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Newspaper Page TextOEMOM CI GOTEffil 35th Year OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,. 1917 Number 26 ELECTED '5 T 0. A. C. GRADUATE COMES FROM MULTNOMAH COUNTY TO ADVISE FARMERS GOVERNMENT WILL PAY COS New Agent Is Feeds and a ' Specialist on Fertilizers. Is Practical Farmer The appointment of R. J. Werner, present assistant county agricultural agent in Multnomah county, as agri cultural agent for Clackamas county has been announced- by Paul V. Maris state leader of county agents. Mr, Werner will report for duty on Sep tember 15. Mr. Werners appointment comes as the result of an agreement signed by the county court and the authori ties of the Oregon Agricultural col lege and made in accordance with the provision of the Federal Food bill which provided funds to assist in the maintenance of a county agncul tural agent in every agricultural county in the United States. These agents will be supported entirely from federal funds for the remainder of this year. Beginning January 1, 1918, if they continue in service, their support will be derived from a joint county, state and government fund. . The new agent for Clackamas coun ty is a graduate of the Oregon Agri cultural college, and received his preparatory schooling in an agricul tural high school at Gardena, Cal He lived on a farm in southwest Washington for three years, and has had experience on fruit and grain farms near San Bernardino and Ri pon, Cal., and near La Grande, Ore. While attending O. A. C. Mr. Wer ner devoted considerable attention' to agricultural chemistry, with particu lar reference to the chemistry of feeds and fertilizers. ' As assistant county agent in Mult nomah county Mr. Werner s services were highly satisfactory, which, to gether with his intimate knowledge of the conditions to be met in the lower Willamette valley district, makes him a logical choice for Clack amas county. ARREST OF JOY RIDERS . BRINGS' COUNTY $200 Arrested on the paved highway be tween here and Portland Friday for last driving, a quartet of Portland people contributed to the county cof fers for unlawfully transporting li quor. Motorcycle Patrolman Meads arrested Clarence Blazier and Frank G. Stone, of Portland, in company with two wome, Mrs. Mabel Marsh and Miss Jewell Duvall, both of P6rt land. They were coming toward 'the Clackamas in a manner entirely too fast for the patrolman. He stopped them and learned that the party was bound for Erickson's tavern on the Clackamas, where they planned a lit tle "party." To make the event a success they had brought with them two quarts of liquor. This the pa trolman confiscated and he brought the four to Justice of the Peace Siev ers' office. Blazier confessed to being the or ganizer of the party and acknowledg ed transporting the liquor. He was fined $100 and paid it at once. Stone pleaded not guilty, and was held for trial. A jury in the justice court on Monday found the man guil ty as charged and Justice of the Peace Sievers fined him $100. The women had been held as witnesses under $25 cash bond. The party said it intended going to Erickson's and after a swim in the Clackamas would have a dinner party. It had been raining most of the day and upon previous days so that the prospects for enjoyment at swimming looked rather slim to the judge and the ar resting officer. LETTER FROM HAMMOND TELLS OF ARMY CAMP A letter to Sheriff W. J. Wilson from Phillip Hammond, the first of three drafted men to volunteer to go to the American Lake cantonment with the first 5 per cent quota, Sat urday morning advises friends of the trio of their arrival at the camp. Mr. Hammond has been detailed to duty as an acting corporal and his work thus far has been in the capac ity of a director of housecleaning op erations. Every one is busy on the big cleanup, Mr. Hammond says, in preparation for the other drafted men who will be in camp in a short time. Volunteers for kitchen police duties were called at the camp as soon as the men arrived there, and Charles R. Moulton and Will H. Fos ter, the latter of Oswego, -were as signed to that work, Mr. Hammond's letter says. The 21 men included in the second quota to be sent to Amer ican Lake have already been notified to hold themselves in readiness by Sheriff Wilson. WERNER COUNTY FAIR AT ESTACADA DRAW BUSINESSMEN DELEGATION GOES TO SEE BIG DISPLAYS. GOVERNOR OF OREGON SPEAKS More than a score of Oregon City businessmen left the city this morn ing for Estacada, where they will be guests during the day at the East Clackamas fair, said to be bigger and bettor than any previous expo sition held in the thriving metropolis of the eastern part of the county. Bearing a spirit of good will and hopeful aid, the businessmen of Ore gon City will "see what they can see," and perhaps, after all, they have a bit of selfishness stored awa some where a selfishness akin to jealousy inasmuch as these men know the Es tacada fair is a dandy and they envy it to the extent of wanting the East ern Clackamas exhibits for the county fair at Canby next week. They are glad, withal, that Estacada has fairly outdone her best previous efforts in the show that is being held there this week, and they are anxious to add the most possible from Estacada to the Canby show. Governor James Withycombe is the speaker at the East Clackamas fair today. He is a drawing card that will bring people from many corners of the county and the splendid exhibits there will hold these people. Many from Oregon City in addition to the businessmen's delegation are at Esta cada or will go there during the last day of the show. Mrs. Alexander Thompson will speak on Friday, the last day of the fair. On Wednesday ex-Senator Charles Fulton of Port land spoke. O. D. Eby has been instrumental in arranging the trip of businessmen to the Estacada fair and through him an invitation has been extended to the city generally to participate in the good time and enjoy the fine displays. ALLEGED SLACKER NEW FACES GRAVE CHARGES Jefferson New, Jennings Lodge youth, faces charges of attempting to evade military service through his failure to register for the draft, and may find himself in serious straits a result. New was arraigned in Portland yesterday before Federal Judge Wolverton after pleading not guilty to the indictment of failing to register.- His trial has been set for October 10. That New will fight the case be fore the courts is evidenced by the fact that he has retained as counsel George C. Brownell of this city and a Portland attorney. On the other side of the case federal attorneys will bp assisted by E. C. Latourette, special United btates attorney, of this city. New is enjoying his freedom under 1500 bonds. Evidence said to be held in the case against New include some alleged tangled information which he gave to the authorities at different times regarding his life and also the im portant fact that the New family bible is alleged to have been alter ed to fit the purposes of the young man. It is said that Deputy District Attorney Thomas A. Burke and Sher iff W. J. Wilson have found that the bible record was altered to make it appear that New was more than 31 years old and therefore beyond the draft age. New was indicted by the grand jury about a month ago, and was to this indictment that he entered a plea of not guilty yester day. Jones Wants $2999 Harry V. Jones yesterday brought suit in the circuit court against the Crown-Willamette Paper company, asking $2999 in damages for the crushing of a hand while at work for the company. Jones charges that the company failed to provide proper safety for its workmen and as a re sult his right hand was badly crush ed when a log fell upon it. Jones was working at dragging logs from the river. McBain Registers for Draft The American -. consular agent at Vancouver, B. C. Monday forwarded to Sheriff W. J. Wilson the diaft reg istration card of Wallace McBain, formerly a resident of Gladstone. Mr. McBain, who is working in Canada, is a brother of B. T. McBain, man ager of the Crown-Willamette Paper company in this city and West Linn. Gozesky Is Called M. S. Gozesky, popular Oregon City young man, has received orders report for duty at Vancouver. Wash., before September 20, and will be assigned to the quartermaster re serve corps. Gozesky will be trans ferred at once to the cantonment at American Lake. Children Enjoy Themselves Twelve members of the junior class of the Logan Sunday school met at the home of Mrs. A. J. Johnston Thursday afternoon. Several hours were spent in various games, and re freshments of ice cream and cake were served. Both the Oregon City Courier and the Oregon Farmer for $1 per. year. E FOR WASHINGTON GRANGE MASTER DELEGATE TO ATTEMPT TO ADJUST GRAIN PRICES FOR COAST MAY SEE PRESIDENT WILSON Price of $2.20 a Bushel Held to Pacific Coast Unfair Wheat . Growers. Hon. C. E. Spence State Grange Master C. E. Spence of Beaver Creek, left his home on Tuesday for Washington, D. C, where he, with other western delegates, will endeavor to secure an adjust ment from federal authorities of the wheat prices recently fixed for the nation by President Wilson and Her bert Hoover, national food adminis trator. . Yesterday Mr. Spence joined a party of delegates at Spokane for the eastern trip and en route other delegates from such states as Idaho and Montana will attach to the party. Mr. Spence and W. W. Harrah are the delegates from Oregon. They were elected at a meeting held in Port land recently by state agricultural in terests, including the granges, farm ers' unions, agricultural , college, farmers individually, buyers, brokers and shippers.. At the Portland meeting it was decided that a price of $2.20 for wheat with Chicago as the base for such a price was unfair to , western producers and shippers, inasmuch as the exigencies of the war .make it necessary to ship wheat east by rail and thus mount up excessive freight bills. To bring to the west a fair price, one that will not make the farmer sell his wheat at a great sac rifice in order to put it into Chicago at $2.2Q a bushel, is the object of the visit of the delegation from this coast to tne national capital, it is a protective measure against a se vere loss which the western farmers and wheat raisers are facing. They stand to lose thousands of dollars simply because the grain price fixed at Washington has Chicago as its base. There is more wheat shipped from the west coast than from anv shipping point in the country and it is only a fair demand, it is pointed out, that such ports as Portland, Seattle and San Francisco be considered when grain prices are fixed as they have been this year. If a price of $2.20 or thereabouts for wheat from a western port is se cured the western grower can com pete with the eastern grower and at the same time can expect to make a profit equal to that made by those growing wheat closer to Chicago. It is manifestly unfair to pay a farm er in Illinois $2.20 for his crop when an Oregon or Washington farmer gets the same for his crop after de livering it to the elevators at Chica go, thousands of miles away. The freight bill comes out of the western farmer's pocket and goes into that of the middle western grower's purse. - The delegates of which Mr. Spence is one will wait upon Herbert Hoover, federal food administrator, himself a westerner, and upon President Wilson personally if it is necessary. They threaten, in any event, to come back with their mission accomplished a square deal for the western wheat grower. Mr. bpence left Oregon City on Tuesday night and on Wednesday the party - which he joined started from Spokane on their eastern jour ney, i TO BUILD MEMORIAL Pioneers of Oregon Honored with Building at Old Champoeg Plans submitted to the state board of control Monday afternoon for a pioneer memorial building at Cham poeg were adopted, and construction work is to be proceeded with.' The plans were submitted by Judge P. H. u-Arcy and Ixeorge Post, of Salem. and George H. Himes, of Portland. They contemplate the construction of a log building with an open-air audi torium. The last legislature appro priated $5000 for the building. SEC DEPARTS ' 4., COUNTY FAIR TO BE A HUMMER AGAIN BIG FEATURES READY FOR EN TERTAINMENT AND EDU CATION OF CROWDS Clackamas county's eleventh an nual fair will open to the big crowds that are expected on the morning of Tuesday, September 18, and through out four days will entertain, instruct and amuse as it never has before, the people of Clackamas , county the farmers and the businessmen who have made it possible. The big fair grounds at Canby are in readiness lor tne great lau nar- vest exposition and to the last de tail, says George F. Johnson, secre tary of the fair association, arrange ments are complete for the event. The race track has a turf that de lights the enthusiastic heart of Ed. Fortune, in charge of the speedway program, and in spite ot the recent rains that part of the fair is to be hummer. The rain, if it has done anything, has simply improved the track, Mr. Fortune says. And to prove that the program is to outclass any of other years he proudly exhib its a list of entries that contains the names of some of the fastest animals in the northwest. And there is to be, a program of automobile races that promises to be startling and thrilling. This feature is listed for the opening day. '- Tuesday is to De tJanby day, m addition to being set aside for the special entertainment of agriculturists and dairymen with every member of their families. Wednesday will be Oregon City and German day; Thurs day Molalla, juvenile and farmers' day and Friday the closing day,, will be given over generally as all-county day. The closing day, too, will see the fine stock parade that is said to be one of the finest features of the entire program. Band concerts will feature the' entertainment of each session. ' One of the interesting things plan ned for Tuesday is a morning demon stration of milk and cream testing, accompanied by a general lecture on dairying by practical dairymen. Judg ing in all departments' begins on Wednesday morning. 4 Not only have the elders interest ed in the fair done all that is possible to make the event a greater success than ever, but the children who take part in the juvenile fair have extend ed themselves to make a better show ing than the wonderful exposition they had last year.. The juvenile de partment will be a dandy. A Bpecial effort has been made this year to increase the size of the dis play in the departments of fruits and vegetables and there will be an amaz ing showing of the crops of the coun ty, from all reports. This- depart ment is in direct charge of E. P. Carter of. Gladstone. Reduced rates to and from Canby from all points on the Southern Pa cific between Portland , and Salem have been announced by the company. Also there will be rates from Molalla and other points on the Willamette Valley Southern. Tracts for camp sites in the beautiful grove have been much in demand and there will be a jolly colony of campers at the fair if plans don't suddenly go wrong at this late date. EH ESS! HUSH mHSBHllEBB OF COURSE IT PAYS a Anytime you get a foolish hunch that classified advertis ing in The Courier does not pay many times over for its small cost, it would be a mighty good idea to consult with E. W. Smith of this city. Mr. Smith's advertisement ap peared twice, we believe, and he received so many replies a EI that he came in here miles-a- 13 minute commanding us to stop B it. It was this way in . Mr. S Smith's case: He received re- H plies by the basketful, judging B from his own enthusiastic ,re- B marks. They came from east, B west, north and south. His B own neighbors replied and B people in all parts of the B state wanted to know all about B his proposition. Even from B Montana letters answering Mr. 0 Smith's ad. came to him. "Stop SI it and stop it quick," was the B a essence of the command we got from this advertiser. If it paid Mr. Smith it will pay you. Try it! - B HBElllEBBl HSEBBI1SEBB MISS PARKER HERE Former Teacher Returns to Conduct Conservation Campaign Miss Lorene Parker, formerly in structor in domestic science and art at the local" high school, and now home demonstration agent in connec tion with the food conservation pro gram of the government, is in Ore gon City this week. Miss Parker will take up the conservation cam paign with the women of the city and county, through committees from the several organizations, and will at tend the Estacada fair. Miss Parker will attempt to complete the greater part of her work with the women .be fore Saurday, which is women's reg istration day. T FORMED WILL BE CLEARING HOUSE FOR MANY FORMS OF PATRIOTIC ACTIVITY JUDGE ANDERSON CHAIRMAN County Bears Expense; , Bruce Den nis Here , to Organize. Help ers Named Soon. Hon. H. S. Anderson So that : Clackamas" county may take her proper place in the great works of patriotism that will be de manded of the nation and its citi zens during the period of war, a county council of defense was organ ized in the county court rooms here yesterday afternoon and County Judge H. S. Anderson was unani mously elected as its chairman. C. H. Dye was elected secretary of the council. Bruce Dennis, state organizer for the National Council of Defense, con ducted the meeting prior to the elec tion of Judge- Anderson as perma nent chairman. ' Judge Anderson and Mr. Dennis, as well as such citizens as Harvey E. Cross and Dr.. L. A. Morris, made brief remarks . anent plans for the council in this county. The organization perfected yester day has a direct alliance with the national and state' councils and is merely brought down to a county unit in order to centralize, thereby making more effective and efficient, the work of individual and organized patriots. The county council in turn will be divided into committees which will have charge of each and every phase of war time activity. Com- (Continued on page 8) NEW TEACHERS HIRED BY SCHOOL DIRECTORS The four janitors employed in the schools of the city have been assured a salary increase as a result of the consideration given their petitions at a meeting of the city school board Thursday night. The budget will not permit an increase at once, but the board promised the increase after December 15. The raise will be $5 a month. The board elected Miss Elfreda Ep pling of Portland, to succeed Miss Florence Walker in the grades. Miss Eppling was formerly a teacher in Ohio. John Mason, instructor in the high school, presented his resigna tion to the board Thursday night, but it came" so suddenly and at such a late date that the board took no def inite action until it can arrange for a successor. Mr. Mason has been elected to a position in Portland at an increased salary. He came here last year from McMinnville and has appeared publicly in reading pro grams several times. , ' MRS. FERREE SUES Charges Husband with Cruelty. Dl- vorce Decree is Granted Cruelty is the allegation made by Edna M. Ferree in her divorce com plaint against Sylvester Ferree. The couple was married at Portland on May 19 of this year and almost im mediately, the complaint states, a course of cruel treatment toward his wife was ' started by the husmand. Her maiden name was Edna M. Holz nagel,' which she wishes to have re stored to her. Ferree is alleged to have told his wife upon several oc casions that he was sorry he had not married another woman, who is nam ed in Mrs. Ferree's complaint. Judge J. U. Campbell Friday sign ed a decree divorcing Louis and Nor ma Ritzer and giving custody of a minor, child to the father. .: Davidson Exempt , The local draft . exemption board has considered the case of Isaac F. Davidson, of Milwaukie, and has ex empted him from military service. Davidson asked exemption on the ground of dependents, and the board upheld the claim in view of the fact that Mrs. Davidson is ill and demands the attention of her husband. ARMY RECRUITS ARE TO LEAVE FOR CAMP FIFTEEN PER CENT OF QUOTA TAKES 21 YOUNG MEN ' TO NATIONAL ARMY Fifteen per cent of Clackamas county's quota for the selective army have been instructed to report to Sheriff W. J. Wilson at the court house in this city by two o'clock on the afternoon f Thursday, September 20, prepared to entrain for the nation al army cantonment at American Lake, Wash. Five others of those se lected among the first quota for the national army have been called to re port as alternates and they will not be sent to American Lake unless some of the first 21 men fail to appear or are delayed unavoidably. .. The 21 to go to American Lake will spend Thursday night in Oregon City as guests of the county and will be quartered at homes in the city and at hotels. The following morning at 7:06 they will entrain here for camp. Such instructions have been sent to each of the men by County Clerk Iva Harrington. i The first 21 men called are: Gar land E. Hollowell, Milwaukie. route lj John Thomas Kindle, Oregon City, route 2; Charles A. Lindquist, West Linn; C. W. Chamberlain, Milwaukie, route 1; Robert S. Green, Oregon Uty; rred E. Aune, West Linn; Al bert Zerkel, Willamette; Lawrence H Barnes, Sherwood, route 5; Edgar Allen btewart, Oregon City, route 8; Axel Anderson, Hoff, route 1; Elmer W. Johnson, Cherry ville; Clarence C, Conner, Milwaukie; Robert James Mattoon, . Oregon City; Roy J. An thony, New Era; George Smith Ber- trand, Molalla, route 2; Arnold Schneider, Oregon City; Jacob Carl Kraft, Canby; Wilson E. Test, Eagle Ureek; William John Teevin, Gresh- am, route 4; Enrico Sevieri, Oregon city; Joseph Walch, Gresham. Those called as alternates are: Ar thur Newton Farr, Liberal; Maynard cole, Milwaukie, Route 2; Anton 01 son, Mount Angel; Rafael Tunzi, canDy; utto iiogg, farkplace. In a telegram to Sheriff Wilson Adjutant General George A. White advises that the men take , only the necessary toilet articles and changes of underwear. Civilian clothes, it is pointe out, will be discarded at the camp, and therefore the drafted men should not burden themselves with such raiment. ' . ' C. F. CALIFF KILLED BENEATH TROOP TRAIN News of the accidental death of Carlton F. Califf, member of Troop A, Oregon cavalry, at Redding, Cal., yesterday, came as a great shock to the relatives and many friends of the young man in Clackamas , county. Califf, who was a sergeant in the cav alry troop, was a son of E. F. Califf of this city, and a nephew of Mr. and Mrs. George R. Califf. He is bIbo survived by a brother, Gilbert, and a sister, Ida. "'" According to word received here yesterday from the scene of the sad accident, the young man, in company with other troopers, was taking a load of cavalry horses south. Hear ing that one of the horses was down Califf started to walk back over the cars. He fell from the toD of the train and the car wheels passed over and severed from his body one foot and one hand. Four hours later he was found bleeding and nearly dead on the track by a passerby. The young man died at 11 o'clock yester day morning, in spite of all the ef forts made to save his life. Exposure and loss of blood during the four hours of suffering before he was found are probably responsible for the loss of life. Califf was 34 years old and was born and reared in Oregon City, where he attended the grade and high school. He had served one en listment in the United States navy. He left Camp Withycombe with his troop and was en route to Camp Green at Charlotte, North Carolina. On Sunday he had visited his folks in this city and bade them a farewell, anticipating an early departure, for France. A brother, Bradford Califf, was in stantly killed here a few years ago when he fell onto the rocks in the river below new construction work at the Crown-Willamette mills on the west side of the river. The remains will be brought to Oregon City following an inquest which is to be held in California to day, and will be buried in the family plot at Mountain View near the grave of the young man's mother. Employe Sues Mills A. L. Richardson, formerly an em ploye of the Crown-Willamette Pa per company, Thursday brought suit against the company to recover $2999. 99 damages for the loss of the index finger of his right hand. Richardson charges that negligence on the part of his foreman caused him to suffer severe injury to the member, neces sitating its amputation at the knuckle. The accident occurred on November 20, 1916. Marriage License A marriage license was issued on Saturday to Veda Barney and Walter Hornshuh of Oregon City. FAMOUS mm is WORLD'S GREATEST GOLD CAMP ' SEES THE SETTING SUN , OF ITS GLORY GOLD AND ITS SEEKERS GO In Five Years Dawson Will ; But the Faded Dream of . ' , Its Creators Be (M. J. Brown) A Dawson City mining man ' Lay dying' on the ice; He didn't have a woman nurse, He didn't have the price; But a "sour dough" sat beside him, His dying eyes to close; He listened to his dying words And watched him while he froze. It is like stuff that gives the people the impression that the Klon dike country is a great ice plant. They think of it as they think of the awful cold of Siberia as a country of terrible storms, of intense cold and where only the hardiest can sur vive. - ' -1 - ' " And I found the city with a tem perature of about 65 and everything as balmy as an Oregon summer. But I arrived in Dawson in sum mer. :v-- ' There are only two seasons in Dawson winter, July and August. The boat landed us in the night, that is night time, for there is little darkness in midsummer north of 60. I left my grip on board' and went ashore at about three o'clock, and for three hours I walked the streets, the length of one and back the other. ' ' 1 It was like a cemetery. Every thing closed, no people stirring. And as I passed cabin after cabin in the residence section, on street : after street, I realized that the most of Dawson would never stir again for there were none to Btir it. Cabin after cabin 'was deserted, blocks cf them in. strings. ' Many had the doors and windows Broken, roofs were falling in.' There a big log ho tel of two stories stood vacant, with the booze signs recalling the wild old gold mad days. . Next a plumbing shop with the debris strewn about; a carpenter shop, with the work bench es as the owner left them; a vacant store building, a big dance hall where once men and women,, drunken on both booze and gold, took part in re velries that were equaled no where on earth; and so on, street , after street, with abandoned homes, busi ness places and shops. "Dawson is following deserted Dyea," I said.' . ' , ' I remembered on the boat of hear ing the passengers say, I'Dawson is very quiet," "Dawson is on the bum," and like expressions, but I had no idea Dawson was as sick as she was. I found she was past help was dy ing. 1 . Then the sun, after a three hours' rest, got back on the job, and what was left alive of this most famous mining camp on earth, began to stir and ask for nourishment. Smoke be gan to come out from the roofs of a few of the homes; the saloons, restau rants and business places began to open, and what was left alive of the gold city opened . for what business was yet breathing. t ive years from now there will be no Dawson nothing but deserted buildings. Five years from now the animals will come down from the hills and find shelter in the ruins. The reason is the gold has played out The town has "gone bust." The once richest dirt ever known has been panned, rocked, sluiced and dredged about clean. The gold is exhausted. And when .once the yellow stuff is cleaned out, men leave the diggings as rats leaving a sinking ship. &very boat carries men out of Dawson, and very few come in. The . end cannot be far off. When the stampede was at its craziest there were 30,000 in and around this notorious mining town. Today there are probably 1500. And today it is far easier to stake a claim in the gold fields than it is to claim a stake in Dawson. . In 1896 "Togish Charlie." an In- dian, while fishing at the mouth of the Klondike river, found some large gold nuggets in the sand and showed them to a trader. Investigation showed the valley, the stream bed and the mountain side were full of the yellow metal, and soon the news of the wonderful strike went up the river and to the outside. Then men went mad. Thev nour- ed up to Skagaway from Seattle by boat, went over the White Horse pass, thousands and thousands of them, month after month. They came with their outfits, very few of them knowing anything about the terrible White Horse and Dvea trails over the mountains, and the more to be dreaded White Horse rapids after the pass had been made. There were no steamers on the Yukon then. If it was summer the I mob went down in boats and , on rafts or anything that would float. In winter they went down on the NEA (Continued on page 8)