OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1917.
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ORGANIZED TO GATHER
BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS
0. D. Eby, elected to the chairman
ship of the Oregon City library war
council, allied with the federal library
council for a campaign to collect read
ing matter and funds for the train
ing camp of the army and navy, has
completed the appointment of his as
sistant chairmen and committees.
Mr. Eby has announced the follow
ing list to aid in the work of gather
ing books and money for the libraries:
W. L. Mulvey, Mrs. H. E. Straight,
. Percy Caufield, Mrs. J. E. Jack, Miss
Louise Cochran, Mrs. Grant B. Dim
ick, Dr. W. T. Milliken, N. W. Bow
land, Mrs. David Caufield, Mrs. 0. D.
Eby, Mrs. N. M. Alldredge, Miss
Edith Bullard.. These persons will be
chairmen in precincts Nos. 1 to 11,
respectively, and in the order named.
A special committee to solicit funds
on Main street south of Twelfth
street includes: George Hankins, E.
G. Caufield, W. A. Dimick, Willard P.
Hawley Jr. and A. R. Jacobs. A pub
licity committee includes Earl C.
Brownlee, W. E. Hassler and Miss
Nan Cochran.
Aids for other communities are
Mrs. D. M. Shanks, West Linn; Mrs
John W. Draper, Bolton; Mrs. Her
bert Vornett and Miss Cis Pratt,
Gladstone; Mrs. Viola Tate, Cane
mah, and Mrs. John Kent, Park
place. The campaign will be more defi
nitely outlined at a meeting to be
held at the city library on this even
ing, when the officers elected at the
first meeting will preside. They are
0. D. Eby, chairman; Miss Cis B.
Pratt, secretary, and Joseph E. Hedg
es, treasurer.
route for Camp Greene, Charlotte,
N. C. The girls held a meeting last
night and decided to ask the
women of the city to furnish individ
ual lunches for the boys and to pro
vide as much tobacco as possible in
the forms of cigars and cigarettes.
Magazines and cards will also be
contributed. The girls will carry
their gifts to the train as it passes
through Oregon City early in the af
ternoon and they will be distributed
by a committee under the direction
of Miss Alice Holman and Mrs. S.
Bowman.
BEWARE OF SEED GRAIN
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GIRLS GIVE LUNCHES
Honor Guard Will Meet Troop Train
With Edibles and Tosacco
, The Girls' Honor Guard has under
taken the collection here of lunches,
tobaocos and reading matter for the
national guardsmen at Camp Withy
combe, Clackamas station, who will
pass through here' on Monday en
Swindler Will Try to Humbug
Trusting Farmer
The seed wheat swindler has tak
en time by the forelock. Understand
ing the sporadic shortage of good
grain seed for sowing this winter
and next spring, he improves the
shining hour by putting a variety of
frauds on the market, expecting to
humbug the trusting farmers.
The department of agnculture is
out with a sharp warning against
these diligent pests. They are of
fering in particular a species of
wheat called "Titanic," concerning
which they promise all sorts of in
credible wonders.
Farmers who have invested in
Russian oats and that sort of thing
in former years will be wary of these
new impostors, but others without
the teaching of sad experience to
guide them may be taken in.
The government is taking steps to
provide reliable seed grain for parts
of the country where there is a short-
age. We counsel farmers to invest
in no untried seed without first writ
ing to the department of agriculture
or the Oregon Agricultural college
for information. Every new and old
variety that is worth anything is
known to their experts. Journal.
Divorce Granted '
Judge J. U. Campbell Thursday
signed a divorce decree separating
Ella A. and Elmer H. Hitchman, giv
ing the custody of the minor child to
the father. The case went by default.
SAXON "FOUR"
OREGON CITY
THIS is the best buy you will ever get in a first
class car. The Saxon "Four" originally sold
for $575.00 but we are notified to cut the price on
this roadster $120.00, as the factory is going to make
nothing but "Sixes" in the future.
Now is your chance to get a good car for the same
price as a cheap machine. The SAXON "FOUR"
has a stream-lin,e body and is a beautiful car. For
the above price you will get the following extra
equipment:
Two unit Wagner starting and lighting system;
electric lights; speedometer; one-man rubber top and
top cover; electric horn; combination tail and license
lamp; license bracket; storm curtains; pump; jack;
full set of tools; one extra rim.
30 x 3 Demountable Clincher Tires
L-Head Motor; Four Cylinder, 2 3-4 in. Bore,
4 inch Stroke
LET US CALL ON YOU AND DEMONSTRATE
t THIS CAR
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WHY PROFITEERS KNOCK
MR. DANIELS OF NAVY
Secretary Daniels' firm stand
against "profiteering" and his refus
al to pay exhorbitont prices, for fuel,
steel and other materials and sup
plies for the navy has resulted in the
saving of millions of dollars. Be
fore war was actually declared the
navy department got in touch with
producers of steel and copper and on
April 6 what is known as the "pa
triotic agreement" was made by
which the steel makers agreed to fur
nish 310,000 of steel tp the govern
ment for $58 a ton for plates and $50
a ton for bars and shapes. At that
time the prevailing market price was
$25 to $30 a ton higher than these
figures. This meant a saving of
more than $7,500,000 from market
prices.
When it was seen later that the
government's requirements would far
exceed the amount provided for, the
situation was discussed at conferenc
es between the secretary of the navy,
the secretary of war and the steel
manufacturers, resulting in an agree
ment that government orders would
be given precedence over any private
contracts or orders and that the price
be fixed by the government on the
basis of the cost of production plus a
reasonable profit.
When the coal operators tendered
a price for coal for the navy which
he regarded as exhorbitant, Secretary
Daniels early in June, ordered coal
to be delivered at a tentative price of
$2.35 a ton at the mines, the price
finally paid to be fixed, after investi
gation by the federal trade commis
sion, on the basis of cost of produc
tion plus a reasonable profit. The
lowest price the operators had offered
was $2.95. As the president had fix
ed the price at $2 and the amount
needed for "the navy is approximate
ly 2,000,000 tons, this means a sav
ing of nearly $2,000,000 from the
lowest price offered by the operators
and about $3,000,000 from the mar
ket price of coal at that time, about
$4.50 a ton. .
The same policy vas pursued in
regard to oil, of which the navy uses
about 800,000 barrels in a three
months' period. The tentative pric
es Secretary Daniels fixed, $1.26 at
Port Arthur and $1.08 at San Fran
cisco, represented in the fcmer case
a difference of 42 cents a barrel and
in the latter 21 cents from the lowest
prices offered. Thus the saving in
three months' requirements was
about $250,000.
Great difficulty was found in se
curing additional , ship tonnage to'
provide for the transportation of the
oil needed. The rates demanded were
very high, $15 for ocean cargo char
ter and $12 for "bare shirj" tonnage,
when the rates prior to the war were
about $2.50 per ton for the former
and 60 to 90 cents for "bare ship"
chartering. To relieve the ; situa
tion .the government exercised its
authority and requisitioned six tank
steamships of an aggregate of 58,
239 tons, allowing an advance pay
ment of $1.75 per ton per month on
"bare ship" basis. It is estimated
that this will result in a saving of
$596,949 a month from the prevail
ing prices of tonnage, or $7,163,397
a year. Commoner. .
roads induce automobile ownership
and automobile ownership builds good
roads."
BROWN'S LETTERS THRILL
INCREASE IN MACHINES
WILL PAY PAVING COST
The increase in the number of
automobiles in the state of Oregon
is far in excess of the gain expected
during the year in making calcula
tions for the payment of principal
and interest on hardsurfaced paving
bonds, according to E. J. Adams,
member of the state highway com
mission. Mr. Adams recently pre
dicted that the number of automo
biles licensed this year will be 50 per
cent greater than in 1916. The high
way commission's estimate of expect
ed increase made during the cam
paign for the bonds was 20 per cent,
Mr. Adams stated.
"The other day I passed ' a Cali
fornia car on which the license num
ber was ,316,339," Mr. Adams stat
ed. "The next car had an Oregon
license number. It was 46,000. This
was very gratifying as the total num
ber of cars registered in this state
last year was 33,7.19, and the num
ber indicated that there has already
been an increase of 35 per cent. It
means that the increase for the year
will be about 50 per cent."
Mr. Adams in his campaign for
the good road bonds in presenting
his argument that the automobile li
cense fees would pay off the princi
pal and interest, taking a $12,000,
000 bond issue for illustration, said
that an increase of 20 per cent in the
number of cars licensed for five years
and then an increase of 10 per cent
for the next five years, without any
increase during the remaining 15
years, would meet the obligation.
"If the increase in the number of
automobiles keeps up anything like
the present year, it will provide us
with the means of raising $100,000,
000 for roads in this state," Mr.
Adams stated. "In other words, the
automobiles will pay for building all
the principal roads. We have 3000
miles of road, and if we spend $20,
000 per mile, taking the roads as they'
are, good, bad and indifferent, it
would cost just $60,000,000. The
present rate of increase in the regis
tration of autombiles would finance
that and more, too.
"The men who own the autpmo
biles are not kicking and they are
not going to kick. If the roads are
assured, they would not oppose even
a higher license fee. It would save
them money they must now spend for
tires, broken springs, extra gas and
extra oil.
"Another thing about the number
on the California car. It was 316,
339. The estimated population of
that state in 1916 was about 3,000,
000. The number on the Oregon car
was 46,000. Our population last year
was between 800,000 and 900,000.
These figures show that California
has less than four times our popula
tion and almost seven times our
number of cars. That means good
Pictures of the By-Ways of Our
Northern Gold Bed Alaska
The Courier for several weeks has
been printing M. J. Brown's travel
letters, depicting the actual condi
tions in Alaska, whose mysteries have
never been fully revealed to those of
us who know that romantic northland
as- a vast waste of icebergs, with an
occasional oasis where the gold crops
out like the wheat in our own favor
ed land. But Mr. Brown has chang
ed our ideas. He has gone into the
dark corners, into the nooks where
there is nothing but the awful ex-
pffhse of that natural wonderland to
greet the eye; where there is little
save their own eternal hope to hold
human beings to their dreams of
golden treasure.
Mr. Brown has done more than
any other traveler we have read
to picture to us the realities of our
northern possession. He has for
saken the .highways and turned his
footsteps to the paths and, the trails
of the hardy chaps who have hewn
Alaska from the rough. He was for
saken the glitter of the thriving cit
ies of that great country for the In
dian village, the miner's cabin, the
town that has nothing to show for
its former glory but the dying em
bers of its hopes. He has gotten
down to the people the Cheechako
and the Sourdough, and he tells us
of them in man's language, every
word of it readable, every word of it
aiding to hold us to the next, almost
spell bound. And we have come to
know M. J. Brown's letters as a man's
pictures of a man's land.
The muck stick rather than the
cane is what Brown tells us of; the
calico rag rather than the silk gown
that's the way Brown's letters im
press us. We haven't missed one of
them. We read them as carefully as
does any one of our subscribers and
there are many subscribers who en
joy the letters for the fact, among
others, that Mr. Brown was formerly
editor of The Courier and for many
years a resident of Clackamas coun
ty. This week Mr Brown tells some
mighty interesting things about
Alaska.
M
CALIFF IS BURIED
Young Soldier Accorded Full Military
Honors by Comrades
Full military honors were accord
ed Monday afternoon at the funeral
of Sergeant Carlton F. Califf, who
was killed at Redding, Cal., last Wed
nesday when he fell beneath the
wheels of a railroad car. Pallbear
ers were members of the 3d Oregon
infantry and the regimental band at
tended the service and accompanied
the body to Mountain View ceme
tery. Major Gilbert, regimental
chaplain, conducted the services at
the Presbyterian church, where
scores of- friends' of' the young man
were present.
A quartet composed of Mrs. W. C.
Green, Miss Naomi Armstrong, John
W. Loder and Dr. F. P. .Schultze,
sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere,"
"Rock, of Ages," and "Abide With
Me." At Mountain View, the mili
tary honor took the form of a salute
and the sounding of taps over the
grave. The young man's body was
buried at the side of the grave of
his mother.
ANTI-DISEASE MEETING
Ldcal Petople J Interested in Pre
vention of the White Plague
'Alarmed by war's destruction
through tuberculosis as well as bul
lets, delegates from Oregon, Wash
ington, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming
and Utah have been called into con
ference at Portland, October 15 nd
16. It will be the first conference of
the kind ever held in the northwest.
The first consideration will be
means of checking the ravages of
the disease in trenches and army
camps rind at home. Participation
of the public in an elaborate cam
paign as a measure of vital war ser
vice will be considered.
On Monday, October 15, there will
be a series of reports and analysis
on "Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in War
Times." Answer will be sought to
the difficult question, "What consti
tutes a diagnosis of tuberculosis suf
ficient for rejection from the army?"
C. D. Latourette, Mrs. -J. W. Nor
ris and C. E. Spenceo f Oregon City,
are , directors in the Oregon Associa
tion for the Prevention of Tubercu
losis, under whose auspices the Port
land convention is to be held.
"DAVE" GETS BIG SCORE
Opening of Elks Club Bowling Alleys
Attract Herd of Experts
"Dave" Williams stepped into the
limelight with the opening of the
Elks club bowling alleys for the sea
son last week. The alleys have been
groomed down are in fine shape for
the clique of speedy bowlers of which
Williams is one. He annexed ; a
score of 214 "right off the bat," and
got his name into the first position on
the bulletin board. , On, , the other
hand, such illustrious ' sportsmen as
Judge John N. Sievers turn their at
tention to the ten pins and the big
missiles and get credit for a score
of 58 points. Williams refuses to
sign up with Judge Sievers' team.
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INTRODUCTORY SALE
This announcement is of great importance to every home
owner in Clackamas County
Read Every Word of It
In order to introduce the Famous "Ostermoor" Mattress
to the people of Clackamas County the factory has allowed
us to sell 50 of these high grade mattresses at a price
that means dollars in your pocket.
Jgk One Week 0oly
This is the Famous "Ostermoor" Mattress advertised
in all the leading magazines and periodicals today. It
is thicker, softer, plumper and luxuriously comfortable.
The long, silky, downy, cotton filling is woven into layers the "Ostermoor" way which
builds life long comfort into the mattress. The "Ostermoor" contains 50 pounds of
solid comfort cotton; it has hand sewed bound edges 5yi inches deep; it is covered
with "Ostermoor" fancy art ticking.
' The regular price of the "Ostermoor" is $25.00
Buy one this week at the
introductory sale price for only
YOUR OLD MATTRESS TAKEN IN EXCHANGE
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FRANK BUSCH
CLACKAMAS COUNTY'S LEADING FURNITURE AND HARDWARE DEALER
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WOULD NOT KEEP FRESH IN THIS SECTION.
NOW THE PATENT POUCH KEEPS IT
FRESH AND CLEAN AND GOOD.
A LITTLE CHEW OF GRAVELY IS ENOUGH
AND LASTS LONGER THAN A BIG CHEW
OF ORDINARY PLUG.
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COPS PROVES A FIASCO
Never Bothered Since
After suffering with terrible pains
in, his back and r round his kidneys
for eight years, and after having
tried several doctors and different
medicines, Alvis Souers, Ade, Ind.,
writes: "Foley Kidney Pills were rec
ommended to me and the first bottle
removed the pain. After taking three
bottles the bloating was all gone and
has nevor bothered me since." When
relief can be had so quickly why not
banish backache, rheumatic pains,
stiff and swollen joints caused by dis
ordered kidneys? Jones Drug Co.,
The chief feature of a "turibul"
man-hunt staged on the banks of
Johnson creek near Milwaukie on
last Thursday, was the spectacular,
brass-band antics of the Portland po
lice department, according to Clacka
mas county officers who participated
in a chase after Frank Miller, paroled
convict. Portland papers supplied
beautiful music by telling of the
thrilling revolver duel that accom
panied Miller's capture by one of the
Portland officers.
Miller was reported to be in the
vicinity of Hendee station, where he
robbed a house. Being wanted in
Portland for a series of robberies,
Portland police went in search of the
man. ihey brought about half the
uniformed force and all the spare de
tectives in town, together with sev
eral deputy sheriffs and an automo
bile load of newspapermen who make
the police station their headquarters.
With such a personnel and with
the brushy banks of Johnson creek as
a stage for their thrilling tale, the
newspaper men worked up a fine little
story. They told how Miller several
times escaped the vigilant detectives
and how finally Detective Goltz cor
nered the fucitive in the brush and.
pressing a dangerous looking gattling
gun at the brow of the convict had
him come crawling backward from
the bushes. But before that the dar
ing Miller, according to the fiction
in the case, had held up and outwitted
a couple of the finest sleuth hounds
in the Portland department and had
escaped the perfect aim from a score
of guns. A revolver battle between
Miller and the detectives endangered
the lives of "scores" of Japs engaged
in their gardens nearby, and it was
a "miracle" that some of the officers
were not shot through their brave
hearts.
Bullets flew fast and furiously for
some time, say the papers of the me
tropolis. Not a single bullet was fir
ed, says Constable D. E. Frost, of
Clackamas county. Portland had a
great delegation out to witness the
exciting man-hunt and Clackamas
county's sole representative was Jack
Frost. That is why the Portland of
ficers would not release the prisoner
to Clackamas county when he was
caught within this county, but took to
themselves the glory of the most hair
raising chase since Harry . Tracy
meandered through our verdant ter
ritory. They also copped the reward.
At any rate, Miller was captured and
will be returned to Salem to serve the
six years remaining of a seven year
sentence. He will be booked now as
a parole violator.
Constable Frost charges the Port
land officers with "grandstand play,
ing," and charges that not a shot was
fired in the chase. Instead of cap
turing Miller in the thicket and hav-
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him crawl but backward,' they1
took him captive in the county road
in plain view of everyone, Frost says.
Frost accuses newspaper men and the
officers of making heroes of the cap
tors when not a heroic deed was done
by the Daredevil Dicks of Portland.
The only thing lacking to make the
show a success was a band, says the
constable, which the Portland officers
thoughtlessly left behind them. The
officers misrepresented the facts in
order to gain glory for themselves,
Frost charges.
Rev. Curtis Resigns
The Rev. Oliver L. Curtis has re
signed his pastorate at the Gladstone
Christian church and will undertake
work elsewhere. The pulpit at Glad
stone has not been filled permanent
ly and the board is of a mind to have
it supplied each Sunday by some vis
itor. Mr. Curtis has announced no
definite plans for the future. Ore
gon City has no Chrisitian church
and many members of that denomina
tion in this city are members of the
Gladstone congregation.
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