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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1913.
News of the County and Suburbs
Local and County Items of Interest, to Our Readers
CHERRYVILLE
This certainly IS the rainy sea
son.
No snow yet at this altitude and
that which fell up above here, is gone
at this writing.
About so much rain is due in Ore
gon every year, and what comes now
will mean better weather later on.
The Governor appears to be in a
quandry about the capacity of the
penitentiary as it is full now and
more coming. We know what to do
with the excess. Give them work and
a chance to live, and they would not
crowd into the penitentiary. Many of
them steal a little trifling article in
order to get a short term, where they
will be dry and warm, and have some
thing to eat. They are not naturally
vicious, says Henry Ford, but it is
their environment and the abomin
able economic system now prevalent
that drives by hunger and desperation
to break the law, and this state of
things will get worse instead of bet
ter under the statesmanship of the
old stand-patters. The re-actionar-ies
know this and want to increase
our army to 400,000 men in time of
peace, so that they can keep down the
starving poor in our cities.-
The Courier is right about the "fat
heads," who are in control at Port
land and who are keeping it back in
a race for supremacy with other coast
cities. People must have work and a
city must have manufacturies for its
laboring class if they want to make
any progress. It is the most amaz
ing stupidity in this world for a city
with $20,000,000 idle money in its
banks with the best chance in the
world for establishing factories in the
world before them. Water power
without end, raw material on every
hand and idle men and women every
where asking for a job. There is an
unlimited demand for clothes pins,
and here is the best material in the
world our alder to make them, and
here are countless millions of cedar
logs and stubs all around us and a
great demand for cedar coffins, cedar
cheats and other articles to be made
of cedar.
The writer has known several
promising cities and towns to have
been killed by a bunch of tight-wads,
who want to do nothing but loan
money on high-class security at a
ruinous rate of interest and every
man that they got their ravenous
claws on was literally torn to pieces.
These man-eaters exist everywhere,
and they are nothing but commercial
cannibals.
HINTS FOR MANIACS
Railroad Engineer and Speed Demon
Get Together and Compare Notes
"You don't realize what a ner
vous strain you are putting on a man
in the cab," said a Southern Pacific
locomotive engineer the other day to
an Ashland automobile driver, "when
you dash up toward a crossing just
ahead of his train. There he is in his
cab and he knows that he can't stop
his engine. There you are in your
automobile speeding toward the
crossing just ahead. You probably
know that you are going to stop just
at the edge of the track and look up
and laugh at him. He doesn't. He
doesn't know that you even see the
train. He doesn't know but hat you
are going to try to dash across ahead
of him. It's a joke maybe to you
To him it's a few seconds of the most
intense agony. Why do you do it?
When you see a train coming and
know that you can't make the cross
ing and don't intend to try and make
it why don't you slow down and give
the engineer the assurance that his
train is not about to hurl you into
eternity?"
"I never thought of it in that
light," said the auto man. "I guess
we do those things in a spirit of devil
try. I can tell you one thing, though.
I'm never going to harrow up an
other engineer's nerves.''
"I wish they d all quit it," said the
railroad man, "it happens a dozen
times a day."
CITROLAX
Best thing for constipation, sour
stomach, lazy liver and sluggish bow
els. Stops a sick headache almost at
once. Gives a most thorough and sat
isfactory flushing no pain, no nau
sea. Keeps your system cleansed,
sweet and wholesome. R. H. Wei
hecht, Salt Lake City, Utah, writes:
"I find Citrolax the best laxative I
ever used. Does not gripe no un
pleasant after-effects." Jones Drug
Co.
"Printing with a punch" at the
Courier.
AFTER GRIPPE
Mrs.FMley Made Strong By Vinol
Severv. Kans. "The Grippe left me
in a weak, nervous, run-down condition.
I was too weak to do my nousewom and
The law of eminent domain pro- medicines without benefitVinol restored
WHAT'S IN A NAME
"Thieves' Market" Isn't What It
Sounds Like, Says Officer
The so-called thieves' market in San
Luis Potosi is one of the curious and
characteristic institutions of the .city.
It consists of a series of small booths
along the side of the public market:
in these booths every article known
to the hardware, plumbing, and novel
ty trades may be found at second
hand in every conceivable state of
preservation or decay. The name o'f
the market is no reflection upon, the
proprietors nor upon their patrons, but
is an implication that thieves sell in
this market their miscellaneous plun
der.
Here are found tools and imple
ments, knives and pistols, plow points,
door knobs, bottles, hinges, valves and
elbows, chain, bridle bits, razors, re
ligious books from the old Barcelona
press, cheap jewelry, and occasionally
odd pieces of table silver. In fact,
any bit of portable and nonperishable
merchandise may be bought or sold
in the thieves' market. It constitutes
a serious competition for the hard
ware stores, for if the householder
finds himself in need of a door knocker
a hinge, or a pane of glass, his first
resort is to this market. Many parts
of implements from the plantations
hnd their way to this market. The
proprietors are said to deal in more
valuable goods, such as precious
stones and metals, but these are not
shown to the public nor offered to
strangers. Antique pieces of brass
work, china, and silver may sometimes
be found, but these should be purchas
ed with the customary caution.
There are no fixed prices. The
dealer gets what he can, depending
largely upon the patience of the cus
tomer. The pawnshops turn over to
this market cheap articles in hardware
and jewelry which are not redeemed
or sold at auction. Carpenters and
cabinetmakers find here their odd
pieces for repair work, such as locks
and keys, fancy screws and hinges.
American goods are sometimes seen,
particularly barber's supplies, cheap
watches, buttons, and safety razors.
Imported articles in San Luis Potosi
are always expensive, and articles of
metal, even of native manufacture,
are relatively high; such articles are
not discarded when worn, but find
their way to this market and are used
again and again. It is a sort of
clearing house of commodities. To an
extent it supplies the lack of specializ
ed stores and prevents waste.
NEW SOCIAL MENTOR
vides that any private property can
be taken for the public good when
occasion requires, and the exigensies
of the times demand it. The time has
come to pass when we must take over
some of those swollen fortunes, and
Senator Norris, of Neb., has under
headway a bill which practically con
fiscates fortunes in excess of $5,000
000, and cuts into fortunes of $1,000,
000 or more.
MULINO
The event of the past week was the
wedding of Miss Pearl Erickson to
Ted Holliday, engineer for the W. V.
S. railway. The happy event occured
at the home of the bride's parents,
Mr. and Mrs. August Erickson, on
Sunday, Nov. 14th. The bride and
groom left on the 4:40 afternoon train
for as hort trip to Portland. Their
friends assisted them in caring for
their luggage to the car and a suit
case was deposited in the rack with
several large shoes tied to it and the
my health, strength and appetite. Vinol
IS a granu meuicine turn every wean,
nervous, run-down woman should take
it" Mrs. Geo. Findley.
Vinol, our delicious cod liver and Iron
tonic, sharpens the appetite, aids diges
tion, enriches the blood, and .builds up
natural strength and energy.
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Oregon City Druggists Oregon
words "The Newly weds Just Mar
ried," chalked in large letters on the
side facing the aisle. Mr. and Mrs.
Holliday will make their home at
Tualatin.
The Ladies' club is preparing a
play which will be presented at the
hall December 10th. "A Case for
Sherlock Holmes," is the name of
the drama.
The first carload of wheat came in
over the spur and was unloaded at
the mill the past week. It looked
rather funny to the old-time residents
to see a box car standing by the flour
mill.
THE WEEK THAT
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HAIR DRYERS
BOUDOIR LAMPS
SAMOVARS
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DISC STOVES
FOOT WARMERS
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MASSAGE VIBRATORS
CIGAR LIGHTERS
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WAFFLE IRONS
WASHING MACHINES
LIBRARY LAMPS
COFFEE PERCOLATORS
CHAFING DISHES
FLAT IRONS
CURLING IRON HEATERS
LUMINOUS RADIATORS
TEA KETTLES
SEWING MACHINE MOTORS
SHAVING MIRRORS
KITCHEN RANGES
SHAVING MUGS
AND MANY OTHER USEFUL
AND PRACTICAL THINGS
A Small Deposit Will Hold Any Article Until
Called For.
Portland Railway Light & Power Co.
Beaver Building
G17 Main Street
"RELIABLE SERVICE"
"Sheep" and "Goats" Once Again
Skillfully Separated Hereabouts
Up until the time that Fords be
came popular it was quite easy to
tell who ere the "real people'' and
who were just "common folks.'' Any
body who had an automobile belong
ed in the "four hundred;" anybody
who didn't have one was simply a
"person." But with the advent of the
Ford, so that everybody could get an
automobile, social lines became con
fused. Now comes the Rev. J. K. Hawkins,
new pastor of the Oregon City Metho
dist church, and helps us out of the
difficulty that has been bothering so
ciul leaders when they made up their
invitation lists. The Rev. Dr. Haw
kins has picked out 100 people in and
about the county seat who really
amount to something, and has sent
them a neat little card, in which he
asks them for their opinions regard
ing the dangers that confront man
kind in general.
The card, which explains itself
pretty well, is as follows:
Dear Friend: As the new pastor
of the First Methodist Episcopal
Church, and with a strong desire to
practically serve this community, I
am writing' one hundred letters to as
many interested men and women ask
ing them what they consider to be the
principal Dangers Which today threat
en our Boys and Girls, Our Homes,
Our City, and Our Country. Will you
kindly suggest Remedies whereby the
Dangers may be overcome? And
greatly oblige. Thanking you in ad
yance for the favor, I am most re
spectfully yours, J. K. HAWKINS."
It is therefore easy to tell whether
you are one of the chosen hundred, or
not. If you got a card your standing
in the community is one that makes
you amount to something. If you
didn't get a card, you will know that
what you may think about civic and
other intimate questions doesn't
amount to a hill of beans in mid-win
ter.
ABOUT OUR TIMBER
Forest Service Notes Contain Much
Interesting Information
The bulk of the railroad ties ex
ported from the United States is ship
ped to Canada and Mexico. South
America ranks third in the receipt of
this material.
Canada and Mexico also take the
load in the amount of shingles receiv
ed from the United States. Australia
and the Oceanic Islands rank next in
the amount of this material received
from the United States.
Of the total amount of railroad ties
exported (luring 1914 (over five mil
lion), the State of Washington alone
furnished nearly half am illion.
According to the latest Forest Ser
vice figures, the amount of Douglas
fir in the national forests of Washing
ton and Oregon is estimated to be
98,(105,000,000 feet.
Nearly seventeen million pounds of
wood pulp was exported to Europe
from the United States during 1914.
Canada ranks second, receiving from
the United States over seven million
pounds.
Yew is given the preference over
all other American wood in the manu
facture of archery bows. This tree
occurs in the Coast region from
southern Alaska to northern Califor
nia. It is also found to some extent
in the Cscade Range of Oregon and
Washington, and in the mountains of
Motann and northern Idaho.
OFFICIAL COUNTY BUDGET
For Clackamas County, Oregon, Containing Estimates of Pub
lic Expenditures for the Year 1916.
Notice is hereby given that on Tuesday, December 14, 1915 in the County
Court room In the City of Oregon City, a meeting of the County Court will
be held for the purpose of levying taxes to defray probable expenses of the
County, and that at said time and place any taxpayer subject to such levy
when made, may be heard in favor of or against any proposed tax levies as
may be required to raise the amounts as shown by the Itemized estimate of
contemplated expenditures from the moneys proposed to be raised by taxa
tion, as made by the County Court, being as follows:
Estimate of amount of money to be rasied by taxation for the year 1916
for each department of county government, also the tax levied by all school
districts, all road districts and all cities within Clackamas County, as pro
vided by Chapter 234, Laws of 1913:
Roads and highways 1210,000 00
. Bridges ; 30,000.00
Total
Registration and election
Sheriff's Office
Sheriff's salary 1,700.00
Sheriff's chief deputy 900.00
Sheriff's special deputies 900.00
Investigating crime, livery, etc 1,200.00
Stamps and stationery 25.00
Tax Department: Chief Deputy 900.00
Second deputy 720.00
3 Deputies 3 months in spring 540.00
2 Deputies 2 months in fall , 360.00
Stamps, stationery and post cards 235.00
Bond 210.00
. Total
Clerk's Office
Clerk's salary 1,500.00
Clerk's chief deputy 900.00
Clerk's secpnd deputy 840.00
Clerk's third deputy 720.00
Posfage and box rent -. 130.00
Two typewriters 125.00
Office supplies and stationery 125.00
Filing cases 50.00
Bond 35.00
Total .'
Recorder's Office
Recorder's salary 1,200.00
Recorder's deputy's salary 900.00
Deputy and book machine operator X40.00
One book machine operator 780.00
Extra help , 130.00
Stamps and box rent 100.00
Bond 10.00
Envelopes and stationery 35.00
Ribbons for book machine 25.00
Ink, pens, pencils, etc 10.00
Repair on book machines 15.00
New book machine 210.00
Recovering records 30.00
Total
Treasurer's Office
Treasurer's salary 1,000.00
Treasurer's deputy 720.00
Listing and adding machine 396.00
Fire proof counter and shelves 750.00
Bond i 175.00
Stamps, ink and pencils 00 00
Speciul receipt books 20.00
Total
Surveyor's Office
Cost of road surveys, viewers, chainmen, markers,
and mileage 3,000.00
Office equipment and stationery 1,000.00
Road index maps 1,500.00
Typewriting: 120.00
Total
Assessor's Office
Assessor's salary 1,250.00
Assessor's chief deputy 900.00
Assessor's second deputy 660.00
Assessor's third deputy 000.00
Assessor's Held deputies 1,800.00
Extending tax roll 400.00
Stamps and traveling evpenses 35.00
Pens, ink and office supplies 15.00
Total .. . .
Court House
Two janitors 1,500.00
Water 60.00
Wood 200.00
Coal , 325.00
Brushes 32 00
Toilet paper 12.00
Toweis 15 0
Mops ',M
Lawn hose, etc 20.00
Oil ' 15-00
Locks and repairs I5-0
Glass , I500
lue 10.00
Plumbing 75.00
Lamps 30-00
Miscellaneous 25.00
Total
Circuit Court
County Court
County Judge salary 1,200.00
Clerk hire 12000
Postage and stationery 50.00
240,000.00
9,000.00
7,90.00
4,425.00
4.285.00
One County Commissioner
One County Commissioner
Commissioners' traveling expenses
Total
900.00
900.00
000.00
Justice Court
Coroner
Insane
3,770.00
3,000.00
1.400.00
300.00
School Superintendent's Office
School Superintendent's salary
One school supervisor '
Clerk
171 D..nn.ln(nn.lant OVV
uxpeime "l-c. mM
x rimiiL uuilti
Postage and express
Supplies ;
...... 1 woinli,atnnil 1U0
EJI11U glAUC 250 00
UiailLUlG
Furniture
Teachers' examination
Total
. Health Officer
Health officer's salary .-
Fumigating and disinfectants iZ nn
l lavciiiiB vaiv novo
1,000.00
1,100.00
480.00
300.00
200.00
200.00
108.00
50.00
25.00
Registrars
Total .'
Fruit Inspector, per diem and expense
Stock Inspector
Indigent Soldier
Widow s Pensions
250.00
Care of Poor
Cost of keeping 10.000.00
Hospital bills 2,000.00
Total
Jail
Board of prisoners 'J'
Jail fixtures and supplies I00 o
Total
Juvenile Court
Juvenile officer
Juvenile matron
Total
500.00
500.00
Scalp Bounty :
Tax Rebate
Printing and Advertising
Publishing County Court proceedings and expendi-
tnrpo 1,600.00
zuu.uu
550.00
500.00
3,813.00
2,248.20
500.00
50.00
300.00
11,000.00
12,000.00
1,100.00
1,000.00
550.00
450.00
Advertising for bids
Assessor Tax rolls, printing and advertising
Clerk Registers, journals and blanks
Recorder Blank records, deeds 54, mortgage 90,
chattel mortgage 18 '
Sheriff Cash books 120, receipts 150, post cards 20.
Total
162.00
290.00
400.00
3,121.00
5,620.00
5,720.00
3,364.00
11,000.00
State and Comity Fairs
For Purchase of County Fair Grounds 7,950.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures 425.00
Rent of Armory
Forest Fires
Experting County Books
Damages
Cattle Indemnity
Insurance
Insurance on Court House
Insurance on Bridges
Total
180.00
400.00
For State Tax, estimated
District Attorney's Office
Expenses in enforcing dry law 3,000.00
Tcital
Schools 94,400.00
Library 1.180.00
Receipts Clerks' office 7,000.00
Receipts Recorder's office 6,500.00
Receipts Sheriff's office 720.00
Fines in Circuit Court 1,400.00
Fines in Justice Court 500.00
Total 16,120.00
HIGH SCHOOL TUITION FUND
High School. No. Scholars. Rate.
Oregon City 196 $ 55.40
Milwaukie : 24 71.00
Canby 39 42.80
Estacada 48 63.00
Molalla 39 45.00
Colton .' 9 72.00
Sandy 1 45.00
Portland 84 77.20
Marion County 11
Yamhill County 2
Total
Balances on hand Nov. 1, 1915
Special School fund 11.813.89
City fund 1,752.81
General fund 9,541.34
Road fund 41,172.80
County School fund 1,450.78
County Fair fund .35
State School fund 353.17
Institute fund f 213.92
1915 Taxes Collected 173.20
Total
3,302.00
400.00
7,950.00
425.00
300.00
500.00
350.00
2,000.00
1,600.00
580.00
125,000.00
3,000.00
94,000.00
1,180.00
Total
$ 10,858.40
1,704.00
1,070.00
3 024.00
1,755.00
648.00
45.00
6,484.80
487.29
80.00
, 26,756.48
66,472.20
DO IT NOW
Government Gives Sound Advice to
Farmers About Plant Pest
The secret of the vitality of the
wild onion lies in the two sorts of
underground bulbs. Each plant pro
duces one large bulb which- germin
ates in the fall and four or five small
ones which start growth in the spring.
Late fall plowing, followed by
early spring plowing and planting the
infested land to some clean cultivated
crop destroys the wild onion pest by
killing both sorts of bulbs as the
growth from them appears and be
fore they have had a chance to multi
ply. The fall plowing should be deep
and care should be taken to complete
ly bury all green tops of the onion.
If very much top growth has been
made, a harrow run before the plow
will facilitate the thorough covering
of" the tops.
Another interesting and valuable
point about the wild onion is that the
spring bulbs rarely produce heads;
consequently if the infested land is
plowed in the fall, a spring oat crop
practically free of onions can always
be secured. But for complete eradi
cation of the onion, both fall and
spring plowing is necessary, and No
vember is the best time to do the fall
work.
"Printing with a punch" at the
Courier.
There are two types of four breed
disease of bees in Oregon, both of
which are of a very serious nature.
Anyone owning bees, even in a small
way, should become thoroughly ac
quainted with the diseases and meth
ods of their eradication, which have
been taken up in a very thorough
manner in a circular letter by Pro
fessor A. E. Lovett, acting entomol
ogist of the Agricultural College.
Copies may be had free by writing
the College for Entomological circu
lar letter No. 12, on bee diseases.
Typhoid Fever Controlled
Three years ago the field men of
the Geographical Survey, as well as
some of the office force, took advan
tage of the offer of the War Depart
ment to supply official antityphoid se
rum, and practically the entire force
of men was inoculated. Since that
time, as far as reported, there has
been no serious case of typhoid fever
among those inoculated. Two cases
of typhoid among the topographic
engineers indicate the great effective
ness of this inoculation. In both
these cases the men simply felt "off
feed" for a couple or three days and
refused to go on the sick list; in fact
typhoid would not have been suspect
ed in either case except that in one
of them somebody suggested the pos
sibility, and an exhaustive hospital
examination, blood-test, etc., showed
that the engineer had a theoretically
well-developed case of typhoid, the
practical results of which, however,
failed to incapacitate him for duty,
so that he did not even go to bed for
one day.
CATTLE NEED WATCHING
The Courier has a full line of Legal
Blanks for sale. If you are in need
of Legal Blanks you will find that it
will pay you to come to the Courier.
OLDER BUT STRONGER
To be healthy at seventy, prepare" at
forty, is sound advice, because in the
strength of middle life we too often forget
that neglected colds, or careless treat
ment of slight aches and pains, simply
undermine strength and bring chronic
weakness for later years.
To be stronger when older, keep your
blood pure and rich and active with the
strength-building and blood-nourishing
properties of Scott's Emulsion which isa
food, a tonic and a medicine to keep your
blood rich, alleviate rheumatism and
avoid sickness. No alcohol in Scott's.
Scott & Bowne, BloomficM, N. J.
Discovery of Tubercular Cows at Fairs
Displeases Officials
That ull Oregon cattle which are
sent to county fairs for display are
not as they should be, and that there
is need for more careful examination
of dairy herds, is indicated in a dis
patch from the Oregon Agricultural
college, which reads as follows:
Dr. E. Chase, assistant veterinar
ian, has found that cattle brought to
fairs in some sections of the state
have shown reaction to the tubercular
tests. Post mortems were held in
some instances and the presence of
tubercles actually demonstrated to
growers and fair officers. Although
the test nas been opposed in some
places its need has been clearly shown
and those who were shown the value
of it are glad that it was required.
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Water Tangle Somewhat Cleared by
Action of Circuit Court Judge
Circuit Judge J. U. Campbell luft
Wednesday signed an order dissolv
ing the restraining order granted a
month ago in the suit of Theodo;e
Fish and B. M. Fisch against the town
of Milwaukie. Fisch brothers own
the Milwaukie Water company and
are attempting to force the city to
buy their plant before the municip.il
water system, supplied from the Bi 11
Run mains in Portland, is completed.
The restraining order, which tied
up all work on the uncompleted munic
ipal system and prevented the use of
water from the city's mains, will be
in force for 50 days, and if at that
time the water company has not in
stituted an appeal to the state su
preme court, the city can complete
its plant and deliver water to its customers.
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