OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1906.
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FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1906.
A TIMELY SUBJECT.
The editor this week received from
an Eastern magazine a letter request
ing his individual opinion on a num
ber of questions, the first one being:
"What do you think of our misrepre
sentatives in the United States Sen
ate?" The receipt of this letter at
this time reminds us that local condi
tions are perhaps equally censurable.
Many Oregon Counties have for
years been, faithfully and industrious
ly misrepresented by their Senators
and representatives in the State Leg
' islature and perhaps no other County
has been more grossly abused in this
regard than has Clackamas. It is a
notorious fact that this county in the
upper house of the state's legislative
body has been represented for a num
ber of years by a man who is the
agent and hired employe of different
corporate interests. What has been
accomplished for the real benefit of
the people by the corporation repre
sentative? Again, what is to be ex-
petced from a legislator who repre
sents such interests? Still this very
man has repeatedly duped the voters
of Clackamas county and has made
them believe that he is the only man
to represent them at Salem. He now
asks to be returned for another term
and it remains to be seen if he can
succeed in working the people of
' Clackamas County on empty promises
With a reduced tax levy and an in
creased assessment the chances for
improving the financial condition of
the county i3 good. A careful manage
ment of county affairs with this end
in view can be largely counteracted
by legislative acts that in their opera
tion oppose the best interests of the
taxpayers. It is time the voters of
this county were giving this matter
careful consideration. It is within
their power under the Direct Primary
to take a more active part in the nam
ing of candidates. If a change is de
sired, the remedy is at hand. If pres
ent conditions are satisfactory all
well and good. But we do not think
a majority of the people are satis
fied with the deal that they have been
receiving.
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L. L. Porter wants to be tbe next
cial transactions. These are not as- 9
reaauy arrived ai as are our export
and imports, but they outnumber then
at least ten times over. '.The domestic
commerce of the United States ir
1905 is more than 125,000,000,000 anc
this too, is a commerce which brings
more profit than does that betweeD
us and the outside world. Our bank
clearings and our railway earnings are
far in excess of all former records
And the railway earnings would have
been still greater if the roads had fa
cilities to handle all the business
which was offered to them. The new
main track laid in the year was about
5000- miles, which has often been sur
passed; though not recently. But the
number of locomotives and of freight
and passenger cars which have been
built leave all former records far be
hind. And these have proven inade
quate to the demands upon them. The
prospect, moreover, which is just
ahead of us is for largely increased
activities in all lines of industry,
which will mean still further demands
on the railways. In describing the
activities of the United States for the
year which is closing, the ordinary
terms of hyperbole are scarcely ex
travagant, yet the momentum of the
country's expansion in its principle
interests shows that the conditions
which are immediately in front of us
will probably, in the way of descrip
tion make a still greater strain on the
resources of the language. St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
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makes pure, rich blood-
Avers barsapanlla. Your
mother, grandmother, all your
folks, used it. They trusted
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it." Their doctors trusted it.
Your doctor trusts it. Then
trust if yourself. There is
health and strength in it.
" I suffered terribly from indigestion and
thin blood. I fount! no relief until I took
Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Four bottles perma
nently cured me."
Ms. V. K. Hart, Mt Kisco, IT. V.
S1.00 a bottle. j.c. jtiisw..
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MMiiusis 1UI
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Ricfi JBloodi
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are srentiv
They greatly aid the Sarsaparilla.
laxative.
THE PRESIDENT'S USEFULNESS.
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senator from Clackamas, and so does
Brownell. All Porter has so far said
about Brownell, is that he is the paid
agent and attorney in the senate of
the railroads, that he openly admits
that as a senator he has taken fees
from tbe corporations and that he is
the only man in the United States who
woiild try to run for senator with a
land fraud indictment hanging over
him. This isn't much of course, but
if Porter keeps up the pace, Brownell
is likely to be called East soon to
run a big insurance company. Cor
vallis Times.
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PROSPERITY'S HIGH WATER
MARK.
Was Canning correct when he said
that nothing lies worse than facts ex
cept figures? It would seem that
some facts and likewise some figures,
can escape indictment under his die
tum. A few of them, relating to the
business record of 1905, will here be
summmoned to the front. It would
be hard, in the terms of ordinary dis
course, to paint this picture in colors
that would be too deep. The income
of the farmers and planters of the
United States in the calendar year
which closes to-morrow night was
over $6,000,000,000, or more than the
aggregate wealth of the whole coun
try in 1845. The country's production
of pig iron in the year has been
23,000,000 tons, or as much as that of
Great Britian, France and Germany
put together, and as recently as 1895
England was still ahead of us as an
iron producer. Our foreign trade in
1905 will go so far above all former
figures thaK we will be ashamed to
make any comparison with them. The
aggregate will be far in excess of $2,
600,000,000. For the year which is now seeing its
last hours the United States has pro
duced $90,000,000 of gold, or almost as
much as the output of the entire
world in 1883, in the, middle of the
term of President Arthur. The
World's gold production in 1905 is
$400,000,000 which is double that of
1896, the year of Mr. Bryan's first
nomination, and four times as much
as that of 1884, the year in which Mr.
Cleveland was elected the first time.
If, as many economists contend, an
increase in the production of gold will
register itself in increased business
activities, then the world ought to be
especially prosperous at this time, and
it ought to have still greater prosper
ity immediately in front. In both re
spects this is true. While the United
States is far better favored by fortune
in a material way than is any other
great country, the world as a whole,
outside of Russia and, in a smaller
degree, Japan, has had good times
this year. The things which make
those two countries an exception re
late to the dislocation produced by
the war, with its sequel of civil con
vulsions in Russia's case.
When we speak, as we commonly
do, in the United States about the ex
tent of our foreign trade as an indica
tion of the volume of the country's
activities, we overlook a far better
test which is nearer to our hand. This j
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ty as commissioner from 1865 to 1869.
Mr. Mattoon has during his long
residence in this county advocated :
good roads, and believes that the I
I roads in this wet climate should be
A successful reformer in one oi our . crowned up more in the . center and
largest cities observed the other day j well drained, so as to give the water
that Mr. Roosevelt was the most use- . a chance to escape,
ful man in the world to-day. He had I The eastern nortion of Clackamas
just been complaining bitterly of the County is fast developing, and the
part taken by tne fresment in poll-1 people in that section feel that they
should be represented in the county !
court. Mr. Mattoon says that if he !
should be, elected to the office of j
County Commissioner he will not be
the tool of any person, firm or corpor- I
ation, but will give the whole people
of Clackamas County, regardless of
politics, a careful, economical andf
business administration of county af
fairs. S. T. D.
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tics in his State, and of other annoy
ances of detail, which made the gen
eral tribute the more convincing. Such
discrimination is frequent among in
telligent men of affairs. However
jarred by the President's qualities of
overbearingness, over-expression, and
blindness to all considerations oppos
ed to his own desires, such men realize
that the amount of good work accom
plished and good influence disseminat
ed, by the President has been really
vast. At Washington the other day
he delivered an address in which he
said: "The questions of the tariff, the
currency, or even tne regulation or
railroad rates, are all subordinate to
the great basic moral movements
which mean the preservation of the
individual in his or her relations to
the home." As a distributor and en
forcer of elementary moral truths, in
their relation to public life, the Pres
ident's work has been of first import
ance. This editorial seems to us per
functory , and uninteresting, but expe
rience teaches us that misunderstand
ing always follows criticism of a gen
erally excellent official for improper
acts, unless the credit side of the ac
count is at the same time however
irrelevantly repeated. Exchange!
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BEAUTY SHOULD BE FREE.
The Quality Is There
A MODERN MIRACLE.
Another bill that should pass, be
yond any possibility of doubt, is the
one providing for the removal of tar
iff duties on works of art. The argu
ment that such removal would en
danger the whole sacred edifice is
familiar and also idiotic. The tariff
is treated by its friends as equal in
stability to a house of jack-straws.
Touch one and all is lost. Mr. Roose
velt handles the tariff gingerly in his
message, but there is little doubt that
be would smile upon a bill to remove
obstructions to the growth of the arts
in America, especially as these ob
structions are not even a pecuniary
benefit to anybody, unless it be to ar
tists of such low quality that the
sooner they take up another form of
manual iabor the better for all of us.
Every artist of any station in America
resents tins tariff barbarism. We
happened to receive no great inheri
tance in artistic beauty from the gen
ius of the past, and our statesmen of
a more demagogic period increased
this disadvantage by penalizing and
discouraging the import of what our
citizens were able and willing to buy
for us abroad. The tax on paintings
is felt mainly by our public galleries,
where private collections nearly al
ways ultimately find their place. In
1894, when art was taxed, the works
imported were valued at $1,518,688.63. ,
The next year, when they were admit
ted free, the total was $4,053,482.88,
and over five millions in 1896
1898 under the tariff of twenty per
cent, the amount fell to $2,124,778.
Paintings are admitted free into most
all European countries. Spain charg
es nineteen cents per painting, and
Switzerland forty-nine cents. Canada
makes free works by artists of recog
nized merit. We, who have everything
to gain just now in art possessions
from the desire of our men of wealth
to put some of their money into pic
tures, possess a statute that acts
against us and for the benefit of
the countries in which the works of
art now are. Collier's Weekly.
Truly miraculous seemed the re
covery of Mrs.1 Mollie Holt of this
place," writes J. O. R. Hooper, Wood-
iora, i enn., sne was so wasiea oy j a
coughing up puss from her lungs. Doc- I v
tors declared ner end so near mat ner
family had watched by her bed-side 48
hours"; when, at my urgent request
Dr. King's New Discovery was given
her with astonishing result that im
provement began, and continued until
she finaly completely recovered, and
is a healthy woman today." Guaran
teed cure for coughs and colds. 50c
and $1.00 at Howell & Jones, druggists.
Trial bottle free.
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WIFE TAKES HORSE AND GOES.
When W. R. McKinstry awakened
this morning he discovered that some
time time during the night his wife
and slipped away from the house, tak
ing with her a supply of clothing and
whatever of value she possessed. His
surprise was increased when, upon go
ing to the barn to feed the family
horse, he learned from the attendant
that some time ' during the night the
wife had visited the building and,
slipping the bolt from the outside, had
untied the animal and led it from the
stable. Other than this McKinstry
has been unable to find any trace of
his wife. The McKinstrys have lived
here for some time , the husband con
ducting a junk store. They gained
some notoriety a few weeks ago when
the husband, becoming intoxicated,
took home with him a drunken com
panion when the two proceeded to
abuse the wife. Becoming tired of
the treatment, Mrs. McKinstry' siezed
an ax handle and beat the insolent
TT : f? IT Pur?
BILL
Phone 126 I
503 MAIN STREET.
. W. O. .Young to C. Keutemyer 100
acres in McCarver CI; $788.
M. E. Stevens to A. R. Cummings
8.35 acres in CI. 58, 3 1, E; $417.
C. B. Russell to W. A. Shaw tracts
4G, 47, 55 and 55 Jennings Lodge;
$925. '"'
Hibernia Sav. Bank, to J. F. Wyvel,
lots 1 and 2, block 9, Mil. Park; $150.
- A. C. Hodgkins, to F. M. Lewthwaite
tract 50, 51, 59 and 60, Jennings Lodge
$800.- . ,
F. M. Hathway to L. L. Baker, tracts
50, 51, 59 and 60 Jennings Lodge;
$1000.
E. H. Phelps to W. S. Bacon SE
quarter of SW quarter of section 5,
2 5, E; S450. . '
I. G. Gordon to A. Joron lot 9, block 8,
associate of her husband into a state
ot insensibility, and, caning tor tne ; Windsor ; $40.
ponce, turned mm over to tne autnor- Hibernia Savings
ities. Oregon
Oregonian.
City item in Friday's
Bank to W. F. j
HALF THE WORLD WONDERS.
how- the other half lives. Those who
use Bucklen's Arnica Salve never won
der if it will cure Cuts, Wounds, Burns,
Sores and all Skin eruptions;- they
know it will. .Mrs. Grant Shy, 1130, E.
Reynolds St., Springfield, 111., says:
in "I regard it one of the absolute neces
sities or housekeeping. Guaranteed
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'LAUGH AND GROW FAT."
Life, is such a serious business with
the average mortal that an opportun
ity for a hearty laugh is more than
welcome to most people. "A merry
heart doeth good like a medicine,"
and so do the humorous features of
that great metropolitan daily "The
Chicago Record-Herald." The first
thing that greets you on the first page
of every issue is the humorous car
toon by Ralph Wilder, the well-known
artist, that frequently tells more at a
glance that could be conceived in a
column of reading matter. Every is-
ROAD DISTRICTS CREATED.
Members of the County Court made
a trip in the country Monday, inspect
ing roads and bridges. Several new
road districts were created, the ob
ject of the court being to make each
main thoroughfare a separate district.
With this end in view, the Molalla
road from Oregon City to Howard's
mill was made into a district, with
Sam Bailey as supervisor. Mr. Bailey
was formerly supervisor of the Maple
Lane district, and was succeeded' by
Mr." Gibbs. The Viola road district
was changed, taking in most of. the
Viola road, and separating it from the
Abernathy and Harding districts.
While this does not make a new dis
trict, it enlarges the scope. W. H.
Counsell was named as supervisor of
the Harmony district, which embraces
trio Wnrmnnv oloitinn rT,rinrt TVto
same action was taken with Oak relible work
Grove. The West Oswego district was
fusta VilicrioH Tiritrt f" ' TT If mca oa on-
pervisor. These new 'districts make j cuted' estates sett,ed and tltles Perfe-
! sweeping changes in the boundaries 1 ,
iin the districts of Abernethy. Clack-1 - J- F. Clark. Atty at Law,
Bofinger, lots 14 and 15 in block 18, I
Mil. Park. $18.
P. A. Parker to F. Baker, 30 acres
in -section 6, 3 1, E: $1.
A. V. Folsom to W. J. Schlegel lot
3, block 57, Oak Grove; $360.
W. J. Udell to J. L. Udell 24 acres
in Section 38, 4 2, E; $700.
S: Elmer to C. Schuebel lot 7, block
129. Oregon City; $250.
C. E. Gorbett to W. S. Gorbett 42
acres in section 36, 4 3, E; $500.
J. Gorbett to .1. Gorbett 162 acres
in section 36, 4 3, E; $450.
J. S. White to W. Dixon 19.63 acres
in section 5, 3 2, E; $1600.
Gladstone, R. E. Assn. to F. M. Bail
lev, block 123, Gladstone; $1243.
L. A. Noble to W. Krohn, lots 1, 2,
and 12, block 3, Falls -View; $525.
C. E. Nash to W. Krohn lot 11 blk.
3, Falls View, $40.
F. Kuetemeyer, to S. & J. Samard,
100 acres McCarver Claim; $800,
W. Fi Yerger to C. D. F. Wilson
3.12 acres section 35, 3 1 W; $90
J. Apperson to L. R. Case lots 10
and 11 block 3, Park Place, $350.
Hibernia Sav. Bank, to W. A. John-
sen lot 7, and 8 block 3, Milwaukie
Park; $100. -
J. W. Roots to A. J. McClung, 1
acre near block 10, Boring; $250.
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MATTOON FOR COUNTY
COMMISSIONER. . , .
Viola, Oregon, Jan, 10 1906.
Editor .Enterprise: Mr. Mattoon has,
been a resident of the eastern portion
of Clackamas County for about 59
years, and has witnessed the growth
i of the county from its infancv. . His
is the aggregate of our home commer- father. fi.ble Mattoon, served the coun-
B. C. Matthews to M. Kelly tracts
R. Clackamas Riverside; $3000.
A. E. Hammond to Clinton & Mc
Coy, lots 1, 2, 15 and 16, Rosewood;
$1.
T. Collins to P. S. Truman. S half
of SW quarter and NW quarter of
SW quarter of section 2tS, 2 5, E;
$1200.
C. T. Howard to A. Erickson 51.91
actes in section 16, 4 2, E; $4,335.
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