OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, AUGUST 23, 1907,
STATE NEWS.
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There are several cases of smallpox
near Lebanon.
Many wells at Aurora have run dry
this summer.
Woodburn Is sprinkling its streets
with crude petroleum.
Hopplckers are offered $1.10 per
hundred at W'oodburn.
Hamilton K. Brooke, a well-known
Portland man. died at 3 o'clock Wed
nesday morning at his home, 50
Twentieth street, north.
The steamer "Wiuema" which
turned turtle recently In a gale on
Klamath Lake, and sank near shore,
has been raised and pumped out and
put Into commission again.
State Inspector Hutchinson says
that sheep growers in Llnn and Lane
counties are in many Instances evad.
Astoria Is to hold her annual re-ln th !aw whlch Prides tor the
dipping of sheep. It may be necea
sary to quarantine those counties.
gatta and country fair September 2-4.
Lebanon is to have a new depot,
36x60 feet, for passenger and freight.
Cottage Grove will have a poultry
ahow sometime along about the holi
days. The St. Johns Pioneer association
will hold Its first annual picnic Au
gust 28.
Professors Strange and Harvey,
principals of the Cottage Grove pub
lic schools, have tendered their resignations.
Governor Chamberlain has accepted
an invitation to deliver an address on
October 4 before the Inland Water
ways Convention at Memphis, Tenn.
His subject will be "The Importance
of River and Harbor Improvement."
The conditions required by the new
State Board of normal schools will be
met by the Monmouth school and it
will continue to run. President Res
sler says that the canvass for funds
The Eugene cannery is said to have ( base proceeded far enough to justify
handled about 200 tons of cherries
this year, or about twice as much as
last year.
The well drillers at the Aurora
waterworks plant took out a piece of
wood from the well when down about
250 feet.
The total wool clip of Oregon this
year is estimated at 20,000,000 pounds.
Last year the sheep produced about
18,000,000 pounds.
Dan Kelley, the Oregon sprinter,
has gone to Jamestown to take a hand
In the races there. He promises to
do some fast work.
Eugene Is to have a new Federal
building to cost J 50,000. They hope
to lay the foundation this fall and
complete the building next year.
The paped mills at Lebanon have
set 35 Japs at work cutting wood to
him in making this definite announce
ment.
Altina Howard, 13 years old, was
shot Wednesday afternoon by a stray
bullet, tne missie striking her on
the hip and glancing off. The girl Is
a grand-daughter of Captain Howard,
of Walla Walla, and has been stop
plug with her aunt, Mrs. Desmond, at
Seaside. She was walking along the
road when the accident happened.
FEAR OF GHOSTS.
Harmless Visitors From Whom Wo All
( Shrink In Terror.
Deep down iu the heart of man there
abides a firm belief in the power of the
dead to walk upon the earth and af
fright, if such be their pleasure, the
souls of the living. Wise folks, versed
l in th ttrlmwfk snit fnrtia.wt In tnln.l
keep the boilers going until there ta(aRaiMt faitb , augllt that Mvors of
water enough to float down the usual the supernatural, laugh Ideas of the
fuel. . kind to scorn, yet hardly one of
The State Normal school at Drain
opens Sept 17. Eight thousand dol
lars have been raised locally to sup
ply the deficiency In the withdrawal
of the state appropriation.
Martin Ophus; of Eugene, who
killed his friend Ed Olson, mistaking
him for a deer, while the two were
hunting on the McKenzie, was exon
erated by the coroner's jury at the
inquest on the body of Olson.
Two gangs of surveyors are running
liBes across the Cascades, with what
seems a purpose to extend the C. & E.
road. One gang is encamped at Sand
Mountain and is working along the
line of the old survey of 1890.
The Secretary of the Interior has
approved the proposal for the relin
quishment of 2990 acres of land In
The Dalles land district, now held by
the railroad company.
Here's the latest In this year's
bathing suits: WIfey "Oh, George,
I've lost ay bathing suit. What shall
I do?" Hubby "Don't say anything
about it, and it won't be missed."
Charles H. Pierce, the Ashland fruit
canner, advises the people of Jackson
county to raise more cherries, straw
berries and raspberries. Not enough
of these fruits are yet raised to meet
the demands upon Ashland at prices
remunerative to the grower.
At the fair to be held at Sclo Octo
ber 2, 3 and 4, a cash prize of $2 will
be awarded on best Angora buck and
$1 on best doe. A diploma will be
awarded on best exhibit of four or
more kids, and a premium of $2 for
the best exhibit of not les than six
Angora goats.
The annual meeting of the Oregon
Irrigation Association will be held in
Grants Pass September 10, 11, and 12.
The National Irrigation Congress
closes at Sacramento, Cal., September
7, and all the Government experts who
.will be at Sacramento will go direct
to Grants Pass and take part in the
Oregon Irrigation Convention.
The steel bridge spanning the Wil
lamette river near Harrisburg, speaks
well for the enterprise of the South
ern Pacific Company. It Is an up-to-date
structure, equipped with a draw
through which steamboats may pass.
This draw Is operated by machinery
that does the work automatically and
one man can handle it.
It is proposed to build a road
through the picturesque mountain
regioa lying In Columbia and Clatsop
counties between St. Helens and As
toria, over which automobiles may be
driven and farmers' wagons drawn.
The region is wild and beautiful In
the extreme, and, covered by a good
mountain road, no more enjoyable
summer drive could be imagined.
Rumors are again In circulation to
the effect that the Wlilamette Valley
Company, which owns the electric
light and power and waterworks
plants In many points In the Wlllam
mette Valley besides Salem, and Is
backed by the Rhoades, Sinkler &
Butcher syndicate, of Philadelphia,
has designs upon Salem and has un
der consideration the scheme of en
tering the Salem field with a gravity
waterworks system in competition
with the Salem Water Company.
them
win aare to walk alone through a
graveyard in the night, or if one be
found so lH)ld he will surely hasten his
footsteps, unable wholly to subdue the
fear of sheeted specters which may
rise from the grass grown graves or
emerge from moonlit tombs and follow
on, for, strangely enough, the dead, if
not actually hostile to the living, are
esteemed dangerous and dreadful to
encounter.
It used to be the fashion, snys a writ
er in Lippineott's Magazine, to sweep
away all such uotlons by saying that
they had their origin in the childhood
of the race and that they sprang from
fear of the unknown. This unques
tionably was the easiest way to dis
pose of them, but was It fuir? The
subject pjssessef intense Interest for a
great majority of mankind, and, though
the existence of ghost Is nnproved.
there is undeniably a vast deal of tes
timony iu their U-half that deserves
6eriom and res;ect.'ul consideration.
Fortunately, within the last fetf years
the attitude of science toward the
problem has altogether changed, and,
actuated by a new spirit of Inquiry, the,
wise men hive been engaged, thought
fully and without prejudice. In study
ing it out.
While it cuu:: t be said that any final
and definite conclusions have as yet
been reaclnd. nu Immense amount of
evidence has been sifted, enough to
show pretty conclusively for one point
that the traditional specter of the Cock
Lane school, with clanking chain and
attributes disagreeably suggestive of
the grave. Ins no basis in fact. Ou the
other hand, there are certain phantoms,
altogether different in their character
istics, in whose behalf a mass of testi
mony !( ' adduced far greater than
would bo required to establish com
plete proof in any ordinary case In a
court of law. Nothing fcbort of abso
lute demonstration In such a matter
can be satisfactory, but the evidence
in question cerinluly staggers Incre
dulity. Our fear of phR atoms appears to
spring from o :rcad of the unknown,
the mysterious and the Intangible.
That It is a groundless terror is proved
by the fact that in many thousands of
cases of alleged spectral appearances
subjected during the last few" years to
painstaking Investigation not a single
Instance has been found In which an
injury was inflicted by the ghost upon
the person or jwrsons to whom It pre
sented itself. So that, even if we are
to accept apparitions as veritable, we
ought to regard them with curiosity
rather than with apprehension, and In
stead of trying to avoid such supernat
ural visitors we should eagerly seek an
opportunity to be haunted for the sake
of observing for ourselves phenomena
so Intensely interesting.
Exchange In Necktie.
A South Peun square business man
has evolved a plan of bow to dodge
wlfey, but there is merit attaching to
it in this case. Ills wife insists on
buying bis neckties and dotes on laven
der and red or green spots or a pale
shimmering nlle green shot with pur
ple. Rather than cause her anguish by
seeming to decry her taste in cravats,
her husband most deceitfully starts for
the office every morning wearing a tie
of her selection. Once In the office,
however, the traitor quickly exchanges
tho offending necktie for something
quieter which he keeps under careful
lock and key in his own private desk.
It would bo interesting to find out his
wife's sensations should she pay him
a visit some day in office hours or
should he forget to make the exchange
again before his trip home. Philadel
phia Record.
All Fence Wires, Nails, Stoves, Carpets, Chairs,
and Farm Tools SOLD at REDUCED PRICES.
ARTFf TOT TfPlHT OREGON CITY
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FACTS FROM FRANCE.
Taris derives a huge revenue from
the sale of dolls' dresses.
! Three hundred and fifty Hebrews
! are officers In the French army.
From Puy de Dome, an extinct vol
cano In France, carbonic acid li pro
cured for commercial purposes.
Sixty persons in France annually die
of snake bite. Six cents Is paid for
the head of a riier, and there are men
who make their living by killing
snakes. In a single department 300,000
vipers were killed in twenty-seven
years.
Captain Humbert, a French deputy,
complains of the excessive number of
officers attached to colonial troops. He
says that the artillery of the colouial
corps could on mobilization turn out
eight four-gun batteries, which would
be commanded by eight generals, eight
een colonels, twenty-six lieutenant col
onels and eighty-five commandants, to
say nothing of mere captains and lieutenants.
THE COURTS
MODES OF THE MOMENT.
There Is apparent a decided tendency
toward the semltailored rather than
the strictly tailored costume.
Lingerie waists are showing a great
deal of butter colored lace In their con
struction, and very often it Is used In
connection with pure white.
The fancy for wash gowns, strong as
It Is, does not seem to have diminished
the vogue of the separate blouse, which
has taken unto itself new scope and
new beauty.
For morning wear there Is nothing
prettier or more generally satisfactory
than percale. It has all of the wear
ing and laundering qualities of linen
and is much less expensive.
Indications of the return of the tunic
grow dally more significant, and, al
though as yet It Is only suggested by
the decoration, the suggestions are
strong enough to Insure a more pro
nounced effect In the fall, when heavier
fabrics come Into use. New York Tost
MANDAMUS THE
SCHOOL DIRECTORS
School districts Nob. 18. 20 and 38
have been merged Into a regular dis
trict to be known as No. 110. Cer
tain directors In the old districts have
refused to mako an accounting of
property to be turned over to tho new
district and a mandamus suit Is tho
result. It seems that part of district
2 Is also taken Into the new district
and 110 Is entitled tw a share of tho
assets of No. 2, whoso officers refuse
to turn It over. It is said that the
value of the property In controversy
Is $250. The usual procedure Is for
each district to appoint an arbiter,
but No. 2 refused, and will not turn
over the assets. The directors have
been ordered to apear In court Mon
day, August 2(1, and give cause for
their refusal.
SELLING TIMBER
THE CHARGE MADE
was covered with a growth of small
trees, wholly unfit and unsuitable for
saw or merchantable timber. Ho re
moved from time to time some of tho
timber for tho purpose of clearing the
land and putting up the necessary
fences and building, and had only sold
the surplus timber from these Im
provements. Nlckell filed a copy of
a letter from the Commissioner of
the General Ind Office, In which
the defendant Is granted permission
to clear the land and sell the surplus
timber.
Judge Dlmlck decided the conten
tion over ownership was legitimate,
and allowed a temporary injunction
against removing the timber.
COURT NOTES.
Henry Fleshensteln & Co. have
taken judgment $154.78 agulnst F. K.
Ring.
J. A. Wells has been appo'ntcd
guardian of Cecil, Roy, Ethel arj
Earl Wells.
vorco had been granted only last
April, and less than six mouths had
elapsed.
It has been decided to continue th
case against Harry Halumnn of M II
waukle, complaint having ben made
that he Is of feeble mind and an ef
fort having been mado to commit him.
Mrs. Foster wants a divorce from
James Foster, charging cruH and In
human treatment. The parties lv
at Damascus and were marrM at
Roaring llianch. Pa . In 1874. They
have six children, five grown. Mrs
Foster asks for I20 to defray exixms
of suit and 13') a month alimony. Fos
ter Is said to he worth 1 1,000.
The case of George W. Yergen vs.
Garrison P. Nickell was heard Tues
day. Yergen claims ownership of
Hot 4, section 27, township 3 south.
rango 1 west, which was bomeateaded
by the defendant, and tho plaintiff
has a contest pending against the land
In the United States Land Office In
Portland. He alleges that Nlckell Is
attempting to denude the land of the
timber, having Installed a sawmill out
fit. The defendant filed an answer,
stating that he had filed on the prop
erty when It was vacant and that It
Will of Margaret J. Sawtell admit
ted to probate and record. Ralph Saw
tell administrator, Elmer Albright.
George Adams and Charles Dougherty
appointed appralsors. Value estate
17.300.
The J. A. llarnes Machinery Com
pany, of OshkoMh, Wis., has filed a
suit In the Circuit Court against thi
Oregon City Mill It Lumber Company
;to recover $915, with Interest at tho
rate of C per cent, from April 1, l!o7.
and for the costs and disbursement
of the suit. The plaintiff corporatlo'i
alleges that the local company pur
chased a doublet-nded tenoner for
S75, and a special sash Kh'ttlng at-
jtachmi'nt for 175, and has failed
jpay for tho machinery or any part of
It.
SHORT STORIES.
Chalk contains 500 different kinds of
tiny shells.
Taken the world over, the annual
average rainfall is sixty Inches.
The utilization of herring for fertili
zer has been stopped by the Canadian
government.
The highest flag pole In Connecticut Is
said to be In Hurlington Center. The
pole Is 100 feet long and stands 08 feet
out of the ground. From it floats a 28
by 14 flag. i .
Mechanics in the Klondike get $10 a
day and common laborers M to $5,
with lionrd. Everything consumed in
the way of living costs from two to
three times as much as it does In the
States. '
When the chimney on the old Tris
tram Goldthwalte bouse In Fort III II,
Me., was torn down recently 10,000
bricks were tnken out, or enough to
build four ordinary chimneys. This one
was built 1!). years ago.
PLAYS AND PLAYERS.
According to the London reviewers,
a waltz In "The Merry Widow" has
"created a perfect furore."
Dorothy Tennant, whose original suc
cess was scored In "The College Wid
ow," Is announced us one of the new
stars to twinkle next season.
One of the scenes In "The Merrjf
Widow," the new Viennese opera, s
located In Maxim's, where the people
are said to be the most frolicsome
found in any resort in Paris.
A host of American opera lovers will
be Interested t5 know thnt the well re
membered contralto, Marlon Ivell, lids
j been engaged to appear at the opera
in ftantes for the Coming seuson.
Ada Lewis, whose eccentric charac
terizations are making her name fore
most In that line of work, has made
Winnie Wiggles la "Fascinating Flora"
one of the roost talked of roles In New
York. ...
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May West has Instituted suit In
Circuit Court asking for a divorce
from George West, to whom she was
married In Portland In May. M1.
She charges West with desertion ami
vants to return to her maiden name,
May .Woodman.
Mrs. Mary Kramein and Peter Jo
seph Irrnen appeared at tho court
hnse Monday afternoon and asked
for a marriage license. None was
granted as the woman's decree of dl-
LOST.
Thursday night, August 15, In font
of Melllen's second hand stire, dresn
;sult case, containing letters odriresseit
to Mrs. Ammerman. Reward, Ad
dress. Mrs. Mark Ammerman, It, F.
I). 3, Oregon City.
HORSE WANTED.
Would like to hire a saddle horse
for two or three days a week. Will
be given good care and not overridden.
Address, IX L, care Enterprise.
You'll Find Two Kinds of Men's Clothes
2 KINDS OF
HATS
2 KINDS OF
2 KINDS OF
Men's and Women's
TOGGERY SHOES
Eczema.
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For the good of those suffering with
eczema or otnor such trouble, I wlsi
to say, my wife had something jf
that kind and after using the doc
tors' remedies for some time conclud
ed to try Chamberlain's Salve, and It
proved to be better t'lan anything
she had tried. For sale by Howell &
Jones... . , . ...
The IBest That's Made
The Best for the Kloivey
This store swears by QUALITY at any and all seasons of the year.. Do you believe In QUALITY?
Of course you do.. Sometimes you're tempted to economize but you always learn that QUALITY pays
best. We've found, after years of study, that "GOOD GOODS" make steady patrons that QUALITY Is
the strongest force In building up a business.. But HERE, "Qualitty" does not mean high price.
CLOTHES BUYING HERE IS POSTIVE ECONOMY!
Wer'e "House-cleaning this month getting shelves and counters ready to receive Fall Stocks. WILL
YOU BUY A SUIT NOW? Seel How you'll save! ' '
A Handsome, Stylish Man's Suit
Worth $12.00 for
Newest styles, well made, handsome, up-to-date Suits. Nothing the matter with 'em,- only we'd
rather have a little money now and the room than have the Suits.
IS THE HAT GETTING A BIT SHABBY?
Better get a new one we'll furnish It at less than the factory cost.
Special Sale Men's and Women's Shoes Next Ten Days
Footwear for Men, Women and Children at prices that will keep us humping to fit the feet that will
come trooping to us.. All leathers and newest style lasts., Sizes to fit any normal foot., For the next 10
days. , '
We'll Sell Yoa Shoes at the Factory Cost
many special lots for less,
SAVE MONEY BY BUYING AT OUR AUGUST
"HOUSE CLEANING SALE"
J. LEVITT'S "Man Shop"
Two doors from Postofflce, opposite Bank.
OREGON CITY