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34th Year
OREGON CITY, OREGON; THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1917
Number SO
SHOULD BUY TRUCK,
FIRE MARSHAL SAYS
MR. EBY OUTLINES COOPERAT
IVE PLANS BETWEEN CLUB
AND LIVE WIRES
"Gasoline is more dangerous than
dynamite!"
"Think fire if you would prevent
fire!"
"Provide competent men and give
them modern apparatus to work with
if you would save your city from dam
age by fire!"
These were the statements about
which Jay Stevens, fire marshal for
the city of Portland, wove an inter
esting talk on fire prevention before
the Live Wires at their regular meet
ing in the Commercal club rooms on
Tuesday.
Marshal Stevens was brought to
Oregon City by the Live Wire com
mittee in charge of the club's part in
the special election on March 5,
through which they hope to practice
fire prevention by providing modern
apparatus for the department." Mr.
Stevens related features of his work
for the Portland fire department and
gave the Wires a liberal education in
preventive measures. He put special
emphasis upon the danger of gasoline
and characterized it as more danger
ous than dynamite.
0. D. Eby, president of the Com
mercial club, attended the luncheon
and spoke of the plans of cooperation
between the two organizations. He
spoke of the industrial literature
which the Wires will publish as a
most worthy undertaking and pledged
the Commercial club to stand behind
the venture financially.
WILL MOVE BIG HOUSE
Charman Property to Be Occupied by
Miller-Parker Garage
To make room for the modem gar
age building and business block
planned by the Miller-Parker com
pany of this city, T. L. Charman is
preparing to move the large residence
on the corner of Ninth and Main
streets' to the corner. of Tenth and
Water. The residence is on the Mrs.
Lena Charman property and was a
mansion to Oregon City a score of
years ago. Mr. Charman will buy
the home from Mrs. Lena Charman
and already has practically bought
the Water street property, which is
one of the most sightly spots in the
city.
The Charman home is occupied by
Dr. Hugh Mount, who will remain in
it when it is moved to the river bank.
It is 40 by 50 feet and contains ten
rooms. Tho home was built nearly
35 years ago. The property vacated
when the house is moved will be the
site of a modern building to be erect
ed by the Miller-Parker company for
their automobile business. They pur
chased it some weeks ago from Mrs.
Lena Charman for a consideration of
$16,000. The new garage building
will be put up this summer and will
occupy a space about 80 by 128 feet.
IN THE DIVORCE COURT
Hubby Gets Divorce, Wife Gets Fur
niture and Maiden Name
Cruelty is the charge made against
Parker H. Trigg by Lillie M. Trigg
in a divorce complaint filed here Fri
day. The couple were married at
Portland on February 19, 1913. Mrs.
Trigg asks the restoration of her
former name, Lillie M. Morse.
Charles A. and Anna V. Ladiges
were divorced by order of Judge
Campbell Friday. Although Mr. Lad
iges was the complainant, he asked
that his wife's former name, Anna
Hadley, be restored and that she be
declared sole owner of the household
furnishings. Desertion was the charge
in the complaint.
Andy Bachert, divorced from Min
nie Bachert on January 7 last, was
Fridav ordered to pay his former
wife $10 a month for the support of
two minor children in her custody.
The youngsters are Charles and Mar
garet Bachert.
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RIVER IS LOW
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Not in many years has the
winter season seen such a low
stage of water in the Willam
ette river at this city. At
present the water is getting
deeper each day, but the aver
age depth for the season has
been considerably below nor
mal, lower in fact than at any
time within the memory of W.
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O. C. T. Co. Mr. Prat took
readings in the river each day
until a few years ago and late
ly H. A. Swafford of the
Crown-Willamette company
has had readings taken. Mon
dav the water in the lower
i river was 11.5 feet, but it had
i risen to that depth within the
previous few days. Through
ly out the year the 'average has
. been very low... On February
. 26 last year the water in the
. lower river measured 12 4-10
i feet and in 1914 there were
17 9-10 feet of water. On
5 February 26, 1908, there was
! only a little more than 8 feet
6 of water in the river, but dur
ing that year the average was
J far greater than it is this year,
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SGHUEBEL
SAYS ES RIGHT
LETTER TO COURIER EXPLAINS
HIS SIDE OF THE STORY-
SCHUEBEL DISPUTE
SAYS FACTS MISREPRESENTED
Wants to Be Relieved of Official Du-
If Council Will Pay Him
Sum of $150.00
Oregon City, Ore., Feb. 28, 1917.
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Editor Courier tress, u'b" J'
Oregon.
Dear Sir:
t i, n desire to enter into a
newspaper controversy and so far as
I am concerned, tnis letter
one
e I shall write. 1 Deueve eveiju..
entitled to a square deal and when
is
the facts are misrepreeuw:u
should be corrected.
A persistent effort has been made
by certain persons to misrepresent the
facts in connection with the city coun
il in regard to the employment of an
attorney to look after the city's civil
business.
The charter of Oregon City pro
vides that a city prosecutor shall be
elected and section 50 on page 20 ot
the charter defines his duties as fol
lows "
Sec. 50. It shall be the duty of
the city prosecutor to attend to the
prosecution of all persons violating
the city ordinances of Oregon Crty
before the recorder or mayor. He
shall receive for such services u
remuneration as the city council may
determine, the same to be paid from
the general fund.
Ordinance Wo. 1 nxes uie
wliich are as follows: $5.00 for every
case prosecuted and convicted on a
plea of not guilty ana s.ou j.ui evci
nosp nrosecuted. whether the defend
ant is acquitted or pleads guilty.
No change has ever Deen maue m
the charter as to the duties of the city
prosecutor or the fees due liim for his
services. The city council is author
ized to employ the city prosecutor, or
any. other attorney, to appear on be
half of the city in any civil action
that the city may be involved in,
either as plaintiff or defendant, and
to pay him for such services out of
the general fund. There is no regu
lar city attorney provided by the
charter for Oregon City. . . P
Prior to my appointment as city
posecutor in 1914 the council general
ly divided the legal business between
the city recorder and city prosecutor,
and occasionally employed outside
assistance. It cost the city from $1.-
800 to $2,000 a year for legal services.
At the close of the year 1916 there
were two very important civil actions
pending. One in wmcn tne city was
defendant for the sum of $7,500; the
other pertaining to the water rights
at the south end of Main street in
which the P. R. L. & P. Co. was en
deavoring to get possession of a piece
of land that would deprive the city
of its riparian rights. This is a case
of vital importance to the taxpayers
and residents of Oregon City. There
were over 200 pages of testimony and
about 60 exhibits in the case. I tried
it in the circuit court and won it for
the city, and the P. R. L. & P. Co. ap
pealed to the supreme court, where it
is now pending.
At the first regular meeting in De
cember I notified the city council that
mv contract with the city in regard
to the evil business expired December
31, and urged upon the council that
thev take immediate action it tney
intended to employ another man to
take charge of these cases. The may-
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or in all his wisaom conciuueu moi
the action should be postponed, and
assisted hy some of the councilmen,
the action was postponed.
About December 15, at a special
meeting of the city council a com
mittee consisting of Van Auken, Al
brieht and Friedrich was appointed
to interview me and ask me what my
rhare-es would be if I should be em
ployed to take charge of all the civil
business. (This in no way wouio. in
terfere with the duties of the city
nrnsecutor which were fixed by the
charter and the fees fixed by ordi-
nance.) My answer to the commit
tee was that I would try the Uliver
case for $150 and the P. R. L. & F.
Co. case for $250 to be paid when
briefs were filed and $250 to be paid
when decided by the supreme court,
if decided in favor of Oregon City, or
$60 per month for. taking care of all
civil business, including the cases
above mentioned. The committee re
ported to the council and recommend
ed that I be employed to take care ot
all civil business at $G0 per , month,
The reDort of the committee was
adopted.
The first of January Mr. Storey
took his office as city prosecutor and
he continued the prosecution of all
criminal actions, no one interfering
with his duties.
About February 14 the mayor
called a special council meeting. On
account of the unpleasantness and
reports that had been circulated I
had made up my mind to refuse to
have anything further to do with
the city's business and to permit the
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SUBMERGED ISLAND
MAY COME TO LIFE
AGED LITIGATION REVIVED IN
THE CIRCUIT COURT. PROP
ERTY UNDER WATER
An intricate legal problem that
has been pending at various stages in
the circuit courts of Clackamas coun
ty for nearly a quarter of a century,
came to life again on Monday when
Judge J. U. Campbell admitted Wal
ter Cox as a defendant in the case of
the Willamette Transportation &
Locks Co., against W, T. Burney and
Annie M. Draper.
Cox takes the place of - Burney,
who is dead. The suit involves what
is known as Moore's island at the
head of the government locks in the
river above Oregon City. According
to all authority interested in the case,
W. T. and Elinor T. Burney secured
a state deed to a quarter of the island
many years ago. Later the trans
portation company was granted a
federal patent covering the entire is
land. In the meantime, it is under
stood, Luther or Johnson Moore
claimed homestead rights on the prop
erty. The Moore claim has already
been set aside, it is said.
- The claim of the transportation
company was challenged many years
ago by Burney, who later, on Octo
ber 10, 1894, deeded the property to
Clarence W. Simpson of Houston,
Tex. On February 2, last, Mr. Simp
son sold and deeded the quarter in
terest in the island to Walter Cox,
who Monday was admitted as a de
fendant in the action brought by the
Willamette Transportation & Locks
company.
In the event of a victory for Mr.
Cox and those interested with him,
Moore's island, submerged these
many years because of the construc
tion of breakwaters above the locks,
would again come into being. Un
less some arrangement for its pur
chase were made by the transporta
tion company the present defend
ants in the case would propably re
quire the company to tear down the
structure which submerges the island
in water. There are about 23 acres
in the island at least, there were
before the property was covered over
with water. The island might be
valuable as a power sight or for some
such purpose.
THREATEN RECALL OF
ANOTHER COUNCILMAN
LANS UNDER WAY TO OUST
FOUR OTHER MEMBERS OF
CITY BOARD
A new angle to the controversy be
tween Isom C. Bridges and E. B. An
drews, contenders for councilmanic
honors from the third ward, appeared
on Tuesday evening when Mr. Bridges
announced his intention to start a re
call ' movement against Mr. Andrews.
Bridges was elected to the coun
cil last December by a large major
ity to succeed Mr. Andrews. He was
unseated a short time ago, when Cir
cuit Judge Campbell decided he had
not satisfied residence requirements
as specified in the city charter. Mr.
Andrews automatically resumed his
seat by virtue of a charter clause
which says a councilman shall hold
his seat until his successor is elected
and qualified. Mr. Bridges has al
ready filed notice of appeal to the su
preme court.
Within a few days Mr. Bridges will
have been in Oregon City a full year
and, if he is successful in recalling
Mr. Andrews, he will oe a candidate
again at a special election. Mr. Bridg
es is a supporter of the anti-Schuebel
faction of the city council and Mr.
Andrews is as solid in the opposite di
re cton.
The recall movement directed
against Councilmen Metzner, Buck
les, Cox and Albright, who, with
Friedrich, are of the Schuebel faith,
goes merrily on, and these men have
started a campaign in active opposi
tion to the recall through public state
ments of their attitude in the matter
that has divided the councl since the
first of the year.
Once again we suggest that you
subscribe to the Courier and four
standard magazines. $1.25.
MOTOR FIRE TRUCK WHICH VOTERS
SPECIAL ELECTION
DOUBLE Til IS
AT
BIG DEMAND FOR PRODUCT
DOUBLES CAPACITY OF
LOCAL PLANT
ADDITION IS BEING RUSHED
Great Nunber of Orders Responsible
Delayed Briefly by Lack of Ex
perienced Workers
A greatly increased demand for
the products of the mills of the Ore
gon City Manufacturing Co., here and
the flooded stream of orders that are
coming into the offices from all parts
of the world and for a wide variety
of products, has made it necessary
for the mill management to double
the working hours and the produc
tion of the big factory.
The result is that the mill machines
will run 24 hours a day in place of 12
as in the past, and to this end a crew
of workers equal to that employed
during the day is rapidly being as
sembled for the night work.
It will take some little time, the
management says, to recruit this
crew to full strength, but as fast as
competent help can be secured it is
being employed. This indicates that
the company will turn out practically
twice as many manufactured woolen
products as at any other time in the
history of the industry.
Every available machine is in use
and construction on the new mill ad
ditions is being rushed to provide
more room for equipment. Present
plans call for the completion of the
addition early in May and at that
time the company's payroll will be
materially increased. New machin
ery and equipment have been shipped
from the eastern factories and other
shipments will be sent in time for
installation before the time set for
opening the addition. The mill com
pany has had a payroll covering 350
employes for the past few years.
With the night crew complete the
number will be practically doubled
and if the night work is continued
upon completion of the new addition
there will be nearly 1000 hands em
ployed.
The addition under construction
will provide 60,000 feet of additional
floor space and will house much new
machinery, making the field of ac
tivity considerably larger and tils
production possibilties more than
double. This week tne mill has been
operating each night and before the
end of the week, A. R. Jacobs, man
ager and president of the company.
hopes to have secured a full crew of
workers for the night shift.
"BUGS" IN REVOLT
Klinkman Recalled as Vicious When
Arrested in this County
With the revolt of inmates of the
state hospital on Sunday, Sheriff W
J. Wilson here recalled William Klink
man, one of the prime movers in the
alleged conspiracy, who was commit
ted to the asylum from Clackamas
county on March 1 of last year, after
he had given the officers a merry
chase in capturing him.
Klinkman was taken at Ardenwald
station, near his home, and in the
fight with the officials he kicked Dep
uty Sheriff D. E. Frost and inflicted
painful injuries. Six deputies were
required to handle the man, who is
of unusual strength. Sheriff Wilson
had to tie Klinkman's hands when
he was captured because his wrist3
were so big the handcuffs would not
go over them. John H. Thompson
one ot the inmates who led tne at
tack Sunday, was also sent up from
this county. He formerly was a black
smith at Milwaukie.
Wants Road Operated
Upon complaint of R. S. Canton
wine, C. O. Perry was ordered to ap
pear before County Judge H. S. An
derson to show cause why he should
not be forced to remove obstructions
from a dedicated roadway between
the tracts of the Saffarans Peninsula
acres. Cantonwine contends that
Perry has placed obstructions that
prevent the improvement of the road
way and refuses to remove them.
MAY AUTHORIZE
MONDAY
AT A
MILLS
NEW AUDITORIUM IS
SURE AT GLADSTONE
DIRECTORS VOTE UNANIMOUS
LY. CONSTRUCTION WILL
START IN MAY
Definite action toward the con
struction of the new auditorium for
Gladstone park this spring was taken
at a meeting of the board of directors
of the Willamette Valley Shautauqua
association at the Commercial club
Tuesday night, when the 13 mem
bers present voted unanimously for
the building. Plans submitted some
time ago, providing for a building
fashioned generally after the great
Mormon tabernacle at Salt Lake City,
were adopted, and the secretary was
instructed to .prepare to ask for bid
ders.
Thirteen out of the 15 directors of
the association attended the meeting
and heard the report of the building
committee. A long discussion of the
plans of financing the project was a
feature of the meeting, and the di
rectors believe that a debt of $1500,
which will be necessarily assumed,
can be cleaned up the first year.
The proposed new building will
seat 4500 people, being half again a
large as the present structure, and
will cost between $5500 and $6000.
Stock subscriptions and donations
have guaranteed three-fourths of the
cost. The structure will occupy a
site 60 yards north of the present
building, which was built 23 years
ago, and will be of a much more per
manent character.
The 13 directors who attended the
meeting and voted for the building,
upon which construction work will be
started in May, are: Mrs. A. B. Man
ley, Portland; Mrs. Emma Spooner,
Portland; Mrs. Eva Emery Dye, Fred
Olmsted, C. Schuebel, H. E. Cross,
C. H. Dye, Dr. George Hoeye, Duane
C. Ely, E. G. Caufield, John W. Lod-
er, J. E. Jack and George Armstrong,
all of Oregon City; the two absent
members were George A. Harding
and W. A. Huntley.
JOHNSON APPOINTED
Former Deputy Assessor Will Have
Charge of Publicity Office
Carrying out its
policy to have an
active worker in
charge of the de
tailed activities of
the organization
the Oregon City
Commercial club
yesterday installed
George Fred John
son, former county
assessor, in the po
sition of secretary
to the publicity
committee of the club, and Mr. John
son has taken up his office in the pub
licity room next the postoffice. He
can be found on the job there most
any time.
Mr. Johnson s duties in the new
position, created this year, will be
along many lines. He will take
charge of the club's activities in con
nection with the county fair, wiljl
handle all routine publicity work for
the club, and will be active in spend
ing the $1700 fund donated for pub
licity work by the business men of
the city this year. Mr. Johnson has
already taken up the campaign to
interest a packing compny in this
territory with the view of having a
cannery and packing house estab
lished.
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FLAG DAY NEXT
Club and society women are
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flag day to be held here on
. March 10 for the benefit of the
Salvation Army rescue and
maternity home in Portland.
Mrs. E. C. Hackett, wife of
Mayor Hackett, is honorary
chairman of the committee
planning the day and Mrs. N.
M. Alldredge, prominent club
worker, is the active chairman.
A corps of young women and
school girls is being recruited
to sell flags and 50 will be en
listed if possible. The girls
who sell the flags will be given
prizes for the volume of their J
work. Mrs. Alldredge is pre
paring a list of patronesses
for the day.
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Little Miss Boyles Comes
County Recorder Dudley C. Boyles
is not paying much attention to the
affairs of his office today. A 1
pound baby girl was born to Mrs,
Boyles yesterday afternoon at their
home on Ninth and John Adams
streets.
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OLSON PROMOTED
H. D. Olson, Southern Pa
cific agent in this city for the
past two years, has been ad
vised of his promotion to be
traveling freight agent for the
road. Mr. Olson will make
his headquarters in Portland
as soon as his successor can be
appointed and placed in the lo
cal station. Mr. Olaon came
to Oregon from Chicago, 111.,
several years ago.
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ONION" JOHNSON SCORES HIGH
THROUGH MARKET ON
OREGON ONIONS
OTATOES AT RECORD PRICE
George Brown's Crop Worth
Near
$20,000. Many Farmers are
Made Wealthy
Pity the farmer!
Not at all. There are hundreds of
western Oregon farmers who have
made more off 10 acres of potatoes
than many a lawyer has made off a
good practice. And as far as onions
are concerned! Well, it would pay
owners of real estate in the heart ot
many a town to tear down their build
ings and plant onions.
Take the case of William T. John
son, of the Uackamas station qis
trict. Mr. Johnson has raised onions
for many years, secured a fair price
for his output and made a living. He
is known through his county, Clack
amas, as "Onion" Johnson.
Last year Mr. Johnson planted 14
acres in onions, and narvesiea oouu
sacks. He sold $15,000 worth of on
ions off of the tract and has 400
sacks, or about 800 bushels, left. At
the prevailing market price he will
secure about $4,120 for the onions
still on hand and the value of the to
tal crop on his land will be in the
neighborhood bf $19,000.
But even the Southern Pacific car
shortage of recent memory conspired
to add to the riches if Mr. Johnson.
Soon after harvesting his onions he
contracted a large part of his yield
at $4 a sack. The buyer, however,
cancelled his contract when he was
unable to secure cars. Mr. Johnson
was preparing to file a suit against
the Southern Pacific when the price
of onions advanced to 10 cents (
pound on the cars at Clackamas sta
tion. Mr. Johnson began to Bell his
crop a second time.
Mr. Johnson's story, however, is
not exceptional. There are scores ot
farmers this year who are buying
automobiles, and they're heavier cars
than Fords at that. Others are build
ing new houses and farms, buying
more lands and cleaning off mort
gages which have been plasters on
their property since they came to the
state. Down at Canby, in the heart
of a potato growing country, automo
bile dealers are having a hard time
to keep up with orders for machines
and its not the town people who are
buying them.
Hundreds of farmers, who have
been struggling along for years, mak
ing only enough to Bquare up accounts
each fall with the town store keeper,
are now almost independent because
they planted a few acres in onions
and potatoes. Scores of eight and 10
acre patches of potatoes have brought
in $2500 and $3000, even after part of
the crop had been set aside for seed
and for family use.
Potatoes at $3.75 a sack spell for
tune for George H. Brown of New
ra, perhaps Clackamas county's most
extensive potato grower. Mr. Brown
and his son, E. E. Brown, had 80
acres in potatoes this year and their
total profit is so near $20,000 that
they have not stopped to figure the
difference.
The 80-acre tract near New Era
produced 20,000 bushels of murphys
this season and Mr. Brown bought
several thousand bushels from his
neighbors and resold at a good mar
gin of profit. At the same time the
son's business ability revealed itself.
for he held out for good prices and
realized $7000, while the fother sold
several carload lots on the early mar
ket for less than a third or the pres
ent price. Mr. Brown nas some 500
sacks of his crop left, averaging from
115 o 120 pounds to the sack. He
has standing offers for this lot at $3.
75 a hundred and will probably sell at
that figure.
Mr. Brown's potatoes on the early
market sold for about $1.25 a nun
dred, giving him a profit of 150 per
cent, as the cost of production from
plowing to harvest cost him approx
imately one half cent a pound. The
biggest part of the crop sold at about
$3.25 a hundred, or at a profit of 550
per cent. Mr. Brown has been grow
ing potatoes as his major crop for
number of years, but has never seen
such market conditions as those of
the present season. His crop is of the
Red Rose and American Wonder va
rieties.
Farmers can get from $3 to $3.75
for their potatoes at valley points,
yet many are holding for still highei
prices. Dr. A. L. Beatie of the Ore
gon Commission company says that
he knows of farmers who want $5 tot
their crop and are holding for that
figure. Scores, he says, demand $4
before they willisell.
When potatoes were around the $2
mark one Clackamas county farmer
saw visions of wealth and contracted
for the delivery of 1000 sacks at that
figure although he raised only 300
sacks himself. He planned to buy
700 sacks at a lower figure and make
a neat cleanup. However, potatoes
continued to climb, and now he faces
a choice between being sued for
GOLD
REV. GILBERT WILL
COME HERE AT ONCE
PASTOR TO RELIEVE J. K. HAWK
INS, WHO TAKES CHURCH
AT LE MARS, IA.
. REV. E. E. GILBERT
An exchange of pulpits brings the
Rev. E. E. Gilbert of LeMars, Iowa,
to Oregon City this month to take the
place of the Rev. J. K. Hawkins, pas
tor of tthe local Methodist Episcopal
church here for the past two years.
Mr. Hawkins will go to the church
left by Mr. Gilbert at LeMars, and
the latter will probably preach his
first sermon at the church here on
Sunday morning, March 11.
Mr. Gilbert is a native of Ontario,
Canada, where he was born in 1869.
He went to Iowa when a small child
and spent most of his life in that
state. His college training was re
ceived at Cornell university and the
Upper Iowa university, following
which he attended and was graduated
from the Garrett Biblical institute in
1898. Rev. Mr. Gilbert has been 22
years in the Northwest Iowa confer
ence, three of which were spent in
school, and during his connection
there he has served five charges;
Armstrong, Ireton and Cherokee,
three years each; Ida Grove, four
years, and at LeMars since October, '
1911. During these pastorates he
built three churches and three par
sonages. At LeMars he completed a.
year ago a church costing $36,000
and increased the membership from
270 to 427.
Mrs. Gilbert is a native of Iowa,
and was educated in Iowa State Nor-
marl school at Cedar Falls, afterward
taking a special course at Evanston,
111. Their family consists of a daugh
ter, aged 19 years, who is attending
school at Morningside college, and a
son 9 years old.
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Following a long controver
sy between the Southern Pa
cific company and the Oregon
City council it appears that the
steel viaduct over Fourteenth
street will soon be built by the
company to replace the pres
ent wooden bent. For years
the council has been trying to
have the bent replaced by a
steel structure and recently,
when the railroad company at
tempted to repair the wooden
viaduct, the workmen on the
job were arrested and the work
stopped. A letter to Mayor
Hackett from Superintendent
Burkhalter of the Southern
Pacific, received Tuesday, says
that an appropriation for the
construction of a new viaduct
has been made by the company
and that work will be started
as soon as materials can be ob
tained. Mr. Burkhalter asks
consideration of the fact that
structural steel is hard to got
just now and that this may oc
casion some delay.
EDITOR GETS RICH
Death of Palmer's Mother is
Sad
Cause of Journey East
Editor H. H. Palmer, of the Molal
la Pioneer, who purchased the paper
only four months ago, has been noti
fied that he has fallen heir to a for
tune estimated at several hundred
thousand dollars by the death of his
mother, and has gone to New York
to claim the fortune. He received
an advance draft of $5000 to pay the
expenses of the trip east for himself
and wife. Gordon J. Taylor, former
editor of the paper, is temporarily at
the desk in the Pioneer office.
Boat Laid up Here
The Annie Cummings was laid up
in the river here all day ypqtprdny
because of a broken 'cylinder head.
The river boat, owned by the Western ,
Navigation & Towing Co., was taken
in tow by the Lan;;, of the Crown
Willamette company, late last even-
ing and was towed to Portland for
repairs. The Annie Cummings will
be out of commission for three or four
breach of contract and buying 700
sacks at $3 or $3.50 and selling them
for $2.
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