Oregon City Enterprise.
Published Every Fridny.
CM AH. MK8EKVK,
Pl'HLIKIIKR AND rKOI'RIKTOH.
UBUCHIPTION RATKH,
9ns jtr.
Ill moath.
Trial tulwrrtption two month,
ti 00
A dlnroutt nt SPctnti on all siitwrlpttons (or
m jcr, '45 null lor tlx mouths, II paid lu
MTance.
Ailrertlnlni rti glv n on application.
8uborllr will tltid I ho data ol rxnlratln:
stmt e.l on thlr p-o r tollowhii th.ir name.
If this Is e I- not ri't ur I within two wctki
afir a pnymem, kuittly notify ui and e will
loo alter II.
Intern! at the Font Office In Oregon City, Or.,
aa teooud clan matter.
FRIDAY, PKIEMBER 18, ISM.
A'JKNTS FOR THE ENTERPRISE,
Dr
Bearer Creek,
Oanbr,
Olaraamat,
Mllwaukle,
Colon Mills,
Meadow Brook,
Hew Era,
WllaonvUle,
Park Place,
Gladnlone,
QtafrVml.
Mullno,
Carua,
Molalla.
Maniuam,
ButtoTllle
Airora,
OrTllle.
Esjtle Oreek,
'niascus,
8 indy,
-alni'on,
Currinsrille,
C'lierryville,
Marmot,
T. B. ThomM
tieo. kulirut
A. Mather
Oicar Wlaaiuirer
O j. Trulllnger
trta Hoiman
W. 8. Newberry
Heurr Mile
T. L. Kuaael
T. M. Crtwi
J. O. Gate.
C. T Howard
K. M. Cooper
Annie Stubba.
E. M. Hartman
B. Jeiuiinft
He:iry A. iiyder
L.J Perdue
H. Wiltwrn
J. 0. Klliott
F. G.Ktsch
Mrs. W.M. Mclntvr
Geo. J. C urnn
Mrs. M. J. Hummer
Ailolph Asclioll
tW The way to bnlld np Oregon
City Is to (ire Oregon Cltj people jonr
patroiia?.
COl'XTT BOARD OF HEALTH.
Pr. J. P. Tamiesie, of Hillsboro, one of
the leading physicians of the state, has pre
pared a bill for introduction at the session
of the legislature in January asking for the
enactment of a law creating county boards
of health in Ihe several counties of Oregon,
the board to consist of two physicians to
cl in conjunction with the county judge,
who shall be chairman of the board and
continue in ottiee during the term of o It ice
of such county judge.
The board shall bold stated monthly
meetings and its duties shall be to guard
against the introduction of contagious and
infectious diseases by a vigilant medical in
spection and control of all persons and
things arriving from infected districts; re
quire the isolation of all persons and things
infected with or exposed to such contagious
diseases; received and examine into all
complaints made by any inhabitants of the
county concerning nuisances or causes of
danger or injury to lile and health within
the county; enter upon or within any
places where such things are. supposed to
exist; and shall have ower to order the
suppression and removal of all nuisances
detrimental to life and health within ten
days after furnishing the owners, agents or
occupants of infected premises with a writ
ten statement of its conclusions in the mat
ter and shall have the same removed at the
expense of the occupant of the premises, if i
.heir order is not complied with.
It shall also be the duty of the board to
prescribe sanitary regulations for Ihe burial
and removal of corpse, a certificate from
the county judge and a certificate of the
attending physician or (be affidavit of two
persons who were present at the time of
death of such person, being necessary for
the removal of a corpse from the county fur
burial. Undertakers, sextons or other per
sons having charge of any corpse shall not
inter the same until such permit has been
obtained and filed ailh the board, lielore
a Corpse can be transported over anv rail-
roa l or by any steamboat in the state, it
must be enclosed in a hermetically sealed
casket of metal or other indestructible ma
terial, II the cause of death shall have been
from a contagious or infectious diseases.
The bill also provides that certificates ol
birth, containing the names, ages, nation
ality and residence of the parents, date of
birth and sex of the child, duly witnessed
and signed by Ihe physician or midwife in
attendance, be transmitted to the county
clerk within 30 days after the birth has
occured; and that a register of births and
deaths be kept in the county clerk's oflice.
The county court shall audit and pay all
bills and expenses of the board incurred in
the performance of its duties as provided by
the bill,
This is a good law and merits the support
of every member of the legislature. Few
people have any adeiUule conception of the
number of deaths that occur Irora scarlet
fever, diphtheria, measles and kindred dis
eases, to say nothing of the number of per
sons who are left with weak eyes and lungs
and other inlirmaties for We as a result of
the carelessness regarding the spread of
such diseases. The section providing lor
the registration of births would be the
means of saving thousands of dollars now
lost in litiguti in over the establishment of
heirs to property in dispute, besides being
of value as a matter of statistics.
clly may require, bolus required to give no
fixed sum, for the county court alone Is left
to decide how imioli road district shall
have I nun the road fund. The county's
control of the wad fund it further strength
ened by Ihe slate constitution which pro
vides that all funds derived from a special
lax levy shall he expended only for the pur
pose for which It was raised and by the au
thorities making the levy. Vnder this
clause of the constitution It would compel
the county which made ihe special road
levy to spend the money so raised on (he
public roads of the county and no town
would be allowed to use any portion of this
fund in repairing streets that had not been
declared public highways by ihe county, or
in opening alleys, building crosswalks, etc
The city of Portland does not share In
the Multnomah county road fund, the
county court spending this fund In or about
the city or In the county as thev see best
That Oregon City has received its just share
of Ihe road fund is proven by the countv
reoords.for during this past year the county
has put on roads within the city limits over
tt,500 and on the roads within three miles
of the city over fl.fiOO, making a total of
about JS.OM that has been spent for the ill
rect benefit of Oregon City, while the clly
has only contributed '.:Y to the Mad
fund. The county records show that each
year since the organisation of the county
Oregon Oily has had the lion's share of Ihe
road fund and consequently has no kick
coming. In fact the;, principal kicking is
being done in tbelinterest of ward poll
licians who see in the road fund a valuable
adjunct to their power.
A chronic by Ihe name of Garner, who
belongs lo that class who are forever hunt
ing work and yet are(alwavs Idle, Is quoted
as follows by the McMinnville Telephone-
Register: "W. C. Garner, of this cttv, who
recently visited the woolen mills at Salem
and Oregon City in search of employment.
reports that a majority of the hands at Sa
lem receive 50 cents er day for their labor.
At Oregon City he found persons with three
and lour years experience in the business
getting as low as 35 cents per day. They
were receiving SO cents per day before the
election and have been reduced since al
though they were promised fair wages If
McKiuley was elected. Mr. Gamer said the
majority of them .voted for McKinley on
that promise and ar now much exercised
at their condition. Such cattle ought to re
ceive 20 cents per day and should not kick."
From the figures given it is evident that
this chronic is not familiar with the wage
scale in the O.-egon City woolen mills, but
probably got his information from some ol
the gentlemen of leasure who hold duwn
dry goods boxes in this city. As a matter
of fact the Oregon City Manufacturing Co.
pays the same wage scale as is paid by the
other manufacturing establishments of this
city. As to a reduction in wages since Ihe
election, that is another one of bis false
hoods as well as is his statement that the
hands were promised an immediate raise of
the wages in the event of McKinley's elec
tion. That an increase of wages in all lines
of labor is sure to come now that the prin
ciples of the Republican party are lo gov
ern this country, is a fact that cannot be
disputed, but it will n it come in a day, or a
month but will come with the general re
vival that is setting in all over the country.
In the meantime Mr. Garner, not being able
to get $.1.00 per day for his services as a
laborer, will have to hold his peace and hold
down a dry good box.
The good roads convention that will be
held in Portland on Friday of Ibis week
will be an important factor in arousing a
deeiier Interest in the question of good
roads. It is only within the last five years
that the people of Oregon have (taken any
special interest in their roads and have be
gun to realize that money put into im
proved highways is one of thebest invest
ments they can make in advancing the de
velopment of the slate. Clackamas and
Multnomah counties have been the pioneers
in the good road movement and these
counties have made much progress in road
building, under the new system, that it
would be impossible to induce the residents
of either county to go back to the system In
vogue in other parts or the slate. These
road conventions should be encouraged by
every person who has the advancement of
Oregon at heart, fur through them is it pos
sible to reach the people to get them to see
the necessity of adopting the cash system
that the state may have roads such as will
attract the class ol immigrants who by their
industry and wealth will be a help to Oregon
and who will only settle in sections that
show progress and have roads, schools, etc.,
such as they were used to in their Eastern
homes.
The coinage of silver dollars still goes on.
More than 1i;,(jOO,0O0 of them were coined
during the 10 months from February 1 to
November 1 of the present year. This is
twich as many as were coined in all the
years of so-called free coinage from 1712 to
1"3.
The Ohio legislature lias passed a bill pro
viding lor the execution of criminals by
electricity instead ol by hanging. This is
the second state to adopt electrocution in
carrying out the death penalty.
THE C01NTV ROAD FL'.N'D.
It will be worth the trouble of calling
and pelting our piicoH on candies and
man for tl; ( 'hiistiiniH tree.
K. K. Williams, the grocer,
The E.vri'.ici'i:i-K publishes elsewhere the
full text, id the decision ol the supreme
court In the appealed case of Oregon City
Oysters, tin; fluent and bent ever
broulit io Oregon City, served in any
myle ut tin; Portland restaurant.
Plai'k and
aguii-i c lacK.arnas county lor ine control ty a the Puck
the city of that portion of thy road fundi
derived from the levy on property within
the city limits. As briefly mentioned in the
Oreoniau list week the inference was
given that the city had really won the ra-e.
Hut o i u close perusal of tho d-ci-ion it will
be found that the county has really won for
it admits that the county has the right to
divide the county into road districts und
apportion such sums to them out of the
road fund as the court mat' see fit, having
colon
t stole
d kid gloves, cheap
Thin Is Your Opportunity.
On receipt of ten cents, c.-ikIi or Rtrimps,
a (."iiierous Fiimple will b mailed of the
m'e-t popular Cah.rrli and Hay Fever Cure
(Fly's Cn-ani Palnij (,nf!icicnt In demon
strate t'ne (ji-ent merits of tho remedy.
IOiV PPOTIiKIiS,
CO Wurrc-u .St., New York City.
P.ev.Jolin lirid, Jr., of fir. nt Falls, Mont.,
recommended Fly's ( ream Palm lo me. I
doe ree.nl fr lh. ,,,. nt f.v,,, .,i . -"i" . " pom-
" ' -' ! live cure lor catarrh if uhoiI imdirccled."
in tho districts and the condition of the ! Pev. Francis W. Poole, Pastor Central Pres.
roads and the amount of travel. The I Church, Helena, llout.
county can therefore make Oregon City Ely's Cream Palm i. the acknowledged
into a rotil district and give the city su li a euro for cnfnrrh mid coutnina no mercury
sum a- the needs of the rouds within the nor any injurious drug. Price, 50 cents.
KITUEMK (HURT PrTISION.
Helow Is given in full Ihe decision ol Ihe
supreme court In the suit of Oregon City
against Clackamas county on an appeal
from the circuit court, Ihe case having been
tried before Judge Mcltrlde, and a verdict
rendered lu favor of the county. The argu
ment before Ihe supreme court was made
by C. 1). I.atotirvtle on behalf ol Ihe city,
and Get). C. Prowuell represented the
county
"This is a mandamus proceeding to rom-
pcl the county treasurer of Clackamas
county lo pay over lo the plaintiff certain
road taxes collected under Ihe general laws
of the stale. The record discloses that in
January, 1SW, the county court of that
county levied a tax of (our mills on Ihe dol
lar on all the taxable property within the
county, and a poll tax of two dollars upon
each and every person liable therefor for
road purposes as authorised by subdivision
four, ol section -UK'S, Hill's Annotated Paws
of Oregon, as amended In ISitt, (laws 1S1U,
page ('), and that pursuant to such levy,
there has been collected from the properly
and Inhabitants of the plaintill and paid
over to the defendant, the sum or JJ,S7I,77,
which the plaintill claims bv virtue of sub
division 2S, of chapter 5, of its charter, which
reads as follows: 'The council shall have
exclusive control and direction of all funds
collected under general laws for the Im
provement or roads and streets within said
corporation, and Ihe street superintendent
shall perform the duties of supervisor as re
quired by the general laws of this stale re
lating to streets and highways; but be shall
reiwt to and be under the direction of Ihe
city council and not to the board of county
commissioners of Clackamas county; pro
vided, that the cltv council may, by ordi
nance, direct that any or all of such funds
collected for road purposes be expended on
any main county road leading Into Oregon
City, when, in their judgment, Ibe city
would be benefitted thereby ; provided, that
the city council shall turn over to the
county court or Clackamas county to per
cent of the funds so collected each year and
the same shall be eipended under the di
rect ion of said county court on the main
county roads leading Into Oregon City 1 In
behalf of tbe delendanl it is contended that
this provision of plaintiffs charter Is In con
tlict with article si, section 23, subdivisions 7
and 10, of Ihe stale constitution, which in
hibits tbe legislature from passing special
or local laws 'lor lay It g, opening and work
ing on highways and for Ihe election or a-
pouitment of supervisors,' and 'for the
assessment and collection of taxes for state,
county, township or road pursues,' and is
therefore void. Put Is seems lo us that
Uon this question the case is ruled by Ihe
City of East Portland vs. County of Mult
nomah, 6 Or. 13, in which it was held (hat
a provision In an act incorporating a city
excepting the territory within the limits of
the mu-iicipality from the jurisdiction of
the county court for road purposes and vest
lug the same in the municipality was not
violative of the provisions of Ihe constitu
tion referred to. This case was re alllrmed
in Multnomah County vs Sliker, 10 1 r. (!.,
and City of Astoria vs. Clatsop County, not
reported. Now, if the legislature may, by
a siwcial law incorporating a city, constitu
tionally vest In the municipality exclusive
Jurisdiction over the county roads within
its boundaries, it seems lo us no valid ob
jection can be made on constitutional
grounds lo a provision in such an act
merely conferring upon the municipal
authorises Ihe right lo control the expen
diture of funds applicable to the improve
ment of roads and streets within Ihe muni
cipality collected under general laws. Hut
notwithstanding trie constittitioiiahtv of
nlntnt ill's rhnrlpr tliA ilniipFHr i,, tl,.. uti
native writ was properly sustained because
il does not appear Irom the record that the
portion of the tax collected under the levy
of January, IKK, to which plaintilf is en
titled, has ever been ascertained or deter
mined by the proper tribunal or at all. The
statute under which it was levied provides:
'That in any countv of this state Ihe county
court of such county at the time of levying
Ihe lax for county purposes, may, il In the
judgment of Ihe county court, it Is for the
best interests of the county, levy a tax upon
all the taxable property in the county, not
lo exceed five mills upon the dollar, and in
addition thereto a poll lax of two dollars be
assessed upon every person w ho shall be
liable lo pay a state poll tax, whi'-h taxes
shall be collected with and at the same
time and in the same manner as county
taxes shall be collected, and shall be paid
into the county treasury, and shall lie kept
as a separate fund to he known us the mail
fund, ami shall be used for the purpose of
laying out, opening, making and repairing
county roads, and building and repairing
bridges; and no other lax or other taxes
for Ihe purpose in this section mentioned
shall be levied or collected except that the
county court may order bridges built or re
paired out of the general fund. Huch
county court shall u portion the taxes so
collected among the several road distticts in
the county, having due regrrd to the
amount of taxes collected in the several
road districts, to the condition of the roads,
and necessity for repairs, and to the amount
of travel thereon. The county clerk shall
thereupon notify the road supervisor in
each of the road districts in his county of
the amount of the road ititid set apart for
the use of his road district for oneniiiL'.
making and repairing county roads and
j building bridges in his road district; and
such sopervisor shall direct ami supervise
the expenditure of such amount of the mail
fund so set apart for the purposes herein
named, and certify his accounts for labor
perlormed or materia fund-died to the
county court; and if the county court an-1
proves the same, it shall order wariiiiits Oh
the county trea-urer in laeor of the per-on
performing such labor or furnishing such
material payable out of the fund to the
credit of such road district and until such
fund is exhausted.' ( Laws of I -II.'!, page (JO.)
I'nder the general law the county court is
invested with jurisdiction to divide the
County into road districts, and, liy the sta
tute in question, to levy and collect aspeeial
tax for road purposes and apportion the
same among the several road districts of
the county in Ihe manner therein provided
and through supervisors appointed by it to
control and direct the expenditure of the
amount set apart for each road district.
This jurisdiction extends lo all parts of the
county, Including (lie territory of Oregon
City, except as It may be limited and quali
fied by Ihe city charter, And Ihe only lim
itation to be round In (he charter la Hint
the municipal and not Ihe comity authori
ties shall 'have the control anil direction of
all funds collected under the general laws
lor Ihe improvement of road and streets
wllhlii said corporation,' and the right lo
appoint the road supervisor. In all other re
specie the Jurisdiction of Ihe county court
over the territory or Oregon City remains
unimpaired. It may divide It Into road
districts, levy and collect from Ihe Inliahi-
lants thereof and the property (herein, In
connection with ihe remainder or the
county, a road tax, ascertain and determine
Ihe amount thereof which shall be apHir-
lionrd to and expended in the road dn
tricta or district within Ibe limits of Ihe mu
nicipality but when the apportionment Is
made Its jurisdiction ceases so far as the r v
pemlitiire of the amount set apart for Ihe
district or districts within Oregon City Is
concerned and thalofthe municipality be
gins. I' mil such apportionment there ran
be no fund arising out of the lax 'for the Im
provement of roads and streets' within Ore
gon City or In any other district of the
county. The statute does not require the
lax to be expended In repairing Ihe roads
and hlghwayi in the district from which il
is collected but It becomes a common road
fund lo be aporlioned by the county court
among the several districts of Ihe county,
having due regard to the amount of the tax
collected from each district, the condition
of the mads and the amount of travel there
on. This apportionment la a judicial
and until It la made the county treasurer
certainly cannot be compelled by manda
mus lo pay over any part of the fund to
the plaintiff. No such proceeding seems
have been bad and therefore (lie Judgment
must tie atllrmrd and it is so ordered."
0',
tUt IMM1CNSIC .STOCK of Holitliiy Ooo.lrt will m
tiniplctotl, ami our juIcph will lm (lie lnwcMt over
Oregon City. Coino ami noii tin lipforo Kiiij( I'lwwlii'ro,
in
771
Moii'h ht'iivy ('iiih, liniM
with lllllllK'1,
clirup ut Junt wluit you wimt for
ooltl wi'iitlu'r. . . , Hoyri' foil IiiiIh, H'o, . . .
Moii'h niul IniyH' golf nim from i!0 to Jl.lo
.... Holiday fancy work luiitcniilri.Htitinp
oil lini'iiH, fl lo nilk .embroidery ilk nml
nil kintlrt ol knitting hi I k . . , . JiiuinrNu
hi 1 k lininlkt'ri'liii'fn nicn Hclcrtioii price
to unit nil iniike nice Xiiiiih prt'HcntH.
We have a il.Vilo.en uHHortmeiil of iniiHk, clienp.
lhm't forgot wo luive n full
genuine
lino of cornel tho
kitl fitting.
Atonihingly low price,
Wo will toko ploosuro In
showing you our goods
Como and boo us bofore
going olsowhoro
Shingles
The best on the market.
In small lota or in car loads.
Dimension shingles cut to order
Cedar
Posts
By carload or mixed car lots with
shingles.
W. II. & L. S. IJ0XXEY,
AIK0RA, - . DKKGOX
FOR-
ABSOLDTELY'PURE DRUGS
OO TO
n A. HARDING
NONE IlliT
COMPETENT PHARMACISTS EMPLOYED
Flue Perrnmsrles and Toilet Articles.
Also s full atnrk of
PAINTS' OILS ETC,
H. W. JACKSON,
. AND t
Repairer.
Bicycles, Umbrellas,
Guns, Sewing Machines,
And all kinds of email ma
chine nut in good order. No
work to diflieult to undertake,
l'riceg reuHouaMo.
Shop in Caufielil building
Near Court Moiine.
New GoocIh
Modern Prices.
( orner Grocery.
Complete tock of
Fine Family Groceries,
Try ray extra
Choice Teav-scs-
Richard Frcytag.
fain and Fourteenth Streets.
ImIiiMKIm Mt.1.
C. I. toil
PIONEER
Transfer1 and Ex;ppe$
Freight and parcels delivered
to all parts of the city.
RATES - REASONABLE.
I
The Marketing Point.
OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Tho factory towns of tho Must nro notiul
for nllordinn tho host market lo tho neigh
boring fanners ami gardeners in jiroHrtion
to the population of any of ihe towns in
that section. Tho reason for this is that
tho people of tlieso 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 Cominsr to be One of the
Best Marketing Towns in the State
This is proven every day by tho number
of farmers, who are to bo seen on its streets
selling their produce, who, until just tho
last few years, sought the markets of other
towns. Tho system of macadamized roads
that is being built into all parts of Clack
amas county, will enable all the people ol
this county to share in tho profitable mar
ket that Oregon City affords. If, as it is
sure to do, the demands of Oregon City in
crease in the next five years as it has in tho
past five years, this city will rank next to
Portland as a market placo for
THE PKODUCE
of the Farmer
Edcuards Bros.,
Successors to ELY BROS.,
999 Molalla Avenue
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
NICW GOODS
LOWIiST PRICES
;lour, Shorts, Bran, Oats, Wheat, Spuds. Etc.
Cash Paid for Chickens and Eggs.
QREGON CITY IRON WORKS
Jsew pml Enlarged Hhop with all appliances for
MACHINE WORK & CASTING.
All work exi'ciited in tho best manner possible.
teed on all orders.
Promptness gtiaran-
J - SPECIALTY.
rices the lowest to bo bad in Portland. Sbon on Fourth Rl reef
near Main, Oregon City, Oregon.
J. ROAKE & CO.