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MORNING ENTERPRISE, SUNDAY, MAY 11, 1913
A LOT BARGAIN
A beautiful lot located
ulock from 7th St on line Im
proved street, one block Irom
FaiTS' market, lays level and
all fenced; with barn and alley
adjoining. Price $700; $50
down, balance monthly.
E. P. ELLIOTT & SON
Seventh and Main St
LOCAL BRIEPS
Fred.Elwert was a court house vis
itor Saturday.
Earl Alphin, of Milwaukie, was in
town Saturday.
H. M. Mailer was in Oregon City
the latter .part of the week.
Hugh Jones, of Beaver Creek, was
in Oregon City Saturday.
Roy Danielson, of Boring, was at
the court house Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Barry made the
trip to Portland Saturday.
Fred Wourms, of Clairmont, was in
Oregon City over the week-end.
Don't forget Bithiah Concert, Meth
odist church, Wednesday evening.
O. J. Hull was transacting legal
business at the court house Saturday.
Constable Jack Frost made a trip
to Estacada Saturday on official busi
ness. M. H. Maher was a business visitor
in the county seat the last of the
week.
Edward Evanker,- road supervisor
of Oswego, was In Oregon City Sat
urday. J. E. Pomeroy, justice of the peace
of Sandy, was an Oregon City visitor
Saturday.
J. H. Graw, of Bolton, was among
the Saturday afternoon visitors to
the county seat.
Hear Mrs. Delphine Marx, soloist,
at Methodist church Wednesday
evening.
Clarence Johnson, of Clackamas,
was a court house vsitor the latter
part of the week.
J. B. Cook, a well-known farmer of
Oswego, was a county-seat visitor the
last day of the week.
Mrs. B. A. Sleight, of Portland, is
visiting Mrs. Wheeler Church, of
Gladstone over the week-end.
B. C. Linn, a pioneer settler of the
Garfield district, was in Oregon City
Saturday, visitng acquantlances and
transactng busness.
Mrs. Inman, of Oak Grover, former
ly Miss Harriet Hayes of this ctiy,
was visiting friends in the county
seat the latter part of the week.
C. A. Chambers, of Portland, well
known in Masonic circles, was a call
er upon the county clerk Saturday,
seeking papers of value to to him.
Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Freytag were
Saturday visitors to Sunnyside, where
Mr. Freytag took part in the "better
fruit" meeting held at the school
house.
Now is the time to set out plants.
Tomatoes, 10c a dozen; petunia's, 10c'
a dozen. See H. J. Bigger for potted
plants.
Mrs. Francis Gooding and Mrs. Ef
fie Rivenburgh and her son, Jack
Rlvenburgh, were guests at the home
of Frank Moore, of Greenpoint, the
latter part of the week.
Mrs. B. O. Dean, of Denver, Colo.,
is spending a short visit with her
mother and fathef, Mr. and Mrs. H.
Gilbert. Mr. Dean may shortly join
his family here. The Deans have
been traveling through Nebraska and
Missouri but are thinking of settling
in Oregon.
Mrs. Harry L. Young, who has been
in the Oregon City hospital for the
past week, suffering from a light at
tack of appendicitis, was removed to
her home Saturday, where she is
resting comfortably.
Much desiring to avoid publicity, C.
A. Chambers, past master of Har
mony lodge, No. 12. F. & A. M., of
Portland, slipped into Oregon City
Saturday afternoon and obtained a
marriage license from County Clerk
Mulvey to wed Miss Mbrie Gettman.
Then apparently fearing that the
secret might leak out, he departed
elsewhere in search of a minister to
perform the ceremony.
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Bookkeeping
Opens June 16, at Oregon City,
Oregon
Four Months $35.00
Let us explain the "hows'
and "whys" everything you
wish to know. This class is'
' now being organized. If you
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you will write for information
today. Commercial Expert Com
pany, 1526 Oatman St., Portland.
contract, after careful investigation,
we discover the following facts: A
contract was entered into with a Mr.
Nease to cruise the timber of Clack
amas county; Mr. Nease to be paid
$51.20 per section on a basis of 1,000,
000 feet per section, saw timber to be
not less than 20-in. stump, 12-inch top
piling 12 to 20-in. stump, 8-inch top,
cruiser to have a 40 per cent range,
as to being accurate, and the only
penalty attached to a faculty cruise
of his timber, the court and the cruis
er sejfct a new cruiser, who will re
cruithe tract claimed to have been
improperly chruised and his decision
to be final, and, if a mistake is shown
above 20 per cent or below figures
given by the original cruise, then the
cruiser must pay for the cost of re
cruising the particular tract com
plained of; no other penalty what
ever and if the recruise only shows
any figures up to 20 per cent mistake
above or below, the man making com
plaint must foot the bill of recruising,
the. person making the complaint has
no voice in who shall be the new
cruiser, we find that a considerable
portion of the timber of 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 man by the
name of Boyle is 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 nountv naiii K 7-S rents I
per acre for cruising their timber,
that it cost Tillamook $45,000.00 to
cruise its timber, and Clatsop county
has entered into a contract to cruise
its timber for 12 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 een if the
timber crusing were considered good.
Month of October bill of R. B. ,
Beatie, 170 miles, $17.00, others like
it.
In the matter of the court house re- j
pairs, we una tnat accoraing to tne
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 what
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. Beatie
insisted on giving the job to Mr. Sim
mons, that Mr. Simmons told him
that he had the court house job a
month before bids were called for
that they, Mr. Lasell & 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 & Son's
plans, the court then rejected all
bids and hired JMr. 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. Beatie and
the two to let contracts for and "buy
material; we find cement was bought
from D. C. Roibns, 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 & 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 in cost of court
house should be as built compared
with Mr. Lasell & Son's plans.
(Here is inserted in the report a let
ter signed "W. A. W.." which states
that for the work were estimates at
$8,000, $9,000 and $15,000. The let
ter closes with the statement that
the writer believes the work could
have been done for $23,000 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
claimed as timber land, we found the
man mistaken, if he gave the right
40-acre tract, some others similar, but
have not had the time to verify 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 up 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 was put, he 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 $101,631.58. 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 of 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,1 we found the rec
ords in 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 nails 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 me a few minutes before, how
ever, we found that the county paid
from 10 cents to 30 cents per keg
more than any farmer could have
bought the same nails for.
In regard to the cost of cement we
hereby submit a letter from Notting
ham & Co., Portland, Ore., which
speaks for itself. We examined the
sales book of Nottingham & 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 5-barrel
lots, the county paid all the way from
$2.40 to $2.65. Price paid for ce
ment on repair of court house waa
$2.60 per barrel through D. C. Rob
bins. Nottingham & Co. letter to R.
Schuebel 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 lots,
lime was sold $1.15 per barrel and
G. G. 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
very expensive undertaking, such as
the timber cruise deal and the bridges
of importance, and that the court fol
low the law as to contracting .for
bridges. We feel that the court that
is unwilling to work along such lines
is unfit to serve 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 is 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 Btate 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 in this report.
On account of the vieious and un
truthful matters printed in The En
terprise the morning after the mass
meeting in regard to the actions of
your mass meeting committee, such
as that the committee had already de
cided on the report it would bring in;
also stating that the report might al
ready be written, we thought best to
ask the Live Wires to appoint a com
mittee to help look into the charges
preferred against the court, which
they did. We received this commit
tee with uncalloused hands and are
ready to return them in the same 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 hands to judge the merits of the
work of each committee and their
findings, but do recommend that the
taxpayers insist upon a more accur
ate way of keeping the records of the
transactions so any citizen of intell
igence could locate the cost of the
bridges from the records, which we
are satisfied no man living can do as
the accounts are now kept.
Respectfully submitted,
Ml J. BROWN,
Chairman,
R. SCHUEBEL,
Secretary.
S. L. CASTO,
Mass Meeting Committee.
of turf and small stones. It required
large forces of police to keep them
from being more roughly dealt with.
At Brighton the house wUere some
speakers took refuge was wrecked
by the mob, every window being
smashed.
England has launched the first-sea-going
vessel propelled by elec
tricity, several days ago on the Tyne
river. She is a 2,400 ton boat The
prime motive power is furnished by
oil engines; these drive dynamos,
and current thus generated is convert
ed into power by . motors attached to
propellors.
Sir George Kekewich. a prominent
medical authority, giving testimony
in a court case in London last week,
expressed the opinion that King Ed
ward's death was due to the indirect
result of blood poisoning by vaccina
tion. When the U. S. is enacting legisla
tion which may destroy the beet sug
ar industry, free-trade England is
taking the opposite tack, and is try
ing to encourage the same industry.
Following the example of France,
Germany and Russia, subsidies are
being arranged to aid planters who
are willing to try the crop. Over 300
farmers in the south of England took
up the idea last year. The beets
raised contained higher percentage of
sugar than those of continental Eu
rope. The English papers are now
predicting that before many years
England will be raising her own
sugar right at home. The" English
are the greatest sugar users in the
world, the people of the U. S., how
ever, being a close second.
From WILLIS ROCKWELL,
. Ambassador to England.
"AMBASSADOR TO
BRITAIN" TALKS
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TO THE BARCLAY SCHOOL
SENATE
Honorable President and Senators:
As far as I can find out the suffra
gettes have not destroyed any Ameri
can property. But as I said when I
took my office that I would, to the
best of my ability, protect and look
after the American interests in Eng
land and fulfill my office.
There has been lots of government
property destroyed by the suffra
gettes in England. Castles are being
blown up; schools burned. They are
painting up everything with their
signs. The other day they took pos
session of the monument near the
London bridge, which commemorates
the great fire of 1666. They barred
the door and ascended to the top,
where they displayed their banners
"Victory or Death." The worst of it
that one of the ex-members of parlia
men, whose name is George Lands
bury, a socialist, told in his speech
that the militants were taking exact
ly the right course, and that if they
would surely win their object. "If
one leader is taken away," said he,
"let a dozen other women take her
place."
"This is a war in which we will do
our best to preserve human life, but
will show no regard for property of
any kind" and this sentiment was
greeted with deafening cheers.
When the suffragettes undertook to
hold a big outdoor meting in London
Sunday against the law of the police,
they were driven to retreat by the
hostile yells of the mob and showers
MARKET'S TREND
New potatoes are now - bringing 3
and 4 cents a pound in Portland mar
kets, the price being forced down by
heavy receipts from the south. As
paragus is also . falling off. In price,
due to heavy shipments in. The
quality of "grass" is excellent how
ever. The salmon run is reported to be
lessening, and prices are therefore
stiffening a fraction. If the catch
continues to decrease, it is expected
a sharp advance in bids will follow,
as there is a heavy demand for the
fish.
Strawberries are getting cheaper
and better. State berries are forc
ing outside fruit from - the market
and the outlook for heavier receipts
is good. Rains have set the Willam
ette valley crop back, it is reported.
Eggs are still hovering around low
points, and no hope is held forth for
immediate rise in price.
FrulU
Eggs continue about the same, with
prices but a cent or two better than
last week and early this week.
APPLES 50c and $1.
DRIED FRUITS (Baying), PrasM
on basis 6 to 8 cents.
VEGETABLES
ONIONS $1.00 sack.
POTATOES About 20c to 40c f.
o. b. shipping points, per hundred,
slight demand in south at this price
f. o. b. shipping point
Butter, Eggs.
BUTTER (Flying), Ordinary coun
try butter 20 to 25c; fancy cream
EGGS Oregon ranch case count
16c; Oregon ranch candled 18c
Prevailing Oregon City prices are u
follows:
HIDES (Buying) Green salted, 6c
to 10c; sheep pelts 75c to $1.50 each.
Mohair 31c.
WOOL 17 to 18c.
FEED (Selling) Shorts $27; bran
$25; process barley $27.50 to $29.50
per ton. ' -
FLOUR $4.50 to $5.
OATS $22.00 to $27.00; wheat 93;
oil meal selling $38.00; Shay Brook
dairy feed $1.30 per hundred pounds.
Whole corn $30.00.
HAY (Buying) Clover at $8 and
$9; oai hay best $11 and $12; mix
ed $9 to $11; valley timothy $12 to
$13; selling alfalfa $13.50 to $17; Ida
ho and Eastern Oregon timothy sell
ing $19.50 to $23.
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