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OREGON1 CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER . 1905.
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1003.
AS SEEN BY OTHERS.
Under the caption "Unique and Pic
turesque" the West Side Enterprise
had the following a few days ago:
"Brownell and Hofer! That's the
pair that held a political meeting at
Canby, Clackamas county last Satur
day. To give them audience fifteen
hundred people assembled. The meet
ing was arranged for by Brownell and
by him every one present including
Hofer, was assigned his part. The
audience included democrats, social
ists, woman suffragists and here and
there throughout the bewildered as
semblage, a republican. In the his
tory of Oregon politics, a unlquer pair
than Brownell and Hofer never stood
upon a rostrum. Brownell tried to
out Hofer, Hofer, Hofer, and Hotcr
tried to out Brownell, Brownell. The
latter is under federal Indictment but
with this handicap, the former is no
less picturesque. With, 'Do .the pub
lic or the public will do you,' for his
motto, Brownell has completely de
bauched the political morals of Clack
amas county and by the use of so
cialist, democratic and populist votes
kept himself in the state senate
under the name of 'republican.' He
has demonstrated to a nicety how un
curbed ambition, led by hypocrisy
and deceit, embellished with oratory,
may triumph over the honest farmer.
Brownell tells the socialist, the demo
crat or populist that they are no bet
ter socialist, democrat or populist than
he, and that his only reason for train
ing with the republicans is that they
being the dominant party, he can do
more for his real friends of the other
parties if elected as a republican.
To republicans he denounces the vag
aries and impractical theories of the
other parties and sheds tears as he
refers to the flag preserved by the
Union soldiers. Brownell is no slouch
of an actor. Let him divide off his
audience according to politics, In
Clackamas county, and standing on
the same platform, turning from one
crowd to another, he will alternately
win the applause of every political
order in the county.
"Hofer does not worship at Brown
ell's shrine. He does not believe in
his system or follow in his footsteps.
Hofer lays no claim to being a con
sistent republican. During his reign
In Oregon, he has been with all the
political parties that could claim a
respectable following and he Is rath
er inclined to apologize for not sup
porting more political parties on the
ground there were no more to sup
port. But Hofer has done well, under
his 'system.' He has represented
Marion, the second county of the state
in the Legislature. He conducts the
leading paper of Marion. What party
will he support this time? is a per
ennial question as to Hofer's course
every campaign in Marion county."
Independence Enterprise.
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George C. Brownell, the irrepress
ible statesman of Oregon City, says
he will be a candidate for State Sen
ator, at next election, and if elected
then he will be a candidate before the
legislature for United States Senator.
George C. should make a note of It
that the next United States Senator
will be indicated by direct vote of the
people next June. The people want
to help in making the choice this time.
If he wants to run for two positions
at once he must come out In the open
and do it. Forest Grove Times.
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Geo. C. Brownell has a right to be
a candidate for the United States sen
ate if he wants to. The people of
Oregon have also the right to ques
tion his . fitness for that position, or
any ,-pthei"t lor that matter. Salem
Statesman, .
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THE BENNINGTON FINDING.
The first point that attracts atten
tion in the finding of the naval court
of inquiry upon the explosion of the
gunboat Bennington is that It is usu
ally exact both in Its determinations
as to the cause of the explosion and
as to the persons to blame. The Ben
nington had a weak but not a danger
ous boiler. The safety valve of this
boiler had been inspected some time
previously by enlisted men, and the
engineer officer of the boat had re
ported Its condition on their say-so In
stead of on his own personal examina
tion. When steam was raised In the
boiler on the morning of the explo
sion the steam gauge was accidental
ly shut off, the safety valve was out
of order and the pressure Increased
unobserved until the explosion re
sulted. Three enlisted men were re-1
sponsible for the carelessness on the
morning of the explosion, but all are
dead. The engineer officer, who es
caped with his life, is held to trial
by court-martial for his negligence in
not personally Inspecting the valve.
Despite the fact that the personal
clement appears so prominently, and
that if four men had not been individ
ually negligent the accident would
not have happened, the report bears
directly on the important question
as to whether the navy should again
be given specialist engineer officers
such as It formerly had. It Is, no
doubt, because of this bearing that
the itport has been transmitted by
Secretary Bonaparte to the President.
The present system is on trial, al
though the single engineering officer
of the Bennington was a young en
sign only five years out of the naval
academy. Primarily the fact that
this officer was without aid, and In
deed even without a proper staff of
expert enlisted men, is due to the de
ficiency of officers and trained men In
the navy at the present time. But
accepting that deficiency as a fact,
might It not be that an officer, even
though young and unaided. It he were
looking forward to his full life spent
at the engines instead of In part on
the bridge, would develop a more tn
tlmate concern for every deta.ll of his
machinery, so that just such instanc
es of negligence as that of the officer
tn the present case would be less
likely to occur!
The good engineer must be a man
who loves his machinery. If he Is
overworked and overburdened with
responsibility, so much the greater is
the need of a spirit of personal ab
sorption in a life task. The "fighting
engineer" may be best for the navy,
but If so the fact needs proof not only
with reference to navies in general.
but with reference to the United
States navy in particular in its pres
ent short-handed condition. Chicago
Record-Herald.
Ayer's
VC'hy is it that Ayer's Hair
Vigor does so many remark
able things? Because it is a
hair food. It feeds the hair,
puts new life into it. The hair
Hair Vigor
cannot keep from growing.
And gradually all the dark,
rich color of early life comes
back to gray hair.
" Whn I Aral nt4 Aj.r't nr Wtrn my
hair wM ahum til gray. Hut nam II i,i,a
rich bl-a unit at ittirk I eouM wi.h."
Mas. 8i Si ii KLorrsxsriU), Tuacuuibla.
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UNIFORMITY IN DIVORCE.
Commissions exist for the Promo
tion of Uniformity in Legislation In
the United States. They have accom
plished something, in an obscure way,
for the unformlty of mercantile pro
ceedure, but they have naturally been
incapable of handling so difficult a
topic as divorce. Among subjects In
which there Is any call for uniformi
ty, divorce Is the most difficult, be
cause on it public opinion is most
sharply divided. The action of the
last Pennsylvania Legislature, at
tempting to secure a conference at
Washington, Is likely to be followed
In other States, but the probability of
success Is hardly large enough to see.
South Carolina is as absolute as the
Catholic Church against divorce on
any grounds; South Dakota practical
ly grants divorce at will; , and be
tween these two the laws vary wide
ly. New York for Instance, admitting
but one cause, while most States have
several. Illinois has Just made her
law about remarriage more stringent,
but the change makes slight difference
to persons sufficiently well-to-do to
travel a little before the ceremony.
Until public opinion sets Itself more
strenuously against divorce practical
ly for Incompatibility, and remarriage
at discretion, the laws will accomplish
about as much as laws usually do
when not backed by conviction of the
people. The present agitation, how
ever, will have the desirable effect
of increasing the number of persons
who think seriously about a matter
that is serious. Colliers.
THE FEDERAL JUDGESHIP.
The Mist wishes to congratulate
Senator Fulton on the decisive stand
that gentleman has taken in favor of
the appointment of Judge T. A. Mc-
Bride to nil the vacancy on the feder
al bench In this district; and earnestly
hopes that the President will accede
to his wishes. It is Impossible to ap
point who will be satisfactory to all.
and It is not the executive's duty to
attempt to do so. The President
doubtless wishes to secure a man of
ability and integrity; and there are a
number who could fill the bill In these
respects; but in Judge McBride the
bench will have an occupant who pos
sesses not only these qualifications in
an eminent degree, but also that other
most Important qualification known
as the judicial temperament. Judge
McBride is a man of strong friend
ships, but on the bench his personal
relations are put aside, and he be
comes entirely the Judge of the law.
His first hypothesis is always that
justice and law should be synonyms,
and so far as possible his decisions
are rendered along that line, with as
broad a disregard of quibbles and
technicalities as is practicable. He
is very seldom reversed and the fact
that he is admittedly above partisan
opposition speaks volumes for the es
teem in which he is held in this dis
trict. St. Helens Mist.
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At the Brownell-Hofer meeting in
Canby, the former announced himself
the "daddy" of the direct primary
law, under which he proposes to make
me race ior me state senate, ana
later, if successful, for the United
States Senate. And if he makes the
race for the State Senate, It must be
under the direct primary law, but
what will become of the provision of
the same law which contemplates the
nomination of candidates for the Unit
ed States Senate? Or Is Brownell
the "daddy" of but one part of the
law that part which suits his pur
pose best? Great man, this Mr.
Brownell. Independence Enterprise.
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The spectacle of Colonel Hofer
speaking for the nomination of Tooze
for congress recalls the days of not
long ago when he referred to the
Woodburn candidate as "Itty Watty
Tooze," and his blue pants and plug
hat came in for special ridicule. But
Itty Watty is less "Itty" than he was
then.
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SOMETHING ABOUT CANBY.
A Salem Farm Paper Talis of Clackamas1
Rich and Fertile Prairie.
The town of Canby la located In the
Wllamette valley. Clackamas county, Or
egon, twenty-three mllea aouth of Port
land on the main line of the Southern
Pacific railroad, la two and on-half mllea
from the Willamette river on the north
and Its limits extend to the Molulla river
on the went.
It Is situated on the Canby r.-alrle,
formerly known aa Raker's Prairie. It
has a population of about too.
1 The soil of the prairie la a dark, eandy
loam, and la adapted to the growth of all
klnda of fruits and vegetables. Many of
the farmers on this natural prairie are
making a good living and laying money
aside on ten and twenty-acre tracts of
land. The principal products are straw
berries, water-melons, prunea. potatoea,
clover and vetchh hay; In fact. It will
produce most anything that will grow
In the atate. It also produces a good
quality of hops, but not so great a yield
aa on heavier soils.
Prune growing Is quite an Industry, al
though the crop la very near a failure
this year owing to the late frosts all
through the Willamette valley. The WU
lamette Fruit Company have an orchard
of sixty acres fifty-five acrea of Italian
prunes and five acrea of French Petltes.
They have an up-to-date Allen drier,
with self-spreader, dipper, grader, etc
The capacity of the drier Is 1000 bushels.
There are also many other orchards of
from five to twenty-five acres with driers
of a similar kind, but not so large.
Canby has one great advantage over
many towns of Its slxe In that It haa a
home market for almost anything that la
grown thereabouts, there being four large
warehouses, which buy and ship all kinds
of produce, such as hay, hops, fruit, grain
etc. The town has two general merchan
dise stores, one hardware store, one fur
niture store, two saloons, two livery
stables, two blacksmith shops, two con
fectioneries, one bicycle shop, one real
estate office, one butcher shop, one drug
store and three churches, and Is supplied
with three hotels the Canby House, the
City Hotel, and the Mapfe 8hade Hotel
all modern, well-furnished houses, where
the traveler and visitor may find rest
and comfort. There la one good, large.
roomy school house.
Before many years paas two more
bands of steel will connect Portland and
Canby, over which will be operated elec
tric cars, making Canby one of the pleas
antest home towns In the Willamette
valley.
One thing which Canby Ib greatly In
need of Is a cannery to use the surplus
fruit and vegetable and encourage the
growth of the same. Pacific Homestead.
The fraternal picnic, the fraternal
insurance association are being work
ed to a finish for political purposes in
Oregon. Statesman.
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Senator Brownell evidently thinks
that all It Is necessary for him to
do again as he has so many times be
fore done, Is to place his strong right
arm around the necks of the voters
of Clackamas county and If he can
get his mouth close enough to their
ear, he is not fearful of the result.
In fact, it Is merely a case of "fool
'em again."
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No need for sudden attacks of cholera
Infantum, dysentery, diarrhoea, summer
complaint of any sort If you have Dr.
Fowler's Extract of Wild Strawberry In
the medicine chest.
WEATHER FOR SEPTEMBER.
U. S. Department of Agriculture It
sue Interesting Statistics.
The following data, covering a pe
riod of 33 years have been compiled
from the Weather Bureau Records at
Portland, Oregon. They are Issued
to show the conditions that have pre
vailed, during the month in question,
for the above period of years, but
must not be construed as a forecast
of the weather conditions for the com
ing month.
Month, September, for 33 years.
TEMPERATURE.
Mean or normal temperature, 61
degrees.
The warmest month was that of
1888 with an average of C6 degrees.
The coldest month was that of 1895
with an average of 57 degrees.
The highest temperature was 93
degrees on the 11th, 188G.
The lowest temperature was 3G de
grees on the 21st, 1895.
The earliest date on which first
flilling frost occurred In autumn, was
October 13th.
Average date on which first killing
frost occurred In autumn, November
ICth.
Average date on which last killing
forts occurred In Spring, March 17.
The latest date on which last kill
ing frost occurred In spring, May 9.
PRECIPITATION.
Average for the month 1.7(5.
Average number of days with .Ot of
an inch or more, 8.
The greatest monthly precipitation
was 4.25 Inches In 1884.
The least monthly precipitation was
0.00 inches in 1873.
The greatest amoun of precipita
tion recorded In any 24 consecutive
hours was 1.27 Inches on the 20th
21st, 1898.
CLOUDS AND WEATHER.
Average number of clear days 12.
Partly cloudy days, 10.
Cloudy days, 8.
WIND.
The prevailing winds have been
from the Northwest.
The average hourly velocity of the
wind is 6 miles.
The highest velocity of the wind
was 45 miles from the south.
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509 MAIN r.
while in the eastern section the nights
were cool, with moderately warm days.
A few small showers occurred In the
northwest Sunday and Monday, but they
were Insufficient to wet the ground to
any great depth and rain Is stilt nled
everywhere for late crops and for pastures.
The grain harvest Is drawing to a
close and thrashing Is well along. Fall
wheat and barley continue to yield well,
but the berry of spring wheat and oats
shriveled during the late hot weather
and the yields are disappointing. Pastur
uge Is getting very short and stock is
losing flesh. Corn and hops are making
satisfactory advancement. Ijite potatoes
are at a standstill and need ruin, badly.
Apples are generally smaller In slxe
than usual and the crop prnmlsrs to be
below the average In quantity. Prunes
are beginning to ripen.
CATARRH
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UPPER WILLAMETTE
RIVER ROUTE.
SALEM, INDEPENDENCE, ALBANY
CORVALLIS AND WAY LANDING. '
Leave Portland 6 4J m. d,ly (Ieip
Sunday) for Sulem and way points.
I-eave Portland :45 Tuesday. Thursday
and Huturday for lnd-pcndenre, A
bany and Corvallls. si,g,-. of waler
permitting.
DAILY
RIVER EXCURSIONS
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Near Huntley's Drujt Store,
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RATES REASONABLE
OREGON CITYBOATSl MELLON
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TIME CARD
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a. m.
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a. m. a. m.
S:00 11:30
p.m.
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P- m. p.m.
1:30 t:30
GENERAL SUMMARY.
The paat week waa cooler than the
previous one In the western section.
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correspond with the following representatives:
B. II. TRUMBULL, Commercial Agent,
142 Third Street, Portland .OrP,,n
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142 Third Street. Portland. Oreirnn
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Colman Building, Seattle, Wash.
ROUND TRIP 45c
Tickets exchanged with O. W. P, 4 Hy.
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Office and Dock:
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Phone Main 40,
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Harding's Druff Store.
THE FISH BRAND SUCKER
A VALUED FRIEND
"A good miny yean ago I beught t
FISH BRAND Slicker, ind it hu proren
valued friend for many tormy day, but
now It (a getting old and 1 must ban
another. I'leaae tend me a price-list.
(Tin nam of ihli wrinti, rt.yto, oMitmt la h ml ti ail
,rt. uf wc.ih.r, wl.l ! U.n un ...llc.tl,.)
SSSTJWJRJ) WORLD'S FAIR, 1 001.
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Wet Weather Clothing, Suits, and Hats tot
kinds of wet work or sport
-serves Your Patronage,
The growth of a community and the
success of Its local Institutions depends
ntlrely on the loyalty of It people. It
l well enough to preach "patronise home
Industry" but except the service given
at a home Institution equals that of out-of-town
enterprises, this argument car
ries no weight and Is entirely disregard
ed, aa It should be. Hut with Oregon City
people It is different. A few months
ago E. L. Johnson eatabllshod the Cas
cade laundry. It Is equipped with the
latest Improved machinery and Is dally
turning out work that la equal to any
and superior to much of ths laundry
work that Is being; done In Portland
Being a home Institution and furnishing
employment for many Oregon City peopls
It Is enjoying an Immense patronage.
The high standard , of ths work being
done commends It to the general public
Laundry left at the O. K. barbar shop will
be promptly called for and delivered to
any part of the city. Telephone 120.
K. L. Johnson, proprietor.