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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1916.
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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."
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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.
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