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fBTV ENTEKIPMSE3 Hit your aubecrlptlon p!rd? Look t tht label. You ihould not ml any our news number. M-t-- ex- FORTY-THIRD YEAR NO. 4. OKEGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1900. ESTABLISHED 1888. rrv rrm v-v T" HIS CHANCES ARE BRIGHT JUDGE GRANT 0. DIMICK CANDIDATE FOR THE GOVERNORSHIP, 18 A IS WARMLY ENDORSED Natlva Bon and Self-mada Man Haa Wall Daflnad Vltwa on Mattart that ANact tha Paopl of Oragon, (Irani II. Dlmlck, (or the last three yeara Judjtu of Clackamaa County, and for flvo yrara mayor of Oregon City, will bo Ilia licit Governor of Oregon If hla friend In thla county and In every oilier portion of tho Htijto can make It possible, Judge Plnifck haa been urged by hundred of people In every auction of tha, Htnta to make Iho run ami In view of the voluntary Mii(ir.ii)riit that have been given to I) I m. he haa conacmeq o oecomo randldatn at tlm primary election In Hcptember next year, Judge Dlmlrk waa born In Marlou ' County. Oregon, March '4. W. nar 1'iuMltia: lllvor, Iho dividing line be tween I'lnrkamaa and Marlon loun tie, ami attended the public arhool In Marlon and lo Clackamaa Limn ly. and waa alo edticalod In the Htale Normal Hrhool at Monmouth and the college at McMlnuvlllo, Ore la. He waa admitted to the bar by the Supreme Court of Oregon, June Int. 1KS5.. and located at Ori'Koti C ity In March. 196. lie waa appointed Dap- uly llalrl't Attorney by Hon. T. J Cleeton, Utatrlrt Attorney ,f the 6lh Judicial ttlatrlrl. lu 1X97. and served In that capacity for two yeara. ' On January I, 1900 he assumed the offlrn of Mayor of Oregon City, to which hn had been elected, and crv- ed in mat capacity (or four eurcea- alve terma. He waa nonilitated for presidential elector In the Republican Htate ('on vetitlon In 1901. being one of anven candldalea for the Hialtlon. and In t It it t convention oniHied of 3&X dole- Itatea, lie n'cvlved out of that ntltn ber 349 vote, and waa aunt out by (he Republican Statu Central Com' mltlee In the presidential rftmpalgn. He Mke In that campalKn In very nearly all the principal cltlea In the atule, and waa elected by more than 411.000 plurality, lie waa nominated In Iho primary election of HMMi for the om.cn of County Judge of Clackamaa County, and waa elected the (ollowinK J mm. and hna alnce that time served a Judge of tin a County. The session of thu li'Klalature of J97 created the Juvenile Court ays tetn In all the count lea In the state, and Jndgo Dlmlrk haa taken up that work and carried It on sucessfully In Ihla county, utid haa at thla tlmo more thai) forty children under hla Juvo nlle Court. JuiIk IHinlek gave out the follow' I n K Interview yesterday: "I have nlwaya advocated a higher atamlnrd In our public achool ayatem, and believe thut In order to accom plish the beat reaulta, wo must In crease the cotnpeiiaatloii of our teach er, for the reason Hint a young man or woman who dcslrea to follow (each Inn a vocation, la compelled to do vto a number of yeara In procuring an education aufllclent to properly qualify them to commence the valu able work, and a I no they are compelled to expend large mini ot money (a making; proper preparation, and when they aro ready to Ktnrt Into their life's work they find that their employment only luata a port of the year, and that their aalary It on an average lower than that paid for common labor, and, a a reault, aa aoon aa an opportunity afford, they leave the public achoola and aeek other employment whero the remuneration la mora lucrative and chancea for financial advance ment greater. The public achcxd aya tem la thereby deprived of aomo of. our boat trained and competent teach era each year, while If they were paid the compensation which they Justly deservo, there would be aome Inducement for them to atay In the aervlre, and tho longer they remain In the aervlce, the more proficient teachera our achool ayatem la posses aed, for the greater tha experience of the toachor, tho higher the atandard of work. "I am oppoaed to the bill now being advocated to change tho public achool system In thla state, by dispensing with the director In our achool dls trlcla, and place In their atend threo dlrectora for ouch county, and glv Ing thoao three dlrectora tho full con trol of the entire ayatoni of the county, for the reason that auch a law, If enacted, would have a tendency to a largo degree In destroying our pros ent system, and would absolutely do atroy the home government of our schools, and place It In the hands of three men In a county. The ayatem that we now have Is far superior to the theory advanced, for tho directors In the several achool districts nro bet ter qualified to choose a teacher, whom they believe and know can ren dor tho greatest good In thulr dlHtrlct, a each district has Its peculiar lo cal conditions to contend with, anil thosn local conditions must be mat by the dlrectora and patrons who re able In the district and are familiar with the agencies nncossary to over come the peculiar obstacles, and ac complish to best .results. Whenever any men or closs of -men think that the Hchool directors and patrons In tho'anveral school districts are Incom petent to attend to their own busi ness, In school or other local affairs, they are laboring under a false Im pression, for there Is nothing that adds so much to the efficiency of our school system, than local pride and homo government, and that has bean the principal factor In bringing our Wrr. I - ' y - i I J- J. GRANT B, DIMICK, who candidacy for Governor of Oregon ha Just btn announcad. preneut ayatem up to Its high stand ard. Present County Govirnmant Too Ex psndv. "Our system of Htate oik! County government I becoming too expen alve and that can bo belter Illustrated by taking County for an exuinplu, and aa we are more familiar wliu our own borne county we win use that aa an example. "In order to run thla County It re- quire the tag payera to contribute at least f:iu,uoO per year to defray the actual txpctisca of tho County government, not Including Htate tax, chool tax or money expended upon our brldK' ad highway, but Simply to defray tho expeusea of the prose cution of criminal and civil casea. caring for prisoner, paying Court ex pensen, purchasing book, atatlonery, and tho payment of salaries of County ottlcera and hundred of smaller Item which I am unable to mention. While tho expemo Incurred In the above named Item la greater than fno.oot) per annum, the balance la made up In fees collected by the sev eral ofllcera, "The next large Item Is tho amount collected by taxation each year fur general public arhool purpose, which will amount thla year to approximate ly $i:4,ooo, and In addition thereto there are special achool assessment In the several district of the County which will atigrcgato the sum of t-.-(Miti In aililllloti to tho general achool fund, making approximately IM.ooo collected by direct taxation for pub lic school purpoaca. "Wo are also compelled to meet our portion of the Htate lax for the year lunt) whlrh amounts 10 approximate ly $13,000. "One of the Inrgest burden which the lax pnynra of Clackamas Comity have to contend with Is Its bridges snd highways. We now have mure I ha 11 3i!0 bridges In this County more than 75 feet In length and several hundred bridges of smaller dimen sions, and the expense In keeping those bridges In repair, building new ones to supply those that have been , destroyed by flood and decay and the construction of new brldgca upon newly laid out County roads costa the taxpayers of thla County more than $3!.ihio per annum. "We also have a large mileage of plnuk roads that have been construct ed in this County In the past that re-1 quire constant attention and repair , during the entire calendar year, and the repair uihui those plank roads I alone cost this County moro than $20,-1 000 per annum, making a total annual I expense on brldgca and plank mads ' of $,ri5.000. I "Then In addition to the above Item we spend annually upon the public highways, commonly known as dirt roads, by clearing, graveling, ap plying crushed rock and the opening up of new roads petitioned for by tax payers, approximately $i;o,00(). In addition thereto several road districts annually levy special road tux and they ralso approximately $l'S, 000 per annum. Wo then have aa above Indicated the following Items to meet annually: Untitling expensea of County $30,000 Public Schools and "General tax" ; 84.000 Special School Tax ' 20,000 Htate Tax 43.000 llrldgea ' Itcpnlr of I'lank Roads... 35,000 - 20,000 General Road Tax 60.000, Special Road Tax 25,000 - Total annual tax $297,000 (Continued on page 4.) THESE TWO MEN WILL REPRESENT THE REPUBLICAN STATE OF HIGH WATER COMES FAST SWOLLEN RIVERS FOLLOW COLD BNAP BUT DANGER IB NOT FEARED. CLACKAMAS IS RISING Railway Track to Canemih Ara Under Watir and Washouts Causa Ineonvanltnta Flood Not Expected. The water la causing no little In convenience to tho traveling public between Caucmah and Portland. The line between Oregon City and Cane- mah la clear out of commission, as the funemah walk la under water and tho residents of that luburb are compelled to walk on the (Southern I'aclflc tracks. On the electric line between (ireen l'olnl and I'arkplace a washout occurred Tuesday ana passenger are transferred at tbla point. One freight car waa tied up 8PRAY FROM h rffaA.: j -Uvi' ill' lit, t vV; 'i,. i l' iffv , rr;j. One of the strangest and most unusual sights ever seen In the northwest is the above picture, which was taken this week by 8. P. Davis, of Oregon City, whose photographic views of Oregon City are attracting wide attention. The building Is the sawmill of the Hawley pulp & Paper Company at Oregon City, and it is located at the edge of the basin on tho East side of Willamette Kalis. The structure was the original electric station of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, and after the concrete power station was built on the West side of tho Kails, the old building was used for many years as a pulp mill by the Willamette Pulp & Paper Company. It has been practically rebuilt during the past year. Mr. Davis has a number of the pho tograph on exhibition at the store of nurmelstor & Audresen and he calls the picture "Oregon City's Ice Palate." The structure was practically encased with a sheathing of ice early this week and In some places It has the appearance of having been decorated. It Is possible that another oportunity would not come in 20 years to secure such a raro photograph of an Incident of an Oregon winter. at Oregon City. The Clackamas River Is very high and. the low lund between tho mouth of that stream and Clreen Point Is all under water. While the heavy rains of tho last few days are bound to raise the river still higher, no alarm is felt as the barometer Is go ing up, the weather Is decidedly cooler. , With the disappearance of the cold weather the presence of the usual crowd of hoboes in the city la a dally occurrence. Officers Shaw and Cooke usually gather In from 6 to 13 men every night and place them In the city handle, where they may do no harm. On ono of the coldest evenings last week not a single hobo waa aeen. and thla la a remarkable record ror Oregon city. Tha vigilance or the police keeps thai city free from giispicloua characters at nights. v .V X f- " - -. ' ; - X George E. Chamberlain. - I DEFEAT MAIL ORDERS BY MAIL ORDERS. Mr. Merchant: Did you ever slop to consider how many of your possible customers buy of 0 mall order bouses because you 't don't have Just exactly what they want, and tlm mull order 4 if house doe or at least they 4 f . think It docs? 4, Did you ever stop to con- ij 1' aider that If yoti made your ' store absolutely up-to-date and complete In It stock, there fc 1 would be a good many more i buying In your store, and a 4 good many less buying of the 1 catalougo houses? Did you ever stop to consider that by frequently sizing up i your stock and placing orders aa you need, sending them by 4 mall to your Jobber Instead of buying once a season from a salesman, that you'd gain cus- tomera and trade? i Do you now e?e how your -e mall ordera for your custom- era will kill off mall orders by your customers? 4. EBY SUCCEEDS CARLL. Attorns Elected to Vacancy on City School Board, The board of dlrectora of the city achoola baa acepted the resignation THE FALLS FREEZE8 ON HAWLEY of Dr. W. E. Carll, who has been chairman of the board , since last June. His successor Is Attorney O. D. Khy, who was the unanimous choice of the Board. Mr. Eby will hold office until next June, when tho taxpayers will elect a director for a five-year term. The monthly pay roll of the, teachers was met Friday and they will be requested by the board to make up the hist time of one week, occasioned by the severo weather and the consequent week's holiday. On Staff of Law Review. . Trafton Dye, a son of Colonel and Mrs.. Charles H. Dye. of this city, has been elected a member of the editor ial board of the Columbia Law Re view. Mr. Dye Is a law student at Columbia University. .Membership on the editorial board Is considered .a great honor aa the men are careful ly picked before election, and recom mendatlon by the faculty la required. OREGON IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE. 7 J v.; v Jonathan DELEGATION FARES WELL CAMPBELL, JONES AND DIMICK HAVE GOOD PLACES ON COMMITTEES. FAVORED BY McARTHUR Six Chairmanship Go to Clackamaa, and tha Three Houicmembers are Represented on Eleven Committee. Representatives Campbell, Dlmlck and Jones, of Clackamaa, profited by the announcement of the committee appointments of Speaker McArthur. Campbell is chairman of three com mittees, resolutions, enrolled bills and labor Industries, and a member of the committees on game and revision of laws. Dlmlck is head of the Judici ary committee, and baa place on the committees on counties and Federal relation. Jone haa two chairman ship, engrossed bills, and penal re- 8AWMILL. formatory and charitable institutions. He ia also a member of the fisheries committee. When McArthur needed a few votes to give him the caucus nomination for Speaker, the members of the Clackamas delegation got Into the wagon, and now they are remem bered liberally. v Representative Campbell, of Clacka maa, who last session was known as the "watch-dog of the treasury," Is keeping up that record. Last Monday he voted to sustain the veto of the Governor on the bill appropriating $750 per annum for the First Central Oregon Agricultural Fair, Crook Coun ty. The bill passed, however, Dlmlck making a speech in its favor. Senator Cole, of Umatilla County, nas introduced a bill subjecting men to a medical examination before re ceiving a marriage license. The bill requires a certificate from a physician w.. IV r Bourne, Jr. O. D. EBY, who (ucceed Dr. W Carll, aa a member of the Board of Director of tha City School. to the effect that the applicant waa examined within 24 hours of the time he applies for a marlage license and that he was found free from any In fectious disease. Dlmlck has Introduced a bill, which If it should become a law, make It unlawful from October 1, 1909, October 1, 1913, to hunt native China pheasants, quail, grouse partridges with dogs. The penalty for violation la fixed at a fine of from $25 to $100. or Imprisonment from ten to fifty days. Many amendments to the military code are proposed In a bill which waa prepared by officers of the National Guard, and Is designed to bring the military law into harmony with the Federal military act of 1908. The bill Increases compensation In many par tlculars aa does the Federal act It also makes available a payment of 50 cents per capita to member for attendance at each drill of companies of the guard. The present law pro vides for such payment, but the At torney-General baa held that the law Is not effective for that purpose. The new bill makes It the duty of the Secretary of State to draw a war rant for the amount due. There are about 1400 members of the guard in the state and they hold four drills month, or about 50 a year. If all at tend the drills, and the drills held regularly, the total expense for this purpose would be about $35,000 year; but It Is estimated that many will be absent and that they will be flned enough to make up a consid erable portion of the total. The bill Increases the annual ap portionment to each company of In fantry from $500 to $GO0, and for each company of cavalry from $600 to $700, ana tne apportionment for armory rent from $125 per quarter to $150 per quarter. HEDGES WELL PLACED. Clackamaa County Senator la Treated Kindly on Committee. State Senator Hedges, of Clacka mas, though a member of the minor ity party In the legislature, was par ticularly fortunate In his committee places. He was given the engrossed bills chairmanship, , which is the same that Representative Jones has In the House. Senator Hedges also was placed on the committees on Judi ciary, fisheries, ways and means and printing. Mr. Hedges stands well with hts colleagues and is one of the hardest working members of the Sen ate. Midlam'a Body Not Recovered. No success has rewarded the effort to recover the body of Charles E, Midlam. who was drowned Thursday morning In the Willamette RWcr be low the Falls. The river was dragged inursaay, two boats remaining on tho scene all the afternoon. Oregon Lodge No. 3. Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of which Mr. MMlain was a member, has offered a reward of $50 for the recovery of tae body. Furtner effort will be made by the Crown-Columbia Pulp & paper Com pany, bf which Mr. Midlam was em ployed as a mill wrlght. LOW RATE TO OREGON. Fare of Only $25 Made From Eastern Points. Portland, Or., Jan. 18. No news that has been received by the people of Oregon during the last twenty-four months is so Important aa the an nouncement that the trans continental roads will make a -$ rate, beginning March 1st, and continuing until April 13, from Kansas City, Omaha, St. Paul and Minneapolis, Winnipeg and other similarly situated towns, to all main line rail road points in Oregon for $25. The people ot no state In the Union have profited more by these one-way tickets than have those of Oregon during the last four years. The rate from Chicago Is $33, from St. Louis $30.50, with a propor tionate low rate from all points In the United States. This should add many thou sands of actual settlers to the population of Oregon. These are one-way tickets, and it travellers desire to return to their former homes In the older states they would have to pay full fare. Every commercial club and advertising bureau In the state, as well as every real estate firm, should begin Im mediately to advertise these rates. Every citizen of Ore gon should write personal let ters to old friends and ac quaintances reminding them that the rate is good to their town. But the ticket must be bought to the point of destina- tion It's Just as cheap to the most distant Oregon point as to one Just over the border of the state. STATEMENT IS SUPREME GEORGE CHAMBERLAIN ELECTED SENATOR BY OREGON LEGISLATURE. ONE BALLOT IS TAKEN Four Clackamaa County Votea Given to tha Governor, who will Reeign Before (the next 8eslon of Conor. Carrying out the will of the people expressed at last June's election, the legislature of Oregon last Tuesday, at noon, elected George E. Chamber lain to succeed Charles W. Fulton In the United States senate. The re sult was not attained without some squirming about on the part of many men who bad subscribed to State ment No. 1,. not from principle, but from a burning desire to be elected to office. Governor Chamberlain will resign his present office beloiu next December, or sooner. In the event ot an extra session of Congraa. His term begins March 4, 1909, and Uuti six yeara. The vote In the seuaU was: Chamberlain Abraham, Albee, Bailey, Barrett, Bingham, Caldwell, Hedges, Johnson, Kay, Kellaher, MU ler (Linn), Mullt, Norton, Notting ham, Oliver, Schofield, Selling, Sin nott. Smith (Umatilla) 19. Fulton Beach, Chase, Hart, Merry- ' man, Parrlsh, Smith (Marion), Wood 7. Cake Coffey, Cole and President Bowerman 3. Bean Miller (Linn and Marlon), 1. House Vote. Chamberlain Abbott, Altman, Bar rett, Bedllllon, Brady, Brandon, Bry ant, Campbell, Clemens, Corrlgan, Couch, Davis, Dlmlck, Dodds, Eaton, , Hatteberg, Jackson, Jaeger, Jones (Lincoln and Polk). Jones (Douglas), Jones (Clackamas), Llbby. Mahone, Mariner, McDonald. Miller, Muncy, Munkers, Orton, Patton, Phllpott, Purdin, Richardson, Rusk 34. Fulton Bean, Belknap. Bones. B rat- tain, Brooke, Calkins, Conyers, Ha ley, Lelnenweber, McCue. Mak Smith 12. Cake Applegate, Beals, BonebrUiev .-" Buchanan, Carter, Farrell, Greer.-, Hlnes, Hughes. Mahoney, Mann, Kinney, Reynolds, Speaker McArthur -'-14. An Immense crowd of, people went -to Salem Tuesday to watch the pro ceedings. It was known on Monday that the opposition to Chamberlain's election had found their efforts fuule, and an effort will now be made, it is said, to prevent his taking a seat It the United States senate on the ground that some of the House mem- oers voted for him under nrotML It . is not considered likely, however, that this movement will be successful. btate Senator Hedges, and ReDre- sentatives Campbell and Jones voted ior cnamDerlaio. withtut comment Before casting hia. vot Dimlck made the following remarkable statement: " I am a Republican and ilvnvi have been a Republican, and I can ' state, Mr. Speaker, that this does not prevent me from believing in the di rect primary law and Statement No. 1. I signed Statement No. 1 not sim ply to be elected. I signed it because I believed In It and I believed in the people ruling. I believe, further. that the people should choose who should represent them In the United States Senate and in accordance with my belief and pledge, gentlemen I cast my ballot without any Ifa or ands, whys or wherefores, for George E. Chamberlain for United States Senator." WEEKLY NOT SO WEAKLY. Kanaaa Man Voluntarily Agree to aerve Time in Reformatory. Paroled from the Kansas State In- dustrlal Reformatory at Hutchinson, jvaiisas, ana Dreaktng his parole be cause he couM not agree with his step-father, Charles E. Weekly Tues day night surrendered himself, to Officer Henry Cooke and announced his willingness to return to serve hts time. Weekly is about 25 vears of age and was placed on oarole In June, 1903, with the understanding that he was to stay with his people at his home in Kansas. He was un able, however, to get along with his step-father, so he ran away and came to Oregon. He recently ascertained that his step-father had come to Port land to live, so he is ready to go back to Kansas. Chief of Police Burns tel egraphed to the Kansas authorities, and it Is probable that an officer will be sent out to take Weekly back to the institution. INSPECTION OF COMPANY G. National Guard Boys Appear In Heavy inarcmng uraer. The annual government insnnctlon of Company G. Third Regiment of In- tantry Oregon National Guard, was made Monday night by Major E L McGlachin, Fourth Artillery, United States Army. Major McGlachin is making an inspection tour of thla state and the Oregon City contingent waa the first to pass muster. The boys were uniformed in kahkl and were In heavy marchintr order with guns, haversacks, mess kits, punchos and canteens. There was a large crowd of people In armory to witness wie evolutions. Koerner Goes to Arizona. William Koerner. son of Mr mt Mrs. Rudolph Koerner. position with the Utah Copper Com pany near Phoenix, Arizona. Koer ner Is a graduate of Stanford TTnivor. slty, and was captain of the foothnll .team. Before going to California ha graduated from Portland Academy.