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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, OCT. 2, 1903 Oregon City Enterprise CITY AM IOISTY OFFICIAL PAl'ER. Published Every Friday. Subscription Rates. 1 2 00 1 00 One year Kir months Trial subscription, two months - A discount of 50 cents on all subscriptions for one year, 25 cents for six months, if paid in advance. ADVERTISING RATKS OS ArHlCATION. Subscribers will find the date of expiration stamped on their papers following their name. If this is not changed within two weeks after a payment kindly no tify us and the matter will receive our attention. Entered at the postoffice at Oregon City, Oregon, as second-class matter. INDIAN TERRITORY FRAUDS. A late dispatch announces that Chas. J. Bonaparte has been appointed to investigate the Indian land frauds in Indian Territory. He is known as a keen lawyer and a fearless man. It is to be hoped that he will bring the grafters to bar. The main facts in the affair thus far are these: The Creeks, Chickasaws, Choc taws, Cherokees and Seminoles, tribes numbering 400,000, own lands worth, abont 1200,000,1 XX). Tan of these lands the law now permits them to sell. Most of the remainder may be sold after the lapse of a few years. The Indians are now ignorant and shiftless, their lands rich and fertile, the whites unscrupulous and eager to get hold of them at the lowest possible prices. To protect the Indians, by overseeing sales and preventing frauds, the Dawes commission of five was appointed some years ago. It is now headed by Tams Bixby, and one of its members is ex-Governor Stanley, of Kansas. It is charged by fe. . isrosius, member of the Indian Rights Association, that the very members of this commission formed to protect the Indians are interested in companies engaged in buying up oil and agricultural lands from Indians. It is even said that speculative companies and govern ment officials occupied the same offices, and that Poor lo gave options on his lands to a company under the impression that he was dealing with the government officers. "The watchdogs have joined the wolves" is the wav one caner Duts it. Secretary Hitchcock has published a letter in regard to these charges, in which he deplores the fact that the charges were given to the presB before a clear case was made out, inasmuch as the names of honest officials should not be pmirched by the publication of mere suspicions. To this, the president of the Indian Rights Association pointedly replies that "the inspector should be above suspicion, and when an inspector accepts the hospitality of the man he is sent to inspect, thus taking a bribe in his favor, or listens only or chiefly to one side, or favors his congressional backer in any way, he is not above suspicion.'' Exchange. KNOCK THE KNOCKERS. Won't somebody please take a club and kill a few of the knockers? A man came in from Ashland, rented a farm from one of our prosperous farmers and paid down $20, promising to make a contract the next morning. Then, in the evening, a lot of knockers got it this man and told him the country was no good, he could make only $30 a year on cows, and with like lies they discouraged the man and now he is apt to leave the country, impressed that it is a land of thieves, vagrants and bad cows. Won't somebody please kill the knockerB and rid the country of a pest? Tillamook Independent. No doubt every town in the etate can duplicate this experience. Salem can. One day recently a man of means who had just arrived in Oregon and made ex tensive purchases in farm and city property, dropped into a large, extensive boot and shoe store here to make some purchases for his family. The proprietor showed the stranger such goods as he desired, and the sale was about to be made when the conversation drifted to Oregon, the country in general and Salem in particular. The newcomer told the shoe man that he was a late arrival in Oregon, and had just pur chased a big farm and a fine residence in Salem, and was going to buy some more town property as an in vestment. This was too much for the Bhoe man and he very promptly advised the newcomer to go very slow before investing any more money here. He said Salem wa3 slow and always would be that way. lie further volunteered the information that town urop- EXPKND1TURKS FOR KDUCAUON. The annual public expenditure in the United States, for elementary education, amounts in round numbers to 1227,000,000. The aggregate of ex penditure for the fiscal year liHXMWl, as shown by the report of the United States Commissioner of Education for that year, was $22ti,Oi:?.2;U5. Tin amount is almost wiiml to the total expenditure of all Europe, for a like pur pose, the European outlay for the same period amount ing to an aggregate of flrt.OOO.OW. The expenditure in the United States, jHr capita of pupils, however, is much larger than in Europe. The enrollment in the elementary schools of Euroi is approximately 4.V 000,000, while the enrollment in the United States is about lii,000,000. The annual expenditure tor eticu pupil is therefore alHUit ..r0 in Europe and about M in the United States. A comparison of the amounts spent annually for primary education by some of the lareer American cities is interesting. New York, of course, conies first with an expenditure of ll'.l.Tl'.l.WH for a single year. Chicago is next, with $S,20:U'.i:. Then in the order named come Philadelphia, with $:i,:ili),(H)4; Boston, Jf 3,043.(1 10; St. Louis, I.Mii,H0; Baltimore, 1,417,;5!'2; Cleveland, $l,2.-7,St.-,; Wash ington, $1,1S2.917; and in New Orleans, 1478,02'), (the smallest amount expended by any of the larger cities.) The average amount of public money expended on each pupil in the United States is large. The fact that the population is increasing quite rapidly in most of the states of the Union, necessitating the erection of many new school houses, is probably re sponsible in part, for the larger expenditure per capita than in Eurox. In some parts of the country the percentage of illiteracy is surprisingly large, notwith standing the heavy outlay for educational purposes. But the results attained are on the whole satisfactory. CORRECT FORM OF DANCING The American Society of Professors of Dancing, which recently met in New York, has decreed that football tactics on the ball room floor must stop, says the San Francisco Argonaut. There must be no more "Yale glides," nor "Harvard dips," nor distorted at tempts to tread a measure in two-four time when the music calls for three beats in a bar. The dancing of the two-step to waltz time and the grotesque jKisitions iln attributed to the Ca.T U111VH -f J college fads that have vitiated the public taste. Some of these students," said one professor, invent a series of Simian contortions and football tactics and cive it a college name, ami the public thinks it is all right because the college men do it. Now, we want to stop all this, and bring dancing back to the old style of graceful carriage that enabled the dancers to ex press the beauty of motion to music. A majority of the people now seem to dance a two-step to waltz music. The two-step is easier to teach, as it is in common time, and dancing it to waltz music is not a correct movement." Attention was also drawn to the neglect in the large cities of the old square dances, which are still taught in the smaller cities. IS DEWEY ROBBED OF HONOR? The work of raising the vessels of the Spanish fleet sunk in the harbor of Manilla on May 1, 1 SOS, is now ended. The famous flagship, the Rcina Cristina, is again afloat, and will be used as a collier. The other vessels will be variously utilized. But the singular fact revealed, according to the Manilla Sunday Sun, is that "the Spanish ships of war do not bear the mark of an American shell near or below the water line. The Spanish burned and sank their own ves sels, and many of them went to death with their ships in preference to bearing the disgrace of defeat." Not only this, but the Sun affirms that, in the opinion of Captain Garry, "the Spaniards set fire to their own vessels and afterwards scuttled them. 1 he American shells did not sink them." Captain Garry is the man ager of the American company which is raising the vessels. -r if'i'is . The wonderfid power of Ly.llu K. Hr.kh,.m XvK,UUW W,h1 oyer 'iW''S VUilX?cSt XSZMffi of the ,, ntry by .. ? l-n jjnj. trained nurse who l.avu witness-,! cuivs, and physician who Iwvo n--,,Kn e x .o In I.ydU L. IMnUuim'. Vegetable Compound and are f.iir en..ugh to Kivn credit ... ie it Is due. One of Many Women Cured by Lyclia I;. 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I'lnklinm' Vegetable ('iiih.iiiiI ill Hevero eases of f. niale ills, a they know IJ exuerieiKjo that it can Ui ndied upon to elTei-t a eun-. i Womiiii who are troubled with painful or irregular menstruation, backache, bloating i..r Uatul. net leuoorrh.B falling, inflamniation or ulceii.tm,, of the uterus, ovarian t roubles, that " U armg low n lee 11 di..iiicss, faintness, indigestion, nervous pn.-i nui.m or the blues, should take iiu.ncdwte action to warrt i n the, serious consequences, and lie restored to i.-rfcct heulih anl strength by taking Lvdia 1.. I 'n1; Vetretablo CompoutHl. and then write to Mis. MiAham. I.ynn Mass., for further free iu viou. No mn person mw had such a vast and successful exr-rienc in treating female ills. She ha jrmded thousand W health. Every buffering wfiman should ii"1 f'r and follow her advic-. NOW IS THE TIME. In a recent issue the Enterprise advocated the re organization of the Oregon City Board of Trade for active work. The time was never more opportune Business men generally endorse the plan and the only thing needful to insure a revival of work by this or ganization is for some one to take the initiative. No other noint in the Pacific Northwest offers greater op- 4 portunities for manufacturing industries than dofflj Oregon City and with the approaching LewiB & Clark fair the time is here for making these opportunities known. This can best be accomplished through the medium of a commercial organization. Let's go to work. The merchant who employs honorable business methods and gives honest values at right priceB, is the dealer that deserves the custom of the public. A proper recognition of this fact will do much to build up and maintain the substantial business interests of the city, and at the same time relegate to the bone yard such business concerns as are a detriment to the STEVENS IPS erty was a poor investment, as the people here were buijiliesg an1 prorty interests of the city under the stranger of good towns unprogr this the shoe man told the elsewhere. The newcomer quite naturally decided i An Idaho gentleman is Udng sued for a divorce on that he would not purchase the shos he had selected i tl)f. groun,i that ne never K,aks to his wife. There is and walked out of the store, le aving the knocking WJ record somewhere the reply of another gentleman shoe man alone to wonder why he had missed the i in a Bjlnjiar t.afi0 jje admitted that he had not Bale. The newcomer asked the fir-t friend he met , ,,,!.,. ff. K;a nlf,. uin thoir marriage but offered .m what was the matter witn .aiern jK;opie triat even ner own merchants were knocking the town. Then he told this tory. It almost decided him upon buying no more property here, as he said he didn't like to in vest money among people who were knocking their own town. Sentinel. Bystem by which they are conducted. since i excuse: "1 don t like to interrupt tier." A mr.r. appropriating $2,12.'3,fX for the aid of the Lewis and Clark Exposition has been prepared and will be forwarded to members of the Oregon delega tion for introduction in congress. If ymag mm onlj knrv t)M Imni. tad )mt darlnd Inno n oMi-d.if III. M'J wnl4 proloa UnwiIrM rrllh rrll.Ua rillKAKM and )..r a graad tyr. W. tnaka a largn aad varM Una of RIFLES.PISTOLS.SHOTGUNS lUnftng ia prira from $2.50 to $150.00 Sold )rr all dralm. Oar rslalnir ahnaM fc In th. han. of tnxrj naa laterMtfrd la UIKSrT INK. Band for a oopjr. J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co., P.O. BOX 30S1 CHICOPBE FALLS, MASS. Astoria & Columbia River Railroad Co. DAILY TUAINH, Kx. !H'ly Kltirtivn I)'ly!l)'ly Ht.l July rM'-u I r.M.'A.u. A,M.r.n. 7 mi, H x i l.v I'urtlai.d Ar II 10, U 4 h u: u (ft, (iotiiii .... id ii.'.l s x, H V) II IHi... HmnuT .. II !'il H 211 s ;is : . . rvrinlil ... ii .v. h ne H 41 II 401 ... . Mnyifrr .... ft 27 7 M S Wl II Wi,.... (miiry .... IM 7 7 4n H fX 10 IXJI . . . Ia.tnka.hift .. IMIS 7 IIO 10 Murnlilaiid .. KM 7 2 0 HMO 21;.... WrMlMirt ... 40 7 17 ( 37;IO .Kll.... Clifton .... 8 3.1 7 0.' 10 00 11 ,'17'.... Kn.i.... N 10 0 42 10 0 II 10 .... HvriiM.il . H 07 fl 32 10 2011 (ri....JohnI)y ... 7 .Vi 0 20 10 :'ill .10 Ar. Amoriii. I.v 7 4.'i II 10 SKASIDK DIVISION KiKht Work at Hifrht I'rlcPH. II it'll eradB artistic work at reasonable prices is tlie explanation for the great amount of job work I bat tbe Kotrirorise office is turniriK out daily. This ollice is better preparfiil than ever before to do all kinds of job work at prices entirely consistent with fi rut class service and a recoifnition of tbe nnion scale of waift-s that is bninu paid for labor. Tbix oII'ich ia aKain this year hi'ailimrtf r lor bop cbeck printing and all kinds of printing rKiuireil by bop and fruit men. We are bIho better prepared tban ever before to do all manner of job work, commercial and book printing, business stationery, cards, dance invitations, programs etc. We renpeclfully solicit work of tbis character and desire at all times to figure with any one desiring printing of fany kind. If vonr work is done at the Kn terprise oflice it is done rilit and will jive satisfaction, fiive us a trial. Take tbe Lnterprise fifty-two weeks year. 1 1 X'i 1. m r .vi p. hi 1 1 :vi a. in 8 lfi a. in n in a. m i :vt ii.in !i 00 I). Ill li 40 a. m AHTORIA . . . f . 7 40 . n. . 4 oop.ru .10 :io a. ii 6 ,'i0 p. n .12 :io p. ii . 7 20 p. n . 1 MO p. n . a. ii VDBSOT MM rjni-atr HKAHIDK .. I All train make i:dw con iipotiona at Oolib fall all Ntirlltfrti fai'ilii. fruiiii. I.i ..r fr.it. tlie Knit or Hound Point. At I'ortlaml with all Iralnn Ipavliifr Iliiior Ifrpot. A( Aatoria with I. K. A N. Co.'iihoatiianil rail lina, ami HteamerT. J. I'olter, to am! r..u lluaf. .'..rtl. It...... I. II. u Ticket nlllce, 2.ri.r MorrinoTi t., ami Union depot. J. C. MAYO.Uan. Jb. A?t Astoria. Or vl4 fjr YEAR8 IT I -' nrv . m rnL: .1 ' rtr.ir.Nt ''WtH COr.Yr,.OHT 4C Anynfl wnr(nf a okpf h tmil (l(rrlirf i..n irm? Untcklf M rlniri ,nr .(ifn.rt frinj wdi.tlir mi liivirit.f.ri li irrhnlilr ml fM iildn. ninriiiinli-ii. t lot in m r itrt i r tr-f i li i it i i ,t L MAtiULlOOK on I'dtcnU out fri. ObinHt Uitffwf fur '4'iitinir mU'ijin. rfiutn taken (Itn.uiyh Mmin A j. rttculva tptr.uU tvtwe. wit h'tuL ttirirtro. In th Scientific American, A hunrlnomi-lf lltn-rtrntM wwklf. T.nrtt rtn rulHfion "f hftT iti(iHo J'-uriial. 'I frrinn, it a 7itr. four ni'nth, L tfolil hjril fifwu-W-nlcm. MUiNN&Co.3e,B- New York Physicians pa'scril)!) it for their mostilelicate jiatients. OLD and PUUK FOR SALl BY . E. MATTHIAS - Sole Agency for Oregon City BEST FOR THE BOWELS If vn fcann't rani", h.althr m"ront"M h..H. 1,11.11. an, b wall. rr- In Hi" ""Th, l.lant phr.lo or pill polaon, la i"""'',Mu4 mixitha.t, aaalaat. Boat r"rfaft way ul um-m the bowrli clow Bd claan la to UM r a MnV CATHARTIC EAT EM LIKE . a N.r.r fil..k'. Wl-."'fi"C'l"jV- taaanlapTbol. Wrllafor raaaaoiHa,a. lrtrlln Km&l Comcarri, 71 1 KEEP YOUR ELCOD CLEw