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MORNING ENTERPRISE
OREGON CITY, OREGON.
E. E. Brodie. Editor "and Publisher.
. "Entered as second-class matter Jan
nary 9, 1911, at the post office at Oregon
City, Oregon, under the Act of March
, 1879."
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
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Six Months, by "mail 1.50
Four Months, by mall 1.00
Per Week, by carrier 10
CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
Aug. 7 In American History.
1795 Birth in New York of- Joseph
Rodruiin Drake, poet, author of
"The American Flafr."J"The Cul
prit Fay." ete.: died 1820.
1898 Spain accepted the terms of
peace imposed by the United States.
1912 Theodore Roosevelt and Hiram
Johnson nominated for president
and vice president by the Progres
sive national convention at Chicago.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
Evening star: Jupiter. Morning
stars: Saturn. Venus, Mars. Mercury.
Close to the northwestern horizon five
stars of constellation Leo appear In an
irregular line, alone, about 9 p. m.
NAILING This week's Courier, In its
ONE LIE efforts to further be
smirch the county court, announces as
nearly as its "pied" type will permit
it that the "county owed $60,642.88 on
Friday, August 1." The Courier then
goes on a long and wordy ramble to
the effect that the county has got
"over $60,000 in debt in less than four
months," and wants to know where it
will be in eight months.
All of which is pretty good for The
Courier. It is about as near the truth
as The Courier has found itself in
many, many moons. As a matter of
fact the county is not in debt for $60,
000, nor any sum like it. At the pres
ent time it probably owes some $30,
000 that is today there are outstand
ing bills to the extent of about $30,
000 more than there is today in the
county treasury. But today there is
$32,813.96 available in the hands of
County Treasurer Tufts and when The
Courier's eight-months are up it is
worried about where the county will
be in eight months taxes will have
come in, and the chances are that the
county wont be in debt to any startl
Ingly noticeable extent.
It seems The Courier wants the
county to be out of debt all the time.
The Courier does not take into con
sideration the fact that such a happy
state is only enjoyed by tramps, who
haven't any credit, and w'ho therefor
can't get into debt. The county busi
ness, like all other business, is run
largely on credit, and work is ordered
done and paid for on the expectation
that the warrants will not be cashed
until annual or semi-annual tax pay
ments come in. The county doesn't
have to pay cash every time it builds
a bridge 'or lays a road, its credit is
good. Maybe The Courier, through un
familiarity with the credit system,
doesn't undertsand this.
However, taking The Courier's fig
ures at their face value, they don't
amount to so much after all. The
months of April, May, June, July, Aug
ust and September of each year are
the months when most of the road and
bridge work .is done in this county.
The other months are too wet. The
rest of the year the county only has
to meet such current expenses as sal
aries, county poor charges, widows'
pensions, and such things. But in the
six months enumerated it has to
charge up to itself a vast lot of im
provement work and accomplishment,
always with the expectation that this
work will be paid for shortly.
China Is the Land of Opportunity
By Dr. WILLIAM H, P. FAUNCE, President of Brown University
CHINA, as the center of the world's history now in the making, is
the MOST INTERESTING CORNER OF THE WORLD'S
STAGE, and the United States in particular should keep a watch
ful eye on what is going on there. "
In our relations with China, an exchange of ideas must come before
there is anv substantial exchange of goods. England and Germanv are
STUDYING THE CHINESE MARKET with an idea of giving to the
Chinese what they want. America must do the same thing. Before we
can open the gate of oriental trade we must open our minds to the
oriental point of view. . '
CHINA IS THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITY. THERE ARE SCORES
OF YOUNG MEN IN THE UNITED STATES NOW WEARING OUT
THEIR LIVES ON THREE LEGGED STOOLS WHO OUGHT TO BE
IN THE FAR EAST HELPING IN THE BIG WORK OF BRINGING
ABOUT THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WILL HAVE TO COME BE
FORE WE CAN REALIZE ON THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT CHINA
OFFERS THE UNITED STATES.
BUNGALOW
Good 5-room plastered bunga
low, full concrete basement.
About $100.00 of furniture,
good steel range; 2 cords of
wood; lot 66x105 on improved
street. Fine fruit trees, chick
en yard, 1 dozen hens. Good
lawn;' near high school. Price
$1,600.00, $750.00 cash balance
on time. Will accept lot to the
amount of $300.00 in trade.
Dillman & Howland
Weinhard Building
Now then, The Courier having found
out that the county is $60,000 "in
debt," or that it has outstanding, may
be, bills to that amount, it seems to
be a pretty good showing that the
couny could get through the first four
months of this usually expensive per
iod and not get any further "in debt,"
as The Courier puts it.- It doesn't
show extravagance to spend only such
a sum for public improvements in
four months, it doesn't show incom
petency, or any of the other things
that The Courier says "you should
worry" about. It doesn't show any
thing, in fact, ex,. that the county
is going on running its business as
it usually runs it, with a strict regard
to the interests of the public.
The only things that The Courier's
outburst show are that The Courier
isn't familiar with the usual system
of business credit, that The Courier is
trying to manufacture some charge
against the county court that will have
at least a semblance of truth, that The
Courier doesn't tall the truth when it
says the county is "$60,000 in debt,"
because striking a balance today, as
a clerk would in any business, show:,
that actual liabilities are only about
half that sum, and that The Courier
is pretty hard pressed for "dope"
when it tries to make a sensation out
of such things.
OLD WAYS Ninety-eight years ago
AND NEW today a certain gentle
man of Corsican nativity boarded a
British war vessel known as the
"Northerumberland," and set sail for
the bleak and dreary island of St.
Helena. The gentleman's name was
Napoleon Bonaparte. This . particular
trip that he took was the last he made
until death claimed him, after which
his remains traveled back again to
that dear France, and a nation that he
had helped to put u-pon the map hon
ored him with a large and beautiful
tomb, that is now the mecca of tour
ists and lovers.
All of which is a matter of history.
And incidentally it has a moral. Peo
ple refer to the days of Napoleon as
days of less enlightenment than those
of the present. They say that things
were not so well balanced. Yet what
action of today can compare, for neat
ness and effectiveness, with the ban
ishment of the Great Conquerer? It
was not cruel, in the general sense.
The rest of the world did not put
Napoleon to death. It simply effaced
him from the political and military
spheres of the times, gave him no
physical torture, no physical punish
ment. Only as a leader did it blot
him out as a man it left him in fairly
comfortable circumstances.
Why might not some such method
be adopted in these days of excessive
boasting as to humanity? Why not,
for instance, quietly .gather in the
fighting Mexican leaders, and gentlj
transport them to some secluded nook
in the Sulu isles, and there let them
lives out the balance of their lives
plotting revolution in dreams to their
heart's content? Why talk of going
to war with them, or of forcible re
straint in prisons drear, or of jump
ing on them by other modern meth
ods? They are none of them as great
OREGON CITY.'OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 8, 1913.
in their achievements as the Corsican
gentlman above mentioned, and
should not be difficult to handle. The
gentle effacement that worked in his
case should work in the case of lesser
adventurers. Why not try it for a
change.
"THIS IS (MY 74TH BIRTHDAY"
Nelson A. Miles
Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, U. S.
A., retired, who has been making per
sonal observations of the war in the
Balkans, was born at Westminster,
Mass., Aug. 8, 1839. In hisyouth he
clerked in a store in Boston. At the
beginning of the Civil war he enlis'ed
as a volunteer and shortly afterward
was commisioned lieutenant colonel
of the Sixty-first New York Volun
teers. At the age of 22 he became
colonel of his regiment. He was
wounded three times and was present
at all the important engagement in
the campaign of the army of the Po
tomac up to the surrender of Gen. Lee
at Appomattox. After the war Gen.
Miles entered the regular army as
colonel. In 1871 he married the daugh
ter of Gen. William T. Sherman. Af
ter his marriage Gen. Miles was sta
tioned on the western frontier, where
he made a great reputation in cam
paigns against the Indians. He was
commissioned brigadier-general in
1880, and upon the retirement of G n.
Schofield in 1895 he became the head
of the United States army, being the
first officer who enlisted as a volun
teer soldier to attain that honor. .In
1903 Gen. Miles was retired from ac
tive service with the rank of lieutenant-general.
Congratulations to:
J. Alfred Spencer, editor of the
Westminster Gazette, 51 years old to
day. Charles S. Diehl, publisher of the
San Antonio'Light, 59 years old to
day. Prof. Samuel B. Christy, famous
metallurgist and head of the depart
ment of mining of the University of
California, 60 years old today
IT NEVER COMES AGAIN.
There a e I gains for all our
losses,
There are balms for all our
pain.
But when youth, the dream, de
parts It takes something from our
hearts.
And it never comes again.
We are stronger and are better
Under manhood's sterner reign.
SHII we feel that something
sweet
Followed youth with flying feet
And will never come again.
Something beautiful is vanished.
And we sigh for it in vain.
We behold it everywhere
On earth and in the air
But it never comes again.
Richard Henry Stoddard.
Sawdust as a Fire txtinguisne.
Every one knows how hard it is to
extinguish a fire of certain inflamma
ble liquids, such as varnish, lacquer
and gasoline. People generally use
sand, but some one lately discovered
tbat sawdust is better. In several
trials even a thin layer of sawdust
proved to be sufficient, and it did not
make any difference whether the saw
dust was wet or dry or fronv hard
wood or soft wood. To put out the
same fire with sand took a larger
quantity of material and a longer time.
Exchange.
MAN WHO ARRIVES.
The man who arrives is the
inau who has will, who has a
vision and looks Into the future
to make life worth while. In
business he is not satisfied to do
the work that is before uim He
will do the work of the other
man He can do two men's work
as well as one the kind of man
who goes to school at night
to better his position He is the
kind of man you cannot down,
the kind of man Paul was, for If
there ever was a man to arrive
it was certainly Paul. J. D.
Rockefeller. Jr
Wants, For Sale, Etc
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vertise for work, can have the use
of our want columns free of charge.
This places no obligation of any
sort on you, we simply wish to be
of assistance t any worthy person.
HOW would you like to talk with
1400 people about that bargain you
have in real estate. Use the En
terprise, -
Mrs. Cornwallis-West Wins
Right to Resume Old Name
- mA$ ' r'v ,
HER name will now appear In the society columns as Lady Randolph
Churchill. Mrs, George Cornwallis-West, daughter of the late
Leonard Jerome of New York, won her divorce from her young hus
band, George Frederick Mydleton Cornwallis-West, and will resume
her former married name. She Is the mother of Winston Churchill, first lord
of the British admiralty. She Is one of the leaders of American society women
In London, and her marital troubles recently led to the report that she would
sue for divorce. She charged her husband with misconduct and with desertion
LOST AND FOUND
LOS-Between lacksburg and Can
by, ady's rain coat. Finder please
P:av3- at Irrigator offic- or Macks
burg store. Mrs. A. A. Baldwin.
LOST Saturday, August 3rd light
gray tai'ired jacket on Molalla
road. Leava at this office.
HELP WANTED FEMALE
WANTED Experienced housekeeper,
good wages. Mrs. Frank Busch,
City.
MISCELLANEOUS
WANTED Ten hop-pickers. Write or
phone at my expense. A. A. Grinde,
Silverton, Ore.
CAPABLE woman would like plain
sewing and dress-making in country
home by the week. Address "X"
care Enterprise.
WANTED Middle agsd woman would
like work as housekeeper between
Oregon City and Portland. Ad
dress "C" care Enterprise.
! WANTED To trade lots In first-class
ni TT in !" "n O O o fi ynsm in or Vi mi oa l
si lj xlujiouo iw a a uuuiiug uuuou tn
Oregon City real estate. What
have you to offer? Inquire 311 J.
Adams St.
FOR RENT.
NICELY furnished housekeeping
rooms for rent, new building. Pa.
cific phone 1292 or inquire Seventh
Street Hotel on the hill.
FOR RENT Furnished downstairs
room for rent. Close in, 1007 Main
St.
FOR RENT Two clean rooms nicely
furnished, with sleeping porch, pat
ent toilet, electric lights, hot and
cold water. Mrs. Henry Shannon',
505 Division St., hack of Eastham
school.
FOR SALE.
GLADSTONE PROPERTY, For Rent
- One and one-half acres, good
barn, other outbuildings, - house
partly furnished throughout, piano
included, fruit trees, garden in,
shade trses; wi'.l rent for one year,
' six months in advance $14 per
month. This property is located, on
one of the most beautiful spots on
the Clackamas river. I also have a
5-room new bungalow with modern
convenisncss, including basement;
this would make an ideal home,- for
$12 per month. Come and see these
places. Gladstone" Real Escate as
sociation. Psrcy A. Cross, head
quarters at Gladstone.
PUPS FOR SALE Four hound pups,
will sell for $1.00 each. 2 months
o'd. Others sold for $5.09 do not
care to keep these longer. Have
one 10 months old, male, for $5.00.
Will daliver to Oregon City. Harry
Howe, Oregon City, Rt.- No. 2, Box
155.
FOR SALE House and corner lot.
724 Eighth and Jackson Streets,
City.
WOOD AND COAL
COAL . COAL
The famous (King) coal from Utah,
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8"&M&fe sHSaJsmkiJ''
free delivery. Telephone your or
der to A56 or Main 14. Oregon Ciiy
Ice Works. 12th and Main Streets.
OREGON CITY WOOD & FUEL' CO.
Wood and coal, 4-foot and 16-inch
lengths, delivered to all parts of
city; sawing especialty. Phone
your orders -Pacific 1371, Home
A120. F. M. BLUHM.
" NOTICES .
EXECUTRIX'S NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the under
signed has been duly appointsd Ex
ecutrix of the last will and testa
ment of John F. O'Dell, deceased,
and any and all persons having
claims against the said estate must
present them to the undersigned,
duly verified, at the office of my
Attorneys, Dimick & Dimick, in Ore
gon City, Oregon, on or before the
expiration of six months from the
date of this notice.
Dated this 17th day of July, A. D..
1913.
HESTER M. O'DELL,
Executrix.
DIMICK & DIMICK.
Attorneys for Executrix.
ORDINANCE NO.
An Ordinance declaring the assess
ment for. the improvement of Main
street, Oregon City Oregon, from the
north side of Moss street to the
south end of the Abernethy bridge.
Oregon City does ordain as follows:
Section 1. The assessment for
the improvement of Main street,
Oregon City, Oregon, from ths north
side of Moss street to the south end
of the Abernethy bridge has been
levied and declSred according to
assessment rod No. 21, New Series,
and the whole cost thereof is $12,
338.22. Section 2. Whereas the condition
of said s .reet was and is dangerous
to the health and safety of the pub
lic and it. is necessary for the im
mediate protection of the health and
safety of the said public that this
ordinance shall take effect and be
in force immediately upon its ap
proval by the mayor.
Read first time and ordered published
at a regular meeting of the city
council held on the 6th day of Aug
ust, 1913, and to come up for sec
ond reading and final passage at a
special meeting of the city council
to be held on the 20th day of Aug
ust, 1913, at 9 o'clock p. m.
L. STIPP, Recorder.
ORDINANCE NO.
An Ordinance reducing the size of the
alley running through block one
. hundred thirty (130) of Oregon City,
Oregon, from 26 feet in width to 10
feet in width, and vacating a strip
on each side of said alley the length
of said alley and 8 feet in width and
attaching each of said strips to lots
adjacent thereto.
Oregon City does ordain:
That the size of the alley running
thr-urh block cne hundred thirty
(130) in Oregon City, s ate of Ore
gon, be and the same is hereby re
duced from 26 feet in widih to 19
feet in wid h ; that a strip from each
side of said alley and the length of
the same and 8 feet in width be
and the same is hereby vacated, so
as to leave said aliey 10 feet in
width; and that each of said strips
8 feet wide be and the same is
hereby attached to the lots in said
block adjacent thereto and made a
part of the same. -
Read first time and ordered published
at a regular meeting of the city
' council held on August 7th, 1913,
By Gross
WE REPAIR ANYTHING
AND EVERYTHING
MILLER-PARKER COMPANY
Next Door to Bank of Oregon City
and to come up for second reading
and final passage at a special meeU
ing of the said city council to be
held on the 20th day of August,
1913, at 9 o'clock a. m.
L. STIPP, Recorder.
ORDINANCE NO.
An Ordinance authorizing the mayor
and city recorder to enter into a
contract for and in behalf of Ore
gon City, Oregon, wdth the property
owners, owning property abutting
on Division street, outside of the
city limits, for the improvement of
Division street from where it inter
sects the Fisher claim line to the
city limits northward" to 16th street.
Oregon City does ordain as follows :
Section 1. That the condition of
Division street from where it inter
sects the Fisher claim line, and the
city limits, northward to 16th St.
is in such a condition as to demand
immediate repair and improvement,
and that the abutting property is
outside of the city limits of Oregon
City, and the same cannot be im
proved by the city and the costs
thereof assessed to the persons own
ing property abutting to the same,
and the property owners 'owning
property abutting on Division street
desire to have the same improved
at their expense and have consent
ed thereto, and that plans and spe
cifications have been prepared by
the city engineer's office which
have been approved by the said
property owners and are now on
file in the recorder's office of Ore
gon City, "Oregon, and are hereby
approved. That the said property
owners have consented to pay for
the said improvement at a rate of
10 per cent, each year, with inter
est thereon at 6 per cent, and that
the mayor and recorder are hereby
authorized to enter into a contract
with the- said property owners to
improve and repair the said street
according to the said plans and spe
cifications, and defray the costs
thereof, out of the road fund of
Oregon City, which said expense is
to be paid by said property owners,
to Oregon City, at the rate of 10
percent each year with interest
thereon at the rate of 6 per cent
per annum, until the same is paid,
said contract to provide that the
costs of said improvement be a lien
upon the said property and upon
failure of the property owner to pay
the same, the city can foreclose the
said lien and sell the said property
in satisfaction of the same.
Section 2. The condition of said
Division street is in such state as
to he impassible and that the prop
erty owners, living thereon, have no
ingress or egress from the said part
of the city except by the said street,
it is therefore necessary to pre
serve the health and safety of the
inhabitants of Oregon City, that the
said improvement be done immedi
ately ; an emergency is therefore de
clared to exist, this ordinance to be
in full force and effect upon its ap
proval by the mayor.
Read the first time and ordered pub
lished, at a regular meeting of the
city council held on the 6th day of
August, and to come up for second
reading and final passage at a spe
cial meeting of said city council to
be held on the 20th day of August,
1913, at 9 o'clock a. m.
L. STIPP, Recorder.
NOTICE TO WATER CONSUMERS
Hours for using hose are 6 to. 8 a. m.,
and 6 to 8 p. m. for residences; 7
to 9 a. m. and 2 to 4 p. m. for stores,
as shown by sprinkling permits.
Water will be turned off without
further notice on premises of all
consumers found using hose outside
of these hours and fee of $.50
charged for turning it on.
By order of the hoard.
E. H. COOPER
Collector.
ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE
Notice Is hereby given that the under
signed administrator of the estate
of Clara B. Evans deceased, has
filed his final account herein with
i tis easier to open a bank account
new than it is to suffer, the regret
that you didn't when loss comes.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
D. C. LATOURETTE, President.
THF PTPQT NATTniSIAT iRAfJIf
OF OREGON CITY, OREGON
. - CAPITAL $50,000.00
Transacts a General Banking Business. - Open from A. M. to 3 P. M
HENRY JR. SAYS
'5Me To
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the county clerk of Clackamas coun
ty Ore., and the county judge has
set Monday, Sept. 8th, 1913, at the
hour of 10:00 o'clock a. m. at the
county court room of said county
and state as the time and place for
hearing objections to said final ac
count and for the final settlement of
said estate.
C. W. EVANS,
Administrator.
O. D. EBY,
Attorney for Administrator.'
Dated August 8, 1913.
NOTICE OF MEETING OF VIEWERS
to assess damages and benefits
for establishing a street on the
bluff between Sixth and Seventh
streets.
Notice is hereby given the city coun
cil of Uregon City, Oregon, at spe
cial meeting thereof held on the
29th day of July, 1913, at 9:30
o'clock a. m., appointed three dis
interested free holders, of said Ore
gon City possessing the quality of
jurors of the Circuit court of said
Clackamas county, to-wit: O. D.
Eby, W. A. White and Fred Mc
Causland to view the following de
scribed proposed street, to-wit: All
of the property lying between and
west of the following described line:
and the bluff lying in lots 1, 2, 3 and
4, block 34, Oregon City, Clackamas
county, Oregon. ,
Beginning at a point two (2) feet
southerly from the N. E. corner of
lot 1, block 34, and on the property
line of High street; thence 5 feet
on a line 45 degrees to the right
from High street to the B. C. of a
curve having a radius of 331.1 feet;
thence on said curve 245.2 feet,
more or less to the E. C. (said curve
to have a central angle of 42 de
grees, 36 minutes) ; thence on a
tangent to said curve at said E. C.
48 feet more or less to the north
line of Sixth street, at a point 103
feet from the west line of High
street.
And make an assessment of the
damages to the property proposed
to be appropriated therefor and also
an assessment of benefits to said
property benefitted by the opening
, of such street, and the said city
council assigned Monday the 18th
day of August, 1913, at 1:30 o'clock,
. p. m. at lots 1, 2, 3 and 4, block 34,
as the time and place of such meet
ing and directed that notice should
be given as required in Section 60
of the city charter by publication in
the Morning Enterprise Friday the
8th day of August, 1913.
By order of the Council of Ore
gon City, Oregon.
L. STIPP, Recorder.
PROPOSALS INVITED
Sealed proposals will be received at
the office of the undersigned in Ore
gon City, Oregon, on or before Mon
day, August 11, 1913, at 6 o'clock p.
m., for the removal of the Barclay
gymnasium building from its pres
ent location to a point adjoining the
alley north of the Barclay school
building. The gymnasium building
must be placed on a sold foundation,
and all debris must be removed
from the present location. The right
to reject any and all bids is re
served. By order of the board of directors
of school district No. 62, Clackamas
county, Oregon.
E. E. BRODIE,
District Clerk.
PROPOSALS INVITED
Sealed proposals will be received at
the office of the undersigned in Ore
gon City, Oregon, on or before Mon-
.. day, August 11, 1913, at 6 o'clock
p. m., for furnishing and installing
toilets and urinals in the Barclay
and Eastham school buildings in
Oregon City. Plans and specifica
tions may be obtained from the un-,
dersigned. The right to reject any.
and all bids is reserved.
By -order of the board, of directors
of school district No. 62, Clackamas
county, Oregon.
E. E. BRODIE,
District Clerk.
F. J. MEYER, Cashier.