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(iUK(K)S CITY KSrmVHlHK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1917.
HILLAGE
GROWS
TOTAL RAISED TO
III
DECREASE
LOSS Or VALUATION RESULTS IN
HIOHIR TAXtl THAOUOHOUT
TMI COUNTY
orecom cmr property owner
WIU PAY 40.8 HILLS J 1917
Levy of 1.1 Mill on Property Outside
Districts With Standard Hlyh
choola It Mado Undar
Tuition Fund La.
PLAN STEAMER LINETO
i
OSWEGO DIVIS or
IS
SULPHUR WOULD 01 QAHOO ON
RETURN TRIPS-DETAILS
NOT VIT ARRANOtD
COMPARATIVE MILLAGE OP
ll ANO 1I7.
-,
CharmUr III 1I7
df (at Mllla Mills
County 3 6 4 7
Htata 3 It 14
Hchool 3 J 14
ItoaJ I. 7.
4.
Total general levlne 11. II 8
Oregon City
General levies II. 11.1
City 10.6 14 5
Hchool dUtrlrt .... . 7.1
Total la city HI 401
Tlio Crown Willamette I'iimt rom
pany anil Ilia llaainy Pulp Paper
company, operating big nillli hero, and
Ilia I'nloti Hulilmr company ara seri
ously i oneldxrllif the operation of
Una of steamers from Portlund to porta
on tba (iulf of Mexico, carrying paper
lo Ilia aoiitlirro statra and bring back
ulphiir, tilt h la uied In Ihe manufar.
ture or puprr. Wlllard I. llawlry, Jr.,
announced the plan.
Other north prodtuta (ami pa
per, em h aa lumber, would ba rarrlnd.
Ilelnlla of the propoaul ara being
worked out now. A number of rrafta
ara available for Ilia ervlre, and boata
would probably ba operated on
monthly schedule
In aplta or the. tax limitation bill
paaaitl by tba 115 legislature and the
amendment to the atuta ronatltutlon
'enarlud NovrmlxT 7, the Oregon city
pro port y owner will find whnn be at
Ilea bla annual bill with tho county
that, aomvway, somehow, taxes have
Increased. Tlila year, the county neat
property owner paid 31 5 mllla, flgur.
lug In every levy, and thouiibt ha had
causa to complain. Next year he will
pay 40.8 mill.
Tho geiierol county levy, Including
county, atnto, echool and road Invlwt
will be 18.5 mllla lu 1917, coutrastlng
with IS mllla tnia year. The county
cuuit invt Thuruuy lo determine tho
luvy, and by careful figuring waa ablo
to hold the general nilllngo down to
only a .6 of a mill Increase.
Amount Ralaed Docrcaiea
In spite of thla hulf mill Increase in
tho total general inllliiKC, however, less
money will be rained In tho county
next year than thla by taxation, ex
cluding the city and district levies.
Thin year, IS mill brought In $H5.
916.67, whllo next year lft.r. iiiIIIh will
bring In only $;.3I,GI1.0I. Thla shrink
bko la due to tho wholesale reduction
In the assessments of tho Portland
Railway Light & l'ower company, owp
Iiir utit-Hlxtli of the Inxuhln property
In the county, the dent ruction by wind
or timber In tho CnHcailea, loio of tho
crunt IiukIh from tho tax toIIh and a ro
ductlon of aHBcnamont nlHuwhoro. The
nHiu'imment of tho county In the year
tins dnrrenneil from :I0.3L'S,&:I0.9S to
I2S.737.3C2.
Tho following tnhla aliowa how tho
)r31,ll41 will bo dliitrlliutod unit the
correHpondliiK hiiiiih thin year:
(iiururtor 1916 1917
County SluC,ft9.S8 $i:i5.0l'S.!G
Rtato U7.fi.17.sa 97,707.00
School . 99,477.(10 97.707.00
Koail 242,:8.30 201.K.1.40
WHISKEY STILL IS
FOUND HIDDEN ON
BANKS
Of
SCHEME WILL BE
IT BY 0. C.
TOUGH
LIVI WIRCI ORGANIZING VIGOR
OUI CAMPAIGN TO BC MADE
BIFORI HOHLATURE
EFFORT MADE TO CEI WEST IM
TO JOIN ANNEXATION KOYEKEMT
Roadmaetsr Roota Say Wall Matured
Plana on Foot to Improve Roadt
Near Oawego Judge Ander
aon Dlacutaea Matter.
RIVER
MEN BELIEVED TO BE OWNERS
NOW FACE CHARGE OF BUrtQ.
LARY AT SALEM.
SECLUDED SPOT AT MOUTH OF
MOLALLA SCENE OF-OPERATIONS
Sheriff Wllion and Deputy District
Attorney Burke Bring .Back 25
Fact of Load Pipe Raw
Material! Ara Found.
Totnl $545,910.07 1531.011.01
A chuiiKO In mnkiiiK tho roud levy,
howovor, Mhniild lio taken Into connhl
eratlon In atudyliiK thin talilo. Tlio
county court, following tho roenmmen.
(lotions of tho tnxpnyora, mado a 7-mlll
Konornl rond lovy, and two mills of
tho 4. 7-mlll county lovy will be mod
for rond and biidgo work, as well. The
county will apond one mill more on
roads noxt yunr on thin, making a
total of nlno iiiIIIh, and loan for tho
Ronorul expenses of tho county, al
though tallies printed above would ap
pear to Indlcnto that tho contrary wan
true.
Tuition Levy ;.3 Mills.
On all property outsldo of illxtrlcts
with stnndard hieh bcIiooIh, thoro will
(Continued on Tago 4.) ,
Hidden In a aecluded ipot at tho
mouth of the Molnllu and the bank
of the Wlllanintte, four miles back of
Canby. Sheriff Wilnon and Deputy Dis
trict Attorney llurku have uncovered
a whlitky Kill. Saturday they visited
tho secluded aiot, dentroyed tho atlll
and returned to Oregon City with
about 25 feet of lead pipe which
formed the cuIIh.
The atlll waa crudely maao of bar-
tela and pipe. It was hidden In an
outbuilding near the homo of A. J.
Hllvey. a blind fMicrimin. Tho men
who, the officers believo, operated the
ntlll ar,. Leonard WoNlfall and A. O.
Collins, bound over to tho grand jury
In .Marlon county on a chargo of burglary.
It was In working on tho burglary
cane that tho officers found tho still.
Wotitfull and Collins, who lived with
the blind IlKhcrmim, waa arrested
Thursday for steuling $100 worth of
hides from Wurstur Urothers, proprie
tors of a butcher shop nt Aurora, and
tho officials went to tho place at tho
mouth of tho Molulla to find tho stolen
proiorty. After searching through the
houno mid outbuildings, they found
tho hides under tho floor.
Tho 8(111 was concealed near tlio
house. No liquor was found, but the
leud colla have a strong odor and a
uiiantlty of corn and apples wore lo
cated near tlio still. The officers are
convinced that tho still had been, used
recently.
Tho Live Wires of the Oregon City
'omninrrlul club at their weekly
uncheon Tuesday luld plans for a
vigorous fight against the proposal for
tho annexation of 13 a'juare mllt-a of
territory In the Oswnro district. In
cluding the town of Oaargo Itself, to
Multnomah county. The fight will be
arrird to the coming leglalature.
It waa opnly charged at the meet
ing Tuesday that tbe Oregon Iron A
Steel ropipany. through Ha attorney,
A. King Wilson, mayor of Oawego, is
primarily behind the annexation move.
ment and that selfish motives of the
company Inspired tho plan. In order
to combat tho assertion that the Pa
cific highway on the west aldo of the
Willamette running through Oawego
has not received a reasonable amount
of Improvement, the Commercial club
hna arranged for a conference with
the county court at 10 o'clock noxt
Friday morning, ut which time an ef
fort will bo made to obtain from the
court some definite assurance that the
rond from Oswego to the Multnomah
county lino would bo Improved this
year. Tho services of O. P. Johnson,
formerly connected with the assessor's
office here, were sccurod and ho has
been engaged to draft and submit a
report showing tho condition of the
taxable urea Involved, and a compar
ison of tbe Toliintiona and assessments
of C arkamrs and Multuomuh counties
along the border.
II. T. Mclinln authorised the state
ment that the West Linn authorities
had been approached by a committco
from Oswego and had been urged to
Join some of the West Linn torritory
to the proposed annexation scheme.
Itonilmoster Roots said Tuesduy that
well matured pluns wero under way
for the Improvement of tho Oswego
road, thnt a rock crusher had been set
up nenr the town and that it had ben
planned to niako a definite and ex
tended Improvement In thnt section
this year. County Jndgo Anderson,
however, fe-is thnt tho county court
has been Improperly approached by
Rome of tho nnnexatlon boomers, who
conveyed to tho court a thinly veiled
threat that unlcsi tho rond Improve
ment wns dellnltely promised, that tho
light for annexation would bo pushed.
Tho Live Wires expect to bo able
to harmonlo some of tho fooling that
litis been engendered over the high
way situation, and to secure such as
surances that will glvo the Oswego ter
ritory such Improvement that It Is
Justly entitled to, but without crippling
tho roud plans for 1917 In other sec
tions of tho county.
It wns stated at tho meeting Tues
day thnt It Is nlno proposed to annexa
tion about 11 equnro miles of Wash
ington county's area to Multnomah.
EfflTE
REJECTS
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1 HUI I LU
CARVER TO SELL
BONDS
TO BUILD
m
LAND ROAD
PROPOSAL FROM BERLIN CALLED
EMPTY AND INSINCERE BY
PARIS AND LONDON.
Note From Central Powers Is Declar
ed to Be "War Maneuver" Settle
ment for Future Security
Bald to Be Aim.
LINE FROM DEDMAN STATION TO
OREGON CITY PROBABLY
BUILT ULTIMATELY
RAILROAD Wttl TAP RICH COUNTM
IN EASTERN PART OF THE COUNTY
ju.wu Bona Issue Will Bo Floated
To Provide Funda to. Complete
RoadTrust Daed to be Filed
In Few Days.
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II. F. FISHED FOR LOOSE
TWO STORY FRAME STRUCTURE
TO BE ERECTED ON LODGE
PROPERTY SOON.
The building committee of tbe
Mooso lodge Saturday let the rontrart
to A. f. Plhr for the construction of
a mod irn. two-story. (4 by to few
frame lodge building at Kleveoth and
Main streets.
Tbe plana provide for threo store
rooms, facing Main lre t, on the Drat
floor and modern lodge rooms upstairs.
The cost of the building waa not made
public, but tbe total investment. In
cluding building, ground and furnish
ing will be between $15,000 and $J0,
QOO. The building committe la composed
of O F. Johnson, D. P. Skene, Frank
Hunch. M. Justin. William Welsmandel
and P. D. Furbea. 1
INDUSTRIES HERE
VILL EXPAND IN
NEXT12H0NTHS
MILLIONS WILL GO FOR IMPROVE
MENTS IN EVERY SECTION
OF THE COUNTY.
PAVING HAY BE
PARIS, Doc. 30 In reply to the
proffer of Germany and her altloa for
a peace conference, the entente al
lies. In a collective note, declare tbut
they "refuse to consider proposal
which Is empty and Insincere." The
note was banded to the American Am
bassador. WlllUm Graves Bbarp. to
day by Premier Uriand, and waa made
public simultaneously in London and
Paris.
The entente, allied governments In
slst that no peace la possible so long
aa they have not secured reparatlou
for violated rights and liberties and
the free existence of small states and
have not brought about a settlement
for the future security of the world.
The note declares that the proposal
of the central powers Is not an offer
of peace, but a "war maneuver." It
la declared to lie founded on "cal
culated misinterpretation of the char
actcr of tho atruirglo In the past, the
present and th f'-'ure."
DRAINED TO SAVE
ROAD FROi-l
RUIN
The completion of the Portland ft
Oregon City railroad between Port
land and tho lllghlanu country at aa
early date was forecasted Saturday
hen representatives of tbe Security
Savings ft Trust company, of Port'and,
made arrangemcnU to file early
this week a trust deed necessary to
the Issuance of $350,000 In bonds
ii-. - ... . . .
iui.t iu prooably be filed next
juesaay. The company Is better
known as the Carver line, and now
haa 15 miles of rail laid from Port
land to Itakcrs Urldge on the Clacka
mas nver.
i ne company plans ultimately to
hulld a branch from Dedman station.
located south of Clackamas, to Ore
gon C ity. The road to Highland will
follow up Clear creek to the country
back of Viola. The road will tan aom
or me ncnest territory In Clackamas
county, country which Is not directly
servea by a railroad at the present
nine.
The road up Clear creek will follow
a water grade. Large bodies of timber
stand clos to the track, and lumber Crown of Southern Part of First Coun-
and cordwood will furnish freight for
many years.
INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION ACTS AS
STIMULANT FOR LINES OF TRADE
Hawley Pulp ft Paper Company and
Oregon City Woolen Mills Will
Spend Big Sums Hero In
Making Enlargements
PUDDLES ON PARKPLACE HIGH
WAY CAUSE OF WORHY TO
THE COUNTY COURT
JOB IS SIMPLE, HOWEVER, AND
CAN BE DONE AT SMALL EXPENSE
ii. fc. cross, local attorney for
Stephen Carver, president of the road.
said Saturday night that the company
ty-Lald Hard Hard Surface Found
Too Low to Carry Off All
The Water,
Tho nuto, which ia the Joint act of did not Intend to build In Oregon City
llelgluin, France, Croat Prltaln. Italy,
Julian, Montenegro, rortugul, Rou-
mania, Russia and Serbia, declares
that the present strife was desired,
provoked and declared by Germany
and Austria-Hungary, and that Ger-
mnny mado no effort to bring about
a paclflo solution of the trouble be
tween Serbia and Austria-Hungary.
at once, although a survey has been
made. Aft?r the line to Highland !
completed and the entire road put In
to successful operation. Mr. Carver
The county Is f.-ce to face with the
necessity of draining water from the
southern part of tho Pr.rknlace-Ore-
w II probably consider the construe- rnn niv .mrH .... t, ,
flnn n f a Una n nunni. riH . i . i I J
.v; v vsitrbuii V.IIJ, WIIU a
view of operating trains between Pnrf.
land and Oregon City. M? drain tnt section of the high
Mr. carver originally planned to y on. said County Judge AndBr-
Duim to Oregon City, but was dlscour- son Friday
agea oy me attitude or several Oregon Water Is standing In small puddls
City business men. and lost his fran- at each side of the road. The water
chlse by default. It ts understood 8 not over three-quarters of an Inch
mat the position taken by the eommer- HPI1 hilt orr.rr1tnc ts Unww ir
clal Interests of Oregon City will have k ick, who had chnre of th i-in nf
COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS AT
SALEM DEBATE MEANS TO
ADD TO EFFICIENCY.
PORTLANDER GETS LICENSE
County Clerk Iva M. Ilr.rrlngton
Friday Issued a marriage license to
LoiiIho A, Truob and Thomas T. Grigs
by. 1220 Concord street, Portland.
ESTACADA COUPLE WEDS,
W.
II-
MIhs Mattlo Smith and Ralph
Lomon, who secured a marriage
reuse last Saturday, wore quiotly mar
ried by Justice of tho Tonco John N.
Slovers In his office. Iloth Mr. ami
Mrs. Lemon live nt Estncada.
EX-SHERIFF E. T. MISS
U.S. MARSHAL JOB HERE
SALEM, Or. Jan. 3. Tho county unit
plan for all schools In districts below
the first class probably will be pre
sented to the legislature for enactment
Into law.
State Superintendent of Schools
Churchill, who strongly favors the
plan, discussed it today with the
county school superintendents who are
In session at the capltol In the capnclty
of an examining board.
The plan Is to centralize the author
Ity over all the schools In n county, ex
cepting thoso in districts of the first
class. Each county adopting the plan
V. . Jl..l.l.l I 1 - U
nuiim nv umiuuu uiiu uve UlSiriClS. i
an Important bearing on the construc
tion of a branch to Oregon CItv.
llallctting of the 15 miles already
laid and the construction of the road
from linkers Bridge, or Carver station,
to iitgmand will probably begin In
tho spring.
GEORGE TIM, SNIR'S
PAL, CONFESSES ROBBERY:
19-YEAR-OLD BOY IS BROUGHT
HERE FROM PORTLAND AND
PUT INTO JAIL
the paving, there Is enough water on
the pavement to brenk down, tho re
sisting qualities of the asphalt
Drr.lnlng tho road will be a compara
tively simple Job. Two men With a
heated Iron can burn small channels
In the surface of the hard surface from
the puddles to the side of theroad. Mr.
Warswlck estimates that two men can
Tbe new year, little 1J17. haa
brought to Oregon City great promises
promises of Industrial expansion,
stimulated business and more pros
perity even than waa experienced dur
ing tbe year Just ended.
In addition to the annual payroll of
the woolen and paper mllla, alone
amounting te almost $1,750,000 annual
ly, several million dollars tbe aggro
gate amount Impossible to determine
thla early will go Into extensive en
largements of the mllla and improve
menta throughout the county. The In
dustrial awakening here has stimu
lated every line of trade, Increased th
confidence of business men and prop
erty holder and advertised Oregon
City far and wldo aa one of the lead
ing manufacturing cities of tbe entire
Pacific coast
Mill Soon Complete.
The beginning of this new year seea
the completion of a $1,000,000 addition
to the plant of the Hawley Pulp ft
Paper company. The giant paper ma
chine, which will turn out a sheet US
Inches wide at a possible maximum
speed of 700 feet a minute, la now be
ing Installed and will be In operation
before the end of this month.
Not content, however, with thla new
mill, which will add 200 employes to
the plant, tho Hawley company plans
to launch atnto the construction of
second additional unit, which will rep
resent an Investment almost aa large
as the first Property for the site has
already been secured and, while no
announcement has been made, it is
expected here that construction work
will actually be under way soon after
the finishing touches are put on the
plant now nearlng completion.
Second only to the extensive expan
sion of the Hawley mills, comes the
improvements which will be made to
the plant of the Oregon City Manufac
turing company better known aa the
Oregon City Woolen mills. The con
struction of a large, three-story rein
forced concrete addition and the com
plete rearrangement of the mill, In
cluding the shifting of practically ev
ery department, will Increase the ca
pacity of the plant 60. per cent and
add between 100 and 150 employes to
i the payroll. With 100 modern looms
i In operation, which the plans for ex
I pansion call for, the mill will be the
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do tho work In four or five dnvs and 1 ar,ge8,1 woolea n"" wesl oc ln8 W1B
that the cost will be small.
The condition Is caused by tho fnct
that the crown of the road is not high
enough, a fault In bringing the road
to sub-crude. While the matter Is eas
ily fixed, the damace. If the
Drainage is as Import?jt to the
lifo of asphaltlc concrete as It is to
George Taylor, aged 19 years, who
was turned over to Clackamas county
authorities by the Portland police any other kind of road," enid Mr. Wars-
Each district would elect a member of! luesa"y B1sneu a coniessiou wearies- wick .many. "With water standing
tho county school board This board of i y Uorore District Attorney on the Parkplacce road the lifo will be
flvo members would nniiolnt a countv!nurke t0 the ot grocery short, but with it properly drained the
issippl.
Road Program Ambitious.
Then, the county court, as If
caught by this spirit of unequalled Im
provement, is' planning what will prob
ably bn the most amhltlonus vnnr of
repair -nnrl u-nrlr In tha itnimtv1. hiatn,, A
work w;..: neglected, would be great, n,no.,, .., w .n'i,
cay thoso familiar with the work. I cmv,,, nutria wi. m h.i. i .
The other hard surface roads laid j tHi nf - mini ,in.. ,mk m
by the county last summer have higher bo Bpent for new bmgeB, the aurfac
crowns, and so hus tho northern half: i m j. .i .. , .
of the Parkplace road. I nnw
City Gets Second Non-Suit
in $7,500 Damage Action of
rainer or miss Carrie kj liver
LOCAL DEMOCRATIC LEADER
PUTS IN BID FOR CHOICE FED
ERAL POSITION
Holding thnt no person using ordl
. nary care and caution would full off
backward from a sidewalk In broad
Wllght, Circuit Judge Campbbll Wed
nY'liy granted the city a non suit In
t'R) $7500 damage suit of DaVId Oliver
aA administrator of the estato of the
lato' i"rrle Oliver, against J. W. Shea,
a contrat'.or, and the city.
Carrie Oliver vas playing on High
street June SO, lSifwStnpped back
ward off the edge of a aldovftlk where
the street was on a grade, foiruboutj
ju reet on pointed rocks and was killed
Hor father brought a suit agalnBt the
contractor and the city a year ago, and
City Attorney 8chuebel secured a non
suit last spring. A second action was
Instituted several months ago, and
Judgo Campbell hold that tho mere
fact that the street was being Im
proved siiouki bo suiTicient to put a
person on his guard, and that barrl
cades wero unnecessary under such
circumstances. The sight of tho 10
foot Jumpoff from the sldewalf should
be sufficient warning of danger In It
self, he said.
One Interesting feature of the trial
was that both George Story, city prose
cutor, and Chris Schuobel, city attor
ney, about whom there has boon con
siderable dlscusBloir because tho coun
cil employed Schuobel as attorney al
though. Story defeated him at the polls,
for city "prosocutor both appeared lu
the courtroom for the city. Story
took no part In the trial of the case.
however, although he asked that his
Wodneaday Attornoy Schuebol secured name be entered as a consul In the rec
second non suit. I ords. The court allowed his request
E. T. Mass, former sheriff and recent
chairman ot the Clacknmus County
Democratic central committee, Is an
applicant for appointment to the offioe
ot United States marshal for Oregon
to succeed John Montng, Incumbent.
Frank 11. Tlchonor, of Port Orford,
Is tho only other porson who has an
nounced his candidacy for the job,
which Is considered about the nicest
plum nt the disposal of the party in
power In this state.
school superintendent, who would be
the practical educational and business
head of tho schools In the county.
The county school superintendent
would nomiunto the teachers for all
the schools. He would place the teach
ers whore they could do the best work.
The taxes for tho schools would be
levied on a county unit bnBls.
Whore the county unit has been
adopted, Mr. Churchill Bald, great ben
efit hns resulted, particularly to the
rural schools as a trained county su
perlntendent, with proper authority, Is
more able to establish and maintain an
efficient school than are the average
rural school directors.
stretch will last as long as any hard
surface.
WILBUR GIVEN MORE TIME
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 2. Gus C.
Moser, who will bo president ot the
senato, today gave out the names of
the senators he will appoint to the
chairmanships of the Important senate
committee. Senator Walter A. Dim
lck, of Clackamas, will be named chair
man of the committee on resolutions,
and ri. A. Lewis, from Multnomah and
Clackamas, will head the committee on
sericulture and forestry.
Circuit Judge Campbell Tuesday
signed a permanent restraining ordor.
enjoining the county, through Clerk
Iva Harrington, from levying and col
lecting a 10-mlll road tax in the Mar
quam district. The valfoity of the
special district levy was teBted by J.
W. Hobart, who claimed that the dis
trict road meeting was not properly
advertised.
Circuit Judge Campbell Tuesday
signed orders dismissing the Butt of
Gustar Flachter against the Oregon
City Courier, M. J. Brown and A. E.
Frost and Darius C. Fouts against A.
A. Allen and Susie Allen.
store of George Reddaway and the at
tempted robbery of the store of Ever
hart & Hall.
He is the partner of Ewald Snyder,
aged 19 years, now in the county jail.
Snyder also has made a confession, In
cluding the robbery of the Reddaway
store. He was arrested last week by
Sheriff W llson and Constablo Frost In
a deserted house on Fourth street,
where he had made his home.
Snyder wns sent to the State Train
ing school less than a year ago by the
Clackamas County Juvenile court, but
he escaped and made his way to Idaho,
wnere ne was arrested. He broke jail Salem to get $G0.000 addition to fed-
oy anocKing aown me aoor anu came eral postoffice building.
"nun io ureguu. ne was arrestee, in
Portland, and released and then came
to Oregon City and began a series of
robberies, the local officials say, which
extended over several weeks.
The two youths will probably be tak
en before Justice of the Peace John N.
Sievcrs today for a preliminary exam
ination.
Circuit Judge Campbell Thursday
signed an order giving Julius Wilbur
until February' 15 to file a bill of ex
ceptions and until February 20 to file a
transcript, papers necessary for an
appeal to the supreme court Wilbur,
ex-proprletor of the Friars' club' at
Milwaukle, was convicted recently on
a charge of selling liquor.
And, this Is not all. The year will
bring new business buildings for Ore
gon City. W. A. Long has plana for a
new theatre on his lot adjoining the
court house and other Main street
property owners are known to be plan
ning tho erection of two and three
story buildings, although no announce
ment has yet been made.
Neighboring towns Canby, Molalla,
Milwaukle, Oswego, Gladstone, West'
Linn and Estacada also are feeling
the thrill of industrial awakening to
some degree. In Canby, the co-operative
cheese factory is working at ca
pacity; Molalla is testing out sugar
beets, and apparently with success;
Milwaukle has a growing shingle mill
and may get a pickle factory; Os
wago's cement mill Is prospering; Es
tacada's fruit cannery has completed
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CLERK'S FEES BIG.
Clerk Iva Harrington Tuesday to- W. P. Hawley, Sr., president and
taled up the fees collected by her of- general manager of the Hawley Pulp
flee during 1916. The general fees, & Paper company, received a telegram
which are turned over to the county Tuesday from manufacturers in the
treasury, totaled $7,666 25 and the east saying that the shipment of parts
fish and game licenses sale brought for machinery In the new mill was do-
$2,794, of which the county gets 5 per layed 30 days, and that the last ship
cent, the rest going to tho state. ment would be made about January 20
from Beloit, Wis.
The new mill, which was to have
been In operation the first half of this
month, will not be running before
March, as a result It will take about
three weeks for shipments to arrive
here, so that It will be well alone la
Completion of New Hawley
Mill Held Back by Delay
in Shipment of Machinery
WIFE CHARGES CRUELTY
Aleda Wiseman filed a Bult for di
vorce against Benjamin Wiseman in
tbe circuit court Tuesday, charging
cruelty. They were married December
17, 1906, In Beaver City, Nebr.
February before ail the parts are in
Oregon City.
An engineer of the Beloit company
will be in Oregon CUy within the next
few days to begin the work of erect
ing the big machine, which will be the
largest In Oregon City. Many part
are already here, and the delay in
shipments will not seriously delay his
work.
Mr. Hawley believes that the de
mands on brass and copper manufac
turers due to munitions activity caused
the delay.