Oregon City enterprise., June 11, 1897, Image 4

Oregon City Enterprise.
Published Kvery Friday.
CI1AS. ME8ERVE,
PURLTHI1KR AND rROPRIRTOR.
UBCHIPTION RATES,
On year, .....
limouthi, . . . .
Trial tulwerlptlon two moitha,
$2 00
I 00
Jb
A dlwout t of M emit on til n Wrlptlmit for
loc jrar, centa lor tlx monibt, II paid In
aaTunce.
Adrenlilnt rate (tven on application.
BurarrO era will And In. dt nt opuatlon
atami ! ou ihoir PHiK-n in lowl thir nan a,
If this ''a a I- not elia"n th n to wmi
aftvrapi uifiit. kindly notlljr u and s wlU
lOUK i-lu-ril.
Entered at tha Poat Ofllra In Oregon City, Or.,
at ecoDd claw nailer.
FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1897.
AGENTS FOK TUB ENTERPRISE.
Baarcr Crek,
Can by,
Clackamaa,
Mllwaukie,
tmion Mills,
Moadow Brook,
Sew Era,
Wtlaonvllla,
ii-k Place,
Olditone,
Stafford.
Hallno,
Oarua,
Molalla.
Marquam,
RnttcTllla
Aurora,
OrrtUe,
ale Crwk,
Damascus,
Bandy,
talnion,
Currinsvllle,
Cherryville, -
Marmot,
Dr. T. B. Thomai
Uo. Knirtat
A. Mather
Oacar WlMlnirer
ti J. TrulUuger
- Ihaa Hotman
W. 8. Nurbrrry
Henry Mile
F. L. KuMel
T. M. Crou
J. Q.
C. T Howard
R. M. Cooper
Annie Stiibba.
K. M. Hantaan
B Jeuulim
He r A. -i.yder
L.J Perdue
H. Wiltwrn
- - J. 0. Elliott
F. Gutweh
Mrs. W.M. Mrlntyre
- i Geo. J. Cnrrin
Mrs. M. J. Hammer
Ailolpb Ascbot
The j to build np Oregon
City Is to rire Orejroa City people jonr
yttronaire.
THE EIPEBrS KKP0BT.
The ENTiKrtiBE gives in this issue the
full retort of he experts wbo have been
going over the books in the hberiS's and
treasurer's offices. It is very comprehen
sive and gives in detail ail the, errors found
and in the condition in which the books and
accounts were in the two offices, to
gether ait h their recommendations regard
ing the future management of tbese, offices.
Their work has been done in a very
tharongh and impartial manner and their
report can be relied iion as showing the
true status of the sheritTs and treasurer's
accounts. Of conn it does not show the
financial condition of the county, for to
give the county's indebtedness it would
have been necessary to go over the clerk's
books for seven j ears back so as to cover all
outstanding aarrmts, fur under the law all
outstanding aarrants that have been called
in, and are not presented for payment are
cancelled at the expiration of that
date, Tbis tak would have added
another month's work to the job and the
court did not think that there was sufficient
justification for incurring the expense.
This investigation has been the means of
raving to the county (1243.44 in tbe sher
iffs office which otherwise would have been
lost. In the tresturer'a office the accounts
were found in very chaotic condition and
they were compelled to re-write Mr. Shade's
books entire. They alto found a discrep
ancy of t'JOl. 35 between tbe amount ex
Treasurer Moore claims to bare tamed' over
to bis successor, Mr. Shade, for which
mount Mr. Shade receipted Mr. Moof,
bat for which Mr. fchade cannot account.
As the matter is In dispute, owing to the
imperfect manner in which the two men
kept their accounts, it cannot yet be told
whether Mr. Shade is debtor to the county
for that amount or not. The matter is to
be settled in court.
Altogether the Enterprise can say that
this investigation has been one of tbe most
thorough ever made of the books in these
. two offices and at the same time it has been
one ol the most profitable to the taxpayers
in tbe money it has saved them both di
rectly and indirectly, for bad matters been
allowed to ion along as heretofore there
would bave been no telling to what extent
discrepancies and deficiencies would bave
crept into the accounts of both the sheriff
and treasurer.
appropriation this past winter ot f.tOO.OOO leaving the Incompetent, makeshift person,
to further perfect its agricultural college.
Wisconsin, Iowa, New Yoak and other
eastern an middle stntes give from $100,000
to fJOO.OOO per year for the malutalnance of
their colleges. So It can be seen to what
importance the grst sialea of the Union
attach to their agricultural colleges tit giv
ing to the industrial classes a chance to gain
that education they so imperatively need.
The lime is at hand when the people of
Oregon demand of tliie college a better ser
vice than has been had In the past. To se
cure this it is necesrary that there be at the
head of it a broad-minded man, especially
tilted by education and experience to direct
and manageita affairs, To secure such a man
is no easy task, lor a man capable of run
ning a sawmill or of conducting a theolog
ical or other college successfully Is no proof
that he could discharge the duties of tbe
president of an agricultural college In a
satisfactory manner, The success of
our college demands that the board of
regents exercise the most careful judg
ment In tbe selection of a president.
Tha they may hare to go out of
the state for such a man is highly probable,
for. with no disparagement to oar local ed
ucators, we bave no man in Oregon who is
folly capable of discharging the duties of
president of the college and director of the
experimental station. This is not an Idle
assertion. The work carried on in these
colleges Is so different from that In other
educational institutions that It takes a man
of special training to meet the requirements.
That the regents may know whether the
teachers in the various departments ot
the school and the men In charge
of the experimental work are competent and
giving the best service devolves upon the
president, and if he is not able to give this
Information then he is not competent to
ho'd so important a' position.
In point of the number of persons inter
ested and of the industries allected, the
agricultural college is the most important
state school in Oregon and tbe educational
and industrial growth of the state demand
that It he brought up to the standard of
similar institutions in the East.
ho attempt to teach because they think
that teaching Is a genteel vocation, or a g'Hd
stepping ilout to soma other position, to go
to raising potatoes or supervising a kitchen,
or some other work for which they are bet
ter adapted. Yet no bright boy or girl
should be deterred from entering the edu
cational field for with all this crowd In the
lower ranks there Is, as Webster said, ample
room in the from ranks. There are none
too many first-class teachers right here In
Clackamas county and good positions and
fair wages can be easily had by those wl
are worthy of them.
THE STATE AOBRULUBAL COLLEGE.
Now that the school year for tbe State
Agricultural college is drawing to a close
it ie pertinent to t.ote with what success it
has met during the past year, and whether
the remits justify the hope that all friends
of practical, industrial education have in
this college, as a school where young men
anil young women can be fitted for success
fully meeting tbe duties of life. That the
standard of this college is not up to what
was expected of it, Is apparent to any one
who is familiar with educational matters,
who has observed the work as carried on
under the present management. The ob
ject of this college is to give an industrial
education, rather than a classical course,
leaving to the state university and similar
institutions to teach the languages and the
higher branches. That the curriculum has
been spread out too much in the endeavor
to compass the whole field of education is
too apparent to not be noticed. To specia
lize in education, has become an imperative
requirement for a college can no more
tofci on j i lies oi education man can a
private individual cover all lines of indus
trial or financial work. It is the specialist
now that attains the greatest success, with
the college as with the individual, and the
State Agricultural college to more fully
accomplish the object for which it was
founded should concentrate its curriculum
to the requirements of a strictly agricultural
college.
The Oregon Agricultural college derives
its principal support from the general gov
ernment, receiving some $15,000 each year,
from the sale of public lands and special
appropriations, provided for by congress
for the support of agricultural colleges and
experiment stations in the various states.
So far tbe stale of Oregon has contributed
very little to this college, compared to what
other states have done. Illinois made an
WHY LYNCHINGS ARE MORE FREQUENT.
The laxity of our laws and the ease with
which they can be circumvented is a burn
ing disgrace to ihe American judicial sys
tem. It is little wonder that lynchings,
scarcely known 50 years ago, are growing
more and more frequent. So little confi
dence has the public at large in the elf.
ciency of our judicial machinery that the
commission of an atrocious crime calls out
at once the fury of a lynching mob. An
instance was given of this lack of confidence
in the courts in Ohio last week, when a mob
broke into the jail and hung a rapist, whom
they considered had been given too light a
sentence by tbe court.
The Durrani case has drawn its slimy
course through the courts of California for
tbe last two years and it is admitted by
conieteiit lawyers that legal technicalities
will save tbe neck of this monster, whose
horrible murder of two innocent girls
should have been avenged long months ago,
for at least another year and even then it is
a question whether he can be hanged. In
Europe or even in half civilized Mexico the
bones of this human fiend would have been
bleaching in the otter's field a year and a
half ago, or even sooner.
The Marquain case in Clsckama county
is another instance, though not of the hor
rible character of the Ohio or California
cases, wherein justice is thwarted and the
confidence in the assurance that the laws
will be enforced fairly and promptly is de
stroyed in tbe minds of the ople. When
a lynching follows to punish the perpetra
tor of every heinous crime, then will it be
possible to arouse our law making and
judicial powers to the need of more rigor
ous laws and a more thorough enforcement
oftbem. In the meantime the law and
order element are justified in taking the
law into their own hands until relief is had
from the present letbarey which now curses
our country.
To Columbia county belongs the distinc
tion of furnishing a most striking object
lesson In tha dangers of maintaining th
old gossip-exchanging, (ret and easy system
of road working. According to tha St. Hel
en's Mist, a man by tha name of Smith, In
the Kehalem valley, who was working out his
road tax In company with a number of bis
neighbors, was stricken with paralysis
the tongue and rendered unable to talk,
Of course this brought the road work to an
enu tor inai a ay ana tne poor fellow was
taken to Hillsboro for medical treatment
Had Mr. Smith been a Clackamas county
rancher this distressing accident would not
have befallen him, for in Ibis county the
cash system is in use and men employed on
the roads work instead of gossiping, thus
obviating all danger of their tongues becom
Ing tired out and refusing to longer vibrate,
t
Governor Lord bids fair to make
record in the pardon business that will far
outstrip that of Governor Pennoyer, whoe
prison deliveries were In excess of any other
governor In the United Stales except Gov
ernor Blackburn ol Kentucky who a few
years ago turned all the convicts out of his
state's penitentiary. Governor Lord's par
don of our man Marquam was unwarranted
and not supported by justice or common
sense and was setting a premium upon the
violation of the laws of the land. Some day
the pardoning power will be taken out of
the hands of political schemers and placed
in a board where politicians and sympathy
workers will have less influence and justice
and the rights of the taxpayers more con
sideration.
Those witnessea who apeared against
Marquam before the grand jury and in the
circuit court and afterward signed bis pell
lion tor pardon ougni to be made to pay
up the costs in the case. Such "revenue"
working as they are guilty of is an outrage
upon the taxpayers of Clackamas county
Ir the other saloonkeepers of the county
are to be made to pay a license justice to
them would dictate that such men as
Marquam be made to take out a license or
quit the liquor t rattle. Saloon men have
rights as well as other men
SOME 0BSERVATIOK8 OK A FARMER.
The shooting scrape at Clackamas is an
other instance ol what the carrying of con
cealed weapons leads to. Had this man
Lecor been without a pistol, as he should
have been, be would not now be occupying
a murderer's cell in tbe county jail, for a
black eye or two to each of the combatants
would have been tbe probable extent of the
damage done. But the exercising of that
inalienable right that belongs to all hood
lums and toughs in America, to carry a
revolver, leads to a shooting scrape on the
least provocation and an additional burden
being placed upon the taxpayers. The trial
of this tough now under charge of murder,
by our cumbersome system of American
legal technicalities not law will put the
taxpayers ot uiacxamas county to an
expense of at least $2,000. While if justice
is not thwarted and be is sent to the peui
tenliary, for murderers are never bung,
another $4,000 or $5,000 will be added to the
load of the taxpayers. Tbii expense to the
taxpayers is not tbe only harmful feature of
carrying concealed weapons. The lives
that are destroyed and the sorrow and des
titution that it brings to so many homes is
a terrible cost in blood and broken hearts
to pay for allowing the carrying of con
cealed weapons. For the law as it now ii
is a farce, a $5 or $10 fine being about al
the punishment a fellow gets who is too con
spicuous witn bis weapon. Hoodlum men
and aare-ievn ooys would have less occa
sion to carry pistols If the punishment was
five years' work upon tbe public highways
with a ball and chain attached to their leg
and the pardoning power taken out of the
governor's hands.
The serious problem is presented here in
Clackamas county of a brigade of 300 teach
ers with only about 150 positions available
in our schools during the year. This mini
ber of aspirants for pedagogic honors does
not include the hundred or more persons
who will come in from outside counties, as
they do each year, for the other counties
are as badly crowded with educational tal
ent as is Clackamas, to seek positions in
our schools. Tbe only solution for this
dearth ol schools and plethoria of tearhers
is for the boards to exercise their good
judgment and hire only persons who are
known to be capable, successful teachers,
Damascus, May 27. To the Editor) I
have been reading your editorials of late
and from observation and inquiry of past
statements in these columns find that the
Enterprise has been very correct in its
statements and have no just cause for com
plaint thus far. What we country folk
want is tbe plain truth without auy mag
niiying, especially concerning the manage
ment of our county affairs. You are per
haps aware that a great many people at the
last local election voted for a change and
got their pay, and I plead guilty to being
one of them.
I am greatly amused at the system of
keeping accounts in the county treasurer's
ollice which you explained in your issue
of the 21st iust. and it seems to me that
with a shot sack for each fund, and I pre
sume that there are about forty funds to
keep separate, that a simple change of the
wrist might change sacks, and Mr. Treas
urer would find himself in the position of
sockless Jerry, asking "Where am I at."
It seems strange that Clackamas county
with all its brilliant men should not have
conceived such a simple idea. We are in
formed that tbe present incumbent objected
to the system kept by his predecessor, a
method which has been followed for years.
Tbe county court employed Mr. Tborne to
procure and open a set of books according
to bis idea, at several dollars expense, and
these hooks could not be used. I was in
formed that another set of books was or
dered and are to be written up Bince July,
lx9f, at the county's expense, by parties
not connected with that office. It is need
less to say who pays the bil but it seems to
me that the most practical way to remedy
or unravel some of this "populist reform"
hereafter is to get the man to fit the books
instead of books and finally shot sacks to
fit the man. Wantf.o RftrokM.
Letter List.
The following is tha lint of letters re
maining in the pofttoflice at Oregon City,
Oregon, on June 9, 1897:
men's list. I
Beaman, Wm Muerhofer, Thos
Holder. I) If Fonda, F F
James, T Wilson, Archie W
Kayes, James Yetman, C K
women's list.
Birdman, Mrs E Hurley, Miss Car.'ie
Collard. Maud Kaves, Milissa
Lyer, Mrs Williams, Miss A M
Gord, Nancy,
If called for elate when advertised.
8 R. (Jrrkn, P. M.
"My landlord will pay for that paper,"
said a business man to Holman, th wall
paper dealer. Holman Raid it was $
for the room. "Is that all? Well, I
win pay it mweii, repn -a tne buxinees i
man. You will be surprised when you
find how little it costs to paper your
room when you see Holman and see his
up-to-date styles and prices
Don't pay tbe advertised priced for
Oxien Electiic Bittern, Chamberlain's
Cough Cure and Williams I'iNk Fills;
but buy them at a discount at Huntley'
cut rate drug store.
r.I.Y'8 CttKAM IUI.M It e posit Irecnr.
Apply Into the nostrils. It Is quickly ahwirtwd. so
ceiiU at Pnu-uUu or by mall ; samples inc. by null.
XLl DUO run us, aa wimi Hk, Haw York Clly,
FARMERS . . .
Your team will have the best
of care and
Full Measure of Feed
At lhe
City Stables.
W. H. YOUNG, Prop.,
wuoo.wor to w. H. Cooke.
Livery Rigs on Short Notice.
Telephone No. 42.
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, Tacoma, Salem,
Walla Walla, Pendleton,
Albany and other towns
in the two states on the
line.
Quick, accurate, cheap.
All tho satisfaction of a
personal communication.
Distance no effect to a
clear understanding. Spo
kane as easily heard as
Portland.
Oregon City oflice at
Huntley's Drug Store.
J. H. THATCHER, MANAGER,
'ortland, - Oregon.
M'KHTJMCK'S SHOES
11KAT THE WORLD
m
BREAKFAST BACON
DELICIOUS HAMS
None better in tho city. Makes a Lrcakfant fit
a king. Try a saniplo and bo convinced.
for
FREYTAG'S GROCERY,
Corner Main aud Fourteenth Sts.
Blooming Plants.
We wish to state that wo will place on sale, tho finest lot of plants
at the lowest price ever offered in Oregon City.
Carnations, largo plants in bloom, 12 varieties, 2) cents each.
Geraniums, large plants in bloom, 10 cents each. Roses, two-year-old
bushes, 23 cents eaeh. Chrysanthemums, all prizo winners, in
cluding Kugeno Dailledouzo, Geo. W. Chitds, Mayflower, Mrs JC. O.
Hill, I'hiladelphia, and twenty -five others, 10 cents each, 75 cents
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.
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Outlook
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
150 Jo!ia Slrns. Cttlsf Clerk
HOTEL ST. CHARLES
Front and Morrlxm Hta., i'ortland Or.
D vi ks $ h'Qn u ley, Pkopji.
Rooms from 2."c. to 1.00 jor day
Elevator, electric lights and bells
and all modern conveniences.
Free 'Bus meets all boats and trains
Restaurant Connected With Hotel.
13 Astor Place
New York I
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trial movements of the (lav; lias a com-
lete department of religious news
evotes much spaco to the intercuts of
the home; reviews current literature;
furninhes cheerful table-talk about men
nd things; and, in short, aims to (cive
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nd reasonablo entertainment.
Beinnin with the fifty-fifth volume,
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fifty-two issues a year. The first issue
in each month in an Illustrated Magazine
Number, containing about twice as muny
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'lhe price of Tub Outlook is three
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Hend for a speciman copy and illus
trated prospectus to Tiik Outlook, 13
ABtor Place, 'New York City.
Daniel Williams, at the head of Sev
enth street stairs, has added a line of pat
ent medicines to his stock of school books,
candies, notions, etc., which he sells
cheaper than the cheapest.
THE POPULAR
STIt. IIAM0NA
will run between Oregon City and
Portland daily except Kunduy
as follows:
Lfaye Oreeoa City: ( Leave Portland:
(8th. Street Dock.) (Taylor Ht. Dock.)
7.30 a.m. 0:30 a.m.
12:00 m. 2:00 p.m.
4:30 p.m. :00 p.m.
SUNDAY TIME
Lea7e Oregon City:
8:30 a. hi.
12-30 p. m.
3 :30 p. m.
6:30 p. m.
Leave Portland:
10:00 a.m.
2:00 p. m.
5:00p m.
7:45 p. m.
ROUND TRIP 25c
JOHN YOUNGER,
EWELER,
Opp. Huntley's Drug Store,
All Kinds of Watches,
Clocks and Jewelry Repaired
FORTY YEARS EXPERIENCE N
Great Britain and America.
Give me atrial.
JOHN A. BECK,
THE
RELIABLE JEWELER
No. 270, Morrison Street,
PORTLAND, OREGON,
IS STII.L ON KAItTII.
For general repairing lie standi
without a jx-er. For first-class, re
liable goods his store is second to
nono. Trv him I
Hay and Feed '
Can ho had at reasonablo
prices, wholesale or retail at
Steven's Warehouse.
dipt. J. W. lSxon, manager.
Kd May, Local Agent.
Pctzold's Meat Market, Main, St.
NOBLITT'S STABLES
Livery, Feed and Sale Stable
ORECONCITY.
LOCATED
11KTWKK.V THE
DKI'OT
11 HI DUE AND
A Personal Matter
A well painted house is like a
neatly dressed person always
attractive and pleasant to look
upon .
YOUR HOUSE
Can be repainted and fresbened up
at a very reasonable price paints
are very cheap now. Don't leave
it until the sun makes any more
marks and cracks in it.
SEE MURROW
The painter. He
first-class work.
can guarantee
A. W. PHILLIPS,
EXPRESS
AND
Double and Sintrle Ritrs. and sad
dle horses always on hand at the
lowest prices. A corrall connected
with the burn for loose stock.
Information reKardinu any kind or
stock promptly attended to by person of
letter.
Horses Bought and Sold. .
Horses Boarded and Fed on reason
able terms.
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.
CIJMDIH3
FRUITS
FINK CIG7IR3
None but tho very host carried
in stock.
Mrs. Wanda Zimmerman,
Next door to Oriental Hotel.
1
4 Clarence Porter. Geo. C. Elnner.
Blacksmiths
Wagonmakers
Horseshoeing a Specialty.
Any denlgn of an Iron or steel
shoe lilted up. All kinds of
repairing at reasonablo rates.
Shop opposite Pope's hardware store.
Oregon City, Ore.
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