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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 1906.
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J.A.Fober&C95
J. A.
Pretty Program For State Solons
Enviable Lot of Legislators "Who Have Nothing To Do Bat Look
Wise, Draw Their Pay and Solve a Few Problems Like These.
Who wouldn't be a state legislator!?
It's a snap. Nothing to do but look
wise, draw your pay and meditate on
tp. few little things like these:
Shall "we be good and obey the pri
mary mandate by electing Jonathan
Bourne, Jr., for the long term in the
United States senate and F. "W. Mul
key for the short term?
To what use and to what extent
may the waters in the streams of Or
egon be diverted for irrigation and
power?
How can we fix up a state banking
law and secure bank examiners who
will examine before the doors are
closed?
How can we reapportion the legisla
tive districts in accordance with the
state law, so our county will lose no
representation?
Pass an anti-railroad pass law tnat
will stay passed?
How to compel railroad companies
to furnish cars they don't have?
How consolidate boards of normal
school regents without depriving any
good fellow of a job?
How to make even convicts work
at Salem sewing grain sacks to cir-
AUTOMATIC PHONE
AT THE CLACKAMAS
COMPETING COMPANY CAMP IS
PITCHED ON RIVER BANK
TWO PHONE PROBLEM.
The Automatic Home Telephone
company, which is planning on enter
ing Oregon City, has carried on the
work of construction as far as the
Clackamas river. The camp is pitch
ed there now, and from present indi
cations they will reach this city be
fore very long. Just what the condi
tion of the telephone business will be
when they enter this place is some
what uncertain. Whether a telephone
war will result, or whether peaceable
relations will exist between the com
peting companies is a matter of con
jecture, and will depend largely on
the company making the inroad into
this territory.
The question of installing two tele
phones is one that has come up in al
most every community of any size in
the country. That an economic waste
Consumption
C There is no specific for
consumption. Fresh air, ex
ercise, nourishing food and
Scott's Emulsion will come
pretty near curing it, if there
is anything to build on. Mil
lions of people throughout the
world are living and in good
health on one lung.
Cfl From time immemorial the
doctors prescribed cod liver
oil for consumption. Of
course the patient could not
take it in its old form, hence
it did very little good. They
can take
SCOTT'S
EMULSION
and tolerate it for a long
time. There is no oil, not
excepting butter, so easily
' digested and.absorbed by the
system as cod liver oil in the
form of Scott's Emulsion,
and that is the reason it is so
helpful in consumption where
its use must be continuous.
CJ We will send you . a
: sample free.
" J Be sure that this
picture in the form of
a label is on the wrap
per of every bottle of
Emulsion you buy.
Scott & Bowne
Chemists
409 Pearl Street
New York
50c. and f I; all dragguu
Absolutely Pure
NO ADULTERATION ,
Pure Cream Tartar '
and
fPure Bicarbonate Soda
Only.
i
sSOLD on MERIT
Folger & Co. saF,
cumvent the trust and please' our
farmer constituents? Also pass a ml-
gratory stock law that will likewise
stay passed?
"Vote $50,000 eacb for Jamestown
and Seattle expoes, Celilo portage
road (whatever that is) and all the
ther "good things" said to be hunger
ing for state money?
How to giye every school child a
new book without raising taxes?
How to pinch off the unearned in
crement from the state printer's of
fice without having to increase our
own party assessment?
Then there are about 79 other
small matters, from a new tax code,
including taxation of franchises, to
creation of a new county by dividing
Wasco, to engage the leisure moments
of Messrs. Huntley, Dye, Jones, Camp
bell. Hedges and their brothers-in-
trouble between now and their move
on Salem.
If the. local solons are hard to find
this fall, the foregoing may serve as
a clue. Look for them in their li
braries, wrestling with those big
tomes that have all the pictures in
the back.
is incurred so far as the subscribers
are concerned stands to reason. The
divided profits make the business less
lucrative for the telephone owners
likewise. For that reason" the intro
duction of competition in the tele
phone industry has been limited in a
good many places." It has been even
rumored that doctors have organized
and have decided as a body not to
install another telephone.
OVER TOUR INCHES
RAIN AT STAFFORD
Stafford, Oct. 25. Notwithstanding
over four inches of water fell here
during last week's rains, the thirsty
ground absorbed it all and is ready
for more. The small streams have
not started yet.
P. F. Larson died Saturday, morn
ing. Funeral was held on Monday af
ternoon in the little grove by the Staf
ford cemetery. After much suffering
a good husband and father, and kind
neighbor and faithful friend lies at
rest. He had been a resident of Staf
ford for more than thirty years and
was nearly sixty-eight years of age.
Mrs. Henry Gage and daughter of
Tillamook county arrived on Tues
day. The daughter will enter schoqf
at Beaverton.
Sam Mosier has again put his
threshing engine into the chop mill
ready to grind.
Oscar Barnes is plowing for Mr.
Powell.
Burned Child Dies.
At 2 o'clock Thursday afternoon the
funeral of the 4-year old daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Foumal was held
at West Oregon City. About three
weeks ago the little girl was playing
about a bon-fire in a hop yard near
Mount Angel, when her clothes caught
fire and she was burned in a fright
ful manner. The child has been suf
fering ,for some time and jexpired
Wednesday afternoon. Her recovery
was despaired of for some time.
Estacada Butchers Sued.
A complaint has been filed by D. N.
Bridenstine against B. E. Block and
Homer Groff, butchers at . Estacada,
for the recovery of $166.01. yThe com
plainant alleges that he furnished
meat to defendants from September 1,
U.906, to October 14, 1906, to the value
01 266.66, ana mat 01 tms amount
but $100.65 has been paid, leaving a
balance due of the amount sued for.
Papers in attachment were issued
Wednesday afternoon and served by
Constable Ely Thursday morning.
And Plenty of Room to Grow Them.
From the Eugene Register.
Come to Oregon where apples are
big enough to make a pie for six per
sons and strawberries can be had al
most the year round. ..
Possible Only In Oregon.
According to a Southern Oregon
story, Jasper Force, of Talent, aged
106 years, was recently issued a hunt
er's license by the county clerk of
Jackson county.
Oregon Text Books Cheapest.
While President P. L. Campbell of
the University of Oregon, and a mem
ber of the Textbook commission, was
attending the annual meeting of the
Yamhill county School Officers' as
sociation at McMinnville the other
day. he was asked why it was that in
rnnco
some states the primer costs only 10;
cents, while it costs more here. He
said that a man can buy a coat for
$2, yet most of us pay more because
we want a better Coat. The Oregon!
Text-book commission, said he, looked-j
into the quality as well as the price,
7
ESCAPED LUNATIC'S
MERRY ADVENTURES
"STRINGS" THE ENGLISH CONSUL
AND MAKES PORTLAND
POLICE LOOK FOOLISH.
After three weeks of liberty James
Bagnall, alias Charles Wilson, an es
caped lunatic, was recaptured Thursday-morning
by Night Officer Ed.
Shaw, and taken to the city jail, from
where he was taken back to Salem
by an attendant Thursday night.
When arrested the prisoner made un
successful effort to tear away from
the officer.
Three weeks ago Wednesday, Bag
nall and Ray Lawrence escaped from
their cells in the insane asylum -at
Salem by filing the lock on their win
dow and the two have been at liberty
ever since. Bagnall was sent to the
penitentiary in 1901 for larceny com
mitted at Astoria, but after four
months he was removed to the insane
asvlum. The other man was sent up
for manslaughter and is still at lib
erty.
Bagnall is from New Zealand and
comes from good parents, possessing
more than an average education. The
story of his escape and his subse
quent adventures was interestingly
related by him in the cell at the city
jail. According to his statements he
and his companions travelled by night
going to Portland, and it took them
three days to get there.
Once there he declares he was kept
busy "dodging the cops." About the
wittiest thing the escaped patient did
while at liberty, was to visit the En
glish consul and upbraid him for not
accomplishing the release of the pa
tient. Bagnall's story was well told
by himself. He said:
"I went to Mr. Laidlow and told him
I was a friend of Bagnall's and wanted
to see why he did not have the patient
dismissed from the asylum, that he
was conducting himself properly and
deserved to be let free. He 'hemmed
and hawed' and (bold me that my
friend's case was before the govern
or now, and all that kind of truck.
Then I said: 'Mr. Laidlow, you don t
know a d thing. You . ain't as
smart as I am. I'm the man myself.'
Gee, old Laidlow jumped about a foot
high for the telephone, and I banged
for the door. I turned around and
said, 'If you ring that telephone, I
bang. He rang, and I banged.' .Now:
do you think I'm crazy?"
Bagnall talked very rationally and
wittily while confined here' and took
his recapture In a philosophical way.
His efforts to get out of the way of
the Portland authorities who later
told him to leave the city were amus
ing. He expressed his regret at hav
ng to go back to Salem, since, as he
alleges, the treatment accorded him
there is not of the gentlest kind. What
he wants is to be sent back to New
Zealand, where his family is reputed
to be well off.-
MILD WINTER SURE
SAYS BEECH TREE
There is a beech tree in Milwau-
kie, that is considered a ' weather
prophet and it says the coming winter
will be a mild one, notwithstanding
the fact that the oak trees have pro
duced a big crop of acorns. In early
days Seth Lewelling sent to Indiana
for different kinds of shade trees and
among them was a nut bearing beech
tree. . Mrs. Lewelling says:
"In my time here in Oregon we have
had two cold winters, of six weeks
duration, regular Indiana weather,
during which the Willamette river
was frozen over. We noticed that be
fore these cold" winters set in this
beech tree was heavily loaded with
nuts, enough for all the squirrels.
This year our beech tree has not a
nut on it, which we think indicates
that the squirrels will not need nuts,
but will have plenty of green fodder.
So let no one get the shivers before
hand thinking of what Is to come.
We may not have to shiver.
"This tree, which was born in Indi
ana of ancestors that had to supply
squirrels for a hard winter every year,
surely ought to be more reliable than
an Oregon oak, which has only to
prepare for a real cold winter about
once in 20 years. I believe the acorn
trees have made a mistake this year.
Anyhow we'll wait until the river is
frozen over before we walk across it.
Meanwhile I believe in the beech tree,
and hold that no man or animal will
suffer with cold this winter in Ore
gon." 66 DIVORCE CASES
STILL ON CALENDAR
The divorce mill in Clackamas coun
ty was busy enough when Judge Mc
Bride heard 22 cases Saturday, but
from the looks of the records at the
present time, a busier time is promis
ed when he comes again. In spite of
the fact that such a large number
was disposed of. there still remain
66 divorces on the calendar. All of
these are cases that have been- filed
within the year.
STAND FIRM
When you buy an
OILED SUIT
or SLICKER
demand
Tfs the easiest and
only way to get
the best
Sold everywhere
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A W tbD
TOP
419 W
RICH FROM CATTLE
AND CRANBERRIES
R. B. CROSS GIVES GLOWING AC
COUNT OF TILLAMOOK
COUNTRY.
R. B. Cross, son of C. B. Cross, re
turned Thursday from the Tillamook
country where he has been spending
the last two weeks. Cross assisted
his brother trailing some cattle to a
ranch which his brother runs in that
region.
From all accounts great things are
in prospect for that country. Thurs
day, five wagon loads of scrapers and
other road implements were taken to
Tillamook to start at the other end
of the new railroad that5is under con
struction. The eastern end is already
built about 40 miles west from Hills
boro, and the road will probably be
completed soon. That will enable
the ranchers in that region to send
their calves to market instead of
knocking them in the head. At pres
ent it is too expensive to raise calves,
with the creamery industry as promi
nent, as it is in that country.
Mr. Cross reports good fishing in
that country, fine game and excellent
opportunities for homestead lands.
The farmers are prospering, 20 head
of. cattle netting them $1000 a year.
Several men cleared from $1000 to
$2000 per year on their cranberry
bogs.
-Funds for Estacada Church. '
Over $500 has been raised towards
building a Methodist church at Esta
cada. The O. W. P Townsite company
has given lots for church and parson
age site. The church is to cost not
less than $2000.
Primitive Furnaces.
ToTiJfm- Mehrn his arlrlerl worTter-in-
iron to his other duties. He has im
provised two furnaces at the foot of
the stone pillars that flank the wagon
gateway to the courthouse yard, and
logs of wood blazing merrily to soft
en the heavy iron hinges imbedded in
the pillars. The hinges were bent
filaor suit rhf chjino flnH AArvla YiV the
big road roller when it was run into
the yard last summer, and Mr. Nehren
is endeavoring to straighten tnem so
as to again hang the gate.
Tucker Ranch Sold.
B.Tucker has sold to Mr. and Mrs.
Al. Lindsey 31 acres of ranch land of
the old Tucker homestead at Spring
water. But Only One Supreme Critic.
From the Oregonlan.
Oregon has two Supreme courts,
one sitting at Salem, the other at Or
egon City. A third; at Pendleton, may
resume activity In time lor tne next
campaign for governor.
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AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $100,000
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ars to 16w, never
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market
Irk
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