i J MORNING ENTERPRISE. FRIDAY, FEBBUARY 16, 1912. BALL PLAYERS PACKING TRUNKS Fans Become Nervous as Time For Training Trips Approach. . HOT SPRINGS TO BE MECCA. AytomoMe Contest No THE ENTERPRISE Four Team to Work Out Kinks and Cricks at the Resort Various Sys tems to Be Followed at Training - Camps. Within a few weeks the baseball campaigns of 1912 will be under way, with the beginning of the spring train ing trips of the big league clubs. AH of the sixteen clubs have selected their pilots, and all have chosen their pre season stamping grounds. Hot Springs, Ark., will be the lead ing antebellum spot in a baseball way this year. Four teams will work out the kinks and cricks of rusty muscles there, one American league outfit and three from the National. Jack Stahl will superintend the early work of the Boston Red Sox in the razorback re sort, while the National leaguers, Fred Clarke of Pittsburgh, Charlie Dooin of Philadelphia and Bill Dahlen of Brook lyn, will be on the job with their charges. It will be the first time in history that so many big league teams have been in action at one time in any sin gle city. Hot Springs Is First Choice. Hot Springs is an easy first in the race for popularity as a spring train ing camp. Next comes New Orleans. Two clubs will work out there, the Cleveland Americans under Harry Da vis and the Chicago Cubs under Frank Chance. St. Louis might be said to be tied with New Orleans for second hon ors, as the Mound City entries in both National and American leagues will do their preliminary conditioning on the home lot, the first time in recent years that a major league team has dispens ed with a southern trip. Connie Mack will take his world's champion Athletics to San Antonio, Jim Callahan will "Moses" the White Sox to Corsicana, Tex.; Harry Wolver ton will lead his New York Yankees to Atlanta, Ga.: Clark Griffith will con vene his Washington Senators at Char lottesville. Va.; Hank O'Day will take his Cincinnati Beds to Columbus, Ga., and Johnny McGraw will once more put the Giants through the paces at Marlin. Tex. The Boston Nationals will loosen up at Augusta. Ga. The systems of training that will be in vogue nt the baseball camps this spring offer a larger variety than ever before. In some cases the work will consist largely of general all round ex ercise to limber up the muscles of the men; in other cases practically all the time will be devoted to actual playing. Just about this time the air is atingle with rumors of big baseball trades im pending, and it is not unlikely thai, some deals will be put through before the beginning of the spring trips that will revolutionize the outlook for the championship races. Accordingly it is hard to form a definite line on how the teams will stack up against each other when the starting gun is Bred. But speculation is already noticeable among the fans as to who will win the pen nants in the two leagues. This is but human nature, however. Moreover, it indicates that the love of the fan for his favorite pastime is not of the kind, that is satisfied with Just six months of baseball. - When he can not see it or play it he must talk it So we already have heard prophecies nominating this or that team as the one to be watched next year. At this time last year the Athletics and Giants were generally picked to win the two pennants, and the predictions came true. The consensus seems to be In favor of the same teams this year. In the case of the Athletics it is for the same reason as before. They figure just about 100 per cent stronger than any SEEDS LAND PLASTER HAY GRAIN FEED POULTRY FOOD FLOUR HOUSE PLASTER LIME BRICK COAL CEMENT .HAMS BACON Oregon Commission Co ELEVENTH AND MAIN Oregon City, Ore. ST START EARLY AND SAVE 1000 VOTES EACH CANDIDATE ANNOUNCING HIS OR HER INTENTION TO EN TER THE CONTEST BEFORE SUN1 DAY THE 18TH CAN USE THE COUPON BELOW. - , '" -Iff -"T " I A 4 www - "s- - .. .X , - - REMEMBER EVERY ONE HAS AN EQUAL CHANCE. ALL YOU HAVE TO D IS HUSTLE, TEAR OFF THE COUPON ON OPPOSITE SIDE OF PAGE, MAIL OR BRING TfvTHIS OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE OREGON CITY, OREGON Please Enter the Name of. In your Automobile Contest, to start February 19, 1912. This coupon to count as 1,000. Sign here. OFFICE AND YOU WILL. BE GIVEN A BOOK. ONLY ONE OF THE COUPONS WILL BE COUNTED FOR EACH CANDIDATE. ANNOUNCEMENT WILL BE MADE EACH DAY AS TO THE STANDING OF ALL WHO TAKE PART. IF YOU ARE A LIVE ONE IMow other team in baseball. In the case cl the Giants it is different. The disinte gration of the Cubs is the chief thing that throws the Giants to the fore in the prognostications. The American league race looks like a walkover for the Athletics, with Detroits finishing second, while the Giants undoubtedly will be closely pressed by the Cubs, Phillies and possibly St. Louis, accord ing to the way the '"bugs" have it figured. TO DRIVE THREE ABREAST. Polly Parrott Will Be Raced to Pole With Crabtree's Champion Team. Lady Maud C. and Hedgewood Boy, pacers that hold the world's team rec ord of 2:02 and that have been rac ing under the colors of M. W. Sav age, are now in charge of their owner, W. C. Crabtree, at his home in Taylor ville, 111. Crabtree intends to race the horses as a team this year and also will drive them three abreast, using Polly Par rott, a daughter of Lady Maud, as tb third member of the team. Spike Shannon "Ail In." Spike Shannon, one time Giant out fielder, is all through as a ball player. He was with Danny Shay In Kansas City last season, but bis legs, once rated as fine a pair as almost any In the National league, gave but. He is spending the winter nights clerking at SbaVs hotel in Kansas. BOTH SIDES OF LIFE. One hall ol a successful life is action, the getting ol things done in the right way at the right time. But the othei hal! is no less useful en durance, patience, the bearing ol things tr.si are hard, the steadfast hoi:;ir.si io a difficult position. NOT EXPENSIVE Treatment at Hot Lake, Including medical attention, board and bfcths, 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. We Do Cure Rheumatism - 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. HOT LAKE SANATORIUM HOT LAKE, OREGON. WALTER M. PIERCE. Pres.-Iigr. Adopted. "These" said the author of a volume of poems, "are the children of my brain." "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne, "but such a large number of them are adopt ed children!" Washington Star. EXPERT DEFENDS PLANS FOR ROADS (Continued from rage 1.) "Briefly, the state highway fund bill provides that the proceeds of bonds s5ld by the State of Oregon and 66 2-3 per cent of license taxes on motor vehicles, shall be converted into a fund to be known as the state highway fund."" The bill further provides that 75 per cent of the fund so created shall be divided equally among the several counties of the state, and that the remaining 25 per cent shall be apportioned among the counties ac cording to their area in square miles. Now, as to the proposed $20,000, 000 state bond issue. This is an in dependent act of the state. No coun ty is obligated to issue bonds because the state does. It may persist in its present method of securing revenues for road construction, maintenance or repair. The state aid fund is created, however, for the help of the counties, and the counties are expected to co operate jn its utilization. "The interest bugaboo has been used to frighten the easily deceived by unscrupulous manipulators of fig ures. We are discussing the state bond issue, which is to be $20,000,000. It is to be issued at the rate of $2,000, 000 a year for ten years. It is the same kind of a bond issue as is made by the city or a business organization for an improvement that is expected to earn its own cost. "If no railroad company, for ex ample, had gone into debt to provide funds for betterments and extensions, we would not be enjoying our present transportation facilities. Every citi zent of the state is. a partner and stockholder in the great corporation known as the State of Oregon. "The bonds, each $2,000,000, run 30 years and draw interest at 5 per cent, payable semi-annually. For each $2, 000,000, then, there is a semi-annual interest charge of $50,000. "But the bonds do not draw interest until issued. The interest payments of the first year, therefore, would total $100,000. Interest on a second $2,000,000 in bonds the second year would be $100,000, and, with interest on the first $2,000,000, makes a total interest charge of $200,000. For each year up to and including the tenth year, would be an increase of $100,000 in interest." W. X. T. U EXPERT TO LECTURE HERE FRIDAY Bessie Laythe Scovell, secretary of the Young People's Branches of the Women's Chrstian Temperance Union in schools and colleges will lecture at the Baptist church at 8 o'clock evening. Mrs. Scovell is well known throughout the United States as a lecturer, and it is expected that a large crowd will hear her. The lec turer was born in England and came to this country when four years of age. She is a graduate of the, state university of Minnesota with a degree of bachelor of science. For Sale A lot of shafting, hang ers, pulleys and belting at about your own price.- Inquire of Mr. Cartledge, Enterprise office. I try butter, 25c to 30c; fancy dairy, 40c. EGGS Oregon ranch egg3, 25c to 27c. SACK VEGETABLES Carrots. Hotel Arrivals. The following are registered at the Electric Hotel: F. J. Morris, Port land; C. L. Pinkston, Portland; J. G. Mumpower, T. Svendsen, Toledo; R..C. Garrett 'and wife, Canby; B. Sullivan, S. M. Carruthers, L Kobat, Portland; Silas Wright, Liberal; B. Bevens, city; J. F. Rowland, E. J. Kitson, Philomath, Or.; F. D. Linds ley, city; Alfred Hollingsworth, Jack Epping, Eugene; B. H. Grant, Port land. , GOAT SHEARING WILL START IN TEN DAYS The go it shearing season will sctvt in the Willamette Valley within a week or ten days, weather permitting. The season has started in nortnern California ina limited way. Inquiries regarding the probable price of mohair are coming in but so far as known no contracts have been let. As a general rule the trade is pre dicting 30c as the opening price for 1912 mohair. This is fractionally un der the start of a year, ago, but the situation is said to be less firm. The weakness is due to the lowr market in South Africa, from where a large per cent of the world's supply of hair comes from. Some small sales of Arizona mo hair are reported at practically the same price as a year ago. The hair is shorn twice each year in that section and the stock is quoted at about two thirds on the price of the year's growth. In the Willamette valley and in northern California the goats are shorn once each year, but in south ern California the shearing is done twice. Therefore the price obtained at these points is not to be compared witb. other sections. One of the causes of the weaker feeling in the mohair trade has been the strike at eastern milling centers. This Jias curtailed the demand to a considerable extent. 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, 7c to 9c; salters, 5to 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, $28.50 to $29.50; 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; FLOUR $4.50 to $5.25. Butter, Poultry, Eggs. POULTRY (Buying) Heus, 10c to lie spring, 10 to 11c, and roosters, 8c. Butter (Buj.e Ordinary coun- $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 $1.10 per hundred. ONIONS Oregon, $1.25 to $1.50 per hundred; Australian, $2 per hundred. Lvestook, 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. P D IN OUR FACILITIES GROWTH BUSINESS WE HAVE " ALL TM AT Our modern printing and binding establishment would interest yo. 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