OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1917.
OREGON CITY COURIER
C. W. ROBEY, Editor and Business Manager
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RECLAMATION
The project that would reclaim
by seeding to pasture 2500 acres
of Clackamas county's vast burned
over area is worthy of the highest
commendation from those interested
in the future of the county, and calls
for maximum cooperation.
Thousands of acres of such lands
cannot be reclaimed for the immed
iate use of livestock men because
the government plans reforestration
work. But on land where that is
not advisable luxuriant growths of
grass may be developed. When hay
prices soar to heights beyond the
average breeder's purse he may turn
to the reclaimed pasture for the sal
vation of his herds and his bank ac
count. It is interesting to speculate up
on the possibilities of reclaiming the
waste acres of Clackamas county.
The government's reforestration
work need not hinder thought of
utilizing government land for pri
vate profit, for there are thousands
upon thousands of acres where stock
might yet be pastured and it is
much of this land that the Live
Wires of Oregon City hope to see
reclaimed as a result of their ex
periment with angora goats.
There is sheep and cattle pasture
unlimited in this county, and al
though much of it needs the plant
ing that the county agricultural
agent proposes, its utilization by the
public would double, time and again,
the resources and wealth of the
county. If war's emergencies should
be forced upon us there is room
enough in Clackamas county alone
and three-fourths of it is totally un
developedto feed the entire state
and clothe it in the bargain.
It , would seem to be a patriotic
duty, if not a personal commercial
advantage, for all of us to put
strong shoulders to the wheel of
progress that would tend so mater
ially to better the county and state.
BIG PIGS KICK HARDEST
Aside from the fact that an at
torney needs their support, it re
mains a considerable mystery why
the Weyerhaeuser timber interests
1 continue to clutter court records
and steal public time with their
bulky complaints against tax as
sessments on their immense hold
ings in Clackamas county.
The lesson the forest barons have
had in their recent defeat before the
state supreme court should be
enough to discourage them from any
further attempt at gouging the
treasury of the county that gives
them their selfish quarter.
The fact that these plutocratic
interests are not wasting their
sweet young lives in worry over
their holdings is proved by a glance
at the 'corporate resources that are
the result of their earnings in tim
her land monopolies. The supreme
court has proved to its learned sat
isfaction that the assessments
against these vast timber areas are
not excessive, but are in keeping
with the financial needs of the coun
ty. It must, then, be the desire of
these barons, who have grown rich
in the exploitation of our forests,
to provide war bread and valuable
butter for the corps of lawyers
whose time is spent in futile at
tempts to feed the biggest hogs for
the smallest cost.
Maybe congress or perhaps some
government power will be forced to
find a way to show these gentlemen
before the end of the war that they
are, in reality, getting a great deal
for nothing, rather than being rob
bed by an honest tax assessor.
would seem just one grand, sweet
song of heatherbloom and bluebells.
We are wrong, it is not. To a party
of New York business men recently
Lauder told of the Germans turn
ing naked English prisoners loose
to go back to their own lines, only
to bs cut down with machine gun
fire. "I know that's true," said
Lauder, "because my own son told
me. When I say my son I know you
will believe me for he fought and
bled and died for France. I love
France," he continued. "I own a
little piece of France. It is where
my son is buried on a beautiful
green hillside. And when I went to
his grave I wanted to reach down
under the grass and put my arms
about his neck and kiss him and
thank him for all he had done for
his mother and for me." When the
little Scotchman went on with his
speech there were few dry eyes in
the room.
Russia and Italy, and then take a
firmer grip on our plow handles, de
termined to make sacrificial efforts
to live up to the ides of our fore
fathers." There is a sentiment that
needs no explanation.
The Eastern Clackamas News,
Estacada, last week wasted space in
babbling about mistakes in The
Courier's report of an automobile
accident. Editor Standisli knows
as well as we do why newspapers
sometimes fail to print proper nam
es correctly. We wanted to com
ment upon the Standish effusion,
but after a thorough search of our
exchange table have resolved that
his little paper must be buried some
where beneath a copy of the late
lamented Sandy News.
NOT BEYOND ENEMY'S REACH
BIG BUFFALO HERD
Largest and Most Picturesque
Group in World.
Aulumn leaves and the sniffles
come at about the same time.
Strike news: The walking dele
gate still has his easy job.
Farm work nearing an end, it is
time for the fall clean-up. Let's
start in on the folks who refused to
sign the food conservation cards.
Our idea of high life, a la Port
land, is to attend a cheap movie and
wind up the evening in the filthy
splendor of a Chinese noodle joint.
Oregon City is still in municipal
infancy. Nearly 10,000 persons
within its limits and it has not a
garbage collection system.
John Jones is old and cannot
fight. He does his noble bit by join
ing the great army of food conser
vationists. '
"Several thousand dollars in trade
lost daily by strike, is claim of
Oregon City business men," says
headline. And there is not a breath
of arbitration in the air.
"To Hell and Back," was the
subject of a sermon in an Oregon
City church recently. We had not
been aware that one could get a re
turn ticket from hades.
The Y. M. C. A. dugout in the
trenches will furnish Christmas
cheer for our boys overseas. The
Y. M. C. A. wants $4000 of Clack
amas county money next week. Is
YOUR share ready?
"Huns kill three U. S. boys, cap
ture 12," reads a story in the day's
news. A few more like that and
America will open both eyes and the
stay-at-homes will learn to do their
part.
There is something more than the
thought of adventure that makes
"ten-year-old children spend a night
in the rain-soaked woods. Maybe
that something can be found in the
home, too.
A NEW WAR SPEECH
To most of us the life of Harry
Lauder, noted Scotch comedian,
Julius Wilbur, late of the Friar's
club, has violated all the laws of
decency and mankind. His nasty
hide is not worth puncturing with
a German' dum-dum, and his wicked
neck is too tough for the hang-man's
noose. For his ilk we sometimes
wish we could recall the old time
lynching bee.
The Courier's Logan correspond'
ent says this week: "Do we really
believe, as we have always been
taught in America, that the voice
of the people is the voice of God,
and that governments derive their
power from the consent of the gov
ernea ( ir so, let us cast our
thoughts toward Belgium, France,
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Do You Wear a
Liberty Loan Button?
nnHIS BANK will continue to
sell Liberty Loan Bonds
on the $5.00 a-month-payment-plan
until further notice.
We BANK $f OREGON CITY
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Resources More Than One Mllion Dollars
Animals Roam Over New National Re
serve Covering Area of 107,000
Acres Near Wainwrlght, B. C.
The largest herd of buffalo In the
world Is now owned by Connda. They
form a picturesque group as they
roam over the new national reserve
set apart for them near Wainwrlght,
a city 125 miles east of Edmonton, on
the Grand Trunk Pacific railway.
Canadians recognized the need of
action if the bison were to be pre
served, and purchased practically the
entire herd of 600 or 700 from Michael
Pablo of Montana, who had carefully
gathered them together and protect
ed them- on his great ranch near Ra
valli. , In the Wainwrlght national park
were placed more than 500 buffalo,
which were transported across the
International boundary line by train
from the Pablo ranch. The round
ing up and loading on the cars of
this large number of untamed ani
mals and their young wos no light
task, and after a long period of hard
work more than 150 of the most un
ruly had been left behind, having
stampeded every time an attempt
was made to drive them toward a
corral.
The natural Increase In the herd has
brought the number to nearly 1,000.
In the present favorable environment
It Is expected that they will multiply
rapidly.
Although kept within the boun
daries of the reserve the bison can
hardly be said to be in confinement.
Their stamping grounds cover an
area of 107,000 acres 165 square
miles. It Is 26 miles In an nlr line
the longest way across. A wire fence
eight feet high and 73 miles In length
Incloses It.
When the fence was constructed It
was found that 12 wild deer and one
wapiti had been fenced In. Eighteen
small lakes and n number of streams
are within the park. Prairie chick
ens, ducks and other game find a rest
ing place here undisturbed by the
hunter. The park Is truly a buffalo
paradise.
Everywhere are outlines of old buf
falo trails and wallows. These wal
lows are being reopened by the new
denizens and once again the trails are
being marked by the hoofs of the bi
son. The grasses are the kind that
the buffalo specially like. As the or
dinary span of a buffalo's life Is one
hundred years, It may be that some
of the herd are revisiting scenes of
their youth.
Michael Pablo, from whom the Cana
dian government purchased the herd,
Is a pure-blooded Indlnn and one of
the wealthi-st of the redmen. He re
ceived $200,000 from the Dominion for
600 head of buffalo.
Aroused by the loss of these buffalo,
the United States Has established
a national bison range In the Flat
head Indian reservation hi Montana,
comprising 12,000 acres near the towns
of Ravalli nnd Dixon, and It will be
stocked by the Amerlcnn Bison soci
ety. Some animals for a nucleus may
be obtained from a herd of about 80,
owned by the Conrad estate near Kali-spell.
There Is Scarcely a Spot in a Belliger
ent Country That Cannot Be- At
tacked With Modern Equipment.
By far the greatest of revolutions
was the Industrial revolution that
broad change In human society which
attended the supplanting of home pro
duction by machine factory produc
tion. Take any conspicuous detail In
which the nineteenth century differs
from the eighteenth, and you will prob
ably find that It runs back finally to
a mechnnlcal Invention. Throughout
two-thirds of the century the condition
of society was determined much more
by the state of the mechunlcnl arts
than by politicians, warriors or teach
ers. A distinguished economist now
urges that this same factor the state
of the mechanlcti arts Is pushing
war off the stage, nnd of Itself neces
sitates a new relationship among lead
ing nations by which peace may be as
sured. Mechanical science has already vast
ly changed and will soon completely
change the conditions of warfare. In
ventions make war nn unlimited liabil
ity In a new way, declares the Satur
day Evening Post. Probably within
five years it will be ns practicable for
an enemy to attack Chicago and Den
ver, or Berlin and Munich, ns New
York or Bremen. Already English
men have been killed on their own
soil by an Invnding enemy for the
first time since the Stuarts, nnd a
German submarine has visited Ameri
can ports. Already scarcely any spot
In a belligerent country Is beyond an
enemy's reach. If there should be a
war ten years hence between a pow
er as ready as Germany was In 1914,
and one ns unready as the United
States then was, the former could
wreak Incalculable destruction upon
the latter within a month ; no spot In
It would be safe, and the cost of ade
quate preparation for war by competi
tive arming would lay an Intolerable
burden on the world.
The cost of playing the old game
puts It out of the question. Develop
ment of the mechanical arts vetoes It.
Only a few people In control of dy
nastic states and their entourage have
any real motive for regretting the veto.
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A Dowden Potato Digger-
Children and the War.
Agnes Repplier says in the Woman's
Home Companion : "We cannot afford
to have young people feel that they
have no part to play In the nation's
heroic struggle, that they may go on
amusing themselves In the old careless
fashion, while men are dying for their
safety. The rites and ceremonies Of
'coming out' may well be omitted, or
at least simplified. We have grown
to attach a tremendous but wholly
mythical importance to a girl's first
season, to regard It as something sa
cred and Invloluble, with which no
catnclysm should be permitted to in
terfere, and for which no sacrifice Is
too great. It Is not an uncommon
thing to hear the death of a distin
guished citizen regretted because It
Interferes with the coming out of an
18-year-old niece. If the war helps to
moderate this point of view It will
have done us one good turn. If a girl
decides to take a hospltul course In
stead of devoting her winter to gayety,
she chooses wisely. Her health will
be conserved, her heart and mind ex
panded." .
New Headgear In Paris.
A new headdress strange to the
French capital has been seen In the
streets of Paris. It Is the fumous blue
bonnet of the Polish militia, which Is
being worn by the soldiers of the new
Polish urmy. Otherwise their uniform
Is that of the French soldier. For
some months, nt the camp of Mont
lucon, where a number of Polish pris
oners are Interned, the national head
dress, made by the prisoners them
selves and ornamented with the Polish
colors, red and white, has been worn
by them on their way to nnd from
work. They are very anxious not to
be taken by the French people for
Germans or Austrlans. In the court
yard of a chateau in which they are
Interned tiie prisoners congregate, In
their leisure hours, and sing part
songs. On July 14, the anniversary of
the fall of the Hostile, they began
their couort with the ".Marseillaise.",
Needless tj say, the Polish prisoners
receive preferential treatment.
Feigns Blindness, Is Freed.
A professor of the Sorbonue, the
great FronUi university, recently ob
tained his release from u Gorman mili
tary prison by a remarkable exercise
of will power.
He fell i.ito the hands of the Ger
mans In 11K5. Deciding at once to get
free In some way, he feigned blind
ness. From that time It wns impos
sible for ths German military doctors
or eye specialists to catch him off his
guard. They subjected mm to the
severest tests, such 11s sudden appari
tions of uufamlllar and uuexpected
objects, sudden transitions from com
plete obscurity to dazzling light. He
was tortured by scientific ways of
verifying sightlessness, but never once
departed from a fixed, blank gaze, pre
senting ulways an absolute absence of
expression in his eyes. He was finally
declared totally blind and included In
a recent exchange of permanently dis
abled prisoners.
Women In Trousers.
The question of whether women as
the result of the war should wear
trouserettes is being solved without
holding conventions and without the
aid of those who have heretofore made
the fashions, says the Omaha World
Herald. In Vancouver, B. C, there
wos nn enormous berry crop, culti
vated and wild, and there was only
enough labor In sight to gather one
third of it. Frfitic with the thought
of so much loss, the people appealed
to the government. The first proposi
tion was to ship In two or three thou
sand Chinese coolies. The women up
there said that would result In two
or three thousand more to feed and
they made nn appeal to the women
and girls of the province. In a few
days more than 2,000 were enlisted.
The briars and brambles of the fruit
field would make short work of skirts
and the women all donned trousers.
The army was drawn from all walks
of life.
DIGS YOUR POTATOES CLEAN
Gets Them ALL
LIGHT DRAFT because high wheeled
PERFECT SEPERATION because of larger
and wider elevators than others of like size
LONG LASTING because all parts are made of
the most enduring material
Investigate the operation of
the Dowden and you will
buy no other
W.J.WILS0N&C0.
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Obituaries
W. C. Bentley
W. C. Bentley, who died Tuesday
of last week at the home of his sis
ter, Mrs. Josie Shoemaker, at Mar
quam, was buried in the Miller cem
etery Thursday. He was 85 years
old and leaves one son, John, who
lives in Arizona. Eev. J. F. Cole
man, of the Methodist church of
Marquam, conducted the services.
Conserving Niagara's Power.
Anyone that has seen an Ice gorge
on the Niagara river breaking up has
a vivid reminder of titanic might let
loose. Millions of tons of solid ma
terial are then driven onward by the
cumulative Impulse of the slightly
Impounded or checked waters. Plain
ly this Is a peril that would have to be
reckoned with by anyone building scat
tered power stations along the stretch
of the gorge. The plants would face
well nigh certain and complete de
struction sooner or later. Of course
the cheapest way to benefit by the
river is to use as much of the water
ut the Falls as the two governments
concerned will permit, nnd then, after
the diverted flow has returned to the
river below the cataract to employ the
full volume of the tidal prism. That Is
what Is contemplated in the erection of
u dam nt Foster's Flats. Exchange.
John W. McNamara
Funeral services for John W. Mc
Namara were held from the Catho
lic church Friday morning with Rev.
Father Hillebrand officiating. Mr.
McNamara died at the Oregon City
hospital early Thursday after an
operation had been performed in an
effort to save his life. At the time
of his death Mr. McNamara was a
government watchman here. He is
survived by Mrs. McNamara. Mr.
McNamara was formerly prominent
as a Portland business man.
well known in the Clackamas county
capital, having 141 relatives living
there last Friday when the Ypres
limited pulled away for its long
journey across the land of Stars and
Stripes.
The corporal's father lives in
Coquille. The senior Myers is a
veteran of the Civil war, having
fought in "Stonewall" Jackson's and
Longstreet's brigades, and never was
scratched, while two brothers were
killed. He went to Oregon in 1865.
Charles R. Myers, before the trouble
on the border last summer, was as
sistant road superintendent of Coos
county. He, with some 65 others of
company D, is a veteran of the
"Jawbone war," as they call the
Mexican trouble of 1916.
Another Oregon City chap in com
pany D is Earl Kiser, the fattest
man in the company. He was on
guard duty the first day out, and
did so well that he was given an
other guard detail the next day.
Kiser doesn't mind. But the weath
er was mighty chilly the second day.
Courier and Daily Journal $4.75.
Foresight.
"I'm taking lessons from a man who
teaches people how to remember."
"Is he pretty good?"
"I guess so, but he doesn't seem to
have much confidence In his methods."
"How Is that?"
"I notice he makes his students r iy
him in advance, so there will be 'io
chance for them to forget to do It after
they finish."
$100 Reward, $100
The readers of tills paper will be
pleased to learn that there Is at least
one dreaded disease that Bcience has
been able to cure In all Its stages and
that Is catarrh. Catarrh being srreatly
Influenced by constitutional conditions
requires constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Medicine Is taken Internally and
acts thru the Blood on the Mucous Sur
faces of the System thereby destroying
the foundation of the disease, giving the
patient strength bv building up the con
stitution and assisting nature in doing Its
work. The proprietors have so much
faith In the curative powers of Hall's
Catarrh Medicine that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that It falls
to cure. Send for list of testimonials.
Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo,
Ohio. Sold by all Druiglit, 76c
Eildert Wieman
The funeral of Eildert Wie
man was held from the Wieman
home in the Eldorado district, in
the Beaver Creek section, Thursday
afternoon, with interment in Rose
City cemetery, Portland.
Mr. Wieman was a pioneer of
Portland, where he built several of
the city's largest buildings, as well
as the deaf and dumb institution at
Salem. Portland was his residence
for a great many years, up to five
years ago, when he purchased a
farm in the Eldorado district. Mr.
Wieman was born in Wenermore,
Germany, December 7, 1845, coming
to America July 2, 1868. He was
married to Katherine Frohling,
April 19, 1869, and, besides the wid
ow, is survived by six children
Mrs. B. DeBuhr, Tigardville, Or.;
Herman Wieman, Portland; Mrs.
Lohr, San Francisco; Mrs. J. Hel
vey, Molalla, and Fred and Albert
Wieman of the Eldorado district;
also three brothers and one sister, 18
grandchildren and four great-grand
children.
MISSION SOCIETY MEETS
Mrs. U'Ren Will be Hostess at Next
Meeting of Methodist Women
The Woman's Foreign Missionary
society of the M. E. church met with
Mrs. Mary Case at Gladstone Tues
day afternoon. Mrs. Tingle and
Mrs. Martha Ross were assistant
hostesses. The following program
was given: devotionol, Mrs. E. E
Gilbert; "An African Trail," Mrs.
McDonald; "Under the Crescent and
Among the Kraals," Mrs. McDer-
mott. At the close of the program
light refreshments were served and
a social hour enjoyed. The next
meeting will be held at the home of
Mrs. U'Ren.
THE
MYERS AND KISER ARE
MENTIONED IN LETTER
Writing from the train that car
ried the last of the old 3d. Oregon
from Clackamas to an eastern train
ing camp, David Hazen, Telegram
staff correspondent, says:
When Corporal Charles R. Myers
stuck his head out the car window
this morning he asked a native to
mail a letter written last night.
"Give her to me and I'll put it in
the postoffice," said the man. Myers
handed out the message.
"Where be you boys from?" was
asked.
"From Oregon; don't we look it?'1
replied the corporal.
"Wall, I'll be darned if I know,"
said the native; "I don't see yer
blankets."
Thus did the Sunday letter of the
corporal start on its western trip to
Mrs. Myers and the three little ones
now living in Oregon City, where the
soldier spent his school days. He is
LITTLE ONES AND OLD
ONES
James Edwards, 298 Harriet St.,
Montgomery, Ala., writes: "I sleep
all night and cough but little. I
feel like a new man now from us
ing Foley's Honey and Tar. My
whole family is using it now the
little ones and the old ones. It has
cured our coughs and broken our
colds." Foley's Honey and Tar
clears stopped air passages, remov
es phlegm, heals raw inflamed mem
branes, soothes sore chest, makes
difficult breathing easy, and reliev
es those deep-seated, racking coughs.
Jones Drug Co.
Rural Carrier Examination
The United States civil service
commission has announced an exam- and Baptist churches will be repre
ination for Uackamas county to be sented,
STOMACH
TORN UP
Indiana Lady Describes Condition,
Which She Says Was Due To
Constipation and Tells of
Relief Obtained From
Black-Draught.
Scottsburg, lnd. Mrs. Annie Johnson,
of this place, writes: "I well remember
I suffered for a long time with constipa
tion, which would get me down. I took
doctors' medicines and any number of
purgatives. They would leave me in a
worse condition than I was before taking,
and my stomach' so upset ... I know
once 1 suffered . . . from constipation, I
was so ill we had to have the doctor, just
so nervous and feverish. The doctor
said I would have to quit medicines, my
stomach was so bad ...
My husband was reading and found
something about Tnedford's Black
Draught and brought me a pacltsgc to
try. I used it regularly at first until I be
gan to feel better, then 1 used jus; a dose
occasionally. 1 was cured of this con
stipation and am sure the Black-Draught
did it."
If your stomach is out of order, you
will suffer from such disacrccr.blc svmrj-
toms as headache, biliousness, indiges
tion, etc., and unless something is done,
serious trouble may result.
Thedford's Black-Draught has been
found a valuable remedy for these
troubles. It is purely vegetable, and
acts in a oromot and natural wav. help
ing to regulate the liver and to cleanse
the bowels of impurities.
Try Black-Draught. EB-15
held at Portland and Oregon City, to
fill the position of rural carrier at
Boring and Milwaukie, and vacan
cies that may later occur on rural
routes from other post offices in the
county. The examination will be
open only to male citizens who are
actually living in the territory of a
post office in the county. Further
information may be had from Wil
liam B. Howell at the Oregon City
postoffice.
C. E. Rally Planned
A Christian Endeavor rally is
planned at the Baptist church for
Friday evening of next week. Miss
Helen Orr will make the chief ad
dress. The young people of the
church will have charge of the so
cial to follow the business meeting.
The Christian Endeavor societies of
the Congregational, Presbyterian
FARM LOANS
We will loan you money on your farm and you can
pay it back in 20 YEARLY PAYMENTS. You can make
these payments at any local bank any month in the year.
You can pay off the loan in full at any time or pay part
of it at any time. With our loan you have no renewals
and at the end of 20 years your interest and principal is
all paid.
Write or come in and see us and we will tell you all
about our plan.
DILLMAN & HOWLAND
Home Phone B-38 OREGON CITY, OREGON Pacific 377-J