OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, DECEMBER, 14, 1908.
PROFESSIONAL
THOI F. RYAN,
ATTOKNIUY-ATLAW
l'rohiito and Realty Law Practice
Rpclnltl)N.
Real (Mute, Insurance nml Loutm.
Orriro UliMtnlrrt, first building aoiit Ii
of Courthouse.
O. w! EASTHAM,"
ATTORN ICY AT LAW
Collections, Mortgage, Foreclosures,
Abstract if Tlllo and General Law
bllMllloiyi,
Officii over Hunk of Oregon City.
GEORGE C. BROWNELL
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Phone: Main 521 Office In Cauficld Bld Main and Eighth Sts.
C. D. Sc D. C. LATOURETTE
ATTORN I'.YS AT LAW
CotiimrrcUI, Krl I'.atate mtkI Probute our MpeeUUic. Ollke In Comme rcinl
Hunk Hulldiiig, OUHOONCITY, OKl'.GON,
W. 3. U'KI'.N
U'REN &
ATTOIINUYS AT-LAW DI'.UTSl IIHR ADVOKAT
Will j mi tire in ill court, inukc collection- nml M-tttrinrnla of mutes. iMirniOi
UtmcU of title, Irml you nioiiry on llrl mortage, Ollke in EN7LRPKISE
lliiilding, Orison City, Onon.
J. E. HEDCES
HEDGES &
LAWYERS-
Rooms 10-13 Wcinhard Building, opposite Court House
IT. E. CROSS
ATTORN1CY AT LAW
Hcnl Knlnle,
Imiiih, Ifinurtmce
l C. liATOlIUKTTK, rresi.lent. V. J. MKYE4, Cashier.
THE COMMERCIAL BANK
Of OREGON CITY, OREGON
AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $100,000
T n linnet a (tcnernl Hanking Husiness. Open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
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DIRECTORY
Office Phono 1101 Hon. I'hono 1773
C. H. DYE,
ATTORNlSY-AT-LAW
Corner Sixth and Mnln Btroets,
Oregon City, Oregon.
0. D. EDY,
ATTORNICYATLAW
Money loaned, abstracts' furnished,
land titles nxuuilrji-rl, estate settled
general luw business transacted.
Over Ilntik of Oregon City.
C. SCHUI'.Bl'.I.
SCHUEBEL
F, T. CRIFFITH
GRIFFITH
Mnln Htreet,
OUKCON CITY
Oregon City Furniture and
and profit for you in every Inch of
wiitcawiiko MiopiM-r Ii ii 1 such grand assortment of furniture, carpets, toys, etc., especially
adapted tn the needs of the Christmas giver as here. Nowhere will you fi nd prices based
on a level as uniformly low as here.
This house Is strung In every feature which helps and protects our customers. It la
strung In character, strong In stocks, and has and will continue to make lowest prices
3 piece Parlor Suit $20,00.
Ladies' Writing; Desks Comb. Book
from $5 to 20 from $12.50
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LAND OF THE LEIS
Inttmtlnf Letter Descriptive of Life ind
Cuilomi in the Sunny Isles of
the Pacific
Tho tnnny friends In Oregon City
of Addle H. C:iark will read with pleas
tiro tho following very entertaining
loiter from lnr to Mrs, Charles Cau
field: Honolulu, Hawaii Tor.
November 15, 1900,
On tho ftrHt eastward bound steamer
that loft port after wo arrived, 1 went
a littler to MIhh Myers, which I pre
sume nho has received before this
reaches yon. We wens somewhat un
fortunate In regard to mall an It was
r.lne days after we arrived before we
had an opportunity to send mall home.
That Ih unusual, an mall Im due about
twlco every week thin week there
Iiuh liecn four mall steamers In. One
was the army tranHport Jgan bound
for Manila. Wo went down with a
friend and went over the boat and
found out something about army trans
ports There In a six-masted barken
tine In port now, the only ono of it
kind In the world, bo we went dovn
yeHterday after seeing the Alameda
off, and got a plcturo of thin unique
veHHel. The arrival and departure of
steamers here cause about the. only
rlpplo on the surface of affalm. When
the day comes for a steamer, the na
tlvo flower sellers flock along the
streets with long garlands of flowers
culled lols !n Hawaii, which they noil
to the friends of departing passengers,
and those long garlands are thrown
around the neck, over the shoulders,
about the hat, around the waist or
across the arms of the dear departing.
It Ih a sweet ctiHtom, and one who goeg
away from Honolulu without a lei
feta desolate Indeed. I think our
friend who left yesterday had about
twenty, and they looked very pretty.
! She is a bright young lady of consid
erable literary ability writes for the
J Ladles' Home Journal, Cood House
! keeping and does local work on her
,home paper at Pasadena. She has
'written occasionally for the Oregonlan,
she tells mo. She boarded at Mrs.
Angus' whore we now are, and the
week's acquaintance I had with her
was a very enjoyable ono. You see
Holiday Headquarters
our establishment. No where will the
$1100
Cases China Closets from
to $40. $20 to $36
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Extension Tables, round and square,
ft $12.50; regular $16.00 value.
one has so much time here, that a
week means a grout dal sometimes.
I am very happy here and am enjoy
ing each passing day. We read out
of doors, entertain out of doors, and
on Id sloop out of doors If there were
not a nocturnal Idrd here whose song
In very much of o disturbing element
when It comes to sloop. It Is called
the mosquito, and Is an (filiating
quantify here. I am not troubled by
them very much, so have no not over
my bod, but the ordinary hod room
here has a great swooping mosquito
net, hung from a hook In the colling.
It Is as much a part of the furniture
as curtains or carpet. They are not
had whore we stay, but down at the
Moana hotel where we go surfing or
swimming they are numerous. I con
sider myself very fortunate that they
trouble me so little. Dark people are
evidently In favor with them, and they
must think me a native. They evi
dently do not believe In encouraging
the coming of the while man.
Conditions here are very Interesting.
A handsomi) stone public school build-
ng is near Mrs. Angus' grounds, and
a motley flock of children passes our
house dally and of all the dozens that
do so, few Indeed are white. Chinese,
Japanese, Ilawallans, Portuguese, Por
to Ulcans, mixtures of all these, black
little urchins of all shapes and sizes
we see, but rare Indeed Is the paleface.
I am told that most white people send
their children to private schools or
to on of tho two public schools
that are more particularly for white
children. Tho servanta here are Ori
entals or Portuguese, and nearly every
one keeps one or more servants. White
women here do very little work un
less as teachers, stenographers or
clerks. Mrs. Angus keeps four ser
vants, and they are Ideal. Our cham
bermaid Is a quiet little Jap who does
his work perfectly, stolid, unemotional
and willing to do bis duty without any
"tip."
It la warm here. I have not seen
one heater in house or hotel since I
came. A few days ago a friend took
me out driving and up in Manoa Val
ley I saw a chimney in one house, and
I suppose there was a Are place there.
Doubtless tho people who live up on
the mountain side or top where it Is
much cooler, have some method of
warming themselves, but one wouldn't
need it in Honolulu. It Is delightful
here; tho sun shines every day, and
If a rain conies, it Just rains sudden
ly and positively and then stops and
the sun comes right out boldly again.
Mrs. Gloyd Just called to me, that
It is raining at one end of our lanai
(veranda) and not at the other end.
Isn't that queer?
Nobody hurries here. Everything
is as placid as a summer sea. I have
not seen one person run for a car,
he waits for the next one. The car
service is very good Indeed, but the
residence district is very poorly light
ed, and as there are trees and always
in leaf, and tho blocks are very long,
it is no wonder it is called "lovers par
adise." The vegetation here is most bril
liant and beautiful. Such wealth of
color, such wonderful variety.
The hibiscus here is a favorite as a
hedge, and one needs to see it to ap
preciate its gorgeous beauty. Great
glowing crimson flowers, dozens of
them on one plant, and the whole
block bordered with them is a sight
to see. If I tell you how high the
oleander growswell I am afraid to
hut it wonderful. Houses here are
but it is wonderful. Houses here are
lawns in front are masses of tropical
vegetltatlon. The trees are beautiful
I think the great royal palm is my
favorite and is very numerous, but
there are many other palms and trees
whose names I have not yet learned.
We are in a delightful place, have a
cottage to ourselves, and so to the
main house for our maals which are
excellent. We have electric lights,
private bath, a lawn to ourselves
hedged off by hibiscus, great ferns and
tropical plants, from the main lawn,
a driveway right, by our lanai one
never says veranda in Honolulu and
are as secluded as if we wore in a
block by ourselves, and yet even as
poor a marksman as I, could toss a
pebble over the main house, where we
sit if we want to be anions the crowd.
We find people very hospitable here
and have already made many nice
friends. Last Saturday we attended
a reception given for a bride, and I
saw some of the most elegant cos
tumes I have ever seen, and saw
among other celebrities. Princess
Somebody, as black as the aco of
spades, gotten up regardless of ex
pense, and also two of the celebrated
Afong girls, sweet and charming, btit
unmistakably Chitiesey. One men
tions color here only when one has
the family pedigree of all present, as
tho mother of your neighbor may have
been a Hawaiian or her grandfather a
Jap, or her sister-in-law a half-caste.
Society here is a funny proposition,
somewhat amusing to an onlooker.
We go to the volcano next week.
making a tour or all the Islands and
spending a few days at the Volcano
House. I expect to break all previous
records and be wretchedly seasick as
the steamers are small, the channel
OREGON CITY
A FAIR,
INJU8TICE FROM BIG CORPORA
TIONS WILL NO LONGER BE
TOLERATED.
If 8teenth Hundred Petition Falls,
Possibly a Boycott Would
Help 8ome Board of
Trade Act.
The Southern Pacific on three
counts, the O. W. P. on at least two
and the Portland General on a big
general count all came In for verbal
censure and promises of future retri
bution at the meeting of the Oregon
City board of trade In the county
court room Friday night. The im
perative need of a commission house,
discussion of new locks and a suitable
McLaughlin memorial occupied a part
of a lively and all hope profitable ses
sion of the board.
The Southern Pacific will be asked
to do simple Justice to Oregon City,
or Oregon City will leave that slow-
moving corporation severely alone as
far as business Is concerned.
For months the merchants and man
ufacturers of this city and mill-owners
and other shippers In the country
roundabout have courteously petition
ed the 8. P. for a switch or loading
place where they could deliver goods
to the railroad, and the humble peti
tions have met with only polite de
nial In the shape of vague promises to
"see about it."
A shed, hardly fit for a section cari
and tool house has done duty here
as a depot for lo these many years.
The company has "promised" to pro
vide a decent shelter for passengers
who are compelled to ride on its rail
road, but the promises were "hot air"
and even the load of lumber that we
used to proudly show as the nucleus
of "our new depot" has been taken
away probably to relieve the fuel fam
ine east of the mountains.
Citizens of Clackamas station and
other towns between here and Port
land want to come to their county
seat to trade. They have petitioned
the S. P. to grant the same rates pro
rata to Oregon City as to Portland,
and at their request the board of trade
has petitioned. But all to no purpose.
You can still ride twice the distance
north for half the fare you pay for a
south bound ride.
Once more, and once only, the busi
ness men of Oregon City will ask the
S. P. to right these wrongs and give
this town a square deal. This much
was decided on and the following com
mittee was appointed to secure united
action in this last effort to settle the
difficulty peaceably: John Adams, J.
A. McGlashan, Frank Busch. They
are particularly to get the merchants
and other shippers to unite on the
request as to depot and switch.
The committee on rates, W. A. Hunt
ley, H. E. Cross and J. U. Campbell,
was enlarged by the addition of John
Adams, Dr. Carll and T. F. Ryan. Both
committees are to report at the Jan
uary meeting.
The O. W. P. rate committee made
the humiliating report of no action
taken, but was confident only failure
would have followed prayer and peti
tion anyway.
Dr. Carll called particular attention
by specific instances of the gross in
justice the O. W. P. was doing Ore
trip very rough and surrounding con
ditions somewhat trying, but I would
not miss the trip sea-sick or not. I es
caped entirely coming over and wasn't
I happy? It was a case where few in
deed were chosen.
I almost forgot to tell you that I
was out to dinner last night at the
Moana hotel, and had the pleasure of
having a real live lord, open the door
for me at dinner, Lord Playfair he
wears a monocle, is bald and red-faced
doesn't look the part.
ADDIE E. CLARK.
1191 Emma Street.
Begins Wilhoit School.
D. C. Uoylos of Molalla began school
at Wilhoit Monday morning.
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ARCADE
Can you make money as RT"V
easy any other way?
Then come and be convinced, You will soon save a
dollar. A square deal to all who trade here.
f 606 MAIN ST. W.
DEMANDS
SQUARE DEAL
gon City in the matter of rates. 'Ha
said three or four hundred people live
at or near Center who would come to
this city to trade for groceries, meat
and other necessaries if there waa a
five cent rate, but Instead there waa
a prohibitive, straight fifteen cent fare
each way, while they can ride to
Portland, three times as far, for 4
r.cnt.H 9 cents round trip.
The disgraceful condition of the O.
W. P. track in this city was a!s
brought up and about fifty other minor
matters, and council will be asked to
move drastically against the company
that wipes its feet on Oregon City and
says: "What are you going to do
about it?"
BIG GRAFT IP OLD
LOCKS ARE BOUGHT
There's oceans of graft In the sys
tematic, secret attempt being made to
unload the old, antiquated, undersized
west side locks on the government for
the gigantic sum of $1,000,000. Thla,
at least, is the opinion of many leading
citizens of Oregon City expressed at
the board of trade.
Senators and congressmen will be
required to show their bands, and no
deal like that will be allowed to go
through without an accounting.
One million for locks so small and
antiquated that boats have to be built
expressly so they can get through,
when for half that sum can be built
on the Eaat side new locks of the lat
est and approved pattern, according
to plans and recommendation of C
S. Government engineers, and large
enough to accommodate all river craft;
free and Independent of all corporate
control.
It was the sense of the meeting that
the best Interest of the entire valley
will be subserved by building new
locks, and the board is unalterably
opposed to the purchase of the old
ones. Judge Ryan, Dr. Carll, H. E.
Cross, L. E. Jones and J. W. Moftitt'
were appointed a committee to pre
pare resolutions to that effect
Commission House.
The old question of a commlssioa
i house for Oregon City received big
talk. Four houses in Canby pay cash
for hops, wheat, 'oats, bay and pro
duce, and not one here. That is going
to be changed. The following l6m
mittee will canvass the situation, pre
pare a plan to establish a big commis
sion house here, and report at the
January meeting: John Adams, Joha
Cooke, Frank Busch, D. C. Ely, Sol
Garde, W. L. Block, V. A. Huntley,
J. E. Jack and E. C. Hamilton.
Dear, Dear Light.
Aurora, Woodburn, Salem and most
everywhere up the valfey the price
for a single 16 c. p. electric light is
50 cents a month. In Oregon City it
is ia cents, ana it is claimed other
rates differ proportionately. Why is
this thusly? That's what the board
of trade wants to know. J. W. Mof
fitt, Wm. Andresen and Frank Busch
are requested to investigate rates and
quality of service and report at the
next meeting.
McLoughlin Memorial.
C. H. Dye, C. G. Huntley, J. U.
Campbell, J. E. Hedges, L. E. Jones,
G. B. Dimick and E. G. Caufleld com
prise a committee that will report on
a suitable Oregon City memorial far
its founder, Dr. John McLoughlin.
i Oregon Patents.
J W. Nelson and A. C. Thompson of
Erskinvllle were granted a patent last
week on a combined harvester and
I thresher.
A Western Wonder.
; There's a Hill at Bowie, Tex., that's
! twice as big as lust year. This won
der is W. L. Hill, who from a weight
of 90 pounds has grown to over 180.
He says: "I suffered with a terrible
cough, and doctors gave me up to
die of Consumption. I was reduced
to 90 pounds, when I began taking Dr.
King's New Discovery for Consump
tion, Coughs and Colds. Now after
taking 12 bottles, I have more than
doubled in weight and am completely
cured." Only sure Cough and Cold
cure. Guaranteed by Howell & Jones
druggists, 50c and $1.00. Trial bottle
free.
Saves ycu frcm lcto25
cents on every article
ycu buy there.
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