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CLACKAMAS COUNTY THE EMERPF1SK rORRESPOSD. ESTS SWEET THE FIELD. The llHniascus Roye Will Pltty Bae Hall this Season iVeildlufc Bella Other New Notes. Dahascts, April 22. Miss Eugenia Mor ton Ima returned from McMinnville. She had expected lo ly there one year at the least, but wss called home by the ill health of her mm her. MIm I'carl Lovelace bas gone to Portland to attend school. Rev. Alderson has been holding a pro tracted meeting at the M. K. chapel, closing yesterday. Messrs. H Hilleary and W. Penboer have ach purchased new organs lately. The young folks will meet this week at the residence of Mr. Bates and organise whist club. Damascus boys will play base ball this season. They have rented a piece of ground of J. C. Elliott for a ball ground. The directors of Rock Creek school have secured the services of a lady teacher to finish the term. Albert rrsnkbsuser Is still too ill to teach. A niimbar o( our young folks attended the dance at Mr. Douglas', at Eugle Creek, last Friday night. The interment of Miss Jennie Ileamon, of Park Place, took place at Damascus cemetery last Monday. A number o( new residences will be built here this summer. Abe tiigler move his family on bis claim in 'Washington in a lew days. The marriage of Miss Kate Feathers and John Hilleary was solemnised Wednesday, April the tOth at high noon, by Rev. Rugg, of Oregon City, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Feathers, a large number ot relatives being present. The bride wore a handsome gown of white crystaline trimmed with brocade silk and orange blossoms. The parlor was artistic ally decorated with ivy and calla lillies. The bappy couple received many useful presents. After the ceremony a sumptions dinner was indulged in by those present, after which Mr. and Mrs. Hilleary left for Astoria to visit relatives returning this week. Invitations are out for a double wedding to take place In Damascus Wednesday, May 1st. Holalia Locals. Molalla, April 23. Our country village was visited with a plague last week in the form of a show. 1 1 was a 25 cent take in, but as there could not be any body found the next day that would own being taken in, it is the presumption the owner of the hall could easily look after his 20 percent. ' gate money." The Molalla literary society adjourned last Friday night until first Friday evening iu October next. The Herman Bros, who bave a saw mill in the foot hills, hve miles south of this place, bare started a lumber yard here, which will be a convenience to our growing burg. The boys cut five thousand feet per day with a thirteen horse power Russell en gine. Three kinds of fir, cedar, maple, al der and oak are made into lumber in this locality. Lat night the church building of the M. E. Cburcli South was raised from its racked position and straightened and braced, and after the basement is finished the building will have an improved appearance. The contents of the comer stone were examined and found to be in a decayed condition, having been so close to the damp earth for three years only. Uncle Jake Harless has purchased a new buggy ami double harness. It is said he Is going oat canvassing this summer. The machine shop is completed minus the machinery. There seems to be very little damage to the fruit by tbe late frosts. Fall grain looks well considering tbe little sunshine during the past weeks. Since It bas turned warmer we mav expect soon to see all the blooming beauty of spring time. Mr. Editor, have you yet resolved your self into a court of opinions? and if so Is the orchardist liable to bave his orchard sprayed at his expense, or have it " cut down" if "moss back" becomes obstinate? To make the story short, is our horticultural law constitutional? Carus Callings. Carts, April 22. Fanners are all busy this delightful weather. Potato planting is the order of tbe day in this. locality. Fruit is not hurt any yet. Some report that certain kinds of apples are not bloom ing; others report prospects good for all va rieties. Wheat and oats look fine. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spangler are sick with the grippe. Edwin A. Howard's baby was quite sick, but is improving. Mr. and Mrs. Hay ward had the pleas ure of being surprised by a party of young folks Inst week, and we all know what good entertainers thay are. An enjoyable even ing was spent in singing, playing games, etc., with luncheon. Mis Ida May has retnred home from a pleasant visit to Oregon City. People traveling to Oregon City report that the road is being put in good shape. Report says Carus is about to lose one of its fairest belles.lwho intends committing matrimony. Preaching at the Clackamas First Pres byterian church, Heaver Creek, Sunday afternoon, April 28, and every evening dur ing the following week, and on .Sabbath afternoon, May Citli. Members will be re ceived, and the administration of the lord's H.ipper at 3 o'clock P. M, The l!ev. Dr. Gwimne, of Salem, synodical missionary, and the Rev. C. R, Shields, of Portland, Fresbvterial missionary, will officiate. There will be services at the Graham M. K. church at Carus, on Saturday evening, Jlay 4th and on Sunday, May nth. The Ixml's Supper will be administered. The presiding elder will be present. Preaching in the evening by the Evangelical minister. Kev. Hornshuch. Jcriata. A RKPIV. K, Warner Makes a lengthy Answer to Mr. Ogle's Attack Made Through the Herald. To th KntToa: Mr. (leo. Ogle, of Mo lalla, makes a vain attempt through the columns of last week's Industrial Herald lo refute an article which appeared as an edi torial In the Entkhi-hisk of the .Mh Inst., and in connection therewith tries to make It appear that I bail put into the column of the Kntkhi'Hiss, In the temporary absence of its editor, a sentiment conflicting with its well known support ol the republican principle of bimetalism or the coinage of both gold and silver by our government. 1 deny that I did anything of the kind. The article In question took no ground in favor of one side or the other of tbe money question. It mainly aimed to show that the charge that tbe act of February, 1873, demonetising silver, was the result of a con spiracy, consummated by trickery and fraud, was not true In point of fact, but that said act was passed openly, after a lull dis cussion, and with practically no opposition. I bold that it was entirely proper that the lact of there being no conspiracy or clandes tine work in tbe passage of tbe act should be stated, for the reason that populist orators and writers make the charge to help bolster up their scheme of fastening silver mono metalism on the country. To utter a lie about a bad measure, if bad it was, and then to use that lie to prop up a measure infinitely worse, is what populist writers are guilty of. This la clear on its face, and every honest man, no matter how humble his abilities, nor on which side of the money question he stands, will set his face sgaiust it. If Mr. Ogle were not quite so thick headed, and bad less of a desire to show himself smart, he might see the difference between the manner in which an act was consummated and the nature ol the act it self. Good or bad, the act was passed openly. In no way did I compromise the princi ples or politics ol the Enterprise in the ab sence of its editor. .1 was careful to say, at the close of the article in question, "Our object is not to discuss the wisdom or un wisdom of the act of 173.' I neither endorsed or condemned the act Itself, but merely gave facts concerning silver which 1 had gleaned from reading and some study. Also, in another article 1 said that "the republican party in lsirj declared in favor of a financial policy that would make every dollar of our currency, whether ofg'dd, silver, or paier, equal to every other I dollar, and as the party declared in ltV2 so it will again declare in !!." 1 take it that , the Enterprise holds lo that sentiment. If not its editor will kindly correct me. As lo Mr. Meserve "leaving his editorial columns to my lender mercies." as Mr. Ogle charges, there is no truth in it. A sudden sickness prevented bis return on the day he was exected. A dispatch was sent to the office to that ellecl. The foreman also chanced lo be absent, and th is the compositors were left without a bead to di rect them. All took hold and worked in unison; selections were made and " locals'' and other articles were written by different ones, and the paper was brought out on time. The xxr weakling who manages the Herald knew all this, and were he an honorable member of the craft he never wonld have amployed a scavenger to mis represent a fellow craftsman and try to bring him under the ban of Ins employer. I would seak of him in more courteous j terms if he had not several weeks since, quoted me in his columns as Buying things I be knew I had not said, and which no one above a half idiot w ould ever think of say- j ing. For proof see EstkkprisE ol February i 8 and Herald of February 15. I" one will be found what I did say, and in the other what I did not say. I make the foregoing explanation volun tarily, because it seems due to the Enter frisk, and because I am unwilling to stand before those who read both paers as one who would betray tbe interests of those who employ him. The testimony Mr. Ogle brings forward to substantiate his charge of fraud, is not convincing. But before giving it he claims " the lie" was not originated by pop ulists, but by republicans and democrats. This may be so. What then? I believe it is good law that the man who passes s forged note, knowing it lo be such, is equally guilty with the one wbo committed the forgery. Will Mr. Ogle plead not guilty because a few weak-kneed and frightened congressmen tried lo sneak onl of all re sponsibility for tly;ir own work and were the first to concoct a huge lie which he and his partisans have endorsed and appropri ated as their own property? One of his witnesses is Senator Voorhees, who is re membered by old men as first a whig, then a democrat, a copperhead during the seces sion war, and being first and last while car rying the name democrat on all sides of all questions, and trimming his sails to suit whatever political breeze he supposed was blowing the strongest. His testimony In the high court of honor would not he taken on a partisan question without the testimony of honest men to corroborate it. Tbe editor of the democratic New York World is another of Mr. Ogle'i witnesses. He is quoted aa saying: "No vote was ever taken for or against the demonetization of silver." "Silver was demonetized by a trick, and it was not until a year after it had been done that the fact was known either to the president, the secretary ot the treasury, tbe director of the mint, or to any one else in this country, except the few wbo planned and carried it through." A whole year before it whs known, not withstanding the dire distress which, it is claimed, followed llspassage! There may he persons gullible enough to believe that. Rut to quote further: "The first general Itnnwledirp thut was obtained of it came thrnn.h ib rennet nf Ihe director of the German mint. How fortunate for our country that a German olllcial was found sullicieutly intelligent to let our president, secretary of the treasury, and director of the mint know what were our laws on the money question ! Hucfi Is the statement or "Millionaire I'ulitzer," as Mr. Ogle styles him. It strikes me that a mere statement of such rot is enough to refute it. And is'nt it a little strange that Mr. Ogle, a chosen mouthpiece of a party one of whose cardinal principles is to denounce and villify million- aires in general and particular, should quote such authority In any esse? " A mean bird It is that fouls its own nest." Or the " Mr. llright or Tennessee," quoted by Mr. Ogle, I know nothing. It la not es sential to know his politics In order lo test the truth of his testimony, but hailing from a southern state it Is presumable he Is, if alive, a democrat or silver nionomelalist. General Oarlleld'a testimony, as quoted by Mr. Ogle, neither condemns or approve the demonetisation act. Nor does lie say it was fraudulently enacted, He simply says that he " took it upon the (aitli of t prominent democrat ami s prominent re publican," and that he " did not know that be voted at all," and closes by saying he "had no knowledge about It." The one republican of the four witnesses quoted proves nothing except thai he shirked his duty In not knowing for htmsell when question of vital importance was before congress. The testimony of the others Is not worthy of credence when opHsed by testimony of scores of members more than lllto 1 who, as they assert, openly discussed the bill and vsled for It, knowing what they were doing. The opinion or the Portland Sun against which paper I have not a disparaging word lo utter as lo the weight of evidence Is no ! better than the opinions ol scores of other j able paers on' the other side. The same j may be said or the New York World. Opin ions do not pass as proof in court, Mr. Ogle'e "refutation," when his teuli mony is boiled down and analysed, falls; very flat from the columns of the Herald. I Two democratic member ol congress, the statement of s " millionaire" editor of the I same politics, and who had no personal knowledge of the case, the opinion ot the; Portland Sun, and an extract from s stump speech delivered by a republican who sa,ys j he "knew nothing about it." "Only this, and nothing mors." And this the Herald ! says, in big bead lines, is a refutation " by I all the best republican and democratic au-! thorities"! In no easier way could I belittle its editor than by saying he believes IL ; Mr. Ogle in bis criticisms very conven iently skips over my statement of fact thai over four hundred millions of silver dol lars have been coined during the period uf abat is called demonetisation." And be also omits notice of the other fact that just prior to the act of 73 scarcely a silver dol lar was in circulation. These are Iwo very important lactors in the money controversy, ami Mr. Ogle, by bis silence concerning them, virtually admits their truth. I agree with Senator Voorhees that " Ihesilver dol lar is peculiarly the laboring man's dol arj.: As x laboring man I receive a tew such dol lars each week, and what is true of one iu this resiect is true o( laUirtug men gen. erally. Let the laboring man examine the dates of bin dollars and see when tbry were coined. He w ill probably find, aa 1 did to day in examining sixteen pieces dollars and half dollars that three-fourths ol them were coined within the last fifteen years some of them as late as 1SJ4. If then, silver dollars were not in circulation in 1873. and there are millions of them in circulation now, and the government is constantly coining them, and their purchasing value is i equal lo that ol gold, where, I ak, is the sense of all this infernal clamor about " de monetization"? 1 will not stop here to reason as to the cause of certain elici ts. I may be mistaken aslowhv silver was so scarce twenty-live j years ago; but as a laboring man I Knew what a as then, and realize w hat is now. I No matter what the anwunt which had been coined, great or small, it was all prac ( tically out ol sight. Then I took my pay I in rag money and corporation scrip, and could not buy as much with a so-called dol lar as I CHn now buy with a flu cent silver piece. It was iu the latter part of that pe riod which a populist convention at Denver termed " the seventy-live years ol the coun try's greatest glory" thut such a state of things existed. Mr. Ogle, and men of his ilk, may labor, and pray, and lie if they will, for a return ol such " glory," but as a laburer I want no more of it in mine. Mr. Ogle says I have "evidently been reading the Oregoniau, and more wonder ful slill have been believing it.'.' I plead guilty to the charge, with the qualification that I do not endorse every sentiment I rind in its columns. But 1 did not copy from that print, as Mr. Oijle seems to Insinuate. The article over which be has raised such a "tempest In a teapot" was published on the Rtli. On the 12th, just one aeek later, the Oregoniau contained an editorial em bodying substantially the same facts I had given, and closing with the following: "There has been lyi'g enough alioul this plain matter of history to whiten the mem ory of Ananias by contrast." Most assuredly I believe that. I have answered Mr. Ogle on all essential points. I may mention one more, however. He seems to have gotten himself into a muddle. His witnesses all speak of ireinon etimtiori as having been accomplished by the act of February 12, 1873, while he says it was "completed iu June, 1874. hv the fol lowing passage, which was interpolated in the revised statutes of the United States sur reptitiously: 1 Tbe silver coins of the Uni ted States shall be a legal tender in their nominal value for any amount not exceed ing five dollars in any one payment.' " Thut Is to say, making a certain amount of silver s legal tender demonetizes It! The j thing was done "clandestinely" in '73 and "surreptitiously" in '74. When a com plainant contradicts and neutralizes the tes timony of his own witnesses, and also swears to an absurdity, if it does not lose him his case it shows nit it conclti-ively that he does not know " where he is at" and tbut the court and jury, being populists, are as badly muddled as himself. I am aware this article is far too lengthy, but covering as it does three or four dillvr ent subjects which Mr. Ogle had linked to ' could not well shorten It, My ob ject was to make one job of the whole thing and then leave the parlies henceforth and forever as not worthy of further attention. K. Waunkk. Tlie latest in visiting cards at the En teki'kihk Okfigc. Price" to suit you. Blank note, receipt and order books at the Kntkrcrisk oflice. Dr. Price' Cream Baking: Powder W era's Fair Highest Medal ana Dlpttaw. Bargainsl Bargainsl ODDS & ENDS In various departments and for the next THIRTY DAYS we will sell them Regardless of Cost. II Carlton & Dexter- -DUmnud. Crescent Wedges (warranted.) Oregon City Agent, Reaver Creek Brerses. Rkavxb Cmiek, April '.'I-Tha farmers are all happy and enjoying the warm weather these beautiful days and are taking advantnge of the dry roads and are hauling their grain lo market. Miss Anna Jones, Daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Humphrey Jones will he married to a Mr. Kvans, of Portland, on Wednesday, April 'Jllh. The ceremony will be per formed by Kev. It. M. Jones, of Oswego, at the home of the bride's parents at Carus. Kev. W. Kvans, or Wales, w ho is on a lour through the United Stales, preached to a large audience at the Welch Cougrega 1 10 1 1 ul church on the morning and evening of Kiinter Sunday, and at the Presbyterian church in the afternoon. The Heaver Creek brass band is rehearsing every .Saturday evening at the Heaver Creek school house. The boys will soon be able to give us good music. Mrs. W. K. Harris and Mrs. T. II. Thomas paid a Hying visit to Oregon City this week on Important business. I'vo. Logan News. Loo an, Aprils). The weather has turned out gloriously tine once more, and those having lute seeding lo do are very busy try ing to gat through before the ground gets too dry. Clias. Shade was visiting his sisters at Hillsbnro last week. The youngest son of Robert Dane died on Monday, the 15th, of lung fever. Mrs, J. Brown was yery sick on Huminy, but is improving at this writing. Mrs. Julius llusch was visiting In Oregon City last week. Mrs. Dane, of Salem, is visiting her son ; Robert. Will Itowen, or (iervais, is visiting his folks. Mrs. Josie Clark was struck on the head by the falling of a barn door, but was not seriously hurt. Mi in Minnie HhumwAy Is visiting friends near Oregon City. Kuiiv. Nsw Kra News. NkwKba, April 24. Miss bucy Kindley Is at homo again. Charles Huiras sold his rami to Mr, Deitz. Adolph Miller and one of the reunion boys are going to start a tile factory on Mr. I'eninan's farm here in this precinct. They have a good quality ol clay and say they can manufacture It much cheaper than it can be shipped here. We hope they will succeed. Geo, Daughty, of Hillsbnro, is visiting his brother, Kuel, al present. Homebody attempted to rob Win. liati man's hen house Biinday. They succeeded in killing two or three chickens, hut left them in the chicken bouse to make their esciipe. Hnuill fruit will be In abundance this year if we don't have any more fronts, and plenty of large fruit also. For Mule. Ppnn of maros, young, well broken, weight 1200 pounds, well matched and fray in color, for sale cheap. Apply to C. O. T. Williams, Oregon City, Or. lm The Enterprise ia the only news paper in Oregon that gives a cash pre miutn to those paying tbeir subscription in advauce. Odds and Endsl We have finished stock taking and find we have a number of We have a large stock of goods ordered for the Spring and Summer trade and need all the available space. Call In and secure a genuine CASH bargain. Rosenkrans, Canby, Or. nAinonpiisT & company, First and AMen. I HARDWARE I Portluu.l, Orvgon. Northwestern Aleuts for ATKIUTS SAWS -Lanes Occident T'lttletnoth . (iriler l.nr- 'f(V, SAA-.V. : ."hi.-- , - ..- , V if Ji v ir1 ft vv k W ii V V Li V.' t. v . . V " v ' B & S Proof Chains. Arcade Loggers and Wood Choppers Specialties. Ilonils For Utile. Healed bids will lie- rwviveej by the)! county treasurer of Cl-kma county,! at bis ollii'u in the county couit houra in Oregon City, Or., tip to 12 u'clix k noon, the loth duv of May, lHU'i, lor the mile of IximU lo Iho allium t ( fX0 (olio lioiul for $200 and Olio for fjloll,) of school din- '. trict No. 102, of Clackamas county, Oro- gon. 8ld bonds not U) Ix) sold Mow par ami mil to bear over eight per cent interest, the, interest to be paid aetni Annually Hiddcni to furnish blank bonds. Invcloert to In- tmlnri'i, "I'roposiils for tin) purcliasi' of avIuhjI bonds. " M. I.. Moo ii it, Treasurer. Okkcion City, Oregon, April 18, IMI.V UnaiiHpecleil disordcri of the kidneys are responsible, for many of the, ordinary ailments ol humanity which ticgloctcd, dovelop into a serious ami perhaps futul malady. Kxporinnci would inggcRt the tiHfl of Dr. J, McLean's I. Iyer and Kidney llulm, For sale by 0. O. Huntley, druggist. Hard times I'rlcis. i K. F. Scripture ban reduced the price of liorafl allotting to $1.50 per horse, until further notice. All work at bottom pricoH. Many vcura cxcricnce iiiHtirca flrnt-cliiHB work. Ail Absolute Cure. Th Original Ahtutinn Ointment ia oniy pilt ,, jn HrK two-ounce boxes, ami ia un absolute cure for oltl sores, bums, wounds, chapped hands mill all akin eruptions:. Will positively cure ail kinds of piles. Ask for Iho Original Abiotine Ointment. Hold by C. (1. Iluntloy, at 25 cents pur box bv mail 30 cents. Doctor II. K, Fish, of flnivois Milla, Mo., a practicing physician of many vciirs ex pei it-nee, wrilus: Do Witt's Witch Ilu.cl Sul ve hiis no eipuil for indolent sores, senilis and burns. It skips pain itihtantiy, IichIh a burn quickly and leaves no scur. C. (1. Huntley, drttggi-it. Lmlies hsir trimmed in the liitfHt style lit Sloper's l iirber shop. FOR SALE OR TRADE. Tracts of Cf.ACKAMAH KIMIIT I.AK1IS. (jiind hiiiisu. bsru, etc. Also LOTH IN UI.AIiHTONK. i. K. 1 1 ROOM, l'srk Place, Oregon. 2 F. F, W1IITK. W. A. WHITE. WHITE BROTHERS l'ractlnal Architects $ Builders- Will prepare plans, eluvHtlniis, working de t lis, and Npuc.ltlciitliuii fur all kinds of build lint Hpeclsl attention irl von to modern cut tssKns. KstiiriKtes furnished on application Cull no or address WHITE llltUH., Oregon City, on Notice of Application for a Saloon License, Notice Is hereby given, that the under signed will apply to the City Council of Ore- Son City, Oregon, at the regular meeting in lay for the continuation of n license for a saloon on the corner of Main and Kighth streets. K. MATHIKS. Oregon City, Oregon, April HI, 1j5. -Hllver Mterl i . i, .... i , ' ' Filon. Hope. Crcm-nt N-e WILSON A COOK TAKE THE BEST Onecent a dose. kfaAw 'SJrmr ItU anld on s rnarsntoo hy all dme jrUta. It cures Incipient Consumptiua suul Is the beat Cough and Croup Cure. For li bv (J. A. Harding, dungist. pARMERS . . . Your twun will have tho Im'hI of cure and Full Measure of Feed At Ilio City StnbleH. KiJd & Williams. Props., 'a?n"ri!'i. W. H. Cooke. Livery Ria on Short Notice. BROWN The photographer Ih prepared to tnako photographs of nil kindrt promptly and in FIRST CLASS STYLE flaliies' and Children's I'ieturcH a Specialty. 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