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af"v OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, OCT. 9, 1903 Oregon City Enterprise CITY A NO COISTY OFFICIAL PAPER. Published Every Friday. Subscription Rates. One year $2 00 Six months 1 00 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 KATES OS ArTUCATION. 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 postoftice at Oregon City, Oregon, as second-class matter. . THE IRRIGATION CONGRESS. The eleventh National Irrigation Congress was held at Ogden last week, and was attended by delegates irom nearly every state of the Union, many of the states of the Atlantic seaboard being represented, showing a realization of the fact that while, practi cally, irrigation is a local question, in a broader sense it is of national import, says the Argonaut. The con gress had even a wider aspect, for representatives ot the Mexican and French governments were also pres ent A number of interesting addresses weie de livered. Secretary Wilson told of the work bein done by the Department of Agriculture. He said that it was generally admittfd that, when all available sources of water5 supply have been used, only a small fraction of the arid land can be reclaimed. The prob lem is how to increase the area that can be reclaimed, and there are two courses that can be followed. One is tp increase the available supply, the other is to increase the utility of what we have. Meas urements show the loss from main canals and laterals of more than half the water diverted from streams. By more economic use by the farmers the duty of the water can be made double what it is under present methods. In both of these directions the utility of the water can be increased. The irrigation laws of the various states are also being studied from the standpoint of the farmer and not of the lawyer, to see if they tend to promote the best use of the water Congressman Newlands spoke on co-operation be tween the state and national governments. In many cases there is now friction instead of co-operation. The Nevada laws place the entire streams in the hands of the national government while the work of construction is going on. The state administration works in harmony, so that when the national govern -ment turns the control over to the state, the state bureau will be thoroughly organized, and possessed of all the data, information, and plans necessary to go on with the work of administration, and even of con struction, if it is necessary. The committee on resolu tions presented a report favoring the conservation of the flood waters of the Columbia, Sacramento, Colo rado, Rio Grande, Arkansas and Missouri rivers and their tributaries, and the subsequent extension of the irrigation projects, and the supplementing by the government of the present policy of levee construction by a reservoir system. It also recommended the ap pointment of a commission by the President to inves tigate and report such extension or amendment of the land laws as may Dromote actual settlement and de velopment of the public domain. Over the land laws there was acrimonious discussion. The majority re port favored the repeal of the desert land act, the com mutation clause of the homestead act, the timber and stone act, the lieu land provision of the forest reserve act, and the purchase or condemnation of private lands within forest reservations. The minority report struck out all reference to the desert land act, the timber and stone act, and the commutation provision of the homestead act. After heated discussion, a sub stitute was adopted, Bimply recommending congress to modify the land laws. THE LOCAL MERCHANT. In last week's issue the Enterprise called attention to the practical habit of patronizing the local mer chant. This is essential to the up-building of the community. If local institutions are not patronized and given material encouragement, it is not to be ex pected that they will continue to exist. But there is a distinction as between local merchants. The dealer who conducts his business fair and above board is en titled to consideration in preference to the dealer" who resorts to other methods, unfair to both the purchaser and his honorable competitor, in disposing of his wares. The merchant who advertises his stock and publicly quotes prices is to be relied upon much more than the dealer who refrains from advertising and regulates his charges by the fixed price that is given by a reputable dealer. It will pay the prospective customer to note the advertisements that appear in the Enterprise and patronize those merchants who follow a legitimate course in advertising and selling their goods. We would call attention to the adver tisements of Adams Bros., Frank Busch, the reliable house-furnisher; E. C. Hamilton, The Charman Drug Co., and the numerous other business houses that regularly employ the columns of the Enterprise to reach the people of Clackamas county.' No mistake will be made in dealing with these merchants.. CRISIS IN ENGLISH CABINET. The perils of acting as butler between diametrically opposed opinions are exhibited in the English cabinet ; crisis. Premier Balfour has, heretofore, professed to be neutral in the matter of Chamberlain's preferential tariff scheme. But lately he has kept leaning more and more Chamberlain's way. The free trade niem bers of his cabinet have viewed their chiefs tariff tinged utterances with increasing alarm, and three of them, finding the gulf between his ideas and theirs' impassible, have now resigned. Those are C. T. Ritchie, chancellor of the exchequer; Lord Balfour, of , Burleigh, becretary for Scotland; and A. It. P. Elliot,' financial secretary to the treasury. So far so good.1 But that Joseph Chamberlain, colonial secretary, and ; Lord George Hamilton, secretary for India, who hold ideas exactly antipodal to those of the three officers mentioned, should also seize this time to quit the eab-j inet seeuiSj as Balfour himself says, "paradoxical in-j deed.'' The alleged reason Impelling Chamberlain ' and Hamilton to this move is a desire for "a perfectly independent position" from which to promote tho , ideas of national co-operation. Their action and that of their political opponents, leave the ministry totter-; ing. It is, however, idle, in the face of so complex a situation, to predict the outcome. The immediate in-; terest lies in the reconstruction of tho cabinet. It seems probable that Austen Chamberlain will lo chancellor sf the exchequer; Arnold Forster, secretary of war; W. St. John Broderick, secretary for India; Lord Selbome, secretary for the colonies. Two preg nant sentences from Balfour's late utterance on tho tariff issue are bound to be often quoted before the matter is settled, and are of especial interest to Amer icans. ' the most momentous, pernaps uie mosi per manent, victory for free trade," he said, "was won when rather on national than on economic grounds interstate tariffs were forbiihlcn in the United States." "Free trade," he lemarks elsewhere, "was designed for a free-trade country in a world of free traders, and not for a free-trade country in a world of protectionists. ' The Albany Herald has been sold by Messrs. Train and Whitney to C. B. Winn and G. A. Wtstgate who took charge of the property on the 1st inst. Mr. Winn 6erved as census supervisor in this district in taking the last census and Mr. Westgate is a promi nent capitalist of the Linn county metropolis. Attorney-General Ckawfokd has rendered an opinion in which he holds that county clerks are en titled to retain fees collected by them for service rend ered in taking testimony in Federal land proceedings. He holds that the law requiring them to pay into the county treasury fees collected by them referred only to fees for services under state laws. 0 . i FRANK BUSCH! THE HOUSEFURNISHER ! Don't Knock around" from place to ilaco looking for a Moating Stovo when you can got ono as oiloivd right hero for $4.00 Cast Iron Top Sheet Iron Lined Front Draught And the lcst ftuitmo ahout thin model of a Heater is the large opening for BIG WOOD. This price does not include foot railn, LANTERNS Krorrf 25c tip to $6.00 FRHNK BUSCH THE HOUSEFURNISHER Eighth and Main Sts. Oregon City, Oregon a We have failed to note any stir yet among the members of the Oregon City Board of Trade. It has been remarked that now is the time to get busy, and if Clackamas county is to get her share of the new settlers coining to the Pacific coast, it is incumbent on the commercial organizations of this locality to give proper advertisement of this section and its re sources. Of great value to the various interests of Western Oregon was the recent Harvest Home edition issued by the Salem Statesman. It was a comprehensive publication, finely illustrated and representative of the resources of the western section of the state. Its extensive circulation in the eastern stales, as planned, will result in bringing many new people to this coast The Statesman is a progressive paper and its enter prise was perhaps never better evidenced than in the publication and circulation of this creditable edition Oregon is confronted with a first class scandal. Judge William R. Willis, of Roseburg, has filed charges with the state bar association accusing Attor ney-General Crawford of perjury, and seeks to have him disbarred. Judge Willis claims that Mr. Craw ford committed perjury in testifying in a case in which he was defendant, that was tried at Roseburg in 1897, wherein Crawford testified that a written contract which he (Willis) had in his possession did not exist and had never been entered into. Somebody has been deluding a good many innocent people by the tale that silver dollars coined in 1894 are at a high premium, and will, if sent to the proper officials, be exchanged for railway tickets to St. Louis and admission to the World's Fair. Letters concern ing these coins come to the Globe-Democrat from all over the country. The story, of course, is a hoax. There is no premium on the silver dollar of 18!4. Neither the World's Fair people nor anybody else is offering tickets to St. Louis in exchange for a silver dollar of 1894 or of any other year, unless the person is within the dollar-fare limit of distance from the city, and even then he would be compelled to pay his way into the fair grounds extra if he wanted to get in. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. United States Senator C. W. Fulton has resigned as state senator from Clatsop county. In event the supreme court holds that the new asRessment law is invalid and Governor Chamberlain decides to convene the state legislature in special session, there will be a number of vacancies to fill in the two branches of the legislature. There will be senators to elect to succeed Daly, of Benton and Fulton, of Clatsop It has been reported that a senator will also have to be named to succeed Senator Mulkey, of Polk, but it is believed that gentleman claims Monmouth as his home. The same rumor said that the electors of Marion county would be called upon to name a successor to Repre sentative Frank Davey but in removing to Portland recently, Mr. Davey says that he provided against such a contingency and still retains his residence in Salem. THE ATHLETE'S HEART. Ih the Ron Ins Man II la flroai and Wrll Drvrlupvd. A prominent member of the fnrtilty of flip I'nivrrslty of IViinHylvunlii Mim ical school Una iimilc a study of the hoiirt action of athlott-s. Ho bus atnlnud a lance number of men In n th irties, especially rowlni: men, and lie lias come to tlie concliixion Hint no man In perfect health who tins lieen proper ly trained In Injured hy rnwlnic. hut that, on the eontrury, his heart Ih ho Strengthened thut, with a moderate amount of exercise after he has HnlHh ed his rowing career, there Ih no rea son, so far as the heart ami Iimr are concerned, that he should not live to a very old age. "The heart," said he, "Is both a very delicate and a very strong organ that Is, If It If well developed It will stand an enormous amount of strain without iny permanent Injury, hut If it Is not well developed It In very easily weak ened. Violent sxercbte, like rowing, places a great deal of strain on the heart because when the body Is Ix-lng exerted It requires so much more pres sure to force the blood through the body. Like any other muscle that Is worked, the heart under the added la bor becomes larger, and most athletes hare extra large hearts, Just as they also have larger muscles throughout the body. "If the strain Is put upon the heart suddenly It dilates It becomes larger, but not more muscular and that Is the danger In athletics. If a man exercises gradually then his heart also Increases In die gradually because the muscles become larger, and this is a perfectly normal condition. It simply means that the athlete has a stronger heart than the average and can cope with the extra strain that is put upon It A man needs a larger heart to row a race, and if gradual exercise has so provided him with one then he can safely undergo the most severe tests. 'It Is the same way with the lungs, and they must be developed gradually until they can undertake the extra work. A man with his heart and lungs well developed is In no danger, no mat ter bow hard the race. He may com pletely keel over at the end of the race, but It will likely be from sheer exhaus tion, arid bis heart is so strong that the effect is not at all injurious. He will be as good as ever in a few moments.' Philadelphia Record. Am Experiment. Tou see," said Corntossel, "a phre nologist once told us that our boy Josh had a remarkable bead." "So you sent lil in to college?" "'cs. Now we're waiting to see whether his head Ih goln' to turn out to be a congenial residence fur brtvlim or Jes a garden fur football hair. Washington Star. "II. A R:iJ : ; The cynical imiu u :i -:', the window at the -uc ;.v down the street, "lux ".i mnytblftK?" asked hi -o:i;. n .', . "Know anything" said tin- cynlci man. He doesn t evn fus:-c.t sr.y tfclflg." New Vork Time. -ELLOH 2,(XX) miles of ong dis tance telephone wire in Oregon, Washington, Cali fornia and Idaho now in operation by the Pacific Station Telephone Com pany, covering 2,250 towns. Quick, acctirate, cheat All the satisfaction of personal communication. Distance no effect to a clear understanding. Sjxv kane and San Francisco as eusily heard as Port land.' Oregon City office at Harding's Drug Store VflllSIOfg ORECON CITY JUNK Second Hand Store Complete Line New and Second Hand Stoves. Air-tight Htoves from $1 np; Cook-stoves, $3 and up. Highest prices paid (or all kinds of Junk. Sugarman & Co. Klght Work at Right Prices. High grade artistic work at reasonable prices is the explanation (or the great amount of job work that the Enterprise office is turning out daily. This office is better prepared than ever before to do all kinds of job work at prices entirely consisteit with first class service and recognition of the union scale of wages that is being paid for labor. This office is again this year headquarters tor hop check printing and all kinds of printing required by hop and fruit men. We are also better prepared than ever before to do all manner of job work, commercial and book printing, business stationery, cards, dance invitations, programs etc. We respectfully solicit work of this character and desire st all times to figure with anv one desiring printing of any kind. If your work is (lone at the En terprne office it is done right and will give satisfaction. Give us s trial. Letter List. The following is the list of letters re maining in the poHtofliceat Oregon City, Oregon. Oct. 8, 1903: women's list. Davidson Mrs E Lee Miss Jennie Karnes Mrs Ann Moore Miss Ethel Grubb Mrs J C Hears Mrs care II Hears Hamilton Miss E Zimmerman Mrs W Hyde Miss Rose Pkg Mrs Ann Eames kin's list. Physicians prescribe it for their most delicate patients. OLD and TURK FOR SALE BY . E. MATTHIAS Sole Agency for Oregon City Bender W K Drencher John English J M Krant8 Hanrahan Bruce Hawkins Hugh Hoffman John W K ruse George Mayfield Jess Miller Henry Sanderson L I) TOM P. KANDALL, PM. School books and school supplies at Charman & Co. the leading druggists and booksellers. Subscribe for the Enterprise. BEST FOR THE BOWELS - it yam kmit't rrI. bMlthrmiwottiMitwf tf bowit wry Ar, yo'r 1U or will b. Kp roar bowel opsin, and b well. Fore. 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