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Oregon City Enterprise. Published Every Friday. CHAS. MESERVIC, Pt'BLISUKR AND FROPRIKTOK, 8VBSCH1PTION KATKt. On year, $J 00 Sli months, 1 " Trial lulmcriptlon two moaths, 'Jft A dtseoiiit ot 50 rents on all subscriptions for on year, 2f null fur nz mouths, ll fui lu dranr Advertising rates (Iran on application. . 3 Sntared at the Poat Offlre In Oregon City, Or., as second claaa matter. Tills roHil Kill also lurm a part of the great high ay that will eventually traverse the east able of (hp Willamette valley from Kit gene to Portland, for the building of which the bicycle clitlis of tlie valley towns are dis cussing tlie feasibility of co-operating llh the various conmicalii bearing the expenses incurred. Oregon City has'complrtely lost lbs retail trade of tbe south part of the oonnly, the impassable roads being tlie sole cause ; ami if our merchants wish to regain this trails they should lake hold and assist the county and the settlers in btiildlnti a road passable at all seasena of the year, and over which a (nil load could be hauled without danger of ruining a team on the heavy grades. THE NEW CIUXTEK. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1895. AGENTS FOR THB INTIRPRI8K. - Osweto, Canby. Claekamaa, afilwaukie. Cnioa Mills, Alma, Meadow Brook. Maw Era, WllaonTilla, Park Place, Itrlav, Gladstone, ttaflord, , -MuUno, Carol, Molalla. afarquam, Butterllia Aurora, OrvlUe, - . JCale Creek, Sunnyside, Damascus, Bandy, Salmon, Currinsville, t'herryville. Marmot, . Mrs 0. W. Proaser Ueo.Kuiiihl A. Malher Gary A Kissinger U J. Trulllnger K. 8 ilramhall Chi Hnlman W. 8. Newberry . Henry Miley Hamilton A Washburn Mrs. U. A. Sheppard T. M. t'rose J. O. Uac. C. T Howard R. VI. I'ooper Annie 8tubba. E. M. Hariman B Jeuninra - P. Ulesy L.J Perdua H. Williem John Welsh J. U. Elliott F. Outsell W.M. Mrlntyre Geo. J. Currin Mrs. M. J. Hammer Adolph Aschoti The war to build tip Orrron City la to give Oregon ('It; people jour jwtronaee. TO BOB THE PEOPLE. Nearly all of the big republican newspa pers, and many of the leading democratic papers, are strong in their censure of the Cleveland-Oregoniau financial scheme that these wort hie are trying: so hard to foist onto this country. To issue a half a billion in interest bearing bonds with which to take up the half billion dollars in paper money now in circulation, and on which as an obligation that the government owes. It has to pay no interest, is the height of rob bery and tyranny on the people. The only - excuse that G rover Cleveland and Harvey Scott have to offer for this high-handed piece ot business is that the government should only issue gold money and leave the paper currency to supply the needs of busi ness to be issued and controlled br the banks. . On this subject the San Francisco Argonant, whose editor is one of the best posted and ablest writers of the Pacific Coast, has the following to say : " In his message of last week to congress, Mr.. Cleveland recommends that the Ave hundred millions of outstanding legal-tender notes be retired and canceled by the sal of an equal amount of fifty-year three-percent, bonds, payable in gold, principal and Interest, and receivable at tlie treasury a security at their par value for national bank circulation. This proposition of Mr. Cleve. land's means that the country shall sdd to j its present annual deficit fifteen millions more, to be paid in interest every year for fitty years. And for what? In order that the national banks shall get seven hundred and fifty millions of dollars for supplying us with with five hundred millions of dol lars of paper money w hich we now get for nothing. "This is a plain, simple, and uncolored statement of the monstrous proposition that Cleveland has submitted to the country. But he has not even submitted it to the I country be has gone on in his stubborn I course, and by what is, if not illegal, at least a perversion of law, he has made two bond issues. But borrowing a hundred millions to meet the treasury shortage caused by democratic incompetency, and borrowing five hundred millions to retire the non interest-bearing greenback in favor of interest-bearing bonds held by European finan ciers, Mr. Cleveland will find to be two yery different things. The retirement of the legal-tender notes, or greenbacks, has been tried before. And it has always failed. The first time the retirement of the green backs was attempted was immediately after "the war. The cry " The greenbacks must go!" was raised. Congress, believing that wnch was the popular demand, passed a law providing fbr their retirement at the rate of four millions a month. But there was a popular outcry, and the process of retire ment was stopped, almost as soon as it had begun, by an almost unanimous vote of congress. Again, some ten or twelve years after the war, the retirement of the green backs was ordered by the resumption act, and again it w as stopped. Since tlie act of February, 1878, no administration has had the hardihood to attempt to retire the greenbacks. It is a vast, non-interest bear ing loan to the government held by the peopla. And it is this non-interest bearing loan held by the people which Cleveland wishes to retire in favor of an interest-bearing loan held by foreign and domestic usurers."' The city council and board of trade com. mittees completed their workol revising the charter for Oregon City and submitted it to the board of trade meeting Monday evening for approval. After some discussion, the new charter w as unanimously adopted and the delegation from this county in the legis lature were requested to give it their sit port. Several important changes were made in the provisions ol the charter, all of which should meet the hearty approval of the res idents of Oregon City. The term of office for the mayor was chanired from two. years to one year. The assessor s olllce was atiol ished, the county assessor under the present law assuming all the duties of the office. The treasurer to be elected for one year and salary to be $1M per year.' Recorder to be elect d bv the council for one year, and sal ary to be $29 per month, The office of city attorney is abolished and a city prosecutor to be appointed for one year by the mavor, subject to the approval of the council. He is to attend to prosecuting all violations of the city ordinances and is to be paid In lees. The reason forabolishing thecity attorney's office was that he might be an interested party in a street Improvement, and should a suit grow out of it he would hardly be competent to look after the city's Interest The chief of police is to be appointed by the mayor and his salary Is fixed at $00 per month. The limit of the tax levy is extended from five to seven mills, and a greater special levy can be made when ordered by a vote at a general city election The road tax levy is taken Irom out of the control of the county and is to be expended by the street commissioner tinder the direction of the council. The council though may appro priate money from this fund to the county to be used in improving such rosds al the council may designate. In making assessments for street improve-J ments a new basis was adopted. Tux business men of linker Clly, through their commercial club, have taken up the work of extending the retail Irado of that city with the surrounding country! their plan being to assist the various localities ill building good roa.la to connect with their city. , To accomplish this purpose they are raising lands by contributiona ol the mem Iters and cituens of that city, and donate a certain per cent of the total cost of linprov log a road that the county and people along the route have undertaken to grade. This is the plan the business men of Oregon City should adopt In their e (torts to extend their trade with the surrounding country. The retail trade of this city could be doubled in oneseavm If there were good lilghwayalo the adjacent sections of this county. In fact every line of business In Oregon City would be benefited by the Increased number of people that would be drawn to the city. Oregon City should be the beat tradlig point and market place In Clackamas county, The excellent transportation, facilities, to gether rtth the very low freight rates en ables our merchants to procure their goods at a very low cost as to these charges, and to readily and cheaply send to market any surplus produce they may take In. The constantly increasing factory population of Oregon City will always insure a ready market for all the country produce that may be brought In, and al prices that buy ers In other towns could not give where they bad to rely on shipping to find a mar ket. Tin impassable roads are largely reapon sible for the stagnation that reals on the re tail trade of Oregon City. If our merchants wish to remove this incubus and double their trade they should take the lead in raising funds to assist the county in Im proving the roads leading to Oregon City. The county road fund is so small and has so many demands uixin It that II we wait for the county court to build our roads it will be several years before we can hope for any great change for the belter In the roads lead ing to Oregon City. Thc Ht. Louis (1 lobe-Democial offers the following plan to abate the tramp nuisance and at the same lime to aid the rural dis tricts in building belter highways: A Con necticut statistician places the number of professional tramps In this country at 40, 000, and their cost to Industrious people at not less than $x,0u0.000 a yea,'. When the movement for good roads is fairly under way provision ought to be maoe forgetting some work out of this army of vagrants. The offer of work with pay, usually results in their sudden disappearance. Tax Raikikh Review, published at Rain- It pro-1 ler, Columbia county, is the latest venture vides that the first twenty-five feet of abutting property shall pay forty percent, of the cost, the next twentv-five feet thirty, per cent, and the next fitly feet thirty per cent, ot the total cost of the work. " A provision is made for the relief of properly owners on streets to be improved where the assessments are excessive. It provides thst where the assessment exceeds fifty per cent of the value of the property the owner can ask that arbitrators be appointed who shall ascertain how much the property is dam aged as well as benefited by the street Im provement and if the damages exceed the benefits then the city shall pay the excess. The water commission is retained as con stituted at present. It is provided that twenty percent, of the gross receipts from water rents for the year 18115 shall be paid into the general fund of the city, payments to be made October 1, lXfi, and January I, 18S Thereafter thirty per cent, of the gross receipts is to oe paid quarterly into the general fund of the city. Tut lowest temperature ever recorded or the earth was taken at Werchnjansk, in the interior of Siberia, January 15, 18K5. It was 90 degrees and a fraction below tero. Wer- cliojansk is in the latitude of the ole of the cold. There the earth is frozen to a depth of about 100 feet, and in the w armest season it never thaws. The highest temperature recorded is 11M degrees and a fraction, taken In Algeria, July 17, 1879. The lowest tem perature on record in the United States is 64 degrees below zero, at Tobacco Garden, North Dakota. Oreely, the arctic explorer, has probably experienced a wider range of temperature than. any living man. He re corded 06 degrees below tero at Fort Con gor, in I-ady Franklin Bay. On another oc casion, in the Maricopa desert of Arizona, his thermometer in the shade ran up to 114 above. A lucifer match dropped upon the burning sands of the Sahara will catch fire. It is very difficult even with the finest ther mometers to get accurate records of extreme temperatures, and on that account such ob servations in general are to be regarded as only approximately correct. in the ioumalistlc field of Oregon. It is quite a respectable looking and newsy eight page paper, and Is a credit to the town. How well it will prosper the future only can tell, for it is the fifth paper In a county of only a little over five thousand population, and doubtless it will be a case of the sur vival of the fitest COST Or CONSTRUCTING A CREAMERY. A NEEDED ROAD. The movement to improve the Oregon City and New Era road along the river should be encouraged by the business men -ofOregop City and by the people of the sooth part of the county. With the new . route that is proposed practically a water level grade can be bad from this city to New Era, free from all danger of the river or railroad. By extending this msd in a di rect line to Canby, Barlow and Aurora, a niain thoroughfare could be had through the county that would be free from heavy grades and would greatly shorten the dis tance for the residents of the south part of the county in reaching the county seat With the gradingof a branch road east from New Era and another from Canby by way of Goode's bridge, and one from Barlow a larger number of people could be given a ' tlirect and easy access to the county seat han by any other highway in the county. Patriotism runs so high in Japan just now that even feminine ornamente and children's playthings bear upon the great events of the war with China. The hairpins which transfix the elaborate national head dress are most warlike emblems, the heads representing cavalry sabers and helmets, a group of flags, a drum, fife and bugle, sur mounted by the national standard, a man-of-war, or two wee figures of Japanese and Chinese soldiers. One ingenious toy shows a Japanese cuttirg a Chinaman's pigtail, being t ut in action by a string. Another illustrates a miniature battle, when, on turning a handle, the Chinese soldiers fall down flat, while the Japanese ride over them. The confectioners are not far behind with sugar representations of battle scenes, honey .cakes impressed with the national flag, and sticky figures of Chinamen In full flight. ' A reply was handed in by Mr. G. R. H. Miller to an article written by E. Warner in last week's Entkkpbisx, but could not be given space by reason of the press of other matter; besides there are too many more important questions to discuss than the merits and demerits of populism. A high order of intelligence In economic affairs must prevail-in Nee) Zealand. The legislators have set apart two islands for the preservation of its wild birds and animals. All trapping or shooting therejs prohibited for an indefinite time nnder heavy penalties. AacaTA, Cau, Jan. 15, 1H96. Ford A Stokes, Astoria, Oregon. Oi.iTi.iM is : Yours of the 2d to hand. I am pleased to here that you are agitating the creamery question. I w ill try t j ans wer your questions as near as I ran, and to start with I will say that our creamery has been a grand success. For the first year to the stockholders and patrons it paid 0 per cent, on the money used, end a small sinking fund besi'les. Oar creamery started April 0, 1KI2, with 3000 pounds of milk which incressed in June to 12.0(0 pounds, and decreased to 0000 pounds January 15, 18H1, Received since January 6, lhitf, 2,500,000 pounds of milk, which sold for '.'5.000. We buy milk by test of butter fat, the richer the milk the more it is worth, the only creamery on this coast that has adopted this system. Our co mpsny is orgsnized with a capital of $10,000-9riOO paiil up. The first assess ment was 20 per cent., the second 40 per cent., the third 20 per cent, and the fourth 10 per cent, The assessments were levied as the money was needed. The stock is all owned by the farmers but $1000. All the assessments were paid in cash, but that can be arranged to suit. Our creamery cost $7000 complete; capacity 26,000 pounds of milk, Jyook out for creamery sharks as the country is full of them. Borne of the cream eries in this connty cost three times what they should. They are not convenient or handy. Before the creamery was built it was Im possible to find any cash among the farmers bat things have changed. All the milk patrons pay their store bills monthly In cam. It is better for the farmers and for the merchants. You would be surprised to see the change that has occured. Nearly every one has seeded his farm to clover, and those who have not are going to this spring. If you are living in a dairy country do all yoo can toward the est ahlishmentof cream eries, an it Is best for the farmer and best for the merchant. I have only 40 acres of land. I sold from April . 1802 to December 31, 1TO2, $1100 worth of milk, and am getting worth per month now. It will not go lower than that any time this year. Yours Truly, A. N. Huht, President Areata Creamery. Clackamss county fanners should figure upon the creamery business. The shove taken from the Cathlamet Gazette speaks volumes. The best butter brings a good price and when known finds ready market. Creamery butter will bring a half more than the average batter from the farm. Now is the time for farmers to lay their plans for the year. Bring the matter up In your literary societies for a change er call a meeting for the purpose and have a cream ery or cheese factory. Vancouver has a large creamery and Is expecting to sell butter to Japan. A creamery is to be started on the lower Columbia and anotberin Rick reall. Polk county, lit ns keep up with the world and secure better returns from the farm. Let the farmers organizations take up the subject and call open meetings and urge the neighbors to attend and write it bp for' the county papers. Now ll the time. E. C. Hamilton. A Mulctim hi lht Closet, How ofton do wo litar ol title In do mestic lifo at this day. Hut wliut U iitnro appalling llinn the living body iniuUi re pttlalvu with skin ami sculp diwusos, iilt-rlieiim, tctlnr, ecacuiu ami wiufulotia sores Hltil awi'lllng. Ir. l'lorcc's tiulilon Medical Discovery It the positive cure for all of tlicso tliwuNvs. It tukon in limo, it alfto cures tiiiig-acrofiilii, com monly known us pulmonary consump tion, lly ili'tiugiHts, Kkyskh, N. 0, 1k. H. V. Piwmi r: IWr Sir When about throe years old I was tukon with! linmilM, also had levnr, llnnlty I had that j crcadod (limtaao scrofula. The moat j eminent physicians In this section trvated me to no avail. I had running acrodi Ions sores on led side of neck and dice. I was email and weakly when eight or nine yean old, and In fact waa nearly a skeleton. Six bottles ol Dr. Pierce's Ciolden Medical Discovery wrought itiur velous changes. Although 'tbo sores were healed in eight months, I did not quit taking It until I was sure it had boon entirely routed from my ayslem, The only signs loll of the dreadful dimuso are the tears which ever remind me how near death's door I waa until rescued hy tlie "Discovery." I am now, eighteen years old and weigh 14S iKitimU; and have not been sick in Ave years. Yotira respectfully, IIakvry M. IIoi.lkman, Agt. fur Seaboard Air Line For constipation and Dr. Pierce 'a Pellets. headache, use A beautiful woman must be healthy, and to remain healthy and beautiful alio should tuke Dr. J. II. Mcl-can's Strongtliintf Cordial and Blood Purifier. It imparts; tone and fluah lo the elfin, vigor and pure blond ; Is eiiuallv adapted for all age, from the balie to the aged, of either sex. For sale by (J. U. Huntley, druggist. A 10 cent Williams, the grocer I .a Ker mease, cigar for a nickel. E. E. Frevtag's fine home made pickles are on sale at K. E Williams's, Marr A Hub ertson's, and F. T. Harlow's, grocery stores. County and city warrants wanted by the Commercial bank. A dollar saved is equal to two dollar earned. Pay up your auliaciption to the Kntxri-kinr and get the the benefit of the reduction in price. imperial rgg rood win make your bens lay. F. E. Williams, the grocer. Wedding afattotierr. the latest styles and finest assortment ever brought to Uregon Lily at the Kntrrprihr office. gig Slaughter Sale!. Wo must do it! Everything Goes! Sale Lasts 15 Days! McKittrick, "The Shoe Man; Sale Begins Saturday, January 26th at 10 A. M. ".What higher aim eaa man attain Than eonqoaat evar nomas paint" N DR. J, H. McLEAN'S VOLCANIC OIL LINIMENT IS THE CREATEST CURE OF PAIN. It Is a thornuirhly rnl'nhln remedy for the CURE or COTS, BURNS. SPRAINS, IUMBAGO, WOUNDS, OLD SORES, CHAFIO SKIN. ITCH, PAINS. SCALDS. aauisis, BtOTCHES, Nua.A.CI A, SCALD HUD, RHEUMATISM. Also for the various dlsvaaos of Florana and Cattle. Price o, eooandtl.00pr botlls. IUBDB.J. II. Mt'I.EAX MEDICIXE CO. 8T. 1.0 1 'IK. MO. Forsele bv C. G. Huntley, drtiKvist. Leave Doubtful Reeds alone. The bast are easy to tat, and eost no mora. Ask your dealer for FERRY'S SEEDS Alwaya the beet. Known everywhere. Kerrr'a Nerd laaaal for saws tells you iiau now. ana wuen to Dtauu ' Beul Free. (Jet It. Address O. M. PERRY CO., Detroit, Mlctt. SUMMONS Id lb Circuit Court of the State of Orefon for (,'lsi ksmss county Llr.il N. Conner, plaintiff, va. Burl Conner, de- leu'lant To hurl Censer, abovo iiamod defendant' In the nsme of the Blste of Ortcnn, you are hereby summoned slid required lo be and ap. ix'sr in the above entitled suit and court on or before Hie first dny of trie net renulsr term of S'lld court. tr-u It: the l.'.lli dny of Anrll A. I), l-ttfi. slid nuftwer the colnpl'ilnl fllml hh Itimi you In the above entitled suit, ami If you full to so answer the plHlnlllt will nnnly to ine court for the relief flemnnden In tlie coinplHlnt, whteh relief Is fo- the dissolution of the nnirrifige con tract now exlstlnir heiweeii pUlmlfr and de fendant herein Vou are further notified thnt tills sitrnriioiiK in this suit Is served upon you by puhlleutloii ,y nider. deled November 9. Wit, of Hon. T. A Melirlde. Judireof s.,rl court. f. t. f'OKTKIt, Atty. for I'lslntlfr. Dated Jan. n. 1X1)5. 2 18-15. Qfegon Citj Hospital,, t r r i r 1 1 r" IJ n'xxxxx 'xxxxi i ! 5 ...GLADSTONE PARK... Conveniently of bcwhh ami loumuit lot'ntoil. Frvo from the noitte and tltint of the city. Skillful liurnoHSftil rvrry cunveiiiciico of a firttt ' ' C'lllHH llOHpitlll. Ample room that pativiit inny lmvo quiet iiohh and rent. HtM'ciitl rooiim for lll(ii'H. Services of the bent liy nioiutifi of tho county in attomlitiu-e. TKHMH 1IKAHONAIH-K. Address, MISS M. E. LIIBKER, SUPT. ij OWICUON CITY, OH. A QO YOU NEED f ANY; DOORS, WINDOWS, MOULDING, Or Building Material? Go to C- H. BESTOW- 1-owent cash priced ever olllred for FIRST - CLASS GOODS, AIho combination wiro and picket fence, HARTMAN - STEEL - PICKET - FENCE. And best farm fencing tnado. Prices to suit hard titneg. Shop Opp. Congregational Church, MAIN STREET, OREGON CITY. THREE MONTHS ABSOLUTELY FREE. 8UMM0N8. In theclreult court ofthe Hlate of Oregon for the county of Clarkam s, a. Adam Oniric, tilulnllff, vs. Annie E Quick, de fendant To Annie E. Quirk, aald defendant: In the name of the Htate of Oreann. von are , hereby required to appear and answer tne com pisininien asrainst you in inn snore ontttien suit on the third Mondsv In April, A. I). Jul helns the 15th day of ssfd month, and said day belt i the first day of the next regular tnrm of said court, fallowing tho expiration of the time prescribed in the order of publication of this eumn.nns made by said court. And II you fall to appear and answer said complaint plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded In the complaint, to-wlt: The dissolution of the marriage cnntrot existing between yoo and plaintiff and deorea of absolute dlvoro from yrtu, and for such other and limber relief aa Is met In the premises, published by order of Hon. Thos. A, Mollrlde, Judge of said court, duly made on the 7th day of January, A. 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