OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1906.
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FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1906.
THE COUNTY PRINTING.
Senator Brownell would have the
people of Clackamas county believe
fhey are being robbed in the matter
Of county printing. Other than per
sonal abuse, which at no time consti
tutes argument, this is the only charge
Of any kind that Mr. Brownell has
tven attempted to prefer against his
Opponent for State Senator. L. L. Por
ter, the editor and publisher of the
Enterprise, who does the county print
ing. Now what are the facts?
In the first place Clackamas county
jks paying for its printing less in pro
portion than is any other county in
the state. For instance, Washington
fcnd Columbia counties have been pay-
s. tng 25 cents per line for . publishing
Celinquent tax lists. This same adver
tising this year cost Clackamas county
7 cents per line. The Enterprise
received $156.75 for printing the list.
While the cost of printing the delin
quent tax list in the past has been con-
. aiderably greater, during the adminis
tration of the late ex-Sheriff Ganong
. fcaving cost nearly $3000, the cost un
der the present tax law, by which
. property owners are compelled to liqui
date their taxes, is very materially
reduced. The editor of the Enterprise
was a member of the committee that
framed the present tax law bill and
ssisted in getting the bill through
the legislature.
Every order for even the smallest
Job of county printing is made direct
ly through the members of the County
Court, each county officer being oblig
ed to make application of the couTt
for all supplies that are needed. Upon
proper request being made, the Court
orders the necessary stationery and
the only part the printer plays in the
matter is to supply the order as it is
given him by the Court. As to the
Charges that are made for this work,
only current prices are received, and,
as has been stated, the charge for all
this sort of work is proportionately
cheaper in this county than is paid
by the other counties of the state.
. Mr. Brownell is representing to his
audiences throughout the county that
the county printing constitutes a gi
gantic graft. Reference to the re
cords proves that such is not the case.
Ehiring the year 1905 the Enterprise
received for county printing, includ
ing the publishing of the delinquent
tax list for that year the sum of
$1188.27. The proceedings of the
County Court show that the cost of
printing for Clackamas county has
teen gradually reduced each year
since the Enterprise has been perform
ing this service, until now the county
is having Its printing done at a mini
mum of expense.
"When it comes to misrepresenting
-facts, Senator Brownell is most in
dustrious. For instance at his meeting
at Beaver Creek in speaking of the
county printing, he said that the bulk
Wf-the money paid by the county on
Uiis account was for publishing notices
Jp the Enterprise.
This is an absolute falsehood.
1 Excepting only the publishing of the
tax lists, not one dollar in fifty that has
Total $1188.27
The bills of the Enterprise for coun
ty printing for each and every month
are on file in the office of the County
Clerk and may be inspected at any
time by any one desiring to do so.
Each bill is itemized, showing the
various items, of work done and the
charge for the same. As we have al
ready stated, the charges for all coun
ty printing have been right and rea
sonable. In fact it is not a matter of
sending in any old charge for printing
and having the account promptly aud
ited by the members, of the County
Court and a warrant immediately is-
262.05 busy men a chance.
108. 50 Finally there's the brute who walks
71.55 past another pedestrian, sidles directly
. 34.10 in front of him and elows -up. The way
21.45 to treat this variety is to walk past
22.87 them in turn and slow up in his path.
35. 45 , He's apt to fight, but, anyway, he de
36 . 75 serves his licking.
78.65 1 The street brute may have lived in
50.20 the city half his life, but nevertheless
j he holds front rank among the truly
rural elements or tne population.
The process may be slow, but if he
doesn't reform he is bound to be ruth
lessly eliminated. Chicago Record-
Herald.
lAsk Xour
Own Doctor
It the 10,800,444 free seed franks
are abolished it ought to help out the
postoffice deficit some. '
It is a funny thing about those ar
rests in Idaho. Every murderer is al
leged to have influential men to back
him. But they never get the backers.
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A contemporary heads a "modus
sued in payment, un tne contrary, vivendi" storv with the line "What
every bill against the county, is thor- Germany Gets." It looks as though she
oughly scrutinized by the members of
the County Court, before the account
is finally audited and a warrant or
dered drawn in payment thereof.
If any one for a minute thinks a
gold brick can be sold Clackamas
county or a padded bill or an unrea
sonable charge pass the critical in
spection of Judge Ryan and Commis
sioners Brobst and Killm, let hiiTi
experiment.
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NEED SPRAYING BADLY.
got the bag and was still holding it.
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Seventy railway mail . clerks were
killed in the past year. And yet Some
people say that the Civil Service Com
mission does: nothing to earn its
money.
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Edison's prediction that "the auto
mobile will yet put the horse in the
barn" is scarcely verified by the facts.
Itr generally puts both the horse and
driver in the ditch. !
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If he tells you to take Ayer's
Cherry Pectora-1 for your
severe cough or bronchial
trouble, then take it. If he has
anything better, then take that.
We have great confidence in
this medicine. So will you,
when you once know it.
.-. The best kind of a testimonial
" Sold, lor over sixty years."
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mnqfkotnrer of
SARSAPABILLA.
PILLS.
HAIR VIGOR.
We hv no secret I We publish
thm formulae of all our medicines.
Keep the bowels open with one of
Ayer's Pills at bedtime, Just one.
The people of Clackamas county are I It is safe to say that those London
uniting their efforts to defeat George I Analysts who elected Dr. Wiley an
C. , Brownell, who is a candidate for honorary member-have not heard all
the nomination of. state Senator from the things the opponents of th Pure
that county. As has been the habit Food Bill are saying about him.
of Brownell, he has promised every- '. o
thing, and if elected, will do as he It is reported that the Senate has
usually does, deliver nothing. There decided to kill the Dominican treaty.
never has been a man in state politics I We have overlooked old Santo in the
who has promised as much and done
as little as Brownell. He gets on the
popular side of everything,- "stands in
with everything, and has an excuse
press of other business and really
thought it had been killed already.
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The Irrigation Survey promises to
for everything that he did contrary to I add 50,000 acres to the domain- of the
his promises. There is an indictment I "United States. The Survey evidently
Wonder if Mr. Vanderbilt now has
any more sympathy for those Italians
who got mobbed in Louisiana.
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President Castro threatens to nullify
the Munroe Doctric.d. Looks as though
there was still some hope for Venezu
la's creditor.
hanging over his head as a party de
frauding the government, He
plays the game of politics with "mark
ed cards and is a corruptionist of the
deepest dye. Oregon has been too long
wants to get in enough new congress
men to make sure of holding its Job
THE JEROME OF SAN FRANCISCO.
America's unpardonable neglect of
some private claims is illustrated in
cursed by such law-makers as Brown-j the sealer's bill, which Senator Fulton
ell. In these days of accounting it is has put through the Senate. This bill
best to kill the worm that has injected I is to recoup sealers flying the Ameri-
his poison into the tree of state. If I can flag, who lost their vessels before
Clackamas county does her -duty she the Behrlng Sea arbitration, and at a
will spray her political trees, which I time when America held to the privi-
will be the undoing of George C. lege of capturing sealers on the open
Brownell. Portland Labor Press. I sea near the breeding islands. After
the arbitration, and it was decided that
Americans did not have the right to
patrol the high seas near the islands
all T-3 Tf -fati Odo Iaa nrhnaa irnaoal a ka1
jjistncL Auoruey wnuam n. xang- hoOTi flnri1PD w iA kv
uuu ve.jr guou miiuitiou oi ernment promptly. Ru9ala had Deen
m- political cornet. Hays tne exercising the same patrol power, pur-
Argonaui. A lortnigllt ago DC WSS .,, wl,lr.h oho Aiit.irod A rr,r-t-
1. : .1 .1 . - r a..
n - man ui ouc .uuccuucuc iCan sealers, and this government
vi... . .t . j promptly demanded of her full pay-
uumijr w liic iciuaiuuBf ui LUC nil" mortYif tha lrtaaaa Rut fho imoHxnn
ucKei. io-aay ne is tne most conspic- dealers captured by Americans them
uuub buu iiincu uuum luau m oau selves have not been paid as yet.
ed" as the Democratic candidate for
governor of California. And all be-1 More than usual interest attaches
cause he organized a raid on the incip-1 to the report of Consul Kellogg from
A captious critic declares that Sec
retary Wilson simply got up the Ger
man tariff scare to increase his force
of meat inspectors.
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And now a bill has been' introduced
in Congress to render lynching legal.
As if communities that lynch did not
take care of that themselves.
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The physicians have now decided
that it is not absolutely necesary to
amputate Senator Clark's ear. Neither
did the legislature quite amputate his
leg the last time he was sent to Con
gress. But they came near It.
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Dr. Wiley declares that there is only.
one brand of whiskey in this country j
tnat is nt to annit. inere is only a
difference of one between Dr. Wiley
and the W. C. T. U. which insists that
there is no brand fit to drink.
"A Stitch
la Time
Saves Nine"
can nowhere be more truthfully applied than
to your teeth. You cannot afford to neglect
them. Each month of neglect increases the
amount of repair work twenty-five per cent,
besides, poor teeth mean poor health. You
cannot afford to neglect your health. By the
latest methods used by us we can fill your teeth
without pain, and do it well. Tf An expert
eastern graduate dentist employed all the time
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L. L. PICKENS
Dentist
Weinhard Building, Opposite Court House
j New Clubbing Rates j
lent Monte Carlo of Harvey & Daroux
that was so sudden and complete that
men in evening clothes, who had left
their wives or sweethearts at the
Columbia Theatre next door while
they made a bet or two, were unable
to escape, but went along with the
rest to jail ; all because he has stopped
the use .of slot machines in San Fran--Cisco,
and has expressed an unalter
able determination to put an end to all
other form of gambling openly carried
on in this city. The mayor has expres
sed himself as in entire accord with
the district attorney; Chief of Police
Dinan appears to be giving him effic
ient aid. With such suport Mr. Lang
don may achieve his declared purpose,
and the names of Jerome, of New
York, Folk, of St. Louis, and Langdon,
of San Francisco, will be linked ina
Colon showing the great increase in
the past year of traffic over the Panama-Colon
Railway. Of course a large
bulk of this traffc was due to the con
struction of the Panarrfa Canal, but
much of it was traffic that would have
crossed the Isthmus ' in any event
owing to the expanding trade of this
coast of South America. This increase
is interesting for two reasons, because
it shows the constantly increasing
traffic that the completed Panama
Canal will foster, and because it shows
also that this country while it is ad
vancing its South American trade,
is not keeping pace with Europe in this
matter. The report shows a gross in
crease in the traffic across the rail
road in the year 1904-5 of 13 per cent.
But while of this increase about 30
per cent belonged to the United States
pleasing trinity. At any rate, it is three was a 70 per cent gain for Europe
said that the spectre of Langdon is
seriously disturbing the dreams of
Thomas J. Geary, who wants the gov
ernorship for himself, and that Theo
dore A. Bell, of Napa, also casts ap
prehensive eyes toward the district
It appears that our trade was best with
Ecquador where this country really
sold the bulk of all the imported goods.
But the large general increase on the
continent went not. to Americans but
to French and German dealers. This
1H rocfiverl by tn Enterprise is for 1 attorney, though Mr. Bell, it is report-1 indicates that the United States has
dublishing notices The principal items ed, may decide to make the race for not yet caught the trick of foreign
ft the county printing consist ot tne ; Congress rather than for the gover- commerce ana points more than ever
fteessment' blanks, tax receipts, Dal-1 nor's chair. The Iroquois Club of this to the necessity or regular consulate
t and other election suotlie?, to say i citv. of which Lansrdon is a member. I training and to the education of Amer-
4othing of the letter heads, envelopes are said to look' upon his candidacy ican firms and American -commercial
and other stationery that are requirea . with favor, and Mr. Hearst's news- travellers if we are to take our right-
fcr each department at the court j paper speaks of the district attorney i ful share of the immense Pacific corn-
Mouse. ' in such terms of high eulogy that one
In stating that the bulk of the money may infer a possibility of some help
aid by Clackamas county is for pub- , from Hearst. -
ah or wnicn snows tnat it is some
times a good thing to be a reformer. ,
The announcement that Queen Mar
arita. of Italy has abandoned her pro
posed automobile tour of America
aruoses the suspicion that she has
heard of some of the things that Good
Roads Association has not accomplish
ed in this country.
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One of the states to use convict la
bor in road construction for a long
time is North Carolina, and this com
monwealth is credited with haviner
about the best system of highways to
be found in any state of the Union
similarly situated with, regard to pop
ulation and industries. North Caro
lina has set an example that is being
closely studied by many other East
ern and Southern states. It has been
so successful in getting good work
and at a very low cost, that the demon
stration is regarded the best yet made
in the country of the handling of con
victs. The open ir work is said to
be beneficial to the health of the pri
soners and is taken up more eagerly
than the drudgery of some callings
which involve all inside employment.
It is also stated on good authority
that North Carolina is comparatively
humane in treatment of prisoners, as
none of the abuses apprehended in
work distant from the penitentiary
have been recorded.
Hereafter the Enterprise offers
the following Subscription
Clubbing Rates :: :: :: ::
Both for $2.25
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Enterprise and
Weekly Oregonian
Semi-Weekly Journal Bothfor$2.00
Call at the Enterprise Office ,
or mail you order at once
ashing notices in this paper, the Sen-
itor states what he knows is false,
'o further prove the falsity of his al
jgations in this regard we would re
3T the taxpayer to the bills covering
his service that are on file in the
sffice of the County Clerk.
In his desperation, a little exaggera
merce that the completion of the canal
will open to the world
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STREET BRUTES
A frequent comment heard is dep
recatory of the Pacific . Northwest's
attitude toward the salmon fishing in
dustry. Officials of the bureau of fish
eries do not veil their disgust at what
they regard unpardonable indifference
toward salmon. - This same spirit is
will
Street brutes need to be prodded
nnw and f h n Thpv nf ton urn mpn
lion from the Senator is expected and i Wh nr anvthinc hut hmtpa in nther I findiner broader reflection, and
-L. : . K tAloi-QtuH Vint xxrc mnnt tnllfi . . , . . . .. 1 j j 1 ...
uifeui. relations 01 lire, DUt on tne strets tney I some uay ueveiop into a positive oppo-
xception to ine gross, wniui auu itia- let their manners degenerate. If their sition to Government aid for work in
icious misrepresentation tnat is Deing i 0ffenseg were a little worse they would which the states do not show more in
esorted to. Not only ao inese raise v. UnrMrori dawn fnr thom Sinrs I terest. This criticism is Tint haspfl
Statements do the Enterprise and its ( tney usually escape that, the next best so much upon failure to appropriate
aitor au mjuautc uui e. tnmg 1B to lecture them. - tunas ior protection, as upon laws
serious indictment of the conserva
iive executive ability of the present
lembers of the County Court, a more
pareful and economical board than
rhich never met for the transaction or
County business
of the day, and you will always find
him on the streets that lead tn the sn-
I In discrediting Mr. Brownell's charge burban stations when the throngs are
of graft on account of county print- hurrying to and from work. He ought
ing, it appears only necessary to sub- to be more or less gently shoved to
' mit a statement showing the cost to . the right,
the county per month for all its print- j Another street brute is the one
ing done at the Enterprise office dur- often, alas ! a woman with the sharp
lng last year. It should be remembered pointed umbrella carried so that it is
that this total of 1188.27 includes the a menace to the neighbors' ribs and
cost of publishing the delinquent tax : faces. A jab for a Jab should be the
list for that year and when it is re-' rule with these.
called that this one item at one time j Another variety uses a $5 bill to pay
cost the county nearly $3000, it is not ' a nickel fare at the elevated station
exactly clear that the taxpayers are window, and so holds up a long line
being grafted very heavily on account of would-be passengers and makes
Of printing. ' ! them miss their trains. Give him a
The following table shows the nickel and a lecture,
amount of the monthly bills that Clack- ( Another kind steps down from the
Unas county . paid the Enterprise for street car platform to the step before
printing during the year 1905, ana tne. tne car comes to a stop uau wmt
Jjrowneii or, any- . till lie rea.uiic ma wiumc psrius
One type of the "brute is the man I which the Federal officials believe very
who walks on the left hand side of the poor protection to fish. The decreas
sidewalk in a crowd. You find him on ing number of salmon caught at the
State street during the shopping hours, hatcheries, where artificial propaga
tion is conducted is accepted as proof
that the industry will wane to an un
important business, which is not
worthy maintenance of hatcheries.
Those officials of a more optimistic
turn, hope that the people of Oregon
and Washington will improve 'on their
old customs before it is too late.. ,If
each state would put in force measures
patently affording greater assurances
of the permanency of the salmon in
dustry, the effect would be immediate
here, and no doubt is felt that -the
Government would be ready for all
time to co-operate every way possible
in tntinuin the salmon Industry as
one of the most priceless gifts of na
ture. Men of the East who read of
what their rivers afforded in pioneer
days, and deplore some of the ravages
of civilization, offer many ardent pray
ers that the Pacific Northwest will be
ariltnr' dofloa Mr : Mmwnell or anv-
feody else to show where any other stone before getting off, regardless of (aroused before the noble salmon ceas
mnntv in eettine "its Drinting any whether a half-dozen people are I es to be a general commercial com mod-
Cheaper, proportionately: blocked behind him or not. Some time ity. x
Judge John H. Scott, of the Oregon
Good Roads Association and Judge of
Marion County, has invited Senator
Fulton to attend the great gathering
which will mark the Governmental
work in good road building near Salem
some time in May. Judge Scott says
that he and his fellow workers are ar
ranging to run excursion trains to
Salem during the period of the demon
stration, and intends to make of it a
gala day, when as many of the people
of the state as can, will be instructed
in road building. Senator Fulton has
expressed his purpose of attending the
meeting if Congress adjourns in time,
but,Js unable to say definitely now in
this respect. Many Senators and lead
ers of the House believe an adjourn
ment will be had even earlier than
forecasted a few weeks earlier, and
hope that the session will close about
May 1. There is a growing spirit to
shorten the session, if the pending
matters can be disposed of early, and
the House has rushed business so as
to be able to terminate this session
any time it appeared that the Senate
could finish.
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In arguing before the Commerce
committee of the Senate for the Ore
gon rivers and harbors work this year, .
Senator Fulton produced figures prov
ing that the Government has spent
$70,000,000 in such work in Maine,
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu
setts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New
York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and
Delaware, with a total area of about
175,000 square miles. He also showed
the committee that every large im
provement project under way was pro
vided for on the continuing contract
basis, save that on the Columbia river.
Assurance is given that the Senate
will be favorably disposed toward the
Oregon work, and appreciates the urg
ency of continuing it. But the real
fight is in the House, where the West
ern membership is very small. Chair
man Burton, of the Rivers and Har
bors Committee, in the House, has de-1
clared that he will oppose any otner
improvement project being put on the
continuing contract basis, ana wnne (
he expresses appreciation of the need j '
of work in Oregon, he is giving little j
assurance that he will countenance
an appropriati6n for continuing the
work this year.
The Wise Man Said :
" Says I to myself, says I,
The Can by Tribune
Is the paper to buy, says I."
--Better keep posted on what's going-on in this patt of
of the county. One dollar a year.
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some of the savage tribes in the Phil
ippines subject their captives, reminds
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