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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1901 Oregon City Enterprise CITY AM 001 STY OFFICIAL PAVER Published Every Friday. Subscription lates. One year 2 00 Six months 1 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 RATES ON APPLICATION. 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. alia road near Cams, and by a short turn in its course passes about the farm of Mr. Kalbtleisch, tho defend ant. On the strength of a petition that was recently presented to tho court, tho establishment of the road across defendant's farm was ordered. It was in at tempting to open up this road that the pending trouble resulted. Before it is finally constructed, the road will likely cost the county several hundred dollars while it will not be in any respect any advantage over the present course of the highway. These road squabbles are unpleasant things, and the average citizen before signing should make i n investigation of the contents of any petition that may bo presorted to him and de termine whether the thing prayed for is deserved and will serve tho convenience of the public, or whether the main thing to be accomplished in the laying out of a road is the penetration of a neighbor's farm. Mr. Kalbtleisch will appeal his case. A happy New Year ! 'WW W 4'- ik'tt'-,t.'n'''f "-. Vr- mm m fl m flw:4 .. A leas Sweep With SLw PHses PUBLISHING ASSESSMENT ROLL Iu an editorial indorsement of a law that proposes the Hublishine of the assessment roll of each county ;ot hf.-ra tho ajiniA is presented to the board of JViOV lV IU1 V ww I equalization, trie Oregon Law School Journal says "If newspapers of each county would publish a list of P,-h taxnaver's nronertv. as given to the assessor, it would strike many a good and well meaning citizen with consternation, and we would find that the tax i.'rn r.f nt vpar wniild be increased many fold over that of our present year. Publicity is the only rein ed y to bring about a true rebrni in this matter. Ade- quate laws may be enacted upon any subject, yet if they are improperly enforced or executed tney win Tint sonnmnliah thn nnrnose for which thev are 111- tnV j-' " f I Tf tho iwirvlw nrp kent in iirnorance as to the ma.. ner in which an officer performs the duties im posed upon him by law, and the people are also kept in icrnnranen nf thft evasion of BUCh laWS by those -..vw - - . whose duty it is to observe them, then favorites, ward strikers, political bosses, and unscrupulous persons will evade our laws with impunity. Darkness is a most favorable place to breed microbes and foster deadly germs of disease, and sunlight is their deadly foe. So secrecy in our body politic tends to produce an unhealthy condition and creates a most favorable opportunity for the breeding of fraud and corruption, and their unrelenting foe is publicity. Turn the sun light of the fact3 upon public abuses and the people will force its perpetrators to desist. The people de mand an honest administration of public and private affairs, and fraud and corruption cannot long exist -when brought in view for public inspection. "Tweed and his gang bribed judges and legislatures, laws were passed in their interest, public treasuries were pillaged by them, and decisions were rendered in their favor, and no such complete and extensive plan of fraud and public spoilation was ever devised in any country yet publicity brought about the down fall of this powerful ring. It was through the col umns of the New York press that thi3 vast system of fraud and corruption was exposed and broken up, and "Boss" Tweed, who was more powerful than any king, to languish and die in a felon's cell. The newspapers are the mou'ders of public opinion. It is through the columns of the newspapers that public and private abuses are disclosed, frauds unearthed and great re forms are brought about. It was Napoleon who said, "Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than ten thousand bayonets." . "We would therefore recommend complete publicity as a certain remedy against the practice of "tax-dodging." The assessment of each person liable to assess ment in a county should be published, as is done in several other states, before the county board of equali zation meets, in the leading newspapers published in the county. The state of Illinois now has bucIi a law, and its effect is magical. Each person is made aware of his neighbor's list of property given in to the asses sor, and if such neighbor omits any of his property subject to assessment he is compelled to hasten its cor rection. This law has brought about a revolution in that state with regard to equal and just taxation, and it is almost impossible for one to escape his just pro portion of the taxes." The special session of the state legislature that met at Salem this week was a decided credit to the state. Only legislation of general concern to the state's in terests was considered and such business was expe ditiously transacted. The majority party acted wisely in holding a caucus and determining on such matters as required and deserved action at the extraordinary session. The total cost of the special session will not exceed $7500 while the benefit that will accrue to the state from the legislation that was enacted, will far surpass the cost. The record made by the special ses sion was a credit to each individual member and to the state at Another raro opportunity for tho ladies Leap Year is here. And there Sire doubtless many that will embrace the opportunity. With the thermometer 0 degrees below zero in Minnesota, and tiO degrees above in Oregon, it is quite evident that this state is a hundred degrees better to live in, comments an exchange. Some people insist that there- is everything in a name. But we cannot agree. For instance, Pleas ant Armstrong, tho Baker county murderer, has finally been sentenced to be hanged on the 28th inst. For a city with a boasted population of 15,0(X), the people of Salem have been busy since the annual municipal election in December explaining how it happened that with the liveliest contest the Capital City has witnessed in years, the total vote polled was only 1310. Thanks to the members of tho two houses of the Oregon legislature, the work of the special session was as coin mend able as was the session appreciably brief. There was more actual business transacted in the three days that tho special session was convened than the average legislative assembly transacts in three weeks. The arrest and fining of a local saloon man last week for selling liquor to a minor will probably have good effect. It is reported that some of the saloon men have been careless in this regard. In ad dition to being liable to a fine for the offence, selling liquor to minors is also punishable by the revocation of the liquor dealer's license. It now develops that because of the absence of the emergency clause in the act re-instating the $300 tax exemption, this feature of the tax law may not take effect until after the time for making this year's tax evy and extension of the roll with the result that the exemption clause will probably not apply on this year's tax roll. With the beginning of this, another New Year, the Enterprise wishes for its readers a full 30i days of prosperous conditions, even surpassing those of the year just ended. Bounteous crops and labor plentiful at remunerative compensation gave abundant cause for thanksgiving and produced a universally content ed state of affairs. May the same conditions prevail in a greater degree during this year, and may each share in proportionate measure these greater bless ings. The day for making resolutions has arrived, lather than subscribe to a number of pledges that he knows he will break on the morrow, the individual had better make no promises at all. Renew tho bent of your last year's resolutions, even though they were many times broken and, backed up by determination, live up to them. Strive to make the world better and happier for your having lived. Don't be a pessimist. 5e bright and cheerful, and you will not only make those about you happy, but you will also enjoy to the fullest degree the pleasures and good things of this world. m !f 2 1 v m m ' ft '4 J HrtStulFner J V Mr JTJ vVp S MindTi.lo.rJ (I 2& 'INCE WE INAUGURATED OUK GREAT OVERSTOCK SALE We are known as the busy store the one that saves you money but never during this sale have we cut prices so low as we arc now, in order to get all the odds and ends off our hands; in fact everything in the store from a collar button to a suit or overcoat is reduced to such prices which gratify the economical. Our goods arc the kind that give satisfac tion. Our prices baffle competition, but they cannot fail to please our customers. To pur chase a Suit or Overcoat from us now would be a money saving venture, as the prices on our Clothing is everlastingly the lowest. 1: XVI V 71 V i 1. Cviyttiti taw if ujiiKaiiitw ati Our immense stock of Men's, Ladies and Children's Shoes will be disposed of at wondrously low prices. Every article in the store will be sold at telling prices. Come and look over our exposition of bargains. is 1' When Yon Soo It in Our ad Its So. J. M. PRICE, Clothier and Furnisher Cor. 6th and Main Sis Oregon City, Ore. - 'iv- mm m M.-.v-y .VV. Sit OF FRENCH .HISTORY. large. Farmers are very generally displeased with the ac tion of the special session in enacting a law prohibit ing the killing of Chinese pheasants until September 1900. It is a notorious fact, they assert, that city sportsmen without regard for the law, have annually slaughtered this game bird until legislation prohibit ing the furt. er massacre of this bird has become nec essary to prevent its extermination. They claim that the enforcement of the old game law would have been more satisfactory and at the same time given to the farmers, who raise the birds the privilege of killing a bird occasionally. Counsel for Prescott Kalbfleisch, who was found guilty in the justice court last week of obstructing a highway, complain that the local item in the En terprise of last week's issue, failed to state the case properly. If the facts in the case were misstated, it was unintentional, for the only interest this paper has in any matter is the giving of the news. The road over which the trouble resulted,, is the celebrated Fanton road, concerning which there has been litiga tion in the courts for the last five years. As origi nally laid out the road in controversy joins the Mol- There is nothing particularly surprising in the an nouncement that the proposed law, making gambling a felony in this state, was stolen from among the rec ords of the state legislature at Salem last week before it was finally acted upon by the Senate. Few people seriously believed that the measure would ever be en acted as a law and if such a result did follow the in troduction of tho bill, there was a still smaller nunjber of persons who believed that the law would be en forced. It seems strange that any effort to legislate against gambling and kindred evils is invariably thwarted and the vies practiced more vigorously than ever. There is a state law against gambling in many forms and these practices are prohibited by city ordinance also, but there is made no attempt to sup press the nractice which is carried on in open viola- , tion and apparently in defiance of the law, in almost every city, not excepting Oregon Uly. these laws should either be repealed or the provisions of the statutes enforced. An I'mplrr l.n.t For Want of HUM Mnrt of lllillnar Hnbit. An old lr:Mil whUli nmkin no pre tense to trulh I"I1h hmv a klimiloin was lost for want of n horseshoe nail. Hut q volunio f wler historical iinil Mo crniliirul piirjiono, written by Count il'IliTrlHon. iniike It Rppeiir that the KiLpress Kuirenle, lifter the buttle of Sediiu. lot the ehiiiice to preserve the empire, of ber lnislmncl by not pome !:n; exactly the rlubt sort of rliliinr nr.l'lt. It wns the evenlni; of Sept 3, The news of tin' surrender of the Fr. nch nrmy nnd of the Kinperor Na poleon nt Sedan hud spread about I'nr Is. The :!l.v was excited, ami there was tail; of n revolution ami the ban ishment of the Imperial family. .M this Juncture Kmlle de (ilrnrdin. n man who was tni-tid by the empr-'ss aim who had bad no little experience dur InK the previous eh-iimes of govern nient, arrived at the palace of the Tui lories. "If your majesty were to appear on horseback in thn midst of the p-o pie," Cirardln said, "and announce tip abdication of the emperor In favor of the prince Imperial, your own nssiimp tlon of the title of empress recent nml the appointment of Thiers as prion minister, the empire nilfjht lie saved Something must be done, to turn tie tide." The empress accepted the advice. I'.tn wl.en this leader of the world's fashio.' Hiii-lit for a proper costume for te i performance It rould not ho found Ti e only riding habit In the Tullere was n fantastic one of green, embroiu ered with old und Bilver, made for a festal hunting occhbIoii, und the hai was a not less fantastic three corneive affair of the epoch of Louis Qiilne The empress felt that It would not il to appear In this (jnrb on such an occi bIoii. Her appe.'irance In It mlbt lnu the opposite effect upon the pco;i! from tluit which she Intended. 'II plan had to be given up, the etnpn- and the prince imperial wen; banish nnd the Napoleonic empire wn at m end. KlHI Vnr I nllmely. "Do your neighbor sing the latent ongs of the day V ns!:cd the landlord. "I shouldn't object to that," answered the sad eyed tenant: "their specialty la the latest songs of the night" Wash ington Star. Dizzu? Appetite poor? Bowels constipated? Tongue coated? Head acher It s your liverl Aycr's Pills are liver pills, all vegetable. Bold for Ixty yeari. J. 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RATES - REA80NAQLE JOHN YOUNGER, JE "W E3 X. 3E3 ZFt ear Huntley's Drtifr Store, FORTY YEARS EXPERIENCE IN Ureat Britain and America. OASTOniA. tnnttm J Itw Kind ym Haw kmn Boiffl
