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About Oregon City enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1891-194? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 8, 1897)
Oregon City Enterprise. Yubliahed Every Friday. CM AS. ME8KHVK, PUBLISHER AND FROrKIKTOR. UBCHlPTION RATKB, On yer, 1300 all months, (H Trial sulwcrtptlon two months, . SS A dlsroutt of M) writs on all iiibarrtpttoni tor to year, ', oenti for tlx month), if Mid la adrair. . , . AdrertUlni rates ilten on application. Bubsrrltero will tlud the data of expiration nntpco oo meir rmprra iouowiki thair nama, If thiaila'e t not chunked within two wefki afir a pHymeut, kindly notify ui and wa will looa aiier it. , i Catered at the Poat OWra In Orefon City, Or., . ierona ciau matter. . FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1897. A9KNT8 FOR THE ENTERPRISE. Bearer Creek, Oauby, .. Olackaraaa, MUwaukie, -Union Mills. Meadow Brook, Few Era, WllaonTllla, Park Plate, Gladstone, Vtafford, Ifullno. - -Oarua, Molalla. Marqnam, Batter Me Aurora, Orrllle, - a!e Creek, Damascus, Bandy, flalnion, ' -Oarrinsville, Cherryville, -Marmot, Dr. T. B. Thomas Geo. Knight A. Mather Otoar Wlaainter 0 J. Trnllluter - Chaa Holman W. 8. Newberry Henry Mller F. L. Russell T. M. CroM J. Q. Gate. C. T. Howard R. M. Cooper Annie Stnbba, K. M. Hartraan B. Jenntntt Henry A. Snyder L.J Perdue H. Wilbern J. 0. Klliott F. Guch Mrs. W.M. Mclntyre - Geo. J. Cnrrin Mrs. M. J. Hammer Adolph Ascboff The way t build np Oregon City Is to lire Oregon City people yonr patronage. A.N OREGON CUT CUSTOM". At the Y. M. C. A. mass meeting last Sunday Oregon City fully sustained its rep utation (or furnishing discourteous au alienees, wben one-lourth or toe persons attending got up and walked out so soon as the Nashville Student singers bad finished their part in the program, indicating tbat the colored sinners were the only attraction for them. What makes the conduct of these people the more noticable was that neary all of them are members of the various churches of this city and supposed to be in sympathy with the work of the Y. M. C. A. It is evident tbouKh that many of the peo ple who bare their names on the various church registers of this city and wbo are deeply solicitous lor the welfare of our boys wben it costs theni no sacrifice of time and or money, find tbat tbeir zeal cannot stand the counter attraction of a minstrel troupe cr a "barrel" show. ' But to get back to Oregon City audiences, it is a fact that this city has a most unenvi able reputation for the lagardness and dis eourteness of those attending our various public gatherings, whether political, religi 4ns or social. There is a large element wbo are never able to get in on time, but come straggling in during the opening exercises to the serious disturbance of both the apeaker and tbe audience. To add to the confusion created by these late-comers, tbe early goers commence to file out, often times before all the dilatory ones are in, so that tbe meeting is disturbed from tbe opening to its close. People who respect tbe rights of others are always careful bow tbey conduct them selves when attending public gatherings and Diake it s point to be seated before tbe ex ercises commence and to remain quietly until tbe close. It is only boors and hood lums tbat are so unmanly and and rude as to disturb a meeting by coming in late or going out before the close of tbe exercises. Ir a recent decision of Judge Sears of Portland is sustained by the supreme court, school teachers will be added to the list of state and federal officers whose salaries can not be garuisheed by creditors. This law is one of the most unfair of any on the statute books. Just why a federal or state employe, or a school teacber, should have special privileges not accorded to people in other vocations in immunity from tbeir creditors is something beyond our compre hension. Such employes as a rule are better compensated than persons of like capacity in fields of private endeavor, and in the government service their positions are far more secure than with any private individual. With these advantages over other persons these government employes should be made, where they show a dispo sition to defraud their creditors, to pay like any other laborers. SriRIT OK THE PRKSS The Willamette Valley is not a bad place U live after all, even though the elements are less demonstrative and more subdued than they are in some other localities, the following from the Milton Kagle woul indicate : "Saturday morning Bernard ltv brooks, a bachelor residing live miles vast of Kilzvllle, while returning home from town, was overtaken by a whirlwind, an In a moment the wagon, horses, man and produce were going skyward. The outfit soon returned to land again, striking with such force that Ryebrook's thigh was broken." The following editorial from tbe Myrtl Point Enterprise is not only full of truth and common sense, but especially perti nent to the day and generation In wbich w live: "Wben a man has a two dollar pup in bis possession he looks alter It carefully and does not let it run around all over town at night. But if he has a boy or girl it aitiereni. iney are turned loose at an early age and allowed to go to the bad, and then people wonder , wbert the army tramps, bums, loafers, dead beats, gamblers, prostitutes and drunkards come from each decade. They are grown from the seed gathered from our homes and sown broad cast on our streets and alleys. At all events the boy and girls ought to be given an equal show with the pup." The following extract from the Jeflsrson Review is worthy of the serious, sober thought of parents: "Tbe many divorce cases that are beard at each session of cir cuit court causes an observant writer to re mark tbat nine-tenths of the unhappy mar riages are the result of green human calves being allowed to run at large in society's pasture, without any yoke on them.' They marry and have children before they do mustaches. They are father of twins before tbey are the proprietors of two pairs of pants, and tbe little girls they marry are old women belore they are 20 years of age. Occasionally one of these gosling marriages turns out all right, but it is a clear case of luck. If there was a law against young ga loots sparking and marrying before they cut tbeir teeth, we suppose they would evade it some way. But there ought to be a sentiment against it, It is time enough for these bantams to think of finding a put let wben they have raised money enough to buy a bundle of lath to build a henhouse. But tbey see a girl wbo looks cute and they are afraid there are not going to be enough to go round, and they begin to spark real spry, and before they are aware of tbe sane tity of the marriage relation they have bitched for life, and before they own a cook stove or a bedstead they have got to get up in the night and go after a doctor, so fright ened that they run themselves out of breath and abuse the doctor because be does not run too. And when the doctor gets there, there is not linen enough in the house to wrap up the baby." The populist appears to be a direct de scended of the people spoken against in the Scriptures for making long prayers on the street corners and In the market places, where people could bear and applaud, while Inwardly they were ravening wolves, robbing and extorting without the slightest compunction of conscience whenever op portunity ottered. The fallowing from the Lakeview Examiner is a case in point: "When the populists of Pine Creek want a grub stake they have a man arrested and brought to Lakeview, and with tbe aid of a deputy populist district attorney and other populist officials they get tbeir grub stakes without any difficulty, bHt it costs the coun ty $75 lust tbe same. Then they howl about other people running tbe county in debf The conviction, with the entailing fine and costs amounting to over $50, of the brute tried in Justice Scnuebel's court Wednesday, may check tbe brutality of this clans of men wbo give vent to tbeir murderous passions by shame fully beating tbe horses entrusted to their care. Such displays of brutality have been two frequent of late among the team sters about Oregon City and when these brutes find out that they will be hauled up and fined every time they abuse a horse, less clubs and blacksuakes and more oats will be used in doing their team work. The "scarcity ol tine weather in Europe" is the cause assigned by our populist friends ibr tbe exceptional fine weather Oregon has enjoyed this fall. But a republican attributes the good behavior of tbe weather clerk to that individual's pleasure at the peace and prosperity he sees on every hand as a sequence of the republican victory last fall, and in the exuberance of his joy he is running bis weather factory on full time and capacity to match the other industries that are coining into activity all over tbe land. Th German voters of Oregon have been given a merited recognition by our delega tion in congress, in securing tbe appoint ment of f. R. Blochberger as United States consular agent at Rosslaml, B. C. Mr. Blochberger is editor and publisher of the Staats Zeitung ol Portland and Is a highly educated gentleman well fitted to fill tbe important position to wbich he has been appointed. The return of prosperity is not the myth some chronic kickers and calamity bowlers would have people believe, but is an actual fact as the following from the American Agriculturist verifies: "Tbe Western far mers financial condition is wonderfully im proved. During the past three years be practiced such economy tbat with a slight improvement of wheat prices last fall and values of cattle, sheep, and hogs, the thrity farmer gradualy reduced bis debts. With good prices this fall, he Is indeed paying oil the mortgage. The fall in tbe interest rate is as remarkable as tbe other features of the rising tide. Tbe demand for beef cattle is entirely in adequate to tbe supply in many portions of our state as will be seen from the following in tbe Lakeview Examiner: "There is going to be a dearth in cattle in Lake county, Oregon, next year. Every available hoof bas been sold, and some small raisers have disposed of everything they bad, calves and all. But it is no wonder tbey are selling, when S and 6 cents are being paid. Last year 3 or 4 cents was the highest offered, and even at that price the cattlemen had to drive to market and take chances on selling. They were at the mercy of buyers, and their cattle were culled to suit the purchasers. Those the buyers did not want, tbey were compelled to drive back home. But matters are different this year, the buyer takes everything on tbe range, and tbe county will have a much-needed rest in the next few years, but the cattle business will be quiet." Lumbering, which is one of tbe chief in dustries of the lower Columbia, is feeling the revival that is coming to all lines of industry, and of tbe raise in the price ol logs the St. Helen's Mist has the following pertinent observation to make: The "scarcity of logs in Europe" or some other place, has caused an advance in price at Portland witbin tbe past ten days of 25 cents per thousand. These short crons abroad work wonders in all lines of trade, However the price baa advanced, and our loggers will receive the benefit therefrom, which will enable them to pay a better price for the product of tbe farm, which are necessary in carrying on tbe logging Industry. Labor may also receive another advance. Tbe rise in logs which has lately taken place was unexpected by many log gers, that is, It was not expected this fall, but it bas come nevertheless. MrClures )liiguiiliie For October. The opening article ot McCturo's Ma gasine (or October describe! the found ing up of a great wild elephant liord in Sin in, and (lie encoding out and brining under control of such meintmra of the herd as are required (or the royal ele phant stables. It is spectacle the like of which is to be seen nowhere else in the world, and it attracts great crowds of people from all parts of tho kingdom. The article Is very interestingly illustr ted from photographs taken by tbe author. Mora than notable, In this number, is a series of life masks to Jefferson, John Adams, Lafayette, Charles Carroll, and Madison never before published, and un til now ecarsely known to exist... In reality and vividness they are truly wonderful ; to look upon them is as if oue eat face to face with the living, speaking man. Tbey were taken about 18D5 by the soutptor, J. II, I. Browere, who had his own secret process. The story of the circumstances under which they were taken, and of the biding of them away by the sculptor and tbeir close concealment ever since, is a most rurions and romantic one; and is very well told by Mr. Charles Henry Hart, in connecion with tbe reproductions. J I . a . . a . a i vuier features oi me nutnoer are a description ot the process, moral rather than physical, by wbich, in the late war, bodies of raw troops were made into actual soldiers; a series of picturesque comparison exhibiting the various points of greatness in "Greater New York": and some excellent short stories by Octave Tbanet, Stephen Crane, and others. CATARRH la a LOCAL DISEASE and It tht remit ol colds and sudden climatic changes. For your Protection we IMWllvrly tut tlmt this Ninnly duos not contain niirriiry or auy other injur ious druii. Ely's Cream Balm M a knowlnli: to ! Hit moat thoronph cure for !. i vaurrn.iwu in limn ami nay h'r of all iwnmltra, It uiwna ami elMtimi lha wual itaeaaKa, allaya I'aln and Inllaimnatlnn. hrale lha em, pro. Iivla tha ntrinhnui from colila, rratoma lha mom "i nainaDum,At lurk, urn i2L f-EL.L.OH 1800 miles of Ions dis tance telephone wire in Oregon and Washington now in operation by the Oregon Telephone and Tel egraph company. Portland, Seattlo, Spo kane, Tacoraa, Salem, Walla Walla, Pendleton, Albany and l(i other townB in the two states on the line. Quick, accurate, cheap, a 1 1 J 1 . ,a - 1 au me eaiiHiuouon ot a personal communication. uimance no etlect to a clear understanding. Spo kane as easily heard as Portland. Oregon City office at PrAhafa aTniirt Final report of Ward B. Lawton, ad- Huiltlcy'S Drilff StOrO. n I " J miatrator of the estate of Ambrose 8, Lawton, deceased, approved, bondsmen released and adminisrator discharged. Philip A. Baker, administrator of tbe estate of Mrs. Augusta Melcher, deceased, authorized to pay certain claims against the estate and of money received from the Portland Saving bank on the 5 per cent dividend recently made by that in stitution on money due the estate Hearing on the final report of J. T, Drake, administrator of Elizabeth Drake, deceased, set for November 2nd, at 1 o'clock P. M. J. H. THATCHER, MANAGER, Portland, - - - Oregon. To the Public Tho undt'rsIgtHul having found tho Hoston Rubber Shot) Co.'B goods UNSATlSr'ACTOHY will ill tlio futuro handle tho Woonsoekot and tho Wiilos-Goodyt'iir rubber boots and overshoes, We aro sorry to have to mako the change, as wo found tho Huston Rubber Co. very nice people hut m'sinkhh is iiusinksb. Yours to command, . M'lITTDIPI i'TU CUa M. fi a a ihwi) mo unug iviui i. WHEN YOU BUY, ALWAYS GET THE BEST This applies to real CBtato as well as otlior comodition. Every family in need of a homo desires tho host location. 30UTH OREGON CITY Has tho greatest number of advantages to its credit, of any of tho suburbs of Oregon City. It will pay you to investigate this property, flood clear lots at reasonablo prices on easy instalments. Call on or address T. . L. CHARMAN, Trustee. Charman Bro's. Block, - - Oregon City. Your team will have the best of care and Full Measure of Feed New Store... ...Now Coods I Something to Know. It may be worth something to know that tbe very best medicine for restoring the tired out nervous system to a health, victor is Electric Bitters. This medicine is purely vegetable, acts by giving tone the nerve centres in the stomach, gently stimulates the liver and kidneys, and aids these organs in throwing off impurities in tbe blood. Electric Bitters improves the appetite, aids digestion, nd is pronounced by those who have tried it as the very best blood purifier and nerve tonic. Try it. Sold for 60c and $1.00 per bottle at Charman A Co's drug store. Electric Hotel Arrivals. At lhe City StableB W. H. YOUNC, Prop., f ' gc.or to w. H. Cooke Livery Rigs on Short Notice. Telephone No. 42. A Chase, Janesville, Wis M Tracy, Logan, W J Howlett, Eagle Creek M Naught, Meadow Brook P Hall, " " R C Gaston, San Francisco, Ben Smith Bnd wf, Oakland J B Davis, Newberg W Robbins, The Dalles, A Field, " " E P McDaniel and son, Coye J R Longhmiller, Silver ton, C B retell, Portland Harry II Lang, " N B Matklin, " Geo J Jackson, " J K Groom, " J II Kiser, J L Atkinson, " Joe SelKsr, " J Mathews, " J 8 Mountani " The Electric hotel is the finest in the city and first-class in all its appointments. Electric cars stop in front of the door. Insurance. If you want to know anything about Fire or Life Insurance or Building and Loan Association, call on H. T. Sladen. He has it at bis finger ends. popULf IENlJE News Nature, Invention, Botany, Elec tricity, Chemistry, Medicine, Hygiene, Health. Formerly BOSTON JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY i ENLARGED AND IMPROVED. Contains a large number of Short, Easy, Practical, Interesting and Popular Scientific articles, that can bo appreciat ed ana enjoyed by any intelligent read er, eventhough he knew little or nothing oi wcience. WEEKLY I hP HO.VTHIiY Outlook PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY 13 Astor Place New York Tiik Outlook will be in 1807, as it has been during each of its twenty-seven years, a History of Our Own Times. In its various editorial department! Tug Outlook gives a compact review of the world's progress; it follows with care all the important philanthropic and indus trial movements of the Uav ; has a com plete department of religious news devotes much space to the interest! of the borne; review! current literature ftirninhes cheerful table-talk about men and things; and, in short, aims to give fresh information, original observation and reasonable entertainment. Beginning with the fifty-fifth volume the paper will axsume the regular mnga zine size, which will add greatly to its convenience and attractiveness. Tug Outlook Is puhlixhed every Saturday fifty-two issues a year. The first issue in each month in an Illustrated Magazine Number, containing about twice as many pages as the ordinary issues, together with a large number of pictures. 'lhe price of Tub Outlook is three dollars a year in advance, or less than a cent a day, Send for a speciman copy and illus trated prospectus to Tub Outlook, 13 Astor Place, New York City. Lie PORTLAND TO THE DALLES Profusely Illustrated and Free from Technicalities. Newsdealers, 10 csnls. $1.00 perjear Mention this paper for a sample copy. By the faBt and com modious Btearaer Regulator Largest Circulation of any Scientific Paper In the World PUBU8IIKD MONTHLY BV CENJ. LILLARD, New York, Leaves Portland daily except Sunday at 7 a. m. This is the Great Scenic Route. All tourist admit that the scenery on the Middle Columbia is not ex celled for beauty and grandeur in the United States. Full informa tion by addressing or calling on J. N. HARNEY, Agent, Tel. 914. Portland, Or., Office and wharf, foot of Oak St. I Japanese Goods Notions Etc i Ladies and Gents' Good value and Ix)w prices Furnishing Goods G. N. Joo & Co. Mali sunder Eilerorls! office. 150 Booms. JobB Steams. Colef Clerk HOTEL ST. CHARLES Front and Morrison Bts., Portland Or. DIVlKSJJ'CflUhKV,PrttPS. NOBLITT'S STABLES Livery, Feed and Sale Stable ORECONCITY. LOCATED BETWKFX Till UK POT BKIDUI AN Rooms from 25c. to $1.00 per day Elevator, electric lights and bells and all modern conveniences. Free 'Bus meets all boats and trains Restaurant Connected With Hotel. Doublo and Single RigH, and sad dle homes always on hand at the lowest prices. A corrall connected with the burn for loose stock. Information regarding any kind or atock promptly attended. to by person o letter. Horses Bought and Sold. Horses Hoarded and able terms. Fed on reason- J. ZEEK, BLACKSMITH AND WAGON MAKING. HORSE SHOEING. All kinds of repairing done on Bhort notice. Satisfaction guaranteed. Business done on the pay down system. Produce taken in exchange for work. Clackamas, Ore. A Personal Matter A well painted house is like a neatly dressed person always attractive and pleasant to look ujion , YOUR HOUSE Can be repninted and freshened op 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. A. W. PHILLIPS, EXPRESS AND DELIVERY SEE MURROW The painter. He nrst-clasH work. can guarantee 'rompt attention to hauling to any part of Oregon City. Moving attended to promptly and careiuiiy. Special rates given on hauling to ana irom Uladstone and Park-place. JOHN A. BECK, THE RELIABLE JEWELER No. 270, Morrison Street, PORTLAND, OREGON, 18 STILL ON EARTH. For general repairing he stands- without a peer. For first-class, re liable goods his store is second to- none. Try him I