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Oregon City H 1 Enti 5RPR VOLUME 37. NO. 10. OIlEfSO; CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1001. ESTABLISHED 18fifl. ISE. ALL EYES TURN TO REAL ESTATE WHEN SPECULATIVE INVESTMENTS FAIL '. ,i r - . " tr ... l - " rt i. first Residence Built in Gladstone, 1893. Never linn the Ktability of Real EHtato been more forcibly emphnHized than by tho sharp contrast of values which theso market convulsions reveal: over against the purely npeculative, fluctuating and fictitious, stands Real Estate, nolid, substantial- a very (Jibraltar of stability tho most pronounced example of a commodity unaffected by the gusty winds of Wall Street or the unscrupulous manipulations of overcapitalized jugglers. Today, as never before, tho country over is money being transferred from wild cat securities and placed in REAL PROPERTY. As land values inevitably increase hand in hand with population, the wise buyer of today will be tho rich man of tomorrow. Test the matter and buy a couple of Choice High Class Residence Lots in 100 lots of your own selection, at 100.00 per lot, without interest or taxes. 25 per cent in terest guaranteed on the investment. Make your selection at an early day and before prices advance. Gladstone is apart of Oregon City and a suburb of Portland, on the Oregon Water Power and Railway line, and Southern Pacific Railroad. Full information mailed to any address. , H. E. CROSS, Sole Agent Oregon City, Oregon JOBEKT A. MILLER ATTORN KY AT LAW Land Tltlen nn1 Uind Office IliiHlncRM 11 Hpeclulty I Will practice in all Courti of the State 1 Room 1, Wcinhard Bldg. 1 B If Mi ojp. Court House, Oregon City, Oregon L. POUTER, ATTORNEY AT LAW 4MTACTI0rrarilTT rURHIIHID. Offloa next to Oregon Cltr EiiU-rpri". QKO. O. BKOWNELL, ATTORN F.Y AT LAW Oregon City, - - Oregon Will practice In ill llio cuorta of the atnte. Olllce in Caufield building. () W. EASTIIAM ATTORNEY AT LAW Land Till" Eiamined. Abatracts Made, feeds, Mortgages Drawn. Money Loaned. orrirx ova Bank of Oregon City. I Ohiooh Citt, Oh. I W. 8- U'Baa 0. Sohnebel U'REN & SCIIUEBEL Attorneys at Law. JlcittTdjcr .buuhat. Will practice in all courts, make collection! and aettleinenta of Kmatea. Furnish ahatracta of title, lend you money and lend your money on first morgage. Office In Enterprise Building, Oregon City, Oregon. JIVY STIPP Attorney at Law. Justice of the Peace. Jagger Bldg., Oregon City J U. CAMPBELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, aasoN Citt, OaiaoK. Will practice In alltheeoarta at the aula. 01 0ce, la CauflelU build lira. Q D, D.O. LATOURETTB ATTORN EY8 AND COUNSELORS AT LAW VAIN ITRItT OBIQOM CITT, OHIOOH. hrnlah Ahatracta of Title, Loan Monar.Tora- laa artfara,aoa irantasi vaoarai Law BaataMa. J GLADSTONE JUST RECEIVED A w i If you need anything in the way of Hardware, Crockery, Glass-ware or Gianite-ware, I can supply your wants. Call and inspect my stock. Complete line of new ami second hnnd FURNITURE carried. Let mo supply you with a limine- keeping outfit WALL PAPER of the bt-Bt quality and latest style at right prices. Attention, Here's a Bargain 6000 feet, l.V inch flmt clans Manila rope, In one piece, is offered for sale at a bargain for a few days. I. TOLPOLAR Main Street, Oregon City. Bru iswick Houso & Restaurant Newly Furnished Rooms. Meals at All Hours. Prices Reasonable. Opposite Suspension Bridge. Only First Class Restaurant In Town. Oregon if Washington State Fair Victories ON BARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS Ornron State lair an Cock Birds, 6 in Competition 1st on Hen, lo in Competition i-a-J on l-'ulleta 40 in Competition and on... Cockerel 21 in Competition 1st on pen, 11 in Competition istia Ameriraa Class H won la oa pollxU tha pmtt S J. MURROW & SON. Public confnlcnce in kix:cu lativo Hi-curitifH linn recently received one of tlie greatest hIiockh in the hintory of fi nance. Ah bn rntH a Imlible, no in almoHt a tiny millions, of dol lars, were eweiit away, carry ing many hudr.ln of invent or to ruin. Wull Street' woo in the wine man's warning. The I'litini utock market has Imtoiim; demoralized dur ing th I;tMt year and the pub lic lias shown a decided di iiiclination to invent in the elann of stocks there offered. On the other hand, heavy invcHtmeiitH ire daily being made by mod conservative interest in Keleet real eHtate at constantly increasing price!) In The. Grand Opening Sale 'A 'A M 'A 'A A 'A "A 'A A 'A 'A A 'A "A "A 'A A ? I IA 'A FULL LINE OF ir Tight STEEL RANGES CHARLES CATTA, ' Proprietor IVahlilntoii Stale Fair We only sent 3 pnllets, 1 hen and 1 Cock and won on every entry but one besidea specials, including best pen in the show. Prizes won 1st Cock, 1st Ilea: 1st and and Pullet; 1st pen. Kihllilllon Rtock aperlalty om (rand pnllrli for aale. Kgg S3. OO Oregon City. Oregon. FAItMKIt A VAVmil Jlli Is .More I'mjieroiiK Than Ever l.cfore. Ketvelarj Wilson Nuy lli ie Inn l!e o I'anle While Afcriculf ti r IhI U Milking Money, In a recent interview with a oorrea ponilent for the New York tieruM, Kec relHry Wilcon tell of the proni roua con 'li'ion every where of the tillernf the soil. The interview was as follow: lames Wilson, Secretary of Avricul ture, whs arkej by th llerul.l for his viewa as to the siiHlsininit power of the A merican farmer in the lace of Krat huai neHs dfpreHHion caiiHed by the deprecia tion of MjcuriliKS in Wall atreet. I , "To one familiar with the hiiuation," replied Mr. Wilson, "it iiiiihi aonearlhat I there will he no panic In thix counirv now so Ioiik as the fanner of the United ' SiHt.'a ia able to prluce iixkI and sala I hie cruiis. The American farmer run I tains the country and feed a ureal por 1 lion of the world. He is virtually inde pendent ot any oilier clax. "Itt me premiHe by i vinx a few tin nii'n from my annual report just iaaued. From 1HX0 lo 18'JO the averse of exports of farm products was mre than $7(t.'!. 000,000. In 1'JOl they were !I.".L' 000,000. In 11)03 the surphiH, which weriid not need 111 this counlry and ns hold abroad, amounted so H78 000,000. "It was the farmer ho kept the bal ance of trade with the t inted Stales. Kxcltidina the products ol the larm. there was during the period from IM'jo to an annual adverae balance of trade amountinu to 102,000,000. Including the (arm products, this halance is wid out, and we had left f:'75,0O0,0O0 to the credit of this country. During 1U03 there was an unfavorable balance of trade in ex ports and imports other than those of the farm, which amoumed to $.r0 .000,000, but when the farmer's part in the inter national commerce is included the bal ance in our favor it juat about $.'(J7,000, 000. "Here you have the tremendous re serve sustaining power of the farmers of this country. They are the people who pay the foreign bondholders. "I will tell you that the farmers are in dependent of the banks, the money lend ers or anybody else. They are prosper ous. In the East anybody ran see it for himself. Ttiey are getting good prices for their grain, bay, milk, buiter, cheese, fruits ana other produce. Think of the prices of eggs and poultry! Then they have the advantage over their western brethren in not having the long haul and heavy freight rates. "Tne farmers of the West were never in such easy circumHtancea. TheircrSpa have been good, and the demand frora abroad has been such as to keep he prices at a comlortable figure, tins is true of everything the farmer raises to sell hies, cattle, wool, etc." "But many are predicting hard times for next year. What U your view of that al one acquainted with farm conditions?" Mr. Wilson was asked. "There can he no hard times, such as Wall street predicts" he replied "so long as the crops do not fail. The Ameri can farmer is an optimist. In the '4 est the banks are buiBiing with farmers' money. The farmer has luxuries such as one would not have dreamed of tee ing in a farmhouse twenty years ago. The farmer often has a telephone in his house. Ilia daughter has a ,iano, and goes to boarding school. The children hare bicycles. "I am told that there is between 400, 000,000 and $500,000,000 of farmers' money in New York banks or on loan. From Iowa alone somewhere in. the neighborhood of 160,000,000 has been sent to Canada to purchase grazing and farming lands. "And let me tell my views about an other thing. There is much talk in Wall street about the timidity of investors. Money is scarce at times and the market rags. There is difficulty about getting money to float this and that great enter prise. Men will not go into them be cauae they have been humbugged before. So the cause of flotation languishes, and the promoters look to foreign investors, but of recent date with indifferent suc cess, "The point I want lo bring out is this: If the bureau of corporations of the De partment of Commerce and Labor had been organized long enough to give to the public an idea of the stability of cor porations which are seeking for the con fidence of the investing public, long enough to assure the farmers of the West that they were eood and reliable invest ments, instead of "salted mines," they would supply the money to set them go ing. If the schemes of Wall street were not regarded with suspicion not always well founded, if you please the farmers' money would tie invested there, and then where would be all these predic tions of a panic because water is squeezed out of the stocks? As it is, the farmer is going ahead attending to his business, putting his money w here it will be safe, and he does not care whether they are squeezing water out of stocks or dump ing it in. ' Steps are being taken to keep the farmers proserous, even if some crops should fail. There are many questions that have to be seriously considered and solved. For instance the boll weevil is threatening the cotton crop. The gov ernment is undertaking operations to ascertain the caui-e of this pest and to stamp it out. B"Constant experiments are being made to show that there are other crops with which the American farmer is not famil iar that can te raised at a greater profit than some of those he is now engaged in producing'. The cultivation of the sugsr beet is going to become much more gen eral than it is at the present time. Six years ago the production of beet sugar in tins counny was ".'y.ooo tins Une vear ago the priKltiction wasL'20,000 tons. The production is going to increase and it means a good paying crop for the farmer. He is learning that his by-product, in stead of being thrown away, can be need to great advantage for the feeding of the Cattle and 01 her livestock. "Then, anain, ureal progress has been made in proving that a large portion of the United States which has not sufficient rainfall to rale ti)(, ordinary crop plants run he nxeil to great advaniHire. in the giowing of a peculiar kind of wheat. The land between the 100th and lUOih princi pal meridian ia thus afTtcted snd com prises oiie llnril of the area of the United Mates. On this In ml as a result of our experiments year before last 10,000.000 liusliels of a hent Were harvested. La t year it was 2'j,i:00, 000. In a lew vears ihe pioduct'on will be 100,000,000 bush el". "I have the greatest confidence in the agrii nlluriHt as (he real sustaining power 01 the prosperity of the United States. So long as the crops are boundless the railroad" w ill make money hauling to the n.arket or to tne seaboard. So long as the railroads make money they produi e dividends and they keep the shop" going. When the railroads cut or pass dividends the whole country takes alarm. Mer chants curtail their stocks, manufactur ing establishments shut down and con templated industries are abandoned. Hence there is no question in my mind as lo the imnortant part the farmer is playing and will continue to play in the financial affairs ol the United States " LiriMATE OF Yt. tK'S EXIENSES. 'reliable Cost of Running Clackamas County For 190. In reducing by fifty per cent the county tax levy on the 1U03 roll, the Clackamas county commissioners' court estimated the probable expenses of the different departments ol the county government foi the em-oing year as follows: Construction and repair of bridges $ 8000 Panpera 3,800 Circuit court 2.000 Justices of the Peace 1,100 County jail a board of prisoners 30 Court House repairs a furniture 2,000 Countv clerk's otlice ... 2,700 fcherifTsoffice 3,000 Recorder's office ... 2,600 School Supt.'s effice 1,400 Treasurer's office 1,150 A sf esBor'a office 2,500 County court and commissioners 1,800 Surveyor' office 2-"0 Coroner' office 650 Insane expense 250 Co. physician & board of health 200 Indigent soldier 400 Koad views and survey 500 Collection of taxes 2,600 Election expenses (2) 4,300 Printing and advertising 300 Interest on outstanding warrants 8,600 State Tax 41.037 School Tax..... 46.662 Total $138,349 THE KENTCCKUVS WOES. Applicable Especially U Those Who Browse In Breathitt. (Maysville (Ky.) Public Ledger.) Man born in the wilds of Kentucky is ot feud days and easy virtue. He fish eth.fiddleth, cusseth and fighteth all the davs of his life. When be desireth to raise hell he plametb a neighbor, and, lo, he reapeth 20-fold. He riseth even from the cradle to seek the scalp of his grandsire'a enemy and bringeth home in his carcass tha ammu nition of his neighbor's wife's cousin's uncle's father-in-law who avengeth the deed. Yea, verily, his life is uncertain, and he knoweth not the bour when he may be jerked herjee. Hegoeth forth on a journey half-shot ami cometh back on a shutter, shot. He riseth in the night to let the cat out, and it taketh nine doctors three days to pics the buckshot from his per son. He goeth forth in joy and gladness and cometh back in scrans and fragment. Hecalletb his fellow-man a liar and gettetb himself filled with scrap iron even to the fourth generation. A cyclone bloweth him into the bosom of his neighbor's wife, and his neigh bor's wife's husband bloweth him into the bosom of Father Abraham before hs hath time to explain. Heeniptietha demijohn into himself and a shotgun into his enemy: and hi enemy's son lieth in wait on election day, and, lo, the coroner bloweth np a 40-acre field to bury that man. Woe, woe, is Kentucky, for her eyes are red with bad whisky, and her soil is stained with the blood of damijiste I So lan. IS WASTED IN MISS0CEI. Officer Ed Shaw Captures a Fugitive Front an lastcrn Mate. Elijah Pyle, Jr.. wanted at Eminence, Shannon county, Missouri, for attempted criminal assault, was arrested last Fri day at a wood camp near Clackamas bv Officer Ed Shaw, of this city. Pyle wilt be detained here until instruction are received from Missouri. The alleged assault was committed last July and the accused young man, who is but twenty years of age, has been in this locality for the last three months. He has made no attempt to hide himself or to conceal hi identity. While admitting that he was in the company ol the young woman who is tbecomplainant one even ing last July, Pyle emphatically denies that he perpetrated any assault. He contends that the filing of the charge against himself was influenced by per sonal grudges that resulted from a tri fling remark he, Pyle, made about the young woman's suitor. The arrpst by Officer Shaw was made after five weeks of thorough detective work on hi part. .o IMty Si h ow n, "Foryeara fate was after mecontinu ously," wriees F. A. tiulledge, Verbena, Ala. "I had a terrible case of piles, causing 24 tumors. When all failed Bucklen' Arnica Salve cured me. Equally good for burns and all aches and pains. Only 25c at Cbarman A Co.' drug atore. Cheapest lota in Oregon City for sal. I squire at tat Enterprise office. Oct. J af A WHOLE CENTURY W. XV. Smilh Has (Jiorajiliy Written in ISO,. ' I'opnI.iKon f American Country I hen W..s 5,000,000 Indebtfd ne 62,01)0,000. W. W. Smith, who resides at Park place, claims to have in his p8ewion ttie oldest geography that has been pre served. It was written in 104, and Mr. Smith retain one of the volumes ttiat was published in 1807, snd thin ante dates by ten years the geography owned by Puatinaster H P. Layton, of Manh field, Illinois, who liaa been reported to have the ol et geography in the country. It was printed lu 1H17, and consi -ted of only 288 traces, while Mr. Smith's book has 4u2 pages. In presenting the volume, the author says: "No national government hold out to its subjects so many alluring mo tives to obtain an accurate knowledge, of their own country, and itj various inter ests, as that of United America. P.y the freedom of our own selections, public honors and public offices are not con ti ned to any one class of men, but are offered to merit in whatever class it may he found. To discharge the duties pub lic olhYe with houor and applause, the history, policy, commerce, productions, particular advantages and interests of the several states, ought to be thorough ly understood. It obviously wise and prudent then to initiate onr youth in the knowledge of these things, and thos to form their mind on republican princi ples, and prepare them lot future useful ness and bonor. There is no science better adapted to the capacities of .uth, and more apt to captivate their arteu tion, than geography. An acquaintance with this science, more than with any other, satisfies that pertinent curiosity, which is the predominating feature of the youthful mind. It ia to be lamented that this part of education has been so long neglected in America. Our young men, universally, have been much bet ter acquainted with the geography of Europe and Asia than with that ,,( 'heir own state and country. The waut of suitable books on the subject ha been the cause, we hope the sole cause, of this shameful defect in our education. Till within a few year we have seldoaw pretended to write, and hardly to think for ourselves. We have humbly receiv ed from Great Britain our laws, oar manners, onr books, and oar mode of thinking; and oar youths have been educated rather a the subjects of Great Britain than a the citiiens of a f tee and independent republic. "But the scene is now changed. The revolution baa been favorable to science in general ; particu larly to that of the geography of onr own country." The boundaries of the United States were given a follows: "Bounded north and east by British America or the pro vinces of Upper and Lower Canada and New Brunswick ; southeast by the Atlan tic ocean ; south by East and West Flor ida; west by the river Mississippi. The territory of the United States, according to Mr. Hutchins, contains a million of square miles, in which are 040, (Xn), 000 acres ; deduct for water, 51,000,000 acres, leaves 589,000,000 acres of land in 'he United States." The Columbia river ia designated as the Oregon river or the itiver of the West. But one map is con tained in the book ami tbat is of North America. With reference to the financial condition of the country, the following is given: "The revenue of the United States is raised from duties on the ton nage of vessels entered in the Pni ed States, and on imported goods, wares and merceandise, and from an excise on various article ol consumption, amount ing in the year 1794 to f6,552,300.74; in 1802, tl0.117,O4i.57. The expenditures for the year 1794, $5,481,843 84; for 1802, $9,800,000." The total indebtedness of tne United States January 1. 1804, is given at $02,862,144.03. In 1799 the ex ports from the United States amounted to $78,665,522. while in 1803 the total was only (55,800,033. Considering that the volume is nearly one hundred year old, it ia well pre served, the binding being practically as good as new. The leaves are discolored. "Geography Made Easy" ia the title un der which the book wa printed, being an abridgement of the American Uni versal Geography. It was writ'en and piepared by Rev. Jedidiah Morse, minis ter, of Charleston, Massachusetts. It is a complete geography and em braces all of the States and countries ol the world as it was then known. By way of introduction to the descriptive parts of the book, the author preface his work with several pages that are devoted to astronomy. A history of the discovery of America and a general description of North America including a summary of the account of its discovery and settle ment, follows in chronological order. AI- Contlnued 011 Page Seven. THE OLD RELIABLE Absolutely Pure THERE IS mSUZSJITUTE 119 Vt fl 4dVV -1