Oregon City Enterprise.
Published Kvery Friday.
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Intered at the Pot OfToe In Oregon City, Or.,
u aevonii oim matter.
FRIDAY, AUGUST iO, 18i7.
AGENTS FOR THE ENTERPRISE.
Beaver Creek,
OanbT,
Clackamas,
aMlwatikle,
Colon Mills,
Mearlow brook.
New Era,
wllaonrilU,
Pa-k Place,
Slalstone,
Jtaffnrd,
Molino,
Oarua,
Xolalla,
Marquara,
Butlerllie
Aurora,
Orrille,
Eagle Creek,
Damascus,
8andy,
Minion,
Corrinsville,
Cherryville,
Marmot,
Pr
T. B. Thomat
Geo. KiitBht
A. Mather
Oscar Wlaalnger
U J. Trulllnner
I has Holman
W. 8. Newberry
Henry Milev
T. U Russell
T. M. Croas
J. 0. Gaire.
C. T How aril
R. it. Cooper
Anuie stiitma.
K, M. Hartman
B. Jeunliifa
Henry A. Miyder
L.1 Perdue
H. Villern
J. C. Elliott
F. Cxictsch
W.M. Mclntyre
Geo. J. Currin
Mrs. M. J. Hammer
Adolph Ascuott
Mrs
' The to build op Oregon
City Ih to rive Oregon City people jonr
patronage.
THE WHEAT PROSPECT.
Wheat harvest is practically completed in
Clackamas county and threshing is now
under way. The quality of the grain is of
the very best and it will turn out a fine
grade of Hour, while the yield is fully tip to
the average. The area of wheat this year is
slightly less than what it has been in former
years, owing to the dithculty of seeding
last fall by reason of the heary rains early
in the season. The area to spring grain
was also cut short by extra heavy rains, so
this county will have less bushels of wheat
to market than is usually had. At the
price now ruling, hich is double what it
was at this time lat year, the wheal crop of
1397 will bring into Clackamas county more
cash than any one crop for the past five
years and it will be a big factor in bringing
bout revival in our financial condition.
As to bow high the price of wheat will ret
go is problematical, but It scarcely seems
possible lor it to reach 90 cents here in Ore
gon and if it does it will hardly go much
higher, for the crop in the United States and
Canada promises to be unusually large,
while Europe's crop w ill not be so unusually
short and Russia's crop will be up to the
average. Seeding is now completed in Ar
gentine and Australia and by January they
will be on the market with a new crop. The
famine in India together with no big sur
plus supplies left over from last year will
tend to bold wheat up lo a fair price, but
it cannot reach an exhorbitant figure for
people will eat less wheat anl more of
other grain. Even with the big impetus
Ibat tbe present high price will give to seed
ing, it is scarcely possible fur w heat to fall
below GO cents whn the crop oftiextyear
is to be marketed, so it will be quite safe
for our farmers to sow all the wheat they
can handle. With tbe improved machinery
at cheaper price and lower rates for other
farm expenses, a farmer can now make as
much money at 00 cent wheat, as be could
a few years ago. when be realized 90 cents
and $1.
years has brought very Utile money into
Oregon,
That our financial tide Is now on the
turn Is apparent to anyone who will look
up the fads and it is a certainty that be-
lore many months shall pass we shall have
the balance of trade in our favor
once more. In the first place we owe less
in the Fast than we did four years ago,
the records will bear this out, conse
quently we have less interest to pay. We
have greatly increased our manufactures
and in proHirtiou to our population we
come much nearer supplying home needs
than we did four years ago. Ituttor, esss,
meat, and other farm prodiicla are not
imported hardly at all. Our lumler trade
is picking up with good proseota lor ready
sales in the near future. The woo) crop is
selling for one-third more than last mr,
while our w heat is double In price and one
half larger in yield than it was one year
ago. Hops will be a belter yield and con
siderably higher iu price than was had lat
year. The great boom in the mines will
make a good market at remunerative prices
for all our dried fruit Cattle and sheep
are looking up in price and o greatly have
the herds been depleted that a big jump in
prices will soon be witnessed, eecially on
the latter now that tbe tariff on wool is
restored. There has hardly been a horse
raised in the past four years and a colt on
tbe streets of Oregon City, or any other
town in Oregon, is so rare as to be a nov
elty. With the revival in other lines the
horse market will come 'up with a bound.
The great revival in the mining industry
all over this state, with the gold that will
be almost sure to come from Alaska, will
be another great factor in bringing a return
of prosperity to our people.
Another point in summing up the factors
contributing to a renewal of our proserity
is that our people bave learned to live
within their means and to keep out of debt,
thus stopping that most serious of all leaks.
the paying of interest. Altogether the
signs of tbe times could not be better for
the people of Oregon, and another year we
may look for a prosperity such as has not
been enjoyed for lo these many years by
the people of the Pacific coast.
willfully do any person an Injustice so
makes this correction, though so far as a
strict fulltllment of the law Is concerned
Mr. Shade violated it as much In a delav ol
two weeks as In ten weeks.
JAPAN'S AUDACITY.
PROSPEROU." DAYS AT HAND.
In the general business revival which is
setting in, in all parts of tbe United States,
it is noticeable that the Pacific coast section
is not feeling the impulse so quickly as in
the eastern and noddle sections. To one
not acquainted with tbe industrial and
trade conditions of the Pacific stales this
would seem strange, especially when our
wonderful resources are considered, hut
when the matter is looked Into the question
is soon solved.
The Inexorable law of trade balances
offers a complete explanation of the finan
cial difficulties under wbicb our people are
laboring. For the last four years tbe peo
ple of Oregon bave been paying out more
money than they bave taken in, with the
result that we now bave our resources ex
hausted and we must wait until we can get
the trade balance turned in our favor.
Thousands upon thousands of dollars goto
the East each year to meet interest charges
upon mortgages and bonds and insurance
premiums, while hundreds of thousands of
dollars more go to pay for agricultural im
pleinents, machinery, furniture, clothing,
groceries and the hundred other necessaries
on the farm and in the home and business
house. For bicycles alone there has been
nearly $1,000,000 sent out ol Oregon in the
last four years. By reason of the deprecia
tion in values as well as the almost cessa
tion of sales for some of our commodities
we have been unable to meet these demands,
as in former years w hen we bad ready sales
and big prices for all our products, enabling
us each year to hold the balance of trade in
our favor. J n the last four years the wool
crop of Oregon has been sold for nearly
one-half less than in former years, while
the hop and fruit crop bas suffered fully as
great a depreciation in value. Wheat has
been one-third below the price of former
years. Fish, which next to wheat brings
us the largest returns, has been low in
price and dull sale. Beef cattle, of whicb
we formerly sold hundreds of thousands of
bead at profitable prices, have scarcely paid
for feeding, wbile the horse market has been
completely ruinel. The lumber trade,
which until these dull times, was one of our
most profitable industries, has been almost
completely prostrated and for the past four
It has come out that one ol tbe principal
reasons why Japan is making such strong
opposition to the annexation of the Ha
waiian islands to Ibe United Slates, Is that
it will effectually preclude foreign vessels
from engaging in tbe trade between tbe
islands and the states. This regulation
governing inter-state and coastwise trans
portation bas been in etlect ever since the
formation ot this government and Us pur
pose is to protect and build up our merchant
marine. Japan, too, is doing all she can to
build up her merchant marine and has
made most marvelous progress within the
last five years. Her ships are now found in
every port of the Pacific ocean and tbey
bave come to be more frequent visitors to
Euroau ports than are the ships bearing
the American Aug.
These islands, which bear such a striking
resemblance to Great Brilian, have an am
bition to become the England of the Pacific
and to be able to control the Commerce of
the countries bordering this great ocean.
Japan already has a number of vessels en
gagea in tne Hawaiian trade and expects
soon to extend the route of their ships to
San Francisco so as to share In the profit
able trade between Honolulu and this coast.
With Hawaii a part of the United Slates,
Japanese, as w ell as other foreign vessels,
would be shut out of the trade between the
two countries and this is w hy tbe Japs are
raising such strenuous objections to our
annexation of tbe Islands. The closing of
the Hawaiian ports to foreign vessels Is w hy
England is also working against annexation
for they, too, hope lo extend their already
profitable trade between Hawaii and this
country.
The opposition of Japan, as well as Eng
land and other foreign nations, to our an
nexation of Hawaii will but hasten the day
when the stars and stripes shall float over
these islands, which by commercial and
naval needs, as well as racial affinity, should
be a part ot the United States.
As Important decision has been handed
down by the supreme court in the recent
session held at Pendleton. It was in the
case of McKennon vs, the American Fire
insurance company, garnishee. The main
point in the case is that ot sustaining the
validity of the homestead exemption law
passed at the session of the legislature for
1893. The appeal grew out of the Cotner
Insurance case. McKennon garnished tbe
insurance company for a debt owed by
Cotner, and tbe company refused to pay on
the grounds that the amount of the policy,
about fjOO, was exempt from execution
The homestead exemption act provides
tbat a free bolder may claim exemption to
the amount of $ 1,500. Nearly all the cir
cuit courts of the state have decided that
the law is inoperative, but tbe supreme
court bas now affirmed the validity of tbe
act. This decision will preclude the col
lection of all kinds of debts except mort
gages where the debtor's property does not
exceed $1,500 in value in farm land or town
lots. The result of this ruling will be tbat
hundreds of men now able to secure an ac
commodation loan at the bank or a . bill of
goods at the store will be refused further
credit unless they go to tbe further trouble
of giving a mortgage for security.
SPIRIT OK Til K PRESS.
P. C. Ireland who founded the Kxtkh-l-Ktsii
and was a resident of Oregon City for
several years, is now publishing the Mom
Observer and In the last issue of Ins paper
has the follow ing comment lo make on the
"smoke" theory of the Oregonian :
As old as is the OrcgonUm It still culls the
haiy atmosphere lingering over the moun
tains of the IVille Northwest "smoke."
This "smoke" is as natural to this latitude
asfogisto iAindon. It has been utilised
for three years to suck $'J!K,tiiH) annually
from the United Slates treasury as salaries
for forestry cranks and the Oregonian uses
it as an evidence that the bloody sheepmen
ol the Waiting Empire are destroying the
forests. Bless your ignorant old "ramus;
if it were smoke there had been enough of
it to show fires sullicient lo have consumed
every stick of timber along the coast years
ago.
Regarding the inquest which our populist
coroner held at Oswego, mention of which
was made in the Kktkki'hisk of lait week,
the Iron Worker has the following com
ment lo make:
The law empowers a coroner to use his
discretion as to holding an inquest iu rase
of sudden death. The two cases of drown
iug in Oswego last week were clearly acci
dental, as Coroner Oodlrey could easily
bave determined without such an elaborale
inquest as was held. This olllcer of the
populist persuasion might have saved the
county quite a a bill of expense, but, like
tbe crowd of hungry friends who accom
panied him from Oreiton City to help him
out, he was hungry himself.
As to whether it is good policy for a
county to pay a bounty on squirrel, gopher,
etc., sralps or not is argued as follows by
the Statesman:
There is a serious leak of Marlon county
funds through the bounty rathole that, we
believe, ought to be stopped up entirely by
the county court.
We called reflated attention to this last
year. But, at one of the meetings of the
court iu the early spring, some of the boun
ties oil Wed were doubled, and so the drain
has been larger during the past several
months, we believe, than ever before.
It has seemed to us, and it occurs to us
now, that the buisness of a county carrying
a debt of some eighty thousand of dollars
as .Marion county does, and in some of the
school districts of which a man having
Jlix) worth ol property must pay $.'11 a
yewr taxes, thai the business of such a
county ought to be economically managed,
that every item of expenditure ought to be
carefully considered and the bill for it ex
amined closely. That is the manner in
which individuals must conduct their pri
vate affairs. And then the method of pay
ing bounties is subject to objection. It is
open to suspicion even though no grounds
for it exist. So we believe it would be better
at this time for the Marion county court to
abolish all bounties. We are sure tbat
even tbe farming communities, which feel
the burden of high taxes severely, would
approve this action.
Lock it art, TexAs, Oct. 15, 18S9.
Messrs. Paris Medicine Co..
Paris, Tenn.
Dear Sirs: Ship us as Boon as possi
ble 2 gross Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonii;
and will not have any oilier. In our
experience of over 20 yerrs in the drug
business, we have never sold any medi
cine which gives such universal satis
facsion. Yours respectfully,
J. 8. Bhouni A Co.
For sale by C. G. Huntley, druggist
T 'IJI 1.1,1 ft-V L 1 1.
cad
to
KI.Y'H CREAM It.U M la a pnalllveerniv
Apply Into the noatrlla. It la qui, kly elwirlwd. M
cent at Pniirtrlata nr by mall ; anmpira lor. hy mall,
KLY UKUTHKUS, 64 Warren hi., Nw YoikClly,
FARMERS . . .
Your team will liavo tho hewt
of euro and
Full Measure of Feed
At lho
City Stablew.
W. H. YOUNC, Prop.,
W. H. Cooke.
Livery Riga on Short Notice
Telephone No. 42.
MELLOH
YAqiixA hay.
It was exceedingly fortunate for Mr,
Bryan that he swung around the circle
when be did, for with wheat rapidly ap
proaching the dollar mark and silver going
the other way with equal speed, it would
be very diflicult for him to get the farmers
of the Willamette valley to give him their
presence and their quarters at his meetings,
In fact bis meetings would now be about
as slim as would be his arguments.
In that part of an editorial pertaining to
the manner in which the county treasurer
conducted the affairs of his office, published
in the Ekteri-kihe of last week, an error
was made in tbe time be had had the tax
money of $10,000 from the Portland General
Electric Company, it should have read two
instead of ten weeks. It was written two
but the compositor mistook the word and
in reading the proof the mistake was over
looked. The Enterprise does not wish to
Its New Attraction) Depp Sea Fishing
Dillghtral Summer Resort.
Greatly reduced rates are now inelfcct
from Albany, Corvallis and all Southern
Pacific points to Yaquina bay and New
port, It may be added that, in addition
toils many natural advantages una sum
mer seaside resort, the Seaside Educa
tional Association will open on August 2
at Newport, in the new auditorium built
especially for this purpose, and continue
in session for five weeks, thus affording
to students, teachers and others a rare
opportunity for combining study with
pleasure. For full information as to its
courses, etc., apply to Mr. H. G. Irvin,
president of the association, Newport,
Oregon.
The large and commodious tug "Reso
lute" is again in Bervice on Yaquina bay
and will take fishing and other parties
to sea and return. The fare for the
round trip is only 50 cents.
The Second Regiment band and or
chestra lias been engaged for the season,
and will give daily concerts on the beach
and furnish music for the evening hops,
Kvery possible convenience hag been ar
ranged for the comfort of guests and the
rates at the hotels are very reasonable.
For further information apply to any
agent of the Southern Pacific Co., or
Oregon Central & Eastern K. II. Co., or
address Edwin Sto.nk,
Manager O. C. & E. K. It. Co.,
7-2:Jm2 Corvallis, Or,
For Campers and I'lcnlcers.
Vienna Sausage,
Vienna Sausage and Sauerkraut,
Lunch Sausage,
Van Camp's Pork and Beans,
Ileinz's Pork and Beans,
IJein.'s Tomato Sauce,
Picnic Hams and Bacon,
In fact everything necessary for out5
door life.
Marr & Mulr.
For Sale Cheap.
A good gentle buggy mare 10 years old
perfectly sound weighs 1000 H. Enquire
Postmaster, Milwaukee Ore.
1800 milt's of long dis
tance telt'jihone wire in
Oregon and Washington
now in ciiration by the
Oregon Tolt'iilione and Tel
egraph com jinny,
Portland, Scuttle, Spo
kane, Tiu-oma, Salem,
Wnllti Walla, Pendleton,
Albany ami ;Hi other towns
in tho two states on the
line.
Quick, accurate, cheap.
AH tho riatinfuction of a
personal communication,
bistanco no ell'ect to a
clear understanding. Sjk-
kane n eu.-ily heard a
rortland.
Oregon City office at
Huntley's Drug Store.
J. H. THATCHER. MANAGER,
Portland, - Oregon.
SriUlTlMdCS SHOES
H1LVT Till WOULD
WHEN YOU BUY, ALWAYS
"N 1 1111 ri-1W -w-l wwvs-a-a
UJBX TilJbi UiUbX
This npjilio.s to mil estate ns well as other oninoilitieH'.
Kvery family in need of a homo desires tho host loca
tion. SOUTH OREGON CITY
lias lho greatest numher of advantages to its credit,
of any of tho sulmrhs of Oregon City. It will pay
you to investigate this property, (iood clear lots at
reasonahlo prices on easy instalments. Call on or
address
T. L. CHARMAN, Trustee.
Charman Bro's. Block, - - Oregon City.
vxeklt Tlie Jntw
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HOTEL ST, CHARLES
Front ami Morrison Sta I'ortlnml Or.
)n v 1 ks 5 JJcCi u 1 v. v, Pkh h,s.
Honing from 2"o. to fLOO jht day
Elevator, electric limits ami bells
and all modern conveniences.
NODLITT'S STABLES
Livery, Feeil and SiileStuMo
ORECONCITY.
roCATKI)
IIKTVt'KKN Tlllt
lfci'OT
IIKllHi AND
Free 'litis meets all boats ami trains
Restaurant Connected" With Hotel.
THE POPULAR
STR. RAM0NA
will run between Oregon City and
Portland daily except Sunday
as follows :
Lea?c Oresoii citr.
(8th. Htreet Dock.)
7:30 a. m.
12:00 m.
4;30 p. di.
Leave Portland:
(Taylor tit. Dock.)
0 ;.'I0 a, m.
2 :00 p. m.
0:00 p. m.
SUNDAY TIME
Leave Oregon City;
8 :30 a.
12 -30 p.
3:30 p.
6:30 p.
m.
in.
m.
m,
Leave Portland;
10:00 a. m.
2:00 p. m.
6 :00 p. m.
7:45 p. m.
On and after July 1st, 1807, fare
between Portland and Oregon City,
45 cents round trip, single fare 25
cents, O. C. T. Co. and Kast Hide
Railway tickets good on either boat
or cars.
ROUND TRIP 45c
J. ZEEK,
BLACKSMITH
AND WAGON
MAKING.
HORSE SHOEING.
All kinds of repairing done on
nhort notice. Satisfaction
guaranteed. lliisiiiesH done on
tho ay down Hysteiii.
Produce taken in exchange for work.
Clackamas, Ore.
Double and Kindle Ris, and Had
die horses always on hand at the
lowest jirieeH. A corrall connected
with the ham for loos stock.
Information reKardinit any kind or
stock promptly altendud to by person of
letter.
Horses Qouvht and Sold.
Horses Hoarded and Fed
able terms.
on reason
A. W. PHILLIPS,
EXPRESS
AND
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.
A Personal Matter
A well painted house is like a
neatly dressed perwin alwavs
attractive and pleasant to look
iijkjii.
YOUR HOUSE
Can lie repainted nnd frt'ithi'iied up
at a very reasonable price paints
are very cheap now. Don't leave
it until tho sun makes any more
marks and cracks in it.
SEE MURROW
The painter, lie can araulee
first-class work.
TINNING,
PLUMBING. Afy
andGENERAL 'JtS
REPAIRING
71
FURNACE
WORK,
HOP HOUSE
FURNACES
AND PIPING
Prices to meet tho times.
Fred Gadke,
Shop on Main Street, next door to
Ucllomy & Bunch.
JOHN A. BECK,
THE
RELIABLE JEWELER
No. 270, Morrison Street,
PORTLAND, OREGON,
IS STILL ON EARTH.
For general repairing lie stands
without a peer. For first-class, re
liable goods his store is second to
none. Trv him I
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