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Newspaper Page TextOREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1916. 3 BOY HAS HARD LUCK Breaks Leg Twice due to Falling on Wet and Slippery Walks A few weeks ago, little Tommy McCabe of Eagle Creek, while at play; fell and broke his leg above the knee. Owing to the. fracture having occured in the fleshy part of the leg, it "was only after considerable hard work that Dr. Adix was able to set the broken bones without the aid of the X-ray. Last Wednesday, Tommy, who was able to be about on a crutch, slipped on a wet plank, fell, and broke the leg again and may be permanently crip pled as the result, notwithstanding the ability of the doctor to again join the fracture. (Estacada Progress.) You can get the Courier for one year for ?1.00 if you pay in advance. $100 Reward, $100 The readers of his paper will be pleased to learn that science has one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Catarrh being great ly influenced by constitutional condi tions requires constitutional treat ment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts thru the Blood on the Mucuous Surfaces of the System thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, giving the patient strength by building up the constito tion and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in the curative powers of Hall's Catarrh Cure that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address: F. J. CHENEY & CO., To- ledo, Ohio. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. WELL, HOW ABOUT IT? The Courier fl.OU per year. I mill HIS fc m Miv I r van The Tieiure Tells The Story Copyrighted 11116 by The Picture Advertiser!, Box 17, Oregon City, Ore OREGON CITY GARAGE Agency for Reo and Dodge f Bros. Car g Main and 4th Sts. SUNDRIES and SUPPLIES Repairing & Over hauling OREGON CITY GARAGE Sewing Machines and Supplies Motors for running ; Machines HOGG BROS. Drain Tile, Plaster Lime and Cement LARSEN & CO. 10th & Main St Phone 70 Quality Work Home OREGON CITY LAUNDRY tiH. W.STREIBIG'S (Sanitary) MARKET W.Cgo! CaTll B.nd I 0lC MEATS Delivers 1 Phone 131 Typo Z Farm En-jWF, gine Vi H.P. $35 W' 3 H.P. $60; 6 H.P.I $110; F.O.B. Fac tory GADKE PLUMB ING SHOP SELL LESS FOR MORGAN'S CUT RATE GROCERY HEALTH'S KEYBOARD I) REST IN 'f puce Repairing PAINLESS The Modern DrugIMILK CREAM Hazelwood Dairy "Absolute Purity" Phone 145 Store JONES DRUG CO. Tailoring, Cleaning . and Pressing REPAIRING 502 Main Street CHAMPION SMITH & TELFORD I HABERDASHERS I "Head to Foot" Outfitters to Men MILLER & OBST Main and 7th . Artistic Work ROCK BOTTOM PRICES HOME TRADE SHOE SHOP Gladstone, Oregon A. Lindgren, Prop. AND POOL BILLIARDS Everything for Smokers RAASCH & LAMB QUALITY MERCHANDISE!! WOOD SOLD AND SAWED Men, Women Children W. B. and Phone Main 231-K 1 GRANT NASH EDDY I 7th & J. Q. Adams Is ifs! Chiropractors treats Sanitary Service the source of trou- g SKILLED ble; remove the jj cause; Lagrippe &g Fever yield readily j Consultation Free p Dr. G..F. Anderson B BARBERS Clean Baths ED. JOHNSON Prop. OTTO Phones Main 1101 SCHUMANN I M-172 Granite and Mar-1 r. A. McDONALD ble Work I Veterinary Surgon Portland, Oregon Office Red Front Phone E-743 I Barn 39 East Third at 1 Phones Main 116 Pine St. Oregon City ,.,n.m,l DILLMAN & MI LLER-P ARK ER HOWLAND CO. . I Fi" and Ule In G-unsi (Umbrellas 1 surance and Locks I Real Estate Agts. g Money to Loan If on City and Farm Properties Electric Utensils Repaired Special for 30 daysl Accordion, Hem o i ffoA m stitching, side and Regular $20 g gunbur8t pleating, Alumin'm Plate $10 1 8can0ping-buttons Modern Painless m covered Dentist . 1 209 Pittock BIk. 253 i Washington IK. Stephan, Port Portland, Ore. lland. Bwdy. 1099 Oxy-Acetylene gNew location sea Welding I sonable Flowers New, tough, live 1 for all occasions Metal replaces de-IShop 612 Main St. fective parts g Phone 271 Oregon City I James Wilkinson Foundry 8 Florist 4th and Water Sts. I Gladstone, Ore. Will You Eat Here I Complete line of We pledge you the Sal Trout and UTMOST IK toS -S quality g 'em" C. W. Friedrich Hardware Oregon City . in service Falls City Restaur- m ant, Bakery and Confectionery Lenses alone $1 ; in Munnoman r urn.- t J- ture Hospital 354 rr....e ? B Third, Portland Sphero (curved) m . .... h w i. U Phone 45d4 G.E. Glass Mtg . $5 Uphol8tering, Re Kryptok $8 to $15pafringi Poijghig Wm. GARDNER Mattresses made Jeweler g over & to order Babler & Gerber Vulcanizing and Repairing Smith & Porter I Truck Co. 1 Auto Service Be- i nrMin OrAcrnn Cifv Oakland, Hudson Band Portland In and Maxwell Care g Oregon City Phone 7th & John Adams 365-j; ln Portland Phone 392 0 Phone Bwdy. 512 J I accordion I Alfred Cridge Discusses the "Jynx" that Sits on Oregon's Back Recently the Courier started a dis cussion of the jynx" that is retard ing Oregon's development; and in recent editorial .this paper spoke of the holding of land and resources for "investment" as one of the .things that was keeping Oregon back. In line with this discussion, Alfred Cridge has written a letter which is worth careful consideration. While Mr, Cridge is radical in his views, it ap pears that this is a time for radical ism if Oregon is to get rid of the "jynx." The letter follows: Editor, Courier: What are the men and women of Oregon going to do about land monopoly in Oregon? The water power of Oregon is so rapidly being absorbed by outside speculators as to excite alarm among conservative men. The waterfront of our deep water ports, and the accessible places on our navigable rivers are pretty well gobbled up and held out of use. The farming lands capable of agri cultural development are not in the hands of the farmers. The city lands of real value are in the hands of a very small per centage of the population. Three-fourths of Portland is owned by one and one. half per cent of the people. Count off the mortgages and street assess ments acting the same as mortgages, and the small home owners have very little actual interest in their homes, The indications are that the small h:m9 owner in large cities will be come as extinct as the dodo bird in New Zealand. So far every attempt at making it unprofitable to hold land out of use has been strenuously and successfully opposed by the organs and advocates of special privilege. The people have been told that everything is lovely, and all the workingmen had to do was to buy a piece of land and become a land speculator. Now the speculative small fry are being dispossessed. Lots on which they have paid from 25 to 75 per cent of the speculative and extortionate prices asked by sure-thing real estate gamblers, and then had to stop pay ment on are demanded back at ONE DOLLAR each: or the sucker is threatened with a suit for disposses sion and told that a judgment will be held over him indefinitely. As soon as clear titles are obtain ed to these lots for $1 each there will be started another land boom, if the suckers have come up stream again like the salmon. What are the opponents of every land and tax reform measure going to do about it? You can dam up a stream for a long time, but you must provide spillways or out goes the dam one fine morning. The scheme to put more land on the market for more suckers, by the state backing irrigation and drainage bonds will not relieve anybody but a few speculators. Why is not the irrigated and drain ed land now idle in Oregon in use? Because it is held out of use by big and little speculators, who raise the price in every neighborhood from 10 to 25 per cent every time a tenderfoot gets hooked with a piece at fancy prices. Measures providing for a graduat ed land tax; for .exempting small homes, for allowing communities to rule themselves and make such ex emptions as the people might see fit all have been voted down as single tax. But the opponents of these meas ures have never even so much as sug gested the slightest change that in any way will make it easier for a man to get a home. Farmer and workingman are driven off the earth unless they pay the price. The farmer farming land for a living does not own a tenth of the land in Oregon, measured in dollars. The workingman in the city does not own a tenth, either. Who owns the land? With land in Portland worth on the market nearly $2,000,000 an acre, it should not take long to figure out that neither the farmer nor the working man is getting any of the rentals that make the land so valuable. The forces of organized labor in Portland have proposed a radical amendment to the constitution which would take ALL the rental value of all land into the public treasury, and loan the surplus funds to home build ers in city and country. "So radical it will never pass," says the land speculator, confident that previous votes will be repeated and the measure overwhelmingly defeated. Never is a long time. Labor unions are stubborn powers. Defeat doesn't scare them. If the Peoples' Land and Loan measure receives even a third of the vote, then there will never be another land boom in Oregon. It is the most sweeping measure ever for mulated on the land monopoly ques tion. It beats the measure proposed in 1912 for being radical. If it is defeated the labor unions will go right on with the agitation AND SUBMIT IT AGAIN, perhaps somewhat modified, but certainly not weakened. ' The land monopolist statesman, and the land monopolist newspapers, and the land monopolist politician, must propose some half-way measure; or as the number of home owners grow less in Oregon in proportion to population, and the little speculators get squeezed out so that they do not line up with the landlord so often, there will be an increase of the vote for the radical measure, and louder and more shrill squeals of the land hog. Every vote for this radical meas ure is a notice to the land hog to get a move on himself. Every vote is no tice to all manner of people not to speculate in Oregon land. Wise bankers are already hedging in on loans on idle land. A farm with slight improvements and large areas of half improved land, or unimproved land, is not considered good security any more. The wise money loaner is looking closely to additional security when he does loan money on idle land, and e' will look still closer if this proposed measure secures a big vote. The small speculator is doomed anyway. The half farmer, half speculator, may get some cheaper loans from Uncle Sam and thereby slip by a few more years. But every time that such a measure as the Peoples' Land and Loan meas ure is proposed, it means notice to vacate any land you have no use for yourself. What are "we, the people of Ore gon" going to do about it? ALFRED D. CRIDGE. STRANGE, STRANGE THING Politician Takes to Writing Poetry Long Before Election The following verse we guess it is verse was handed to the Courier last week by one of our local politicians. The writer will soon announce that holding office is one of the writer's fondest hopes. (Note: please observe that we didn't say "he" or "she" yet.) Now the Courier likes to please of fice seekers, and so we are going to publish these verses, or poetry. But we wont tell you the writer's name, but will consistently regard the se crecy of the author's nom-de-plume. Maybe you'll find a hidden message in the outburst, and then you'll know how you want to vote on this par ticular candidate. The politician s verse runs if you call it running as follows: Spring Goods Arrive! "OWED" TO NANCY Move a balky mule? It can't be did! So paste these warnings in your lid. I tried it once her name was Nan Now I'm a sad and wiser man. She balked one day 10 miles from home; I bowed she drubbed me on the dome saw some stars, and sighed: "O Queen" She politely bammed me on the bean. I know she can bet a bucking bronc, The way she tapped me on the conk. The more I'd smile and try to please her The more she bumped me on the bee zer. O, I'd forgive that! I'm no slob! If she'd only not nailed me on the knob. I'm so indignant I can hardly speak, To think she lammed me on the peak. It made me shudder in my sox To get dinged on my pet brain-box. said, "My, but youre an ornery mut!" She grinned and cracked me on the nut. She surely must have gone loco! The way she biffed me on the coco; So don t blame me if I rave some I'm busted on the cranium. I can't see straight my brain is dull, Since Nancy whiffed me on the skull. I know she meant it well enough, But just the same, I think it's tough, Altho 1m bandaged and laid in a ward so neat, My dreams are of Nance and her fly. ing feet. . ,. Why, even with Nursie I'm now in dutch, Because I've talked of "Nance" so much. So please excuse this lonesome tear, (1 11 get even with Nance if it takes a year!) hope quite soon my Nursie will see My heart's in a fix like my head used to be; Then she'll understand that "Nan's" only a mule, And my head's so cracked I'm a per fect fool. And she'll have compassion on my heart, And help to keep it from coming apart. Then I'll build her and Nance a new pole corral, And love hem both while they treat me so well. FOREST PERMIT REVOKED Government Wants Power Sites De veloped, and Not Held Idle The District Forester at Portland, Oregon, has just received a copy of the decision by the Secretary of Agri culture, David F. Houston, in the Washington Railway & Electric Com pany case, citing trie circumstances which caused the revolution of the permit held by that Company on the Sultan River water power projects in the Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington. The Company has held priorities on these power sites for more than nine years, during which time no construc tion has been attempted, and the only expenditures have been those for examinations and surveys and out lays incidental thereto. The Company has had an opportunity to present the matter verbally to the Secretary, but they have failed continually to comply with the terms of their per mit, and could not give any assur ance that if their application for an extension was granted they could be gin development, the Secretary has decided that the extension should be denied. The Secretary states that the De partment is desiious of having the power sites under its jurisdiction de veloped and used. For this reason it grants permits to applicants under which full opportunity is given for determining whether or not a project is feasible, and whether it can be de veloped in a reasonable time, but it cannot allow sites to be held indefi nitely without use. FROM MAPLE LANE Robert Ginther Writes on Twelve Years in the Oregon Senate Editor, Courier: It is one of the curious facts of history that false ideas of government die hard and lin ger on long after defeat as a constant menace to the steady progress of correct principles of popular govern ment. This is universally true. When man, in his struggle for im provement feels that he has Won a great step forward, and he pauses to take a rest, suddenly, and surrep- Our New Spring Stocks have just arrived and have been placed in stock. We are pleased to say that our new Spring Styles are right up to the minute and will please you AN ARRAY OF BEAUTY NEW SUITS for Ladies and Misses NEW SUITS for Men and Boys We invite your inspection of our New Suits The Most Complete Display of GENERAL MERCHANDISE Ever Shown by any Department Store Send Us Your Mail Orders Telephone or better still Visit Our Store-Sse Your Store Adams Dept. Store OREGON CITY'S BUSY STORE Buy It in Oregon City Always titiously, often in the .disguise of a "convert," the old enemies of pro gress make efforts to "come back." George Washington, in his immor tal statement: "Eternal Vigilance is the price of of liberty," was right. When he said this, it was no doubt his greatest hope that the future citizens of this republic would remem ber his words. But unfortunately this advice has been almost forgotten, un til too much of liberty has been lost. Oregon stands at the head of the awakening states of the Republic. We took the lead in breaking up the gangs" that for years checked the growth of better government. Other states have slowly followed in our footsteps, and others are coming. Let us hope that every state in this Union will soon have thrown off every ves tige of political ideas that have proven so disastrous to our people. Oregon, as well as other progress states, must be on the alert constantly for those "standpatters" and old political trick sters who ever are the enemies of progressive government. Every coun ty in the state must continually be on the watch for those old-timers. This brings me home to our own county, I notice that our own George C. now is going over this county in his old-time fashion of the past. Boast ing of the fact, I believe, that he spent twelve years in the Oregon Sen ate. It would show better taste if he said little or nothing about it, in my opinion. When ne tmnKs nacK to tnat time and remembers how he got there Senate from this county, have a dif- FOREST NEWS NOTES ferent record. From the viewpoint I of popular government they can point I what Uncle Sam is Getting Out of like honest men to their records. In my opinion it would be a backward step, and I say this with all the cour tesy your past record commands if the people of our county should per mit you to block legislation again that they want. Better it will be for us if we send men who have kept abreast of the times, and whose only ambition is the general welfare of all our people in every walk of life. ROBERT GINTHER. WILHOIT HOTEL BURNS Resort Known for Half a Century Goes Up in Smoke; No Insurance Early this week the Wilhoit Springs hotel, construction of which was start ed 60 years ago by John Wilhoit, was burned to the ground, and with it went two cottages at the well known Clack amas county resort. The hotel and cottages were the property of the Wilhoit Springs Mineral Water com pany, and the loss is estimated at be tween eight and ten thousand dollars. No insurance was carried. The hotel, a 40-room structure of rustic build, was closed at the time, but one visitor was occupying quarters in the building. It is believed the fire started from a defective flue. Nobody injured in the blaze, such em ployees as were in the place getting out safely, and fighting the fire with for that was before Prohibition and a bucket brigade. From the hotel the Corrupt Practice Act became a part of the Oregon constitution if his conscience has become awakened in his declining years, he should refer to it in a rather bashful sort of way. Twelve years in the Oregon Senate! The scar is there yet, George. And now you have the nerve to ask us to send you to the House of Representa tives, just to please you, it would be a useless burden there, for you must remember that your type and class have nearly disappeared. You would be lonesome up there. A new generation of well-meaning men have come upon the scene, gen erally. Your confidential manner, such as whispering in the ear, patting on the back and Bhaking hands, etc., is no longer effective. You would be a lonely wanderer in our legislative halls. We would be throwing away three dollars a day, George, for forty days. You are using the same "gags" you used twenty years ago, I notice. The Road Supervisor Law, for in stance. Your record in the Senate for twelve long, weary years, if we had access to its records handily and knew the secret manipulations you engineered, would reveal a record of broken promises, and if promises were kept, it is my opinion and was the opinion when you failed of re-election, that you were sure first that you se cured enough others to defeat the measure yoi; were pretending to work for. In other words, the voters of Clackamas County thought they "saw" at last. And they discovered you seemingly correct. Your successors in the Oregon the flames spread to two neighboring cottages. The hotel and the cottages sur rounding it have annually been the mecca for thousands of people seek ing health and a vacation in the Ore gon woods. While many of the cot tages stilt remain, the resort will not be opened to visitors at the usual time this year; but will open somewhat later when the hotel has been rebuilt. Plans for reconstruction are already underway, and the new hotel will be larger and modern in every respect. With the extension of better roads to Wilhoit it is felt that the resort will become even more popular, and in re building accommodations will be pro vided for a big rush of tourists this year. Public Domain Briefly Told Reports on wood-using Industries have now been issued by thirty-three states. The data embodied in these reports were obtained in co-operation with the Forest Service, states. In the eleven western states included within the Pacific and Mountain groups, primary power in stallation from all sources and for all uses has increased 240 per cent from 1902 to 1912, or more than two and a half times as rapidly as in the re mainder of the United States. ' Primary power installation in the electrical industry in the western states has increased nearly forty seven per cent in the three years since 1912. According to the latest report of the Secretary of Agriculture, 120 public service corporations, out of a total of 1500, claim to own or control a total of 3,083,000 undeveloped water horse power, or 80 per cent of the total water power at present developed and used in public service operations. A study of mistletoe on the Whit man National Forest in eastern Ore gon shows that the deterioration of western larch in the more open and exposed stands, is due to the mistle toe parasite. German Coffee Cake Made Without Yeatt By Mr. Janet McKenzie Hill, Editor of the Boston Cooking School Magazine. There is no warm bread quite as appro priate for Sunday morning breakfast as German Coffee Cake, yet it Is seldom made by housewives who do not bake their own bread. 1 K C double raise Baking Powder Is used It will be Just as good as if raised with yeast and it will have the further ad vantage of being fresh and warm. Save this recipe and try it next Sunday. K C German Coffee Cake Two and one-fourth cup sifted flour; S level teaspoonfuls K C llakinq Powder; I level tcaspoonmi saa; z tablespoonfuU melted but ter; i tableaponfula sugar; 1 igg; milk. DAVIES WAS THOUGHTFUL Man Didn't Like to be Constantly Forced to Seek New Servants Declaring that his wife was so rude to their household servants that he had to be constantly seeking new cooks, chambermaids and other assist ants, C. L. Davies has filed suit for divorce in the circuit court from Essie E. Davies, whom he married in Spo kane in 1907. Davies also asks the custody of their minor children. It appears that Mr. Davies was a thoughtful, kind-hearted man, and he hated to see discord in his household. But he says that his wife was so very, very rude to the servants that they wouldn't stay; and so he had to make regular journeys to the employment bureaus. Sift dry ingredients together, beat the egg, add milk and butter to the egg to make one and one-quarter cupsi itir all together with inverted spoon to ititf batter, Turn into biscuit pan and spread even. Brush top lightly with melted butter. Sprinkle sugar and ground cinnamon over the top. Kike in moderate oven. Dutch Apple Cake or Prune Kuchen ran I be made with this same batter by covering the top with pared and sliced apples, or cooked piunes with the pits removed.skin sides down. Dredge with sugar and cinna mon the tame as for Coffee Cake. "The Cook's Book" contains 90 Just such delicious recipes. You can secure a copy fret by sending the colored certificate packed in 25-cent cans of K C Baking Powder to the JaquesMfg. Co., Chicago, being sure to write your name ana address plainly.