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VOL. I. OREGON CITY, CLACKAMAS COUNTY, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1903. No. 23- CANSTANDNOMORE PAPER MILLS CANNOT AFFORD INCREASE WAGES. TO Nearly All Eastern Mills Are On Two-Shift Basis and the Pay of Men In all Cases Is Considerably Less Than Scale Here. Whether or not a demand is made upon the Willamette Pulp & Paper Company and the Crown Paper Com pany by their employes, who are mem bers of the federal labor union, for a increase in wages and shorter hours, it is extremely improbable that the mills will accede to any such demands. The companies state they cannot af ord the raise on account of the sharp competition of eastern mills, where the average wage of a paper mill em ployee is $1.87 a day, compared with 1.75 here. In no partlof the Oregon City paper mills is a wage log's than 91. 75 paid, while in the east some of the laborers are paid as low as $1.25. The officers of the company deny that eastern mills are on a three shift basis. A few of them may be, but their all of the pulp mills are two-shift mills. In some instances where the experiment was tried of putting the mills on a three-shift basis, the men themselves became dissatified because the wages were less and asked to go back to two shifts. , The impression that the wages were increased a year ago on account of the organization of federal labor union is said to be erroneous and the compan ies call it an unfortunate circumstance as it has evidently misled many of the men to believe that the union was accountable for the increase. As a matter of fact, so says the company, the increase was contemplated several months before the formation of the union and the fact that it was made effeotive four days after organization is merely a conicidence. The sole reason for the raise of wages was the increased cost of living. An officer of he Willamette Pulp & Paper Com pany says: "The largest item in the cost'of pro ducing paper is labor. In fact it is consiberably larger than all the other expenses of operating. Within the past ten days the eastern paper trust has reduced the price of paper deliver ed on the Pacif io Coast one-half cent a pound, simply because the ex tremely low coBt of labor in the east is more than offset by the freight rates Vhich the trust is able, by means best known to itself, to obtain. We are not in the newspaper trust, al though overtures have been made to us to go into it. There are many other reasons whv it is impossiable lor us to grant a wage increase or to divide the work of the mills into three shifts of eight hours. " , Assistant Secretary M. Rosenbaum, of the Crown Paper Company, regard ing the proposed demand, says : "I was not aware that our men Were dissatisfied. We raised the wages voluntarily last year and we are pay ing all now that our business will justify. The price of wood for paper pulp has advanced 60 per cent within the past few years and the price of paper has declined 10 per cent. I would be happy to concede higher wages if our business would stand it, but at present it cannot. If the wages de manded are so high that we cannot pay them our only course would be to shut down the mills. - "The paper mills of the Pacific Coast do not belong to any combine and each company is acting independ ently of the other. We have to meet the paper mills of th east, who have a 75 cent rate . to the coast on their product, while they can obtain pulp much cheaper than we can. We only manufacture wrapping paper and our field is limited to the coast. We do not ship east or to foreign countries. ' LUMBER COMPANY INCORPORATED. Controls 800 Acres of Fine Timber at Boring Junction. O. A. Palmer, A.J. Linton and Ralph R. Duniway Friday incorporated the Boring Junction Lumber Company, with a capital stock of $25,000, divided into 2500 shares. The principal place of business of the company is at Bor ing, a station of the line of the Oregon Water Power & Railway Company. The property of the company consists of a mill and the site on which it stands, about four acres. The mill was coustructed by O. A. Palmer, who owns about 800 acres of timber, con taining a large amount of fine yellow fir. The mill now has two engines bat the plant will be increased. Among the objects of the company are to carry on a general sawmill, lumber and logging business, buy, sell and lease lands and personal property, run board ing houses, hotels and feed stables, blacksmith shop ; to borrow and loan money, with and without mortgage securities ; to build and operate rail roads, tramways, flumes and chutes and to buildwagon roads. Boring has never had a postoffice but one is soon to be established there. Tony Foster has been apointed post master and as soon as his bond is filed and approved, the paraphernalia of the. office will be sent out. The people of Boring formerly received their mail at Powell's Valley, four miles away, but that office has been abolished and the address of the Boring people is now Gresham, Ore., Rural Free De livery, No. 5. The Oregon City Planing Mill Com pany was incorporated Friday with F. S. Baker, Margaret Baker and J. L. Barry as incorporators. The capital stock is $2500, divided into 250 shares at $10 per share. The principal place of business is Oregon City and the ob jects of the corporation are to engage in lumbering, logging and general contracting and building business ; to acquire, operate and sell water rights and franchises ; to buy and sell saw mills, planing mills and lumber yards ; to manufacture, deal in and sell build ing material of every description j to raft, drive, tow and boom logs and other timber products for itself and others "and for that purpose to clear out and improve rivers in Oregon and elsewhere.;, . The principal stockholder of the company, F. S. Baker, hns been in the planing mill and contracting business in this city for several years past. FINE FARM LAND PRODUCTIVE COUNTRY ABOUT THE NEW TOWN OF BORING. Lumber Industry Attradtng Attention ol Cap italFree Delivery Routes Established ' and Roads Are In Good Condition. SPRING AT LIBERAL. Shont Breaks a Glaaa. Every one knows that windows will rattle when a loud noise is made In a room, but very few persons know that a glass can be broken by shouting Into it Any ordinary glass which has a clear tone will do for this trick, and the ex act nature of its tone can readily be ascertained by passing a moistened finger around Its rim., This point be ing settled, the performer should hold the glass in front of his mouth and shout Into It In a tone about an octave higher than that of the glass. The re sult will be that the glass will break Immediately, and for the reason that It will not have strength enough to re sist the force exerted against it by the waves of air. The thinner the class Is the more easily it will be broken. The Heat of LiTa, ' The lava streams from the eruption of Vesuvius In 1858 were so hot twelve years later that steam issued from their cracks and crevices. Those that flowed from Etna in 1787 were found to be steaming hot Just below the crust as late as 1840. The volcano Jorullo, In Mexico, poured forth In 1759 lava that eighty-seven years later gave off columns of steaming vapor. In 1780 It was found that a stick thrust into the crevices instantly ignited, although no discomfort was experienced in walking on the hardened crust. , Frank F. Baker was committed to the insane asylum Thursday afternoon by County Judge Ryan and taken to Salem Thursday night by Deputy Sheriff S. J. Burford and Fred A, Polk. Baker has been a fireman in the Willamette Paper mill for two years past. He is 80 years of age and his insanity resulted from typhoid fever, which he contracted last De cember. Thorough Work. - Mrs. Toungwlfe A friend has sent me a basket or quinces, ana i uon i know how to use them. Mrs. Oldwlfe Nothing is simpler. Pare and core them, make preserves of the best pieces, marmalade of the oth ers, and jelly of the cores ana peelings. Mrs. Toungwlfe Well I declare! And what shall I make of the basket they came In? New York Weekly. - Hypocrite. n despise a hypocrite," says Boggs. "go do L" says Cloggs. "Now, take Kaoggs, for example. . He's the biggest hypocrite on earth. I despise that man." "But yon appear to be his best friend." "Oh, yes; I try to appear friendly to ward him. It pays better In the end." BORING, March 20. (Special) Boring, the 'new town about whieh so much is being written of late, is situated twenty miles southeast of from Portland on the O. W. P. & By. Co. 's Portland-Springwater line. This section of Clackamas County has Loan noted for a number of years for its large yeilds of grain and pota toes and prosperous farmers in general. The farm that produces the most bush els of grain and potatos in Clackamas County is located here, being that of Vetsch & Sons. The farm contains four hundred acres, about one hundred and sixty being in cultivation. In addition to the above mentioned crops, enough hay is grown for sixty-five milk cows and a number of young cattle. On the farm is also located what is ' known as the Damascus Creamery which converts the cream into butter. Besides making their own cream into butter, Vetsch & Sons are buying the cream from the sur rounding country ; their butter being always of the highest quality. It com mands the top market price at all times. There are also several other compar atively large farms besides a number of. smaller ones near Boring. Of late the lumber industry has at tracted the attention of capital. O. A. Palmer has a large sawmill at the place where the station of the new railroad will be built. This sawmill is on the north fork of Deep Creek. On the south fork of Deep Creek L. G.rlinsger is putting in what will be the largest sawmill in the . county. Other parties are locking for mill sites or buying the timber with a view to sending the logs to market on the rail road. Up to within a short - time people looked on the timber as if it were af curse but now the thing has changed, timber is worth money for both lum-1 ber and cordwood. - As to the quality of the soil it is safe to say that there is no section of Oregon that produces better hay, grain potatoes and fruit with th i exception of peaches and some varieties of grapes. The roads are in a fair cdndiiton, this is shown by the fact that Uncle Sam has established rural free delivery which serves most of the people. This is not a place where a man can make a fortune in a day, week, or" month but if a man is not afraid to pitch in and work there are as good opportunities here as anywhere, land is still comparatively cheap and there is room for a great many families. If yon, reader, are looking for a place to locate we want you to consider Boring as a possible place for a home. We have the following inducements to offer : Cheap land, good roads, pros- imity to a railroad, rural free deliv ery, good schools, plenty of good water at a very reasonable depth, a healthy locality, no malaria or kindred dis eases here, productive soil, and if you desire to work out plenty of chances to do so. If those are not inducements enough for you at least give this sec tion a call, then, Qod bless you, go where you can find more of them. The firm of Johnson & Lamb has dissolved partnership, J. O. Sawyer purchasing the interest of Mr. John son, who has gone to Portland to work at the carpenter's trade. The new firm will be known as Lamb & Sawyer. The ladies of the Baptist Church will hold a sale of useful articles in the Sunday School room of the church April 17. Dinner, ice cream and cake will be served from 6 to 8 P. M. ILLEGAL FISHING Farmers Are Busy Putting In Their Crops. LIBERAL, March 20. (Special ) Spring has come and with it the farm ers are busy putting in thoir crops. Mrs. Newberry, who has been visit ing her sister, Mrs. Bingham, returned to Portland yesterday. Olis Morris is working for P. M. Graves sowing grain. ' W. A. Woodsid called on his daughter, Mrs. E. Dodge, and took his grandson home with him for a few days visit yesterday. Mr. Dodge and brother now have a shingle mill on the Delinger place, where they are cutting mostly white fir shingles, something new for Or egon, where cedar always has been so plentiful. Pierce Wright is head engineer in Dodge's mill and he now greets yon with a smile whenever you moet him. ""AT Reynolds has purchased a $150 horse from O. G. Morris. Mr. Reyn olds has had the misfortune to lose two of his best horses this Winter, and we wish him better luck in the future. Mr. Leerie Wiles and Miss Lydia Simmonds were married Wednesday morning at the home of the bride's parents. After a bountiful dinner they left for Gervais to visit relatives of the bride. Oak Grove school began Monday with Miss Stella Sumner, of Sunny side, as teacher. F. O. Klinger is confined to his bed with an abcess on his knee. Ira Morris is working in the shingle mill on the Vaughn place belonging to GraveB and Dodge. They cut an av erage of 20 to 25 thousand pel day. Mrs. Ott and daughter are .visiting Mrs. Ott's mother in Sellwood. Mr. Kummer has sold his farm and is preparing to move to LaGrande. ' Mrs. Dodge, of Oregon City, was visiting her sons Monday and Tuesday. Mrs. Skein's father and sister, of Gervais, visited her a few days this week. EXCITING EXPERIENCES OF WATER BAILIFFS. TWO Chased Fishermen Four Miles But the Vio lators Finally Got Away One Boat Over . hauled and Several Nets Seized. Clackamas County Record. $1.75. Late Saturday night Water Bailiffs W. W. Smith and O. F. Jones had an experience on the Willamette river in a chase for violators of the close sal mon season. Going down the Willam ette they captured four set nets. Spy ing a boat with three men in it, they gave chase and overhauled the boat. Two of the men ran the boat ashore and fled to the brusli and thfl third was captured, but was released and allowed to take his boat and net. All three of the men are known and their cases will come before Deputy District Attorney Campbell. Seven salmon were siezad and sold to a local fish dealer. Later at night the bailiffs sighted another boat with two men in it and pulled away after it. For four miles up and down and across the river the bailiffs pulled and at one time were within ten feet of their intended prey, but the fishermen were in a light boat and when the bailiffs would gain on them down stream, the pursued would put about and up the river they would go.. Finally one of the bailiffs gave out and the men got away. There have been many violations of the fish law during the past weeks and the bailiffs are determined that illegal fishing must be stopped. Fishing has been carried on in the Clackamas river and some of the fishermen are known to the bailiffs, who will exhaust every effort to catch the offenders. Violations of the law are becoming so flagrant that the water bailiffs are going to adopt measures that will in sure the prevention of fishing for sal mon out of season. Ten days ago they1 came upon a trap gun on the bank of the Clackamas river. They tripped a string and the gun was fired point blank at them from the brush. They examined the weapon, wliach proved to be in the nature of a small cannon. . A. large galvanized gas pipe had been fastened between two blocks of wood and fillod witli powder and the dis charge frightened them out of several years' growth. Action to Recover Possession. On Saturday Inez Grimm filed an action in the Circuit Court against Clark Green to recover the possession to 160 acres of land in T. 7, S. R. 3 E. The land was sold to the county for the taxes for 1897, and certificate was assigned by the county to Green and he is now in possession of the prem ises. In this case the same questions are involved as in the caso of Jones vs. Hargreaves recently decided by Judge McBride in favor of the plaintiff, and holding that the tax deed was void. G. B. Dimick and G. L. Story appear as attorneys for plaintiff. Suit to Cancel Tax-Deed. A. suit was commenced in the Cir cuit Court on Monday by N. R. Gra ham against P. H. Marlay and Jessie K Marlay to cancel a tax deed to about 65 acres of land located on Elliot Prairie. The plaintiff demands judg ment against the defendants for a de cree compelling them to set up their answer the nature of their pretended claim ; that the same he canceled and held for naught j that plaintiff recover from the defendants his costs and dis bursments of the suit. G. B. Dimick and G. L. Story are'attorneys for plaintiffs. O. F. Vonderahe has brought suit against L. R. Janney, Charles Janney and James Thome to recover a sum ol money due on a promissory note. Judgment is asked for $300 principal, ' $40 attorney's fee, and 10 per cent in terest on the principal from July 20, 1893. Mayor G. B. Dimick visited his' old home near Hubbard yesterday, return ing last evening. "An Evening in Ireland" at Wil lamette Hall, Friday, March 27. Re freshments served. Lots of fun. Pro coeds for the Eastham Sohoo library. Everybody invited. ' ' ' Iat41memt. wurn-Somehow I have failed to meet with any success In my undertak ings. Brlggs That's easily accounted for. Bwlggs Well, whaf s the answer? Brlggs Too many bars In your way, A basket social and old-fashioned spelling school was held in the Park- place schoolhouse last Friday night. The affair netted 927, which will go toward lighting and seats in the as sembly room. The Mother's Club, of Parklace.will meet next Friday afternoon in the as sembly room of the schoolhouse and will be addressesd by Mrs. W. A. White, of this city. Court Robin Hood, Foretsers of Am erica, has elected John A. Moore del egate and M. P. Chapman alternate to attend the Grand Court of Foresters, which will be held in Astoria May 12. ivy FRANK BUSCH, The Housefurhishef w ----- - w FRANK BUSCH, The Housef uraisher ' Neighbor Tells Neighbor LM ., .TO I IB Beatie & Beatie, dentists, Weinhard building, rooms 16, 17 and 18. all over the country of the extraordinary offerings we tare making in all lines rep resented in this big store. You ought- to get your in formation at first hand ; you ought to see for yourself, and choose for yourself. In Yoar Favor When we weigh things for you, you get right count no. disadvantage on either side. But when we buy the hardware we see that the best quality is there for you. Pleasing Work. There are many points about the new Cauover Sewing Machine which will please the owner. They are simple in construction, but they do perfect work. It's easy to operate them and the seems are so even you can't expect to find better. Price $20.00. Five years guarantee. $3.85 Cents Will Bay 6 High Back Sitting Room Chairs! Why Be Withoct Them? A Complete Line whatever is needed for the kitchen pots, kettles, pans you find here. We are always looking for a better quality, which is why our stock contains only the very best. Tin, Iron, Nickel, Copper, Granite ware. You take your choice of material, but be sure and ask for our warranted granite ware. 25 cents will buy a nice pan of this ware. Linoleums. . Oilcloths, For kitchen, dining room, bath room, or back hall, you can't have any thing as good for floor covering as linoleum. It's strong and durable, fast colors, and will not scale or crack. It will save you scrubbing and your floor will look always clean. 65 cents per square yard. A CHEAPER COVERING is oil cloth. It won't hold it's color as well, nor last as long, but the price equalizes the matter. . ,85 cents perj square We are carrying the most artistic productions attainable and just now new stock is arriving daily. We assure you 60 cents will buy paper enough for a medium sized room. We are offer ing odds and ends of last year's stock for 5 cents a double roll Come early. FRANK BUSCH, The Hotfsefamislief FRANK BUSCH, The Hotiseftfrnisher jk OREGCN CITY - OREGON. C?