4 OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1916. OREGON CITY COURIER Published Thursdays from the Courier Building, Eighth Street, and entered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as 2nd class mail matter E. R. BROWN, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Subscription Price $1.50. Telephones, Pacific 51; Home A-51. THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN . ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES NEW1 LAW NEEDED Three shocking attacks on women the first three days of last week in the northern part of the state one crime in Washington county, one in Clackamas and one in Multnomah again call unpleasant attention to the prevalence of a certain form of de generacy in the state of Oregon. The northern section of the state has had more than its share of these detest able outbreaks, from time to time; and it may be possible that this is the result of the deterioration of human stock due to constant interbreeding of pioneer families. Mental degener acy of some kind or other invariably follows intermarriage between the same families for generation after generation. However, the cause of these crimes is a matter for considera tion elsewhere than in the columns of the public press, In the three crimes of last week justice was more fortunate than usual. Two of the degenerates were caught soon after their attacks had been made, and the third brute-man saved the state considerable trouble and expense by blowing out his brains. Unfortunately, the criminal records of the state courts do not always show as happy a settlement as this. Too often have money-hungry attorneys found technicalities of the law that . made loopholes through which the de generates could escape to remain at large constant perils to the safety of womanhood. It would seem that a change in the law dealing with crimes of this vile character might well be made The . degeneracy that leads to these crimes, or their attempt, is a species of in sanity dangerous insanity, at that. Yet under the present law men who MORE ABOUT WAR From time to time it is to be ob served that the Courier is getting lax in this matter of having stirring edi torials on war and preparedness. Somehow the editorial brains around this shop don't seem to be paying the attention to the great and burning questions of the day that they should And every now and then "Constant Reader" or "Pro Bono Publico" writes in and tells us about it. Both of them wrote last week and wanted to know why we didn't say something about the war, Hence we suppose that we've got to say something. Unfortunately if we said what we wanted to, the post office wouldn't permit the Courier to circulate through the mails. Yet we will try and comply with the request of "Anxious Reader" and "Citizen," and make a few temperate remarks about what is going on in the Old World and in the New. The war seems to be continuing as usual. We observe by the daily papers that passenger vessels are still being blown to Kingdom Come without any particular warning, and that non-combatants are being tilled every time it is done. Maybe it is.all right, we don't know but if anybody around here were to submarine the steamer Ruth just because they had a grudge against the Oregonian, we sort of reckon that there'd be some thing pretty close to a lynching bee when the submarine came to the sur face to breathe. Likewise we see by the papers that the United States is still calling on Austria and Germany to explain. and that the two explainers seem to have something like writer's cramp when they get down to business. Of the prophetic snowstorm that herald ed the coming of a new era. It would have made a lovely cartoon and would have appealed to both wets and drys. Since nobody snapped up the idea, we are now engaged in spoiling it. The snow that ushered in the new and dry year probably was prophetic, at that. It covered the state with a mantle of white it made Oregon a white smear on the map, just as the prohibitionists have it. And the snow covered up all the mud and dirt under neath, too; just as the prohibition law covers up the twenty-four quarts of beer and the two quarts of booze that any of us may have in our homes, to guzzle before our children. And also the prohibition law will cover up the sanctimonious professional prohi bitionists, who all last week packed booze and bitters and other things home in suitcases and satchels. Even the Portland Telegram, the great "prohibition daily," remarked last week that it was the "prohis" who were doing most of the eleventh hour buying, and who were asking that packages be delivered after dark. Quite a fine bunch of hypocrisy the "snow white mantle of prohibition is covering in Oregon. The law says that mixtures containing more than one-half of one percent alcohol may not be sold as beverages but the law does not say that peruna and the car ious sarsasparilla mixtures, which con tain up to 20 percent alcohol, may not be sold as "medicines." The law says that druggists may sell ethyl alcohol under certain restrictions but if the purchaser of ethyl alcohol drinks it, the druggist is held to blame and is prosecuted, and the purchaser goes scott free. The law says that no drinks may be bought or sold or given away in the state, but the law pro- home seekers. Since the work was begun, more than 1,900,000 acres have been made available for the benefit of 18,000 settlers. "In short, lands within the Forests really adapted to agriculture are be ing occupied as homesteads undor fav orable conditions. While the lands suited to settlement are classified and opened to entry, those which are not chiefly vafuable for agriculture are retained in public ownership. The alienation of timberlands under con ditions that will lead not to settle ment but to speculation and to in increasing the holdings of private timber owners would defeat the very purpose for which the Forests were established. "The real agricultural problem within and near the Forests is to make possible the successful occupancy and development of the lands that already have been opened to entry or actu ally patented. The mere private own ership of land does not insure suc cessful use of it. In Oregon and Washington alone there are about 3,000,000 acres of logged-off land, much of it agricultural in character, now lying idle. In this condition speculative holdings of the land for higher prices play a large part. An other cause is the lack of transpor tation facilities. A settler may clear land and raise crops upon it, but he is helpless if he cannot market them. There are great acres of fertile land unused today ' on this account. In many sections near the National For ests pioneer conditions still exist. The population is small and the task of road building is beyond the means of the residents. There is little or no demand for the timber, and the re ceipts from the Forests which go to the community are small. The fact that the public property is not sub- the trial at all. And if the jury really thought that the defendant was irre sponsible, it should have returned a verdict Vf "not guilty," in which case the $7.80 costs would have been hung on the city. As an example of useless, uncalled for and needless amplification of the legal business of the city, the first jury trial was undoubtedly a success. But as a model of judicial proceedure it was a good deal of a joke just about the kind of a joke that might have been expected from a great re form scheme that had its birth in the facile mind of the Hon. B. S. In the abstract the .argument for the Bill Stone amendment sounded logical; but people who really thought about the matter, and who realized that the re corder's court is oly called upon to try misdemeanors, didn't vote for it. It will be interesting to see how many $7.80 bills are hung onto the city in the future by jury trials in 'the recorder's court all through the great wisdom of friend Bill Stone. BACK TO THE WOODS The Portland Journal last week threw an editorial fit about the coin ed word "Usona," which is made up of the first letters of "United States of North America," is lauded as a fit ting and proper "popular" name for our country. According to the Jour nal "Usona" is a word evolved by the Esperantists, and is pleasing, euphon ious, short and distinctive. Maybe it is. But there are reasons why it will never be adopted in the United States reasons which the Journal doesn't appear to know any thing', about. Esperanto may have "Usona" in its vocabulary, but the word wasn't invented by Esperantists. It was first coined in Canada by head- sink to these vile depths are treated I course our Uncle Samuel knows his as are ordinarv criminals, are civen the benefit of bail if they can secure it and later have every possible chance to escape punishment, provided only that they can persuade some at torney to fight in the courts for them. Womanhood in Oregon would be far safer were the law so amended as to make degenerate crimes and degen erate criminals subjects for the im mediate investigation by physicians forming a sanity commission. Such a criminal, upon arrest, should not be admitted to bail; but should be at once examined as to his sanity, and if found insane should be committed forthwith to the asylum. No injustice would be done by such a proceedure, for the degenerate always shows trac es of au positive insanity. Should it happen that an innocent man be ac cused of such a crime, examination of of the prisoner as to his sanity would at least reveal that he was not de generate by nature and then the ac cused would have full benefit of a trial by jury. But to release a mun charged with such a crime on small bail, to per mit him to further be at large and menace the community in which he lives, without first inquiring as to his mental condition, is not justice. It is not fair to the accused, nor to those who accuse him, nor to the community at large. Crimea or a dogenerate na ture are not the kind that are lied about. ' People do not accuse their enemies of being brute-men, merely to place them behind the bars. Human nature revolts so utterly against these crimes, that men are never charged with committing them unless there is very considerable circumstan tial evidence against them. And the man mentally capable of attacking women, whether he does attack them or not, is not a safe person to be trusted with liberty. The law regarding such crimes should be changed; bail should be de nied the accused until he has been ex amined as to his montul condition; and if he is found to be insane, ho should be committed at once, and not given the opportunity of escaping confine ment through a technicality of evi dence. The protection of womanhood is more important than the feelings of those tainted with degeneracy the protection of womanhood should be placed above the desires of hungry at torneys for fat, eusy fees. "Printing with a Courier. punch" at the I business but we have also observed in times gone by that he would ask for explanations just about so long, and then act with considerable sud denness. Maybe we are bum prophets but we think our Uncle is getting ready to act. Otherwise about the war we don't know much. We have been reading what Walter Hale, Edith Wharton and many other writers have been say ing about the war in the standara magazines, and we have been form ing our own conclusions. People we have talked to have also been doing the same thing, and we find that the conclusions they have drawn coincide pretty closely with ours. And this opinion is to the effect that both sides in the war are wrong, but that one side is a whole lot more wrong than the other. And we hope the worst side will get unmercifully licked. And also we would add that we have had a touch of the grippe, and that we don't blame Henry Ford get ting sick when he got close to Europe and saw how things really were. If we can get the grippe at this distance from the war, it is not at all surpris ing that Henry got something worse than that when he got almost within earshot of the fighting along the coast of Europe. In short the Courier hasn't got anv sympathy left with the war. and it is fast beginning to think that one of the best things that could happen would be to have all the civilized part of the world join hands and pile in and knock the stuffing out of the the uncivilized part that is now warring. We hope these few rcmnrks will satisfy those anonymous writers who have been getting more and more hungry for our opinion of the war in Europe. WHITE ALL OVER The snow that sifted down from the skies New Year's Eve., and that has kept on sifting more or less since then, transformed Oregon to a white state, just as it is on the cute little maps that the Ani-Saloon Leag ue puts out, to show the prohibition territory. The soft flakes that fell softlv and buried everything in a mantle of white, silently but effectively blotting out all other color, miirht have been little white bnllots. In fact the Cour ier is surprised that no brilliant news paperman in the state took un the chance to draw a cartoon showincr We want one of our 1916 calendars in every home in Clackamas County. If it so hap pens that you have not been on our mailing list, send us a postal with your name and address on it and we shall be glad to send out our calendars as long as the supply lasts. WE PAY 4 PERCENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS THE BANK OF OREGON CITY ' Oldest Bank in Clackamas County A Prosperous 1916 May Father Time deal kindly with you and yours during the new year. May he bring brightness into your home and may his foot prints be up on the right side of your bank book v" - . -. May he often incline your feet in our direction and may your business be of such a nature that when the new year has grown old we will both look back and say "A very good year indeed." W. J. Wilson & Company 10th and MAIN STREETS, OREGON CITY, ORE. SELLING THE ENTIRE Mitchell, Lewis and Staver Cos Line of FARM MACHINERY and VEHICLES : MS V4 J9 ear flmy She oiheA clay of ioid John he just had io lei me fix -up the parloA. a9 aoi tiAed of seeing ihe old ihinai in ii any longer, , 3 hope youA husband ii not so thouai-ie-s-s of iihe home ai mine hai been. 2ui now he ioo ii aiad thai -we've fixed up our paA loi. tfe enjoyi home loii moAe, and he does n't wani io iiay down town "niahts" any- John wanii you and QoJb io come io moAe. iee ui QlwayS youA fAiend, jCou. (P. S. -When you wani wheAe of did, d a mine fAom fuAnituAe io pleaied. ao riahi & Jbouaht FRANK BUSCH Leading Furniture Dealer 1 1th & Main Sts. Oregon City, Ore. GOLD DREDGING PAYS vides a way by which any family that jeet to taxation makes such commun wants to may have a druknen spree ities feel, and very justly, that the under its own roof. It is a fine law') Forests are not contributing enough io cover up in a mantie 01 wnite tne 1 to local development. muck and mire of deceit that under lies all. Verily, Oregon is a white state until the snow melts. REAL CONSERVATION The foolish reign of eastern bureaus in the affairs of the West appears to be at an end, and no longer will fad dists 01 me nncnot variety "con servo" the public domain for us. A new era of sanity in the administra tion of the nation's great public wealth is at hand, and a general sigh of re lief goes up from the West ,and the Northwest m particular, as this is realized. As an example of this change in the national policy, the Secretary of Agriculture in his report for the last fiscal year makes very plain the government's policy in re gard to agricultural lands within the National Forests. The report states: "It is the Department's policv to make available for settlement all lands which are chiefly valuable for farming. In order to open such areas a careful classification is being made. Large tracts found to be valuable for agriculture or unsuited for perma nent forest purposes are eliminated. During the last five years about 14,000 000 have been released. In addition, individual tracts are classified and opened to entry upon application of j in conclusion, tne secretary re peats his recommendation of last year that "upon a showing of public neces sity appropriations be made for a specinc roads and similar improve ments, to be charged against the State's future share of receipts from the Forests. Such action would pro mote tho local development of agri cultural and other resources." THE WISDOM OF IT Bill Stone's amendment providing for jury trials in the recorder's court in the county seat, which was passed by a small majority at the last city I writers on the Canadian papers, who couldn't make "United States of North America" fit in a single line of dis play type one column wide. It car ries with it that degree of opprobrium that is always to be found in any Ca nadian allusion to anything that per tains to the United States; and Amer icans who have traveled beyond our northern boundaries are quite familiar with it and the perpetual sneer that goes with it. If the bright person who wrote the "Usona" editorial in the Journal had ever been to Canada, or had a smat tering of learning that didn't come out of "The Journalist's Handy Guide," that editorial wouldn't have been written. If the Journal was as "American" as it likes to pretend that it is, it would never suggest that this election, nas nad its nrst trial, ine coutrv adont as b "nnnnlnr" .m jury trial cost the defendant in tho for itself a term that has grown action $7.80, and the verdict returned , weather-worn and trite in Canada for by tho jury is now one of the judicial a neighboring county that is feared wonders of Oregon City's legal an-!more than jt is loved. The Journal nals. The verdict found the defendant! miirht iust as well sno-o-ost. thnr guilty of the charge, intimated that "Greaserdom" would be a good "dodu- leniency was very desirable in the case because of the alleged mental unbalance of the person at trial, and was wonderfully and miraculously spelled. Inasmuch as a competent sanity commission had already passed upon the mental condition of the person at trial, the "Bill Stone jury" went away out of its province in offering suggestions in regard to this phase of the matter which didn't come into lar" name for Mexico. It would come just as near hitting the nail on the head if it did. It is wonderful how, every now and then, the Journal reveals how much it doesn't know. Mining in Oregon Shows Increased Yields During Past Year Preliminary estimates of the out put of metals from Oregon mines in 1915, by the United States Geological Survey, show material increases over the figures of 1914 in both gold and copper, and slight decreases in yield of silver and lead. The gold yield for 1914 was $1,591,461 and the estimate for 1915 is $1,771,618 which is an in crease of $180,157 for 1915. The sil ver output for 1914 was 142,552 ounc es, and the estimate for 1915 is 136,033 ounces, or 6,519 ounces less. The yield of copper in 1914 .was 39,248 pounds, vhile the estimate for 1915 is 910,104 pounds, an increase for 1915 of 870,856 pounds; and the yield of lead was 16,436 pounds in 1914, as compared with 6,650 pounds in 1915, or 9,786 pounds less. These prelim inary figures are compiled by Charles G. alYe, of the San Francisco Iffice of the Survey. It is noteworthy that such mater ial increases in output of gold and copper should be apparent when the fact is considered that the number of producing mines in Oregon has fallen off fully one-third in the past two years. Those which have dropped from the producing list, however, have been mainly small placers of various kinds where the ground has been worked out, or has failed to pay. The larger deep mines continue their pro ductive career, with few exceptions, but not many new properties of mo ment have of late been opened. More capital for mine development is need ed in the State, where there are few extensive properties in operation. Baker county continues to be by far the most productive county of the State, yielding annually fully 85 per cent of all the gold. The most pro ductive deep mine in Oregon in 1915, as also for the preceding two years, was that of the Commercial Mining Company, operating the Rainbow mine in Cracker Creek district, Baker coun ty. Of the placer mines in Oregon, the most important enterprise is that of the Powder River Dredge Company, Cracker Creek district, Baker county. This company, which owned but one dredge in 1914, put another one in operation in the same field in 1915, and if is to the work of this company that the increase in gold yield in the State for the year is mainly due. Other placer mines are the Osgood, Waldo district, Josephine county; the Layton, in Applegate district, Jack son County; and the smalled mines around Grants Pass, in Josephine county. The gold yield from the dredging operations is greatly in ex cess of that from all other forms of placer mining combined. Kundig Bound Over In spite of the pleas of his attor ney, the Honorable Christian Schue bel, Edward Kundig was bound over to the grand jury by Justice John N. Sievers on Monday. Later Kundig received his liberty on bail. Kundig is charged with having attacked the wife of a neighbor, and with having threatened to shoot her if she did not accede to his demands. Gladstone, never having had a sa loon in its midst, saw its first drunk the day that prohibition went into ef fect in the state. Twas ever thus drunks never get to the home neigh borhoods until prohibition is enforced. A. C. lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll FARMERS' AND HOME-MAKERS' WEEK and RURAL LIFE CONFERENCES January 3 to 8, 1916 Live Information, Practical Help for the Home me rami, me Lommuulty, Conventions of Oregon's Greatest Industries Conferences 011 Oregon's Most Vital Problems LECTURES DEMONSTRATIONS EXHIBITIONS-ENTERTAINMENTS Two thousand people attended last year. It is a great place to make friends with live thinkers sjid live thoughts, good workers, and good work. WINTER SHORT. COURSE January 10 to February 4, 1916 A Practical Agricultural Course in a Nut shell. 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