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Oregon City Enterprise. FvbUeliecl Kvery Krldny. C1IAH, MESEKVK, PIB1.IKIIKR AND I'ROI'Rl KTVK. lUHWCHttTION RATKH, On. fear, Bll molh, .... Trial .ularrlptton two month, 1 IX 26 A dturoutt of V1rnl on nil xiburrlpttont (or dTanc mr year, ft niiu (or tix mouilii, 11 Mid lu JkJverilln ratri lvn on application. Butxerlten will find Iht data o( expiration ararm el ou ibi'lr pHi r loilowl"f th.ir name, lfib t iarl- not ohairl within two t"i afir a p menu kirnilr until u. and w will look tr It. times yrnrs lo over com. 1U.1 llier. Wm a proper quarantine srrvit-e this rptilemip would not liav gnltivd (lie foolholtl It illtt ami as a ronwiitienoe inui'li Het'iHesa aiiller- It'K anxiety would bave been avioitott ami tlx peace ami the business of the town would not have been disturbed. Hitler experience will noma day teach (ha people of thiaatate that these annual epi demics of measles, scarlet feaver, hooping cough, dipthrria, etc., hare no place In community where modern sanitary ideas prevail. SPIDEKS IX 1UTTLK. Catered at the Post Offloe In Ore iron City, Or., as second class natter. FRIDAY, JANUARY 8. 1897. iQESTS FOR THE ENTERPRISE, Bearer Creek, Osnby, Clarkamas, - kiliwaiikie, . mion Mills. Meadow Brook, Kw Kra, WUmnTllle, Park Place, G.adstone, lafford, Mallno, Cams. -Xolalla. -Marquam, BuneTUie Aurora, Orrllle, ale Creek, ramascus, B indy, Salmon, Currinsville, Cherryville, -Marmot, Pr T. B. Thomas Geo. Knliht A. Mather Osoar Wissinner U J. Tmlilnger Vnaa Hoimsn W. S. Newberry Henry line; F. L. Russel T. M. Cross C. T J. Q. Ge. V Howard K. M. Cooper Annie Stubbt. E. M. Hanman B. Jenuiucs Henr A. .-nvder L.J Perdue H. Wilhern J. 0. KUiott F. Gatlseh Mrs. W. M. Mdntyre - Geo. J. Curnn Mrs. M. J. Hammer Adolph AKhott The way to build op tlreiron City U to -Ire Oregon lltj people jour itrouuice. THE BOARD UF TRADE. Stil Monday evening will occur the an nual election of officers for the Oregon City board of trade and it is expected that all who are interested in the welfare of Oregon Ciir w ill be present. To the board of trade Oregon City owes much of its growth for the past eight years. The good roads movement which has done so much to ad vance the prosperity of Clackamas county wis first started by the Oregon City board of trade. The building of the suspension bridge across the Willamette river at this place and the opening of the road up the Clackamas river and from Oregon City to Oswego, together with the turn. piking of the road from this city to 1'ark place, where some of the more important road improve ments that have been brought about through the efforts of the board. Thelarge immigration and consequent increase of wealth that Oregon Citv and Clackamas county has enjoyed for the past eight years is a direct result of the persistent and judi cious advertising that the board of trade has kept up. These are but a lew o( the many instances w herein the board of trade, has materially aided in advancing the pios perity and welfare of our city and county. While a splendid record has been made by the Oregon City Board of trade yet its labors are by no means ended. For the up baildingof Oregon City has but just begun and it can be made a still greater factor in making 0'ir town the leading manufactur ing center of the coast and one of the im portant commercial points in the state. The dues paid to the support of this board are pne ol the beat investments that our busi-'-nessmen can make and every property owner of Oregon City should feel it his duty to be a member of It that we may con tinue our organized effort in the building up of Oregon Citv and Clackamas county. The treasurers report for 11W shows the receipts in the general fund for the year to "be $lt),m3fi and the disbursements Ki,Ki2. 70, leaving $15.01 in the treasury. There are funds receivable from notes, and inter est on same and percentage from water fund of 2,710.")7. The receipts in the water fund were !),7T2.1i, and the disburemeiiU IHOunfA, leaving a balance of f075.52. In me .Main street tuna the receipts were $2,107.U2, ull of which has been paid out There is a balance in the cemetery fund of $130.07, and in the Seventh street fund of $77.2-1. The city has a bonded indebtedness of $00,000 and a Moating indebtedness of aome $2o,0G0, waking the entire indebted ness about $0,OOO. City Treasurer Straight's books are neatly and well kept, and any citizen can tell at a glance the condition of the city or the amount ol at.y fund. One very commendable feature in the adminis tration of the treasurer's office, is the fact that Mr. Straight never allowed large sums to accumulate in the treasury, but called in warrants and stopped the paying of interest as fast as funds came into his hands. While other treasurers had from $2000 to $.'1000 on hand at the close of the year. Mr. Straight has but $15.00. If other city, county and state treasurers would pursue the lame method, not only would large sums be saved the taxpayers in the amounts paid out in interest, but counties and cities would not be bankrupt as a result of banks failing where the funds were kept. Neither would there be defaulting treasurers and mourn ing bondsmen caused by treasurers ab sconding with the funds. The town ol t'latskauie, on the lower Columbia river, has recently furnished an object lesson in the need of a more strin gent state law for the control of contageous and Infectious diseases. This village with only a population of some 400, has had an epidemic of measles in which over 80 persons were affected with this disease. Nearly every home in the town was temporarily made into a hospital, and the school was forced to suspend and business brought to a standstill. In addition to the great financ ial loss sustained by reason of the extra ex penses brought to these families, and the anxiety of waiting on the sick, there will probably be at least one-third of the child ren who have been alllicted by this disease left with a chronic weakness of the eyes, or throat, or an impairment of the general Vitality that will take months and olteu- Tm report of the board of water commis sioners, published elsewhere In this issue ol the Kntiki'hih is very complete and ex haustive. Mr. T. L. Channel!, the secre tary, has gone to a great deal of trouble to segregate and classify the different amounts and the showing made is very complimen tary to the members of the board. When turned over to the board tn 1SH the water works were valued at $20,000. They are now worth IM.iM.iW, a net gain to the city in live years of $Ji),450.U8. Vnder the man agement of the council the water works were a constant bill of expense, but since being transferred to the board of commis sioners they have been a source of revenue to the city, 30 per cent of the gross earnings going Into the general fund. This revenue will increase as the city grows in population and will be no small factor In paying oil the large indebtedness of the city. ThU most excellent showing is a direct result of I the careful business methods brought into the management of the water affairs by the members of the board of commissioners, who are among our most successful and proaiwroua business men. Mayor Caithid has made a good be ginning toward enforcing the ordinances of Oregon City, and the cilixens of this city may expect for the coming year a better en forcement of our municipal laws than has been witnessed for some time past. His determination to keep the boys out of the saloons w ill meet the hearty approval of all who have an interest in the welfare of the rising generation, while his check to open gambling will meet the approval of all re spectable citiiens. But his order prohibit ing the use of nickle-in-the-slot machines where cash is paid and allowing the ma chines to remain whose owners pay to their patrons cigars and other articles is rather questionable. If playing against a machine for money is gambling, it is hard to see wherein playing for cigars or something I else which represents money, is not a game ! of chance as well. Most people hold that i all uickle-in-the-slot machines are but kin dergarten appliances in the school of gam bling, whether (bechance taken Is for coin, cigars or candy, and the discriminating dif ference of our ma.'or is open to criticism. On Tuesday January 1!, the senate and house of the Oregon legislature will meet in joint session for the purpose of balloting for a United States senator. The indica tions now are very favorable to the re-el?c- tlon ol Senator Mitchell, he being reasonably sure of 62 votes out of!) to be cast. This number does not include the populists or democrats who will probably give their vote to Berkley or U'Ken, but is made up THEY CONDUCT THEMSELVES WITH ALMOST HUMAN INTELLIGENCE. A Ftf-hl to the Klnl.h llrtwpen a Itlack TlsTr Spider and a ltr Kl-om the Amy Hill Tribe-TI;v llotit by Itonnda All Tut to bleep," Though the lllaok Won, of straight republicans. The Simon-Scott republicans apparently as yet have united i tno natureof alow udvanora und retreat ' 111 the quiet laboratory of a Ninth Mrwt chemist the other day there wiw ennoted a little tragedy which afforded demonstrated lesson iu tho etiquette of duelism as it is couduoted among tho spiders. Feir realize the intelligence thee Inconspicuous little creatures ofteu displny, aud in fact tvw people boaliU loien tista go to the trouble of spoudiug an moot or so watching them. The doctor espied a spider In the cor ner of the laboratory window sill. He prooured awido mouthed jar, and with stick endeavored to push the spider into It. I he Insect turned savagely on it aud durtcd quickly up the stick to ward his band. Stick aud spider were dropped Immediately on to the sill from which iu another iustnut the crva turo was scooped into the jar. He lay sulleu and buuebed up at the bottom. His body was fully three-qnar ten of an inch long, the thorax mottled black aud green, the abdomen pursy, round Mil marked with well defined stripes pf black and yellow ; the legs not very long, but stout, hairy and ending in unusually strong, double claws, while the head was armed with a pair of shining black mandibles that looked like small steel pinchers. Una of the neighbors said afterward Unit it was a "tiger spider," and there waa no quea tion as to tho aptness of the name. His behavior was so ugly and fierce that be made a good subject for tcating the pugnacity of spiders with their kind. The doctor w a familiar with his own home, and having made the capture ho went np into his own gunvt, where the walls and corners were profusely deco rated with "will yon walk into my par lor contrivances, no singled out a typical web and proceeded. The mouth of the web was opened out over qnito a considerable area aud ruu back as a uarrow tube, tliu whole being like the most delicately woven gray white silk. Throwing a tempting bait into the web iu the shape of a fly, the doctor had no difficulty in sweeping two gray spiders into another jar. Ho got a deep sided salad bowl aud dumped the gray spiders in. They at ouce hvgau running around the flat bot tom, making wild dailies up the sides and tumbling over each other in their excited efforts to escnpo. As soon as the tiger spider was shaken ont of his pickle jar into the bowl the gray spiders ceaed their wild actions and took np a crouching position at one side of tho bowl bottom. Tho tiger spi der made no effort to esciijie, but after oue or two rapid reconuoiu rsof his sur roundings squatted just across from aud facing tho hill tribcrx. The first offensive movements came from the gruv spiders. Thes were in G7H.Ii 0,T HIiY BlOg. JTJI J?TlKKT,fSJUYKIiV3 ll(llhl)l,(l on no one man, though II. . Corbett is prominently mentioned as the man of their choice. Mr. Mitchell has made one of the ablest and most efficient senators that Oregon has ever had and If his return to congress depended on the popular Vote of the people of this state, there would be no fear but what he would continue (or along the circumference line of the bowl bottom, with tho evident intention of taking the tiger spider on the flank. At each advance, however, the tiger spider sat np, resting on his four posterior and middle feet, while the two anterior legs were stretched out like the arms of a wrestler, and the strong caliper shaped the United States seimle. A C0RRFXTIOS. Sto.ne. Dec. 31. (To the Editor.y-Klndly allow me space in your paper to correct an exagerated article which appeared in Thurs day morning's Oregonian, the 20th inst, statins, the fear and anxiety that some per sons had, who were Interested in the propa gation of salmon, for the 3,000,000 salmon eggs shipped from California to be hatched at the Clackamas butchery. The correspondent slated that the young frv died ol! in swarms the past season. That is magnified a hundred fold, as up to Thanksgiving day, there had only been a loss nicured of a little over seven per cent of all the eggs and fih combined in the hatching house, and the young fry were do ing well. In the evening of the above named day, villianons scoundrel poisoned the water in the Hume that leads to the hatching troughs, About 7 o'clock the fish commenced to get turbulent ami inside of 20 minutes every one iu the house was dead. It must have been a powerful and deadly poiton, for it made the water foam, the food sacks of lots of the fishes burst open, and there were pools of oily matter floating ou the surface. In my estimation the writer of the above named article, was either ignorant of the true tacts, as I have stated them, or Is aid ing the vile perpetrator, who committed an abominable crime, to make the public be lieve that 1,000,000 fish died from some un known cause probably some fungus growth had Killed them all In 20 minutes. Sometimes circumstantial evidence is bet ter than positive proof, and that evidence is simply this: First that all the fish that were hatched out and had their heads out of the eggs, perished, and all those hatched out immediately afterwards are alive and well to this day ; second- the water used is not affected by floods, as it is independent of either the Clackamas or Clear creek, and is pure brook water; third as to cold wea ther, the temperature of the water never went to the freezing mint in the hatching house this winter; fourth and as to the batching troughs being foul or tainted in any shape or form, is an absurdity, under the ever watchful and efficient superinten dent, Mr. W. F. Hubbard, who has had 20 odd year's experience in fish culture and understands his business thoroughly. He would under no consideration allow eggs to be put into the troughs until they had been thoroughly renovated, which is at least done once a year, and none but thorough fish culturists are employed In handling the egu's and caring for the fish. Furthermore what precautions should the superintendent have to take to keep the water in the Hume from being poisoned. It is in my estimation a hard problem to SOiVe. OlISEKVEH. I another six years to represent our state in I jaws were opened to their fullest extent suddenly one of the spiders made a characteristic but fatal dash. He seemed actually to leap at tho big spider. But quick as the hill spider was, tho tiger j spider was equally so. As the long drub spider darted in, the big black and yel low follow sprung np and faced him. The next Instant they closed, and in a moment three of the hill spider's legs lay ou the glass, and the tiger spider, holding his enemy in a bearlike hug, was burying bis mandibles iu tho oth er's throat The killing had not been done, how ever, without receipt of injury on both sides. One yellow and black leg lay with tho three drab oiks, and there wero two drops of black juice on tho pursy abdomen of the tiger spider, which showed where tho grny spider had planted his jaws in tho rush. Meanwhile, too, (he second grny spi der had not been idle, but was circling round and about the struggling pair. Then, seeing his opportunity, ho dashed in, only to bo faced by the burly fight er, who, to meet tho new attack unen cumbered, threw the body of the dead coinbutnnt from him with a gesture that was almost human. The clinch did not follow so qnickly this time. The gray spider succeeded in getting in and away, clipping off an other yellow and black leg as ho did so, but in the second rush he was caught, and the tiger spider's jaws were locked in hia throat So ended the fight The tiger spider held on to his second orpse so long and quietly that I thought him dead also, until 1 stirred him with my pen, when he staggered furiously against it, opened his jaws and rolled over, a corpse. Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. FOR FRKS1I PICKLES CRANBERRIES SWEET CIDER FRESH CANDIES NUTS, ETC. FOR- ABSOLUTELY JURE DRUGS UO TO Q A. HARDING. NONIt BUT ooMPeriNT PHARMACISTS implovio For You iv Bssa UUSIHBIV i'JIHTHUNTI HJift In nil tho latest nntl most nltrno tivo stylos .... Crnyon, Wntor Color and Pnstol por traits of all bIos ox ocutodon short notlco at Interiors of every description taken day or night at your homes filnth and main Sts. OroKon City (Joey's frt gallery Flae Permmsrles and Toilet Articles. Alio a full stock of PAINTS- OILS KTC, H. W. JACKSON, AND -n Bicycles, Umbrellas, Guns, Sewing Machines, And all kind of hidhII ma chines put in cihhI order. N work to dillicult to undertnk Prices reasonable. Shop in Caullelil building Near Court House, 1SIR) miles of lonir (lis tance telephone wire Oregon nnl Washington now in oiierution hv the Oregon Telephone iin .i Te egraph com pun v. Portland, Seattle?, Sjh kano, laeomn, Salem Walla Walla, Pendleton Albany and '.Hi other towns in the two states on the line. Quick, nccurate, cheap All tlio satisfaction of tiersonal communication Instance no cfl'eet to clear understanding. Sjm kane as easily heard a Portland. Oregon City office at Huntley's Drug Store. d. H. THATCHER, MANAGER, Portland, - Oregon i:uiiiiH-d CI. niii PIONEER Transfer1 and Ejgtf e$ Freight nnd parcels delivered to all parts of the city. RATES - REASONABLE. The prinee of ptlate pleasurs. Wile Label catsup. K. K. Wim.iams, the groeir, This Is Your Opportunity. On receipt of ten cents, cash or stamps, generous sample will be mailed of the most popular Catarrh and Hay l ever Cure (Ely's Cream lialm) sufficient to domon- trate the great merits of the remedy. ELY BItOTnERS, 66 Warren St., New York City. Kev. John Iteid, Jr.. of Oreat Falls, Mont., recommended Ely's Cream Jialm to me. I can emphasize his statement, "It is a posi tive cure for catarrh if used as directed." Kev. Francis W. I'nole, Pastor Central Pres. Church, Helena, Mont. Ely's Crcnm Hulm is the acknowledged cure for cfitiirrh and contains no mercury nor any injurious drug Price, 50 centa. Nmn"'i t-vry piece. Iiwoey's elioc-olalf-. E. E. Williams, the grocer. J. PHILLIPS, Prop. ... pTKjHJJ DYKIjXG TJjXU ClfEIjVIjXG WO Ladies' and gentlemen's doting cleaned, dyed and repaired in best possible manner. Oflice, 213 Morrison Street Pet. First and Front. Works at Me chanic's Pavilion, 225 2d St., Port land Oregon. As to our ability to do good work and to not ruin a garment left with us for cleaning, wo refer with their permission to our patrons, many o whom reside in Oregon City. Goods called for and delivered Ijefmania fell JJaAet PAUL J. SCHOLZ, Prop. Best duality of Cold Storage Meats. Smoked hams and bacon cannot be excelled. Game in season. Highest price paid for live and dressed Stock- Seventh St between Main and Depot The Marketing Point OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY Tho factory towns of tho Kant nro nototl for affording tho bout market to tho neigh boring farmers; ami ganlenerH in proportion to tho population of any of tho twnn in that section. Tho reason for this in that tho peoplo of theso towiiH havo a fixed in como upon which they can always dond, and, as a consequence, they are liU-ral 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 tho State This is proven every day by tho number of farmers, who aro to bo seen on its streets Felling 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 onable all tho people o( this county to share in tho profitable mar ket that Oregon City all'ords. If, as it is sure to do, tho demands of Oregon City in crease in tho next five years as it has in tho past live years, this city will rank next to l'ortlaiid as a market place for THE PKODUCE of the Farmer Eduuarcls Bros., . Successors to ELY BROS., 099 Molalla Avenue - GENERAL MERCHANDISE NICW GOODS -aLOWICST PRICKS Flour, Shorts, Bran, Oats, Wheat, Spuds. Eta Cash Paid for Chickens and Eggs. QREGON CITY IRON WORKS New and Enlarged Shop with all appliances for MACHINE WORK & CASTING. All work executed in the best manner possible. Promptness cuaran- teed on all orders. REPAIBI1TG - -A. - SPECIALTY. rices tho lowest to be had in Portland. Shon on near Main, Oregon City, Oregon. J. ROAKE & CO. Fourth Street,