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OUEQON CITY, OREGON, Fill DAY, 8KPTEMJJEK 27, 1912
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AND THE GENERAL SAID: "CHARGE."
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TAX STARTS HERE
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ATTENDANCE FIRST DAY II LARQ.
, EST IN HISTORY OF AS-I9CIATI0N
POULTRY AND LIVE STOCK ADMIRED
Races and Baseball Oame Furnish
Thrills In Afternoon Germane
lo Have Big Tlm Today
Racing Program Today
11 RACE
2:25 Trot 3 haatt out of 51
Mlla Haala.
Hums
l-llola IVAre.
S-Mark II....
a-Alllo II
4 Kargo
S KutlA Guy. .
6-Ht. Michael.
2nd
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Owner
II. Wheeler
Peter Cook
,...L. W. Wapps
F. Ilowlntt
C. A. Wlpp 4
....V. F. Wilson
RACE
For Clackamaa County Mors.
z Hsata In 312 Mlla
llira Owner
1-llllly Sunday J. v. Colo
z-i.ii:hiroit C. Ilulcliltii
3 llnltnmuuiit. , . .8. J, Yaugliau
. 3rd RACE
4' V2 Mlla Dash Running Raca
Horse Owner
1-Maud Mill J. Prllilmrd
J-Ille J. A. Murtlu
.1 Anna I'heaon. . ..J. llolgreves
4 -Drummer.... William Wilton 4-
5 Hulement Kred Merrill
Thn Sixth Annual County Fair at
Canby started Wednesday uniliir aut
liU'loua (.'Irvuiiuitaiu'pa. There was a
large attendance thn Unit dny, prob
ahly thu largest that bm ever assem
lilnl on tlio opening day.
The morning ws devoted to a con
rrt dy tho Redlnud band and which
bad Ilia honor of (ilayliiic for tha Drat
Hum In tho new grand atund
that waa i-rmlml by tho Association.
Kvry stall In tha Livestock depart
ment la filled, and tho pena of the
poultry hiiuno are II lied with aomo of
tho finest poultry In tha atiiio. Tba
livestock la thn) beat that haa over
been on exhibition at tha fair, and
tho exhibit la tba largest There are
ninny concessioners on tho itrounda
and all nre doing a land oftlca bunl
neaii. Tha botha and atanda will reap
harvest today and Friday, which
are to he the big daya at the fair,
ttil beliiK German dny and Kriday
UreKon City dny. Tha Hubbard band
will furnish the music Thursday, and
on Oregon City day the Oreiron City
band and Ouk Grove Olrla' band will
furnish tba muslo and Saturday the
Canby bund will play.
In the poultry building every pen
la fill I'd with aa line blrda aa can be
found In the atate. Among thoae hav
ing dlaplnya la Mrs. lturtha 8 lory, of
Oregon City, who haa more than
fifty blrda la her display.. She la
owner of HoHouutwr Farm at Oregon
Clly. 910 Pierre street.
Mrs. John Hobblna of Canby, one
of the well known poultry raisers of
this county, has a fine exhibit of
blrda. 8ho haa many varieties, In
cluding Light Itrahamas, Hhode Is
land Keds. and ducks of the White Pe-
kin variety and a Tntulouse drake.
John Hobblns, the young son of Mrs
Kobblns. entered In the Juvenile de
partment a Tatulouae drake and
White Pekln ducks. .Mrs. Carrie
Marre. of Oregon Clly, haa a credi
table showing of poultry, Including
Silver Laced Wyandotteac, Partridge
Wyandottea, Huff Leghorns, Cornish
Indian Gnme. Joe Sutherland, of
Canby, has White Orpingtons that are
spotlons and well kept on display.
Mrs. M A.. Armstrong, who has bad
aeveral years of experience In the
poultry business at Mllwaukio, haa
chargot of the poultry department,
and la a moat competent woman for
thta line of business, and la looking
after the wants of the poultry.
The Livestock department la In the
care of W. W. Everhart. of Molalla,.
Mr. Everhart haa hie hands full look
ing after the three large buildings
on the grounds which are filled to
their capacity with cattle, horses,
sheep, awlne and goata. Among those
who have exhibits In this department
are I'leasant Hill Farm. E. Werner,
proprietor and owner. This farm Is
located near Aurora. He haa aeveral
large sta containing eight regis
tered cattle of three grades. One of
the Jerseys la In the milking contest,
and from the present Indications she
will be one of the winners. In these
stall are registered Holsteln Frle
slan cattlo. The Molalla Register
Btock Farm, the proprietors of which
are J. R. Cole as Son, of Molalla, have
three fine cows and two heifers. A.
I). Gribble. one of the best known
breeders In the county, and who owns
a ranch near Aurora, haa thirteen fine
registered Jerseys on exhibition, one
cow of which Is valued at 1330, and
a bull from a aire valued at $9000. D.
H. Yoder haa two fine Joraey cows,
both of which are In tbe cow milking
contest. Mr. Everhart baa several
fine cattle On exhibition. Many good
horses are represented In thla barn,
among those having horaea entered
are Joseph Kraft, of New Era, Wll
llnm lirush of Macksburg; A. Wald
berg, of New Era; J. J. Llppuner, who
has fine team of blacks, which were
awarded the first prlxe at last year's
fair.
C. F. Romlg has the only Shetlnnd
ponies. W. Hart, of Oregon City,
Mrs. Short, of Canliy; Ernest Mass.
of Orepon City: J- Ilowers, of Canby;
Jack Marrs, of Oregon City; Canby
Belgian Company, of Canny; George
Koehler, of Canby; William-Urush.
of Macksburg; Frank Rogers, of WU
(Continued on page 4)
T. S. ALEXANDER ARRANGES
FOR CHARLES H. SHIELDS
TO SPEAK
CEORCE THEORY TO BE DISCUSSED
Representative of League Declares
Plsn, If Adoptsd, Will Mean
' Confiscation of
Land
lllmlng the wny for Charles II.
Shields, Htwrotury of the Oregon
Kgual Taxation League, T. 8. Alex
ander, a well known buslnuna man
of Portland, arrived here Tuesday.
Mr. Alexander hue stolen away
from bis business Interests In Port
land to make arrangements for a
M'euklnj tour In custom Oregon for
Mr. Shields, who la expected to hold
meeting hern on Monday evening,
October 7, In Wllluinette Hall. May
or Dlmlik will Introduce him.
"I represent." said Mr. Alexander,
'and organisation of at least 20,000
ey J
T. 8. Alexander, Repressntative of
the Oregon Equal Taxation League,
Who Is Here Fighting Single Tax.
farmers and business men of the
stale of Oregon. These men have
aligned thenmelvea together to com
bat a political scheme being put for
ward by a millionaire, Joseph Fela,
an Oregon City lawyer, W. 8. U'Rou,
and a number of paid hack writers
in Portland and known as single
Tax.
'This scheme Is a device that orig
inated many years ago In the mind or
Henry George who declared that bis
intention was to so tax land that It
would all be confiscated by the atate.1
Mr. Alexander aald that the
ultimate end of Single Tax, and Grad
uated Single Tax, as the measure Is
known In Oregon, waa bound to be a
confiscation of land. It would take
from the farmer hla farm, from tho
lot owner, hla lot, and from the homo
owner his home by lmponlng a ao
vere and heavy form df taxation
known aa Single Tax. Thla tax would
be ao heavy because all improvements
of every kind from the millionaire
with his 15-story building In Portland
down the line, would escape taxation.
GLADSTO
IE IS TO
BE CITY BEAUTIFUL
MASS MEETINGS CALLED TO AR.
RANGE FOR PLANTING
SHADE TREES
BETTER CAR SERVICE IS DESIRED
Residents Who are Employed In Ore.
Oon City Declare Preaent .
. Schedule Causes Loss
of Time
At a meeting of the Gladstone Com.
merclal Club held In the City Hall
at Gladstone . Thursday evening a
committee waa appointed to arrange
for a mass meeting at the City Hall.
Property ownera will be asked to
plant shade trees In the parkings.
The committee Is composed of J. N.
Slevers, chairman; Hugh Hall, E. P.
Nelson, Thomas Hums and Chambers
Howell. It Is planned to have 10,000
abade treea planted In the city.
A committee waa appointed to In.
tervlew tbe superintendent of the i
Portland Railway, Light k Power
Company In regard to Installing
better car service In the mornings.
About aixty or aeventy men of that
place are employed In the mllla In'
thlrclty and must report for work at
7 o'clock In the morning. The first
through that city at about 6:15 now
and the men must wait at the places
whore they are employed for more
than half an hour before going to
work. For some time a car passed
through Gladstone for Oreron City
at S:40, which was satisfactory to
all. allowing the men enough time to
set to their places of employment H.
R. Williams la chairman of thla com.
mlttee.
OITon I good!'
SINGLE TAX TO BE
FOUGHT TO FINISH
STATE LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE
UNANIMOUSLY OPPOSES
FELS' 8CHEME
SPECIOUS ARGUMENTS ARE EXPOSED
Voters Will Be Shown Fallaclss of
George Propaganda and Urged
To Repudiate
It
SALEM, Or. Sept 25. Going on
record as unalterably opposed to the
graduated tingle tax and exemption
amendment and tbe single tax meaa
urea proposed for Clackamaa, Multno
mah and Coos Counties, tbe legisla
tive lax committee, which Includes
members of the state tax commission
and aeveral members of tbe legisla
ture, at a meeting here today decided
POLITICS
I THEME
on a iirouacanda of Dubllcltr ant
pigbt to tbe finish on the measures
mentioned.
The resolution, which was introduc
ed by George Nouner, of Douglas
County, to oppose such tax measures
was unanimously adopted after a
short discussion. All of the members
present declared themselves aa oppos
ed to single tax, but there was a
alight difference of opinion as to
whether It would be best to openly
fight tho alngle tax or whether the
commission should confine Itself to
advocacy of tbe measures which have
been placed on the ballot by the com
mittee and which establish tbe
groundwork for rational tax reform
In Oregon.
The alngle tax advocates and writ
ers of the Fels' single tax fund have!
brought every gun that they have to
bear on the atate tax commission and
the legislative tax committee, and
the majority of the members favored
an open war on thealngle tax propa
ganda. I
Tax Commissioner aton declartl . , . . A.
It wss essential that what be termed u wa unanimously agreed by the
Inlnultous featurea and the virion.', members of the audience that honors
results or the single tax plan, ahould . T0,,5!!t.eTei1 J!'h.en.t5". P!t
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE MAKE8
PLEA FOR PROGRESSIVE NESS
IN NEW JERSEY
FIGHT ON SMITH TO BE BITTER
Ex College Professor Declares Form
er Senator Holds Convlctlona
which Have Been Repudiated
JERSEY CITY, N. J., Sept 21-Cov
trnor Wilson proclaimed tonight in
a speech on the New Jersey Senator
ial situation that the only condition
uon which the Democratic party can
gain the confidence of tbe Nation is
"That It should have itself through
and through committed to the pro
gressive policy."
The) Coventor spoke here and at
Hoboken in opposition to the candi
dacy of ex United Statea Senator
James Smith, Jr.., and In behalf of
Representative William Hughes for
the office or United States Senator to
be voted on in the state primaries
next Tuesday!
The Governor declared that it was
OF SCOTS' DEBATE
MAX TELFORD. PIONEER BULL
MOOSE, MAKES FIGHT FOR
COLONEL
1 WILLIAM M'LARTY ARGUES FOR TAFT
Major C. 8. Noble Declares Wilson
Will Win Issues to be Discus
ed at Next Meeting
it carry, be pointed out to the voters
of the state. He asserted that, re
gardless of assestlons to the contrary
tbe county single tax amendment of
1910, the opening wedge for the sin
gle tax program, waa passed through
the meana of the poll tax "Joker."
litlcal debate, participated in by Max
Telford. William McLarty and Major
C. S. Noble waa finished at the meet
ing of the Roble Burns Society at Wil
lamette Hall Monday evening.
There were more than 100
(Continued on page 4)
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Latest photograph of the Democratic
nominee for President-
his duty aa spokesman of the Demo
cratic party in the state to warn the
people that Jamea Smith, Jr., waa not
a progressive but a reactionary. He
declared that it waa no personal con
test and that if Mr. Smith waa his
"dearest riend and held the same
opinions that he does," the Governor
would feel obliged to oppose him.
"I have never been aware of any
personal feeling on mr part In any
political contest against any Individ
ual." said the Governor. "There la no
man in New Jersey that I care to
fight or to oppose because of hla per
sonal quality. The United Statea Is
not choosing men now by their pri
vate characters merely; it is not
choosing them for their likeablllty
it is not choosing them because they
are find, fellows but are choosing
them because they understand the
Interests of America at the present
moment And any man bred In
the old school of politics la being re
jected now; not because he doesn't
hold hla convictions honestly, but be
cause he holds convictions from which
the country haa turned away."
TAFT CONFIDENT-
OF H S ELECT N
PRESIDENT DECLARES THAT
STRENGTH OF DEMOCRATS
IS WANING
REPUBLICAN PARTY IS DOMINANT
Combined Efforts of Wilson and
"Third Termers" Not Sufficient
to Defeat Organization Lin
coln Served
NEW YORK. Sept, 24 President
Taft, In a prepared Interview issued
tonight, declared that his recent
claims of strength were entitled to
respect He repeated that he believ
ed he would be elected, and gave hla
reasons for denying that he had been
over sanguine.
H analyzed the political situation
aa he saw it. maintaining that the reg
ular Republicans' would carry the sol
Id Eat and hold enough of the Cen
tral and Western states to win.
The President made these state
ments at the home! of hla brother.
Henry W. Taft, where he went on hla
arrival from Washington late today
and received several friends and po
litical associates.
"When I declared a few weeks ago,"
savs the President, "that I felt rea
sonably sure of my own re-election In
November and of the success of tbe
Republican party, I waa regarded by
some aa entirely over-sanguine and
unaware of the situation. Today,
however, after a number of indica
tions that the Republican party Is
still the dominant party and that the
expected growth of Democratic
(Continued on page 4)
FIRST GUN OF CAMPAIGN TO BE
FIRED AT HARMONY
TOMORROW
THIRTY MEETINGS ARE ARRANGED
George C. Brownell, 0. B. Dlmlck
and W. A. Dlmlck to Stump
County Nominees will
8peak
The firm gun of the Republican
campaign in Clackamaa County will
be fired tomorrow night, when the
candidates for legislative and county
offices will bold a public meeting in
the school house at Harmony precinct
A majority of the party nominees
bave planned to attend tbe first rally
and give their united support to. tbe
Kali campaign for the express pur
pose of electing tbe entire Republi
can ticket
More than thirty meetings have
been arranged by tbe offlclala of tbe
county central committee, but Coun
ty Chairman Frank Jaggar and Sec
retary William Hammond are keep
ing their dates secret, for In the last
campaign 'the local Democrats secur
ed an advantage through a premature
announcement of the Republican
meetings and followed their oppo
nents all over the county.
Hon. George C. Brownell, State
Senator W. A. Dimick and Mayor
Grant B. Dlmlck are the three spell
binders who will accompany the can
didates In their meetings in the early
stages of the campaign. All three of
these men are staunch Republicans
and have no superiors as campaign
speakers In this state.
The Republicans of Clackamaa
County believe they can duplicate
the performance of eight years ago
and elect their whole ticket The
candidates for legislative and coun
ty offices are:
Representative in the) legislature!,
F. M. Gill, C. Schuebel. Gustav
Schnoerr; commissioner, William H.
Mattoon; clerk, W. L. Mulvey; sher
iff, E. C. Hackett; recorder of con
veyances, E. P. Dedman; assessor,
James F. Nelson; treasurer, J. A.
Tufts; school superintendant, T. J.
Gary; coroner, W. J. Wilson; survey
or, D. T. Meldrum; district attorney,
E. B. Tongue; joint representative,
David Lofgren.
0
NTY DIVISION .
MEN ACCUSED
PAMPHLET IS ALLEGED TO BE
VIOLATION OF CORRUPT
PRACTICE XCT
LIVE WIRESiTO MAKE INVESTIGATION
O. D. Eby and W. A. Shewman De
clare that County Fair will be
Best On Ever Held In
County
Announcement waa made at a lun
cheon of the Live Wires Tuesday by
M. D. Latourette, Main Trunk Line,
that a pamphlet being circulated by
resident of the Eastern section seek
ing the creation of Cascade Coun
ty waa a violation of the corrupt prac
tice act It was declared that the
pamphlet did not give the name of
author or the place it waa published,
as provided in the act William Ham
mond, of Cross ft Hammond, waa ap
pointed a committee of one to make
an investigation. The proposed di
vision of Clackamas County wll be
voted upon at the coming state elec
tion. It Is opposed by residents of
all sections except the eastern, and
many ot the voters in that section
of the county are reported as being
against the measure.
O. D- Eby, Secretary of the Clack
amas Fair Association, aald the fair
which would start at Canby today
would be the most successful ever
conducted by the Association. He
told what bad been done and describ
ed various exhibits. W. A. Shewman,
editor of the Western Stock Journal,
declared the live stock exhibits were
better than ever before.
Grant B. Dlmlck, Mayor of Oregon
City, will have a fine exhibit of swine.
Mr. Dlmlck haa erected a building at
the fair to display his bogs.
F- M. Swift, one of the promoter!
of the Clackamas Southern Railway,
was elected a member of the Live
Wires.
10
SIM OCTOBER 8
NEW YORK, Sept 25. Play for the
baseball championship of the world
will be begun on the Polo grounds
in New York at 2 o'clock Tuesday af
ternoon. October 8. The second
game will be played In Boston on the
following day. Play will alternate
each fair-weather day between the
two cities until either New York or
Roston has won the four out of (even
carries necessary to give It the 1912
title.
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