Oregon City enterprise., May 07, 1897, Image 4

Oregon City Enterprise.
Publlnhed Kvery Friday.
CHAR, ME8EKVE,
rTBLIHHKR AND fROrRIKTOR.
UBUCHIPTION HATKH,
On ear, '
01 month,
Trial tulwcrlptlon two months.
12 00
. I 00
is reduced to tl lowest minimum. The stroini-lilittfetl popiiUM have o iIoiIk
department store is so hip, like Ilia railroad, amtimt I lit corner to avoid the ponderous
that no one thinks of asking for credit, for and deadly editorials wlileli the Oregonian
the. rtiMomers are debarred from personal j has twn hurling at their Imi'lesn lienda.
A dlarout t ol ItO rent on all mbwrlptlonn (or
wie year, cents lor six mouths, II paid lu
adTnre.
AdTeriisinf ratei f Iven on application.
8iiirnl er ill Hi d th.' dilo ol ixplialon
tan H t h"r p) r oloi g tbrir name.
II ihi-a c I- not ria- set with.n io I
after a pt u ent, ku.Cly notify u and c will
look f i r It
Int-red at the Pout OftVe In Oregon City, Or.,
m second class matter.
FRIDAY, MAY 7. 17.
A9E.VT3 FOR THK ENTERPRISE.
Bearer Creek,
Oanbr,
Clackamas,
WHwankle,
Culon Mill.
Meadow Brook.
Kew Era,
niton Till,
Ps-k Place,
Gladstone,
Stafford, -Mnlino,
Carna. -
Molalla.
Marquam,
BiitteTllia
Aurora,
Cnrllle, -
agle Creek,
Damascus,
Bandy,
taJnion,
Currinsville,
Cherryville, -lfartuot.
Dr
. T. B. Thomss
Ueo. Knlcht
A. Nuttier
Oscar Wliwlnirer
li J. Triillltiiier
- Chas liolmsn
W. 8. NewN-rry
Heurv Mllet
T. L. Rtiwell
T. M. Cross
J. Q. tiaie,
C. T Howard
R. M. Cooper
Annie Stuhbs.
E. M. Hantaan
B Jeuultifs
Heurv A. .-nyder
- LI Perdue
H. Wiltwrn
J. C. Klliott
F. Goctsch
Mrs. W.M. Mclntyre
Geo. J. Currin
Mrs. M. J. Hammer
Adolph Aschoff
The way to bolld np OrepoB
City U to girt Oregon City people jonr
itrnaire.
LABORING BEX KEEP AWAY.
After t careful investigation of the situa
tion the Ejitirprici would advise every
laboring man seeking a job to keep away
from the Astoria and Globe railroad on the
lower Columbia. In tbe first place the con
tractors took the job at a price which pre
cluded their paying decent wages, even had
they been so minded, and the big profits
they each expect to make tbey take out of
what should be the just earnings of their
men. No cash Is paid out, their plan being
to make the commissary and boarding
lipase psjr the bills, Tbe oien are charged
$4 20 per week for board, and in some of the
camps the board is as tough as a man can
stand, and every man is compelled to board
at tbe mesa house and buy his supplies at
the commissary, paying exborbitant priors
for his purchases. Tbe teamsters are also
compelled to boy their feed and supplies at
the commissary as well and have their shoe
ing and repairs done at the company's
blacksmith shop. The botpital fees are
per month and are collected even if the
man works but one day. If a man is ex
tra industrious and pats in full time so that
there is a liability of his wages exceeding
bis board and supply account be is laid off
a few days at a time, so that his board bill,
which goes on, will even up the account at
the end of the month, or at least leave but
small balance, which is paid in time
checks, and to get cash on them the tueu
liave to sell their, at a heavy discount to
brokers, that is when they are lucky enough
to find someone to take them up.
To keep up the supply of men the com
pany has advertised all over the coast and
influenced newspapers to editorially score
laboring men for not all rushing to the low
er Columbia where plenty of work and good
pay awaited them. The company tried to
hire Chinamen but the wily Celestials were
by ol the job, and failing to get them, an
effort was made to secure the convicts out
of the state penitentiary, but tbe governor
had no authority to make the contract
With the thousands of idle men on this
coast there would be no difficulty, were they
treated right, for the Astoria company to
get men enough to complete their little road
in CO days, but at the progress made daring
tbe past year it will take six years yet be
fore the road is completed.
acquaintance with the matiSKement, and
thus the hisses from this source, so seriously
felt by the small dealer, are not known to
these mercantile giants.
The coming of the department store has
brought on as serious a problem as did the
advent of the factory system and as the
I !Mh century met and solved the industrial
problem, so will the LMth century have to
solve this mercantile pnihlem. It looks
now as though these great stores will revo
Iniituiire the social and commercial condi
tions of our great cities as well as to make
inroads into the growth of the smaller
towns, for with Its twin brother, tbe sky-
scrater modern ofllce building, it is des
tined to depopulate whole streets In the
business parts of our great cities, and with
the aid ol Hie mail service and express com
panies draw the trade from the country
for hundreds of miles distant. The fight is
already very hitler in the Fast and state
legislatures and city councils are impor
tuned to pass repressive measures against
the department stores, but so far the only
thing accomplished has been lo give these
establishments a big lot of free advertising
and thus to help them build up their busi
ness rather than to ruin it. Some other
means than the boycott, or legislative en
actment will have to be employed to check
this centralisation in mercantile lines for
the people will buy where tbey can get the
most for their money and have the best
selection to choose from.
THE DEPARTMENT STORE.
Tui Enterprise is in receipt of a copy of
the Town Talk, a new paper started in
Portland by the retail merchants to fight
the department stores of that city and to
give tbem a cheap medium for advertising
their merchandise. The paer is fairly
well gotten up, but it is not enough of a
newspaper to enable it to meet the compe
tition it will be subjected to, while as an
advertising circular it is too large and ex
pensive to make its publication profitable.
As to the tight that the retail merchants,
and wholesale merchants also, propose to
inaugurate against tbe great department
stores, it is a question as to whether they
will win or not. Tbe department store
bears the same relation to the commercial
world that the factory does to the industrial
world. Tbe great factory tarns out pro
ducts that would require ten to twenty
times the number of hands to manufacture
if made in tbe old time way at tbe homes
of the operatives, like woolen goods were
once made, while the cost of production
lias been lowered in nearly tbe same pro
portions. The great department store by
centralizing and controling, cuts down the
cost of marketing goods nearly as much as
does the factory in tbe manufacturing of
them. It eliminates the wholesaler's profits
and the drummer's expenses for it has its
own buyer who goes direct to the factories
and trade centers for the goods carried,
which in the great stores of the East em
brace anything that a customer could pos
sibly call for in the line of clothing, food,
tools or luxuries. It cuts the small retail
er's expenses nearly in half, for a 11,000,000
or 110,000 900 stock of goods, as is carried by
many of the Eastern stores, can be carried
in one great block for nearly one-halt the
rent it would cost to have it distributed in a
multitude of small stores about town,
wniie the insurance would be lowered by
the fire proof building, and the wastage
which is a serious loss in many small stores
THK CHAITAI'QVA ASSEMBLY.
A wrong impression as to the objects and
aims of the Chautauqua assembly held each
year at Gladstone park appears to be enter
tained by some people at a distance. Not
being in a position to know the lacta in the
case, as well as the lack of knowledge of the
manner in which all Chautauqua assemblies
are carried on, has led some to believe that
the Willamette Valley Chautauqua Assocla
lion is a great money making scheme
whereby its officers and the favored stock
bolders.are enabled to get rich oat of the
emoluments it furnishes. The truth is that
no stockholder has yet, or ever expects lo
make a dollar, in direct profit on bis stock,
Tbe stockholder's pass to the assembly
grounds and the pleasure of assisting in
building up a great educational institution
in our state, is all the returns the persons,
who put up the money to establish tbe
Chautauqua, have so far realized, and in
fact it is all tbey expect to realize. As for
tbe officers, they have served heretofore
without salary and will do so this year, and
those who serve hereafter will have to do
tbeir work gratuitously, except tbe secre
tary, who for a short time preceeding and
during tbe assembly, is paid a small salary.
The entire receipts of each year have been
osed to defray the legitimate and necessary
expenses of the assembly and from the first
assembly the greatest economy possible bas
been practiced by the management that tbe
association may be kept out of debt. The
building of the great auditorium, which is
the finest in the West and capable of hold
ing an audience of 4.000, has been a serious
harden to tbe association, but this Indebted
ness is nearly all paid off and it is expected
that the obligation will be met this year and
that another year tbe association can under
take the erection of other needed buildings
on the grounds. Tbe clearing oat of the
underbrush in the park and putting in the
pump on the Clackamas river and laying
the pipes on the grounds to provide for the
water service was alt donated by Mr. II. E.
tross, wno also generously gave a 50 year
lease of tbe park to the Chantauqua associ
ation, as well as to contribute the lumber,
amounting to some $000 for the construction
oi tbe old auditorium platform and tbe
platforms of tbe East 8 de electric road and
Southern Pacific railroad. Mr. Cross has
made these liberal contributions to the
Chautauqua with no expectation of being
reimbursed except through the advantages
the Chautauqua will bring to Oregon City
Other of the public spirited men of Oregon
City have aided in building up the Chautau
qua association that it may become the
great educational Institution it gives such
promise of becoming.
In carrying out tbe assembly work each
season the association incurs a big expense,
much larger in tact than most people sup
pose. While all tbe local talent, with few
exceptions, is contributed, yet to get men
ana women irom me tast, wno bave na
tional reputations as orators, musicians,
teachers, etc. to assist in the program is one
of the heaviest expenses tbe association has
to meet. There is not a more economical
organization conducted in Oregon than the
Willamette Valley Chautauqua association
and it is tbe only one on the coast tbat is
practically free of debt, for this association
expects to clear off its small debt this year.
Though that it should be a money making
scheme for its promoters Is something that
cannot come to pass for there are too many
checks to allow of any crooked work being
done, besides the men and women who have
built op and are sustaining this great Insti
tution of learning are among the most hon
orable and upright people in the state and
tbeir labors are given with the most unsel
fish and patriotic motives.
The din and noise of bailie la over and
sweet, blessed pence now reigns over this
land of Oregon. A debt of gratitude, of Mt,
Hood dimensions, is due from the people
of this stale lo Messrs Simon and I" lien,
for to them is due the honor and glory of
stopping this fratricidal war which has for
so long brought only trials and troubles
and political death lo so many
worthy plutocrats and opullsts. Muy
the followers of these two warrior-alntes-meu
rise up and rail Ihet.i blessed.
Aftkr resting on their arms for the week
past the Turkish ami Greek armies resumed
active hostilities Wednesday when the
Turks made an advance In the vicinity of
Tharsala, tO.OOO strong. They were met by
the Greeks and after the hardest battle of
the war the two armies drew oil for the
night and it is expected that tbe decisive
battle of the war will take place Thursday
In Ibis last action the Greeks displayed
tneirold lime courage and foiiitht with
terrific stubbornness. All the great victo
ries won by the ancient Greeks were gained
after their armies had been partially defeat
ed and it may be these modern Greeks will
yet bring a great victory out of what h
appeared to be sure defeat. All Greece Is
rejoicing and should their armies prevail
the king will be able lo retain bis throne
and not loose it as appeared so certain
tew uays ago. ine great lowers are ex
changing notes and quietly waiting for an
opportunity lo intervene and gel away with
the spoils, that is if they can agree long
enough.
8P1HIT Or THE PRESS.
VI?
Thi studied silence with which the Ore
gonian and populists now regardeach other
is most oppressive indeed. It was only a
few short months ago tbat a most bitter
warfare raged between these two forces
The Oregonian with its accustomed vigor
and spirit tilled its columns to overflowing
with the most bitter denunciations of tbe
entire populist fraternity, and anarchists,
socialists, red-handed rioters, dynamiters,
were some of the vigorous epithets which
Portland's gread daily heaped upon the
beads of the luckless populists. But they
were equal to the occasion and tbeir news
papers and public speakers replied in kind,
calling the Oregonian a fit representative
of the plutocratic press, tbe moiionolists
henchman, the trusts defender, the swell-
beaded man of tbe tower and dozens of
other equally as contemptious references.
But those bloody days are past and no
more will Brother Scott be compelled to
lay awake nights listening for tbe populiot
mob bent on tearing down bis high and
costly tower, neither will the lowly but
The editor of this paper calculates be can
pay that extra four bits Dinglry Increase
on the price of a suit of clothes out of the
profits on new subscription from the wool
growers of the Santlani country and gel a
better suit In the bargain. Stayton Mail
The agent of Zimmerman, the wholesale
butcher of Portland, was through Hillsboro
this week bunting mutton sheep. He
found some mutton but tbey are high. For
some be paid ft per head. Last year at
this time and for several years before, sheep
were selling for from 80 cents to f 1.2S per
head. Verily the tlmea are better. There
is a difference in administrations. A fe
other comparisons may be permitted: In
HG under Cleveland, wheat sold for 40 cents
a bushel, now it goes for 70 and has been
above NO, and would be now if there were
ships lo carry it away. Under Cleveland
oats sold for 15 to 18 cents, now 33. Hay
waa wonu oniy o per ion, now it is fid, a
rise of 200 per cent. Ota truth prosperity
is coming, only our neighbors, the Argus
and tbe other side, have not looked along
the right road. The sight of the procession
was missed. Hillsboro Independent,
Evidently the recent alleged populist state
committee meeting was a cut and dried
affair, to which only the tried and true
henchmen of Young and U'Ren were In
vited. Senator Will R. King, chairman of
the people's party county committee of
Baker, publishes a card in the Baker City
Epigram in which be says:
I am county central committeeman for
Baker county, being elected to that position
by our last county convention. I was not
present at the reported meeting of the slate
central committee at Portland, either In per
son, by letter or by proxy, for the reasons
that I was not notified in any way that
such a meeting was lo be held, the first
information received concerning it, being
newspaper reports.
It is evident that the Young-t'Iten
crowd who hob-nobbed with Joe Hiinon at
Salem last winter and later dined with Har
vey 'colt, have taken the contract lo keep
the silver reform forces of Oregon divided
and the Portland meeting was the first step
in that direction. They will fail in their
attempt because a middle-of-the-road popu
list ticket will not receive enough votes to
filed the result in the state. lioseburg lie
view. The Willamette papers of last week con
tained resolutions unanimously adopted by
the people's party state central committee.
The first was for independent political
action, and the last was what mifeht have
been exacted, endorsement of the legisla
tive hold-up. There was no public notice
of the meeting printed, and the public and
the populists of tbe state never knew that
there was to be a meeting until it was over
with and the report furnished the press by
the secretary was printed. The three na
tional committeemen for Oregon, who are
also members of the state central commit
tee, were not invited to this secret meeting.
The names of those present were the same
"push" tbat camped at Salem last winter
and held up the state and lived high on
"a fund raised by the enemies of Mitchell.''
They slid out of their respective neighbor
hoods on tbeir free passes and nobody
knew tbeir mission until it was over. Tbe
resolve to stay in the "middle of the road''
was passed unanimously. To our certain
knowledge nearly every one of those pres
ent is a rank fusionist. What is tbe object
of that? Heretofore fusion was soiikIU and
fought for most strenuously by tbese same
men, who are now unanimously against it.
In the fall we fused with tbe free silver
democrats, and in the winter we were fused
to the ultra gold standard republicans
What next? Ashland Record, Populist.
CATARRH
LOCAL DISEASE
and Is I hs result ol colds ami
sudtfsn climntic changts.
For your Protection
we iKMlilvely slats Hint llils
rtiiuwly does not contain
ntrn-ury or any oilier Injur
ious ilnik.
Ely's Cream Balm
la acknowledged to ) Hit most ihoroneh cure foe
Nsnal Catarrh, Coid In 1 1 en, I mid ay ftnt f jj
rsiueillea. It oix-h. uml rleuisva tlio nauj hUMtn,
allay, psln and liiiUiiimttimt, lira th, pro.
Iivta llio niriiilraii Inim t-oi.U. n..
" amen, i we one. al i iriu-wl.n nr liy mat .
KLV tlltOMIICK.H, M Wairuu hire.,, New port
i Clarence Porter. Geo, C. Klnner k
r
Blacksmiths
Wagonmakers
Specialty.
Any design of an iron or steel
shoe fitted up. All kinds of
repairing at reasonable rates.
M'KirflllCK'S SHOliS
lllvVT Till) WOltlJ)
Horseshoeing a
Shop opposite Pope's, hardware store.
Oreiron Cltv. Ore.
bor Exchange checks takrn.
,y"iy yorvw"1
H. W. JACKSON,
-Macius
AND i
taw.
Umbrellas, Guns,
Sewing Machines,
And all kinds of email ma
chines put in eood order. No
work to difficult to undertake.
Trices reasonable.
Shop in Caufleld building
Near Court i louse.
!LL-0!-
J
r
1800 miles of long dis
tance telephone wire in
Oregon and Washington
now in operation by the
Oregon Telephone ana Tel
egraph company.
Portland, Seattle, Spo
kane, Taeoma, Salem,
Walla Walla, Tcndleton,
Albany and 96 other towns
in the two states on the
line.
Quick, accurate, cheap.
All the Batirifnction of a
personal communication.
Distance no effect to a
clear understanding. Spo
kane as easily heard as
Portland.
Oregon City office at
Huntley's Drug Store.
J. H. THATCHER, MANAGER,
Portland, - - Oregon.
m
NOBLITT'S STABLES
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable
ORECON CITY.
LOCATED BETWEEN THE BKIDOB AND
UKfOT
Double and Single Rigs, and sad
die horses always on hand at the
lowest prices. A corrall connected
with the barn for loose stock.
Information reirardinir any kind or
stock promptly attended to by person ol
letter.
Horses Boutrht and Sold.
Horses Boarded and Fed on reason
able terms.
The 2a cetit fare to Gladstone Is un
precedented in moior line fares, 1
cent fare to Portland.
Leading insurance agency
F. E. Donai.uhon.
C7INDIK3
FIJSIII CIG7IK3
None but the very best carried
in stock.
Mrs. Wanda Zimmerman,
Next door to Oriental Hotel.
THE POPULAR
STR. RAM0NA
will run between Oregon City and
Portland daily except Sunday
- as follows:
Leave Oregon City:
(8th. Htreet Dock.)
7:30 a. m.
12:00 m.
4 p. m.
Leave Portland:
(Taylor 8t. Dock.)
0:30 a, m.
2:00 p. m.
0:00 p. tn.
SUNDAY TIME
Leave Oreeon City:
9:00 a.
1 '00 p.
4:30 p.
m.
in.
in.
Leave Portland:
10:30 a.m.
2:30 p. m.
0:00 p. m.
ROUND TRIP 25c
The Steamer Altona from Indepen
dence and Salem each Sunday will
connect with the Hatnona at the
baHin in Oregon City; leaves on her
return trip at 1 o'clock p. m.
South Oregon City
A GOOD IM.ACIC TO UVIC
lU'iuitiful scenery and health giving air, high level land with
good prixhu'tivo soil and pure water, a lirxt dim public, school building
attended by nearly a hundred pupils on the premises; ami a jjood plank
road (one of the ttiiiin thoroughfiires in t ho county), connects with thu
macadam ucd streets of tho oily. This beautiful tract adjoins Oregon
Citv and no portion of it is beyond a mile from tho heart of the city
and but a 15 minutes walk on plunk walks to tho liiiicM houses.
Some attractions of South Oregon City. Now is th
timo to think of thu place to build your home or a good place, to
lay by an investment that will increase in value. Tho easy
terms on which this proxrty is sold should not PiubaritHS any
thrftv person. Iits are f0xl00 and prices range from I KM)
to flil). Terms, $5 down and 5 jht month until paid,
without interest or taxes, a lilcral discount for cash, and inducements
to build. Kvery lot clear and ready for tho garden. Quito number o
lots have been sold and there are several houses already occupied 011 tho
tract and quite a settlement in the ncighlxirhood.
Oregon City with her big monthly pay roll, great woolen nulls,
largo pulp paiKir and llouring mills and iiihhmvo electric station, her
flno public schools and all tho modern inprovemonts, is hound to in
crease her growth. Where can you find a better place to live in or a
satcr place for an investment" for further information call on or
address
Charman Bros. Block,
T. L. CHARMAN, Trustee,
Oregon City, Or,
Blooming Plants.
We wish to stato that wo will place on sale, tho finest lot of plants)
at tho lowest price ever offered in Oregon City.
Carnations, largo plants) in bloom, 12 varieties, 20 cents each.
(Jeraniums, largo plants in bloom, 10 cents each. Koses, two-year-old
bushes, 2" cents each. Chrysanthemums, all prize winners, in
cluding Kupne Dailledouze, Geo. W. Chiltls, Mayflower, Mrs E. (J.
Hill, I'hiladelphia, and twenty-five others, 10 cents each, 75 cent
per dozen. A largo variety of other plants. Cut flowers in season.
Greenhouse at Gladstone, on Electric Car Line.
Visitors Welcomed.
Hardy cabbage and other vegetable plants for sale.
Wilkinson Bros.
P. O Address, Box 238. Oregon City.
The Marketing Point
OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Tlio factory towns of tho Kast aro noted
for affording tho beat market to tho noigh
' boring farmers and gardeners in proportion
to tho population of any of tlio towns in
that section. The reason for this is that
tho people of these towns liavo a fixed in
como upon which they can always depend,
and, as a consequence, they aro lilwral buy
ers, paying cash for all their purchases.
As the Creat 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 farmers, who aro to bo seen on its streets
selling their produce, who, until just tho
last few years, sought tho markets of other
towns. The system of macadamized roads
that is being built into all parts of Clack
amas county, will enable all tho pooplo of
this county to eharo in tho profitable mar
ket that Oregon City aflbrda. 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 place for
THE PRODUCE
of the Farmer