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Oregon City Enterprise. Published Every Friday. CHA8, MKHKKVE, rt'UUSHKR AND rKOfRtKTOK. SUBUCHIPTION KATS8, V 00 i oo ill On yer, Bit month, Trial iuliwrU'tlon two month, A dfurouct ot Woenti on nil ittwrlntlont lor on year, 24 Ci-nH lor tlx mouths, it pid lu KtTnr. Advertising rte g tvn on rrHtlon. Cntared at the Post Office in Oregon City, Or. as sevoud cts.M muter. FKIDAY, JANUARY 10. 18'Hi. A'JENTS rOR THK ENTERPRISE, BTr Crfk, Oaubjr, i;icknis, miT-aukie, rnlon Mills, Meadow Brook. New Er, WtlsonTiU, Pmrk Plui-e, OladsUiue, dutrTnrd, Mulino, Otrus. Mnlalla. Maniuitm, EntlvTiii Aurora, OrTille, KarIb Crwk, tam asms, Bandy, Salmon, GnmnsviHe, Cherryville, - Marmot, Pr. T. B. Thomss lieo. Kutitht , . A. Mmln'r Oscar Wliiicr U J. Trulllimcr - Ch lloinmu W. S. Newtvrry Honrv Mtlcy r. L. kiiMell T. M. Oroit J. O. Unite. C. T Howard R. M. Cooper Annie Stunt. F., M. lUriinitu B Jeiuiins Ed Murcke - . - L.J PcMue H. Wiloern J. 0. Klliott F. Gosisoh Mrs. W-M. Mi-Intyre Geo. J. Currin - Mrs. M. J. Hammer Ailolph Aschotl 'Thsi wr to build ud Oregon City i to rire Oregon ( it J people joor patronage. Tat work of reorganizing the olJ repub " lican cltihs and of organizing new ones in neighborhoods where none existed, has be pun in earnest, and within the next three weeks the club organization for Clackamas county will be pretty well completed, ami the republican party will be in shape to go Into the campaign in first class condition. It is hoped that Clackamas county will be one or the banner counties of the state in its representation of the state republican league to meet in l'ortland on Tuesday. February 4. Each club is entitled to one delegate for each 25 members or fraction over 15, and one delegate at large for the club. New clubs just organized will be supplied with a copy of a constitution by addressing the sec retary of the Oregon City Young Men's Re publican club, or rapt. H. T. Wells, Port land. Shakers will be sent where possible to all club meetings and to meetings where clubs are to be organized. better too. There is Just so muotii goods to In sold in Astoria, and every man should be willing to lake an even chance wllli his eometltors in the same line of business, There has always been ft few merchants in this city who have, stood out against an agreement of this kind, and some who have signed have broken lalth. Clerks In stores in Astoria are worked longer hours than In anycitv in the Northwest and their salaries, we are sure, are no larger than in other cit ies. I.H the good movement go on, and let the door of every store ;be closed promptly at 7 o'clock in the evening. There is plenty of time to sell goods before that hour. Oregon City may take a pointer from the following from the Hood Kiver Hin der regarding the withdrawal of the boats rrom that part of the Co lumbia river: The steamer Regulator was drawn oil" the route between l'ortland and the Cascades January 1st. On the 2d the railroad company raised the price or freight on apples from Hood Kiver to Port land from 10 cents a box to the old rates of IT cents. To the unterritled, like brother Noltneror the Portland Plspatch, who has been shout ing and working for the democracy aver since the days of states rights and secession, the working of the civil service rules gives un speakable grief and chagrin. In the IMs. patch of last week Mr. Noltner denounces the system in the following vigorous kick: It is somewhat remarkable that all those thai were dronned out of the Portland post- otllce hanoened to be democrats, and It is equally so when we note the fact that the oav was reduced only in positions held by democrats. It is not so strange, however, when we recoirnize the fact that these changes are made at the recommendation of republican inspectors, and the head or the olllce dare not protest for fear that he mav lose bis position. IHunocratie federal officials seem to be at the mercy of the in spectors and dare net assert their manhood. It is a humiliating position for a man to oc cupy, but that is what they call civil serv ice. Thk congressional tight in this district promises to be an unusually livelv one, judging from the number of candidates that are spuken of and who are quietly working op little booms in their own lavor. Among thoe whose names are being brought for ward by their friends, are H. B. Miller and W. T. Tawterof feoutlieru Oregon, Judge R. 8. Bean of the supreme court, Thomas H. Tongue, or Hillfboro, C. B. Moores and T. T. Geerof Marion county, and George C. Browne'! or this city. There are several other aspirants who are discreetly holding their names back and denying all designs on Hermann's place, awaiting develop ments before making an open light. The Oregon Road Club an organization lately perfected in Portland lor the purrwise or furthering the good roads movement in Oregon, and to which a number ot country suckers contributed an initiation lee, has lately put in a steel howling alley as an ad junct to the billiard and other road appli ances, which is proving, to judge by the pro test in tbeOiegonian, a public nuisance. The club's neighbors complain that they find it impossible to sleep since the alley was put in, so great whc noise produced. The -state democratic central committee whiph met in Portland Tuesday, fixed April 9 as the date and Portland as the place for I holding the next democratic state conven tion. The repsesentation agreed upon is one delegate for each 100 votes or fraction over 50 cast at the last election forjudge Burnett for supreme judge,and one delegate 'at :arge for each otunty. This apportion ment will give to tlKjirconvention 243 members. The democrats are fighting the tariff bill the republicans have (before congress for all they are worth, their plan of raiding more revenue being to place.an extra tax of one dollar on eaoh keg of bter manufactured in this country. As beer is not a demo cratic beverage their willingness to have it tear a high tax is patriotic in the extreme. The state republican central cominiUoe is rallied to meet in Portland on Wednesday, February 5, for the purpose ef determining upon the time ana place for holding the state convention, an to trantact any other bu-iaess that may properly come before the ..com ai it tee. FOR A ROAD COMMISSION. The presidential boom of Governor Mor ton, of Kew York, hasneeeived a backset as a result of the governor's utterances of peace at any price in the misunderstanding . of the United States with England over the Venezuelan boundary (jneetion. Sew Yohk has the largest popalation, Texas the largest area, and Illinois the greatest railway mileage of any of the states, while Nevafla lias the smallest population, Rhode Island the smallest area, and Okla homa the least railway mileage. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS Of a proposed movement ror early closing by the merchants of Astoria the Budget has the following: An early closing movement is to be put on foot immediately by some of the merchants and clerks. It is a very good idea and if all our merchants go Into the combination and stick to it. as they eliould, they will ail be just as well off. and To the Editor: On rending an article in vour issue of December Kith, in which an opinion adverse to the forming of a road; commission for the state is expressed, I was j inclined to think that the position of the! Enterprise was well taken. But on rcllec j tion, and a little study of the attitude of the j people of the state on the subject of good j roads, 1 fully Tealue that there is much to, be said in lavor of such a commission. If our road laws were understood and appre- cia'ed favour people: if they were backed up bv a public sentiment strong enough to give them a fair trial.it would be true, as the Enterprise has said, that " there is no state j in the I'nion that has a better system of roid laws than Oregon;" and the time would soon come when our people would i be enabled to enjov the comforts and pleas ures, and reap the benefits ami profits or a ! system or good roads. But unfortunately j this enlightened public sentiment, which Is a necessary element in the successful execu- j tion of all good laws, seems to be lackiig; everywhere in Oregon except in Miiltno- j in ah county, and perhaps in Clackamtsj county. Although me law esiaoiisuing me i new and better system, applying to counties : having ten thousand inhabitants or more, was passed nearly seven years ago, ami has only been amended since that time in a very few particulars relating to extending its oration to all the rounties in the state, regulating the amount of tax levy or ru purposes, and giving the county courts a fuller control of the disbursement of the I road rund, chiefly intended to guard against ' simulation and waste, there has been but little advance made in the movement ror ; better roads in Oregon outside of these two counties. And the resistance to our pro- j gress on the correct lines of our laws does I not take the form of apathy and Inertia j only, but some " pernicious activity" in the legislature in the way or passing city char ter bills has wrought much mischief, in most cases no doubt without any Intent on the part of our honest representatives to do so, but as a result of the careless method of enacting such legislation. To such an ex tent has this kind of legislation ojierated to nullify this most valuable feature of our road laws that we seem now to have ar rived at the condition in which only Mult nomah county can operate successfully un der onr improved system of working the roads. This is extremely unfortunate, for our advance has keen made directly in line with the progressive movement of the most advanced states, in so far at least as the un derlying principle is concerned, to wit: The cities and villages are benefited by having good country roads as well as the country people, and they should help to make them. This is the central idea of the New Jersey State Aid Ijlw, which has been so highly commended everywhere by all those publications which have at all interested themselves in the good roads movement. Hon. Edward Burrougb, state commis sioner of public roads ror the state of New Jersey, says . " It will lie observed that un der this act the property owners pay one tenth and the state one-third of the costs. These payments are virtually a free gift to the county, which pays the remainder and thereafter .oust keep the road in repair, thus compelling the citizens of cities and j towns to bear the same burden that is im-j potted upon the farmers. .... That farmers should be relieved of a portion of the burden or maintaining the public roads is a j reasonable demand, and is heartily con-1 curred in by the bast citizens of our cities I and towns." I In this last statement of New Jersey's commissioner of public roads lies the secret of New Jersey s success in nanoilng the good roads problem, so (bat she has been visited by commissions sent from other states to study her methods. It bespeaks a condition which, if one is correctly in formed, he may use as a criterion, by which, without the trouble of a visit, he can rightly judge and distinguish between towns that are alive to their best interests and make circumstances which tend to their certain prosperity and growth, and those sleepy, aluggisb towns which, while thev are -waiting for something to turn up." are out stripped by their more liberal and energetic rivals. In Oregon we liavo Tar loo many towns of the latter class. The one lonely hut not for lorn and cheerless example of the llrst class is our metropolis, the city ol Ihe Northwest, whose liberality has been its inspiration from the beginning. The early settlers who located In the wil derness on the banks of the Willauiotlel where now Is the city of Portland, thinking to build a town there, soon found that their aspirations were Imitated by other settlers along the river, both above and below them, and who claimed, not without reason, that they were more favorably situated to secure the trade or the rich agricultural country ol the valley. To overcome these advantages possessed by their rivals Ihe villagers or Portland bestirred themselves about push ing roads Into the agricultural settle ments for the purpose of securing their trade. In ISM, while yet but a small vil lage, Portland built the road lending from her lauding to the Tualatin plains, and a writer on the earlv history and develop' meut ol Portland says of It, " Without doubt no other thing did as much as this to tlx Portland as the metropolis." This poli cy of liberality In building good wagon roads into the surrounding country has been steadily pursued by Ihe city of Port land, and she has done, and still continues to do more towards building roads outside of the city limits llian all the other towns of the stale combined. She has prospered as none of the other towns have prospered. She believes that while she is pursuing the policy of building up the surrounding coun try she is contributing to the certain ad vancement of her own material Interests, and that where all are benellted each should contribute his proportional share toward se curing the public guod. Portland Indeed is a city of which any true Orcgonlan mav well be proud, and to which all the people ol (he surrounding country, whether they be of her own or another county, ore In tensely loyal. Of course Multnomah county then can work successfully under our Im proved system. Bill how about the other counties of the state f One need not extend Ins search lur liter than to our session laws of I.MO to find facts enough to discourage any but the most ardent workers lu the cause of good roads, and bring them to fear that the stan dard of excellence attained bv O ir road laws is verv far in advance of the sentiment of our people; that we are, in lact, in alMiut the condition In regard to this subject that Portland seems to be in, regarding her or dinances against gambling: she is ashamrd to repeal (hem and is not willing to execute them. Outside of l'ortland the cities and towns appear to lie the dark corners of the state, reiiiriug peritenl and vigorous mis sionary work. To illustrate : There Is a little town in this state, situated on a level plain where absolutely no grading is re quired on the streets. Through this town rum a little stream, scarcely large enough In which to run saw logs over which ami within the corporate limits of the town, the county a few rears ago built a bridge and has maintained it ever since. Our legisla ture last winter amended the charter of this town. From this amended charter I iiote: "Sec. i:tl. The said city of Sheridan 0 have control of all the streets and bridjts and roads within the corporate limits ol said city, except the bridge over the Yamhill river at Bridge street in thecity of Sheridan, said bridge to be the properly of the county ol Yamhill, state or I iregon, and the inhab itants of said city within sai I limits, and all property therein shall be exempt from the payment of roid taxes of nnv and everv kind to the county of Yamhill, state ol ( ire gon." But lest this little town should think that Kello': hail sought to render it obnox iously prominent in its illiberality toward the good roads movement, it may be well to state that of twenty .one cities and towns of Oregon, whose charters were either orig inally enacted, or were amended by the leg islature last winter, eighteen have provis ions of similar purport.lhe bridge being only a variation to suit existing conditions of the locality, Do not the facts recited indicate that we need something further in the way or legis lation? Has the advance we have so far made been eminently satisfactory? If we need legislation what legislation do we need? Everybody has different ideas on these points, and il anything is proposed in the way of amendment to our road laws in our legislature, it stirs up the whole pool of ideas, and there is always danger of doing more harm than good. May it not lie a good scheme to follow Ihe example of Massachu setts and some other slates, and appoint a road commissson to study up this subject and proisjse to the legislature such legisla tion as will be suggested to their minds after a thorough study or, first, our own road laws and the manner of their execution ; our conditions of climate, topography and soil, and also the artificial subdivision of our laude, farm boundaries, tc. Second : The system of road management in other states, especially in those states which are successfully wrestling with the good roads problem, together with their c perience and the lessons taught by it. In this connection I would commend to the favorable consideration or all true friends of the cause of good roads, the words of Gen. Roy Btone, special agent and engin eer of the office or Road Inquiry of the Uni ted States department of agriculture: "How can a people having no surplus capital build good roads? For an answer we must go where they have done it Ruc cesslully, and study the methods adopted; we can certainly follow these methods; pos sibly we may Improve ii(on them. First, we must study all the economies possible in construction; second, we must find out all the parties to be benefited and see that each bears bis proper sbare of the cost, whether or not he belongs to the immediate locality, or even to the present generation of men. Third, we must look into the local questions, of road materials and transporta tion, and i:ito all the latest improve ments in road implements and machinery. "But who is to do all this? And that brings us to the first practical step in gen eral road improvement, namely, lliut every stale should have a permanent commission compo'ed of the citizens of the highest character to undertake this investigation and recommend the necessary measures to the legislature, to watch the workings of tlioe measures when adopted, and to se cure any possible improvement in them." Kello. MOLALLA AVKNUEj WHITE COLLAR LINE. ..STORK., jsts. Telephone and Bailey Gatzert. G. W. GRACE & CO.! Columbia ftlvor & Pufjot Sound Nnvltjntlon Company. j Alder Street Duck, Tcl'ilin No. Ml. NEW GOODS, Complete stock of every thing! lK'eilod in tlio lioino. A pood wrvioeiililo inackintoHh for $5. rmbrt'lluR, goiul quality, front tl up. Long wearing wool miekti jut pair '20 cent nul up. A fine lletctil lined glove for TiOcentg. Oilier good glove at proportionate prieeri. ' Tlio.we are but a few of tlie j i bargains we ean give If ! you ean do U-tu-r in I'm t j laud let uh k now it t'oine ! in ami examine the good. 1 (ilass ' Smyth. 4 .- ,rw.if Portland, Astoria and tho Ocoan. Telephone leaven 1'ortland 7 A. M., daily except Sunday. Telepli on leaven Antoria 7 M., daily except Sunday. Ilium direct to train for Clatnop beach and connect with Mr. llwnco for llwaeo train running to all point on North beach. liailey (iat.ert leave Portland H I'. M.( daily, except Sunday; on Saturday 11 I. M. Leave Antoria daily at ti: l". A. M., except Sumliiy and Monday; on Sunday 7 1". M. Connect with all train for (datnop U'lich and llwaeo ln'iich. . Thi linn ha a Unit connecting with Kith U'liohe, returning Irom Atoria every night in tlie week. U.D.SCOTT. E. A. SEELEY, Prosldont. Agent. POltCKI) TO THE WALL Nt t il (Vh more than the hhU I now have. For 1 lie Next Thirty Days I will sell fnrensh, no deceiving, all podn ill my store Kverylhinj: H'ms. Slock Musi He llcduml - This unexceptional opportunity for largainf will only last for thirty days, so .IAS. HOMES, CAN BY, OREGON. The Queen of Fashion THE FASHION PAPER OF THE DAY. Superb, Strictly Up-To-Dte Designs, Illustrations ind Fashion Notes, Reliable, Bright and Clean. A year1! lubscrlptlon for Only GO Conts, Including, free, your choice of any one of tha Celebrated McCall Bazar Patterns, and all patterns to aubicriliers Only 10 or 15 Cent. Send a J-cent stamp lor a sample copy to THK Mr Al.l, ( OMI'A W, 40 Eut 1 Ilk Nl Ken Vork. FOR- ABSOLUTELY PURE DRUGS TO r. A. HARDING. NO.NK I1IIT OOMPei ENT PHARMACISTS EMPLOVEO Flue Perfumeries and Toilet Articles. Aluo a full itock of IPinSTTS- OILS ETC. NOBLITT'S STABLES. Livery, Feed and Sale Stable ORECON CITY. LOCATED BETWKKK THE BRIDGE AND DKFOT. Double and Single Rip), and Had die homuM always on hand at the lowes priceH. A corrall connected with the barn for loose utook. Information reifiinllnif any kind o; Block promptly aUcndml to by pemon ol letter. Horses Bought and Sold. Ilortcd Boarded and Fed on reaHon able terniH. r.v!iiE Ka:Slt:s Ami nil Arrramrtri. White, Standard And Othtiri. P. 11. I.t:t!l;r h Cn, CvT filtl!l"lt. F. J. CKOWN, t.Kll.llt IH Hard ware :- :- and Stovest. ll Flr.t Mtr.'ct, ivrtliri"!. Or roftlcs k BREMEN FURNITURE CnrpctH, SliiulrH, l.m'i' C'lirtaiiiH, I'ortiiTfH, eic. 174 r'lrt in-, 17.1 Kniiit trrrl. OLDS & KING OfftT Hl'Hl lllllK'llllh-- CAPES AND... f)-- JACKETS' Mb A Wn.lilliittou mi. j Good ! Wages ; To H'a cmnu'wi ilnriM Willi r-iftrinifv. Pacifiic Baptifit I'nrtibiMi. TITLES At)stracted Anil Rimmniecd by Tie Title Gnarantee 4 Trust Co. Chumber of Cnra murc IIiiIMInk The L. & Z. Swett Co., NVw in4 Hrrnml IUikI. t Furniture, CnrpnM, Bedding and Slovri. 201 ifr2o:$ Front, 'jii'J Taylor Ft. At tin boat liimliii'. fllvN it PfifV'T i Dr. E. C. Crown !iwripti..n ! Eye & Eur I VVvT1. Surcoon. lt mill MkIii i j liInM' KHt.'.l I Family & Country tll,.,, Trade Solicited, ni'j Ki..i .mt H3l:r:s Pri, Dry Goods Wl I Mul .!. LtADMU or Low UflM, Wolfe h CO. j i (D'irUib. I'lilt.l Wah!ni:tnn Jno L Cline Wult-h Mali. r. 'J2I Fir-l SiP i't. A'l HnrV rtMt i jet 1'rifi x l.mv. Denver Kitchen. IV.. V..,' QC oi. t. nil lyv Ft. I HtriTt N . i r Sa'tiion, M": :u:i l'i"'.:rt ii,- rv. Mil,.-.. I'of. I'l i.il ,i I'mcnn rl- Hooks stoart & Tliomuson Co & 'in M orriKon Street Portland. LADIES' Wign, Switches and Hangs. AIho Gents wigs. i Out our Prlotn. Paris Hair Store tUDWnaliliiKton Ht, F.E. I'each&Co 1) alura id I'tir PAINTS AND OIL Ami "unarm Halloing Mi't'-rlHl. . E. Corner Hrt ami Hark Hiri'i't. Opp'inlo I, nl'1 and 'lllliin'. liuuli. Illlllics ol I 11" 1 Portland (Va; P i icinncc M -vi i o f iq li.ir,. ! . i.t. M.iiii.j i v w o.. o f liv 'fl piven are for rrl'ciTiioe and piid-j ',u'("''' t,,J arii'o of country and Hulnirliau buyers. They recommendt: ble (inim to deal wilh. - - i!!-r,rfilIIDL .. .1....1 ...:i i. uriUll.lU ..mil ii. -t , Haidwuro Hi K ItAMoNA li'iivi'i ori'iinii I lly U A M 2 mul A 1. M. 1'i.rl l.uul 7. IMM A. M iiihH I'. M. Avery t Co. 82 Third St mul Ormnii I lly niry 40 m!iiiili- frniu 7 A. M. ''' 'P B00kS and Stationery GILL'S. AT .til mid Aliirr HH. Finest Photos We Per Doi. at Mesarvey's Gallery. lOHJ Third fit. JohnS. Meek Co, 82 Sixth St., Photographic A Magic Lantern SUPPLIES. Newem Ttilnm In Wall Paper Prices to suit the times. ofioflald A MornD 112 Third HI. Rand for Smnclei I). C. l.lli KNH I GROCBkJ, H7 I'lilnl HI. Fine values in Teas fe (loll'ccH. EL H. Haorctincse & Co WALL PAPER Rcoin Mo'j!dlii;s, Paints, Oils, UruGliEs. Etc. 2113 Alilur Hirr-cl. Hooks l!oii(.'ht, Sold and Kx elianged at tho Old P.ook Store Wi Y.imhlll Hl Mur '1 Innl. POTTER, Artistic Phol;;raiii!r. 'J.'.i I'ii i nt Photos i 1.50 por do., Kml-k Work. Royii Restaurant 2;nl First St., Where ear stops Tlie bent place lor a trood meal, ltensoniililftprice eimnpimt ilnoc for PlOUHEB, FRAME!, Artist's Materials. Uernsteiu's Art Store. 307 WkmIiIiiiiIoii St., lli'lwuan Uli 4(h f FOR SALE OR TRADE. IIouho nnd two acres near c. J. K. GROOM, 4K2 Kast Pine St. Portland, Oregon.