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
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Blx Months, by mall l.M
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CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER.
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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.
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Sporty Amer
ican of Today
Poor Specimen
Beside
Pilgrim Ancestor
HEN I see murderesses
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M'CUMBER, of North
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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
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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.,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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