OBEGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAYDECEMBER 1, 1905.
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1905.
THIRTY-NINE YEARS OLD.
With this Issue, the Enterprise en
ters upon its fortieth year. Establish
ed' in 1866, it has been regularly pub
lished and for practically all of the
full thirty-nine years, it has been is
sued from the building in which the
office is now located.
During its life the Enterprise has
had several owners, all of whom have
had an active part in assisting in de
veloping the many resources of this
section which is especially favored
by natural conditions that make Clack
amas county an ideal place of resi
dence with wonderful possibilities. It
has been and now is the aim of this
paper to aid in attracting new settl
ers to this county and in every pos
sible way contribute to the upbuilding
of the county and its many resources,
which, in many cases, even now, are
largely undeveloped.
There are few other localities in
which idle capital can find so desira
ble a place for investment in which
sure and satisfactory returns are more
certain than is offered in Clackamas
county. With an almost unlimited
water power, there is offered wonder
ful opportunities for manufacturing in
dustries. No richer or more produc
tive soil is cultivated than that in
this county and under intelligent man
agement no more remunerative crops
are garnered. No section offers great
er inducements to the homeseeker.
But we have diverted somewhat
from a discussion of our anniversary.
As in the past, it is the primary aim
of the publisher of the Enterprise to
give the people of Clackamas county
a representative county paper. This
has been made possible with the cheer
ful and faithful services of our large
and competent staff of country corres
pondents, whose weekly' news letters
are essential to the worth and growth
of a county paper. With the continu
ed assistance of these bright corres
pondents it is believed the value of
the paper will be increased and its
usefulness extended.
We are firmly convinced that there
is a great future in store for Clack
amas county. The development of
western ureguu iins just u u emu
this county is bound to experience an
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Western Oregon has just begun and
unprecedented growth and develop
ment of its resources. The Enterprise
expects to witness these things and
in the performance of its public ser
vice will contribute in every legiti
mate way to that end.
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THE FARMERS' INSTITUTES.
As a means of educating the farmer
to fullest possibilities of his occupa
tion, institutes, presided over by ex
perienced instructors from the agri
cultural experiment station at Corval
lis, are of inestimable worth to' the
k producing class of any community. A
series of these meetings was held in
this county last week. Competent in
structors were in attendance and much
valuable information pertaining to the
agricultural industry was to be gath
ered from the interesting and instruc
tive lectures.
There appears to be no reason why
-success should not reward the efforts
,of the industrious Oregon farmer who
attempts to keep in touch at all with
the bulletins issued from the experi
ment station which are calculated for
the instruction and benefit of the pro
ducer. Where conditions are so suit
ed to agricultural pursuits as they are
in the Willamette Valley, there is no
good reason why the farmer, who at
tempts to keep abreast of the times
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should not be prosperous. It is large- j tinhorns inside the city limits "would
ly up to the farmer, and the more fre- ; be a good move before striking out
quent holding of these institutes are ' side iimits. There are lots of smaU
certain to result in increased benefit ones there.
to the farmer. And vf?t. fin what nno mav thoro is
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When the farmer has been educated ;
up to the producing of an improved j
quality of cereals, vegetables, etc., and j
a better class of horses and cattle, j
then is the way for a County Fair
more possible. The holding of these j
jl aji ouitutvo uiaj v,uiiomi o v3 ii -j
tial work preparatory to the holding I
of a County Fair which .will be the .
sure product of an advanced standard i
along agricultural lines in this county. '
SCANDAL.,
Among human traits which work
against respect for the species to
which we have the destiny to belong,
none ranks lower than injurious and
malicious gossip. In the hightened
language of literature, slander has
been called the foulest whelp of sin.
It is a poisoned arrow shot In the dark,
wounding the innocent and the guilty.
Poe spoke of it thus:
"How shall the ritual, then be read?
the requiem how be sung
By you by yours, the evil eye by
yours, the slanderous tongue
That did to death the innocence that
died, and died so young?"
Gossip is always believed. Not the
meanest insinuation-fails to find lodg
ment in some reader's mind, and it
thus wrongs the victim while it pol
lutes the receiver. There ia a tradi:
tion that the lion will not strike his
claws into a maiden. Certain men have
no such reverence. Iago made an ob
servation, truer in his day than now:
"Who steals my purse steals trash. . .
Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been
slave to thousands ; but he that filches
from me my good name robs me of
fhot -arViinh Tint enriches him. but
this passage. The scandal monger to
day, the clever villian would amend
this passage. The scandal-mongea to
day often does enrich himself. His
venom has its price. Colliers.
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A SCHOOL BUILDING INSPECTION.
The school board's committee on
buildings and grounds has taken fav
orable action on a proposal made in a
friendly spirit by the City Homes As
sociation, and it is hoped that the full
board will gladly indorse its commit
tee's recommendation.
The proposal contemplates a toler
ablv thorough examination or inspec
tion of the material and physical con
dition of the school buldings of the
city by properly qualified men under
expert direction. It is the more time
ly since the board's present plans em
brace not only a good deal, or new
construction, but the reconstruction
and replacement of not a few of the
old schoolhouses.
The City Homes Association will
do the work at its own expense, and
all it asks of the board is authority
to undertake the inspection. The
data obtained are to be tabulated,
classified and properly interpreted, and
it is clear that a careful report of
this kind would be of much practical
value to the board.
The proposed investigation would
cover most of the features and' phases
of school hygiene and sanitation in
the most comprehensive sense of these
terms. It would include such ques
tions as location, drainage, light and
air. drinking facilities, basins and
tanks and flushing apparatus, plumb
ing, heating, egress, fire appliance.
etc. Halls and stairways are not to
be neglected, nor the yards, the char
acter of the abutting property and the
available space for recreation and
play.
The subject of school hygiene has
been receiving considerable attention
lately in European countries and not
long since an international conference
was held in London to discuss ways
and means of rendering the physical
conditions under which the children
: aI nn w .- no nrViAlaonTnn
receive their education as wholesome
and fit as may- be.
Chicago already owes much to the
j City Homes Association, whose labors
and financial contributions resulted in
the only study of housing in the con
gested districts ever made here and
in the valuable ordinance providing
for the construction of safer and
healthier tenements. Its very practi
cal interest in school hygiene is an
other illustration of the intelligently
directed civic spirit which animates it.
Chicago Record-Herald.
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REACHED OUT.
Portland's mayor spat on his hands
last Saturday night and reached over
into Clackamas county. There he se
cured a half-Nelson twist on a gambl
ing outfit vat Milwaukie which Sie
claims was run in conjunction with the j
Warwick gambling club of Portland
and proceeded to do business.
, To a layman it seems as if the juris
diction of a mayor ceased at the mile
limit of the outer boundary of any
city but legal advisers informed
Mayor Lane that his jurisdiction reach
ed four miles from home and over into
another county. It may be those legal
advisers are correct.
As a mere suggestion to the mayor
fin!, .... f tll mhu. ,loo h.
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bound to be gambling by those who !
have no other use for money. St.
Johns Review. j
Mayor Lane of Portland has caused !
the arrest of parties in Milwaukie. a j
town several miles from the corporate j
niiiiL j i a yj i. i,iauu, c.uu. i ii auuiuci
county The parties arrested are
charged with gambling and no doubt
are amenable to the state laws against
gambling but the mayor's method of
Ayers
We know what all good doc
tors think of Ayer's Cherry
Pectoral. Ask your own doc
tor and find out. He will tell
Cherry
Pectoral
you how it quiets the tickling
throat, heals the inflamed
lungs, and controls the
hardest of coughs.
f Ayer't Cherry PectormI is well known In
oar family. We think it L the best medicine
in the world for coughs and colds."
Katib Fetkkson, Petslnma, CL
25c., SOc.. 01.00.
All droetciBts.
?. O. ATBR CO.,
Trowel 1 . Masi.
for
Hard Coughs
One of Ayer's Pills at bedtime will
hasten recovery. Cently laxative.
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! getting them before the court is an
inovation in legal practice. The Port
! land charter it is claimed authorizes
'the police of the metropolis to range
j out four miles in quest of certain vio-
latOrS Ul tut; law, auu gomuimg ia
of them. The complications that may
arise from this precedent are inter
esting to contemplate. There is no
rason why the legislature should not
grant every town in the state the
same privilege it has Portland, and
the overlapping of jurisdiction as the
police of the various towns patrol out
to the limit of their sphere of influence
will make business lively in police cir
cles all the time. Milwaukie, Oswego,
and Troutdale officers will walk right
into Portland and nab offenders and
take them out to be given a sample of
real country justice. Independence,
Dallas and Monmouth can ask for a
ten mile limit and an officer of either
town can go into either of the others
seeking for offenders when business
gets dull in his own.' Salem, according
to the Portland precedent, may ask
for a 12-mile limit and the omcers
of the Capital City may be seen pa
troline the streets of Independence
after another session of the legisla
ture. Portland officers have been giv
en freedom of the sorrounding coun
try for a distance of four miles be;
yond the city limits and there is no
reason why the limit should be stop
ped at that distance. The next leg
islature may expect to be besieged by
towns asking extension of police jur
isdiction to five, ten, twenty or even
more miles. Independence Enter
prise. THE NEXT CONGRESS.
The fifty-ninth Congress will meet
in its first session (Senate, second ses
sion) on December 4th, and as that
date approaches, interest becomes in
tense regarding its probable policy
with reference to the two greatest
questions that will come before it
tariff-revision and railway legislation.
The Democrats in the next Congress
will be far in the minority. The Sen
ate will have only thirty-two Demo
crats out of ninety, and the House
only one hundred and thirty-six out
of three hundred and eighty-six. But
so great are the differences within
party lines that little can be argued
from these facts. Both Republicans
and Democrats differ greatly among
themselves fftmt rate regulation, and
to a less extiiit, they differ about tariff-revision.
There is no question but that, a few
weeks ago, President Roosevelt had
distinctly, weakened in the matter of
tariff-revision. He let it be known that
he Jwould not press for the lowering
of tariff rates, but would concentrate
his energies on a railway-rate bill.
This was well understood among poli
ticians and by the public generally.
The best informed men in Washing
ton were saying that Republican senti
ment was strongly against revision of
the tariff; that the stand-patters were
unmistakably in the saddle; and that
the whole matter, was likely to be put
off for one or two more years.
But the late elections have perhaps
altered the situation. They evidenced
in general, a strong radical sentiment
throughout the country, and, in par
ticular; there was an expression of
opinion about the tariff. In Massa
chusetts, the Republican platform de
clared in favor of "present action" on
the tariff. -The Republican nominee
for lieutenant governorwas a particu
lar protigee of the stand-pat Senator
Lodge. The Republican nominee for
governor favored tariff-revision. The
striking fact is, that the lieutenent
governor barely squeezed in, with a
majority of only a couple of thousand
votes', while the candidate for govern
or had more than thirty thousand votes
to spare. The tariff-revisionists point
to these facts as a conclusive evidence
of Massachusetts' sentiment for a tar
iff reform. They point with pride, also
to the result in Ohio, where Herrick,
one of the strongest of the stand-patters,
was defeated in his race for gov
ernor. Shaw, who is a stand-patter,
and Fairbanks, who is another, deliver
ed many speeches in Ohio, and there it
Thanksgiving Specialties
ORANBERRIES-Fancy Cape Cods.Early
Blacks, large, uniform stock. Cran
berries at Thanksgiving time are al
ways in order.
Another important feature is nuts.
WALNUTS are popular. California No.
1, Los Neitos, fancy, large, soft shell.
AliMONDS-California Golden State,
fancy, soft shell, large meat.
DRIED FRUIT-1905 Crop. Dates and
Figs are becoming important acces
sories of the Thanksgiving feast. Our
stock is all new 1905 crop.
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was that disaster overtook the party.
In view of these facts, it becomes a
pertinent query. Will the President
press for ' tariff -revision? Having se
cured encouragement in the elections,
will he attempt what before seemed
hopeless? .So far there is little real
evidence that he will.
No doubt the prospects for a railway-rate
law are also improved by the
late election. The opinion is express
ed upon all sides that, if the next
Congress fail to enact such a law as
satisfies the people at large, the vot
ers will next time elect a Democratic
Congress. But the situation is com
plex. It is complicated, in particular,
by two things: first, the fear of South
ern congressman that Federal control
of railway rates will spell the absolute
doom of State sovereignty, and, sec
ond, the protest of representatives of
powerful labor unions, whose mem
bers are employed by the railways
against the proposed legislation, on the
ground that it will eventually mean
the lessening of the earning power of
railways, and in consequence, the ulti
mate reduction of the wages of rail
way employees.
In the matter of State rights, it is
pointed out that, year by year, more
and more power is vested in the Fed
eral government. Not only does the ;
President desire to put the control of !
railway rates in the hands of a Feder-'
al commission, but Federal control of i
life insurance companies, a national !
divorce law, a national employers' lia
bility law, etc., all point in the same
direction. Adherents to the principle
of State rights are said to look upon
the coming contest as one that shall
decide whether this nation become a
homogeneous one, in which the State '
shall play a subordinate and unimpodt- !
ant part, or whether it shall continue,
as heretofore, a "union of sovereign :
States." In particular, Senator Mor-
gan, of Alabama, is said to be much j
disturbed by the centralizing tendency !
in the affairs of this government.
In the matter of the protests on the i
part of the labor unions in behalf of j
capital an extraordinary thing in '
itself doubt has been cast upon the '
genuineness of the protest made. It j
is pertinently remarked that it is not j
proposed by the President or any one i
else, to effect by law a general reduc- t
tion of railway rates, merely to- equal- i
ize.them and prevent discrimination, '
that, therefore, the fears of the rail- i
way employes of a general reduction j
of their wages are ill-grounded. Such
being the case, say their critics, their
public objection can not have been in
spired by real timidity over the pro
posed legislation, but must have been
BRIGHBILL
503 Main St.
a sentiment cooked up by their em
ployers, accompanied by the pressure
which employers may always bring to
bear upon employes. Despite these
objections, however, the railway men's
protest seems to have considerable
weight with the public at large.
It should be clear from the above
sketch of present oenditions that
nothing definite regarding the action
of Congress on these two important j
matters may be predicted. The out
come is uncertain. But that the com
ing Congress will be a remarkably ex
citing session; that it will deal with
great issues; that the struggle will be
hard and bitter; and that the outcome
will have a vast importance in national
history, it is not too much to say.
The Argonaut.
HE DID'NT SAY IT.
. "There was a queer thing about that
reformer's speech the other evening."
"I thought it was a pretty good talk"
"It was. Original, too. He did'nt
once
their
say 'When
might.' "
the people arise in
UPPER WILLAMETTE
RIVER ROUTE.
SALEM, INDEPENDENCE, ALBANY,
CORVALLIS AND WAY LANDINGS.
Leave Portland 6:45 a. m.. daily (except
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Leave Portland 6:45 Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday for Independence, Al- j
bany and Corvallls, stages of water I
permitting. I
DAILY ,
RIVER EXCURSIONS
OF
Oregon city boats
TIME CARD
Week Days
a. m.
8:00
p.m.
3:30
Leave Portland.
11:30
a., m.
Leave Oregon City.. 10:00
p. m. p.m.
1:30 5:30
ROUND TRIP 45c
Tickets exchanged with O. W. P. & Ry.
SPECIAL
Sunday Excursions
ROUND TRIP 25c
Leave
Portland
Leave
Or. City
a.m.
8:30
a.m.
9:30
a.m.
11:30
p.m.
1:30
p.m.
3:30
p.m.
5:30 i
a., m. a.m. p.m.
10:00 11:30 1:30
p.m
3:30
OREGON CITY TRANSPORTATION CO.
Office and Dock:
Foot- Taylor Street
Phone Main 40.
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JOHN YOUNGER,
Near Huntley's Drug Store,
FORTY i EARSEXPERIENCE -1 N
Ureat Britain and America.
i;. N. Greenan,
PIONEER
Transfer and Express
Freight and parcels delivered
to all parts of the city.
RATES REASONABLE
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2,000 milea of long dis
tance telephone wire in
Oregon, Washington , Cali
fornia find Idaho now in
operation by the Pacific
Station Telephone Com
pany, covering 2,250
towns
Quick, accurate, cheap
All the satisfaction of a
personal communication.
Distance no effect "to a
clear understanding. Spo
kane and San Francisco
as easily heard as Port
land. -Oregon City office a t
Harding's Dnnr Ntor
Deserves Your Patronage.
The growth of a community and the
success of its local institutions depends
entirely on the loyalty of its people. It
Is well enough to preach "patronize 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, as It should be. But with Oregon Citj
people it is different. AJ few months
ago E. L. Johnson established the Cas
cade Laundry. It is equipped with the
latest improved machinery and is daily
turning out work that is equal, to any
and superior to much of the laundry
work that is being done in Portland.
Being a home institution and furnishing
employment for many Oregon City people
it is enjoying an immense patronage.
The high standard of the work being
done commends it to the general public
Laundry left at the O. K. barber shop will
be promptly called for and delivered to
any part of the city. Telephone 1204.
E. L. Johnson, proprietor.
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