" 5 I I I OKEGON CITY ENTERPRISE, Fill DAY,, DECEMBER 15, 1905 11 0) I MM OREGON Shout line and union Pacific THREE TRA TO HE EAST DAILY - Throiwli l'iillrnnri lHiii1iii(1 Htid Tour lit liciinn CHm tlully to Omiilia, I'IiIcbko Hpokuno; tourlit mIimmiIiik ran dully te KiuiNiiH City; thniiiKli I'ullinitn tourlut Mlui'iilng can (pitiHiinully concliicOxl) wcdkly to ClilciiKo, Kimihrii City, riolln lriK olialr Ucat fn-e to the mt dully.) 7 Oapirt. II () I) K S Portland to Chicago No Change of Cam. 70 'lllrl(0 t'nl tlllllli Hpeelal 16 a. m Atlnntlo Kxiiri'M 8 16 p. m Via. Hunt liiKtutl. Bt. Paul Hunt Mull 4:1b p til via Hpo-knno. Tim Bchedulu. Hull l,akti, l)invir, I t. Worth, Omaha, KaiiMiia City, Ht. 1-iiuln, OiIcukm and lCUHt. Halt Lake, Dunvxr, l-'t. Worth, Utnalia. Kaiixua City. Ht. I.oiiIm, Chicago and Willi. Walla Walla, t tiitoii, Rpokuria, Mln fii'iipolla, Ht. I'aul, Imluth, MllwaiiK, ClilciiK" and Knit. A 1 HIVK 6:26 p m 8:00 1 m 7:16 a trf Ocean and River Schedule Kor Han Kraneliro Evry five dayi at p. in. Kor Aitorla, way point and I'lrt llallll, Oli-KOII X p in.; Hutimlny at 10 p. m. Dally snrvh- (water permit tlrm) on Wlllain rtli' and Yamhill iIvitr. Km fhllli-l Informal Inn of ratu Tin- Orrtloik Hnllioni) A Navigation Co your nrarril llrkrt mont, or (Juttnral I'uhbitik'T ArmdC A. L. CAIQ, COLUMBIA , RIVER SCEN-.RY Portland and The Dalles IROUTE Regulator Line Steamers "BAILFY CATZEHT' "DALLE8 CITY" "REGULATOR" "METLAKO" "SADIE B." Htr. "Malli-y (iuUi-rt" h-avn Portland 7 A.'M. Mondavi, Wfdni'urtaya and Frt dnyi; h-nvi-i The lalla 7 A. M. Tu-i !uyn, Thiiirwdnyi anil Bnturdayi. Htr. "lunulutor" kavi' roiilaml 7 A M. Tui-mluy. Thurmliiyi and Hnturdaya l.-avei Tho Dalli-B 7 A. M. Monday! Wi-clnemliiyi and Fr Jayi. Hli-uini-ii leaving Portland make dally connection at J.yio with C. R. A N. train for tiol.U ndale and Klickitat Vallr-y iClltllH r.. It. & N. trinn travel Ooldendale on Mondavi. Wodm-nduyi and Friday at 0 30 A. M., nuik-lnii connection with ntfii.niT "Hi-RUlutor" for Portland and way points t:. 11, & N. train leave Goldundale oi ; Tii.whiy. Tliuraduya and Baturdayi at , K 3D A. M.. connecting at Yyle wit! tuiaim r "Hadle 11." for The Dalle, con m-ctlriK there with O. It. A N tralni i;at and Ve.H. Htr. "Facile B." leave Caicade Locki dallv tcxrel Hunday) at 7 A. M. for Th Dalle and way polnta; arrive at 11 A M. ; leave The Dalle t V. M.. arrive Cai.ade l.irk P. M. Mi'uli irrvi'd on all it-ani-ia Fine orcninmniliiiKiiia tor l"ami anfl wnK'oni. ' LutidltiK at Portland at Alder Btieet i Iot'k. MARCUS TALI JOT,, V. 1 & (5. M. , ii'ti dltk-n, Portland. Ohkoi, ; Astoria & Columbia ! River Railroad Co. Xmas Goods at Living Profits VVrVWvVvVVAAAAAAYVVyVVV: HOLIDAY What we say we do we do DO SPECIALTIES Having bought our stock of Xmas Goods early, we obtained ex- ceptionally good cash discounts and by shipping by steamer around the Horn we saved also considerable on freight rates, This saving we intend giving our patrons the advantage of. We are now displaying one of the largest and neatest Holiday lines in the city. Owing to our limited floor space, we are not able to show all we have but "if you don't see what you want ask for it." We are sure to have it. , We want to call your attention especially to our fine showing of faamed and unframed pictures. Hundred of subjects to pick from, nu merous, pretty and novelty framees, handsome water colors, and at pricer we will guarantee you can't equal. We haven't room to mention all the attractive presents we have in store for you but want you to come in and see for yourself. Be free to ' come when you please, and we'll see you are not urged to buy unless you want to. vwwwvvwwwvwwwvvv. tendont for each county where the grange has an organization. The su perintendent will one to the appointing of some competent person in each grange, and in any other community where he may deem It advisable to circulate the petitions. "After they are circulated the pe titions for each county will all be forwarded to the County Superintend ents who will Bee that the signatures , are certified to by the County Clerk ! and then sent on to Bro. Grlsenthwalte who will, in turn, attend to the filing with the Secretary of State. Ar rangements will also be made to have the petitions circulated In counties which are not organized. "It is important that those who are selected to act as County Superin- tendents and to circulate the petitions : will not hesitate to take up the work ' promptly and willingly and endeavor to fill all petitions as soon as possible. County Superintendents will be sup plied with plenty of petitions so that any one who needs additional copies ; may obtain them ! "This is a matter of co-operation In ! which every taxpayer in the state i is Interested. We may be sure that I those whose Interests are most af fected by these measures will not be idle In their opposition to them. They , nave blocked the will of the people in i the legislature. They will find means. j if they can, to block it again. We must then be up and doing. Let us be true j to our principle of working together for our common welfare and prove to I the world that when the grange un dertakes anything of this character it is able to carry it through to a sue cessful termination. We can not afford i to fall in this, our first attempt. It WORK HAS BEGUN CONSTRUCTION OF SALEM-PORT-LAND LINE COMMENCED. Honest Goods at Honest Prices Bull k Jus Reliable Druggists Xmas Buying Made Easy 4 AAAlllvlA vvvwvwwwsi would be a great defeat for us if we should fail. It will be a splendid vie tory for us If we win. The Interests and good name of our Order are at stake In this matter; let each member feel a persohal responsibility and rally to its support. "There has been considerable una voidable delay in the final prepara tion of the bills with the petitions for circulation. Although two of the best qualified members of the Order in our state prepared them with great care, modeling them after laws in success ful operation in other states, yet your committee, realizing the strenuous ef forts that would be made to break them down in the courts to render them useless by artful devices to es cape the enforcement of their provi sions, deemed it wise to consult other legal authority before submitting them to the public. In this way a number I of the provisions have been changed and some new features of a minor nature have been added. It is difficult I to forestall every point upon which i they will be attacked and every means that will he undertaken to dodge them. It is felt, however, that the Bills have been strengthened and improved and such as they are they must now be put to the test. "The die is cast. The battle is now on. We must win; let us admit no other outcome. "Fraternally Yours, "B. G. LEEDY, "A. T. BUXTON, "C. E. SPENCE, "Executive Committee." Present Route of Road Will Miss Ore gon City Fully 8ix. Miles. SALEM, Or., Dec. 11. The enthu siasm of the people of Salem over the beginning of construction work on the Portland-Salem electric line was man ifested in no uncertain manner this morning, when a large crowd gathered to see ground broken at 7:: 30 o'clock. Work began where the present street car track crosses Cottage street, in North Salem. At the appointed hour 150 men were present, ready to go to work as laborers, and as many more prominent business men were there to see the first shovelful of dirt thrown. H'. N. Stoudenmeyer's band discoursed music while the crowd waa assembling. Mayor F. W. Waters presided and called upon Colonel E. Hofer, R. J. Hendricks, George F. Rodgers, W. H. Holmes and Manager A. Welch, of the Willamette Valley Traction Com pany, for addresses. The speeches were short, but full of enthusiasm and expressions of faith in the bright fu ture in store for this part of the Will amette Valley. Manager Welch said in his address that the trip from Salem to Portland will be made in one hour and a half and the fare will not exceed $2 for the round trip. The first shovel of dirt was thrown by Mayor Waters. That the construction work will be rushed is evident from the way the work has been commenced. A score of teams have been engaged, and to the casual observer, it looked as though picks and shovels enough had been supplied to build the whole line. The gang of men put at work this morning is only the first of a number that will be employed. As the grading progresses gangs will be employed laying ties and rails, ballasting, build ing bridges, setting poles, string wires, etc. The construction of the road will alone mean the expenditure of a con siderable sum of money In this part of the Valley this Winter and next Summer. The building of this electric rail way line over the route that has been decided upon will not prove of any de cided advantage or convenience to this city. The route of the road ex tends from Salem northward as far as Wheatland when It crosses the Willamette river and proceeds thence to Portland by the West Side. Unless the present plans are altered, the nearest point to Oregon City at which the road will pass is Tigardville, which is some six miles west of this city. Every family should have its house hold remedy chest and the first bot tle In it should be Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup. Nature's remedy for coughs and colds. - There is Money in it FOR YOU TIP A M iMw 1 ,ll,fUllllirt!fftlJ11'' I,cav m. ! H:0(l A.M. Pally. UNION DEPOT Arrived. 7.00 P.M. For Mnvm'i-a.HiilnliT.j t.'liitMkanlf. rKtpoi t ("lltion, Antorla Wnr-ri-titon, l lnvtl. Hiim- linottd. Fort StevniH. liiiMiluii't I'nik, Si-n-iniilo. AHtorla and iSi-HHhorr-. Kxpu HK Dully. AMlorlii KxptvHS. Dally. to get our quotations on a good en during Plumbing Job. Why not take the hint and get our estimate before handing out your contract? A. P1 1 H LSTIN, Main Strei-t, near Kihtli WOULD IMPOSE TAX GRANGE WOULD ASSESS MANY CORPORATIONS. Initiative Petitions Are Being Circu lated in This Behalf in Clackamas County. ... si m fesVH r !B a Vt w I A. STFWAIiT. i'omtn'1 Ant., tAldrr mitcI. Plioiu- .Mnln S'W I .1 (' MAYO (I F P A . AWI..HH o Initiative petitions, originating with an executive committee of the State Grange, and proposing the enactment of laws licensing various corporations, are being circulated in this county under the direction of William Grlsen thwalte, of this county, who is su perintending this work in the state under the direction of the members of the executive committee. One of the petitions seeks to create laws imposing a license of 3 per cent on the gross receipts of sleeping cars, refrigerator cars and oil companies. Another asls that, a law be enacted exacting a license of 3 per cent of the uross earnings of express companies nnd a license of 2 per cent on the same basis from telegraph and telephone companies. Both of these petitions n'-e being largely signed by Clackamas county voters. In discussing the subject, the exe cutive committee of the Grange, in a recent issue of the Oregon State Grange Bulletin, published the fol lowing: "liei'ore this issue of the Bulletin reaches its readers it is hoped that t ho initiative petitions for the two 1 ;You Will Bo Satisfied ' WITH YOUl JOU'r-UTY i II yoiii-tii-lu'ts n-iiil over tin.- Iii-nvi-r V (Hid klo Cninik' Koilrnml, I lie" Scciiii' Lint- nl' the World" i '4 BECAUSE TIutc (in: no in a 11 v noonk' n t tnietlons nn! points of Interest nlouj; the line lirt w-n Ouileii niiil I'envei' Hint the trip never beeotties tiresome. Pronounced by World's best experts The World's best Whisksy. Grand Prize Highest. Award St. Louis World's Fair. IE For Saie Dy - E. M1 I HI AS ' .j Sole Auncy for Oregon Uty ll'yoii are roIiik 'I-'nsl , wrile or inloriiiii tlon mill net a pretly book tlmt will tell you (ill nlioiit It. J VV. C. McBRlDB, General Agent PORTLAND, Benn '.he Iia Kind Vnu Ham Always Bougm WANTED: by Chicago wholesale nnd mail order house, itsslstant manager ( 'lino or woman) for thin county and adjoining territory. Salary Mind OREGON expenses paid weekly; expense money advanced. Work pleasant; position permanent. No Investment or experi ence required. Write nt once for full particulars and enclose self-addressed 'envelope. v COOPER & CO., I 132 Lake St., Chicago, 111. of their weight. With the increase of population the demands upon all in stitutions of a public character are increased and this means the need of increased revenues. Is this constant ly increasing demand to be met only by piling up the taxes higher and higher upon the tangible property of the state? Such has been the history of the past. The proportion of the burdens of taxation which real estate bears has steadily increased for ,many years and must continue to do so with great and increasing detriment to the farming, interests of the state unless some other plan of raising revenue shall be adopted. "The provisions of these proposed measures are moderate. Should they become laws, while they would aid materially in providing revenue for the stale, the burdens they would im pose upon the interests affected would not be excessive. ' They would not be anjvgreater than those which the hold ers of tangible property have been obliged to bear. Similar laws are in force in some other states. Yet the same and other similar corporations have managed to live and do business there. They have not left those states on account of the taxes as some of our timid legislators have professed to fear they would do if we undertook to tax them here. . "The Grange has. in the past, thro' its legislative committee and thro' resolutions, memorials and petitions from the stateAcounty and subordinate granges, assisted by numerous other organizations and interests, endeavor ed to secure from the legislature laws of a similar import to these. The in terests thatfwere affected by the pro posed legislation always have and al ways will lie aide to concentrate such 25 pet cent Cut In Price of Electee Light BECOMES EFFECTIVE legislative measures which the State Grange determined upon at. its last a pressure upon the legislature as to session will l" in the hands of those ! frustrate all efforts in this direction, who will canvas for the signatures of ; H,,n, tbc Grange decided to under-' voters. The obiect of these two bills ! talo to provide the people the means is to raise additional revenue for state to the power given them in the ini pnrposcs; one to levy a license tax I tiative amendment, upon the gross receipts of telephone, i "Patrons, this matter having been telegraph, and express companies : tho , undertaken by the grange, tho suc olher to levy o similar tax upifu sleep- j cess or failure of the first step do ing car. refrigerator car anil oil com-1 pends largely upon you. These peti panies. ! tioifs must, first, be circulated and "Tho interests which will be most ' signed by eight per cent of the legal affect ed by this legislation are a few ' voters of the slate before the secre erv large foreign corporations which tary of state will be authorized to have for many years held a practical submit'the Bills to a vote of the po monopoly in their various lines in our : pie. This means that the petitions state and have by that means, been ivjiist be signed by nearly 8000 legal enabled to lix their own profits upon a voters. Moreover all those signatures large volume of business. They hold must, be secured and verified by the comparatively little property in our i County Clerks in the several counties stale upon which . an ordinary tax can : where they are circulated and the be levied. They demand the full meas- wliole filed with the Secretary of ore of protection which our laws af- State at. least four months before the ford, they carry on a large amount of date of election, which means by the business fiere. fix their own charges -Itli of February, 1900. This means upon the same, take from our people the necessity for prompt, and active who furnish them their business, much canvassing. The signatures will not, greater profits than we can make at of course, be confined to members of our ordinary occupations, and (vet in the grange, but patrons should at least the oast they have contributed but lie foremost in signing the petitions little to tho support of the state. and urging the importance of the "We of the farming class, especially, matter upon others, whose property is always "in sight," . "Brother Win, Crinenthwaite of Cen ttnd is therefore never missed by the tral Grange No, 27G Oregon City, It. assessor, know what "the burdens of , P. D. No. 3, has been appointed to take the world," as represented by taxa- general charge of the work for the tion are. We -realize the full measure ' state. The plan is to have a superln- JANUARY Ut 1906 Tiie Reduction is from 20 cents to 15 cents a Kilowatt-Hour, or TWENTY-FIVE VKR CENT OF THE BASK KATE. NEW RATE IS SUBJECT TO THE USUAL SCHEDULE OF DISCOUNTS Bates Specified in existing signed contracts with Light ing Customers will be modified accordingly, after January 1 , without further notice. Jn view of the increasing demand for installation of service in stores and residences to begin with the NEW YEAR AT THE NEW RATE patrons are requested to make application AT ONCE ESTIMATES On cost of wiring, cost of current and information re garding the use of electricity for light or power in the Home, the Office, the Stoke and the Factory promptly furnished upon application, to C. G. Miller at the Company's branch office, next door to the Bank of ),) Gitv. PORTLAND GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY C. G. Miller Contract Manager for Oregon City. 3J