OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY. MARCH 31,
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4-iKSTS FOB THK INTKKPKISK.
Beaver Creek Or. T. B. Thomas
p h . K. I. Siaa
- Mather
Milwaukie Oscar W issmger
Cnion Mills J. TruMinger
Meadow Brook :;,Ch,H,,'",'"1
v., Er W. . Newberry
Parkplace R.O. Holmes
Btartord A ' J 3 ,
Muii.10 .t "mvr,i
f..lrl, R. M. Conner
Molalia..' Annie Stubbs
Marquara C. Marunani
BuuAviile ,V-B,'Jn,T
A-inira Hl,ryAf ':!'1rr
Eie'e Creek W Hhem
pvil)v F. detach
Cnrrinsv'iile'.'.'.V.'.V Oeo. J. Cnrrir.
Mtrr.iot Adolph AschntT
ahout two miles east of thla city, and t$
more for needed repairs. Even had the
county not agreed to lot the rock-crusher
go to Mount Ansel, it would have been
brought in just the same, a the com
missioners intended to line it on the west
side of the river. It was delivered to j
the Benedictine Father: at the corner of
Main and Seventh street in Oregon
City. The cost of hauling to the depot
was 4, loading on car was $15, and the
freight eharges from Oregon Ci'.y to
Mount Angel and return were $30, mak
ing total of $4!, all of which was paid
by the Benedictine Father. The rock
emitter wilt be returned to the place
from which it wag taken without the
cobI of one cent to the county. A long
aa the rock-crusher is hant the county
receives $1 per day from Mt. Angel.
This income in like (hiding it. The
county cannot use the roek-erimher at
this time and it would be idle in any
event.
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A MISTAKEN OKFKNSK.
In Hargreaves' defense of Cross in an
other column he aaya the large t?) tax
payer have aright to ask why the bridge
fund is so large. This is quite true. It
is the duty of the clerk to see that the
correct amount is certified to the secre-
starve to death. Just why people should
patronlte a Chinese or Japanese mer
chant when there are white men In busi
ness ia more than we pretend to under
stand. Their ware re no ohea-e..
Their presence cannot be termed agree
able. They add nothing to a community
and the people who buy from them are
responsible for the failure of another ami
a better class of eiliaena. Mr. U'Uen
pertiuently says: "If the Chinese came
here as preachers and wholesale mer
chants, Doctor Wise ami the IVrtUnd
Chamber of Commerce would be no
more anxious for their presence than the
laboring men and women with whom
they now come into direct comMition.
It i with regret that the new of the
close ol the Oregon City branch f the
Portland Flouring Mills is given out.
The condition of the market at this time
and the scarcity of wheat is responsible
for the cessation of operations. That
such condition prevail at this time can
not be helped, t tit Oregon Citv loses
much when the mill i not in oration.
The mill will resume after harvest, and
the busy bum in the south end of the
city will mean the manufacture of hun
dreds of barrels of Hour dally and the
shipment to the market of the world.
dmlng the last year, costing nearly 1000
per mile U'side the incidental expense-
While many of u who know Mr. Lew
dim, could not In.pnjn his -neral hon
esty, yet his heat and Indignation on the
charge of msl administration baa led
him to accuse the county cleik of the
delinquency, and impute the lowest mo
tives for it.
If the clerk I wrong In hi statement
ol accounts, It is part of Mr. I.ewelhV
busine-s as commissioner to have them
ectifled. After giving his nllldal sign
tor. lor their being correct, he must bear
hia share ol the blame If ativihing l ?
as it ought to be. This method ol doing
the county business was not initialed I'.v
the present coiiim sshmeis, nor y-t dur
ing Mr. Dixon's term, who preceded
Mr. Cooper, but away back when every
olllclal was a Republican, and I believe
It was lnaiigmate.1 for the purpo of
evading the law limiting the amount id
county indebtedness, lltit now that It I
found to be doing a serious Injury to the
county, let us acknowledge the mistake
and look for the best way lor a remedy.
Mr. Cross may be partly right with re
Hard to his charge of the machinery hav
ing too many wl I". It Is seldom that
bosa legislation, such as was used ana n-t
Judge Ryan, can be of line to the people,
hut often, as lu this case, lias a louirary
euVt.
'.IttO. E. II AMliKKAVKS.
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AVhcre Lies the Maine.
JOIST LEGISLATIVE TICKET.
The Oregonian of last Monday con
tained the following reference to Clacka
ims County politics, and it is not quite
clear on the subject to w hich it reiera.
Penator Brownell has good reason to
take it for granted that there will be no
opposition to hia candidacy for renomi
nation. But how this matter affects the
joint eenatorship ia aometbing the Enter
prise ia unable to fathom. Brownell is
not a candidate for joint senator. It is
true that Multaomah County is always
at It, by reason of her fargreater number
tf delegates, to dictate the nominees lor
jo nt senator and joint representative.
Senator Porter ia the present senator
and was elected from Marion and Chick
s.nai before the state waa redisiricted.
He is not a candidate for renomination.
It ia generally understood that had Si
mon prevailed in the Portland primaries
Otorge A. Steel, chairman of the Slate
Central Committee, would have been
t'.e nominee for joint tenator. But he
went down to defeat with Simon, whose
louely lieutenant he was, and is no
bnger a possibility. But the woods will
be full of candidates Irom the Multno
mah aide of the line on convention day.
Representative A. S. Dresser bas said
that he ia not a candidate for renomina
tion for joint representative. Two Clack
amas County men have been mentioned
for this office, Richard Scott, of Mil-
waikie, and J. L. Jariacti, of Oawego: tary of atate and the county commission
A Joint Senator and Joint Representa- ers i,ave nothing to do with it. The law
tive with Clackamas County are 4o La(t8ed at the last session ot the legisla
elected this year. At the last election
, I tore makes it the duty of the clerk, and
these places were given to Clackamas j
County, and if the rule of rotation holds eo,el'r t,,e clerk-,0 certify tl,e ant
good it will be the turn of Multnomah 1 spent on all matters. Now, Mr. Har-
County to name the candidates. Slate greaves saya it is the duty of Mr. Lewel-
Sena'or Brownell, of Oregon City, has
already announced his candidacy to suc
ceed himself, and has apparently taken
it fur granted that there will be no oppo
sition to his renomination. So far as i"
known there is no reason to expect any
inteiference with Mr. Brownell' plans,
bntashas been previously stated, the
candidates are not making announce
ments, and it is possible that eome one
may aspire to the pot-ition, and thereby
be moved to antagonize the candidacy of
the Clackamas statesman.
The law creates the county clerk and preseniies his duty. The
law provides that he fliall keep the records, accounts and con
tracts of the county. The law provides that he shall certify to
the 'secretary of state the running expenses of the county, ex
clusive of road expenses.
The law provides that in certifying- to the secretary of itnte
all expenses must be given, including bridges, with the one ex
ception of the money used on roads and highways.
The law provides that bridges costing over $'200 1k let by
contract. The county clerk under the law advertises for bids for
thene bridges and enters up tho contracts for the same.
The secretary of Btate furnishes to the county clerks a blank
showing by detail in columns the different items making tho
running expenses of the county, including a column headed
' bridges built by contract."
The secretary of state wishes these figures to apportion the
state tax. The larger the running expenses of tho county the
larger the state tax.
The county clerk certified to the secretary of state under the
column "bridges built by contract" nearly $.3:1,000 for 1901.
Clackamas county spent in 11)01 for bridges built by contract
about $11,000. The county clerk put in this column about
$22,000 more than he should about one third of the runnint: ex
penses of the county. The state tax of Clackamas County, if r
based on one year instead of five, would be increased one third.
The state tax as it is will be increased by this mistake at least
ifl'iOO, or the salary of the clerk for one year. The clerk and
his friends, Hargreaves and Cross, say it is the fault of the county
board.
These people want the voters to believe that the county board
are to blame for this "mistake."
fi vy y yv w4 q t,v-vv 'V w w v v? -
MOT"
len to see that it is rectified. Better iot
have a clerk if he can not do hie duty and
properly keep hi accounts. The com
missioners have nothing to do with thexe
Senator Mmciikm, called up the Nica
ragua canal bill in the si-nate the other
day and eueceeded in obtaining a favor
able report from the committee in charge
of the bill. He is doing great work in
Washington for the Pacific Coast and his
work ia recognized.
Up to hour of going to press Mr. Cross
has not denied that he has dodgerl about
2000 of the tsxea due to Clackamas
accounts and in no way certify to their county from him.
being correct. This ia a new thing un
1IOKEGOOD T FINANCIERING.
The habitual misrepresentation of the
Courier-Herald is demonstrated by its
article in last week's issue on the county
rock-crusher. William Kraemer, Busi
ness Manager of Mount Angel College,
nukes a forcible reply in another col
umn. No one, with a sound reason,
believea the Courier-Herald's state
ment. It ha lied to the public so
much and a j long that whatever little
reputation for veracity that it ever pos
eesfced lias been destroyed. A large
der the law and does not go back for ita
initiation to any preceeding board or
clerk, but a new law paired at the last
session of the legislature requires the
clerk to certify among other things to the
amount of money used in building
bridges. Instead of doing this he in
eluded about (22,000 used on roads and
increased our state tax proportionately
bv that much. In other words, it w ill
cost the county something like $1500 if
this error is not corrected and we think
it too late to correct it.
MR HAIMiREA VEH II4S HIS SAV.
We Should Acknowledge the MMake
anil Look For a K mi dy.
Okieuon Citv, March 17th, l!)02. (To
the Editor.) As a reader of the local
papers 1 have been not a little interested
and amused at the hot-hadednes with
which we have our politics served up,
towards election time. "Hot Shot for
Harvey Cross" is the last. I have no
particular interest in defending Mr.
Cross. He is no donbt able to give a
good account of himself, but I want to
point out, in a friendly way if possible,
where our commissioner ha somewhat
missed it, through getting too hot over
what he considers Mr. Crow' insinua
tions of a graft. He shows the county
money to have been largely spent, on
the demand of the taxpayers for the im
provement of the roads, but in his haste
to denounce Mr. Cross, be makes an un
just and unfair charge on the county
clerk, which cannot be sustained for a
moment. It is quite pertinent for Mr.
Cross as a large tax-payer, or any other
I tax-payer, to ack why such a large
liberal use of soft soap on Commissioner none. Chinese and Japanese are of no1 K , r",K8
I uuf Doure oi
State taxes. .
Hox. W. S. U'IIkji severely criticises
Dr. Stephen S. Wise in Monday morn
ing's Oregonian for the etand taken by
the doctor on the Chinese exclusion
MO UK MIsUKPKr.NOr.niON.
Coiiilcr-lleriihl Klltr l Made the
Dupe i f nilM hhir.
Mot nt A sum., Or., March 17. I':'. j
(To the lvhtor.) The issue ol the Coiir-
ier-tlcrald of last week contained the:
following minlcudiiig and lying co lent
on a certain aciion Ukeu by the Honor
able Hoard of County CoinuuKMioi.ioa of j
CI ickms County :
(i ol (Ij FliittitrliTlng.
The County Commisnioiii-rii on Keh.
l:tth ni'idii an order loaning the County
look cm .her to the Ml. Antfel ( atholic
School lor 4(1 d.y al i till per day. Sev
eral days were spent in renair.ng the
crusher at a cost of Over f S.t. and over
$:I2 00 were spent ill loading it on the
cars for shipment. The date set for re
turn was Mitrch It), ami Ukmir out tune
lost In repairing, leaven hut '&') da in
l;!5 Oil as incoiii". Iln-ldes repairs an I
expenses amountinx Mover f 10.00 cine
the expense of unloading, of v til,
muking a total expense of I'.'i.i HI and an
income of ):(.'. 00; the I'ouuiy make
an income uf f. 10.00 out of pocket.
How's ttiis for tlualii -iering?
To this misleading ami lying statement
the Courier-lferald u.ighl, w ith the Name
logic, have added the cost of running the
crusher, as fallows :
To wages of foreman, 40 iUys at ) 120
Help of 10 men at 2
Six teams at :t 720
Kxpenses as figured by Courier . . li'i
Total $i;oo
Deduct income .'IC
lialance $1070
"out of pocket" of the County of Clacka
mas. Sow let the much l'iiei County
Commissioners Imw4re lest the under
signed send in a bill tor the above named
balance of $1070.
What, however, is the true statement
ot the whole hiisiriess lriiiH,ictioh be
tween Mmnt Angel College an I the
County Commissioner of the County
of Clm kaman?
In the month of February the County
CommiH.ioners agreed to lend their rock
crusber to Mount Angel College, charg
ing a rental ol $1 per day. It was under
stood that the college was to defray all
the expenses of loading, freight, and un
loading, and return the crusher in the
same condition as when received. As at
the time of contracting the rock-crusber
was about two miles east of Oiegon City
and was to lie used us soon as practica
ble on the west siibt of the river ami
therefore bud to be brought to the city,
and needed repairing, it stands to reason
that the hauling to the city and Jhe re
pairs would have to be paid from the
county funds of said county, hence the
expenses referred toby the Courier-Hei-aid
can by no meani mean the loailing
and shipping of the crusher to Mt. Angel
and return. According to this true
staUwieut then, the county will not lie
"$.'10 out of pocktt" but by loaning it to
the undersigned, will cover the expenses
of having it hauled to the city and re
paired ami a few dollars over and above.
Hoping that this statement bas sufli
ciently cleired the Hon. County Coin
miesioners of bad financiering,
I remain, yours truly,
William Khamkk,
Business M'g'r of Mount Angel College.
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proportion of its patronage ia given j question. Mr. U'Ren contends that a
through fear of its slanders. Ita sole majority of Americans are for exclusion
lope is centered in the election of a and against Chinese and be is right.
Democratic or fusion commissioner to j Locally very little interest is taken in
succeed Commissioner Morton. With J the ipieMion. There are a few Chinese
this expectation fulfilled and with the laundrymen here who take all and spend
Lewelling, it banks on securing the benefit to a community. They do not
comity printing. Eut they have mis- make good citizens. They are not enter
takea their man. Mr. Lewelling baa prising. They do not progress becaiibe
been in public life too long to be gulled
by Uffy from an opposition newspaper.
The county paid $21 for bringing in the
rock-crusher from John Myera' place,
they have no desire to progress. They
keep store that might well be termed
econd-hand stores. They live cheaply
and exist where a white man would
Commissioner Lewellen's answer is,
'that our clerk has seen fit, (I suppose
for political purposes) to charge up to
the bridge fund all the plank, all the col
verts, and all the sawed timbers of every
description that have gone into the J2 or
14 miles of roads that bave been built
An Author Npeiiks.
The late Charles Dudley Warner-
author, editor and traveior while battl
ing in Great Sail Lake remarked to a
friend, that in all his travels be never
before saw such a glorious combination
of salt sea bathing, blue sunlit skies,
pure mountain air and pretty women
and happy children. The only trans
continental line passing directly through
Lslt Lake City is the Rio Grande Hys.
tern. It in also the ".Scenic Line of the
World." No Knrnnean trip of equal
length can compare with it in grandeur
of scenery or wealth of novel interest.
All Agents sell through tickets to the
East by way of the Kio Grande Lines.
Send for pamphlet, to J. I). Mansfield,
General Agent, 121 Third Street, Port
land j or Geo. W. Heintx, Asst. General
Passenger Agent, Halt Lake City.
A Sech lls' Jou'll il C .mmeiiiU the H j
pub li-aiM f O i C"ii.
Our ilcmo-fstlc Inoii Is te'l us tl ry
favor the p. pi ' Inoir t isii the n p ibli- j
rn. Will, tbev do ai'h the r inou'lir.
You lny Ihii'k Una unkind. I.nd li e
your sunluiriMiI car, mv fesiim and
giMMl liileiitioiied ilemiM-rat, lor a Ino- j
unit. Your na'i.nisl pl ! -r it nd:
"Wo fa mi ihieit liginla'ioii aloreier
pncliml" Nowddu'lil? Well, Is .Ii-
reel lei-i' loll pia lieai ill a s'sle? Mt
any deiiiM iatic l'e paswil si), h a law ?
Nary I.,. Hut Dn-gon, a red hot n
publican stale, with overwhelming ma
joriiy in leg stature, has twice p4i d
such a Uw, and it will be mil. nulled to
the s' iple next J il lie. That is the mom
iliiKii(ant piece ol legislation that lias
lieeli pi""i-o'l since the foundaiio'l ol
ihe goieriimeiit. Don'l Ulk to inn alxo.t
the d mm-rats lavoring a rule by li e
pe-i le. They will lint do what tin y
pi' ini-e. In tins inni ii m n llm repiilll
cittis ilhl not promise, and have d u e.
I am iilliig lo itivn the dev II hia due. .
A ppeiil to lieaeon.
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Miirklii til llnura a IIiij. j
There's no rent lor lleisn tneli ss little
w.irkem r. King's New I, lie Tills.
.Millions are always hiiy, curing Torpid
Liver, Jaumlli e, lilluiliies, (-ever and
Ague. They Imnisii hu k Headache,
drive out Miliaria. Never gripe or
Wcukch. hlliHll, tasln hue, Work Won
d. is Try them. 2-V at den, A. Haul
ina's. In going over llm dm mt "MuMa
Itoiile" nf thr Soiilhern I'acillc Co , I lie
traveler ever lii.il soinelhiiiK hew lo ri
ciln his liiiHgination and Interest, fitarl- ;
ing at l'.,itUii,, one traverses the whole .
length ol the Willametui Valley, the gem :
of the Northweiil. Ml. IIikhI, Mt. JeHitr- j
son and the Three .Sisters and other
snow-capisid peaks are kept in siirht for !
I hours. The beautiful Valleys of the j
Uiipquaand Rogue Rivers, with their j
orchards of prunes, iieachcs. amilus. and :
other fruits, are a delight in themselves.
The crossing of the groat mountain bar
rier between Oregon and California re
veals the giandest mountain scenery in
the United Stales. The wonderful turn
lugs, twistings, and doublings of the rail
road bring into view a grand array of
towering mountains and profound gorges
into which we ga.e from dizzy heights,
forest clad mountain slopes stretching up
to the line of perpetual snow, and the
foaming mountain streams dashing
fiercely down deep canyons, now arm
then stopping for a short rest in some
quiet pool. After a day's mjoyment of
old Mt. .Shasta, the finest peak on the
continent, we drop rapidly down the
csnyon of the Sacramento to tho hroml
plains of the Sacramento Valley in Cali-
lornia, and thence throuirh vinvanla an. I
orchards to San Francisco.
For maps and ilcrlnti ve literature
ddress i it u.,,..
G. P. A..H. P. Co.,
Portland, Oregon.
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