OUMON CITY KNTKRPltlHli, FRIDAY, MAY 1j?t 1913 1 a ilie Prairie City of Western Oregon To Be Supplied With Electric Interurban Railway Service By Portland, Eugene & Eastern Railway Company MOLALLA MOLALLA U 36 mile from Portland, and the trading center of a vastly rich agricultural and horticultural district at the Eastern extremity of the Molalla Valley. For 50 years Molalla has remained a cross roads village because of not having railroad transportation facilities. The Portland, Eugene & Eastern line will reach Molalla in July, and within a short time thereafter the district will be supplied by electric service. Lot and Acreage SALE: Saturday MAY 24th OPENING SALE MOLALLA will have no competition in making a substantial townJOregon City 18lmUe distant, Canby and WoodburnJ 12 miles, andjSilverton 14 miles, being the neareet cities. Hart andMetzler, the well known hop merchants of Portland, have purchased the land between the terminus of the P. E. & E. and the old town of Molalla. Lotswill be offered for sale at Molalla on Saturday, May24th. MAKE MOLALLA MOVE RESIDENT AGENT, W. W. EVERHART, MOLALLA, OREGON Molalla Clackamas Land & Improvement Co. 32 Russell Building Southwest Corner 4th and MorrisonJSts. PORTLAND, OREGON v Wants, For Sale etc FOR BALE: Indian Runner fuek iti. ti for II by Parcels Port. (io. Hamilton. Rout 1, Oregon City. FOR SALE or TRADE: House and lot In Eugene fur Clackamas or Multnomah County property, ad drew Wilt Moehnke, Oregon City, Rout 4. WANTED: Honey bees In any kind of standi. Will pay f 1.00 per stand and call and get tbem anywhere, within 20 miles Cantiy. Address, M. J. Lee. Canby, Oregon. WOOD FOR SALE. Anyone wanting a carload of It Inch Oak wood (seasoned) call on W. W. Irvln, Aurora, Oregon. COURT PROBE ENDS IN PITIFUL FARCE Clvi or lKa wanted. Wl I trade Potatoes for stock. I'hone B52 City or .all nt Miildrum Kami. Sheriffs Salt. In the Circuit Court ,.f the State of Ori-pHi fur cini-kamns County. John It. N'wtoit, plaintiff, va. " I Wolika. Defendant. J'ndur mid hy vlraie of an ordor ol Mlo and decree of foreclosure laatiod out of the Circuit Court of Clackamas bounty. Nlaie 0f Oregon, on the lllh day of Mi,y, i!n:i, tn, Bl)ove ntttli-'I ult wherein John It. Nowton. tiie ''ve iiiiinrd I'liilnlirr obtained a jmlK J'lit iiikI decree a khI im t said It. J. "ol'ka, Defendant, which said dranw on th 1 ith day of Muy, 1813. en fd in Hook 33, paKe 451. records or Ullll Court. I Bin riinminnrinil to the following described real prein- : All lit Ifit KI. T. Ol I'nnhd aril-nn. Clackamas Couuty, Oregon, u'wniM ,! In plat th reof records! sell in tm, dm,.,, of the Comif (.erk of J,',, '"oiinty. Oregon. Together ""Ii the tenements, hereditaments na niM.urt .imnrp thereunto belong Mny wlHe appertaining. Iir.1 ' , . ' 1,18 H" day of June, -v o cmck A. M ""' trout Bonne at toiinty, 1D13, at of said day. at door of the County four'. Oregon City. Clackamas Oregon, I will In obedience to 'a onl t of w,e and decree of fore. """'ire sell the above described renl ,",,'"r,v 'f ho much thereof a niiy " n;''"ary to satisfy plaintiffs Judg u,2 "h lllt-rflt threon and At rni.y , f,.,,g herein, costs and accru " to Ilie hlKhe.t and best bid- r i Tor ,.,iHh in gold coin of the Unit- " HtfllfH. RWi,. E. T. MASS. n" ''Inekamns County, Ormon. Hy It. J. HTAATS, Deputy. " r-"Y. Attorney for Plaintiff. Final Notice. dpn.'I'JrV1' hpr,!hT Kvpn that the un Th"' ? """'"I'-l of the estate of il"m"" Mi"-"n. d H-eaSed. has filed her c",o!'',r:",nl ,n ' ""te In the ltlf ,! ,"rt of th8 State of Oregon j,, ' 7"'nn" "outity. and that the , "i"" 1:,,n r of Jne, 191.1. "I 0 clock A. M. for heartn ohlec- lajj ,,a," " ''co'int and for ae tllng AIA'ARETTA 8. MARTIN, "KHUN hix ft STONE. Attorneys Nearly too cltlsena who fathered In W. U. W. ball Saturday afternoon to hear the report of the Joint committee Invent lust Inn complaint! aKalnst the county court found that one fac'.lon had assumed control of the proceed ings, and that the report presented to them was that of this portion of the Join, committee alone. As a reault of this turn of affairs, the spectators were treated to aome unexpected de velopmental one of which was the hootlne: from the platform of O. D. Kby, chairman of the committee ap pointed by the Live Wires of the Commercial club to act with Messrs. M. J. Drown. R. Schuebel and 8. L. Casto In the Investigation. Mr. Eby endeavored to obtain the floor to atate that the Live Wlrea' commlt'ee would submit Its own re port, belne; unable to endorse the re port of the three men of the ruling faction, but cat-calls, yells and abuse made It unable for him to speak. Shortly after this he left the hall, and '.he remaining faction ran matters as suited themselves. Aflor tney naa presented their report, which was done by Mir. Hchuebel, Mr. Ilrown withdrawing from the center of the suite temporarily, two resolutions were Introduced and adopted. These resolutions follow: Hy Mr. Mfetcltonakl and unanimously adopted: "Resolved, That The Morning En terprise be censured for their attack on the Integrity and honesty of the mass meeting committee, and that the Oregon City Courier be commend ed for opening Its columns for the benefit of the community." Ity U. W. Hanerman: "Whereas, the report of our commit tee shows thnt our present county court has handled the affairs of Clackamas county, OreRon, In a care less, extravagant and unbusinesslike manner: therefor be It "Resolved, That we condemn the action of our county court and that we take legal steps to remedy same and proceed with tne rall " The report of tuee of the members pf the joint committee fcllowa TO THE VOTERS AND T K XPA IT ERS OK CI.ACKAMAH COUNTY We. the committee uixinttwt hy the mass meeting held In Woodineu hall. Aprl 12th, to inv-s?lsafs c'wrnea agalnnt the county court, be leave to report as follow In tin mnttor of 'he complaint of George Lasello thr.t Roal Dinirlct No. 15 had levied a snvlnl piad tax or $2700.00, which had not boon spent as the people Intended, we found that Insofar aa the money is concerned this Is trje. The record show th.it 12700 00 was raised and so far about one half Is spent fho balance of 1UG9.91 Is on hand, we- were told that It was to he divided Into throe equal parts. Mr. ljixelle's complaint, which speaks for Itself: Oregon City. Ore.. April 29. 1913. To the Investigating committee representing the Live Wires of Oregon City and the mass meet ing of the taxpayers: The undersigned wishes to make charges against the county Judtte and county court, as fol- 'Tnnt a six mill special tax lev led by road dlBtrlct No. 1R. tor the purpose of building roads In said district snd raising a fund or about $2700.00 Is partly being re tained by the county court with out Just cause and contrary to winhes of those who paid the tax. That a system of road building Ing was allowed by the county .r wh.rehr about 700 feet of road was built In road district No. IS at a cost of about 800.00, which proves that said court la wilfully mismanaging the county finance. Thai Judge R. B. lleatle baa made statements to certain Indi viduals announcing that he haa stopped all Improvements on the south end road and Intends to place all of the available money for this road district on the Ca nemah road on account of a per sonal grudge against Geo. Laxelle. Respectfully submitted, (Signed) GEO. M. LAZELLK. Wm. Fine Is road supervisor on this matter. This money Is not connected with the special tax fund held up by the court. We have examined the rec ords In regard to one E. D. Olds' chargea against the court In building bridges and letting contracts con trary to law. having compared the records with Mr. OW'a statements we find that In regard to the Flsher'a mill bridge. He Is short In his fig ures a to the cost of the bridges, as we have found records showing that $3785.20 was paid, exclusive of ce ment, we also find in the same month a bill of J. R. Myers for hauling ce ment to Flshor's mill bridge, also a bill of $192.00 for cement from Hal-four-Guthrle & Co., the snme month: so fnr was unable to find any record definitely stntlng where the cement was used, but must naturally suppose It was used for the Fisher's mill bridge, thus making the cost of the Fisher's mill bridge $1105.70 instead of $2900.00 as we are by no means certain that this is all. yet as there Is not intelligent record of the trans action, the bills are scattered among the supervisor's reports and as In the case of the cement. It would neces sarily take considerable time to get the total facts and be sure you had all; and as to the other bridges, the records are more faulty than on the Fisher'! mill bridge. Among Mr. Olds' papers we find a letter from Mr. O. W. Severance, where he said he would have built the Fisher's mill bridge for $3160.00. complete ready for travel, so far we could not get track of Mr. Severance, so will have to accept this letter for what is worth. As to Mr. Olds' statement that the court did not live up to the law In regard to letting the contracts for the building of the varleus bridges men tioned by him. as far as we are able to determine this la true: no record has been found where bids were ad vertised for, according to Sec. 63B8 of the (sic) Lord! Oregon Law! (page 2290 volume 3 of Lord ! Oregon Laws). In the matter of the Pudding river brldee. the Eagle Creek, Sunnysldo r.nlnh and Clear Creek bridge, four bridges, we find Mr. Olds' statements we discover the following facts r ' ... . ..m vv 1 .nnA aaa AnloroH Intfl with correct cost for the steel $17,965.00. We also find, that the Coast Rrldge Co. was paid $1600.00 for erection of the above four bridges mentioned; al so $2809.00 for tubular plera on Pudd ing river bridge, making a total of $25.36.V00 all told, paid Coast Bridge Co. for the four bridges, this does not Include concrete piers snd abutmenta which were put In by Mr. John Green at a cost that Is hard to definitely de termine, as Mr. Green's reports do not always state where the work was done, hut we do find the sum of $1332.28 spent for labor, but bills do not state where work wss done, then we find a number of bills for lumber, cement gravel, sand nails, spikes, etc, that no man can locate from the records, where they were intended for, only occasionally statements shows this, but apparently "C four bridxes cost $26,697.20. lumber and cement still to be accounted for. We found one bill of D. C. Robblns for cement delivered at Canby for $473. 10. We find another record of three bridges let to the Coast bridge Co, known as Bear Creek, Rock Creek and Johnson Creek for $6850.00 com plete except painting, county to do the painting, also to Coast Bridge Co. for trestle bridge over Rock Creek for $4300.00. Coast Bridge Co. to furnish all metal, material, perform all labor and county to furnish lumber, was not able to find the coat of lumber for want of time. Also Coast Bridge Co. tor tubular piers on north end of Baker's bridge, $2200.00, also a wood en bridge built by John Heft for $1, 060.00, complete, another built by Jomn Nordberg on the following con ditions, this Is the bridge claimed to have been built for aome time with no road to it tor $800.00. Bk. 25 pp. 6 & 6. In the matter of the bridge across a gulch on the Wm. Stevens road near the N. E. corner of W. T. Mattock D. L. C, in road dlst trlct No. 2 and it appearing to the count that John Nordberg has agreed to construct the above mentioned bridge for $800.00, specifications to be furnished said Nordberg by some one designated by the county court along the lines discussed at the May term, it is ordered that John, Nord berg be given the contract to con struct said bridge. All told we find that this court has spent approxim ately $59,000.00 for bridges, this does not Include some work done under Mr. Green, such ss concrete piers and abutments, which we did not have time to dig up. In the mntter of the suspension bridge, we find that George Scogglns waa paid $350.00 for Inspecting this bridge, It appears to us after talking the matter over with T. w. Sullivan, who we think is a competent judge of such matters, that this might be alright. Mr. Sullivan said that $25.00 per day would be about right for comDetent man. In the matter of the steam roller excessive cost charge by Mr. Oolds. we find that Mr. Olds waa given fig ure! in writing by a representative of the Buffalo Pitts people, that the manager told us that they could not live up to, claiming he was a new man, and further said that the ma chines sold for less money to Seattle and other counties for less money than Clackamas county paid for the for the same were secondhand rollers If the manager of the Pitta people gave us the truth Mr. Olds Is not to blame for the statement made by him, although the charges apparently fall flat, as to the rollers. In the matter of the timber cruise contract, after careful investigation. any figure! up to 20 per cent mistake above or below, the man making com plaint must foot the bill of recruistng, the person making the complaint has no voice In who shall be the new rnilser, we find that a considerable portion of the timber ot Clackamas county Is on lands claimed by the railroad now. Decide by the courts to be forfeited to the government al though not yet carried to the highest court but until definitely settled we have reason to believe no tax can be collected on same. We further find that a mm by the name of Boyle la hired by the county court to follow cruisers and estimate If the cruiser is attempting to report any sections that might be short on the required amount specified to al low pay for same, this man Is paid $5.00 per day and expenses; we find from letters from Columbia county that Columbia county paid 5 7-8 cents per acre for cruising their timber, that it coat Tillamook $45,000.00 to cruise Us timber, and Clatsop county has entered into a contract to cruise Ita timber for 12H cents per acre, but the people of Clatsop county have served Injunctions on the court to stop the cruise. We think this a visci ous (sic) contract even It the timber cruslng were considered good. Month of October bill of R. B. Beatle, 170 miles, $17.00, others like it In the matter of the court house re pairs, we find that according to the figures and bills found the total cost was $26,211.75. In the matter of the methods the court took to repair the court house, we find that bids were advertised for once In the Courier and Enterprise, that four bids were submitted. 2 by Chapell Brown, 1 by Lasell & Son and 1 by Clarence Sim mons. The records do not show wiat the bids were, but simply states the fact of having employed an expert and being fully advised, rejected all bids. Mr. Lasell states his bid was about $14,000.00; Mr. Simmons bid for about $17,000.00, that Mr. Beatle insisted on giving the Job to Mr. Sim mons, that Mr. Simmons told him that he bad the court house job month before bids were called for that they, Mr. Lasell ft Son, then threatened Injunction proceedings. We found that the court hired Mr. White as referee In this matter, and he reported In favor of Lasell ft Son's plans, the court then rejected all bids and hired Mr. Simmons to boss the job and did the work by day work; we find that Mr. Simmons was empowered to receive bids for ma terial, then to consult Mr. Beatle and the two to let contracts for and buy material; we find cement was bought from D. C. Rolbns. the clerk In the Oregon City Commison house for $2.60 per barrel, cartage extra. We found where the court has bought from Balfour-Guthrie ft Co. direct the same class cement for $2.40 f. o. b. Portland. We found Mr. White was hired to furnish plans and specifications for court house and his plans were ac cepted. We employed Mr. White to take up the whole matter and go over It carefully and give an estimate as to the difference la cost of court house should be as built compared with Mr. Lasell ft Son's plans. (Here la im-erted In the report a let- whtcn states cdntract was entered Into with a Mr. Nea.se to cruise the timber of Clack amas county; Mr. Nease to be paid $51.20 per section on a basis of 1.000. 000 foet per section, saw timber to be not less than 20-ln. stump, 12-Inch top piling 12 to 20-in. stump, 8-inch top, rmiiwr tn have a 40 ner cent range. n holnr irrnratn. and the onlr I ter aimed "W. A. W. nonaltv attached to a faculty cruise i that for the work were estimates at of his timber, the court and the cruis-1 $8,000. $9,000 and $15,000. The er select new cruiser, wno win re claimed as timber land, we found, the man mistaken. If he gave the light 40 acre tract some others similar, but have not had the time to veriry ev ery little matter called to our atten tion. ' in the matter of the equity society's use of the court house, we find after a vote was taken np by the court on the question: "Shall all organizations be allowed the use of the court house, when not In use for court purposes, the use of the room?" the vote stood 2 to 1 against; Mr. Mattoon voting against because of the manning the question waa put be said he did not like to throw it open to everybody. In the matter of the county's fi nancial condition, we find that on March 31, 1913 there was on hand In the general fund $101,631j68. Road fund In debt $46,700.74. By subtract ing the road Indebtedness fund from the general fund on hand, we have on hand at his date, March 31, 1913, $54, 930 79. That on March 31, 1910. there was turned over to the treasurer and total on hand, $364,021.12. March 31, 1913. total general and road fund on hand and what was turned Into the treasurer, $561,961.89. Amount on hand March 31, 1913, general fund on hand, $52,658.77; road fund' on hand, $36,603.84; total on hand. $89,262.61. By subtracting total' on hand March 31, 1910, from the amount on hand and turned over to treasurer, we find that the March 31, 1913, report shows that there is $197,940.77 more money to do business with than on same date March 31, 1910. But we find that by subtracting the amount of In debtedness or actual money not ex pended on March 31, 1910 from the same statement of 1913, that there Is a difference of $34,331.82 In favor of the 1913 court Now by subtracting the amount in favor of the condition ot the 1913 court from the amount of more mon ey to do business with we find the 1913 court had the advantage of the 1910 court of $163,608.95, this is the condition as near as we are able to determine the facts having figured on a basis, given from the reports on the same Items after balancing the Indebtedness and placing the two courts on an equal footing, from this we must conclude that the 1913 court has no credit due as to being out of debt in other words they had only the same money to do business with that the 1910 court had, but had ex pended the same amounts, they did, this county would be In debt $163,. 608.95 more on March 31, 1913 than on March 31, 1910. Owing to the many obstacles this report Is not as complete as some of you might expect, we found the rec ords tn many Instances only gave part of the facts, as they took place so were compelled to dig on the out side to get the complete chain of facts and some men who could give information, would not do so, one merchant In Oregon City gave me the price on naifs on a certain date, but when I wanted a statement in writ ing he would not do so, stating he did not want to mix up In this and then changed his figure on nails to 30 cents per keg more than he had given tne a few minutes before, how ever, we found that the county paid from 10 cents to 30 cent! per keg more than any farmer could have bought the same nails for. In regard to tile cost of cement w hereby submit a letter from Notting ham ft Co., Portland, Ore., which speaks for Itself. We examined the sales book of Nottingham ft Co., and found the prive given was the same until January, 1912 when It declined $190 per barrel net f. o. b. Portland carload lots. 5 cents and 10 . cents more per barrel In small lots. Mr. V. Harris bought for $2.05 In 8-barrel lots, the county paid all the way from $2.40 to $2.65. Price paid for ce ment on repair of court bouse was $2.60 per barrel through D. C Rob blns. Nott ingham ft Co. letter to R. gc.buobel follows: .In regard to your request for our prices on lime and cement during the month of May, June, and July, 1911, In car load lota, lime was sold $1.15 per barrel and O. O. Cement at $2.00 per barrel net f. o. b. card Portland. Sacks were charged extra at $.10 per sack, which amount was refunded on return of empty sacks. R. B. Beaty, representing the City Commission House, was giv en these quotations during the summer of 1911 here at our office, 102 Front street P. S. Price of cement declined to $1.90 Jan.. 1912, C. W. K. We would further recommend that a taxpayers league be organized In each school district and one man be selected from each school district by the voters to confer with the county court before the court attempts any verv exnenslve undertaking, such as th timber cruise deal and the bridges of importance, and that the court fol low the law as to contracting ior bridges. We feel that the court tnsi is unwilling to work along such lines is unfit to serre the people and that one man from this taxpayers league be hired by the court as a buying agent for the county. Our reasons for the last recommendation la that Mr. R. Schuebel having investigated the price asked the court for steam rollers, he personally inquired, find ing that the same roller could have been purchased by Mr. Schuebel for $275 less money, and the same Is true of other things. Personally, I will state I have gone over nearly all matters referred to In this report and will gladly show book, page and other records to any man who doubts the statements tn this report On account of the vicious and un truthful matter printed In The En terprise the morning after the mass meeting In regard to the action! of your mass meeting committee, such as that the committee had already de cided on the report it would bring In; also statin that the report might al ready be written, we thought best to ask the Live Wires to appoint com mittee to help look Into the charge! preferred agalnet the court which they did. We received this commit tee with uncalloused hands and are ready to return them In the aame con dition. They were of no use what ever, and as soon as we found drift of their intentions, we decided to let them work to suit themselves and make their own report, and we would do the same. We leave the result In your hand! to Judge the merits of the work of each committee and their findings, but do recommend that the taxpayer! insist upon a more accur ate way of keeping the record! of the transactions so any citizen of intell igence could locate the cost of the bridges from the recoras, wuicn wo are satisfied no man living can do a the accounts are now kept Respectfully submitted, Ml J. BROWN. Chairman, R. 8CHUEBEL. Secretary. S. U CASTO. Mass Meeting Committee. let- cruise the tract claimed to have been i Improperly chrulsed and his decision to be final, and, it a mistake Is shown above 20 per cent or below figures given by the original cruise, then the cruiser must pax 'r the co,t ' Te cruising the particular tract com plained of; no other penalty what ever and If the recrulse only shows ter closes with the statement that the writer believes the work could have been done fcr $:3,0M) easily. Lack of space precludes its publica tion at this time.) There are a number of other minor complaints handed in, some about timber cruiser's erroneous figures, such as A. Bonney and V. Harris, on a certain 40-acre tract where it was Best Medicine for Colds. When a druggists recommends a remedy for colds, throat and lung troubles, you can feci sure that hn knows what be Is talking about C Lower. Druggist, of Mirlon, Ohio, writes ol Dr. King's New Discovery: "I know Dr. King s New Discovery is the best throat and lung medicine I sell. It cured my wife of a savere bronchial cold after all other rem edies failed." It will do the same for you If you ara suffering with a cold any bronchial, throat or lung cough. Keep a bottle on hand all ths time for everyone In the family to use. It Is a home doctor. Price 60c and $1.00. Guaranteed by Huntley Bros. Co., Oregon City, Hubbard and Canby. 8PRINGWATER. Rube Tucker, who fell from his wagon some time ago, is entirely re covered. Ladies' Club meets at Mrs. Lacey a next Thursday afternoon. 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