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OREGON 'CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1916
Number 36
LIVE WIRES WILL
m
PLANS FOR SEASON OF WORK
ARE MADE AT MEETING.
ATTENDANCE IS RECORD
POSTOFFICE BUILD'G ASSURED
Dimick Praises Tax Limitation Law,
Legislative Advisory Com
mittee Appointed
'J A discussion of the failure of the
Oregon institutions of higher learn
ing, the shortcomings of the gradu
' ates turned out each year and the
wastefulness of the managerial sys
tem was-Mndulged in at the weekly
Live Wire meeting in the Commer
cial club rooms on Tuesday, when one
' of the largest assemlies in . the his
tory of the organization gathered to
give the new year's work a fresh and
auspisiousl start.
Before the large audience of mem
bers, C. Schuebel, new main trunk of
the Live Wires, outlined the plan of
action of the club for the coming year.
Legislative matters should receive
much attention from the Wires, Mr.
Schuebel said, and to the end that the
representation of this county in the
state legislature might be advised of
the needs of the county a committee
was appointed, including 0. D. Eby,
C. H. Dye, John N. Sievers, A. C.
Rowland and R. L. Shepherd.
The matter of the probable con
struction of a new federal building
for Oregon City was brought up by
Postmaster J. J. . Cooker who asked
that the club increase the committee
which has been working on the post
6ffice building problem and of which
B. T. McBain is chairman. ' Livy
Stipp, lawyer, brought the partisan
ship that made the recent republican
campaign notorious into the proceed
ings of the Live Wires in a discus
sion of the federal building question.
He reported that a general buildings
bill, the first in six years, "would be
put before congress at the coming
session and that if no action was tak
en such a bill would probably not ap
pear again in six years. The demo
cratic pork barrel tenders in the low
er house at Washington, which is
closely divided this year, would be
thwarted in their fiendish attempts to
scatter postoffices over the nation,
by an ever faithful and protective re
publican group, according to Mr.
Stipp's inference.
It is understood by some of those
who spoke in this connection at the
meeting Tuesday that Oregon City
is practically assured a new building
if the bill to be presented gets by the
watchful republicans in the lower
house. 0. D. Eby spoke favorably oi
the work of the Live Wire postoffice
committee and its chairman, B. T. Mc
Bain. He suggested that the com
mittee be increased in size and aid
Mr. McBain in his work.
In connection with his general out
line of the work that could be done
by the Live Wires, Main Trunk
Schuebel touched upon the tax limita
tion bill and its discussion was taken
up by Grant B. Dimick. Mr. Dimick
pointed out its benefits as a safeguard
for the public money of the various
units of government and hoped that
it would prove a set-back to the state
institutions which are on a millage
tax basis. The millage tax, Mr. Dim
ick said, will not prove sufficient to
satisfy the demands of some of the
schools and they will be log rolling
at the legislature for additional ap
propriations. Then as lawyer, rail
way president and farmer, he scored
the state schools, especially the agri
cultural college, for the failure of its
human product, who, in spite of the
millions of dollars that have been
spent here and elsewhere in scientific
research work to establish practical
theories, are advocating the wrong
- principles for farmers and others.
A committee to arrange programs
for the meetings of the Wires, which
will also seek subject matter of lo
cal interest for discussion before the
" club,- was appointed by Main Trunk
Schuebel. This committee comprises
Dr. L. A. Morris, chairman; Livy
Stipp, Dr. Roy A. Prudden, C. W.
Robey, E. E. Brodie and John F. Ris-
ley.
At the next meeting of the Wires
the initiative measures which are to
be voted upon in the city election of
December 4, will be studied and dis
cussed.
Divorce Suit Filed
Charging that her husband forced
her to earn her own living and that
he failed to support her, Freda Olson
Saturday filed suit for divorce from
August Olson, to whom she was mar
ried at Portland on December 23
1911. .
Judge J. U. Campbell on Saturday
granted a divorce decree by default
to John H. Darnall in his suit against
Elsie Darnall.
Sheriff Wilson was busy today,
as well as last night, loading incom
ine members of the I. W. W. on out
going freight trains. The men have
not attempted lawbreakmg.
BOY THIEVES LEAVE
AND FROST WORRIES
STAR FAMILY GOJNE WJIEN OF
FICER WOULD BRING THEM
TO COURT
In a legal sense, Jack Frost, juve
nile officer, truant officer, constable,
deputy sheriff, etc., is having a most
difficult time in keeping his lights lit
The latest breeze over the calm do
main ruled in part by Mr. Frost af
fected the Stars and they have ceased
to shed their radiant light unon
Clackamas county. At least, Mr.
Frost points out, the Stars have dis
appeared and are entirely outside the
jurisdiction of that official's many of
flees.
It has only been a few weeks since
Mr. Frost crept quietly up to the
Lamp home, where lived two 'little
boys wanted by Judge H. S. Ander
son to answer to charges of stealing,
But Mr. Frost's caution was in vain,
for the Lamps had gone out, even as
did the Stars. The Lamp family left
the county and has not been heard
from. And what worries Mr. Frost
most is that the Star family did just
exactly the same thing as the Lamps.
For the simple reason that the en
tire Star family, bag, baggage and
children, had departed from our legal
midst, County Judge Anderson failed
to deal with the juvenile cases of Roy
and Ernest Kingsbrug, self-confessed
thieves, who charged their Btepfather,
John Star, with training them in
crime.
When Juvenile Officer Frost went
to the Star home to bring the boys
before the judge he found the home
deserted, and learned that the family
had left the county. He believes that
Star read the press reports of the" ar
rest of his stepchildren and returned
in time to get away from the courts..
Roy and Ernest Kingsburg are the
lads who have created a great deal
of interest here by their tale of a
modern Oliver Twist. Star, the step
father, had the role- of a Fagin in the
story, and according to the boys, he
started their criminal training when
Roy was only 5 years old, and care
fully guided the little fellows into
criminal paths, superintending their
thieving operations and taking the
spoils himself.
WEST LINN POLITICS
Six Aspire to Alder manic Chairs in
Town Across the River
The political ambitions of a num
ber of West Linn citizens have been
expresed as the town election ap
proaches and vacancies in six council
manic chairs, in addition to the re-
cordership, and the office of chief of
police, exist. Mayor J. B. Lewth-
waite s term does not expire for an
other year. L. L. Porter, present in
cumbent, and John F. Clark will con
test for 'the recorder's position and
Charles Chnstensen, policeman, will
likely be a candidate to succeed Chief
of Police Winkle, who will not seek
re-election.
M. E. Clancey, city treasurer since
the incorporation of West Linn, is
prevented from seeking re-election by
a time limit clause in the charter.
James Nichols and Frank Alldredge
may be candidates for the place. Al
though there are only six men after
the council vacancies, it is probable
that others will appear within a few
ra. Those announced at this time
are Charles Shields, Dr. L. L. Pickens,
Nick Humphrys, Frank Doty, Ernest
Leighton and Guy Cross.
MOLALLA INCREASES TAX
Final Improvements of Water System
Will Result From Levy Voted
An increase of 2.5 mills in the mu
nicipal tax levy of Molalla was voted
at a special election there Tuesday by
a large majority of the residents of
the town. Two measures covering
the increase were submitted on the
ballot, one to make the increase in
levy from 5 to 7.5 mills permanent,
and the other to make the increase
effective in 1917, and both were
adopted. The money derived from
this increase in levy will be UBed for
the improvement of the water system
of the town.
Molalla has been drinking well
water for years, but recently pur
chased a fine spring near the city and
piped the water into a reservoir.
The work of changing the system has
been practically completed and with
the money resulting from the in
creased taxation voted the last debts
may be cleared up and warrants re
tired. -
WIFE SAVES HIS LIFE
Sol Wheeler, Injured, is Caught in
Home WhiK Fire Rages -The
life of Sol Wheeler, an em
ploye of the county road department
who suffered a broken leg while en
gaged at road work recently, was
saved hf his wife late Friday when
she dragged the injured man from
their home near this city just before
the roof of the house fell in. Mr,
Wheeler was helpless because of his
injury, and, neighbors say, would
have perished but for the heroic effort
of his wife. The Wheeler home
burned to the ground, with practical
ly all its contents, although other
buildings on the farm were saved.
ILLEGAL ENTRIES
CHARGED IN SUIT
HYDE AND LUMBER COMPANY
IN COURT TO ANSWER AL
- LEGATIONS OF STATE
ATTORNEY GENERAL IS HERE
Arguments in Land Fraud Case Will
be in Today. Lumber Com
pany Claims Exemption
Similar to land fraud suits being
heard in other counties in this state
is that tried before Judge J. U.
Campbell this week in which F. A.
Hyde of San Francisco and the West
ern Lumber , company of Montana
are defendants, while the state of Or
egon, through Attorney General
Brown and his assistants, is the plain
tiff. The suit was brought by the
state to recover 3240 acres of state
school land in Clackamas county,
which, it is alleged, was secured by
Hyde through fraudulent entries.
Testimony in the case was sub
mitted yesterday and the arguments
of Hyde and the lumber company on
one side and the state of Oregon on
the other are expected to occupy
most of this week. Attorney Gen
eral Brown is chief counsel for the
state.
The state charges that in 1899
Hyde, who was also convicted of land
frauds in Washington some years
ago, sent J. L. Schneider to Clacka
mas county to secure school lands,
on sale at $1.25 an acre. Schneider
and other Hyde agents entered 146
applications, the state charges, and
used fictitious names. These entries,
when paid up by Hyde, were assigned
to him and his associates, in' some
cases bringing only $1 for an entry.
Later on the lands were transferred
to the federal government, which
paid for them in script, redeemable
in other government lands. This
script was sold to the Western Lum
ber company, which purchased timber
lands in Montana.
The company is a defendant with
Hyde because of this purchase, al-
though its attorneys claim that the
company took the script in good faith
and knew nothing of the frauds al
leged. The company maintains that
it should not be deprived of title
through the fraud of Hyde.
INN KEEPER KILLED
Mysterious Accident Takes Popular
Owner of ML Hood Resort
Emil Franzitti, proprietor of the
Rhododendron tavern near Mount
Hood for the past four years, died at
the St. Vincent's hospital Saturday as
the result of a fractured skull sus
tained when his automobile turned
turtle on the road from Rhododen
dron Friday. Mr. Franzitti was 35
years old.
How the accident occured will
probably never be known. A ranger,
passing aong the stretch of road be
tween Brightwod and Rhododendron,
saw an overturned car and Mr. Fran
zitti's feet projecting from under
neath. With assistance the man was
extricated in an unconscious condi
tion. He was taken to St. Vincent's
hospital. An investigation revealed
that the injured man was suffering
from a severe fracture of the skull
just back of the ear. He died Satur
day without having regained con
sciousness. As proprietor of the Rhododendron
tavern Mr. Franzitti was well known
to Clackamas county people, and he
had the reputation of being one of the
best chefs in the state. Previous to
taking charge of the Rhododendron
tavern he was in the restaurant busi
ness at Portland.
Mr. Franzitti was born in Lucano,
in the Italian Alps, Switzerland. He
was for a time connected with the
household of an Italian prince as chef.
He came to the United States about
10 years ago, and was employed for
a time in the Waldorf Astoria in New
York city. Later he went to Savan
nah, Ga., where he was connected for
a time with a large resort and hotel.
He came to Oregon about eight years
ago.
Besides his wife, Mr. Franzitti
leaves a brother, Joe Franzitti, who
recently arrived in Oregon from the
east, and his parents and brothers and
sisters in Switzerland.
Derthick Members Meet
The regular meeting of the Derth
ick club was held Friday afternoon
at the home of Mrs. L. L. Pickens at
West Linn. The afternoon was spent
in the study of the works of the two
noted American composers, Homer
Newton Bartlett and Mary Turner
Salter. Readings referring to the
works of these musicians were given
by Mrs. E. A. Chapman and a group
of vocal numbers from their composi
tions was rendered by Mrs. E. E. Bro
die.. Refreshments were served. The
next Derthick club meeting will Be
held at the home of Mrs. Charles
Caufield
The Courier and the Daily Jour
nal $4.75.
SILVER LAKE WATER
CLAIMS THREE LIVES
TRAGIC ACCIDENT TAKES ORE
GON CITY PEOPLE IN WASH
INGTON. FUNERAL HERE
Oregon City mourns the sad death
by drowning on Sunday of Mrs. B. A.
Helgerson, nee Bertha Cross, and her
little daughter. Mrs; Helgerson, to
gether with her baby and brother-in-
law, Riley Sharp, were thrown from
a launch into the waters of Silver
Lake, Wash., when the boat hit a
stump. When rescuers arrived they
found Mrs. Helgerson and the baby
floating on the water. An hour later
the body of Riley Helgerson was
found, entangled in the chains of the
capsized launch. Mrs. Helgerson
was the daughter of Mrs. Maggie
Cross of this city, and she was well
known in this county.
Mrs. Helgerson, her baby and her
brother-in-law had been on the oppo
site side of the lake from their home
east of Castle Rock. They had only
started back toward home when the
launch hit a stump and the occupants
of the little boat were thrown into
the water. Persons in another launch
at the dock heard their, calls,' hut
thought someone was joyous, rather
than in danger of their life.
The bodies of the drowned persons
were brought to Oregon City immed
iately after the accident. Funeral
services were held yesterday with, in
terment in Mountain View cflmetery,
the Rev. J. W. McCallum of the Con
gregational church officiating..
Mrs. Annie Helgerson, mother of
the young man drowned Sunday, was
in the boat when it overturned, but
she saved her life by clinging to the
ropes about the launch. Her son,
Riley, aged 21, formerly lived at Mo
lalla, and is well-known in this coun
ty. Mrs. B. A. Helgerson was born at
Gladstone, and spent most of her life
there and in Oregon City. She was
married to Bert Helgerson at Kalama,
Wash., on December 24, 1911, and for
a short time after that lived in this
city. The family had been at Silver
Lake for about two years. Mr. Hel- i
gerson acompanied his wife's remains
here.
PROCLAMATION FOR
THANKSGIVING DAY
PRESIDENT WILSON CALLS NA
TION TO GIVE THANKS
FOR PROSPERITY
In accordance with the annual cus-
tim, President Wilson last week is
sued the proclamation that sets aside
Thursday, November 30 as Thanks
giving day. The proclamation reads:
"By the President of the United
States of America: A Proclamation:
"It has long been the custom of
our people to turn in the fruitful
autumn of the year in praise and
thanksgiving to Almighty God for his
many blessings and mercies to us as
a nation. The year that has elapsed
since we last observed our day of
thanksgiving has been rich in bless
ings to us as a people, but the whole
face of the world has been darkened
by war. In the midst of our peace
and happiness, our thoughts dwell
with painful disquiet upon the strug
gles and sufferings of the nations at
war and the peoples upon whom the
war has brought disaster without
choice or possibility of escape on
their part. We cannot think of our
own happiness without thinking also
of their pitiful distress.
"Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wir-
son, president of the United States of
America, do appoint Thursday, the
thirtieth of November, as a day of
national thanksgiving and prayer,
and urge and advise the people to re
sort to their several places of worship
on that day to render thanks to Al
mighty God for the blessings of peace
ajid unbroken prosperity which he has
bestowed upon our beloved country in
such unstinted measure. And I also
urge and suggest our duty in this,
our day of peace and abundance, to
think in deep sympathy of the strick
en people of the world upon whom the
curse and terror of war has so piti
lessly fallen, and to contribute out of
our abundant means to the relief of
their sufferings. Our people could in
no better way Bhow their real atti
tude toward the present struggle than
by contributing out of their abund
ance to the relief of suffering which
war has brought in its train.
"In witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand and caused the seal
of the United States to be affixed.
"Done at the city of Washington
this seventeenth dav of November, in
the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and sixteen, and of the
independence of the United States
the one hundred and forty-first.
WOODROW WILSON,
By the President, ROBERT LAN
SING, Secretary of State."
Carriers' Examinations
An examination for the selection
of rural mail carriers to work out of
the Oregon City postoffice will be
held on Saturday morning at nine
o'clock at the Barclay school build
mg, 12th and Madison.
BUDGET AXED TO PROVIDE
FUNDS TO CARRY ON CITY'S
BUSINESS FOR 1917
WILL NOT BUY A FIRE TRUCK
County Court Action in Tax Matter
is Handicap to City Council
in Making Budget
The adoption of a new plan for
city street improvement and the post
ponement of the purchase of a motor
fire truck were the features of the
annual taxpayers budget meeting
with the city council on Monday eve
ning.
The street department s program
was entirely changed at the meeting
with the result that $4000 has been
taken from other street department
funds and set aside for the construe
of hard surface streets. This means,
briefly, that there is to be no street
repair done in the city this year,
since all available funds have been
combined to insure a start toward
the much discussed plan of creating
permanent roadways in the city.
City Attorney C. Schuebel is chief
ly responsible for the change, as he
argued that other expenditures
should be neglected in order to insure
a start upon a permanent street pro
gram. Councilman Templeton en
tered the only objection to the plan
of eliminating a $2500 appropriation
for crushed rock,. reducing the labor
appropriation from $5000 to $4346.69
and cutting $1000 off a $2600 approp
riation for lumber, bridges, supplies
and incidentals. It is- planned ' to
start the hard surfacing early in the
spring and in the meantime the city
will probably build its own paving
plant. .
To prune the budget expenditures
down to conform with the new bill of
receipts, since the county court re
duced its general road levy, the coun
cil eliminated altogether the item of
the purchase of a. motor fire truck.
This purchase will go over until an
other year. The idea of buying a fire
truck through popular subscription
received little support at the meeting.
petition urging the purchase was
read by Councilman Cox. Other
minor changes were made in the
budget before it was officially adopted
by the council.
Bills for two ordinances were of
fered by City Attorney Schuebel.
One of these provides a penalty for
corporations or others who dig up
city streets without proper author
ity, and the other, sets the city tax
levy for the year.
In connection with the street con
struction program before the coun
cil, a subject which occupied the at
tention of the meeting most of the
evening, Harry Worswick, superin
tendent of county paving operations,
estimated the cost of a plant built by
the city from material on hand at
$1500. Money that would have been
spent for crushed rock for repairing
streets will be diverted to this pur
pose and instead of applying more
crushed rock in repairing streets this
year, where' repairs are needed the
streets will be scarified and remade.
The first city paving will probablyjie
laid on Washington street between
the Abernathy bridge and Fourteenth
street, or on Molalla avenue.
MUCH LAND OPEN
Commissioner Hoff Lists 9,252 Acres
of Homested Land in Clackamas
According to 'figures collected by
O. P. Hoff, state labor commissioner,
there are 9,252 acres of land in Clack
amas county that are open to entry
under the homestead, timber and
stone, isolated and mineral laws.
From the different land offices in
this state it is shown that there are
15,337,809 acres of public lands still
open for settlement. Of this amount
13,942,348 acres are suveyed.
Much of the acreage taken up in
the last two years was under the tim
ber and stone act, mineral coal, des
ert land entries and withdrawn for
power sites and public water re
serves. "From the records obtainable,"
says Mr. Hoff, "it would appear that
desirable homestead lands are scarce
in Oregon, especially in the part ly
ing west of the Cascades."
ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
Despondent Because of Family Infe
licity, Man Drinks Carbolic Acid
Domestic, trouble is given as the
cause of the attempted suicide Mon
day night of Charles Collins, 36, who
is thought to have swallowed carbolic
acid at his room in a, local lodging
house. Dr. M. C. Strickland was
called by other roomers and a atom
ach pump was used to save the life of
Collins, and after working until early
morning with the man the physician
declared him out of danger. An
empty bottle was found close to the
man. It is believed that worry over
the recent desertion of his wife
prompted Collins' act.
SCHOOL BOARD TRIMS
IT'S ANNUAL BUDGET
ONLY MOST NECESSARY EX
PENDITURES INCLUDED. 7.8
MILL LEVY FAVORED
The annual budget for the mainte
nance of Oregon City's schools, made
public yesterday,, shows that the
board of directors is cutting its cor
ners sharply to keep within the pro
visions of the tax limitation law and
still provide the proper. schooling for
the children of the district. .
For 1917 the total expenditure for
schools is estimated at $45,461.46, of
which $29,000 is appropriated for the
salary of teachers, and $2520 for jan
itor hire.
New purchases are very limited
covering only a few pieces of much-
needed furniture. Other appropria
tions besides the general outlay are
for a new sidewalk on Twelfth street
near the Barclay school, and for the
repair of the two grade school build
ings. Taxpayers of the district will
meet at the court house on next Wed
nesday to vote a special tax levy.
The school directors, it is understood,
will favor a 7.8 mills levy.
Members of the Oregon City school
board pointed to their experience as
argument against the tax limitation
bill passed at the recent election, and
suggested that city, county and state
governments would find tax limita
tion, under which the directors have
worked for years, more of a burden
than a benefit. The present difficulty
in which the board finds itself, say
some of its members, is evidence of
what may be expected of other gov
ernmental units under- the action of
the new tax limitation law.
WORK IS HALTED
City Attorney Demands Cessation
With Threat of Jailing Crew
With short and snappy words, City
Attorney Christian Schuebel Friday
ordered the Southern Pacific officials
to call off a crew that had been dig
ging up Fourteenth street, just east
of Main street, for the supposed pur
pose of putting in anotJier frame via
duct for its tracks, with supports in
the middle of the street Talking to
officials in Portland over the tele
phone Friday evening, the : city at
torney threatened -prosecution if the
work was not stopped.
"Every man on that job will be
jailed if the work is not stopped,"
said Mr. Schuebel. "We are willing
to crowd the city jail and throw the
overflow into the county jail, but we
will stop the work. We will put your
men where they cannot work."
For many months the city has at
tempted to have the wooden struc
ture replaced by a modern steel via
duct, and recently the mayor and city
engineer approved plans for such a
structure. They insist that the new
span be of steel and say that the
wooden structure is unsafe. They
will not tolerate the wooden bents in
the middle of the street, believing
them to be a menace to the safety of
the public.
Saturday the crew started to re
pair the damage it had done.
EDUCATING DEFECTIVES
Timely Subject Discussed at Conven
tion of Optometrists
. The cost of educating a child with
good eyes as compared with a child
with defective vision is very much
less, and the result is far more, suc
cessful, said Clyde J. Hathaway at
the recent convention of optometrists
of Michigan. Mr. Hathaway said
that he had found the cost of educat
ing a child with normal vision in the
lower grades to be about $23 and
about double that if the pupil were
continued through the high school
grades. The child' with defective
vision, on the other hand, requires
about 60 per cent additional time to
acouire the education. Taken as a
cold, financial proposition, he pointed
out.- it does not pay to neglect the
eyes of the school child, if it could
possibly be construed as a paying
proposition in any case.
While members of school Doaras,
school principals and teachers are
growing steadily more enlightened
regarding the Importance of eye ex
amination for pupils, there is still
an appalling amount of ignorance,
cheap politics and. personal pun
whereby improper persons become
connected with our schools in an om
cioi capacity, said Mr .Hathaway.
Oregon CityWtns
Oregon City made certain of the
Clackamas county high school loot-
ball championship on Saturday, when
it defeated the Estacada high school
eleven on Canemah field by a score of
21 to 0. Victory is credited largely
to the work of Hughes and Wallace
Mass, of the Oregon City team. Each
of these lads scored a touchdown, and
Carnott Spencer executed three drop
kicks for the balance of the score,
The game seemed to come so easy for
the Oregon City players that Coach
Wagner advised several new plays
which proved successful.
There's a world of interest in the
reading matter provided by the four
standard magazines offered together
with a yera's subscription to the
Courier for $1.25. Subscribe today.
TELL
COSTS
REPUBLICAN OFFICE SEEKERS
PAY WELL FOR SUPPORT
OF COUNTY BOSSES
DEMOCRATIC EXPENSE IS LIGHT
Everhart Campaign is Most Expens
ive in Recent Election. Social
ists Pay Little
To be a perfectly good republican,
to seek and be elected to office in
Clackamas county as a member ' of
that party, is more or less expensive
business, according to figures filed in .
County Clerk Iva Harrington's office
in connection with campaign ex
penses for the election of November
7. The law provides that all expense
accounts shall be filed within fifteen
days following the election and it
appears that all county candidates
are within the law. -
The statement of the Republican
County Central committee, filed at the
eleventh hour on Wednesday, the final
day for filing accounts, shows expend- ;
itures totalling exactly the same as
campaign receipts, $651. The money
spentby the republican committee
was derived from assessments upon
the candidates and from the sale of
tickets to the famous republican ban
quet. The committee lost a nice
bunch of money on the banquet, but ;
the donation from candidates made Bp
the deficits and carried the party s
campaign on to election. The party
rally, with its pretty firebrands and
gayly colored signs, cost a merry
penny, too, the statement shows.
Expenditures by the Democratic
County Central committee, as shown
on the report of its treasurer, J. E.
Jack, amount to $64.40. The state
ment shows a balance of $19.65
brought forward from the previous
campaign accounts and augmented by ;
donations from partisans to the total .
of $79.40. Therefore, a balance of
$15 remains after all expenses are
paid. . : ; K
Collectively the statements of the
several republican county candidates
show that they spent $474.20 in their :
campaign, including the donation
made to the general county campaign
fund. The total amount spent by the
four democratic county candidates
was $185.10.
Of the individual campaign ex
penses of the democratic candidates
those of C. W. Risley, candidate for
county commissioner, are greatest.
He spent $99.90, as compared with
$91 spent by W. A. Proctor, his op
ponent. F. H. King, the socialist
candidate for the same office, spent
$8.05, which was the only item of ex
pense incurred by any socialist coun
ty candidate, aside from W. N. Hor
ton, candidate for treasurer, whose
filing blank cost five cents.
W. W. Everhart, successful repub
lican candidate for the county assess
orship, spent more money on his cam
paign than any other candidate of any
party, for his election cost Mr. Ever
hart $100.20. G. F. Johnson's cam
paigning against Mr. Everhart cost
$73.60. Even those republicans who
had no opponent on any side had
heavy expenditures from the fact that ,
they contributed four per cent of the
first year's salary of the office they
sought to the committee treasury.
Without competition or with an op
ponent who spent nothing on the cam
paign, County Clerk Harringtons
statement shows a donation of $60;
M. E. Dunn, $45: J. E. Calavan, $45:
D. C. Boyles, $48, and W. E. Hemp
stead, $16. The only two successful
candidates who got through the cam
paign without spending money were
H. H. Johnson and D. E. Frost, sur
veyor and constable, respectively.
W. J. Wilson, sheriff, donated to
the committee fund in the sum of $64.
Maxwell Vietor, his democratic op
ponent, spent 30 cents for carfare to
bring his statement to Oregon City.
Ed Fortune, democratic candidate for
constable, spent $11.30 in an unsuc
cessful attempt to oust D. E. Frost.
All statements 'other than those of
strictly county officers are filed with
the secretary of state at Salem.
Glee Clubs Elect
The girls' glee club of the Oregon
City high school has named Miss
Alice Holman as its president, Misa
Esther Staats, secretary-treasurer,
and Miss Audrey Tuor, manager.
The boys' glee club president is
Charles Wallace and Emerson Hoeye
is secretary-treasurer. Entertain
ments for the winter months are
planned by both clubs.
Printers Will Step
The printers and pressmen em-'
ployed in Oregon City are preparing '
for their first annual dance, to be held
at Bunch's hall on December 30, and
believe they are to have one of the
most novel affairs held this year.
Delegations of printers from Port
land and Vancouver, Wash., have
promised to attend. Committees are
already at work on the details of the
dance.
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