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Enterpr 1Y" OBEGON CITY, OREGON, FBIDAY, FEBEUARY 24, 1905. ESTABLISHED 1866 VOL. 38. NO. 16. CmOSS & SHAW LEADING REAL" ESTATE DEALERS Main Street, Oregon City, Or. 233 Washington Street, Portland, Or. Oregon City as a Profitable Field For Investments FEW PEOPLE are aware of the substantial growth and development of Oregon City. The population It la true Is not Increasing at so rapid a rate as its business and manufacturing: interests, but more people are coming into the city right along. Every available dwelling house Is occupied and tenants could easily be found for one hundred more If they were to be had. It Is reasonable to expect a larger and more rapid growth from this time on. No city in the state outside of Portland can begin to compare with Oregon City, In the amount of its manu facturing, anJ in the extent of its manufacturing plants. Over thirty thousand horse power is in operation and in process of generation. Great wheels representing eight thousand of eight hundred horse power rae now being installed at an expenditure of five hundred thousand dollars. The stupendous character of the new work now being done can only be realized by a personal visit to the scene of operation. This great work is to be irrfmediately followed by the erection of another large paper mill, and another power plant to be erected on the east side of the falls by the Portland General Electric company. Public announcement of the latter project has been made and active construction will begin this season. The scope of this plant is so great that work on it will be extended over soeral years. ' Oregon City employs a thousand hands in 'its mills and factories and has a pay roll of eighty thousand dollars a month. , Oregon City has the largest paper mills and the largest woolen mill west of the Rocky mountains. It will make its material growth this present year. An investment in this prosperous manufacturing town is as sure and far more profitable than a government bond. Oregon City needs more business men with increased capital and at least half a dozen modern brick stores on Main street. Such stores would all be rented before they were nearly completed. It is a fact that no business man with means and intelligence ever made a failure in Oregon City. Success is the rule and not the exception. We have a manufacturing basis alone for a population of twenty thousand. Valuations are yet at old figures and handsome profits will accrue to the careful investors. In all honesty, let us admit that prices are ridiculously low and will not be duplicated again. Investors and capitalists desiring to place money m business or manufacturing enterprises or who may wish to buy lots and erect dwellings can find a choice list of such properties with CROSS & SHAW Choice City Property for sale in Portland, Oregon City and Glade at lowest prices. We are selling lands right along and are always in the market to b l r sell. Farms in Clackamas County are a good safe investment and our prices are right. HAS QUIT POLITICS SENATOR BROWN ELL. DECLARES HE IS OUT OF THf. GAME. Insists That He Is Not a Candidate for Governor and Will not Run for State Senator. L.POETEK, ATTORNEY AT LAW ABSTRACTS OF FBOFKKTT FDBNI8HKD. Office next to Oregon City Enterprise. QD.i D.C. LATOURETTB ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LA ,7 MAIN STREET OREGON CITY, OREGOlf Furnish Abstracts of Title, Loan Money, Foreclose Mortgages, and transact General Law Business. Q W. EASTHAM ATTORNEY AT LAW Collections, Mortgage Foreclosures, Ab stracts of Title and General Law Business. Office over Bank of Oregon City, Oregon City, Or. Make Known Yot Wants I Am Prepared to Supply Tliem That's my business. I have a complete line of new and second-hand furniture that can't he-equalled in quality and price. A specialty made of furnishing house-keeping outfits. IF YOU NEED Anything in Furniture, Carpets, Crockery, Hardware Glass ware or Graniteware new and second hand you are sure. to buy after inspecting my stock. , I. TOLPOLAR MAIN STREET OREGON CITY, OREGON "I am positively not a candidate for Governor, or any other office. I am de cidedly out of politics" declared Senator Brownell when questioned relative to his candidacy for Governor. ' "And this is the truth, too," seriously reiterated the Clackamas county states man of promises filled and unfilled. Senator Brownell was found at his home by the interviewer who was in vited to the Senator's library. Producing a liberal stock of choice Havana cigars,, discussion was resumed. "No, I will tell you honestly, my po sition," commenced the Senator. "This morning I attended church services for the purpose of cleansing my system of the odium that has naturally resulted from a contact with the influences by which I have been surrounded during the last forty days in Oregon politics. This day ' being ; the Sabbath, I do not feel that it is at all proper to discuss politics, but I will state honestly and truly that I am positively not a candi date for the office of Governor or for any other office." -. s "But don't you think you could defeat Governor Chamberlain for re-election? was asked. "Well, I am not saying what I think I could do," evasively replied Mr. Brownell "That would be extremely silly, but I do say again and honestly, I mean just what I say, I am entirely out of politics. I have quit the game. I am not dissatis fled at all, it is not for any such reason that I am getting out of politics. There is simply nothing in it and I have re solved to' devote my time to my pro fession and provide for my family. All I have ever got out of politics has been the glad hand. I have always served my friends in politics to the best of my ability and have always done for thenr the best I could. Actually," and the Senator became real serious, "I have made a great many Clackamas county men what they are today, elevated them to political prominence and they are the last ones who would say a word in my favor or do me a kindness. As I say, having never gotten anything out of politics, I have simply concluded that it is not a possible game for a poor man to play and I have firmly decided not to be a candidate for any office." "Who do you think will be the candi date for the Republicans for Governor in 1906?" "I am sure I could not tell you, but I expect the machine wants to see Judge Webster get the nomination. 'At any rate, whoever the candidate may be, he will be compelled to make ' a personal nvass of the state and without spend- ing anything corruptly, such a campaign will cost between $2000 and $3000 and I just simply haven't got the money. confess I like politics, but a poor man has no business in the game and I have quit. "Will you not be a candidate to suc ceed yourself as State Senator from Clackamas County in 1906?" was asked. "No, sir, I assuredly will not. I have repeatedly stated I am entirely out of politics to remain out. In the future I will have absolutely nothing to do in politics and will devote my whole time to my law business as a more satisfactory means of providing for the comfort and happiness of my family. Monday's Ore- gonian. HE BOUGHT A GOLD BRICK. W. 8. TP-Ben 0. 8ohnbel U'REN & SCHUEBEL ' Attorneys at Law. ! Will practice in all conns, make collections and settlements of Estates. Furnish abstracts of title, lend you money and lend your money on first niorgage. Office in Enterprise Building, Oregon City, Oregon. IIVY STIPP Attorney at Law. Justice of the Peace. gger Bldg., Oregon City J U.CAMPBELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Eteoii City, OXBSOX. Will practice in allthe courts of the state. Of fice, in Caufield building. CLACKAMAS TITLE CO. Your Clackamas County abstracts of Title should be prepared by the Clackamas Title Company, incor porated, Chamber of Commerce building, Portland. This company Is the builder and owner of the best and most complete plant of Clack . amas county titles. As tracts from its offices are compiled by experts of long experience, competent attor neys and draughtsmen, and are of guaranteed accuracy. Clackamas County Lands, Mortgage Loans, Estates managed, Taxes ex amined and paid. E. F. Riley, pres... F. B. Riley, sec. Appreciate a Well Served Meal The pleasure of eating at the Bruns wick House is more than merely. It is a pleasure you don't find in care lessly managed places. ' You dine here amid pleasant surroundings, snowy linens and polite service, the best viands the market affords, pre pared in a manner to snit the most exacting epicure, and with all ex clusiveness. 1 Oregon City, Oregon. Oregon City Machine Shop PHILIPP BUCKLIN, PROPRIETOR Twelfth and Main Streets ' Oregon pity, Oregon The same paper Tuesday morning con tained the following comment as to the probable successor of Senator Brownell: "While the announcement by Senator . Brownell of his positive retirement from ! politics, both state and local, is received J with suspicion here at the Senator's home, where he is perhaps best ' known, still the possibility of such a ! contingency in this county naturally sug gests the query: 'In that event, on whose shoulders will the Clackamas County Senatorial mantle fall?' "Two months ago Senator Brownell was considered an avowed candidate for the nomination for Governor, with a suf ficient backing to insure for him the coveted honor, if everything went 'ac cording to programme.' In fact, the Clackamas County Senator was consid ered a likely candidate for the place un til the announcement of his indictment by the Federal grand jury a few weeks ago, and then his plans collapsed, and with his announced divorcement from politics comes the statement that he will now devote himself exclusively to his legal practice. "There are a number of workers in the Clackamas County Republican vine yard who consider themselves entitled to succeed Senator Brownell in his role of dictator of the party in this county. Foremost among these aspirants may be mentioned Representative Clyde G.Hunt ley, of this city, who hs served this county for two successive terms in the House of Representatives. James U. Campbell, ex-caun,ty chairman of the county organization, would not refuse the nomination when it is to be made, while Harvey E. Cross or Charles F. Clark, of Clackamas, would not refuse to succeed their former political oppo nent. Senator Brownell.. There are also others. "It is generally understood that County Judge Ryan will ask for the nomination as State Treasurer on the Republican state ticket, while ex-Mayor Grant B. Dimick has the county well organized to the extent at least that it is probable he will realize his ambition to succeed Judge Ryan in 1906. For the reasons just re cited, neither Ryan nor Dimick may be considered in the race for Senator other than in so far as the selection might af fect their individual interests, except their aspirations are defeated in the county and state conventions about . a year hence." 1 Linn County Man's Gullibility Costs Him $10,000. There was published in the Oregonian Tuesday a gold brick story in which is related the details of ' how a Linn county man was separated from $10,000 by a brace of bold swindlers who suc cessfully employed the antiquated "gold brick" scheme. The story follows: "Lying at the point of death in his home 25 miles south of Portland Is a man 75 years old, who is the victim of two confidence men. Four days ago they were successful " In swindling him out of $10,000 by means of the anti quated "gold brick" trick. A cleaner job has never been reported. Since he became aware that he had lost the small fortune, he was attacked by a serious spell of heart failure. Publcity of his name and residence, bis reatives em phatically declare, would kill him. "Not for years has such a sensational bunco trick been turned near Portland, and a smoother job has never come to light. It seems almost incredible, but close relatives of the old man declare he begs them to withhold his name from every person who cannot be trusted to keep it from the police and newspapers. He fears publicity, saying the humilia- "Several weeks were required by the bunco men to work up to the termination of the daring trick, secure the old man's fortune and escape. After leaving, they dropped him a letter, as is usual with such men in such a case, saying they presumed he was aware that he had been swindled. It would do no good they said, to. make a fuss about it, as he would be hooted by all his friends for being a sucker,' and the best thing he could do was to keep quiet and make the best of it. - ' . "There are no new features to the game, as the swindlers worked it, and Its details have been published from ocean to ocean since Mount Hood was only a hill. One of the criminals took lodgings in the village where the victim lives, remaining there until he was able to gather all important details as to his antecedents, - the old man's journeyings and such data as is always necessary in carrying to the final (termination the moss-grown trick. "Having obtained sufficient details. the swindler had his partner equip a fake assay office in a nearby town, to where the old man was taken later, that the gold brick used could be assayed and the value of the mine to be sold verified. The gold mine from which the brick was taken, was located in Arizona, they told he old man, and was the property of an Indian. The man who worked the deal with the old man possessed a pho tograph of the old Indian, who he said, owned the mine. The red man wanted to sell the property and great was the old man's chance, he was told, to buy cheaply a very valuable mine. "Tie bunco man talked very familiar ly of towns where the old man had lived; of journeys be had taken from place to place, voweajbe.'had Jtnown him in the bygone days and was exceedingly glad, he told his intended victim, that he could afford him an unheard-of prop osition at so small a sum. "Last Friday the bunco man and his intended victim boarded a train at the village station and went to another town, where the fake assay office was ready to receive them. The second bunco man was there, his role being that of a Gov ernment official in charge. He assayed the gold brick. It was very valuable ore. he said very valuable. He gave the matter exceptionally careful attention, he told the old man and the first bunco artist, as he had never before seen such a cracker-jack sample of gold ore. "The old man thought the word of the fake Government official must be good, so he paid over" the first sum $10,000. Other sums were to follow, until the mine would all be his. He went home, happy in the thought that he had closed magnificent deal. When he received the letter from the swindlers Saturday afternoon he fainted and a physician has been in constant attendance since. ' During his delirious moments he begged piteously to have the matter Kept a pro found secret. 'Efforts are being made by the officials to capture the two men who turned the trick, but there is said to be small hope. Both were wearing chin whiskers, good but not exceptionally fine clothes, and were past masters in the art of conver sation." i develops that the victim of the swindlers' operations was Wm. Vance, a wealthy Linn county farmer. SESSION AT AN END OREGON LEGISLATURE HAS AD JOURNED WITHOUT DAY. ' Brief Review of the Principal Meas . urea That Were Passed by Both Houses. CV SALEM, Or., Feb. 17. At 8 o'clock tonight the 23d biennial session of the Oregon Legislature ended and the law makers adjourned without day. The ses sion began January 9 and lasted 40 days. The body cannot meet again unless called together by the Governor. The next Legislature will not meet in regular ses sion until January, 1907. The House had little to do today, but the Senate was crowded with work and a number of bills on third reading' in The climax of the session was reached today in the Senate, when the Jayne local option bill was disposed of a meas ure which drew more interest than any other at any time In the session. Governor Chamberlain will be kept busy the next five days scanning . the many bills which were passed at - the close of -the session. The Important measures are as follows: Whipping-Post Established. The punishment o)f wife -beaters by whipping has been authorised by aa amendment of the criminal laws on as- sault and battery, and on conviction the . husband may be sentenced to receive 20 lashes administered by the Sheriff, Constable or City Marshal. The inflic tion of this penalty rests In the discre tion of the court. The Eddy corporation Tax Law was amended in the interests of mining com panies. The bill provides that mining concerns not having an output of $1000 a year shall be exempt from the payment of taxes under the Eddy law, but shall pay a flat tax of ten dollars on organiza tion and ten dollars per year. Several bills to create a board of con trol for all the normal schools of the state to cut out one normal school, to abolish all normal schools and establish one in their place. All efforts to change the present normal-school system in Ore- One Railroad Law. An act was passed to compel railroads to make connections with each other and . transfer cars at reasonable rates, the purpose of the act being to make it pos sible to build short railroad lines into undeveloped territory and compel main line roads to handle its cars. Fish and Game Laws. Several fishing laws were enacted for the purpose of guarding against the tak ing of fish on spawning grounds, and to. encouraeg the eexcution of the laws. An appropriation of $8000 was made for pur chase and maintenance of a piiro? boat for" the Master Fish Warden, so that he will, be able to pursue and capture per sons who violate or are suspected of vio lating the law. Numerous game bills were passed by the Leigslature, the most important be ing those prohibiting the sale of game and providing a gun license tax of $1.00 for residents of Oregon and $10 for non residents, with the exceptions that per sons may hunt on their own land with out paying a license.- Some Measures Defeated. The legislature defeated, efforts to make gambling a felony, to amend the local option law, to abolish riparian rights, to create Cascade County from part of Wasco, to amend the census law so as to make it more applicable to pres ent needs, and to create a mining bureau. In Aid of Irrigation. An irrigation law was passed, granting to the Government power to condemn water right where necessary in the con struction of extensive reclamation work. This measure also creates the office of State Engineer and carries an appropria tion of $5000 for hydrographic survey work. The government agrees to spend dollar for dollar with the state in work of this kind and the plan is to make accurate surveys so that definite inform ation can be had regarding available water supply in streams now used torr irrigation. , The purpose of the surveys will be to (Continued on Page 5.) EDo Ifovi Wish tKe Finest Bread The manufacture of gold pens will form one of the many interesting work ing displays at the Lewis and Clark Exposition. It is conceded that , Royai Baking Powder is purest and strongest of all baking pow ders, absolutely free from alum, ammonia and every adulter ant. "Royal" makes the best and most wholesome food. UYAL BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM 8T., NEW YORK.