8 OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1916. REFUNDING BONDS RISE IN COUNCIL (Continued from Page 1) or shall be hereafter laid out, until the plat thereof has been duly ack nowledged and recorded in the re corder's office in the county of which the same is situated, shall forfeit and pay $G0 for each and every lot or part of lot so sold or disposed of, or leased or offered for sale, to be collected before any court having com petent jurisdiction, in the name of thb county, for the use of the common school fund where the town is not incorporated, and in the name of the common council where the town is incorporated, for the use and benefit of said town." City Engineer Miller informed the council that the plat now on file in the recorder's office, and for which the city paid a fancy price, was "really a sketch showing what could be done." He enumerated the tech nical things that were the matter with that plat, and also the legal things that were wrong with it, and said that to make a proper plat would : require the services of three men some 15 days, at an estimated cost of be tween $350 and $500. Councilman Templeton thought it would be a good thing to have a legal plat made. Recorder Loder said that all sales of graves in the new ceme tery had been held up because of the lack of a proper plat properly re corded. Councilman Roake recalled the fact that the plat now on file had been made by a Portland man, and said: "It seems that every time Oregon City sends to Portand to get a man to do something we get buncoed." Mr. Roake also opined that while !hTe was nothing in the budget to cover the expenses of a new plat, the matter ought to be attended to. Pay- ment for the work would come out of the cemetery fund, anyway. Mr. Latourette reminded the council that some cemetery warrants were now nine years overdue; but Mr. Temple ton moved that the city engineer get busy on the new plat, and his mo tion carried. Half of the city taxes of $166.46 were ordered paid. The ordinance appropriating $500 for the purchase of fire hose was passed. An ordi nance appropriating $350 for repairs and extensions to the cemetery drives was started on its way and Will come up for final passage April 5. . Like wise an ordinance approving the as sessments for the improvement of Division street had the same luck. The assessment rolls of Sewer Dis trict No. 10 were approved, and re monstrances thereon will be heard at the April 5 meeting. Mayor Hackett then heaved a neat . ly barbed harpoon into Councilman Templeton, without meaning to. Wed nesday night's meeting was the time set for action on the revived jitney ordinance, and all evening Mr. Templeton had been smilingly regard ing a "resolution" dealing, with jit neys, taxicaba and other similarly troublesome things. Mr. Templeton was going to introduce this resolu tion when the time came, and make a nice little speech about it. He had with him also a copious clipping from the Oregonian about a similar law in Portland. Mr. Hackett didn't know this. "I have here," said the mayor, fin gering two pieces of paper, "copies of a resolution that Charlie Latourette gave me, and I will pass them to the council. I am sorry I have not more copies." And he tossed to Councilman Cox carbon copies of the nice little reso lution Councilman Templeton had been admiring all evening. Mr. Templeton gave a gasp, glar ed at the mayor, and then silently folded his resolution up, with his Ore gonian clipping inside, and assumed a dejected and preoccupied air. There was a deep, gloomy hiatus in the councilmanic proceedings, and then Councilman Roake came to the res cue. "I move you that this jitney mat Was HENRY LANE WILSON Concerned in the plot to ASSASSINATE MADERO? EVER since President Wilson took office, and before, hundreds of thousands of people in the United States have wished they might get more real inside facts about the Mexican situation. Why was President Wilson so' intense in his feelings about Huerta? Was our own ambassador, Henry Lane Wilson, concerned in the plot to assassinate Madero ? The. time seems to have come to tell this story. It begins in HARPER'S WEEKLY for March 25th This story is as exciting as a novel. It consists of documents and personal experiences. A long time has passed since an equally important contribution to inside dramatic current his tory has been made by any periodical. You can hardlv afford to miss it. Our Special Trial Offer And you can avoid missing a single instalment of this thrilling story by taking advantage of our special offer of Harper's Weekly for three months at $1. This coupon will help you. Use it today. Send No Money Now You need not send any money now. Simply fill in, tear off and mail us the coupon. Pay $1 when we send you a bill later for that amount' ' riMfiiM iiiiiiinim HARPER'S WEEKLY 251 Fourth Avenue, New York City Please send me Harper's Weekly for three months at the special rate of $1. I agree to pay on receipt of your bill. ' Name . Street ......... City ..I...;.:,..: State ter be postponed until the meeting of April 5," he said, "and that all jit ney permits now in force be continu ed till that date." The motion carried nobody want ed to fight. And there are two Ore gon City jits and three Portland jits that have permits to run until that date when they vifl be 'asked to apply for franchises. Councilman VanAuken said people on the hill were complaining that they had no fire protection; that there wasn't 20 pounds pressure in the fire hydrants. Mr. Latourette, of the board of water commissioners, said there wasn't any more pressure to be had. Mr. VanAuken wanted a stand pipe built. Mr. Latourette said he'd like to show the .council the situa tion at some convenient date. "If you haven't any water ft the hill, this would be a good time to burn the Holy Rollers out," said Mr. Templeton, looking at Mr. VanAuken. "Oh, we're used to them now, and we like them," rejoined Mr. Van Auken. Council adjourned without hearing any report from the street committes to whom the matter was referred in regard to the mysterious ordinance fixing the grade of Water street in the middle of the river, and also fix ing the grade of the west end of Twelfth street. Nor did Mr. Moore who had sought such a report three weeks ago, ask for it. The Courier $1.00 per year. CHARITY DRAINS FUNDS COUNTY'S (Continued from Page 1) The county clerk's office took in, in fees during 1915, $8,517.96. The expense of this office shows up as $4,704.41. Commenting on the work of the clerk's office, Mr. Staats says, in part: "A number of errors in the dis tribution of funds were found, amounts belonging to one school or road district being placed in another. These were clerical errors that did not effect the sum total turned over to the treasurer." Mr. Stats made out a list of these errors, and gave them to the treasur er's office, so that corrections in the distribution of tax moneys could be made. These discrepancies ranged from $1.05 up to $10 in most cases, though the city of Oswego was cut out of $21.05, and the general road fund was "shortchanged" to the ex tent of $38.11. Owing- .to incorrect entering of interest-bearing and non-interest-bearing warrants on the same page and the indiscriminate dis tribution of interest, errors amount ing to $164.40 were found in the ac counts of school and road funds. During the year the county treas urer received $823,632.65, and paid out $787,921.76. Aside from the bal ance of $35,711.87 on hand in the treasury at the first of the year, there was also found 98 cents too much. Expenses of the county offices for 1915 footed up a grand total of $89,819.92. The different sums which made this total are as follows; Sheriff's office, exclusive of tax collecting, $4219.48; tax collector, $3230.89; county clerk, $4704.41; re corder, $3965.60; treasurer, $2642.10; assessor, $5324.92; school superintend ent, $4735.93; court house, $4007.98; circuit court, $10,214.37; justice courts, $2147.90; coroner, $1431.25; surveyor, $2960.98; county court, $2372.13; insane, $112.99; health of ficer and county physician, $1797.75; fruit inspector, $418.18; stock in spector, $1312.50; indigent soldiers, $435.00; widows' pensions, $9673.63; county poor, $11,524.66; jail, $852.10; juvenile court, $519.11; scalp bounty, ?402.00; printing and advertising, $5863.34; state and county fairs, $1114.05; sealer of weights and meas ures, $294.47; armory rent, $300.00; ixperting books, $682.60; forest fires, $205.35, and damages, $2354.25. Did you know that the Courier is $1.00 per year if paid in advance? FUNWY MONEY IN CHINA. Getting or Making Change It a 8or Trial to a Foreigner. A dollar of our money In Chinese eash weighs eighteen pounds. In Cbentefu, which is a small villag where white people seldom go, I was going along with my guide when I saw a small peddler beside the street with some fine Peking pears. I bought six of tliein for 2 cents and In payment gave the street peddler a twenty cent piece. He turned It over and over and tested It with his thumb unll, which was surely made for the purpose. The peddler gave buck the coin and said that he would not take It. The guide asked him why, and lie explained thnt he had never seen any such money and thnt it might be bad. So I had to dig up some coppers. In all his life the peddler hud never seen n piece of silver money. There are thousands and thousands of people in China whose financial dealings nev er amount tO( enough to have It put into silver, who are horn, grow old and puss to their reward without ever ha v. lug seen a piece of silver. All China is suspicious uhotit money Every time you put clown a dime or a piece of silver the other person tests it before he will take It. ringing it on the counter or on the pavement. You cou't give a merchant the right amount of change and walk off. He won't let you leave until he has tested every piece, and he always gives back one or two pieces. He wouldn't think very much of himself us a merchunt If he didn't refuse some of your money. If you buy something lu one part of a store, get your change and walk to another counter and buy something else and give the change that has Just beeu given you the second clerk on general principles will refuse part of it ; Before you buy anything your money has to have the once over. Sometimes It Is maddening to have to wait while your money Is tested. One day I rush ed up to catch a train with just a ruin ute to spare. One of my dollars was bad, and before change could be made tue train had rumbled off into the si lent night without me. But in a few minutes the silence was broken bro ken beyond repair by an Impulsive young man 0,000 miles from home who put his whole soul into one mighty Missouri effort. Homer Croy In Les lie's. LIFE OF A PEARL. A Good Jewel Never Gets Sick Nor Dull, Says an Export. In his book, "The Magic of Jewels und Charms," George I'Y Kunz, the Jewel expert, explodes the sick pearl fullucy. He says: "For years a statement "bus been go ing through the press that pearls are liable to become diseased nnd die and that the famous necklace of pearls pre Beuted by President Thiers of France to his wife und bequeathed by Mme. Thiers to the French government had lost their luster and died, perhaps ow ing to the death of the owner. For there Is an old belief that pearls, us well as opals and turquoises, lose some of their luster when the owner or wearer becomes ill and change to a dull and lifeless hue when the owner dies. "An examination of the necklace by the writer showed that the pearls were In good condition, and to confirm his statement to this effect he had the di rector of the Louvre museum write him a letter. In this official communi cation the director not only states that the pearls had not sickened and died, but that they were In us 'healthy' a condition as they hud ever beeu. "The Invariable experience of the writer has been thnt whenever pearls have been said to have suffered In this way the true explanation has been that they were old nnd poor at the time of their purchase und that this romance was stnrtcd on its travels as an excuse to cover up the defect of such pearls and to arouse the belief that they had been remarkably beautiful and valu able when they were originally ac quired." The Cart Before the Horse. Mr. Ilnrbord hud n jewel of a serv ant called Johanna. One day he found his bedroom a. foot deep in old and muddy tea leaves. John una explained, "The missus said I made such a dust when I swept the floor and that I must put tea loaves all over the carpet, so 1 emptied the old barrel standing by the kitchen door, and I put them on the floor like missus said, master, after 1 had swept the carpet." London Tele graph. Buried Alive. In the early history of Jupnu It was decidedly n dubious honor to be closely related to any person of note, for one of the laws nt that time decreed thnt when a person of rhnk or Importance died ull Immediate relatives must be burled alive In a perpendicular posi tion around the personage's grave. Their heads were left above the earth, and thus they remained until welcome death came to free them. Quick Lunch episode. "You tip the waiter, and I don't" "Well?" "Yet he gave us both the same amount of clam chowder." , "You nrp unobservant, my friend. Ho dipped yours from the top nnd mine from the bottom, where the ingredients are." Louisville Omrlcr-.Iournnl. Honoy. noney has been known from the ear-lie-it times. The Scriptures make men tion of It. nnd pagan writers celebrated Its virtues. It wns called "the milk of the aged" nnd wns thought to prolong life. Honey wns also used In the em balming of the body after death. As to Hawley's Wit Representative Huwley's Oregon & California land grant bill, providing for an order to the railroad company to sell at $2.50 an acre and giving nothing to either State or counties, wns too silly to find support. It was i a brilliant corporation thought for such a man, who simply generated an j idea that sizzled out. Probably he nad sense enough to expect this. (Woodburn Independent.) The Courier $1.00 per year. . SPECIALISTS IN CHINA. They Know to a Nicety Just Where Their Work Begins and Ends. -- The Englishman knows how to serve, and he knows how to be served, says Uaae Taylor Headland In "Home Life In China," but lu the matter of service and serving even the Englishman must take a second place, for thtChlnaman has specialized service such as has never been done In Great Britain. We sometimes think we are special ists In the west. We have our eye specialists, a kind of servant, of course, although I simply use them to Illus trate whnt I wish to say here, but they often combine with the treatment of the eye that of the eur, the nose and the throat. They have not got down to a last analysis of specializing as the Chinese doctor has. A man hud been shot with uu arrow, the head of which was burial lu the flesh. He tried to pull it out, but the skin had closed over the head, und he wns not able to do so. He went to a physician, to get him to remove it. The doctor promptly sawed the phaft off close to the Nkiu und then demanded his fee. "But," snld the sufferer, "the head of the arrow is still Inside." "Quite right." suid the doctor. "1 am a specialist. 1 deal only with out side diseases. If you want the head taken out you will have to go to an other specialist who cares for In3lde ailments." WON BY DARING WIT. Story of Czar Paul, His Sacred Snuff -s box and a Wager. Czar Paul's snuffbox was as sacred as the Imperial crown itself. No one was allowed to touch it. Kaploff wa gered that be would take a pinch out of It One morning he walked up to the ta ble which stood near the bed on which the czar still 'reclined and boldly took from It the majestic snuffbox. Open ing It noisily, tie Inserted his fingers, and, while Paul I. was watching him, In stupefaction at such audacity, be sniffed up the fragrant powder with evident satlsfuetlou. "What are you doing there, you rogue?" exclaimed the eznr excitedly. "Having a pinch of snuff, sire. I have now been on duty for eight hours, and. feeling drowsy, I thought It would keep me awake, for I would rather break the rules of etiquette than neglect my duty." Paul burst out laughing aud merely replied : "That's right enough, my lad, but as the snuffbox Is not large enough for both of us you can keep it for your self." Reptiles Are Shortsighted. According to a naturalist, serpents, In spite of their reputation for alertness, are very shortsighted. Some of them cannot see more than'a yard or two In front of them. Other reptiles are simi larly deficient in sense of vision, and the authority asserts that n crocodile cannot see a man nt a greater distance than six times its own length. In re spect of hearing, many t reptiles are even more deficient than In sight. Some serpents are denf, the boa. it is said, being unable to hear any sound. The term "denf adder" consequently expresses a fact. In one respect some reptiles show singular acutenoss. They have an unerring Instinct for water and In dry weather will travel straight to It, even when they are at such long distances that the mystery is how they could possibly become aware of Us locality. The Seal's Sense of Smell. The sense of smell possessed by the seals Is very strong und will Invariably wake them out of a sound sleep even if you come upou them ever so quietly to the windward, and you will alarm them In this way much more thorough ly, though you be a half mile distant, than if you came up carelessly from the leeward aud even walked in among them, they seeming to feel that you are not different from one of their own species until they smell you. The chief attraction lu these unlmuls Is their largo, handsome eyes, which indicate great Intelligence. They are a deep bluish black, with a soft, glistening appearance, and the pupil,, like the cat's, Is capable of great dilation and contraction. Wheat and Flour. It takes about four and a half bush els of wheat to make a barrel of Hour, but different wheats vary from this es timate. A hard wheat produces more flour to the bushel than a soft wheat Generally speaking, n bushel of wheut will yield from 70 to 75 per cent of flour of different grades, distributed about as follows: Patent flour, 55 to 00 per cent; bukers' flour, 8 to 10 per cent: red dog, 5 per cent, making approxi mately 70 to 75 per cent of flour and leaving 25 to 30 per cent of feedstuff that Is bran, shorts etc. Philadelphia Press. Freeman the Historian. It was an English bishop who. when (he historian I'Yeeiuan had worn out Ills pntience with ls rudeness, Intro duced him to n waiting audience as "the distinguished scholar that so ad mirably describes nnd Illustrates the savagery of our ancestors." Tho Result. "Dear me. girls! What on earth Is that peculiar sweetish smell In the air all over the house?" "Why, Oeralillne Is burning tier old love letters in the furnace" -Baltimore America n There Must Have Bean Souvenirs. "Was your banquet a success?" "Great! We cou!du't have lind n big ger crowd If It hud been a free feed." -Detroit Free I'iyss. Names is Names Thu A nfi-Sul.n to.in-,, n.wrUf in employ somebody to edit the names of its members. For instance, Will ing Bierlapper is one of the Prohi bition leaders in Illinois, and his name doesn't sound well for the cause. (New Orleans State.) FOR SALE I want to sell off my surplus stock horses and rigs j goou Duy lor some party. All are " good as new and horses in fine condition. Fashion Livery Stables, G. A. Bergren, Prop. A Few Weekly SPECIALS of Busch's Good Furniture This GENUINE SIMMONS STEEL BED, This Week Only This is the Nationally Advertised Simmons Light weight Tempered Steel Bed see it; now displayed on our floor i!liVI!ll!ll!lllllllIlllllllll!!I!I!ll!ll IWIIDII! !iM!iEmiT:iJMiini!4;!iiiii:inr:HiiEiMmiii!tiii!iinniiiit;ii;!i!iiiiuiii!i!ii!!ii!i!iii!iii!iii;t!i:9mitii!i ,, We are agents for Keen K utter Tools, Hardie Spray Pumps, Busch's Paint and Var nish, Black Cat Wall Papers. a-j-,.: Deepening the Farm Fcr Bigger Crops The Third Dimension of the Farm an Important Factor to Greater Crops, and Bigger Dividends. WISE farmers are beginning to realize that a farm goes farther than length and breadth. Depth Is a vital factor, and Incidentally this third di mension has a clearly Identified influ ence upon the producing value of the earth's surface. Thus "vertical farming," a uewer method of agriculture, is rapidly de veloping. Merely to scrape the bris tles from a hog's hide Is not enough. Deeper cutting is essential In order to reach the bacon. Aud experience has shown that to simply plow or turn the top soil Is very ofteu only the scratch ing of the surface when It comes to bumper crops. Often the productivity of a farm is limited by the tight clay or hard pan underlying the top soil. Costly imple ments for tilllug this upper soil and BurrowersBeware! Gophers aud prairie dogs are the bane of western farmers, while in the east woodchucks are the type of bur rowing animals that cause tho tillers of the soil to forget some of the things the dominie tells them on Sundays. Don Leonardo Ruiz, a California rancher, says "dynamite Is the proper medicine to give ground squirrels, go phers, prairie dogs, etc." Take an inch and n half or two inches of dynamite. Put It in a bit of cloth or several thicknesses of v paper to form a small round cartridge. Tie the cloth or paper firmly about one end of a piece of fuse twelve or four teen Inches long, but do not use a cap. Insert one of these charges well into the mouth of every hole aud pack loose dirt around the fuse, leaving enough of the end outside to light eas ily. Light the fuse and go on to the next hole. There will be no explosion There being no cap or other deto nator, the dyuamite will simply burn, filling the bole with dense, poisonous fumes that will almost Instantly stifle and then kill every living thing Inslda New Malaria Peril Who would have thought that the tin can is a menace to the public health? The expert malaria inves tigators of the U. S. Public Health Sen-ice have found however that dis-, carded tin cans containing rain water irilUllllllllllillllllillillllllllll'lliilllNlilillllllKIIIUIIIlllllllil. A Sanitary and Lasting FLOOR COVERING we are offering this week only, a few patterns low WE SELL CONGOLEUM RUGS Frank Busch Busch Block Oregon City taking care of Increased horizontal or surface acreage are all right in their way, but to go deeper Into the farm, to increase Its fertility and productive ness by Increasing its depth, Is a mat ter that the practice of vertical farm ing accomplishes quickly and. econom ically, and very often a single car tridge of explosive will convert several yards of otherwise useless subsoil into half nu acre of new root feeding sur face. , Thus, instead of spreading out aud embracing' more territory, vertical fu ruling enables the farmer to really concentrate iTlid by Intensive methods conserves In both labor and expense. At the same time the resulting In crease In crops emphasizes the profit able features of the process. And there is a practical reason for this. By breaking up the subsoil oxy gen is admitted into the ground, aud the pent up natural fertilizing elements are breeding places for the mosquito which is the sole agent in spreading malaria. A hole in the bottom of the empty can might have resulted in the saving of a human life. Certainly it would have assisted in preventing a debilitating illness. Empty tin cans have no business about the premises anyway, but if we must so de6orate our back yards, let's see to it that the can has a hole in the bottom. MILLER HOME BURNED Summer Cottage near Aurora is Com pletcly Ruined by Flames The summer home of Joseph Miller, of Portland, situated near Hubbard, was burned to the ground Monday night, and made one of the most spectacular fires that the county has seen for some time. The Miller home was unoccupied when the fire broke out, and it is believed that possibly tramps had been seeking shelter therein and had inadvertently start ed the fire. Citizens of Aurora went to the fire and formed a bucket brigade in an effort to save the house, but were un able to stop the progress of the flames. The house cost- $3,000 and the interior decorations and furnish ings added about $2,000 to its value. The loss is partly covered by insur NKVMUWI'I-'1"0" '''-'I' 1 .'. PPM y ifnri''iti"'i iMn nnrriiffl-1''" 13 m $.95' In buying this mat tress this week you get a 40 pound cotton mat tress, covered with art tick ing, good qual- (T Cf ity, made with P ,rj Imperial roll edge size 4x6x6, for This Week Only! We are agents for Du plex Alacazar Ranges, Free Sewing Machines, Scaly Mattresses, Stur gis Go Carts, Simmons Bcdu. of the lower soils are released and utilized. A reservoir for the storage of water Is created, and n good home for the roots is produced. Good roots are essential to good plants: Men who look below the surface realize these facts. They know also that a plant produces only In proportion to the extent of air, water and nourish ment given Its roots. Thus is the new er method of vertical farming both logical and profitable. This method of fanning vertically Is in Itself easy, simple and labor saving. A half cartridge charge of farm pow der placed well down into the tight subsoil at intervals of about a rod, tamped properly ind fired carefully will do the work quickly and econom ically. Subsoil blasting, however, can be done successfully only when the subsoil Is dry. Few tools are required for the work. House In Japan, Children have a good time In Japan. Thoy are blessed by inheritance with I a cheerful nature; they are dressed loosely, yet warmly; they are out of I iluov as much as possible, and inside j their homes there la bo little furniture they never stumble oyer It and art' never warned against crawling up on) she sntiu brocaded chairs or handling' the bric-a-brac. The houses are al , nvH open to sun and air, even In cold weather. They are bnilt dovetailed together, no nails being used, and are mounted on wooden pillars, so that when nn earthquake occurs they will not tumble down, but merely shake and settle down again. Reward is Suggested The Portland Chamber of Com merce, through a representative of the great prohibition state of Oregon, Senator Chamberlain, has requested the Navy Department to use Logan berry juice hereafter in christening warships. This is for advertising purposes strictly, not that any com mercial gain was looked for in christening on account of the scarcity of the number of warships. For his noble work in this respect Chamber lain should be presented with a case of Oregon Loganberry juice. (Wood burn Independent.) The Courier $1.00 per year. $6 35c V-