Oregon City Enterprise.
Published Every Friday.
CHAS. MESERV15,
PrBl.IKIISR AND I'ROl'tilKTOH.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES,
On year, .......
8lx months, ...... .
Three mutuhs,
Bubirrlpitonn fayablr la advance.
idveriltii rates given ou application.
12 00
40
Kntercd at the Poat office In Oregon City, Or.,
as icoua ciaM waiter.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1893.
Tie ENTKRl'HISK guarantees larger bona
Me drcnUUoi thee, that of th olher three
papers la tbe extent? ftHnblned.
AGENTS FOR TUK ENTERPRISE.
Oiwriro, .
Canby,
Clactaraaa,
alllwaukie.
Fntoo Mills,
A I inn.
Meadow Brook.
New Era,
Wllaonville,
Park Place,
Barlow,
Olatlatone.
SufforJ.
Mulino,
Carus,
Molalla.
Marqtiam,
Kuuevllie
Aurora,
Orrlllc. -
Eagle fwk,
Sunnyside,
Paniascus,
Bandy,
Balmnn,
Oirrinsville,
Cherryville, -
Marmot,
0. W. Proaaer
Geo. KnlsM
A. Malher
Gary tt Wlaslnger
G J. TnUllimfr
K. 8 Bramtiall
Chan Hoimaa
W. 8. Newberry
Henry Niley
Hamilton A Waahburn
Mrt U. A. ShcpparU
T. M. Omii
J. J tiaire, 1
C. T Howard
R. M. Cooper
Annie Stubha.
E. M. Hartman
B- Jeuiitii(s
- K. tileay
LJ Perdu
H. Wilhern
John Welsh
J. 0. Elliott
F. OiEtsch
Mrs. W.M. Mclntyre
Geo. J. Currin
Mrs. M. J. Hammer
Ailolph Aschoft
have Mill to face serious ami dlltrult rub
letu More we can dispose of the silver ques
tion, live union of tlio two Krt'itt xililio
parties the popular body of our national
legislature lias removed from the foitmla
tion of our currency system the mighty
silver block upon which, in combination
with gold, it bos rested from the beginning
of the Republic. The Tress believes Hint
unless this is replaced in a manner that will
brinR gold and silver to istrity, as prom
ised In the platforms of both parties, (he
victory for sound currency will be ephemeral
and the day ofrvckotilng merely postponed
The recent Vote cannot fairly be
Ksrded in any other Unlit than as one step
in the settlement of a great tinaucnl issu
the clearing away of underbrush, as it were,
preparatory to the main contest.
IT APPLYS HERE.
Now that work opon Main and Fifth
streets is being pushed the subject of street
grades and improvements receives a nia-xi-muni
amount of discussion and many are
found to assail every phase of improvement.
It may be gratifying to those who have
been instrumental in baring the improve
ments proceeded with to note that Oregon
City is not the first city to assail those who
undertook to improve the public thorough
fares and improve the appearance of the
town.
Tpon this subject, W. F. Goodhue, a civil
engineer of recognized ability, says: " Per
haps there is no other municipal improve
ment that will raise a longer and louder
blast of indignation Irom property owners
than the grading of a street. When such a
job is under way the alderman who began
it niwt generally wishes before the work is
finished that either himself or that partic
ular street bad never existed; While the
vocabulary of names having reference to
Imbeciles and other persons with little or no 'exposure of men to accidents, to weather
Tua disposition of some of our people to
take advantage of every technical point
to defeat street and other publio improve
ments can hardly commend itself to their
better judgment, since they are by so doing
engaged in an attempt to make others pay
for that which benefits them most and
which the law savs that they shall pay for.
Take for example the Seventh street case
which is now before the supreme court
awaiting their decision and comment uon
which cannot now be prejudicial. In case
the property owners win that suit the tax
payers, many of whom are not benefitted
except as any public improvement helps the
whole community, will have the bill to pay,
and under the charter when the streets ad
jacent to their prorerty are improved they
will have, to pay for it or get out of it under
some technical point. It should be borne In
mind by all citizens of the place that there
is something more at stake than the im
provement in hand. A public spirited and a
progressive community does not quibble
over mere details and Oregon City will be
judged by its position on these matter.
The stranger visiting a city for the first
time does not always remember the hand
some buildings it may have; but if it have
execrable streets such as ours have been he
never forgets them and will not fail to men
tion the fact when speaking of the place
and bis conclusions and comments will not
be favorable, but il the streets be hand
somely improved he will always carry with
him an impression of that fact and it will
unconsciously shape his opinion of the city
and its people and he will almost invariably
seak well of them. The fact Is that Im
provements are not alone a help to the
street improved but to the adjacent streets
and property. Almost always an improve
ment ot the street is followed by general
repairs and overhauling of all the property
contiguous thereto.
Is the registration rert of Massachusetts
K the compiler presents the statistics
of 2n3 ersons who were reported as having
died during the ten years, lfWI-'SO, at the
age of 100 and over. Of this number 153, or
'5.4 per cent., were females. The greater
minds is exhausted, and poured upon the
head or the city engineer. To the average
property owner a street consists of an area
of land embracing the frontage of his own
property. He does not care particularly
for any other portion of the street, as long
as he is permitted to make good drainage
on his own front and allow the water to
pass on for some other proierty owner,
located on lower ground, to care for.
The principal cause of the trouble which
arises from grading a street in most towns
and cities is that the blocks have been
built upon and sidewalks laid about them
ever since the settlement of the country,
without street grades and drainage having
been previously provided or established.
Perhaps a few grades have been established
in the business part of the city, but the
larger area has been built up without them,
every property owner erecting his building
according to his own inclinations. Trees
have been planted and have thrived hand
somely, located not only on the curb line,
but outside as well as inside of it. For years
the streets have been under the care of
successive street commissioners who have
craped, ditched, guttered and graded them
to suit the notion of many property owners,
y hen the time comes for the improvenien
of the streets, to secure good drainage so
that there will be no excessive conceit
tration oi storm-water at any particular
place; when water-works, sewerage, paving
and macadam are introduced; when street
grades are established and profiles of sur
face and grades are made and placed on file
in the ciiy ball it is about this time that
the air becomes turbulent with muttered
imprecation and, threatened suits at law
against the city for damage to property,
and at the next municipal election a strong
cabal is formed to defeat the re-election of
the offending alderman, and a successor to
the city engineer is sought for one who will
ignore the established grades and respect
the old-time condition of things."
agencies, to the constant strain of business
lite, to the anxiety of providing for the
family all tend to shorten the life of men.
The deaths by accident among men are
more than threefold greater than anmng
women, and men commit suicide in about
a threefold ratio as compared with women.
Senator Dni.ru in a recent letter to the
New York l'ress, said: 'Protection has
been the can.e of all the prosperity this
country has ever enjoyed. The abandon
ment, or threatened abandonment, of the
protective policy has been the cause of all
our great business and financial depression
and has never failed to bring bankruptcy
and ruin." If history teaches this and a
close student of our national record will
find it correct, is it not the best guide for
future conduct? We can best judge what
the future will be by what the past has been.
FINANCIAL LEGISLATION
Last week the Estekfbise said concern
ing the vote in the house on the repeal of
the silver bill that while it was good in its
way it must not be considered as the finish
of the work to be done and that much re
mained to place the finances of the country
on a sound basis. The issue of the New
York Press following the passage of the
. bill is at and in lis discussien of the ques
tion it among other things says:
" The overwhelming vote yesterday in the
Bouse of Representatives in favor of the
unconditional repeal ot the purchasing
clause of the Sherman law will establish
tbe credit and integrity of the United States,
not only at home, but throughout the
world. The Press regards this action not
in any sense as a victory for monometall
ism, but as a victory for honest money and
a notification to the financial and business
interests of this country and of Europe that,
come what may, the United Stales proposes
to maintain its credit, at any cost, on a par
with that of any nation. The news of this
action should have a reassuring effect upon
business; it should restore confidence in
our banking institutions and give additional
security to operations and enterprises of
all kinds. To this extent the action will
undoubtedly prove beneficial,
While all this la true, to far as tbe simple
repeal of the BUenuan law is concerned, we ,
Commestiso upon the wild and wooly
editorials which have appeared in the
Evening Telegram recently relative to the
financial legislation, the Telephone Register
of McMinnville, pointedly says: "The
editor has been waiting to die with his boots
on for so long a time that it is now inie
sible to tell whether his feet or his brain
dictates the articles that appears in his
paper they both have the same aroma.
We suggest that he cut his boots off, wash
his feet and give his brain a chance to re
cover."
THE SHERIFF REPLIES.
The Case from Mr. Ganong'i Standpoint Con
filets with Senator Cross.
To the Editob: I am very much averse
to a newspaper controversy, and were it not
for the fact that the Ehtebpbise circulates
in parts of this county where "Hon." H. E.
Cross is not. so well known as in Oregon
City no answer would be necessary to his
tirade in your last issue.
While attempting to make it appear that
he is a martyr to the cause of taxation Mr.
Cross is in fact a tax shirk, as his record for
the last two years will clearly show. If Mr.
Cross wants to drag his tax record into the
public prints we can set It forth more fully
tban he has done. For example, while hold
ing proiiertv in the county fairly assessable
at 110,000 he covers it up with indebtedness
real or fictitious, and paid in 1H01 the insig
nificant tax of $32.50, and in 18f(2 the mere
trifle of $25.fi2, or would have paid that sum
if tbe state bad not compelled him to pay
IW.OO, much against bis wishes. Unfortu
nately this Indebtedness was not all ficti
tious, for a part of it was mortgages, the
tax on which this " tax martyr" agreed in
the mortgage to pay, and on that account
his property was excused from taxation. Bo
he ought to have been willing to pay it as
he got a lower rate of interest on that ac
count. But Instead of paying he Jets It go
delinquent and justifies himself by saying he
has "found hundreds of people who have felt
justified in refusing to pay mortgage taxes"
just as good and conscientious as himself.
In 1891 Mr. Cross's tax was 173.13, of
which he only paid 132.50, letting the $40.83
on mortgages, which be had agreed in the
mortgage to pay, go delinquent. What was
the result? The county was compelled to
pay and did pay to the state and school fund
on account of Mr. Cross two-fifths of that
$75.13, or $29.25. As be only paid in $32.50
there was left just $3.25 for the county, not
enough to pay the county theexpense it had
been to In assessing and collecting his tux.
In lstr.', but for the raise of the slnto hoard,
the county would have been actually In
debt after paying Mr. Cross's statu and
school tax. Bo much for Mr, doss's tux
record.
The supreme court ofOregon has declurvd
these taxes on mortgnges legal, and no re
spectable lawyer can Ihi found anywhere to
a, J vise clients io further resist collection.
lint Mr. Cross, while professing lo me that
some time in the dim future, "when he got
time," ho would pay his taxes, nrvvr offered
to do so, though I warned him time, time
and again, and begged him as a brother to
come in and pay Ilium. The lact la Mr,
Cross has fulled to bulldote me by an appeal
to the courts, and knowing lis has no case
squeals through the paper and tries to make
it appear that he Is persecuted on account
of his political Influence, a thing which ex
ists only in his Imagination.
The truth is that certain prominent dem
otrats as well as republicans, and the heavi
est taxpayers of such party, and lbs lawyers
were selected and warned that il they did
not pay execution would issue against them,
ami such notice w as given in each case. The
heavy taxpayers were selected that they
might test the legality of the tax If they ile
sired to do so the lawyers because ttiev
were presumed to know the law. Mr. Cross's
senatorial colleague, Mr. Hayes, paid with
out a murmur, and the Lalourrttes paid
nearly ttiPO.W; in fact all the democrats
and republicans too, so far as 1 know, w ho
counseled with any lawyer except Mr.Crtwa,
came, upon the decision of the supreme
court, and paid their taxe. The itatement-
of Mr. Cross that be offered to pay me his
taxes is false. I never heard of such an
olfer until some time after the lew was
made on his horse. I would have been glad
at any time to have bad the cash.
Now let me say, Mr. Editor, that neither
the tax roll nor tbe records show that the
morUugrs that are taxed against Mr. Cross
are not properly so taxed, and the sheritf ia
bound to act on the records. If Mr. Croas
w as not properly taxed why did he not make
it known long ago so that he might not
seem to ba standing In the way of other tax
payers? and why did be advise people ignor
ant of the law to resist collection unless be
wanted to make legal business for himself
that be could not get in a legitimate way?
If this was the first year that Mr. Cross had
been delinquent In mortgage tuxes he might
with more reason complain, but last year's
tax is still unpaid and so the year before
when they were only assessed for one half
their face, and this " martyr'1 to tax has ad
vied his clients and every one else be could
intluence to dely the law. If Clackamas
county has an unknown debt many thou
sands of It are due to the inouence of this
same " Hon. II. E. Cross who, though a
sworn oflicer of the law, defies it at every
point whenverlt stands in his way.
Mr. Cross thought he could stand jue oil",
as he knows so well how to do his other
creditors; but be was mistaken, hence his
wrath. He thinks me as base as himself
and for that reason would use my office for
partisan ends. I am not surprised that he
should accuse others of betrayal of trust,
nor is any one who knows his rrconl. a
man who was honored as a law-maker hut
w bo has dishonored the law and become a
law-ileh'er, and continues still to violate the
law he himself liell by his vote to enact,
and for his own private guin persist in
maintaining in defiant e of thut litw a close
dam across the Clackamas river, thus strik
ing a deadly blow at oneof the most profita
ble industries of Oregon, A man who w ill
thus prove recreant to his trust as a legisla
tor should not occasion surprise when he
makes statements in tbe public prints that
are disproved, as he well knows, by tbe pub
lic records of Clackamas county.
Permit me to say In closing that It would
be well for tbe taxpayer to remember that
the county has had to pay almost half of
the assessment of $112,000 in cash to the
state and school fund. Of the balance fully
one half is double assessments and delin
quent taxes, so that a large part of the debt
of Clackamas county comes from those tax
shirkers like the " Hon." II. E. Cross who
are refusing to bear their share of the public
burden. If these money-bag tax delinquents
of whom Mr. Cross is the drum-major, will
only pony up like other folks there will be
no "bottomless pit" in Clackamas county
to worry the honorable gentleman, however
it may be elsewhere. The ieople elected
me to collect taxes from shirks as well as
other people and I have no fears but they
will sustain me in doing my duty. If Mr,
Cross were as faithful to his sworn trust as
I am to mine this controversy never could
have occurred. C. W. Oaroru,
Confection nml Cigars.
Confectionery and Cigar store on Sev
enth street, east of Shlvely Hull between
Minllson and Mouroo. lVuling in homo
make of linn domes! Io lluviuia ('Ignis,
choice grades: t( Tolmoco. Tear, Orange
and rimmpiigtitt Cider and Hodu ot diller
f nt kinds. Cigars w liolcsulo and retail,
rieNoglvuusan,ll.
Hkppaway A n.u iu mi.
For Nile nr Kent.
The Seventh atieet livery stable and
feed store holldinga on liberal term
Host arranged burn in the city and well
located. Enquire) on premises, or at
Frieman'a Culi'oe House, :';!0 Washing
ton street, Portland, If
COPPER HIYETED
Call In at the l'aik Place store and see
the new print lust received from (lie
Eaat. They are pretty, cheap and war
ranted fast color. Come and aee thorn
.V GLASS.
That's the way Dr. IM
Plraawnt Pellets mm. And
It's a aior Imimrtant point
thaw you think. It keel
Uiem alwars frrah and reli
able, unltk the ordinary
plus in eheep woodwt or
paatnlmard boxns.
They're put op la a better
way, and Uit act in a haMrr
way, than tlx buga, old fash
ioned pills. No griping, no
viulnrtc. aa ractioa after,
ward that souxitlma Warrw
you won off than before.
Id that way, tbey rare ;wr
mansntfy. Hick IlMhtacba,
Itillooa nHache, Constipa
tion, liuUgnrtlon, Bilious At
tack, and all dsraaaementa
of lb Uvsr, stomach, and
bowels are prevented, relieved, and ourad.
They're tiny, sugar -ooud aranuUe, a
compound of refined and oonosntrated vege
table extract the malUw m ), th ui
eet to tak, and th Aijj pill yoa oaa
buy, for thay'r guarantaud to gtv Mtlnfao
tlon, or your nmay la returned. Yoa pay
only for th good you gl
There aolLliig Uaely to be "JM at good.'
.JAPAN EH 13
CURE
A new ami complete treatment, eousixnis of
toippoiltortea, (Hutment lu Cupimirs. alio In
box and IMIls: a uoaltlva eure for Knrriil.
Internal, HHh.l or lih-rillus. llrlilna. Chroiile
Krceni or llurrdllary Piles, and many Ulmura
ami female wvakuvaaea; II la alwaya a irrnl
orurni io ina ivurrai he n. in Brai ill.
coveryof a mnlli al cure irnilrrlni an opviatlmi
with the kill It unnrceatargr hoteaher. This
r-moljr haa never Leon known to fall It per
box. fort',: arnl lv mall. Whir auff,-r from
this terrible Ulteaae wheu a wrllleii l u a ran tee
a aivan witn an iMisra lu refuinl Hie money II
nol cured. Keinl alamp for free tanipln. Hilar
autre tsaiied lr WooiAt)l Liasx A l o. who!.
sale ami retail druralata, solr nits. Portland,
Orrion, For tale bj ;. li. lluulley, urrmu city.
Oregon.
vtillIFr CUARANTeD..
aooacss: an rnaNcisco, cut.
It is Money We Want
And monoy wo must have.
We are going to soli you goods s
cheap that it will bo to your
advantage to buy of us.
-SOME PRICES:-
rflffi' 'raatnw
J EJ un a Tl
La II w J m mm.m
SSct
vxt..
Jl.uUpcr UotUu7
Oiieceutadiaw.
THIS (iniAT Coooil i ii a promptly mrr
whore all others fall, Couc ha, Croup, Bora
Throat, Hoararnraa, Whooplnc Cough and
Aathma Kor Conaumptlon It has no rival:
has cured thouaanda, ami will u na von If
taken In time. Hold by liruirglal en a a-uar.
antoe. Kor a Ijimo Hark or On-at, uao
BHILOH'i BELLADONNA PLABTfcftifo.
Arl'tickles nml Linn culTco 'J" cent.
. . - aaa as as nt
Mii'nrl.ri Id nml li ixiiilnlH Inf S 1 .1"'.
Ltml ami Laoon et'ttiiiLr lower.
1 jMuiixIrt Arm A Hammer noiln '2 eontn.
Host rice 20 ikiuiuIh for $1.00.
Small white I'ciwih 'J.'i iiikU $1.H
Royal and l'ionecr linking jxiwiler LI cents ier jmunil.
Iiest pearl oil, r gallons d. fents. (nring can;
Small can oysters 10 cents.
2 iountls can corn leef '2i cents.
All other l'i mis soM in same proportion. .A pMl miim!
of llour and feed constantly on hand. Clothing hold at liar
inies prices. Ihy goods in great vaiietv. Hoots ami BW
all grades at prices never he fore otTcrd in any storo inth
county.
PRODUCE f TOKEN,
PARK - PLACE - CASH - STORE.
s
HILOHVVCATAHRH
Iiavoyoui.iuurlir 111 la remwtrlainiaran.
auiuurg;uu. I ntv, OO CI, llljoutor f re.
For sale by C. G. Huntley.
Red
Cross
Tansy
Pills
Suppressed
Minstruatloi
PAINFUL
Minstruatlon
And PREVENTIVE for
i tin i:
utauituatfikft.
Ar Sals and Rrliahl.
IT Fi-rfriHlr l.rm!-,t.
The Ladies
A Cheap Home.
One-half mile from Mulino postoflke
school house, public hall, grist mill
store ect., 61 acres all under fence, half
slashed, 15 acres, under cultivation,
orchard, house barn etc. Land per
fectly level, on bench and Molalla
bottom, no rocky waste land. Is a rare
bargain. Address C. T. Howard,
tl Mulino, Or,
Wood Hawing.
The Babcock woodsaw. Work quickly
and cheaply done. Leave orders at Grout
& Confer' office or address me at Ely.
Elmer Dixon,
In the line of furniture canieta. wln-
aow snaaes, wall paper, lounires and
mattresses you can beat Portland price
oy cauuiK in uie ureon i;ity banlc
block under the Kntkrphihk office, x
Children' shoes 2oc to fl.00, mostly
lace ; Ladies lace shoes fine and coarse
$1.00; Boy' broans 75c. Clothing
greatly reduced at the Red Front.
Call and see the lounues at R. 1.
Holman and you will see some irood
ones which they ate gelling almost at
mantiiacturer price
BONUS KOK BALE.
Bealeil bids will be received bv the Tresmirer
ot Clackamas county at hlaoltfce Id the court
houae In Oregon City uptnl2o'clo'k noon, Sept
ember 16, M for tbe aalu of Umjs to the amount
ot 7U0ol aobool district No. 14, of Clackamas
county, Oregon. Said bonds not te b sold ba
Icw par.
Endorse envelope. " Proposals for tbe our
cbaae of ichool bonds " v
KIght reserved to reject an or all blda.
H. B. CA LIKK, Cuutjr Taaauref.
Oregon City, Aug. W), lswi. a
JK Purely Vr g.
Jr tabid N'ver
PRICE $1.00
Smt postpaid on reral
price. Mone refundad
" Yin dfi ClDcbona Co.,
D Moln. low.
For uule by Charman & Co.
Tfvnn arn intornutnl In A
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Gallery opposite Coumerelal Bank, Oregon City
ie.1 -issialWlMrrrT7!T ""
R. L. Holman carries a fine lino of Furniture,
Lounges, Wall Paper and Carpots at lowost pos
sible living rates, also a flno lino of Caskotsand
Coffins, Ladies' and Gents' robos, which ARB
NOT EXCELLED OUTSIDE OF PORTLAND.
Cut of hearse in this utlvei tisunient.
OREGON CITY JOBBING SHOP.
All kitx.H of
mining, J'lumbiiitf and General Jobbinj
DONE TO ORDER OX SHORT NOTICE.
SEWER AND WATPn rnMWcrTinMC MADE
- - wwiiMbv I lUilv) mrt"'-
At the moot rcaHi.niiblo rntes.
f -All work is dune with a view to lout and uatiufy all concad
Whop ) Ncri'iiMi iai,
. nrar lrp,,(, Orrgosi ('y.
A. W. SCHWAN.
Doors
J. JONES & SON,
1HAI,KH IN
Windows, Mouldings,
DOOR AND WINinnu cdamcc
Cabinet ork, Fitting up Store and Renairi,,, of all Hn.la.
O
Jobbing OrdorB Tromiitly Execute
IKH':m THE Klin ai
IWHho,, corner Fonrtl, and Water street. ,,, , P,..,o jl r.,' n,?
OREGON CITY PENCE WORKS
' M.m.r .
rfni-a-ni.T. , ",,,r,w''lerlBall.t,b.or
GOHBIJITiajkl Wll(E AMD DlCRET FElft
Both rough and drewmd f, !. J... - V i-
Hartman Steel Picket Fence,
And Wire Tancl Fa
rm Fenco, also Expanded Metal Fence I
Call and see Samples, and get Prices
Shop over Bentow'u 8ah 4 D,
oor factory,
Oregon Citi
Ok