Ferguson asked for advice as to
which Sunday school he should send
the boy whose guardian he has bc-
eome.
Some of the replies to his query
were published last week. Here is
another batch of advice, as it has
been sent to the Courier:
Editor Courier: Although I am
not 1 a subscriber t& your paper at
present, yet I take occasion to peruse
its pages as it is placed in the public
library. I read the article and inter
rogation by Mr. Ferguson concern
ing what course to pursue as to what
organization he might send Ms
nephew to obtain a genuine and thor
ough discipline and education for fu
ture welfare and a sure destiny,
In this regard I would suggest
that it might not be very advisable
to send the lad to any of the present
day Sunday Schools for the reason
that more or less error, unscriptural
doctrines and speceius dogmas of men
a,re being taught in each and all of
them. Perhaps not willfully or in
tentionally, but through the deplor
able cause that present day and gen
eral Christianity is more or less all
impregnated and contaminated with
false creeds, erroneous doctrines and
fallacious teachings devised and fab
ricated during the fall and decline of
primitive Christianity, handed down
from mediaeval times and still main
tained and perpetuated into this day.
All which would have a tendency to
inculcate miscorreptious and wrong
ideas in the mind and belief of the
boy, about the Bible and its teach
ings, therefore I would advise train
ing him at home to the best ability,
until such time when he would be an
adept at discriminating for himself
between right and wrong, truth and
error, and steer hTs course alone, to
the haven of security.
( Another plan might be' to engage
a genuine and thoroughly converted
and consecrated Christian tutor who
might volunteer to teach the lad in
the true principles, injunctions and
good precepts implied in God's Word
essential to effect a superlative, ado
lescence and irreproachable and aus
picious future career, to attain ulti
mate salvation.
F. RENNER.
Editor Courier: I feel a deep in
terest in Alexis Furgeson's letter in
regard to his nephew, and the many
answers and ways sent in. If Mr.
Furgeson will interest himself
enough to read the Scripture, or if the
nephew is old enough to understand
it, I will help to show you how to
read it. -
The first four books, Matthew,
Mark, Luke and John tell the gene
ology of Jesus, of His birth and the
wonderful works He did, and mir
acles He performed to convince the
people He was the Christ, and of His
baptism in the river Jordan; of His
death and resurrection and of the
choosing of His disciples to preach
whatsoever He told them. Then the
book of Acts tells us how to become
Christians.
Read for yousrelves. Don't depend
on the preachers to tell you this or
that will do. The next twenty books
tell us how to live Christians after
we have come into the church that
Christ built. He says there is no
other way but by Him. He that
climbeth up some other way is a thief
and robber. If everybody would take
the Word, nothing more, nothing less,
soon the world would become thor
oughly Christianized.
, We are not living under the old
law now, please remember. Revela
tion gives us a glimpse of what our
eternal home will be if'Ve hold out
faithful in obeying our Saviour's com
mands. Once more I say: read the Scrip
tures carefully. Find out who is
writing, too, and you will understand
it better.
MRS. P. L. MUMPOWER.
Editor Courier: I have read with
interest the letter by Mr. Alexis Fer
guson and some of the answers, and
if you will permit, I would like to add
my mite. The writer is to be com
mended in desiring to develope in his
nephew a broad Christian character.
But as to his question of which
MOO
FERGUSON
ADVICE
OFFERED
"OREGON WEEK" COMING
State To Hold Special Celebration
At Frisco Fair
August 9th to 16th inclusive Is to
be "All Oregon Week'' at the Oregon
building, with exercises extraordinary
on the 9th and special days continuing
through the week. Everything pos
sible to bring Oregon to the atten
tion of the Exposition crowds will tie
attempted during this season of ac
tivity. All sorts of plans are under
consideration and it is certain a mag
nificent week's program will be work
ed out. It is expected that several
Oregon bands and marching organi
zations will be on hand, and that
many of Oregon's distinguished citi
zens will participate in one way or
another. An orchestra and vocalists
will furnish music each day and at
night there will be dances and special
programs.
Eastern Oregon' will have one day
all its own and in all probability Rep
resentatives Lackey and McCully will
give away sacks of popcorn as sou
venirs of the occasion. . At the same
time the Pendleton Round-Up will be
featured in some unique way.
lhe Willamette Valley represen
tatives are in correspondence with
the various commercial clubs and are
hoping to stir up something new and
novel that will make their day the
greatest of all. Taylor, Dunsmore,
Freytag, Warren, Stevenson, Proc
tor, and Grisenthwaite, all represent
ing the Willamette valley counties,
make up a formidable organization
The Coos Bay man, J. A. Ward, fig
ures on a clam bake, of which Cali
fornia and the world knows little.
The Oregon building, located within
a few feet of a sandy beach, offers
ideal conditions for such an affair
and if Ward can pull off this stunt
his day will prove the hit of the fes
tivities. Southern Oregon is going to crowd
a two-day affair into one day, but re
fuses to divulge the particulars at
this time. Representative Frebach
says Ashland, Medford, Grants Pass.
Roseburg and the other live communi
ties of Southern Oregon will not be
outdone by anything else on the pro
gram. Phil Sinnott, the Klamath
man, figures on giving all comers
mineral water on his big day and is
trying to arrange for a special excur
sion with special round-trip rates.
The Oregon building will be gayly
decorated during "All Oregon Week,"
there will be parades through the
grounds and other buildings, and the
Exposition is co-operating to the ex
tent of providing special fireworks
and advertising the week far and
wide.
IT CANT BE DONE
Road District No. 13 Discovers That
' Common River Gravel Fails
People living in Road District No.
13, near Redlands, have made a dis
covery that apparently has not yet
percolated into the minds of some
county officials; and that is that com
mon river gravel will not make a good
road. The Courier has mentioned
this fact a number of tmies, and has
argued for cement gravel; but never
theless the popular fallacy regarding
river gravel seems to hold; and it is
only when a wide-awake district gets
dissatisfied that a change is made.
River gravel was dumped on the
roads in ditsrict 13 until the travel
ers over those highways got tired.
Then they put up a kick, and made
arrangements to get the rock-crusher
started up. District No. 13 is now
substituting crushed rock for river
gravel on its main highways, and will
sprinkle the rock with asphaltum, so
that a hard-surface road may be had.
The cost is but a trifVe higher than
the estimate for gravel, and the re
sulting road will be serviceable.
If a few other road districts in the
county would wake up and demand
similar steps, there would be fewer
rotten roads in Clackamas county,
and. less complaint about the high
ways. The Courier for job printing.
Sunday School to send him to I would
suggest that you send him to no Sun
day School, but go with him yourself
to any Sunday School which you may
choose and take an active part. Be
yourself as near as you can what you
wish the boy to be,. As to which
school is the best, all true Sunday
School workers are trying to make,
and probably think their Sunday
School the best, and you by your at
tendance and influence may make one
better.
One great difficulty which our
Sunday Schools have is the old idea
that the Sunday School is the nur
sery of the church and is only for
women and kids.
Instead it should be the workshop
where sound Christian characters are
built. If ninety percent of the adult
membership of the church would take
an active interest in the Sunday
School there would be a wonderful
revolution in church work, and, in
stead of being ashamed to attend
Sunday School after the age of 14
or 16, as many of our youth are, they
would be found there instead of at
questionable places.
Be interested in everything that
should interest the boy and keep the
boy interested in everything that is
of interest to you. Be his chum and
let him be your partner. If you are
all right the boy has a' good chance
to make good.
E. N. B.
GRANGE
FAVORS
COUNTY COURT ASKED TO AP
POINT AGRICULTURAL
EXPERT AT ONCE
FUNDS FOR OFFICE AT HAND
Farmers, In Session at Sandy, Also
Express Ideas About Land Held
Idle in Railroad Grant ,
Clackamas county Pomona grange,
at its meeting at Sandy on July 14,
showed that its members were pro
gressive and up-to-date agricultur
ists, and that they desired to have
every scientific aid possible in the
development of their crops and in the
choice of their products. Favorable
comment was heard on the work done
by the national and state govern
ments through the agricultural col
leges and other lines of official ac
tivity, and the grangers asked for a
furthering of this work in Clackamas
county by the appointment of an ag
ricultural agent. Such an official
would be an expert on all matters
pertaining to agriculture and horti
culture, and would be in close touch
with the latest investigations and dis
coveries of the government in its lab
oratories and on its experimental sta
tions. To express its views, and to de
mand the assistance of the county
court in placing Clackamas county on
an quality in this line with other sec
tions of the Northwest, the grange
adopted the following resolution:
"Whereas, the National Govern
ment has provided funds for the pur
pose of carrying the benefits of the
scientific investigations of the exper
imental stations connected with the
Agricultural Colleges direct to the
farmers thru the extension depart
ment and by means of a county agent
and
"Whereas, the State of Oregon has
complied with the requirements of the
National Government by appropriat
ing a like sum to assist in payment
of the expenses of such agent in such
counties as desire this agricultural
expert, and-
"Whereas, the State law requires
that each county employing the ex
pert shall pay half his expenses and
salary, the state and the National
Government paying the other half,
therefore be it
"Resolved that, Clackamas county
Pomona Grange favors the appoint
ment of an agricultural agent for
this county, and Resolved, That nec
essary provision should be made for
this agent in the formation of the
next budget by the county court, and
further
"Resolved, That copies of these
resolutions be forwarded to the coun
ty court, and bo furnished the papers
of the county for publication and dis
cussion."
The grange also considered the '
Oregon & California land grant tan
gle, an it was the general opinion of
those present that these lands should
be controlled by the state and thrown
open to settlers. The following res
olution, bearing on this question, was
adopted:
"Be it Resolved by Clackamas
County Pomona Grange, assembled at
Sandy, Oregon, this 14th day of Juy
1915, that we request our representa
tives in congress to do all in their
power to secure action of congress
conferring title to the State of Ore
gon of the Oregon-California rail
road land grant within the State up
on the payment of $2.50 per acre by
the state.
"And be it fruther resolved that in
the event thes aid title is so confer
red to the Btate we believe that the
funds arising from sale of such lands
in excess of said $2.50 paid to the
railroad company, should be paid in
to and become a part of the state ir
reducable school fund.''
PIPE LINE SUIT
Portland Man Says He Was Deprived
of Profits on Water Work
Guy J. Wallace, of Portland, has
filed suit in the circuit court against
the Oregon Engineering & Construc
tion company for $5,250; which
amount is his estimate for the profit
he would have made on a sub-contract
for laying pipe on the Oregon City
aqueduct had he been permitted to
carry out the work. Wallace alleges
that he was given a sub-contract on
the job, but that subsequent to this
the chief contractors so burdened him
with restrictions that he wns unable
to do the work.
Wallace alleges that he contracted
to do the work for ten cents a foot,
and that he expected the actual cost
to be six cents a foot. When the
chief contractors discovered the size
of his profit, he avers, they schemed
to make it impossible for him to do
the work.
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