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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1000.
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 190S.
LOCAL INSURANCE.
A cynic once defined banking as A
entrusting bis money to B and then D
"loaning" it back to A at a high rate
of Interest We would like to hear
that same chap define tbe fire Insur
ance business.
Fire insurance companies have tak
en millions of dollars in premiums
from San Francisco, and other mil
lions from the other cities and towns
of the Pacific Coast Now, when the
time has come for the companies to
pay back a part of those premiums,
the companies "fail," or try in some
other manner to dodge their legal
obligations; they recognize no moral
obligations whatever.
But it doesn't pay all of them to
fail, and all can't welch all they owe.
They must pay some money to strick
en San Francisco. Some money but
not their own. What? Give back any
of those dearly beloved premiums?
Perish the thought!
Then whose money will they pay?
"Why yours and mine. The property
owners of the Pacific Coast will be
assessed to pay the debts of the in
surance companies in San Francisco.
That is the Rockefeller system.
When John D. gives a million to the
Chicago University, the price of oil
at once goes up a cent or two cents
a gallon to make that million back.
The cost of insurance In Oregon
City, and in all other towns and cities
on tbe Coast, has been advanced 25
per cent in order that the companies
may recoup the money they may be
compelled to pay San Francisco.
If that isn't robbing Peter to pay
Paul, what is it? The rates here have
been undeniably high for years so
nigh that in many instances they are
prohibitive. This in a town where
but five residences have been destroy
ed by fire in the last 60 years.
Now, with the risk being lessened
by the added efficiency of the fire de
partment from the purchase of new
apparatus; the water mains being
.extended to all parts of town and the
reserve supply of water being made
ample by larger feed pipes in face of
these facts the rates are boosted 25
per cent!
Is it any wonder business men and
other property owners are showing in
terest In local insurance protection?
Oregon City is happily situated in
respect to immunity from big fires.
The residences are scattered, each be
ing surrounded by spacious yards.
There are never gales of wind and sel
dom strong breezes. Fires are always
confined to the house of their origin.
With these facts in mind, Judge T.
F. Ryan has proposed that a mutual
company be formed here on conserva
tive lines, the business to be confined
to local risks. His plan is for the
members to transfer yearly one-fifth
of their present Insurance to the new
company at the present rates, in that
manner building up a strong reserve
fund, ' and after that apportion the
actual cost of insurance pro rata
among the members.
Judge Ryan had intended presenting
the plan at the Board of Trade meet
ing, Friday night, but no meeting was
held. He has been in the insurance
business for many years and has
great faith that a mutual company, if
strictly confined to local risks, would
be a great saving to property owners.
CLAIMS.
Here are some figures that ought to
cool you off:
Figuring that the proportion be
tween the U. S. census of 1900 and the
state school census of tbe same year
4.15 is correct now, Portland has
a population of 124,000, as there are
29,980 persons of school age in that
city by the recent school census. Fig
uring the same way, Oregon City
school district now has a population
of 5175. Our suburbs have a popula
tion of 3712, making a total population
for Greater Oregon City of 8887.
Using the Seattle city directory ra
tio that is the basis of that city's
claim to a population of 202,000, Port
land can claim with equal truth about
250,000, and Oregon City could but
wouldn't claim 18,000.
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The fact that English newspapers
are frequently discussing the best way
of abolishing trusts and combinations
In trade would be a little puzeling to
the unwary who have been led into
the delusion that tariffs are the war
ents of trusts, If they could see thorn.
England, under free trade, finds that
discriminations connected with the
administration ot public offices and
private corporations are tho roots of
the evil with her, as they are every
where. If she has fewer and smaller
trusts than are found here, It is only
because tho volume of her Internal
commerce Is less and time and labor
saving machinery has not been car
ried to nearly that point of production
thoy have with us.
The rural delivery routes number
33, 70S, an Increase of 3713 during the
year. Congress has done nothing to
enlarge the parcel post facilities, or
otherwise render the wagons running
with light loads more useful to the
people.
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In England it is proposed to unite
the Thames, Mersey, number and Sev
ern rivers by large canals at a cost of
$43,000,000. The railroads will not
fight the project, for experience shows
that ship waterways help the railway
business.
In the course of a few years the
whole public debt of the United States
will be refunded at not more than 2
per cent P. S. Provided the Repub
lican party continues in control of the
government.
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Secretary Shaw got out of the latest
bond issue all there was in it for Uncle
Sam. Borrowing at less than 2 per
cent a year is a good deal like finding
money.
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The first dollar Mr. Sage made when
a boy be saved. Conmound the Sage
rate of Interest on that dollar for seventy-five
years and see how easy it is
to get rich.
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A Philadelphia court has decided
that a love letter can not be probated
as a will. It is clear that in such pro
ductions the sound and disposing mind
is entirely absent.
Immigrants are arriving in New
York at the rate of 9000 a day. This
will to some extent offset the summer
travel from America to the capital
of the old world.
Throughout his long life Russell
Sage saved on an average about $1,
000,000 a year for a rainy day, which
takes the record from Noah.
Two months ago the czar referred
to the duma as "the best men in Rus
sia," and It may yet be proved that
he picked the winners.
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Popular Campaign Fund.
A departure in Republican party
methods has been made by Chairman
Sherman in sending out thousands of
letters to members of the party in all
parts of the country asking for $1 con
tributions for the purpose of return
ing a Republican congress. While the
Republicans say that they were com
pelled to take this course on account
of the hostility of the trusts, they
think it will strike a popular chord.
This appeal Is to be made also through
posters and by means of notices in the
party press. It is pointed out that if
one-half of those who voted for Roose
velt respond they will have a fund of
$3,812,245.
Superior-Hudson Bay Canal.
Two parties of surveyors have left
Winnipeg, Manitoba, to run lines north
and south for a canal to connect Lake
Superior and Hudson bay. They are
in the employ of James J. Hill, presi
dent of the Great Northern, who thus
expects to tap a vast virgin territory
in the wilds of Canada. The line will
be surveyed this year only to Lake
Winnipeg. The southern end of the
canal will be at Port Arthur, unless
the engineers find a route up Ralney
river through the lake of the Woods,
but it is thought that the current of
the Ralney river will be found too
swift.
Sentence Sermons.
The best way to bow before the Al
mighty is to bend to the needy.
Honesty is the best policy when
you cease to figure on the premium.
It's so much easier to talk of con
version than it is to manifest courte
sy. It's easier for some men to acquire
money than manners.
Every dog isn't a bird dog, but ev
ery cat is a bird cat.
Fortune telling is always fortunate
for a fortune teller.
Marriage Is never a failure, but
often the contracting parties are.
No, the starboard of a steamer is
not reserved for star boarders.
Beauty is worse than liquor; it in
toxicates both the holder and the be
holder. A' man Is not justified in taking an
eye opener because he Is blindly In
love.
Regulates tbe bowels, promotes
easy, natural movements, cures con
stipation Doan's Itegulets. Ask your
druggist for them. 25 cents a box.
YOU SAB E ME
Based on a True Episode of the San Francisco Fire
Believe In Chinese Exclusion?
Well, may bo 1 did before
The day of tho Great Confusion,
When tho Quake In Us wrath uptore
The roots of the town, and the Reaper
Mowed us with flame then I Baw
The faith of a race that's deeper
Than any Exclusion Law.
Yea, I took in tho politicians'
Rhetoric, buncomb, air;
Who, from their fat positions,
Mentioned the "white man's share,"
Tho white man's right to bully
The race with tho braided queue
Kick 'em from boat to alley,
Cheat 'era in bench and pow.
Bong was the name of our coolie
Long-fingered Canton boy
Went at his Job with a truly
Pagan sort of a Joy.
Serving man, cook and waiter,
Roustabout general slob
That's what the Chinese hater
Calls "taking a white man's Job."
We liven in the R I neon section
Alice, the Kid and I.
Bong was the Home Protection,
And held his position high.
Gentle he was with the baby-
Never was cross or grim.
Used to explain, "Oh, maybe
I catchera 111' gal like him!"
When I left for tho city early,
In tho era before tho wreck,
After I'd kissed my girlie
And the kid clung close to my neck,
Then I'd chuckle to Bong, "You Chink-
er,
Take care of 'em both, d'ye see?"
So the coolie would grin like a tinker
And answer, "You sabi me!"
Bong, though his head was level.
His conscience Ironed to a gloss.
Rather worshiped the devil
And sneered at the "Christian joss."
He learned from the heathen sages
A budget of useful lore,
And I found him investing his wages
In a Chinese general store.
Those years that I spent with Alice
On tho hills of our merriment!
Every man's house was his palaco
(We're living now In a tent).
By the sweet bay we slumbered,
From the gay height looked down
Who thought that our days were num
bered
And hell was beneath the town?
I was away In Seattle;
The earthquake rumbled through
Like the Jar of a mighty battle
Then the news of the Horror grew.
"San Francisco Is shaken
Half the buildings down
Dead from the ruins taken
Fire is sweeping the town!"
How I tore to the station.
Drunk with a man's despair;
Chaos was on Creation
My wife and my child out there!
We squeezed in the trains like cattle
Packed In the slaughter stall;
And when we pulled out of Seattle
The night was beginning to fall.
THESE ARE WORTH REMEMBERING
Keeping Clothes Clean.
Invaluable at home or away is a bot
tle of alcohol, a piece of blotting paper
ami a silk sponge for cleaning clothes.
Spots appear on one's clothes some
times in a most mysterious manner,
and by placing the blotting paper un
derneath the spot and spooning the
latter with the alcohol, the foreign
matter is cleansed from the right side
of tho goods and absodhed by the
blotting paper on the wrong side.
Most persons would do well to go
further, however.
Clothes would last longer and look
hotter all the time if carefully brushed
(not with a bristly broom nor stiff
brush) after the dust 'has been shaken
out. This should follow every wear
ing.
WE D0NT SWEAR TO THESE
A Battle for Life.
Near Valentine, Neb., recently, in a
bare-handed fight with a mad bull,
Nile Latta, a young ranchman, suc
ceeded In killing tho beast after his
horse had been fatally gored.
Latta Interfered to separate the en
raged animal from another bull with
which it was engaged In battle royal.
He tried to drive it home, but instead
it ran for a lake near by. Latta follow
ed it into the water, whero It charged
and gored the horse, hurling It some
distance.
Latta returned to the fight, seizing
the bull by the tall. Finally ho suc
ceeded In climbing its back and work
ed himself astride the animal's neck.
A desperate struggle followed. Latta
kept bis feet securely locked under
the beast'r.neck and went to tho bot
tom several times as the bull plunged
In its efforts to dislodge him.
Watching his chance, he succeeded
in forcing the bull's head under the
Traveling men and Bailors,
Millionaires, merchants, sports,
Tw o penny clerks and tailors,
Touts from the coast resorts,
Spoke ot their homes llko brothers
'Bonded lu grief and when
I prayed, "God pity tho mothers!"
A gambler whispered, "Anion!"
Oakland, a pull of terror,
Blinded tho sun on high; ,
The buy, like a broken mirror,
Glared to the smoking sky.
Tattered and stuokobodevlled
Crowds upon crowds poured through
Limping, Insane, disheveled
And tho glare from tho city grew.
Day was short And tho darkness
Out of the smoke clouds foil.
The ferry splro stood black In tho fire
Like a crag at tho mouth ot hell.
All night long swung tho ferries,
Listed and cramped and crammed,
And all night long camo tho fleeing
throng,
Llko tho hosts of tho hauutod damn
ed. Twenty four hours at the ferries
I searched the thousands through.
Haggard and wan I looked upou, .
Hut never a face I know.
Beggars, burdened with riches,
Muttered and tolled ahead
I called aloud lu tho fuco of tho crowd,
Who looked with tho eyes of tho
dead.
Then somo one spoke from tho clamor
With a voice that I seemed to know,
"They are safe back there ou Ports
mouth square
I saw them an hour ago.
They wero warm under cover,
Closo to tho monument
It wasn't so bad, for tho Chinatown
lad
Had stretched up a sheet llko a tent
"He had brought them food from tho
ruins,
And seemed to be keeping house.
Squat on his heels ho was cooking
their meals
Tho kid was wrapped In his blouse.
Bong's faco was black from tho burn
ing, But his grin it was good to gee,
When I called from tho throng, 'Take
care of 'em Bong!'
And ho answered, 'You sabo mo!'"
This was my neighbor's story.
And well you may understand
How I could not speak till tho tears
from my cheek
Splashed over his outstretched hand. 1
And of all the pure Chrlstlnn blessings
Which pulpit and church employ,
I hope one sped to tho pig tailed head
Of my heathen coolie boy.
One night more at tho ferry.
I could see her. heaven be blessed!
Out of tho mob sho camo with a sob
Ami fainted away on my breast
Bong sat near with the baby
Fast asleep on his knee,
And he said as he smiled and looked
at tho child,
"I fetchem you sabo me!"
Wallace Irwin In Metropolitan Mag
azine. . Refreihlng Drink for Hot Day.
A refreshing drink for a hot day Is
made very simply of blackberries.
Cover the berries with water and let
them come to a boll. Strain through
'a sieve and then adding a spoonful of
sugar to a pint of Julco boll once again.
iKeep on Ice.
Poison Oak Cure.
One authority recommends baking
soda and cold water bound on with
bread crusts. Either of these may do
In emergency, but tho only effective
and permanent cure Is tho homeopath
ic pellet of rhux tox. As accidents are
always liable to happen, a smalf bot
tle of this medicine is a convenient
addition to the traveling outfit.
water whllo it was gasping for air, and
held It there until It was drowned.
Man Fights Snake and Eagle.
Attacked simultaneously by a black
snake and an eagle, II. C. Hank, a well
known resident of Palo Alto, Pa., had
a strenuous fight for his life on Tumb
ling Itun mountain recently. Ho
fought off both assailants, although
considerably Injured by tho eagle.
The big bird returned a second time
to attack him, but Haak escaped by
hiding In the bushes.
Finds Ring In Eight-Pound Bass.
Fred Schwooder of 319 Washington
avenue, Columbus, Ohio, hooked an
eight-pound bass while fishing in
Buckeye lake last week, in the stom
ach of which he found a plain gold
ring bearing the three-link design of
Odd Fellowship, tho letters J. L. and
the figures 39.
GREATER ECONOMY
GREATER CONVENIENCE
WITH
ELECTRIC LIGHT
Install Electric Service In your home and "begin to
live." The Electric current will not only afford you the
BEST illumination, but will help you in a hundred con
venient ways you never thought of.
ELECTRIC LIGHT will add tone to your
home, will make its beauties and comforts more ap
preciable, and will save you work, worry and expense.
Considering its maniford advantages ELECTRIC
LIGHT is the cheapest artificial light in the world.
NOW IS THE TIME to take advantage of our
REDUCED RATES for current on meter basis.
Estimates on cost of wiring, cost of current and in
formation regarding the use of Electricity for LIGHT or
POWER, promptly furnished upon application to C. G.
Miller at the Company's branch office, next door to the
Bank of Oregon City.
PORTLAND GENERAL
ELECTRIC COMPANY
C G. Miller, Contract Manager for Oregon City
Don't Be Blue
and lose all Interest when help Is
within reach. Herblno will moke that
liver perform Its duties properly, J. II.
Vaugha. Kllrn. Ala., writes: "llelng a
roiiHtunt sufferer from constipation
and a disordered liver, I have found
Herblno to Ihj the best meillolno, for
tin-so troubles, ou the market. I have
used It constantly. 1 bellevo It to bo
the best niedlclno of Its kind, and I
wish all sufferers from these troubles
to know tho good Herblno has dona
me." Huntley liros. Drug t'o.
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Oregon, Washington, Cali
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operation by the Pacific
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towns.
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All the satisfaction of a
personal communication.
Distance no effect to a
clear understanding. Spo
kane and Han Francisco
as easily heard as Port
land. Oregon City office at
Harding's Druir Store
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