MOKNLNG ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1912. MORNING ENTERPRISE OREGON CITY, OREGON C. E. BRODIE, Editor and Publisher. "Bntered as second -class matter Jan uary i, 1(11, at the post office at Oregon City Oregon, under the Act of Marofa I. An." TE8MS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One Tear, by man ti t Blx Months, by mall l.M Eour Months, by mall ,.. l.M Per week, by carrier It CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER. ' $?SSSS$$J"S!S THE MORNING ENTERPRISE 8 is on sale at the following stores S every day: $ Huntley Bros. Drugs $ Main Street. J. W. McAnulty Cigars Seventh and Main. $ E. B. Auderson, 4 Main near Sixth. M. E. Dunn Confectionery Next door to P. O. City Drug Store Electric Hotel. Sckoenborn Confectionery $ Seventh and .T. Q. Adams. -S$ji'S'$$'i9' Jan 25 In American History. 1813 James Marion Simnis, distin guished writer and inventor, born; died 1883. 1890 Tour round the world in 72 days 6 hours and 12 minutes by Nellie Ely of the New York World ended at Jersey City. 1906 Brigadier General Joseph Wheel er, D. S. A., retired, former lieuten ant general of the Confederate States, died ; born 183". ' 1907 Isabella Beecher Hooker, last of the children of Rev. Lyman Beech er, died; born 1822. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. (From noon today to noon tomorrow.) Sun sets 5:09, rises 7:15: moon sets 11:26 p. ni.; moon at greatest libra tion east; noon today, planet Mercury at descending node, crossing, sun's path downward. CURSE OF AMERICAN POLITICS. Governor Dix, of New York, is in complete harmony with healthy pa triotic sentiment when he urges that vote-buying be made a felony; that immunity be granted to the vote-seller upon condition that he turn state's evidence against the buyer, and that a candidate convicted of corrupting the franchise shall not only forfeit Ihis office, but be rendered thereafter ineligible for public office. The use of money at elections is the worst curse of American politics. It debases the vote-seller, disgraces the vote-buyer and debauches the foundations of our governmental life. The several political parties raise enormous sums of money for each election. Some of this huge fund is paid out for legitimate expenses of a campaign, such as rental of halls, ad vertising, printing, music, and so forth. But probably ninety per cent of the vast amount of money collected year ly for campaign purposes gets no farther than'the deepest recesses of the pockets . of the party committee men. It is inconceivable that all this money is paid out for the purchase of votes. It is absurd to maintain that it would be possible to buy such a per centage of the electorate as would be represented by this pile of cash. Hence there is no dodging the fact that the major part of the cash is kept by the committeemen for their own personal use. It is a fa,ct patent to all who have only casual acquaintance with political methods that a great ' majority of committeemen seek that position for the sole purpose of get ting their clutches on the money on Mtnt. 4 Sporty Amer ican of Today Poor Specimen Beside Pilgrim Ancestor HEN I see murderesses t ; ! ' t T By Senator PORTER J. f M'CUMBER, of North T Dakota ? i ! ,t .;. .1. ,;. . yi the footlights to assail our sense of decency, the MOB SPIRIT RAMPANT, the muckraker " TEARING DOWN OUR BELIEF in business institutions, I pray for a return to the old pilgrim philosophy and their integrity of char acter as the only conservator of American liberties. Our present tendency is to drift away from the ideals of sett gov ernment. The American people must return to the CALM, SOBER, SELF CONTROL OF PILGRIM DAYS or conditions here a hun dred years hence would be'analagous to the social unrest manifested in Europe today. . THE SPORTY AMERICAN OF TODAY IS A POOR SPECIMEN BE SIDE HIS PILGRIM ANCESTOR. WHAT WE NEED MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE IS A SAFER, SANER AMERICAN CHARACTER. WE HAVENT THE SAME REGARD FOR LAW AND ORDER, FOR LIVING QUIETLY AND DECENTLY. In every American city today is manifested this regard for the superficial, for the flamboyant and the unstable things. Yung Kwai, In Charge of Chinese Legation, and Family '.-iW iff m3p s sss eJrH ..... . . . .. -w,.,. Photo by American Press Association. CHINA'S diplomatic representatives abroad are now. with the uncertainty as to the course of the revolution at home, in an extremely delicate sit uation. The Chinese minister at Washington has given up his post and has left the affairs of the legation in charge of Yung Kwal, the first secretary. Mr. Yung is a Yale graduate, with an American wife, who was Miss Mary Burnham of Springfield. Mass. He has become thoroughly Ameri canized in dress and habits of life and is a Christian. When a delegation of forty-seven Chinese students was sent to the United States by the home gov ernment several years ago, Mr. Yung was appointed to direct their studies ano. to arrange for their distribution among different institutions of learning. His father was formerly commissioner of education for the Chinese empire. election day. The use of money at elections, therefore, in addition to tainting the source of our government with cor ruption does not even serve the pur pose of its donation, for it is diverted into" pockets for which it was not in tended. All parties should and would wel come a law eliminating the use of money at elections. It would elevate the standard of our political life and at the same time purge the party or ganizations of parasites and replace them with party workers of character and conscience. Atwood contemplates a flight across the Atlantic in April. We hope he doesn't attempt to start on .the first. The world's supply of gold is in creasing, but you needn't quit your job on that account. The "turkey trot" has had its last run in New York. Besides, Governor Wilson has changed his view3 in several respects since he wrote that 1907 letter ex pressing the desire that Mr. Bryan be knocked into a cocked hat. A statistician says that one citizen in the United States in every 900 is in prison, and we continue to send money abroad to convert the heathen. The Underwood talk is the upper most sound in southern Democratic circles. It gets them all in time. Now the lady mayoress of Hunnewell, Kan., LIFTED TO STARDOM behind ..;: :::vo,.l. l i " I r t i -W- J MteaCTflBWiasTifgfv rTTr t J f ' jTisTTppi spmm r -if - ; has gone on a lecturing tour. Live Wirelets (By Edgar Bates.) J. P. Morgan's cousin who married a Japanese woman has nothing to say regarding his wife. There are lots of men who have married white women and have nothing to say either. Carnegie is receiving as much press comment over his efforts to collect $22.70 due him as witness in the steel trust investigation, as if he had es tablished a $500,000 library. The membership of the Oregon City Library is steadily growing and hard ly a day passes but a few new names are added to the list. A Portland man declares he has re ceived a letter from Teddy R. stat ing that he would run for the nomin ation under certain conditions. It would of course not be nice to say thai this statement is doubted, but we would like to see the letter. Every thinking man will admit that to a certain extent Socialism has some good points. But this organization, like other numbers of people banded together for a certain cause, is handi capped by some of its individual mem bers, who, by their actions are doing more to hurt the cause than to build it up. As a rule Socialists who will stand on a soap box and harangue a crowd of men for an hour or two only create amusement which proves a boomerang to themselves and their cause. Very often the speaker defies both the laws of God and man, scoffs at religion and Christianity, rants about the newspapers and capitalists and practically curses everything and everybody not associated with "the cause." The sooner the Socialist party eliminates these -"soap box ora tors" of this type, their arguments, claims and beliefs, will be given more attention by thinking men. The audacity of the Dr. Day who was arrested in Portland and taken to Los Angeles on government charges, must be admired. One of the charges was that of passing worthless checks and after being locked up in the jail awaiting trial, he made out two more of these checks and passed one on to the jailer and gave the other to his attorney as a retainer. x No doubt there are a number of men in Portland who really want and need work but it seems that the greater number of men who roam around the streets looking for work really don't want a "job." Instead, they seek a. "situation" or a "posi tion or a "berth," instead of being anxious to earn a living-by real man ual labor. -', Oregon City lacks a music store. The phonograph and talking machines are well represented, but when it comes to buying a piano, it is almost necessary to go to Portland. Pianos and organs can be sold here at the same prices charged in Portland and this city offers a splendid field for an investment in this business. There is not a store in the city that carries BEST COAL LOWEST PRICES $7.50 UP PER TON. Free Delivery In City, Cane mah, Gladstone and West Side. Oregon Commission Co ELEVENTH AND MAIN 8TV Oregon City, Ore. ROCK SPRING COAL MENDOTA COAL ' SHELBY COAL ! House for Sale at Sacrifice PROPERTY OF Oregon City Lodge of Elks The Elks are going to build on the site, east side of Water, street, near Sixth street, and will sell the house now occupy ing the lot, at a jmeat sacrifice. Apply DR. CLYOE MOUNT, Exalted Ruler. Masonic Bldg. sheet music other than certain ten and fifteen cent editions. We are in formed that there is a nice little profit in thi3 particular line that would be handled by an up-to-date music store. Three more carloads of potatoes left the valley Thursday for Texas. The crop in the Lone Star state must have been pretty slim. With the announcement that the present occupants will move from their present location in the Masonic building next month, every one is wondering who will obtain the place. The location is one of the most valua ble ones in the city, the store having a larger floor space than any other single building in the city. Of course the rent is high but probably worth the price asked, considering location, space, show, windows, etc. Of course there are two sides to every question, -but those automobile chapa are raising havoc with Jeffer son street between Tenth and Elev enth. It is admitted that this steep incline, affords a splendid demonstra tion ground to display the hill-climbing ability of a car, but the money recently spent by the adjoining prop erty owners will be wasted if some steps are not taken to protect the street. It is a public street and au toists have a right to use it but not to cut it up by their continual at tempts to make a hill-climbing record. WOMAN'S CLUB TO .ASSIST LOAN FUND An important meeting of the Wo man's Club will be held this after noon in the Commercial Cinh narlnrs. This ia Scholarship Loan Fund Day, and it is expected that a large sum of money will be raised. Mrs . Rob ers, of Portland, will give a history of the loan fund, and tell what has been accomplished. Mrs. Frederich Olsen, of Portland, will sing. All the women of the city are invited to at tend the meeting. FADS AND FANCIES. Pocket Slippers Are Novel and Com fortable When Traveling. Pocket slippers, which were intro duced only comparatively recently, have been found so comfy and useful that this season they are to be had in an even more convenient form tbsn last. Just now they are made so soft and fine that they fold up into a leath er envelope, which makes a neat com- GOOD MODRL FOB CHILD'S DRESS. panlon to the case in which the wise traveler carries her . invaluable air cushion. Rhinestone buckles, the detachable kind, are used on every shade and kind of evening slippers. One pair of buc kles serves for black and colored slip pers alike. A handsome hand bag of tan suede has embossing In metal braid and a shaped ornament of brown fur across the top, just beneath the mounting. The child's dress that may' be worn with or without a guimpe is available at all seasons. Such a dress is illus trated. JUDIC CHOLLET. This May Manton pattern Is cut In sizes tor girls of six. eight and ten years of age. Send 10 cents to this office, giving number. 7271. and it will be promptly for warded to you by mall. If in haste send an additional two cent stamp for letter postage, which insures more prompt de livery. When ordering use coupon. t No.. Size.. Name ... Address Wants, For Sale, Etc Netioea under Uhm elanstfieel will be Inserted at aaa oeat a ward, ftest Insertion, half a cent additional taser tloas. One Inch cu i. 1 per montk: bail inos card. 14 lines; 1 yer momtfr Cash must accompany srder unless sne has an open aocoont with the naper. No financial responsibility far errors; whu errors occur free eorreoted notice will fc printed for natron. Minimum snarm lie WANTED. WANTED Everybody to know that I carry the largest stock of second hand furniture in town. Tourists or local people looking for curios In dian arrow heads, old stamps or Indian trinkets should see me. Will buy anything of value. George Young, Main street, near Fifth. WANTED Good 3 1-4-inch wagon. E. K Hackett, City Route No. 2: 2t PLACE on farm wanted by young couple tired of city. Both healthy and not afraid of work. Write what you have to offer to XXX, care En terprise. -' , - WANTED Teacher to give- lessons in the English language. Apply for particulars at 221 Thirteenth street, city. FOR SALE. FOR SALE Dry cord wood, will de liver when ordered. Phone Farm ers 138, Oregon City. FOR SALE A first-class carpet loom. Fred Enckson, 711 Jackson street, city. FOR SALE One set of heavy double harness in good condition. Apply proprietor Brunswick Hotel, Oregon City. FOR SALE Complete house-moving outfit, cjieap. Address "G" care En terprise. FOR RENT. FOR RENT Furnished and unfur nished light housekeeping rooms. 110 Seventh street. 6t WOOD AND COAL. OREGON CITY WOOD AND FUEL CO., F. M. Bluhm. Wood and coal delivered to all parts of the city. SAWING A SPECIALTY. Phone your orders. Pacific 3502, Home B 110. - FARM LOANS. FARM LOANS Dimick & Dimick, Lawyers, Or.egon City, Or. ATTORNEYS. O. D. EBY, Attorney-at-Law, Money loaned, abstracts furnished, land titles examined, estates settled, gen eral law business. Over Bank of Oregon City.. U'REN & SCHUEBEL, Attorneys-at- Law, Deutscher Advokat, will prac tice in all courts, make collections and settlements. Office in Enter prise Bldg., Oregon City, Oregon. INSURANCE. E. H. COOPER, For Fire Insurance and Real Estate. Let us handle your properties we buy, sell and exchange. Office in Enterprise Bldg., Oregon City, Oregan. CLEANING AND PRESSING. CHICAGO TAILORS suits made to order from $10 and up. We also do cleaning, pressing and. repairing. Three doors south of postoffce. MUSICIANS. J. ALBA SAGER, teacner of wind and string Instruments, director of band and orchestra. WL1 furnish music for any occasion. Call at Electric Hotel. PIANO TUNING. PIANO TUNING If you . want your piano thoroughly and accurately tuned, at moderate cost, notify Piano-Tuner it Electric Hotel. Strongly endorsed by the director of the Philharmonic, who will per- sonally vouch for his work. NOTICES. NOTICE is hereby given that propos als will be received by the under signed at his office in Oregon City, Oregon, on or before Wednesday, January 31, 1912, for two hundred cords of first growth fir wood, to be delivered at the three public school buildings in Oregon City as the fuel committee may direct. Proposals should contain the time limit of de livery. The right to reject any and all bids is reserved. Board of Direc tors of School District No. 62, Ore gon City, Oregon. E. E. BRODIE, District Clerk. CITY NOTICES. Notice of Assessment for Water Street Improvement. Notice is hereby given that an assess ment for the improvement of Water street, Oregon City, Oregon, from the north side of Sixth street to" the south side of Seventh street has been levied and declared by Ordin ance No. 560 of Oregon City. The whole cost of said improve ment is $1,074.15 and the assess ments are now due and payable and will draw interest from and after January 26th, 1912, and will become delinquent "on the 26th day of Feb ruary, 1912, after which time the property against which this assess ment is levied may be sold for the assessment, and a further penalty of fifteen per centum added. The property assessed for said Improvement lies on the east side of said part of said Water street proposed to be improved and the line of lots abutting on said part of said Water street farthest from said part of said Water street and said part of said Water street. L. STIPP, Recorder. Ordinance No. . An Ordinance establishing the grade of Center Street, Oregon City, Ore gon, from the North side of Ninth Street to the South side of Tenth -Street. Oregon City does ordain as fol lows: - NOT EXPENSIVE Treatment at Hot Lake, including medical attention, board and bs.ths, costs no more than you would pay to live at any first class hotel. Rooms can.be had from 75 cents to $2.50 per day.- Meats in the cafeteria are served from 20 cents up and in the grill at" the usual grill prices. Baths range from 50 cents to $1.00. Wc Do Cute Rheumatism HOT LAKE SANATORIUM HOT LAKE, OREGON. WALTER M. PI ERCE. Pres.-Mgr. $685 FORD $685 I am exclusive dealer for this car and parts in Clackamas and Marion counties. I am exclusive dealer for Firestone Tires in Clackamas and Marion counties. I am exclusive agent for French Auto Oil in Clackamas and Marion counties. I conduct a wholesale and retail business. C. A. ELLIOTT Main, near Fourth. OREGON CITY, OR Phones A-72. Main 119. Section 1. The grade of Center Street, Oregon City, Oregon, from the North side of Ninth Street to the South side of Tenth Street, is hereby established at the following described grade: Commencing on the North side of Ninth Street at an elevation of 214.00 feet thence on a descending grade to the South side of Tenth Street at an elevation of 197.6 feet. Read first time and ordered pub lished at a special meeting of the City Council held on the 10th day of January, 1912. L. STIPP, Recorder. Patronize our advertisers. LOWciAPPLES ARE HARD TO FIND Cheap priced apples are very scarce. Stock that wholesalers can sell at $1.25 per box is scarcely obtainable at this time. Even $1.50 apples are showing only in small numbers. Fruit that can be sold at $2 to $2.50 per box ia in very .good supply; in fact there is an abundance of this class of goods. The scarcity exists almost entirely in the cheaper class of offerings while much the heaviest demand is for this grade. On account of the limited stocks of 'low priced apples obtainable in nearby sections, the trade is making an effort to bring in fruit in some sec tions of Eastern Oregon and Idaho that ship to this market only when the price is very high and a shortage of home rgown goods exists. All through the apple market there is a marked increase in the buying, CASH in the hands of the wage-earner the temptation to spend it coming from every side. To seoure your cash and avoid temptation to spend, place it with , The Bank of Oregon City OLDEST BANK IN THE COUNTY D O LA TO URKTTK Prwddrnt V J. METHJt. Cashiat THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of OREGON CITY , OREGON CAPITAL. 50.0OO.OU Transacts a nral feank;ng Businas Stafford's Bargain Store SUCCESSORS TO EDDY & SON. More Tor the money. Best for the price. , Remember the little store on the corner, opposite Bank of Oregon City when in need of Dry Goods Ladies, Gents and Children's Fur nishings, Notions, etc. McCall's Patterns in stock. C. L STAFFORD, 608 Main St ; Hot Lake Mineral Baths and mud given under scien tific direction have cured thousands. Write for illus trated booklet descriptive" of Hot Lake Sanatorium and the methods employed. Hot Lake Sanatorium is acces sible as it is located direct ly on the main line of the O.-W. R. & N. railway, and special excursion rates are to be had at all .times. Ask agents. FORD but as heretofore the bulk of the busi ness continues in that stock that the average consumer can afford ,to buy. Prevailing Oregon City prices are as follows: DRIED FRUITS (Buying) Prunes on basis of 6 1-4 pounds for 45-50's. Fruits, Vegetables. - HIDES (Buying) Green hides, 5c to 6c; salters, 5 to 6c; dry hides, 12c to 14c; sheep' pelts, 25c to 75c each. Hay, Grain, Feed. HAY (Buying) Timothy, $12 to $15; clover, $8 to-$9; oat hay, best, $9 to $10; mixed, $9 to $12; alfalfa, $15 to $16.50. OATS (Buying) Gray, $27 to $28 wheat, $28 to $29; oil meal, $53; Shady Brook dairy feed, $1.25 per 100 pounds. FEED (Selling) Shorts, $26; roll ed barley, $39; process barley, $40; whole corn, $39; cracked corn. $40; bran $25. FLOUR $4.50 to $5.25. Butter, Poultry, Eggs. POULTRY (Buying) Heus, 10c to 11c; spring, 10 to 11c, and roosters, 8c. Butter (Buying) Ordinary" coun try butter, 25c to 30c; fancy dairy, 40c. EGGS Oregon ranch eggs, 30c to 35c. SACK VEGETABLES Carrots, $1.25 to $1.50 per sack; parsnips, $1.25 to $1.50; turnips, $1.25 to $1.50; beets, $1.50. POTATOES Best buying 85c to $1 per hundred. hundred; Australian, $2 per hundred. ONIONS Oregon, $1.25 to $1.50 per Lvestock, Meats. BEEF (Live weight) Steers, 5c and 5 1-2; cows, 4 l-2c; bulla, 3 l-2c VEAL Calves bring from 8c to 13c, according to grade. MUTTON Sheep, 3c and 3 l-2c; lambs, 4c and 5c. is a very slippery , article Opsn from 9 A. Is ? . ( Patronize our advertisers.