Oregon City courier. (Oregon City, Or.) 1902-1919, March 29, 1917, Image 1

Oregon City courier., March 29, 1917, Image 1

Image provided by: Oregon City Public Library; Oregon City, OR

About Oregon City courier. (Oregon City, Or.) 1902-1919 | View Entire Issue (March 29, 1917)

Page of 12 Next Prev Issue Next Text PDF JP2 (4.0 MB) Clip/Print Image

Return to Top

Page of 12 Next Prev Issue Next

Newspaper Page TextEaster Shopping Number University jm nm 1 f 1 TrTlI TT Spring Buyer's Guide Euene . 1 H 1 II ll-SJ II II j' IU 35th Year OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1917 Number 2 GRATTON HOSTS ARE INDICTED AND HELD WILL ANSWER CHARGE OF SEL LING INTOXICATING LIQ ORS. OUT ON BONDS On a secret indictment found by the recent Clackamas county grand jury, Miles Coakley and Ed Harris, formerly proprietors of the Hotel Gratton at Milwaukie, were ' arrested Saturday by Sheriff Wilson and are held on two counts for violating the prohibition laws. Coakley and Har-1 ris owned the Gratton when it was raided recently by Marshal Sam Riley of Milwaukie and later sold the place to its present owner. The Gratton was formerly famous as the Hotel Belle, under the. management of the exiled Fritz Boysen, who was con victed here for the illegal sale of in toxicants and ordered to leave the. state. Coakley and Harris are at liberty under a total bail of $4000, covering the two counts of the charges against them. On Monday they entered a plea of not guilty through their at torney, Dan Powers, of Portland. Their hearing has not been set. The status of the case against these men is not known, but District Attorney Hedges intimates that the specific charge against them is the sale of intoxicants to a man and women in the hotel on February 12. Evidence said to have been gathered by Mar shal Riley in his raid upon the place a few weeks ago will probably be used in the trial. v8 tt i8 8 i8 t8 t)8 ?8 8 J8 v8 FORECLOSE TAXES J J . J The annual application for Jt J the foreclosure of delinquent J J tax certificates was filed Mon- ? day in the circuit court by St Clackamas county against J. J A. Andrews and 164 property iS owners who have failed to pay i their 1910 tax assessments. The county court has tabulat- ed the delinquencies, which ! J cover considerably more than J 164 tracts of land, although J only that number of owners is J J represented. The total of the ' J assessments against the prop- J erty involved in the suit is . more than $1503, and is all on . J the 1910 tax roll. J j Jt j Jt ,4 ,4 ,4 v NOT GUILTY IS PLEA Milwaukie Resort Owners Will Fight Charges of Selling Liquor Miles Coakley and Ed Harris, in dicted secretly by the recent grand jury and held under $4000 total bail to answer charges of unlawfully sell ing intoxicating liquors, were ar raigned in Judge Campbell's court yesterday. The former owners of the Hotel Gratton, previously the Belle, at Milwaukie, pleaded not guilty and their trial was set for April 6. They were indicted secretly on two counts. The trial of August Olson, Mulino garage man, on a charge of violating the liquor lays, is being tried in the circuit court today. In the mean time Sheriff Wilson is looking for an other alleged bootlegger indicted se cretly by the grand jury, and for Mar tin Denny, one of the proprietors of the Friars' club, wanted here to post $1000 bond. Larry Sullivan, a part ner with Denny in the management of the Milwaukie road house, secured his bondsmen yesterday and is at lib erty. William Lacy, a Friars' club employe, is held in jail here in default of $1000 bond. GIRLS TO RALLY Flags Presented By Merchant. Hon or Patriotic Spirit A big patriotic rally at Busch's hall on Friday evening is being planned by the Girls' Honor Guard in observance of Patriotic week as proclaimed by Governor Withycombe. The yASing women have outlined a fine program, which will include speaker? from Portland's military colony and sev eral local orators. Music will be furnished by special entertainers, and the Moose band of this city. The G. A. R. fife and drum corps will also' take part in the pro gram, and the members of the guard will form a huge chorus to sing pat riotic airs. Yesterday the guard announced receipt of three dozen small American flags, the gift of H. L. Martin, local merchant. FISHERMEN MEET Petitions Against Gill Bill Heavily Signed, Says Union Tho Clackamas Countv Fisher men's Union met Monday night to consider further plans tor us ngnt nn tho fiill bill, enacted at the recent session of the legislature, and which closes the Willamette to saimon nei tora 99 far north as Osweeo. The committee in charge of the referen dum petitions reported that several thousand names have been secured and that the necessary 20,000 will be obtained in ample time to invoke the referendum nn the bill. An affiliation with the American Federation of La bor or with the Astoria Fishermen s union was discussed but no action taken. s PUBLIC 1R STAR CHAMBER SESSION OF THE CITY COUNCIL AROUSES TAXPAYERS' KICKS MYSTERIOUS MEETING HELD Talk Sewer Assessment Rebates and Other Open Subjects Under Police Guard Public, so Webster tells us, means that pertaining to the people. . Any thing that is public, our dictionary ad vises us, is "not in private or se crecy." Then we have a right, if Webster has told us the truth, to question the city council when it locks the doors against the taxpayers of Oregon City and resorts to the no torious star chamber methods of med iaeval politics to transact municipal business. If the council has reached that stage in the affairs of government where it has to keep its actions from the eyes and ears of the people it is high time the thing was looked into. There is an occasional reason for ex ecutive session of the aldermanic body, but executive sessions in Ore gon City heretofore have not implied barred doors, police guards and mys tery. Police guards, barred doors ;and deep mystery are the very things that made the council meeting on Monday evening a very secret affair and that kept even the most humble of more than a score of taxpayers out of the council chamber while the honorable aldermen spoke in hushed tones over their mysterious work. In that sanctified saloon of civic chivalry known as the council cham ber a group of public servants held forth on Monday night. The dear pee-pul, whose only use in Oregon City, it seems, is to elect aldermen, were admitted to the chamber to bow in righteousness before the exalted shrine of municipal mystery while the honorable council read several and sundry bids on a fire truck which the highly upright aldermen would buy to protect the innocent lives of our citizens and the properties of our poor widows and hungry orphans. The dear pee-pul, to whom the council is secondary only just before an elect ion, were allowed to hear Councilman Templeton read the bids on fire trucks of various kinds and then were thrown out, body, ears and eyes. "I have a private matter to discuss with the council and want the people to leave the chamber. Yes, the news paper men must go, too. These no ble words from Mayor Hackett clear ed the room promptly. The news paper men, through the courtesy of Councilmen Templeton and Metzner,' have been admitted to executive ses sions heretofore, but Councilman Metzner's request to have the press remain at the mysterious star cham ber meeting on Monday night was ig nored absolutely. F. C. Burke, temporarily a mem ber of the police force, was stationed at the outer door of the chamber to guard it from an attack of the sup posedly vicious and dangerous tax payers who wanted to know what the council intended to do about the sew er assessment in district No. 10. Inside, the gentlemen of the council, speaking in low tones, transacted PUBLIC business. Some of the dig nified "representatives" af the useless taxpaying element of our pretty city puffed at nickle cigars and others picked their teeth in grim contempla tion of the work at hand the busi ness of the city and of the people. The smoky atmosphere lent a mad dening mantle of mystery to the star chamber proceedings, for smoke so clouded the air that the birds singing gaily in the night air outside the back window could see no more than they could hear. But the "birds" who waited outside in the fire hall while the work that Mayor Hackett said would occupy "only a moment" knew what went on in a general way. These birds, most of them taxpayers come to hear about the sewer assess ments, confined their wrath because the council had slipped one over on them and they had nothing to do but wait for the mayor's minute to pass. An hour later the minute was still ticking merrily on. How the council can lock itself in from citizens and taxpayers is a question only the council can answer, but the dear pee-pul who are so cap ably and honorably and openly served by this group of councilmen would like to have it answered. Behind locks and guards the coun cil last night talked of the appoint ment of a man to take the place of Chief of Police Blanchard while that officer is engaged at responding to the call of his country as a national guard captain. The intelligent coun cilmank clams also heaped them selves up over maps of sewer district No. 10 and talked about a 50 per cent rebate on all property in the district north of Seventeenth street and other possible plans of compromise. There were a number of other matters tak. en up that were, cloaked in mystery although the necessity is not any PUPILS DEBATE FOR HONORS IN CONTESTS SCHOOLS JOIN IN LEAGUE FOR SPRING BASEBALL WORK. ORATIONS READY The results of the work of the sev eral debating teams which partici pated in a series of contests on Fri day night, under the auspices of the county school league, have been re ceived by School Supervisor Brenton Vedder. The contests between Canby and the Eastham school of this city were postponed and will be held next Friday night. At Milwaukie, the Oswego negative team won its contest, and at Oswego the Milwaukie negative team won, leaving the two grammar schools to share honors equally. The contests between Gladstone and the Barclay school of Oregon City resulted in the defeat of both Barclay teams. At home Gladstone won unanimously, and here a two-to-one decision was rendered. The Canamah-Clackamas contest at Canemah was won by a unanimous vote by Canemah, and at Clackamas the decision was two to one for the home team. The gram mar schools were each represented by two teams debating upon the subject of county-owned and operated paving plants. Eleven grammar schools in the county have signed up with Mr. Ved der to take part in the spring base ball schedule which is a part of the activities of the Clackamas County School league. Mr. Vedder has been forced by pressure of other work to turn the baseball matters over to Professor N. W. Bowland of the East ham school of Oregon City, and Mr. Bowland is completing all arrange ments for the contests. The teams entered in the gram mar school division represent Molal-' la, Clackamas, Gladstone, Concord, Canby, Oak Grove, Boring, Milwau kie, Barton and Eastham and Barclay, of Oregon City. In the high school division of the league Milwaukie, Molalla, Oregon City, Canby, Willamette, Colton and Sandy have entered teams and will start playing early next month. The grammar school declamatory contest for county schools has been planned for Milwaukie on April 7, when 24 pupils will contest for hon ors, and nearly that number of schools will be represented, accord ing to Mr. Vedder. The city hall has been secured for the evening to pro vide seating room for the large audi ence expected. Mr. Vedder is at tempting to bring the high school de clamatory contest to Oregon City early next month. Pupils in all the high schools entered in this feature of the work of the county school league have practically completed preparations for the meeting. PUPILS WILL PLAY High School Thespians to Stage Play, "Her Friend, The Enemy" The public library and the young people's institute will benefit from the proceeds of a play, "Her Friend, the Enemy," to be presented at the Shive- ly Opera house on April 10 by high school pupils and alumni. It is prob able that the farce will be offered on the following night as well, and it will be directed by Mrs. Theodore Clark. The first performance will have pat riotic features, for the' Girls' Honor Guard and the Boy Scouts will act as ushers for the evening, while the G. A. R. members agree to attend in a body. On the following night a spe cial effort will be made to entertain high school pupils and their families. Special rates for pupils will be made. more apparent to the press than it is to the taxpayers. "We talked about matters relative to the war situation which the people should not know of at this time, Mayor Hackett advised the press on Tuesday. "These are things that should not become public just yet." The secret conflab had nothing to do with the sewer district, the mayor said, but that is a mistake because the council absolutely and unquestion ably did talk at great length upon this important municipal topic. Recently a matter was brought up in an executive council session which hardly concerned the public at this time and by which public interest would have suffered if a knowledge of the subject had become general. The press attended the executive meeting and at the request of certain city of ficials agreed to withhold any public statement until the proper time. The reporters in the room that night are willing to post with Mayor Hackett or any alderman any sum of money within their power as a guarantee of their oath that not one word has es caped them regarding the business of that evening, either in print or by word of mouth. The appreciation Mayor Hackett and certain of his tedious colleagues show for this faith was to lock doors and place police guards against press and public when PUBLIC business was being discussed on Monday night. The council has no right to discuss other than public business at its meet ings and when public business is be ing discussed the public should be admitted either en masse of through representatives who serve them more faithfully and honorably than do the majority of city aldermen. THREE ARRESTED AT FRIAR'S PARTNERSHIP FIGHT INVOLVES WAITER WHO TELLS STORY OF LIQUOR SALE WHISKY CACHES UNCOVERED Penny and Sullivan Held on Bond. Lacy Jailed. Lacy Stabs One Proprietor The Friars' club, notorious Mil waukie joint, is in bad again, and all because its owners made an agree ment among themselves to disagree. Three arrests and the discovery of more than 20 quarts of intoxicating liquors resulted on Monday from a fight staged at the club late Sunday evening between William Lacy and Martin Denny, one of the proprie tors. Lacy, obeying orders from Lar ry Sullivan, the other partner, chal lenged Denny's right to be upon the premises Sunday night and, accord ing to Denny, attacked him with an ice pick. Denny nurses a wound be low the shoulder blade in the back where he says Lacy stabbed, him with the pick. Lacy's net injuries consist of a wound between the eyes where he alleged Denny hit him with a wa ter glass. The fight came to the attention of officers Monday afternoon when Den ny and Lacy swore to assault charges against one another. Deputy Dis trict Attorney Thomas A. Burke im mediately started an investigation of the affair that resulted in complaints being sworn out against Martin Den ny and Larry Sullivan charging them with the unlawful sale of liquor. The official has the signed testimony of Lacy telling of liquor sales in the club, and has sworn corroborative testimony from John Doe Green, a waiter, held late last night for inves tigation. In the meantime City Marshal Sam Riley of Milwaukie, working from tips given by Lacy, uncovered liquor caches at several points about the club grounds. On the banks of the river he found an empty cache and another containing eight quart bottles of liquor and one pint bottle, and several of champagne. Behind a garage across the tracks from the club building he dug up a box con taining 12 quarts of high-grade whisky. This evidence, together with the sworn testimony of Lacy, was sufficient for Justice Kelso, of Mil waukie. He heard Sullivan and Den ny and released them under $1000 bail. Lacy is held to answer assault charges under a $300 bond. Denny and Sullivan, proprietors of the club, have been at outs for more than a week, according to Lacy, and Sullivan ordered Lacy to keep Denny off the place. Sunday evening Sulli van went to Portland and Denny ap peared at the club. Under orders Lacy challenged Denny and the fight started. Marshal Riley, who uncovered the liquor caches, believes there are oth er secret hiding places ahout the club grounds, but the clever methods used by Sullivan and Denny make the hid den liquor hard to find. The empty cache found by Riley was a concealed barrel placed in the sand of the river bank just outside the premises of the club. It was fitted up with a trap door and a tunnel just large enough to admit an arm led to the barrel from inside the club fence. The waiter brought here for inves tigation Monday night did not tell as much about the liquor as did Lacy, but his testimony bears out Lacy's story in the essential details. On Tuesday evening Sheriff Wilson and deputies visited the club again and tore out the bar and fixtures and brought a load of equipment to Ore gon City. The place will be closed as a public nuisance by District At torney Hedges. BEATS OWN RECORD Hazelia School Attendance Shows Marked Improvement over Past The attendance record of the Ha zelia school for the month ending March 23 shows a vast improvement over all past history. Out of 22 scholars 17 have been neither absent nor tardy and have fully deserved having their names placed on the hon or roll. The honor students are: Kenneth Baker, Grace Duncan, Lawrence Duncan, Irene Duncan, Arthur Fiala, Jerry Fiala, Charley Helms, Ray mond Helms, Lena Lehman, Wilbur Lehman, Edith Wanker, Audrey Wanker, Leonard Whitten, Everett Whitten, Henry Zivney and Emil Zivney. Asks Foreclosure A. R. Johnson and T. E. Dodson last Thursday brought suit in the cir cuit court here to recover on a prom issory note for $1000 signed by E. R. Langley et al. The instrument is dat ed at Portland on April 25, 1913, and is secured by a mortgage upon 10 acres of Clackamas county property. The complaint asks 6 per cent inter est and $100 attorneys' fees. TAXPAYER THE GOAT IN MONEY MANEUVER WORK IN FRONT OF MAYOR'S HOME SAID TO BE PAID FROM GENERAL FUND Listen! Read this. It is a bit of a story that has all your thrilling tales of municipal manipulation backed off the boards. Its villain is someone or some several in the city countil and its trampled hero is the Lowly Tax payer. Enter the Lowly Taxpayer: He casts his naked eye about the beauti ful scene. It is a city Oregon City. Its towering rock bluff pierces the deep blue sky under a cloak of fleecy clouds and sundry mansions lend the splendor of varied color to . the hori zon. Below, the river wends its way quietly between banks that stand high with the structures of prosper ity. The Lowly Taxpayer, meek as a shorn lamb under the weight of a 40 mill assessment, journeys down Main street. He breathes the dirty dust from this uuclean, unsanitary, odorif erous thoroughfare. He comes to Seventeenth street. "Ha! and Ho!" exclaims our bur dened hero. "Here, verily, have we signs of prosperity the very beacon light of progress." The good city is engaged in the repair of Seventeenth street, called a street, but to the eye of our hero no thing more than a graceful alley. "I shall investigate this sudden af fluence cf the Seventeenth street property owners," the Lowly Tax payer says, as he hastens to yon lunch stand to employ the telephone in- his search for information." "Hello, hello!" he calls merrily in to the receiver. "Is this the residence of Mr. Councilman? Yes? Well, about Seventeenth street, sir. How much is it costing the property own ers to place crushed rock on that street and to repair it otherwise so that it may be a fit byway in our pretty city?" "Wha's that; whaduya mean, crushed rock on Seventeenth street?" Angrily Mr. Councilman shakes the phone on the wall to be sure that he hears aright. "You don't mean to tell me, Mr, Taxpayer, that repairs are being made on Seventeenth street. Absurd! Why, there isn't a power in Oregon City strong enough to de fy the direct orders of our honorable city council." "But today, this very Wednesday, in the month of March, its 28th day, and in the year of our Lord 1917, the city street superintendent and other gentlemen are placing crushed rock upon Seventeenth street and are oth erwise repairing it. I noticed es pecially, kind sir, that such work was under way in front of the domicile of our mayor, Mr. Hackett." ' "How can it be; how can it be!" cries Mr. Councilman into his phone. "I remember distinctly, Mr. Taxpay er, that the council on Monday night of this same week gave strict orders to have that work stopped. Are we defied? Are the orders of that au gust body held for naught by some villain in this city? I'll have to tell you the story, Mr. Taxpayer. Lis ten." "Last Monday night the council as sembled. We got down to public bus iness when the mayor ordered the room cleared of all spectators and the newspaper men. We locked the door and stationed a policeman to stand guard. We made sure that we were alone and unheard. Ah, it is a sad story! "We know lots of things we don't tell, Mr. Taxpayer. We knew that last week the street department had been repairing Seventeenth street. We asked about the matter and were told that the money for the work was coming from the GENERAL FUND. Isn't it terrible? That wouldn't do, of course, so we told the mayor and an objecting member of our body that the street in front of the mayor's home wasn't any better than any oth er street and if repairs were to be made the property owners would have to foot the bill. Money for such pur poses can't be taken out of the gen eral fund as long I am a councilman." "But they are doing it just the same, it seems," the Lowly Taxpay er said. "I have property on Mo lalla avenue and I'd like to have it rocked and paid for from the general fund if the rest of them get it done that way. "It can't be did!" Mr. Councilman yelled into the phone and slammed up the receiver. Angrily he rushed for the door, hatless, coatless, breathless. As Mr. Councilman said to the Lowly Taxpayer, "Its a sad story" and too long to repeat. . But the up shot of the matter is that Mr. Coun cilman will endeavor to force a spe cial meeting of the council to see what can be done to halt the work on Sev enteenth street since it goes on in spite of orders from the council. At its star chamber session behind locked doors on Monday night the council was told by Mayor Hackett that he knew nothing of the improve ment nor did he know who ordered it. Therefore, the mayor is absolved from blame in the matter and other coun cilmen and the street department will be asked to answer the question as to who ordered the work done and who defied the council's order and how they plan to get money from the gen eral fund to pay for the work. , SOU 5 S MOUNT PLEASANT WOMEN PROVE ROYAL HOSTS BY OVERFEEDING WIRES SPLENDID ENTERTAINMENT Friendly Debate Brings Out New Points About Bonds. McBain Shows Figures After doing justice to a royal ban quet that was put before them by the good women of Mount Pleasant on Tuesday evening the Live Wires of the Commercial club got down to the debate of the proposed $6,000,000 road bond issue and entertained their hosts in proper style. As was the case at the previous meeting at Logan, the Wires paid more attention to the meal than any thing else. They scrambled for chairs first and for food second, last and all the time. Plates heaped high with the splendid food prepared for their banquet disappeared promptly and amid much smacking of satisfied lips. The Live Wires have resolved to eat away from home as often as they can get such meals. Thus fortified with all the good things that the Mount Pleasant coun try produces and surrounded by an interested audience of Mount Pleas ant people, the Wires staged their cut-and-dried debate on the road bond proposition. The school house re sounded with the oratory of Judge Grant B. Dimick, who started the de bate for the affirmative team, of which B. T. McBain was the other member. Judge Dimick spent his al lotted time at picking flaws in the present road building system and blamed the road supervisor plan for much of the ineffective work that has been done at such great cost to the people. Doing away with the super visor plan, made possible by the last legislature, will result in better roads for the county, Judge Dimick said. "The only thing we have to con sider about thia bond bill is whether or not the result will be worth the cost in interest on the bonds," the judge stated. He pointed out that no prompt and permanent work could be expected unless the state issued bonds. If good roads are worth the interest on bonds, then pass this measure, the judge advised. He illus trated his talk with a number of pointed stories and called attention to the idea of building a house by paying cash as the structure went up. By the time the roof is on and paid for it will be time to repair the foun dation, Judge Dimick said. Under the bond plan we can build the roads and pay for them as we use them. The first speaker on the negative side of the question was O. D. Eby. Lacking figures to contradict the ar guments of the other side he laid down a series of propositions for the affirmative to answer. He said that the bond bill was dishonest on its face because it proposed the surfac ing of more roads, by several hun dred miles, than the money that would be available could pay for. He expressed the belief that the pro posed plan for paying off the bonds would not produce sufficient money for the purpose. Mr. Eby. spoke not as an opponent of the bond bill, but merely as a debater, without express ing his personal convictions. B. T. McBain, the second speaker in favor of the bonds, presented fig ures to show how the automobile li censes and the quarter-mill state tax would pay off the bonds in 25 years and leave a very comfortable balance. He answered the propositions laid down by Mr. Eby and upheld his statements in most cases with fig ures. He said: "If this bond issue is approved by the voters we will get a system of hard surfaced roads. If it is not ap proved we will pay the increased au tomobile license fee and the quarter mill Btate tax just the same and we may not get any roads. It appears that the statement that the legisla ture had us "over a barrel" is true. We can vote the bonds or not the cost to us will be the same." C. Schuebcl closed the debate for the negative. Ho brought out sev eral side lights on the bond bill and charged that it was tainted with graft and abnormal profit. That 40 per cent of every dollar raised by the bonding bill will go to graft and by excessive profits into the pockets of paving contractors, was the statement made by Mr. Schuebel. "This bill was concieved in cor ruption," Mr. Schuebel said. "It was brought up on the 35th day of the legislative session and rushed through so that the very men who voted for it there had no opportunity to know what it was all about. The paving companies are behind the bill and they will charge us the customary $1.25 or $1.50 for a yard of hard sur facing that Clackamas county could apply under its plan for less than half the amount Clackamas county will have to pay to grade and put its roads in shape and then pay again to have the surface applied. The coun ty could do the grading and surfacing together for less cost than the state WORK RESUMED UPON GOVERNMENT LOCKS WIL BUILD FLUMES FOR MILL. HOPE FOR APPROPRIATION FOR OTHER WORK Presaging the early resumption of work on the government locks oh the west side of the Willamette at Ore gon City, the U. S. Engineer steamer Mataloma arrived at the locks late yesterday afternoon. She pushed a tender laden with equipment and sup plies. The work on the locks was stopped mysteriously in spite of the fact that the appropriation for the work had not been used. The locks will be drained on Sun day, April 8, and again on the follow ing Sunday, to permit the government to install footings for the temporary dams and while this work , is being done the P." R. L. & P. Co. will also establish a temporary dam footing for its power station service. Fol lowing this work the government will get at the task of completing the con crete dividing wall upon which it was working when activity paused last Bpring. A wooden canal will be built to permit boats to pass while the con- crete structure is being built, accord ing to federal workmen. Another wooden flume will be built to provide water for the paper mills while the locks are drained and the work there in is in progress. It is estimated that the work to be completed will cost the government more than $100,000 and will be com pleted by early summer. An effort has been made and will be continued, to secure a congressional appropria tion of $80,000 to pay for the work of deepening the lower chamber of the locks. 8 58 (,58 ?8 8 8 (jt 8 8 8 J THE EASTER SPIRIT J i J Easter wares supplied by J the most progressive mer- J J chants in Oregon City for J their Clackamas county pat- ! rons are called to the special J attention of Courier readers in J J this issue. Advertisers in this J paper represent the business 14 men who endeavor to please J J their patrons and in return J their greatest pleasure is to have their announcements . carefully read. . , ! Easter shopping is in order. J vS You will find these pages a ! veritable guide book to the 5 best trading places and such J J places carry the best goods. J The stores are heavily stocked v with beautiful spring mer- J chandise and buyers are Btock- J ed with desire and money. Let J them get together! J i8 8 8 $8 8 8 8 1(8 8 8 $8 8 8 SEVEN GUARDS NAMED Sheriff Wilson Aids Portland to Pro tect Bull Run Supply At the request of officials of the Portland water department, Sheriff Wilson Tuesday deputized seven men as guards for the Portland Bull Run water system in this county. The men have been stationed at various points along the pipe line and will remain, according to Sheriff Wilson's information, as long as war threat ens tho nation. The deputies appoint ed yesterday are all veterans of the Spanish-American war. They will have nothing to do with the South Fork pipe line. Patten Endorsed At their meeting at Mount Pleas ant on Tuesday evening the Live Wires of the Oregon City Commercial club went on record by unanimous vote as favoring the reappointment of Ben S. Patten as deputy game war den for Clackamas county. Previous ly the Wires had endorsed Bert Jewell as deputy fish warden and that ap pointment has been made. Patten has served as game warden in the moun tainous districts of this county for a number of years and in endorsing him the Live Wires officially recog nized the esteem in which he is held for, his capable work. 8 s8 8 8 8 8 (8 8 8 8 8 v FRENCH APPOINTED J V$8 Mi ..in. m (,8 Mayor E. C. Hackett Tues- J t day appointed Lee French, of J J the night police force, to take J the place of Chief of Police J Blanchard on the day force & i while the latter is engaged as J ! captain of Company G, O. N. J J G. F. C. Burke, formerly a, J policeman, will temporarily . J take the place of French on J the night force. J 8 8 58 i8 ?8 8 j8 8 8 j8 ki8 8 will do the paving alone." Mr. Schue bel did not speak as a partisan against the bill, he said, but merely brought out these points to make the debate interesting. The Wires were entertained by the musical numbers of Mr. McLain, Dr. Roy A. Prudden and Harold A. Swaf ford. Miss Florence Grace of Ore gon City presided at the piano and won the delighted applause of her au dience. The Wires have accepted an invi tation from Gladstone church women for next' Tuesday evening, and will hold their regular meeting at that place.