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Oregon City Enterprise, Publlahed Kvo' Friday. CH AH. ME8EKVB, PDBM8HEH AND PROI'RIKTVR. UBWCHIPTIUN HATK8, li aioiiha. . 1 w Trial auliafrlptlnii two months, n t r, t cm lr hi mouibt, II ria lu A d trout t of VI rrnu on til urwlptloni for dTMlC Adrertitlni ral givfn on application. Ruharrlltr will It i d in llatJ i. Xl a W tami d on ibflr iwim rn tct'lowi f thir nan. ll.hn.lacl. lint PI w th.O 10 W f.erpn ut, kindly notify ut anil c will tOOK NlUT II. mcrcd it the Pott Oftlot In Oregon City, Or. u tfoond cImi mailer. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27. 18Mi. A-3KST8 FOR THE ENTERPRISE. Bearer Creek, Oanby, Clwluua. Mllwaukle, Union Ulllt. Meadow Brook, New Era, WllaonvtlU, Park Plai-e, tiladtuine, urTonl, Mullno, Carua, Uolalla, Marquam, SuimtIII Aurora, OnrlUe, agle Creek, Damascus, Handy, ttainibn, Currinsville, Cherryville, - Marmot, Pr. . T. B. Thomtt Geo. Kuieht A. Mather Otcar Wlnttuiter U J. Triillluger Chat Holmau W. 8. Newberry Henry Miley F. L. Kusaell T. M. Cnt J. 0. Gage. C. T. Howard K. M. Cooper Annie stuftb. E, M. Hartman B Jeunlugt He r- A. -nyder L.J Perdue H. Wilhern J. 0. Klliott F. GottM'h Mrs. W.M. Mi lntyre Geo. J. Curriti Mrs. M. J. Haiiiiner Ailolph Asctiotl 'The way to bnlld op vrtgon CHj Is to rlre Oreffoa t'itj people jonr patronage. WOMEN AS A POUTICAL FACTOR. With each recurring campaign, women, as a political factor, are more and more in evidence. In the campaign just closed women have exerted a greater inHuence than ever before and their work, especially within the republican party, has been very noticeable. In many of the stales the wo- men's leagues iliii much toward giving the big majorities (or McKinley. Since the introduction of co-education, whereby girls are giien the same educa tional advantages as buys, women have come to be learned in all the branches of the arts and sciences, and within the last few years they have taken tip civil govern ment and political economy with the result that many of them are as well posted on the science o( government as the average man. The reading of newspapers, a source ol knowledge of which women have availed themselves in any numbers only aithin the last 25 years, lias had much to do with arousing in them an interest in the politics of the country. With the broadening of their minds, women have found that their interests and welfare were artectfd quite as much as those of the men by bad govern ment, and they have learned to enter their protest in a man ne,', which, while larking the force of the men's ballot, is nevertheless a potent fuctor in oar later campaigns. With this interest in the cau-e of goo, I government has come a desire to have the elective franchis , that they may with ballot more effectively work fur the interests they have at stake. Already they hare been given the ballot in Wyoming, Coloiado and Utah, and had it not been fur the big foreign vole in California, women's suttruge would have been granted at the ate election in that state. The amendment was carried in all the country counties, where the Ameri can vule is strong, but in San Francisco county, where the foreign vote outnumbers the American, it was deleuted by a big ma jority There is no fair-minded man but what will admit that the average woman can vote as intelligently as the average man. And as to the horde of ignorant foreign Voters that are now being poured into this country from Southern and Eastern Europe, there is no comparing their ability to cast an in telligent vote.wiih that of the omen of Am erica. Woman's suffrage ill come, but it may be 50 ears before it w ill be in effect in every state in the Union. Its coming is one of the certainties that we may exct in the development of tl)i-, the grandest and freest country on earth. Therontml ol Havana would enable them secure lite recognition ol other nations ami having access to the sea they could soon lit out a navy and drive Spain from the island. Willi Ihe headway the Cubans are now making It cannot he but a short time until they will force Spain to recognise their In dependence ami bring to a close one of the most bloody and barhoroua ar of llna century. Til K session of circuit court for Clackamas county, which closed last Saturday, ia the first term in which District Attorney T. J. Ctei'tou has acted ill his olllcial rapacity. Mr. Cleeton proved hiiusell lo be the able and conscientious attorney that his friends claimed he was w hen they were pushing his candidacy in the campaign of la.it June. He has been very careful and painstaking in his work before the grand jury, and with his knowledge of criminal law aril evidence, very materially aided that body in sifting out Ihe testimony brought before it, that no case without a just cause should he sub mitted to the court, thus saving many dol lars to the lax payers in needless exense in witness fees and in deputy shentr fees in serving papers, besides not cumbering the court calendar with a lot friviloutcases that would lie thrown out for lack of evidence. In handling the state's cases belore the cir cuit court he has proved himself to be the match ol our ablest attorneys and his plead ings were characterized by a force and logic together with his evident sincerity of pur pose, that won for hi in the resect of the court and the couldence of the jurymen as well as the good will of his fellow attorneys. Salkm has Joined the list of towns that have a curfew ordinance and hereafter all boys and girls will have tomake themselves scarce on the streets of that town when Ihe curfew rings, or give a good reason for being away Irom their homes during the late hours of Ihe evening. A stroll along the streets of Oregon City about 0 or 10 o'clock at night of any evening in the week would convince Ihe most skeptical person that a curfew ordinance would be to the advantage of this city. It is no uncom mon occurance tosee boys, and girls loo, though the boys outnumber the girls ten to one, loitering about the streets anil (refuel ing places that are schools for crime and debauchery at hours w hen they should be under Ihe protecting care of the parental roof. 0eoti City is slow to move in ill works of retorm. bul it is likely that Ihe time will come when this town will have a curfew ordinance. tiik no in ou i or uiuxr. New Iti'inliilHci'iitfs ami Portrait December McClure'a. lit MiCliiro' iniig.iiine announce for publication lu the I Vi ember number a pHx'r ol ri'iniiiin-cNoa t( tlui boyhood of (limit. Mr. Hamlin CmrUnil, the novel it, w ho has long hail in iniiulllio project ol wilting in iiitiinalo personal lifo of Grunt, lias gone down to Ocorgctown ami Ripley, Ohio, an I Maysvillo, Ken. tlio towns it) which liratit passed his life until ho went to West Point, anil by industriously talking with every man and woman tlicro who had any pernuiiul knowledge of Orant, and by ilolving into the local records and newspapers, tut gotten together a rare store of bliiinina ting fact and anecdote: and out of this peifectly new material he has written the paper which ia to atuvear in the December Mci'lura't. The promise ia that it will do what has never been done before: exhibit the youth I'lysseallranl exactly as he wuh in bis humble life and surroundings In addition lo collecting iti.'oriimtioii, Mr. (.irttland also collected pictures, and something especially rare and interesting is promised in the ill lies- trtiting is promised in the ilium laliutu of the paper. For example, tbete will be given the earliest known portrait of tirunt, a portrait owned by Mrs. Hoggs (the w ife o( Grant's partner in the real estate business at St. Louis), never Ix'lorw reproduced or published, and quite nil known to the public and even to incin tiers of Urant's own family. FOR- absolutely: ture' DRUGS Ull TO q A. HARDING. NONK IHIT OOMPlTCNT PHARMACISTS IMPLOVID Tm mass meeting of the ciliiens and taxyayers of Oregon City w hich was held Monday evening at Welnl.ard's hall was one of (be most harmonious conventions ever held in this city. The gathering was a truly representative one of Ihe best element of the city who had met to voice their de mands for a clean, upright and economical administration o( the municinal atlulrt of Oregon City. The nominees chosen are all men of known integrity and ability ami ol whose characters not a word of reproach can be truthfully uttered. With them in charge of the affairs of Oregon City the assurance is certain that the ordinances will all be enforced, that the pits and dead falls to our youth will he removed ami that a rigid economy, consistent with the growth of the city, will he enforced thut the enormous debt ami high tax rate iiiider whkh Oregon City is now struggling may be abated. Uhhkr In the Chicago and Michigan markets has advanced within the last three weeks from SO cents to 2 per thousand according to quality. This raise comes from an increased demand for lumber, princi pally in the line of repairs, both lo build ings in the cities ami to farm houses and fences, etc. vhtch the general revival in business has encouraged Ihe owners to make. It is said by competent authority that at no time within the past fifteen years has the stock of lumber in the yards of Chi cago, which Is the greatest lumber inarkit in the world, been so low as It is this fall. It will not be tnanv niontns until a stiffen ing will be felt in the Pacific Coa-t lumber market, which is sure to feel the impulse of Ihe general revival that is setting in all over the emu try. Tha nark days for our Oregon mill men and loggers appear to be about over. Thanksgiving In 1771. In 1771, long before which time Thanks-giving bad become an annual custom in New England, the customary Thanksgiving proclamation of Governor Hutchinson met with a wry cold recep tion. The spirit cf independence was abroad, and patriotic Americana could Th Cuban war appears to he Hearing an j Dd "",e ? thankful for under the end but not the kind of an end predicted in British yk,e- OSt of the Boston min isters ansoiuieiy reiueta 10 reaa me proclamation to their congregations, THE CUBAN WAR. the gratidioce proclamation i-sued by Gen. Weyler when he took charge of the Hpan ish forces in Cuba. Gen. Weyler recently eet out with the pick of his army to subdue Gen. Maceo, who with his Cubans, is occupying the western part of the island. How well he succeeded in bagging this redoubtable Cuban is shun n by by the lute press dispatches in which it is announced that Gen. Weyler has returned to Havana by sea an the cruiser I.e Guspi. leaving his army, doubtless as Gen. Campos left his on a similar expedition some months ago, cooped up in a seaport town to be brought back to the safety of the forts about Havana by lra sport ships so that they will be sure to avoid the deadly machetes of the Cuban soldiery. In Ihe meantime Gen. Gomez who is in coiiiiuand of Ihe Cuhati army on the east ern part of the island is preparing to mart-h into Huvan province with 3.0 00) well ejiiii'fd men. Ho that it appears that Weyler will have all that he can do to de fend his eiipi'al city against the on one word rush of Hie Cubans without giving any lur titer thought to their subjection . The Cubans have as yet been nimble to hold any of the seaport towns that they have captured. Thev not Having any heavy cannon Ihe Meet ol '.Spanish men of war that surround the island have been enabled to shell them out and keep them driven hack into II e interior. .Should they be able to capmre Havana, they will then be in pus session of a seaport that they can hold. For with Ihe formidable fortresses at the en trant's lo Its hai bor thev can heat of! any war ship that may attempt to enter the port. and several in the country also dined. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. de- Tliaokaglvlng Day. Over the river and through tha wood To grandfather's house we go. The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white and drifted snow. Over the liver and through the wood. Oh, bow the wind doea blow I It stings the toes And bites tha nose Ab over the ground we go. Over the river and through the wood To have a first rate play. Bear the bells rinir, "Ting-a-lmg-dingl" Hurrah for Thanksgiving day I Over the river and through the wood Trot fast, siy dapple gruyl bpring over the ground, Like a huntiiiK hound, For this Is Thuiihkgiving dayl Over the river and thr'.ugh the wood And straight through the barnyard gate We seem to go Extremely slow. It Is so hard to wait. Over the river and through the wood Kow grandmother's cap I spy. Hnrrab for the funl la the pudding done? Hurrah for the pumpkin pie I -L. Marie Child. iteei-her ait a Mave Auctioneer Even people of mature vears whose tneu-ory is clear about matters More and during the war have practically lorgntten that Henry Ward lioeclier used his pill pit in PI) mouth church, Itrooklvn, as an auction block fur slaves. The most fa mous of his "slave sales" was that of the beautiful girl, Sarah, and it was ttion Ibis occasion that the most exciting scenes ever witnessed in I'lytnoutti church, or in any other American church for that matter, occurred. Mr. Iteecher was unusually dramatic; he put Ore into bis words, as he stood the slave girl on the platform beside him, which fairly burned into the hearts of his auditors. It was nut long before the people became almost hysterical in their excitement. But Reecher kept on until he was ready to pane the collection baskets. Then the auditors gave vent to their feelings, and not only heaps of money was put into the baskets but men and women took off their rings, unfastened their watches and threw them into the baskets and on the platform. It was a remarkable scene and such a one as will probably never be equaled in this country . Mrs. Iteecher recalls the event with wonderful vivid ness in her article in the Christina Ladies' Home Journal, when she tells the whole story of "When Mr. Beecher sold slaves in Plymouth pulpit." The scene itself is remarkably well brought to the eye of the leader by a striking il lustration made by De Tbnlstrtip from material furnished the artist by Mr Bjecher. file ( hrlslmas Number of Me( lure's The publishers of McClu'e's Magazine annoncea Christmas number of quite extraordinary quality, both in ils read ing matter and its pictures. There is lo be a richly printed covet, decorated with, one of Botticelli's most famous madonnas specially redrawn by Henry McCarter; a first reproduction ol a madonna painted by Henry McCarter; a first reproduction of a madonna painted by Josephine Wood Colby; a reproduction of a portrait of Washington painted at Valley Korge by Charles Wilson I'eale and never he- lore published ; reproduction of some famous frescos by Melo.zoda Forli, in illustration of a Christmas poem by liar net i rescotl ftpollord ; ami some new and especially important views of Pales tine, made under the personal direction of the editor of the magazine. In addi tion to this every contribution will lie ful ly illustrated and among the contributors will be Rudyard Kipling, Ian Maclarcn, Harriet Prescott SpofTord, Frank K Stockton, Hamlin Garland, Henry Seton Merriman, Cyrus C. Adams of the New York Sun, and William Canton, author of, "W. V. Her Book." New I'nilertnkiiig Ituoin. County Coroner, W. N. Godfrey has opened an undertaking room on Main street near Tenth street, where he will keep in stock a full line of coffins, caskets and burial robes. His prices will be found reasonable. If FIm Pernimerles mil Toilet Articles. Alto a lull itock of , OILS V.TC. Shingles The best on the market. In small lots or in car loads. Dimension shingles cut lo order Cedar Posts By carload or mixed car lots with shingles. W. II. & L S. B0XXEY, Al'RORA, ORF.C.ON JOHN A. BECK, THE RELIABLE JEWELER No. 270, Morrison Street, PORTLAND, OREGON IS STILL ON EARTH. For general repairing he tttamli without a peer. For firt-clas, re liable goods his store in secoiul to none. Trv him ! Geo. T. Howard, DKAI.KK IN ...j&coqd land (joodg Highest price paid for Furni ture, Stoves, etc., etc. Good line of Tinware, Glass ware, Crockery, etc., always on band. 7th Street, Near Depot- H. W. JACKSON, A.W. IIII.I.II'S JOHN MONTOOMKBV The Noveltv caodv factory has jtmt re eeived ao nvoi'eof new nuts, all vari eties. Pi n es i;iiM'Hiiii-ed. DwePinir. hoiine wanted. Address Rent er, giving location and price, care of the FNTtKHM.SB Phillips & Montgomery, EXPRESS DELIVERY. Prompt attention to hauling to any part of Oregon City. Moving attended to promptly and carefully. Special rates given on hauling to , and from Gladstone and Park-place. BIS AND ti Repairer. Bicycles, Umbrellas, Guns, Sewing Machines, And all kinds of oiiiall ma chines put in cood order. No work to dillicult to undertake. Prices reasonable. Simp in Caufleld building Near Court Mouse. New Goods Modern Pricew. orner brocerv. V; J Complete stock of Fine Family Groceries, Try my extra Choice Tea.ss3 Richard Freytag. Main and Fourteenth Streets. :Htu1llMll-I I MlI. I uian PIONEER Transfer and Expregg, Freight and parcels delivered to all parts of the city. RATES - REASONABLE. I HAVE A : A Coinplolo Slock : OF :- Nuts, Dates, Fis, Money, Ornntfos, Lemons. Bananas, Cranberries, Raisins, and Homo Mado Mince Meat.- . t Ail.l nii.vttliK yu mllit waul f"r y"" TliimUnul vlntf Dinner' "smav 71. KOBHKWpOjSI, Miiouomwur ll PARR ROOlRTlOr. Osotaea. t 7th and Center Sts., (On the hill.) U------ GZ3 The Marketing Point. OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY The factory towns of tlio Kust uro noted for nH'ording tlio !cst market to tlio neigh boring farmers ami gardeners in proportion to the population of any of the towns in that section. Tho reason for this is that the people of these towns have a fixed in come upon which they can always depend, and, as a consequence, they are liberal buy ers, paying cash for all their purchases. As the Great Manufacturing Center of the Pacific Coast OREGON CITY Is Coming to be One of the Best Marketing Towns in the State This is proven every day by tho number of fanners, who are to bo seen on its streeU sellinj; their produce, who, until just tho last few years, sought the markets of other towns, Tho system of macadamized road that is being built into all parts of Clack amas county, will enable all the people of this county to share in the profitable mar ket that Oregon City a (lords. If, as it in sure to do, tho demands of Oregon City in crease in the next five years as it has in tho past live years, this city wilt rank next to Portland as a market place for THE PKODUCE of the Farmer Edouards Bros., Successors to ELY BROS., 099 Molalla Avenue GENERAL MERCHANDISE NICW GOODS "-flLOWIiST PUICKS ;lour, Shorts, Bran, Oats, Wheat, Spuds. Etc. Cash Paid for Chickens and Eggs. QREGON CITY IRON WORKS New and Unladed Shop with all appliances for MACHINE WORK & CASTING. All work executed in the best manner pnHHiblo. teed on all orders. Promptness guaran- REPA1RI1TG SPECIALTY. Prices tho lowest to he had in Portland, fch near Main, Oregon City, Oregon. J. ROAKE & CO. Fourth Street,