OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1917
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About the State
Resume of the News of the
Week from All Parts
of Oregon
The lodging camps in the vicinity
of Black Rock, Polk county, are busy
and a full force of men is employed
in building new roads and getting
ready for the spring work. The log
ging will begin about March 15 and
the Willamette Valley Lumber com
pany of Dallas will have a full crew
getting out timber for orders on hand.
,' At a get-together meeting of the
Hood River Commercial club and rep
resentatives of The Dalles Chamber
of Commerce at Hood River last week
the two bodies agreed to co-operate
in an effort to obtain the hasty con
struction of the proposed Mount Hood
Loop highway, that will connect the
Columbia River highway with the old
Barlow road, which crosses the Cas
cades to the south of Mount Hood.
' David C. Eccles, wealthy timberman
and railroad owner of Ogden, Utah,
and head of the Oregon Lumber com
pany, which recently purchased 27,
240 acres of choice Oregon timber
land from the DuBois Lumber com
pany, announced upon his arrival in
Portland Thursday that the $4,000,
000 purchase was made for the pur.
pose of operation and not for specu
lation. As soon as cruisers have fin
ished their work in the timber a crew
of surveyors will be sent out with in
structions to rush their work as much
as possible that definite plans may
be launched for the construction of
the logging road.
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FOR SALE 320 acres. 100 acres cultivated; 20 acres waste
land, but can all be cultivated. Good buildines on good road. Close
to electric line. One of best ranches in Clackamas county. Can put
in stock and equipment. Price, $100 per acre; one-half cash, bal. time.
30 ACRES on good road. 20 cultivated. Good young orchard.
Good house. Fair barn. Good water. Consider good vacant lots or
house to $2500 as part payment.
60 ACRES. 30 cultivated, balance pasture. Land lays rolling.
Fair buildings. Good road. Close to school. Some stock and equip
ment Take trade to $3000, balance time at 6 per cent.
We have many other good trades and property for sale.
H. E. CROSS & SON
More than 200 wheat growers, mil
lers and shippers of Oregon, includ
ing many from Washington, were
present at Portland last week at a
hearing conducted by representatives
of the department of agriculture to
gather information to be used later
as a basis of establishing uniform
grain standards. When Dr. J. W. T.
Duval, crop technologist in charge of
wheat standardization investigations
of the department of agriculture,
opened the meeting in the assembly
room of the Multnomah hotel he de
clared that the attendance was the
largest that has been noted since the
series of hearings were started a
month ago. Unusual interest was
taken in the proceedings by the grow
ers and many features of grain stan
dardization and methods of marketing
grain were brought out by friendly
discussions.
Encouraging progress is being
made in the campaign to wipe out the
coyote pest in Deschutes bounty and
other parts of central Oregon, accord
ing to Stanley G. Jewett of the -United
States biological survey, who was
at Bend last week.. The campaign is
being conducted in an effort to end
the rabies epidemic which has been
prevalent in this section for over a
year, causing the loss of considerable
stock. .
Officials of the evaporating plant
at The Dalles have gone to Med
ford in response to an' offer of two
ful city blocks with other concessions
as an inducement for that company
to locate its contemplated $80,000
plant. The offer is made by a prom
inent banker of that city. The own
er of two lots at The Dalles in the
block negotiated for a short time ago
is holding them at such an exorbitant
price that the company will not buy
at the BEST
Not only the best Cream Sep
arator but one which we can sell
you at much less than you have
been accustomed to pay for a first
class article. ,
That's why we want you to
come in and examine the
It Is the cream separator sensa
tion of the age. More machines of
this manufacture were sold in Sweden
and throughout Europe last year
than of any other make.
Come in and let us explain the
Viking to you.
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$50,000.00
$25,000.00
Have installed a MODERN and up-to-date
VAULT which is mob and
burgular proof.
OFFICERS
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m. jj. LAiuUKfiiiTCi, vice-rres.
F. J. MEYER, Cashier
OPEN 9 a. m. to 3 p. m.
them. The Dalles is likely to lose
this plant. Independence has also
made an enticing offer to the com
pany. ,
Allowance of $4000 for additional
water system and $2500 for additional
toilet facilities and a septic tank to
the state fairgrounds equipment is
considered as a decidedly important
step for the fair for this year. The
state board of health, through one
of its members, Dr. W. B. Morse of
Salem, made an exhaustive examina
tion of the fair grounds as to the
sanitary conditions there. This in
vestigation was made some time ago
and a report filed with the governor
and the state fair board. The im
proved sanitary conditions are largely
due to the filing of that report. Mem
bers of. the board are satisfied that
the appropriations recommended by
the ways and means committee will
go a long way toward improving the
general sanitary arrangements at the
fair.
One of the largest land deals made
in the state for some time was con
summated last week when Henry W.
Collins, prominent Pendleton grain
dealer, purchased from the J. E.
Smith Livestock company 4000 acres
of wheat land 12 miles west of Pen
dleton, south of Yoakum. The price
was not made public, but is is believed
to have been around $20 an acre.
The deal was made for cash. Smythe
Brothers recently purchased the
range and alfalfa land and sheep
plant of the Smith company at Yoa
kum. The Central Good Roads associa
tion of Gold Beach has petitioned the
legislature to consider a state road
from Eugene down the Siuslaw river
to the coast, thence down the coast
through the counties of Lane, Doug
las, Coos and Curry to connect with
the California State highway at the
state line. The elub sets forth that
the route would be qne of the most
scenic in the state: would open up to
sportsmen and automobile tourists
splendid hunting, fishing and camping
grounds and would give Curry out
let to Portland. Curry county has
built 5 miles of graveled road on this
route. Sixty-two per cent of the
county's land is in the forest reserve,
and federal aid could be obtained.
Machinery for a recall election
against County Judge Messick and
Commissioner J. P. Ritter, of Baker
county, was set in motion at a meet
ing of several hundred representa
tive taxpayers of Baker county Sat
urday afternoon, the chairman, John
G. Hoke, former secretary of the Ore
gon Woolgrowers' association, ap
pointing, on motion, a nominating
committee, which named William
Duby, former head of the Baker Pack
ing company, as a candidate for coun
ty judge to oppose Messick, and John
Fraser of Richland to oppose Ritter
for commissioner. In moving for the
recall, , Henry McKinney, former
member of the state legislature and
vgooinpvDuby.mem avg-smediVfor....
son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. G. A.
Harding of Oregon City, said he did
so without animus against any mem
ber of the court, but that the county
was illegally $56,000 in debt, and
that the accused officials, by reckless
expenditures, were responsible.
C. A. McFarland, living two miles
west of Cottage Grove, marketed a
fat Poland China porker a couple of
days ago and received a check for $53
in payment. The hog tipped the
scales at 530 pounds. Apparently
Mr. McFarland's hogs came in "out
sizes." Two years, ago he sold a
small stripling of a piglet (the moth
er of this $53 shoat, by the way) that
weighed 615 pounds dressed.
S. S. Dow, formerly of Colorado,
has bought the Newberg Enterprise
of John T. Bell, and will take charge
the last of this month. It is under
stood that Mr. Bell will remove to
Seattle, where certain relatives live.
During his stay in Yamhill county
Mr. Bell proved himself a good broth
er in the newspaper field, and no
doubt Mr. Dow will also prove such.
The Woodburn Lumber & Logging
company, incorporated with a capital
stock of $25,000, has been organized
with the election of the following offi
cers: D. S. Livesay, president; C. V.
Conyne, secretary; Roy R. Livesay,
treasurer. The company has taken
over fhe Livesay & Sons' sawmill
plant in Woodburn and has ordered
two 100-horse power boilers, 120
horse power engine, sanding machine
and other necessary machinery to put
the mill in first-class shape.
Sometime early Monday morning,
the safe in the postoffice at Forest
Grove was blown open, and nearly
$200 in cash and some stamps stolen.
The work was done presumably by
some of the burglars that infest our
charming neighborhood city of Port
land, and make raids in the country
whenever the exchequer runs low.
They called, put two charges of nitro
glycerin in the cracks of the safe,
and blew both the outside and inside
doors to bits, scattered the money and
stamps about, gathered up what mon
ey was not spoiled and made their
getaway without being seen by any
one. News-Times.
The first real cereal show ' ever
held in Oregon will be given in con
junction with the state fair at Salem
this fall, according to the plans of
Prof. G. R. Hyslop of the department
of farm crops at the Oregon Agri
cultural college. The state fair board
has promised $150 towards premiums
and a like amount will be solicited
from implement'houses; this will as
sure attractive prizes for exhibitors.
The show will be held in the center of
the agricultural pavilion and will be
in charge of Professor Hyslop.
Governor James Withycombe last
week appointed Dr. C. T. Bacon, La
Grande; Dr. Robert J., Marsh, Port'
land, and Dr. Harry E. Clay, Salem,
to the state board of health. They
will succeed Dr. E. B. Pickel, Med'
FEROCITY ON THE STAGE.
Salvinl at Othello Waa a Terror to Hit
Desdemona.
So abandoned was Salvinl at times
that It was difficult to believe that the
force was at all governable. Though
there would have been time Just be
fore the fifth act to run over my im
portant scene with him, it was not
done. In this act Desdemona's bed
was-placed in what seemed from in
front to be an alcove, but the alcove
was not boxed in, and I could stand
right up against the bed. .
Before the act began Miss Brooklyn,
who played Desdemona with sweetness
and appealing grace, Implored Salvinl
to be gentle. "Now, Mr. Salvinl," she
begged, "do be careful, won't you?"
He playfully promised. When, after
she was asleep, he drew the curtains of
the bed aside and gazed down upon
her I stood within five feet of him.
The scene that ensued was at such
close range very poignant. I did not
wonder that she had implored him to
be gentle. ' As be was choking her with
the pillows she kept gasping in broken
whispers of real terror between her
heard outcries and moans: "Oh, Mr.
Salvinl! Please, please, Mr. Salvinl!"
Sickened and fascinated, I watched
him, and I did not make connection
with the real world again until Emilia
that vigorous and intelligent actress,
Mrs. Bowers made her round oft
scene at the back of the stage, calling,
"Murder, murder!" Then I rushed
headlong to Iago, for I knew that I
must shortly go on.
Of what happened that first night I
have no clear picture. I was dazed by
the sudden transition from the dark
ness where I had stood and seen Des
demona strangled a few feet away to
the torches of the stage and a world
which In comparison to the one I had
Just left was palpable acting. Docile
ly I hurried after Iago and took my ap
pointed place. But I should not have
been in it when the time came had not
terror rooted me rather than given me
legs, for the ferocity with which
Othello ran at Iago and the rage that
distorted his features were unexam
pled. It was one thing to have seen
It directed elsewhere and another to
find it plunging your wny.-"A Super
With Salvinl," by Algernon Tassln, in
Scribner's.
CULTIVATE JUDGMENT.
Without It ' Intellect and Knowledge
' Accomplish Little.
Intelligence, Knowledge and Judg
ment were strolling along one day
when they came to a young baby sleep
ing by the roadside.
"Here's a chance to do some good,"
said Intelligence. "That youngster ap
pears to be a splendid specimen of hu
manity. Suppose we serve him during
his lifetime."
"All of us?" asked Judgment.
"Why not?" said Knowledge. "By
combining we shall be able to produce
a very superior person. I second the
motion."
Some moments Inter when the baby
rubbed his eyes upon a new world he
found himself equipped with Intelli
gence, Knowledge and Judgment
Many years later the three Were
again out for a stroll.
"By the way," said Knowledge as
they came to a spot at the roadside,
"do you remember that long ago we
three agreed to serve a .certain young
ster?" .
"Perfectly," said Intelligence. "The
curious thing about it all is that, al
though he Is a perfectly good human
being and respected by all, he has nev
er amounted to much has never ac
quired that supreme distinction which
lie should have received with us three
backing him up."
Judgment was silent. They both
turned to him.
"How do you account for It?" they
asked..
"I account for It quite simply," said
Judgment. "I agreed temporarily to
go in with you and serve him because
there was a majority against me. But
It didn't seem to me fair that he should
have so much, so I after a little quietly
withdrew and left him to be served by
only you two." Life.
Palisadee of the Hudson.
The Palisades are slowly changing.
To the traveler of a hundred years
ago they were a sheer cliff of clean
rock rising in a perpendicular Hue from
the water's edge nearly a thousand
feet. Now they are buttressed at the
foot by immense deposits of broken
rock which frosts have peeled from
the cliff. Gradually this buttress is
growing higher.
The upward growth of this support
ing pile is due to the trees evergreens
of various kinds which have grown
seemingly right out of the rocks. New
York Sun.
Optimistic Gadsby.
"Gadsby has always wanted to live
In a cottage by the sea. That's the
dream of bis life."
"And I presume fate has doomed
him to end bis days in a flat?" .
"Yes. But Gadsby Is an optimistic
fellow. He still clings to the marine
glasses be bought years ago." Birming
ham Age-Herala.
A Growing Thing.
"Mrs. Smith has telephoned six times
now about that leak," offered the office
boy.
"Give it a chance, son," said the
plumber. "In a couple of days that
leak'll be worth twice as much."
Richmond Times-Dispatch.
No Wonder,
Mrs. Crabshaw Don't cry, Willie,
I'm not going to punish you this time,
for you hurried when I called you.
Willie Boo-hoo. mamma. I fell down
stairs. Chicago Herald.
ford; Dr. E. A. Pierce, Portland, and
Dr. W. B. Morse, Salem, respectively,
whose terms expired January 15,
1917.
GREAT OPPORTUNITIES
Mrs. Burr. Frowns Upon War and
Points to World's Treasure
Clackamas, Rt 1, Feb. 19, 1917,
To the editor:
This is a grand and beautiful old
world and every year seems to add
to its beauty and grandeur. Nature
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has a bountiful store of treasures
laid up in every country of the world,
unless in a few countries of middle
Europe where the population has be
come congested.
Russia has its mighty forests of
untold wealth, mines and minerals of
all kinds. But what of her people?
Africa is one of the greatest of
all countries and all nations have pos
sessions in Africa except the United
States. There are great lorests,
fruits, nuts, mines of all kinds. But
what of her people?
Australia is another great country
just waiting for the people to settle
up and use this vast wealth. But
what of her people?
Canada has great storehouses of
wealth in her forests, mines, min
erals and farms. But what of her
people?
And the old United States is giving
homes to all nations of the whole
world.
What is the matter with the people
of the world? With all this vast
wealth, with all these great oppor
tunities; these great countries unset
tled and man kind shooting each oth
er, destroying the wealth that has
been created through toil and slavery,
starving little children that are made
orphans, destroying the ships that
carry the food and clothing; wasting
millions of tons of Dowder that should
have been shipped into Russia and
Africa to clear up homes ana to sud
due the wild animals and make the
country habitable.
What is the matter with the peo
ple of the whole world? We don't
need war, we don t want war in the
United States. We need men and
women of common sense, good judg
ment; men and women who are not
afraid of work; men and women who
understand the constitution and dec
laration of independence; men and
women who know how to turn the
great forests into homes, the same
as our fathers and mothers did wnen
they first discovered this great coun
try of the United States. What Is
the matter with the people, of the
world?
MRS. VIOLA BURR.
Felt like 90; Now Like 21
Many persons complain about feel
ing old before they should. Like a
weak link in a chain, a weak organ
enfeebles the whole body. Over
worked, weak or disordered kidneys
lower vitality. A. W. Morgan, An
gola, La., writes: "I suffered with
pains in the back. I am 43 years old,
but I felt like a man of 90 years old.
Since I took Foley Kidney Pills I feel
like I did when I was 21." In 50c and
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AT CLACKAMAS LAKE
Portland Party Invades Primeval
Country South of Mt. Hood
"The silence was contagious, not a
sound save the occasional hammering
of an over-zealous woodpecker and
the fascinating crunching of the crisp
crusted snow under the gliding skiis."
Reads like a passage from a novel
of the great north woods, doesn't it?,
asks Stuart O. Blythe in telling the
story, through the Portland Journal,
of a trip into the wild and beautiful
Clackamas lake country in this coun
ty. Gilbert Parker might have writ
ten it, or again it might be a descrip
tive bit from some Scandinavian
story. But as a mater of fact it is a
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skii trip in the country "somewhere
south of Mount Hood."
During the first week of February
four well-known Portland men made
a week's pilgrimage on skiis that had
as its objectivo Clackamas lake. It
was a pilgrimage to a country of si
lences, of deep crystal snows, of cold
streams, lights and shadows, tall tim
ber and beautiful vistas.
It was a really remarkable pilgrim
age, for the original intention was to
use snowshoes, and yet an entire week
was spent in the snows on skiis, in
cluding the ascent of a mountain.
In the party were Elliott R. Cor
bett, R. Bruce Wilson, Rodney L. Gli
san and Thomas H. Sherrard, super
visor of the Oregon national forest
Joe A. G raham, forest ranger at
Clackamas lake, served as guide.
Rodney L. Glisan kept the log of the
trip in form of a diary.
To get within striking distance of
Clackamas-lake the pilgrims jour
neyed by rail from Portland to The
Dalles, leaving early the morning of
Saturday, February 3 that is, all
save Mr. Sherrard, who met them at
Wapinetia. From The Dalles they
went to Sherman, up the Deschutes
river to Maupin and thence to Wap
inetia by auto.
PEACE TREATY PLAN
William J. Bryan Will Live Up to
Duty of a Patriot
If anyone wonders at my earnest
and persistent oposition to a declara
tion of war, let him remember that,
after laboring for eight years to bring
before the world a peace plan pro
viding for the investigation of all
disputes by an international tribunal
before resorting to war a year's
time being allowed for investigation
and report I was made happy by
President Wilson's cordial endorse
ment of the plan.
By his authority I called all for
eign representatives to the state de
partment on the 20th of April, 1913,
and laid this plan before them, and
then began negotiations with each of
the individual nations, including Great
Britain, France, Italy and Russia
thirty nations exercising authority
over one billion three hundred millions-of
people, or three-fourths of
the population of the globe. Besides
these, Germany, Austria and Bel
gium formally endorsed the plan, al
though treaties have not yet been con
cluded with these nations.
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These treaties were ratified by the
United States senate, the vote being
unanimous after the ratification of
the third treaty.
As this treaty plan, offered to all
the world and the offer has never.'
been withdrawn gives us an honor
able means of adjusting all disputes
with all nations, it surely affords an
honorable means of adjusting a dis
pute arising out of unintended in
juries done by a nation which has en
dorsed the plan, although no treaty
has yet been negotiated.
Is it unreasonable or unpatriotic
to urge, as a means of preventing
war, the employment of a plan used
by the president, and approved by the
senate, the United States and nearly
all the rest of the civilized world ?
Is it unreasonable or unpatriotic to
urge that the people, having endorsed
these treaties at the polls, should be
consulted by a referendum vote be
fore congress repudiates the peace
treaty plan by a declaration of war?
The president still hopes for peace,
and I pray as earnestly as he that
Germany may do nothing to further
aggravate the situation. Because it
is the duty of the patriot to support
his government with all his heart in
time of war, he has a right, in time
of peace, to do what he can to pre
vent war. I shall live up to a pat
riots duty if war comes until that
time I shall try to save my country
from its horrors.
W. J. BRYAN.
ORGANIZE FOR LOANS
One of First Associations Under New
Law is at Molalla
Perhaps the first national farm
loan association in the county and
one of the first in the state was or
ganized by a group of farmers at Mo
lalla a few days ago. Its designation
as selected by the members Is the
Clackamas County National Farm
Loan association, and its object is to
make it possible for farmers to bor
row money under the terms of the
recent farm loan act, or the federal
rural credits bill.
The association launched at Mo
lalla has 21 charter members and at
the organization meeting $62,000 in
stock ws subscribed. The folowing
officers were elected:
W. O. Vaughn, president; S. Usher,
vice-president; E, C. Schweitzer, secretary-treasurer;
W. O. Vaughn, E.
C. Schweitzer, S. Usher, M.. L. Mor
ris and W. G. Masterton, directors.