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PAGE 4. OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE) FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1904. Oregon City Enterprise CITY AND COUNTY PAPER. OFFICIAL Published Every Friday. Subscription Rates: One year Six months "5 Trial subscription, two nioutbs.. 25 Advertising rates on application. Subscribers will find the date of ex piratlon stamped on their papers fol lowing their name. If this is not changed within two weeks after a paymeut, kindly notify us, and the matter will receive our attention. Entered at the postofflce at Oregon City, Oregon, as second-class matter. FRIDAY, JULY 15, 1904. MUNICIPAL INDEBTEDNESS. The appended tabulated statement of the municipal Indebtedness of six of the principal cities in the state is taken from an Eastern financial Journal : M p Name of City. Portland I 0 42i H.0M M4 Portland. Port of160 OOOi 49.107.9S Salem Astoria Baker City .., Dalle City ... Oregon City . . 13.0001 S.3!.6S9l 1 5bti 04 4.Mi.0e0; l,30.OOOj 1.9J6.0OO; 8. SKI 6 m. J J ML J.44 It will be seen by comparing the Statistics of the different cities that the Indebtedness of Oregon City Is not only the least but the rate of In debtedness Is the lowest This show ing is good, but the obligations of this city certainly have reached the maxi mum amount that should be allowed. The indebtedness is too large and j must be reduced. The strictest econ omy should be practiced by the mem bers of the council. If the city did not face an indebtedness approximat ing 1100,000, and bad a substantial cash balance in the treasury, the coun cil could be more liberal in its admin istration of municipal affairs. Of course many of the matters presented j Industrial and social conditions, when involve small amounts, but the brake j so many thousands of young women must be applied somewhere, and It j are rushing Into all lines of wage might be well to use the pruning knife earning employments and making along several lines of municipal ex- themselves independent of the young penses In Oregon City. j man who has a matrimonial propo- With the indebtedness of the city ' sition to present, it would be a ven nearly $100,000, Oregon City annually tureime man Indeed who would utter pays about $6000, or 50 per cent of a sweeping and unqualified condem her income, for . interest alone. By nation of bachelorhood. Investigation wiping out this indebtedness the city beneath the surface would reveal the tax levy can be reduced one-half. If fact that it is a condition that con the local option people, on the other fronts the bachelor, not a theory. hand, invoke the provisions of their Chicago Record-Herald, favored measure and prohibit the con- o ducting of saloons within Oregon City. ! Democratic issues never live to be there will be little prospect of taxes four-year-olds. being reduced at all. Last year the.' o total receipts of the city were some- j Senators Mitchell' and Fulton and thing less than $10,000, and of that : others have protested to the Interior amount $4900 was paid in licenses by ' department against the removal of the saloons of the city. ; the local land office from Oregon City o ! to Portland, and ask that no action THE NATIONAL NUISANCE. Generalizations from personal ex periences should always be made with caution, but, we think, from the ex- The Enterprise desires all its cor pressed opinion of many people, as j respondents to send in items as often well as from the tone of the press, j as possible a few each week is bet that there ba3 been a very decided ter than skipping for a good while, change of sentiment during the last ' Where we have no correspondent one quarter of a century over the celebra-' wiil be cheerfully accepted. Let us tion of the Fourth. It was once the j hear from all parts of the county. almost universal custom among par-; o : ents to enter very fully into the spirit i Even the casual observer who walks of the children, and the man who went j through the retail districts of New j furthest In the waste of money and York during the holiday season can j production of noise plumed himself on ' scarcely fail to be impressed with the his ability to be a boy, again. This in- j almost phenomenal difference in the dividual is, of course, still with us, but ' amount of business done in the vari it would Beem, as a diminishing quan- j ous stores. He will notice that one tity. At any rate, it s remarkable store seems to be constantly crowded how common the denunciation of the j with customers, that the salespeople nerve-destroying, property-destroying, J are working to the limit of their en-life-destroylng powder debauch has durance and that the delivery wagons become. One hears it on all sides i are kept busy night and day distrib frotn people with small children, and j uting the goods sold. In another store half-grown children, and grown child-! in the same block, perhaps next door, ren, as well as from those who have j he will observe that there is practi no children at all. j cally "nothing doing." This store Is Probably this is largely due to the j quite as attractive as the other, it increasing dangers of the day, with j handles the same lines and qualities its modern improvements, There is j much more noise for the money than , there used to be, and whereas child-1 ren were formerly satisfied with the courteous and attentive. But there is little paper-covered torpedoes and the a much smaller staff of salespeople weakest of Ereerac irs, they now de- employed, and even during the holi mand something to split the ear. I day rush tbey are not kept busy. Why There has been for some time a con stantly greater diffusion of pistols, cannon crackers and divers dangerous ' gate the problem and have made care inventions of the evil one until a pro-' ful observations In dor.en or more test has been provoked which, it Is hoped, may bring about not merely a reaction but a revolution in the ob servance of the holiday. With the proper sentiment devel oped, what is needed next is a more resolute attltnde on the part of the civil authorities. It would be an in terestlng experiment to try an abso lutely prohibitive instead of a partial ly permissive proclamation. It that Is not considered feasible because of the strength of tradition, the enforce ment of restrictions should certainly be carried on with a wholly unprece dented vigor Chicago Record-Herald. BACHELORHOOD CONDEMNED BY PRESIDENT SCHURMAN. In his address to the 527 graduates cf Cornell University Presldeut Sehur man departed from the beaten track of commencement day advice long enough to register an earnest protest against bachelorhood. "Ho who de liberately leads a single life, whose social circle is the club, and whose re ligion Is refined and fastidious epl cuieanlsra. Is not a man," declared Pr. Schurnian. In elaborating his idea as to the du ties and obligations of manhood. Pres ident Schurnian explained that while it was the primary duty of every young man to earn a living, this could not fulfill the world's reasonable ex pectation of him. He has a higher 3 a M 2 a. a. 140 OA J5.Sti6.0fiS! 15. 685. 469 1180.587 1,060. WW 220.1M 5i5.6.'a ..10.668 283.200 12O.6S0) 21 310 90.331 ...3.572 2 80' 1. 050.000 38 60 45 001 6t 50, 36 001 50! 21J0.1M! 4M.530 1 34.099 :k3.:'uoi H.I.0i0 "2.07 21. "96: duty to humanity and the state, which requires that he found a borne and provide for a wife and family. If Dr. Sehurman bad pronounced a sweeping and unqualified condemna tion of bachelorhood he doubtless would havexlaid himself open to much criticism. But it is to be noted that his protest was aimed at the college graduate who "deliberately elects bachelorhood." His purpose mani festly was to rebuke the young man who carefully and designedly avoids the responsibilities of our civilization, chief among which is the founding of i a home and the rearing of a family. I in tnese times oi rapiaiy cnanging ! be taken until all Interested parties can be heard. The matter will prob ably nut be disposed of immediately. o of goods, and perhaps they come from the same manufactories. The prices are equally low, and the clerks are is there such a remarkable difference? I have taken the trouble to lnvesti- cases. I have Invariably found that the merchants who were doing the business were good advertisers, and that the ones who were apparently receiving but little benefit from the holiday trade made no use of the printer's ink. Retailer and Advertiser. "V view with alarm," itc. Will Democratic vision ever become dim-; med? o , The country Is not yet ready to for get the four ycHrs of Cleveland dlsiui-' tor between ISM and 1S!7. There are no surface Indications that ' ttje American workman wants to ex tend his soup house experiences. j There is more prospect of the He- j publicans currying Missouri thau : there Is of their losing New York. Voters are Invited by the Kepubll-' can party to study Its record; the Democrats earnestly- hope that thelr's I may be forgotten. o Voters will dougtless observe that no foreign power Is thinking or talk ing about overthrowing the Monroe doctrine Just now. o It is funny how an American work man loses his hearing In the presence of calamity sbouters as soon as he opens a bank account. o About the only thing the real, Amer ican, thinking Democrats have to be thankful for is that their party did not win in 1& or 1900. o The only "idea" that is attracting attention out in Iowa Just now Is that the Republican majority In November shall be a record-breaker. o What a fix the Democratic party would be In If Its leaders followed the Japanese plan of committing suicide when they make mistakes. An Idea of Democratic harmony may be gained from the fact that every leader dodges and shudders when an other leader endorses hlra. "How far away are the stars?" asks a magazine writer. We do not know exactly, but they are not so far away as a Democratic victory In the nation. Veterans of the civil war are about convinced that the only way they can escape the criticisms of the Demo crats on the pension question is to die. "I'ncle Joe" Cannon declares that "We moVe on" Is the Republican motto. "We want on" is about the only proposition upon which the wrangling factions of Democracy can unite. Democrats declare they want to clean out the Augean stables. The ap pearance of the men selected for the task causes a natural suspicion that it would be the part of wisdom to lock up the fork. Democratic leaders assert that the Republican convention at Chicago was apathetic. It may have seemed that way to politicians who- have drawn upon Populists and Socialists for their boisterous enthusiasm at conventions. When the Democratic orator pro poses to have reciprocity In competi tive products, ask him which Ameri can industry he proposes to Injure In the process, and he will probably re ply, a la Hancoclt, that "the tariff is a local Issue." Every now and then some Democrat reaches a smouldering campflre and tries to fan some ember Into the blaze of a new issue, only to find that he has struck the spot where the Repub lican hosts camped foiir years before. o The Republican party seeks the vote of the farmer because it has fur nished him better markets and better prices for his products than ever be fore. The Democratic party never expects the farmer's vote except when he has been ravaged by drouth and chinch bug. o "The Democratic party Is big enough to write its own platform, se lect its own candidates and manage its own campaign," shouts a Southern paper. That is certainly a sign of de velopment and growth. The Demo crats have had the Populists attend to these duties for the last eight years. The Democrats at their national convention at St. Louis on Saturday nominated Judge Alton B. Parker, of New York, for president, and ex-Senator Henry G.Davis, of West Virginia, for vice president. Bryan and Hearst have announced that they will (support the party's nominees. They will need additional support to insure their elec tion. Oregon City people annually pay to Portland hospitals hundreds of dollars for the treatment of the afflicted. This money should be kept at home. There could be conducted In this city a small hospital that would meet all the re quirements of the community and the expenses would not be large. A hos pital is a public necessity, and espe cially so in a manufacturing city where the danger of accidents Is ever present. FIR IS IS WORIIP'S Will be awarded to any We (SIv xspflDias . With every 25 cent cash purchase : HOWELL & JONES Drugs Prescriptions Stationery. THOMSON'S BARGAIN STORE Dry Good Clothing Shoes. LAMB fc SAWYER Bicycles Sporting Goods Guns. MISS WISNER The Leading Photographer. FRANK REDNER Candles and Ice Cream. R. PETZOLD Meat Market. PARKER FARNSWORTH MOREV. Sketch of Prominent Clackamas County Citizen Who Died Lett Week. I'arker Farnswurth Morey, whose sud den death Inst Thursday ki announced in l.ixl week's Enterpilae, win for1 year a prominent resident of Clai kuma county. Mr. .Money wax born of Scotch-English ancestry fit Calais. Maine, October IS, 47. He received his education In hi native state and at an early age learned Ihe trade of a machinist and made a great success as a practical mechanical eriKineer. In 1M6 he emigrated to I'la cervllle. California, and afterwards locat ed at Hacramento, where while employed In the machine shops of the Central Pa cific Itallroad company he made a nun-tt-r of inventions and returned to Chicago to superintend their manufacture. )le returned to California In 1 h7. and shortly afterwards removed to Oregon, where he has resided continuously since. After h" allng in this state. Mr. Morey In'. -tlted and Installed the Hydraulic K.un elevator that Is now being so extensively nsed In I'ortland. He also Installed the ' celebrated Hull Itun water system In il'mtland at an expense to that munlcl ! pality of aliout iJ.J'MMi". This puhllc J utility stands as an cniluihis- monument to the fore-iivht, energy and enter prl.- I of Mr. Morey. In lhh.i. with others, he lotganlzcd the United Stales Electric I.ii'litiig & i'ower company, of i'ortland. arid this was subsequently merged Into the Willamette Falls Elcctrl; company, of which Mr. Morey was made manager, succeeding to the presidency of the com pany at the death of that otticer. Jn 1MJ, Mr. Morey was one of the organiz ers and founders of the i'ortland General Klectrlc company, with a capital stock of $4.Ji0. n. i'olitlcally the deceased was always a ifepuhllcan. . anil in l'l lie represented Multnomah county In the state legisla ture. He Is survived iv a wife and nine children, as follows; Mrs. Florence Ek strom. of Albany. New York; Miss Maud Morey. Fred Morey, Helen Kastham. Harry Eastham, Melville Kastham. Oerald Kastham. Shirley Kastham and Edward Kastham. Funeral servft e were conducted at the late home near Oswego Saturday after noon. There were many in attendance from Oregon City and I'ortland. The re mains arrived in this city about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, when they were taken in charge by the Mason, who escorted the body to the Crematorium. ROAD SUPERVISORS NAMED. County Court Hal Appointed Its Road Builr'jr(. The C'laikamns County court last Sat urday appointed road supervisors fur Clackamas county to serve until January 1 next, The law authorizing the appoint ment of road supervisor of the Btate went into effect last January, but at that time the road supervisor of thl conuty were serving under the elective system, and their terms did not expire until July 1 thl year. They were continued In office until thl time. The court In making the appointment at this time, retained many of those who have eerved in that capacity, and where new men were required lected only men All railroad transportation to St. Louis and return and $100.00 additional for expenses will be given to the winner of this contest. Party in Clackamas County 'a - - Smart Ettpccs SweiiLacoiiarS m - r yj 11 WW Our buyer in now in New York nd within a few week we will have on display the amartnt and inns' complete linn of Novelties in Ladies' Wtar tver iIiowd in Ibis city. Prlett Cxtrmly Low. who are entirely capable of performing the work that. will coma tinder their su pervision, the purpose being; to rncoiitng arid promote In every possible way the Improvement of the road of the county. The county court contemplate aomn ex tension work along these lines during this summer. Appointment were made a follows District No. 1, W. H. Coorisell, Mll waukle. Pletilct No District No District No. District No District No. District No Distric t I'o. laid over. laid over. laid over W. II llorlng. Ilorlng Hermann ilirins, Handy. JllS FegleS, Hull ItUU liavld I lunulas, ('berry- Vllle. Distib t No. J. laid over. Distil, t No. 10, W. it; OatOelil. (tur fM.!. District No. 11, J. i: Smith, I'ark i'liu e. District No. 12, J. H. CHI, I.oKan. District No. HI, J. C. Fullam. Viola. District No. 14. (1. F. tilbbs. Maple Lane. District No. ID. Ward H. Dawton, Cane- man. District No District No. by. If., A. Hlaehley, New Era. 17, Adam H. Knight. Can- District No. IX, 10. W. Hornshuh, Ilea- ver ''reek. District No. 19, J. J. Mallalt. Mullrro. DlHlrlct No. 20, II. Hullivan. Highland. District No. 2, W. E. liontiey, Canyon Creek. District No. 22, Harry Install. Molalla. District No. 21, W. H. Tull. liarlow. District No. 24, (leorge A. Klnt.-r, Needy. District No. 2G. J. E. Mitts. Macksburg. District No. 2A. William Vlck, Molallu. District No. 27, J. E. Murcjiiam, Mar uam. 1 D.'r'trl. t No. 28, J. W. Nightingale, Wll holt. District No. 29, Julius Bnyder, Aurora. District No. 30, Jack Monk, Oswego. District No. 32, E. L. Haker, WIIon vllie. District No. 33, J. A. Held, Bprlngwater. District No. 34, laid over. District No. 3A, Fred Wajmer. Cascade. Dtrlct No. 3, Hud Thompson, Klllen. All vacancies wiil lie appointed at the regular meeting of the court In August TEACHERS' EXAMINATIONS. Notice I hereby given that the county superintendent of Clackamas County will hold the regular examination of appli cant for dtate and county paper at Oregon City am follow: For State Paper. Commencing Wednesday, August 10, at nine o'clock A. at. and continuing until Saturday, August 11, at four o'clock P. M. Wednesday i'enmajuhlp, history, (pel- receiving the highest vote. J. M. PRICE Clothier Furnisher Shoes. MILES' & McGLASHAN Groceries and Provisions. W. L. BLOCK Furniture Carpets Stoves. S. OLDSTEIN Favorite Cigar Store. BRUNSWICK RESTAURANT The Only First Class Restaurant OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE u recervca. ( tsiHw rnisLtv) Main St., OREGON CITY S ling, algebra, reading, school-law. Thursday Written arithmetic, theory of I. aching, grnmmar. Ixsik keeping, physics. cl II government. Friday I'byslol.igy. geography, mental arithmetic, composition, physical geog raphy Saturday Itnlanv. plane geometry, general history, English lltcratoie, psy chology. Tor County Papers. Commencing Wednesday, August 10. at nine o clock A. M , and continuing until Friday. August 1.'. at four oYhs k P. M. First, Second and Third Qrade Certifi cate! Wednesday Penmanship, history, or Olography, rciullriK Thursday- Written arithmetic, theory of teaching, grammar, physiology. Friday--geography, mental ar Itlnnntla, school law. civil government. Primary Certificate!. Wednesday- renmanslrlp, orthography, reading, arithmetic. Thursday- Art of questioning, theory of teaching, methods, physiology. Very truly yours, J C. 7,1 NH Fit, Superintendent. Oregon City. July 11, i(H. Reduced Ratei to St. Louli Exposition. The Southern Pacific Co. will sell roundl trip ticket at greatly reduced rate to Bt. I.oul and Chicago account the 81. Louis Exposition, on the following date: June it. 17, 18; July 1, t, f. Augut I, , 10; September (, , 7; October t, 4, t. Onlng trip must be completed within ten days from date of nle, and passen ger will be permitted to tnrt on any day that will enable them to reach des tination within the ten day limit He turn limit ninety day, but not later than Dec. Slat, 1S04. For full Information a to rates and route call on Agent Southern I'aclflo Co. at Oregon City, Oregon. Pile Upon Top of Pile. Pile upon top of (die of people have the I'llcs. and DeWItt Wlteh llael Halve cure them. There are many dif ferent kinds of File, hut If you get the genuine and original Witch Hazel Salve made by K. C. DeWItt A Co. of Chicago, a cure In certain. II. A. Tlsdaio, of Sum mcrtori. S. C, say: "I had pile 20 year and DeWItt' Salve cured mo after every thing else had failed." Sold by O. A. Harding. The pill that will, will fill the bill. Without a gripe. . To cleanse the liver, without a quiver. Take one at night. DeWItt' Little Early Itlser are small, easy to take, easy and gentle In erfect, yet they are ao certain In result that no one who use them I disappointed. For quick relief from biliousness, t,i bead ache, torpid liver, jaundice, dlnlnes and all trouble arising from an Inactive, sluggish liver, Early Itinera are une qualled. Sold by a. A. Harding.