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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1906.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
Vol. S2. NO. 37.
PROTEST REMOVAL OF
SIXTH STREET STEPS
STRONG REMONSTRANCE PRE
SENTED AT CITY COUNCIL
FRIDAY NIGHT.
ESTIMATES OF COST FURNISHED
Action Deferred Until Souther n Pa
cific Plant for Overhead Croaa
Ing la Racalvcd.
A strong remonstrance against tt
abandonment of (he Sixth street steps
wu presented to the council, Friday
night, Th protest U hIkixxI by 42
property owner and buslne men,
and statea that the atepa had been
located there for many years, are a
a-reat convenience to resident, ami
If removed woud Inconvenience mora
than the rhafiRn woud benefit. The
trreatr height at Fifth at reel and
Htooprifxa rnaklnK greater rout, I ad
vanced aa an argument against re
moval from Klith.
The protest was referred to aamo
commltle that In holding the Sixth
atreet petition. The City Engineer
office auhmltted eatlmale of the coat
of the dtffrent atepa that have been
considered by the Council aa follow:
Combination atepa that will accom
modate both Fifth and Blxth atreeta,
wood. 11490.95; ateel $6370; Fifth
atreet atepa. wood, $SH0; ateel. $3320;
Sixth atreet atepa, wood $816.70; ateel,
$30f.0.
The resignation of Jack It Caufield,
city treasurer, was received and thw
council confirmed the appointment of
Mortimer Iaumretto by Mayor Caufield.
limiting apeed of automobile! to eight
tn Ilea an hour, defining dutlca of Chief
of Pollen In collection of license.
Tho Blxth atreet aaaeaament ordered
prepared by tho city engineer. The
atreet commissioner ordered to repair
the plunking In Seventh atreet between
Polk and Taylor, Tho cave-In on Front
atreet between tho 8. P. track and
Parkplaee road referred to committee
tin utrtHtlm
, Tho controveray oyer grado of Sev
enth afreet at J, Q. Adam atreeta,
canned by C. B.tNab raining bin aide
walk, referred.
At a called meeting Tuesday night,
tho ordinance creating Sewer Dl'
trlct No. 5, and time and manner of
eonatructlng aewera In aald district,
were read the flrat time, and are pub
iHhed In thla paper. Tho matter of
gravel on Wellington atreet from Ab-
ernethy brldg" to Fourteenth atreet,
and the making of necessary repairs
to tho Klyvllle fire houae were re
ferred to the committee on atreeta
and public property.
s. p. hih at repairs block board
ILIB PRESIDENT'S
IS SDRB MOTOR
PLANS AND ESTIMATES BEING
MADE NO CAR8 BUT ELEC
TRIC TO RUN ON FOURTH
8TREET LINE.
CHIEF MOGUL OF TRACTION LINES
SURPRISED BY IMPROVE
MENTS TO HIS OREGON
CITY PROPERTY.
APPROVES PLAN
FOR LOCAL INSURANCE
lurid and degenerate tales to the In
Jury of boy readera, have been ended
by the popularity of the Sunday maga
zine aupplement, a harmless and
amusing appendage of the big dally
newspaper. But sales of bloody, fright
ful, Intoxicated imaginings which are
spewed over cheap paper to destroy
better impulse and rear a fabric of
evil influence around the youth of this
nation, are lucrative as ever alike to
the writer of such putrid stuff, the pub
lisher and the retailer.
WONT PAY FOR AN
EMERGENCY ALARM
Portland Central Electric Company
Wante City Ta Bear All
Exponas.
It Is authoritatively atated the
Southern Pacific will build' a bridge
acroMs the Willamette from Elk Rock
to near Mllwaukle and run Its trains
from tho west side division into the
city over the main line.
This will divert all the freight busi
ness from the Fourth street line and
only cars operated by electricity will
enter the city on that street These
Improvements are to be completed
next summer.
A Portland story says the plana and
estimates are now being made for the
building of the line from tho west side
division near Hlllsboro, to a connec
tion with' the YatnhlU division and to
the river at Elk Rock, where a natur
al bridge site offers for a crossing of
the river. Freight and passenger
rains will be removed from Fourth
street and the west side division from
the Union station to Forest Grove or
Hlllsboro will bo operated by electric-
tty.
In reply to the request of the city
council In regard to the Installation of
an alarm aystem in the power house
of the Portland General Electric com
pany, by which notice to shut off pow
er and light currenta could be quickly
given in case of fire or accident, that
company refuses to have tho system
installed unless done without expense
Bids for supplying the city with 500 . to (ti Tnat WM lDe gist of it letter
read at the council meeting, Friday
night.
On tho same subject, a letter from
the Pacific States Telephone company
was read of entirely different tenor,
That company offers to Install, with
out coKt to the city, a telephone at the
electric station when arranKements
can be mode for tho projosed system
Tho P. G. Jl. company also said that
undur no circumstances could the Idea
bo entertained of shutting off other
than only the current which supplied
Oregon City.
yards of crushed rock were received
and referred to the committee on ,
atreeta and public property, with in
structions to confer with property
owners and make report, Tho bids
averaged about 2.
Hurry Jones was awarded the con
tract for reliulillng the upper part of
tho Third and Fourth atreet stairs for
1155. It was divided to havo the
Eighth street stairs removed. Street
Commissioner Bradley and Mr. Mar
lay, of the street cleaning department,
were voted a vacation of ten days
each.
The matter of extension of a aub
main to tho cemetery, to supply water
there, was referred to the cemetery
committee with power to act. Tho care
of the water lrt the creek at Sixth
and Washington streets, complained
of by 11. C. Stevens, referred back to
committee.
Following ordinances were passed;
IMrchosft of street sprinkler, num
bering housed, naming certain streets,
Telephone Line O. K.
The field Area at Shubel and Beaver
Creek Interfered with the farmer tel
ephone lines a day or two, as many
poles were burned, but everything waa
In working order again by Wednesday
evening.
W, H. Goode, president of the con
solidated railways, power and light
companies, and nearly everything elae
holding valuable public franchises in
or near Portland, including the O.W.P., I
niado an automobile inspection trip
as far as New Era, Saturday.
He was accompanied by Engineer
Huber and came up the west bank,
crossed the suspension bridge, and
on up Main street until stopped by the
repair to the O. W. P. track between
the mill and Canemah. He was sur
prised , his Interests being so vast that
such a little thing as rebuilding a
mile or so of his railroads was un
known to him, or he bad forgotten It
The automobile then climbed the
new road ud the hill and Messrs.
Goode and Huber either enjoyed a
pleasant country ride or made a bus!
ness inspection of the route for the
extension of the 0. W. P.
Another railway rumor. Mr. Wltby
combe, a brother of the late guberna
torial candidate, has been taking op
tions on land about Stone during the
last few weeks, and a correspondent
says he has a company behind him to
build a big power dam In the Clacka
mas a abort distance above the mouth
of Clear creek. A railway to tap the
rich region about Stone ,ls to follow.
Dancing Distances.
From pedometer tests it is made ap
parent that a waltz covers a solid half
mile of distance and the gallop re
quires a full mile. The landers Is the
easiest dance, since in this the dis
tance covered is but little more than
a quarter of a mile. According to the
records of several young men, the a
erage dance programme require tbem
to cover thirteen and one-half miles,
while a womaa from the nature of the
step is required to go a quarter as
far again.
TRIP TO JAMESTOWN
EXHIBITION FREE
BIG LAND DEAL.
George A. Steel, state treasurer
elect, who lives near Meldrum's Bta
tlon, has transferred to W. A. Laldlaw,
claim No. 38 and parts of sections 7,
8. 17. 18, 19 and 20, In township 2 south,
range 2 east. The consideration was
$21,970. Tho sale lncludes.338.20 acres
located
Gladstone.
WANT. MAKERS-OF HOMES-
NOT DWELLERS IN SHACKS
In a lively, entertaining and far (things, a new style of farming In
fmm trv dincourse on "Dry Farming"! tenslfled cultivation and diversified
The Dalles Ontlmlst gives a lot of crops. In other words we want farm
general truth that applies as well to
the Willamette valley as to the drier
counties of central and eastern Ore
gon, and to town as well as country.
"Homo" makers are needed every
where, and the occupier of "shacks"
should be shown a better way;
Dry Farming.
In broad terms and plain language,
dry farming consists rn the rotation
of crops and surface cultivation to engine to do the pumping, than to haul
Splendid Opportunity for Some Young
Lady In Clackamas
County.
The committee, Judge Dimlck, F.
L. Griffith and John Adams, appointed
by President Dye of the board of trade
to select a Clackamas county young
lady to canvass for a Portland paper
in return for a free trip to the James
town Exhibition, has not yet made its
selection or held a meeting. There is
one candidate bo far, and if any other
young lady wishes to enjoy a splendid
trip free, she should see one of the
above named gentlemen.
ers who will do more work with their
brain and more with their hands
Farmers who will raise less crops in
"Bing's grocery store," and more in
their fields. Farmers who will think
less of wheaUand more of vegetables,
clover, alfalfa, fruit trees, and or
chards. Farmers who would sooner
dig a well at a cost of a couple of
hundred dollars, and put in a gasoline
WILLAMETTE LEAGUE
DELEGATES NAMED
PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF TRADE
APPOINTS DELEGATION
TO FOREST GROVE.
CLEARING LOTS OF
LAND IN CLACKAMAS
PERMITS ISSUED TO BURN SLASH
INGS COVER NEARLY ONE
THOUSAND ACRES.
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President Dye of the Hoard of Trade
has named the following delegates to
the Fifth convention of the Willam
ette Valley Development League, at
Forest Grovo on September 7:
Mayor E. O. Caufield, County Judge
Grant H. Dimlck, Thomas F. Ryan,
secretary of the Hoard of Trade; H.
E, Cross, O. W. Eastham, James U.
ll. C. Schuubel and V. A.
Huntley, President Dye will also at
tend as a delegate.
Tho aim of the leaguo is tho devel
opment of the Willamette valley and
the exploitation of Its resources by
construction of steam and electric
railways, free locks, deepening the
Willamette river and opening of coast
harbors. All officers of commercial
organizations, mayors, county Judges
and editors are members exofficlo and
are urged to be present.
Delegates and others who attend
will have the pleasure of Inspecting
the condensed milk factory at Forest
Grove, an industry that during the
lBHt six months has Bent 32 car loads
of condensed milk to east of the Mis
sonrl river.
conserve the moisture. There is no
'niKnnt nn It It In nn secret and it is
near this city ana adjoining --- -
I not a new system, me iaci oi reieuuuu
!of moisture by cultivation being as
old as the hills. The only novelty
about It In this country being that
some of our husbandmen are enlarg
ing tho area of production by en
croaching upon lands whlch have
hitherto been deemed unfit for the
raising of crops owing to lack of rain
fall. The ordinary wheat farmer
might get a partial crop from some of
these lands once In two or three years
but by the Campbell system, so called,
a large crop can be taken every sec
ond year.
But we are not preaching for wheat
farmers, those who wear out our
lands and do but little good for the
community or themselves. What we
need in Oregon Is a new order of
There Is being done a great deal of
slashing In Clackamas county this!
year. The permits that are being Is
sued cover a vast acreage of hereto
fore wild land that Is being placed In a
state of cultivation.
One of the main objectionable fea
tures of the slashings law Is that
which requires the giving of ten days
notice in making applications for per
mits. To bo sure of suitable weather
some farmers have taken out as many
as threo consecutive permits to burn
the sanio slashing. That gives them
nine days in which to make the burn
ing, and they can select the time best
suited for the work.
water year in and year out at a cost
of from 25 to 75 dollars per month
To show that we are not exaggerating,
we will point to farmers between The
Dalles and Pendleton, 15 to 30, miles
south of the Columbia, who have paid
as much as $75 per month for water
hauling for the last six, eight or ten
years. At Douglas, on the Heppner
branch, a water hauler told the writer
that his boss had paid tho wages of
one man, kept up the wagon and
tanks, kept four horses steady at work
all at a cost of over $G0 per month
for the last seven years. And yet that
man could dig and equip a well with
pumping machinery for less than $S00.
Aside from the saving, he could irri
gate from two to five acres. He could
have a garden, he could set out fruit
Death Bolt' Tiny Mark-
Near Jeffersohville, Ind., recently,
Geo. Plaskeit, a well-to-do farmer, was
instantly killed by a lightning bolt
that came Dractlcally from a clear
sky. The most peculiar feature of
the tragedy Is founded In the fact that
not a mark of any character was to
be found on the body of Plaskeit; but
on examination his hat showed a small
round hole, charred at the edges.
Plaskeii had started from his house
to the barn, a few hundred feet away,
Just as a small white cloud was pass
ing. When he had covered about halt
the distance there came a flash of
lightning, followed by a peal of thun
der, when Plaskeit dropped to the
ground dead.
OREGON CITY BUSINESS MEN'S
ORGANIZATION TO INVEST!
GATE SITUATION.
PROTEST AGAINST HIGH RATES
Arbitrary Increase of Twenty-Five Per
Cent Waa the Laat
Straw.
Unqualified approval of a plan to
secure more equitable fire Insurance
rates in Oregon City was easily the
chief feature of the meeting of the
Board of Trade, Friday night The
plan suggested by Mr. Ryan met with
cordial endorsement and brought out
several volunteer offers to take stock
In such a mutual company as propos
ed. -
President Dye appointed T. F. Ryan,
G. B. Dimlck and F. T. Griffith aa a
'committee to Investigate conditions
and report on the advisability of or
ganizing a mutnal Insurance company
such as is outlined In the following
resolution by Mr. Ryan:
"Whereas, ft would appear that the
advance In the rates of Insurance on
buildings in Oregon City, made by the
insurance companies on June 1st,
1906, said advance being 25 per cent
additional premium upon all risks, is'
not warranted by the amount of los
ses by fire in this city during any per
iod of the last 60 years; and
"Whereas, it would appear that It
would be a profitable and business
like proposition that the property-owners
and business men unite and pro
test against said advance in rates, and
if necessary, form an association
among themselves to carry at leaat a
portion of the risk, which in the past
has been Buch a small per cent of
amounts paid-to carry same; and '
"Whereas,, the Board of Trade of
Oregon City, feeling that it would be
well to have an Intelligent under
standing of the actual and true status
of the insurance business in Oregon
City, so that it may be determined as
to what tae best interests of the property-owners
and insured of the city do-
mands; therefore, be it
"Resolved, That a committee of three
be appointed to interview and bring
together the property-owners and bus
iness men, and ascertain as far as pos
sible the amounts paid each year for
insurance within the ity, and the
relative amount received from such
insurance, and to report to this board
as to the advisability of forming a
home association to carry Oregon City
Insurance, or a part of same."
(Continued on page 8.)
(Concluded on page 8.)
Canby Melon Ripe.
A, R. Cummlngs of Canby , orougnt
the first load of local watermelons to
Oregon City this week. He also
brought in some One tomatoes.
Harrlman Order Motor.
Press dispatches say the Omaha
car shops have received orders from
President Harrlman of the Union ra
clflc for twenty motor gasoline cars,
to bo distributed over tho country for
the purpose of exploiting the merits
of this typo of railroad conveyance.
Try a couple of them between Port
land and Oregon City, Mr. Harrlman.
It is said those running between
Portland and Oswego are satisfactory
in. every way.
FIERCE FIELD EIRE
AT EDGE OP CITY
Fire started in the dry grass near
the city garbage dump, at the foot of
Moss hill, burned a hay shed, hay
racks, and four or five tons of hoy be
longing to Charles Albright, Monday
afternoon.
Only prompt and strenuous work by
a dozen volunteers, lead by Mr. Al
bright, saved, his slaughter house and
barns, and finally checked the names.
About eight acres were burned over,
clear across the field nearly to Park
place, and the workers had to back
Are at Mrs. Flemings on Clackamas
Heights, to check the flames there,
Watch Eatacada Grow.
(From the News.) x
Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wem
pie, on August 7, a girl.
Born, to Mr. and Mrs, A. E. Ru
dolph, on August 8, a boy.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
August 18 Buelah M. White and
James E. McCauley.
August 18 Pearl Hllliary and Oscar
Cuslck.
AniniHt 20 Ina Lone and C. W.
Owlngs.
BARN AND GRAIN
BURNED AT CLARKES
A slashing fire at a neighbors cost
Peter Sehleve of Clarkes about $1000,
Tuesday. The fire spread and burned
a good barn and a lot of hay and grain
belonging to Mr. Sehleve.
De-
Prohihlt the Mind and Moral
stroylng Novel.
Novels of the kind which prompted
the hideous crime of two boys of Port
land who killed an aged wanderer in
Lane county, are a menace to young
people wherever they are sold. A
more difficult task than that of cen
soring the mass of stuff published un
der the guise of "literature" cannot
be "devised for the Government, yet
there should be some method of elim
inating the diseased variety of fic
tion known as the "dime novel," says
tho ML Scott News. The former pre
valence niul success of such publica'
tlon s as
Saturday
DYNAMITE BIG DAM
IN TUALATIN RIVER
STRUCTURE BUILT BY OREGON
IRON & STEEL COMPANY
IS BLOWN UP.
The Oregon Iron & Steel company's
dam in the Tualatin river at Willam
ette, was dynamited at an early hour
Thursday morning of last week by
persons unknown. An opening more
than 20 feet wide was blown from
the center of the dam.
The dam was built about 20 years
ago at a cost of $5000, and it is about
300 feet long and nearly five feet
high. The company will repair the
break.
Because of the dam some of the
farm land along the Tualatin river is
annually deluged at high water to the
great injury of crops. While the dam
was built in the early SO's it 'was not
until the addition of flash-boards rais
ing its height two feet, that the river
bottom lands frequently became inun
dated, and other agricultural lands on
rRock creek suffer damage by reason
of backwater.
By means of the dam, the company's
canal from the Tualatin to Sucker
;reek is supplied with enough water
for logging purposes. August Kruse
brought suit against the company for
damages, winning his suit and being
awarded $100 damages. The verdict
was sustained by the Supreme court
The decree of the trial court, however,
directed the removal of all but the
top 24 inches of the dam, a physical
impossibility. That started more legal
TWO MEN IN TROUBLE
"BORROWING
COMPLAINANTS CHARGE LARC
ENY, BUT ACCUSED SAY
i
JUST MISTAKE.
Earl Chapman, charged with steal
ing a horso and saddle from George
A. Ward of Clackamas, was arrested
at Eugene, Monday, and brought to
Oregon City by Constable Ely. He will
have his preliminary hearing before
Justice Stipp next Tuesday, being out
on bonds meanwhile.
Ward says Chapman borrowed the
saddle last June, failed to return it
and when pressed claimed he had re
loaned it to a friend. He then borrow
ed Ward's horse to go after the saddle
and that was the last Ward saw of
Chapman, horse .or saddle.
Chapman claims it is all due to a
misunderstanding as to the ownership
of the saddle, he having turned loose
the horse near Arleta, and the animal
has since returned to the home of the
owner. As to the saddle, which Chap
man had borrowed from Ward, the ac
cused lad admits that he delivered it
to another neighbor named Appling,
who claimed to be the owner of the
property.
The preliminary examination of
Willis Imel on charge of larceny has
been set for Monday, September 3, in
Justice Stlpp's court Imel has given
bonds for his appearance on that date.
The complaining witness is Mrs. Sarah
R. Curry, an aged lady living at Clack
amas. She claims he has secured
about $100 from her fraudulently. He
savs it is a misunderstanding; that he
i the New York Lodger and sparring and the case is again In the; says it Is a misunderstanding
r Night, periodicals dealing in Supreme court. dimply borrowed the money.
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