Oregon City courier., September 27, 1917, Image 1

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COURIER
35th Year
OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1917
Number 28
OREGM
CITY
CALL FOR MORE MEN
FOR NATIONAL ARMY
SECOND 40 PER CENT OF QUOTA
ORDERED TO REPORT.
21 MEN GO TO CAMP
Another 40 per cent, of Clack
amas county's quota of Eoldiers
for the new national army was called
this week to report to Sheriff Wil
son at Oregon City on October 3. The
call, coming from federal authorities
through County Clerk Iva Harring
ton and Sheriff Wilson, will take 21
more men from the county to the
national army cantonment at Amer
ican Lake, Wash. Entraining orders
will be forwarded to the county by
Adjutant General George A. White
as soon as they are prepared.
With this 40 per cent of the total
quota, 85 per cent, of the total from
this county has been called, leaving
only a few more men to respond to
the country's summons for the first
draft. The second quota of drafted
men, however, will not be examined
before the last 15 per cent of the
first draft list has been called into
service.
Those to whom County Clerk Har
rington is issuing orders to appear on
October 3 are: Maynard Cole, Mil
waukie, R. D. 2; Ferdinand A. Scott,
Oregon City; Charles William Eis
ner, Bull Run; Rafaele Tunzi, Canby;
Anton L. Olson, Mount Angel; Otto
Hogg, Oregon City; Ralph Mandeville
Canby; Abraham Ameele, Milwaukie;
Roy Funk, Boring; Edward Pamperin,
Sherwood; Louis Fredrick Kieling,
Aurora; Edward Hoffman, Sandy;
Jake Albert Mitts, Canby; Frank
Linhart, Sandy; William Dale, Esta
cada; Ernest J. Baurer, Sherwood,
R. 1). 2; Frank Thurman Hunter,
Clackamas, R. D. 1; Conrad Cocker
line, Estacada; William Walch, Gresh
am; Albert W. Frederick, Oregon
City; Carl Baxter Mumpower, Ore
gon City, K. D. 2.
Alternates called to provide sub
stitutes in case some one of those
called among the 21 is excused are:
Harry Crawford Reid, Estacada; En
nis Sherman Townsend, Bull Run;
Walter Sidney Smith, Mulino; Ray
Leigh Francisco, Oregon City; Ardu
ius Stefani, Molalla.
Adjutant General White, in a mes
sage delivered here Tuesday, caution
ed the officials that only white men
are to be included in the quota.
Clackamas county has only one color
ed person on its entire draft list.
ZIP! THIEF TAKES A
WHEEL OFF MILLER CAR
Death at sunrise to the villian
who swiped one of the front wheels,
tire, spokes and all, from Fred Mil
ler's new automobile. Fred spends
the daylight hours as chief deputy in
County Clerk Harrington's office and
here of late has been devoting the
few twilight hours before and after
dinner building a new garage on his
property at Gladstone. All in honor
of the new car.
When Mr. Miller awakened at
four o'clock Wednesday morning and
heard the noise of a balky motor in
the street he thought little of it and
went back to his dreams of long
tours and pretty roads with never a
puncture to mar their delight.
Along about six o'clock Fred, anxi
ous to take another look at his brand
new automobile, changed his tune
when he found one front wheel had
been stolen. The thief jacked the
car up and handled Miller's tools in
a very careful manner, putting every
thing back just as it should be after
he had secured the wheel he wanted.
Mr. Miller ordered a new wheel Wed
nesday afternoon.
OLD SOLDIER INJURED
BY ACCIDENTAL SHOT
The accidental firing of an old re
volver in the hands of Miss Maude
Moore, of this city, Monday painful
ly injured Dan Williams, a Civil war
veteran and member of Meade post
G. A. R. Mr. Williams took the old
gun into the Miller & Parker garage
to have it repaired. He held it out
and attempted to pull . the trigger,
not knowing the weapon was loaded,
thereby endangering Miss Moore,
with whom he was talking. Unable
to pull the trigger he handed the gun
to the young woman saying that it
was not loaded. Miss Moore pulled
at the trigger and the force of the
pull drew the gun in the direction of
the old soldier just as it was dis
charged. The 32-calibre bullet pen
etrated the man's shoulder and lodg
ed in the muscle. Dr. C. H. Meis
sner extracted the ball and declared
that the injury was not serious.
HONOR SOLDIER
In honor of John Thomas Hindle
of Redland, who left Oregon
City Friday for the national army
cantonment at American Lake, 100
residents of his. home community
turned out Wednesday night to a so
cial held at the Bethel church. The
young man who will soon don the
garb of Uncle Sam's great army was
the honored guest. Mr. Armstrong
acted as chairman of the affair and
delicious refreshments were an ad
dition to the fine program that was
presented.
The Oregon City Courier and the
Oregon Farmer, both for $1.00.
GOOD ROAD COST
ET
JUDGE H.S. ANDERSON FIGURES
THAT PAVED HIGHWAYS IN
1917 COST $26,680.80
NEARLY 7 1-2 MILES SURFACED
County Has Paid Out $56,495 For
Hard Surfaced Roads Since
It Bought a Plant
. That a total expenditure of $26,
680,80 was made for hard surface
pavement in Clackamas county with'
in the present year, is shown by a
comprehensive summary and detail
ed report on the county's road work
in 1917, just completed by County
Judge H. S. Anderson. According
to the report and summary three and
one half miles of surface were laid
during the year, equalling 32421
square yards, at a cost, for surfac
ing, of $8480v a mile. The average
cost for each of the 32,421 square
yards is placed at 91 cents :a Judge
Anderson's figure.s. Including the
grading which was necessary to put
much of the road in shape for the
surface, the total cost for the average
mile is brought up to $9750.
Of the amount expended on paving
Judge Anderson places $11,685.18 as
the cost of labor; $15,401 as the cost
of materials; incidentals and upkeep,
$2,107.11 and the allowance for in
terest and depreciation is $486.57.
The cost of all grading done during
the year on roads designated 'for
hard surface was $4445.36.
' The county's hard surface pro
gram for the year was carried out
in four units and Judge Anderson s
report covers each unit separately.
Unit No. 1 is counted as that part of
the East 82nd street road from the
point where paving stopped in 1916
to the Multnomah county line. The
length of this unit is 3679 feet or
7-10 of, a mile. .It conta'ns 6541
square yards of hard surface and the
total cost was $6422.48, or an aver
age cost of 98 cents a yard for the
paving laid by the county's own
crews and with county-owned ma
chinery. The cost of the labor on
Unit No. 1 was $2545.77; material
$3353.43 and incidentals and upkeep,
$523.28. Grading the unit cost .$978.
59 for labor and $137.51 for mater
ials. The average length of haul of
material from the mixer to the scene
of the paving operation on this unit
was two miles', and for the hauling
three trucks were used. Including
the cost of grading on this unit the
total cost was $7538.58, or an av
erage of $1.05 per square yard.
Unit No. 2 was on the East 82nd
street road from the S. P. crossing
to near McMickles' corner. It was
2542 feet in length and contains 4259
square yards of hard surface. The
pavement is 10 feet wide for 390
feet on Pope hill and throughout the
rest of its distance is 16 feet wide.
For grading and surfacing, including
all costs, the unit cost a total of
$4249.02, or an average of 97 cents
a square yard. The pavement alone
averaged in cost 82 cents a square
yard, or a total of $3523.64, includ
ing $1261.05 for labor, $1911.87 for
material and $340.72 for incidentals
and upkeep. Grading cost $578.61
for labor and $156.77 for material.
On the paving the average haul was.
three and one-quarter miles from the
mixer and five trucks were used.
Unit No. 3, the most expensive
paving laid by the county this year,
is on East 82nd street from near E.
Dedman's homo to Clackamas sta-,
tion, and represents a total cost,
grading and paving, of $10,943.00, or
an average of $1.21 a square yard.
The unit is 5068 feet long and con
tains 9010 square yards of hard sur
face. The pavement cost $9474.46,
including $3904.93 for labor; $4848.
73 for material and $720.80 for inci
dentals and upkeep. The length of
haul from the mixer, five miles, help
ed boost the cost on this unit to an
average of $1.05 for the paving
alone. Five trucks were used to
make the necessary hauls. Grading
on unit No. 3 cost $1469.14, including
$1367.38 for labor and $101.76 for
material.
The cost of unit No. 4, extending
along the river road south from
Island station, a distance of 7094
feet, was $11,394.96 for everything.
The average cost per yard was 90.3
cents a yard. The pavement on the
unit cost $10,270.22, $3973.43 for la
bor; $5287.91 for material and $1008.
88 for incidentals and upkeep, mak
ing the average cost per yard for the
12,611 yards of hard surface in the
unit, 81.5 cents. Grading cost $922.
72 for labor and $202.02 for material,
a total of $1124.74. The paving ma
terials were hauled a distance of
more than five miles by five trucks.
The figures of Judge Anderson's
annual report and summary for 1917
are in contrast to the figures for
1916. In the previous year 3.97
miles of pavement were laid in the
county at an average cost of 73.3
cents a square yard, or a total cost of
$26,815.02, as compared with an av
erage of 91 cents and a total of $29,
680.80 for the present yearwhen
3 miles were laid.
HAN
916
GRAIN PRODUCERS TO
HAVE BETTER PRICES
CONFERENCE WHICH SPENCE
ATTENDS AT WASHINGTON
HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL
The representatives of the Pacific
northwestern grain producers and
handlers, of which C. E. Spence of
this city was one, in conference with
the food administration, Saturday
arrived at a settlement in regard to
handling the northwestern wheat
crop. With the assistance of the
shipping board, the food administra
tion has been given assurance of
overseas transportation for Pacific
northwest grain and it, therefore, is
able to make a base price at north
Pacific export points on an overseas
basis, instead of the previous foot
ing of a price based on rail transport
to Chicago.
The base price unanimously agreed
upon by the northwestern representa
tives is $2.05 for No. 1 Northern, or
equivalent at Portland, Seattle and
Tacoma for bulk wheat, with usual
premium for sacked wheat. In order
to adjust difficulties of the new fed
eral grading act, the food administra
tion will, until further notice, pur
chase everything below No. 3 grade
on sample.
By this action 'of the food adminis
tration, the value of this year's wheat
crop in the Pacific northwest is in
creased about $2,250,000.
It is believed the new price will
satisfy the farmers of the northwest,
although they had hoped for a higher
rate. The increase amounts to 5
cents a bushel net to the growers.
By the first arrangement, wheat was
to sell here solely on the Chicago ba
sis of 2.20, which, allowing for the
freight of 30 cents from the north
west to Chicago, meant $1.90 to the
farmers in the Inland Empire. The
10-cent average weight rate from
the interior to Portland and Puget
Sound points, brought the price of
the tidewater markets to. $2. Now,
there is a $2.05 market at Portland,
Seattle and Tacoma, which is equiv
alent to $1.95 at producing points.
This applies only on wheat that
comes this way, as the same wheat,
if shipped eastward would be worth
only $1.90, for it would sell there on
the Chicago basis and would have to
pay the 30-cent freight. Naturally
the farmers of the Inland Empire will
market their wheat here and thus
get the added 5 cents.
Grain men were somewhat con
cerned at first as to what the coast
terminal markets would do with the
11,000,000 bushels surplus of the
northwestern crop, but it appears
from Mr. Hoover's telegram that the
ocean tonnage will be provided by
the shipping board, and that a water
freight rate will be made low enough
to offset the high rail freight tariff
to which the grain otherwise would
be subjected. It is also likely that
all this export wheat will be milled
before it is shipped abroad, . thus
saving much steamer space.
No notice has been given yet that
the grain corporation will buy wheat
in the northwest, as it is doing in
the eastern states, but this action
will probably be announced Thurs
day.
The matter of flour and millfeed
prices is likely to be cleared, up very
soon, now mat the wheat price is
definitely fixed. While consumers in
this territory will not get these com
modities quite as cheap as thev ex-
pected, still a material reduction
from the present prices must be made
before floor and feed are on a par
ity with wheat.
MOOSE DEDICATION IS
IN COMMITTEES' HANDS
Comimittees to have eharo-e of t.hn
program for the dedication of the
new Moose lodere home here have
been appointed and are busy with
tne aetans or the big event to take
place October 2. The bancuet will
be in charge of a committee compris
ing H. A. Shandy, chairman; A. L.
Barnes, Fraternal Brotherhood; W. H.
Smith. Kniehts of Pvthias: Mrs. Wil.
liam Harvey, United Artisans; Mrs.
m. r. onapman, Pythian Sisters and
Mrs. Martin Christensen. Tfnio-hta
and Ladies of Security.
The entertainment will be provid
ed by the following committee: Dr.
Roy Prudden, chairman; F. J. Tooze,
Knights of Pythias; M. S. McGau
hey, Artisans: Mrs. Charles Mi-Cnr.
mack, Pythian Sisters; Mrs. Henry
Henningson, Knights and Ladies of
Security.
Edward Busch is chairman of the
dance committee and will be assisted
by A. M. White, Knights yof Pythias;
Mrs. Hamilton, Artisans; Mrs. Beck
man, Pythian Sisters, and M. P.
Chapman, Knights and Ladies of Se
curity. INSTRUCTOR NAMED
Walter Kimmell, U. of O., Will Have
Manual Training Work
The Oregon City school board has
announced the election of Walter W.
Kimmell, graduate of the state uni
versity, to the position of manual
training instructor in the local high
school. Mr. Kimmell comes to Ore
gon City with splendid recommenda
tions. He took 18 months of manual
training work at the Oregon Agri
cultural college after leaving the uni
versity of Oregon.
GITY LOSES IIS
TO
DECISION OF SUPREME COURT
GIVES FULL TITLE TO
P. R. L, & P. ON APPEAL
MAY APPEAL TO U. S. COURT
Triangular Strip on Main St. Given
to Railroad Company After
Long Fight
Oregon City appears to have lost
her last hope of ownership of water
front property within the city limits,
as a result of the decision of the
state supreme court on Tuesday re
versing Judge Campbell and giving
title to the P. R. L. & P. Co., on a tri
angular strip of land at the south
end of Main street.
After several years of litigation,
during which Mayor E. C. Hackett
and ex-Senator Christian Schuebel
wure leaders on behalf of the city, the
city is practically barred from using
any of the water of the Willamette
falls for water power purposes, since
all the remaining water front is pri
vately owned. The strip to which the
P. R. L. & P. Co., has at last won
title carried with it all water rights
in that section of the basin on which
it abuts.
The strip involved is at the south
end of Main street where the pave
ment ends at the Hawley mills and
the road makes an angle and the car
track turns toward Canemah over
the board walk. . A triangle of prop
erty is left where the Canemah road
branches off Main street. The su
preme court, in reversing Judge
Campbell, who declared the city's
title to the property, seems to have
taken the stand that there was no
need for a street at the particular
spot and that the city, therefore,
could have no other just and proper
use for the land. Inasmuch as the
surrounding propert," is taken up
with factory and mill buildings the
supreme court holds the city could
not use the property.
. Mayor Hackett, who foresees the
day when the city will have to con
sider municipal ownership of one
public utility or another, has fought
since the day he was first elected a
councilman to retain title to the land
in question. Some three years ago
the P. R. L. & P. Co., filed an action
in the circuit court against the city
to quiet title to the strip of land. The
city then began, through its attorney,
Mr. Schuebel, a fight to hold the
strip. The success of the fight was
assured when Judge Campbell hand
ed down his decision favorable to the
city, but the supreme court Tuesday
put a crimp into that success.
Mr. Schuebel, no longer city at
torney, but still engaged to carry on
this particular case, said Tuesdav
Evening that the case should be ap
pealed to the United States Supreme
Court on its merits and such an ac
tion may be contemplated by the
council when it takes the decision
under official consideration. Mr.
Schuebel will go to Portland within
a tfay or so to examine the United
States law upon such questions with
the idea of ascertaining if some con
stitutional question is not involved to
make the success of federal appeal
more sure.
Mayor Hackett said today that the
decision is an effective bar to the
city's hope of owning its own water
power, since the P. R. L. & P. Co..
practically controlls the falls. "The
supreme court went too far, it ap
pears to me," Mayor Hackett said,
when it tried to deal with the case
in such a way as to decide whether
the city had any use for this property
It was not a question, of its use to
the city that the court was asked to
determine, but a question of the
validity of the city's title to the land.
A private owner would not be call
ed upon to prove that he had use for
the land to which he claimed title;
neither should the city. What use
we may have for it could not be with
in the knowledge of the supreme
court. If an appeal of the case to
the United States supreme court
will not cost the taxpayers too much
money I am decidedly in favor of
taking such a step."
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Oreeon City Courier and Tha Or.
CLAIM
WATER
gon Farmer, one year for both Jl.
CITY TURNS OUT EN
MASSE FOR FAREWELL
THIRD OREGON GOES TO NORTH
CAROLINA; GIRLS GIVE
MANY LUNCH BOXES
Oregon City turned out en masse
Monday for a final farewell to the
boys of the 3rd Oregon and other
units stationed at Clackamas, who
passed through the city 'on their way
to Camp Greene, Charlotte, North
Carolina. And not the least of the
farewell were the two express truck
loads of edibles and delicacies for
the boys, prepared by members of the
Girls' Honor Guard and the Red
Cross women. A great many tempt
ing lunches were prepared and dis
tributed at the trains. The soldiers
came through here in two sections,
shortly after six in the evening. But
the girls were there upon both oc
the first at 12:20 and the second
casions to spread their good cheer
and to pass out the boxes of lunch,
fruit and delicacies.
Morgan's store donated a box of
apples and a full bunch of bananas
and the Larsen store supplied a box
of peaches and a watermelon. Other
merchants also donated from their
stocks to make the feed prepared by
the girls of the city complete. Some
womien prepared as many as 12 indi
vidual lunch boxes.' '
The farewell at the trains, which
carried many Clackamas county boys
to their southern camp, and perhaps
to an early voyage to Europe, was
tearful and sentimental. Mothers,
wives, sisters and sweethearts, not to
mention fathers and brothers, gather
ed in a great patriotic throng and
the goodbyes of many of them were
spoken between sobs.
Among the officers in the 3d Ore
gon from Oregon City are: Captain
W. R. Logus, regimental adjutant;
Captain Lowell A. Blanchard, com
mander of company G, and Lieuten
ant Eldon Blanchard. Kent Wilson,
son of Sheriff and Mrs. W. J. Wilson,
is a sergeant in the hospital corps,
and Kenneth Moody is with the
mounted scouts of the headquarters
company. In practically every unit
Oregon City is represented and in
Company G, the city and county have
a large number of young men.
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B COST OF GOOD ROADS B
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B Amounts appropriated an- B-
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B ty court for road work in the B
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B and do not include much special B
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B that has gone into the building B
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B an increase of more than 460 B
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B 600 per cent, more than B
B that of 1909. The increase, B
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B 1917 ,....$260,000 B
B 1916 242,000 ffl
8 1915 200,000 B
B 1914 208,000 B
B 1913 173,000 B
B 1912 173,000 B
B 1911 -68,500 B
B 1910 51,400 ffl
B 1909 42,000 B
B 1908 56,000 B
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TEEVIN MUST FOREGO AN
APPEAL AND GO TO ARMY
Joseph Francis Teevin, of Damas
cus left here Wednesday for Camp
Lewis, at American Lake, Wash., to
take up the duties of a soldier in the
national army without the right of
appealing to the board for exemp
tion and without even undergoing
medical examination. Teevin was
ordered to report before the local
board on August 9, but had left the
county without advising the author-
ties of his destination. Tuesday the
young man appeared before the
board and, un,der the rules of the
draft, was ordered to report immed
iately at American Lake. Teevin, it
appears, had been working on an
eastern Oregon ranch and had not
received a notice. His attorney in
Portland heard of the matter and ad
vised the young man to get back
here promptly. Teevin has a divorce
suit pending and is the father of
three children. It is said that Mrs.
Teevin contemplates filing a cross
complaint in the divorce case and
that action will be held up for some
time, but Teevin's plea to be allow
ed to await its outcome was not
availing.
Three Divorces Granted
Divorce decrees were sicrned Wed
nesday by Judge Campbell separat
ing Bertha and Arch Davidson, who
is to pay $10 a month toward the
support of two minor boys; Edith
and Andy Kohler and William C. and
Zophia C. Schramn.
LIFE IS REAL
THE YUKON
LITTLE TALES OF GOLD-MAD
MEN, MINING CAMPS AND
HUMAN BONES
HELL'S PASS, SCARRY RAPID
Pictures of Alaska's By-Ways Where
Prospector's Stampede Was
Rewarded with Wealth
, (M. J. Brown)
The man who makes the Yukon riv
er trip from Dawson to St. Michael
will never regret it, but he will never
make it but once unless he is oblig
ed to.
After Dawson is left the schedule
is one long trip of uncertainty and
discomforts and they grow worse as
the lower river is reached.. "Tour
ists be damned," I heard the first
mate say to another officer, "get the
freight"
But the discomforts, anxieties and
uncertainties come later on. For the
first thousand miles the trip was
most interesting, and with the weath
er warm and bright, it was with keen
enjoyment that we sat day after day
on the deck, and watched the many
places of interest along the crooked
stream.
At Seattle a lady came on board.
She lived at Forty Mile, and had
lived there for over twenty years.
She went outside, over the trail, in
the winter for a surgical operation
and was returning.
If there was ever a booster for
the North Land, it was she. She lov
ed it, she yearned for it, she could
hardly wait to get home, and she
told me if I would only stop off at
Forty Mile and wait for the next
steamer down she and her husband
would show me some of the real joys
remember the north. She said her
husband would meet her at Dawson
with a launch, and she urged me
to join them. . But a thirty mile
launch trip did not appeal to me, so
I decided to stick to the boat and per
haps drop off after I had seen the
town.
The next day I asked the purser if
I could lay over at Forty Mile for the
next boat if the town looked good to
me and I concluded to stop.
"Nothing doing," he replied.
"Your ticket will allow you to lay
over but the Canadian government
won't. You are on an American bot
tom and you can't get off in Canadian
territory." And then he remarked
he reckoned I wouldn't care to stop
after I had seen the town.
In the morning we reached Forty
Mile and the boat remained long
enough to unload a little freight and
load on the countless show cases and
fixtures of a once big company Btore
that had died for want of business.
A dozen log cabins, a dilapidated
big road house, a wireless station, a
little store and a couple of red-coated
Northwest Mounted Police. That
was Forty Mile the wonderful North
Land the lady had told me about for
days. This was the home she was
homesick and heartsick to get back
to.
The wireless man told me there
were only two white women within
a radius of 60 miles square; that the
most of the miners had left the coun
try and the town would soon be de
serted. "Even the road house has left
its license lapse, and the town is sure
gone now," he moaned.
Forty Mile has had an up and
down existence. There is gold there,
but not rich ground, no big strikes,
and time and again just when the
camp on Forty Mile river, back from
the town, had settled down to a slow
but steady producing proposition,
then would come news of a big strike
somewhere down the river and the
miners would stampede for it like a
flock of sheep grabbing anything
that would float and rushing to the
new diggings.
I learned that the husband of the
lady was foreman of a dredge outfit
that an English company had long
ago been operating on the Forty Mile
river, but that one dredge was aban
doned and the other would soon be,
as the river had been worked out.
And as we sat on the bank watch
ing the . deck hands load the store
fixtures, the radio man rushed down,
very much excited, and handed us a
bulletin. The passengers on deck
called to us to know what it was, so I
mounted the store steps, summoned
up my oratory and said:
Amsterdam dispatch says
Kaiser has abdicated in favor of
Prince Joachim. Great stress
in imperial circles.
This was wonderful news in a
newspaperless country, and it was the
only news we heard from the outside
for a thousand miles further down the
river. So while we fought mosqui
tos we discussed it, argued it, doubt
ed it, dissected it and made it last.
The entire length of the Yukon
has Indian villages scattered along,
and between them are scattered cab
ins where one or two Indian families
live alone. And for hundreds of
miles along the river runs the trail,
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TIMBER BARONS SAY
TAXATION TOO HIGH
FILE ANNUAL SERIES OF COM
PLAINTS AGAINST ASSESS
MENT ON $1,500,000
Complaints that the tax assess
ments on Clackamas county timber
lands valued at nearly $1,500,000,
are too high, were filed in Judge J.
U. Campbell's court here Friday by
C. L. Starr, representing the heavi
est timber holders in the county.
From the county's valuation, rough
ly estimated at $1,211,500, the com
plainants ask a reduction in value to
$507,600, approximately.
Similar complaints are filed by Mr.
Starr each year, and from the one
filed in 1915 on behalf of the Weyer
haeuser timber interests has grown
the noted case that was settled in the
state supreme court on Wednesday
when these people were denied a re
hearing in the case. The case was
tried here early in 1916, and the
county was ordered to reduce its as
sessments to a certain extent. Tak
en to the supreme court, it was held
that the company should pay on its
full valuation as assessed by the
county. Appealed by the company
for a rehearing, the motion was de
nied on Wednesday.
In the complaints filed Friday the
Weyerhaeuser interests figure most
prominently. They ask a reduction
in assessed valuation from approxi
mately $650,000 to $250,000. Other
reductions asked to make the total of
nearly $1,500,000 are: George S.
Lacy estate, from $79,700 to $51,800;
E. S. Collins, $18,500 to $12,900;
George Baldwin, $15,000 to $8000; W.
R. Burt, $72,500 to $36,200; E. S.
Collins and T. D. Collins estate, $376,
500 to $211,800.
SOLDIERS HONORED AT
FAREWELL-RECEPTION
From the opening song, "Star
Spangled Banner," sung by Mrs.
Carl Moore, of Gladstone, until the
same singer closed the meeting by
singing, "Laddie in Khaki, I'm Wait
ing for You," the farewell reception
to the 21 young men who left Ore
gon City - for the national army can
tonment at American Lake, was a
success. The reception was held
Thursday night in the beautifully
decorated Commercial club parlors,
and called out many citizens. A. E.
Clark, of Portland, spoke in a highly
patriotic vein of the work of young
men in the wars of the present and
past and paid a fine tribute to them.
O. B. Eby president of the Commer
cial club, made a patriotic address.
Garland Hollowell, one of the
young men whq left Friday morning,
assisted Mrs. Moore with the music
al program. He sang, "Lo, 'Tis the
Day," and later he and Mrs. Moore
sang a duet. Miss Sadie Evelyn Ford
was the accompanist.
Friday morning at 9 o'clock, two
hours late, 21 young men from this
county boarded the train for Amer
ican Lake and about them crowded
scores of loving friends and relatives.
The tributes at the train took a dif
ferent form and there was a great
display of gifts for the boys. Sheriff
Wilson managed the entraining with
out a hitch, although he was consid
erably worried when one young man
was late at the depot. The 21 men
originally called were dispatched
and the alternates will return to their
homes to await the departure of the
next quota. Garland Hollowell, of
Gladstone, and John" Thomas Hindle,
of Redland, were in charge of the
men who left Friday morning.
To further inconvenience the local
quota, the train with which the men
were to make connections at Port
land did not wait for the delayed
train from here and in consequence
the soldiers stayed in Portland from
10 o'clock Friday morning until two
in the afternoon. They arrived at
American Lake soon after six o'clock
Friday evening.
NEW BORN BABE CAST
INTO THE WILLAMETTE
The bodv of a new-hnrn hnhv cirl
was taken from the racks of the
Hawley Pulp & Paper company's mill
at me neao or tne oasin in the wu-
iuiiiv.w iTv. ugia iitiu x ucauujf ai
ternoon having apparently been in
tne water about 24 hours.
The little bodv was turned nvnr t.n
the Holman company and was bur
ied Wednesday in the potter's field
while countv officials att.emnfc tn nn.
ravel a deep mystery. The theory is
that the child was born aboard a
Great Northern train and nnmcv
continued on a Southern Pacific train,
from which ,it was cast into the
water. The body was wrapped in
towels and a sheet which bears the
laundry mark of the Great Northern
company. The baby was thrown di
rectly into the basin leading to the
paper company's racks, as the cur.
rent would have carried it to the
west side otherwise.
Dr. Guv Mount, called vesterduv hv
Judge John S. Sievei-s, acting cor
oner, to examine the tiny body, said
the child was dead before it had been
cast into the river, since there was no
water in the little lungs. At the
same time the doctor gave his opin
ion that the child had been deliberate
ly murdered by being allowed to bleed
to death, when the slightest effort
could have saved its life.