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About Eastern Clackamas news. (Estacada, Or.) 1916-1928 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 24, 1916)
Grant Lands Will Not Be Tlu* value o f a fire extinguisher as an accessory to automobiles, On Tax Roll w a s clearly demonstrated last County Assessor J. E. Jack Tuesday received a letter from Louis L. Sharp, chief o f the field division o f the general land office o f the department o f the interior, instructing him to take from I he tax rolls o f the county the Oregon & California grant lands. These lands total 98,20fi acres and are assessed at $1,148,000. The gov ernment is expected to pay delin quent taxes on the property. week, followingan accident on the Columbia River Highway, when a hurtling overturned car with two passengers pinned beneath, wa saved by the timely use o f a file extinguisher brought from a nearby machine. C. W. Devore o f Estacada has j been under the weather for a ! few days suffering from one of his periodic attacks o f malaria, but was able to attend council ! — Slay in Cleveland Leude». meeting held on his porch Tues- I day evening, when the council | settled the details relative to the issuance and disposal bonds in connection of with the j the | street paving. Sentences Featuring the Speech of Acceptence of Brief Cliurles I:. Hughes. America First and America Efficient. Wo are too great a country to re quire of our citi-ens who are engaged in |joacefui vocations the sort ot mi.i- ta. j ser vice to which they are now called We cherish no illusions. We know that the recurrence ot war is not to be prevented by pious wishes. We denounce all plots and conspira cies in the interest ot any foreign na tion. • Adequate preparedness is not mili tarism. During this critical period the only danger of war has lain in the weak course of the administration. — Tiie ration has no policy of ag gres sion toward Mexico. We have no de sire for any part <Jf her territory. Wo propose that in the competitive struggle that is about to come the American workingman shall not suffer Tins representative gathering is a h-ppy augury. It means the strength of reunion. It means that the party of Lincoln is restored, alert, effective. The dealings of the administration with Mexico constitute a confused chapter of blunders. It is a record which cannot be examined without a profound sense of humiliation. We must take Vera Cruz to get Huer ta out of o.hce and trust to other na tions to get our own citizens out of pe: il. What a travesty of international policy! Destroying the government of Huerta, we e.t ¡Vex.co to the ravages of re vo lution i stand tor adequate federal w o rk men’s compensation laws. Tre administration was to seize and pi nisi’ ViN i tor i is outrage on our soil. It l as not punished any one: we went in only to retire I favor t..u vote iqr women. | j THE FLAG Bargain At 98c A Yard Continued from page 1 ty, and it cannot even afford to pay for them in it » own commun ity, if such v\«ork was possible. Why should eastern Clackamas taxpayers be supposed to keep quiet and allow their sh areof the taxes to ¡.e spent oil hardsurfac- ing roads which they seldom or never will travel, when such dis graceful obstacles as the Boring Hill Road and the “ D evil’s Wash- hoard’ ’ remain right on our main travelled roads? The motor resorts, hotels and road houses in the vicinity o f lVlt. Hood in this county; along the Columbia H ighw ay and in fact all parts o f the state, where good roads lead, are doing a rushing b u s i n e s s now, accomodating thousands o f people and taking in thousands o f dollars. This part o f Clackamas County is not get ing its share o f this travel and business, just because our roads contain obstacles. This condition is o f direct vital import ance to every resident o f this section, as it means an actual loss of money, not only in land values and advertising hut in actual cash which would bedistributed among our merchants, our farmers and our hotels. We have the scenery. v e have the attractions and the accomodations, but we have not unobstructed roads to bring the p irists and visitors here. So, why should we remain con tented with present county road building conditions? Why not at once circulate a petition, which would be signed by every resi lient in this part o f the count», remonstrating against the pres ent hardsurfacing epidemic, un til the county court expends a sum sufficient to grade and make en tirely passable the Boring Hill Road and that stretefc o f highway lk tween Barton and Eagle Creek, known a s t h e D evil’s Wash board."? AN D THE MAN. Some such action as this, cou pled with an injunction restrain ing the present hardsurfacing, would bring results; but just so long as we continue to grumble and find fault with conditions and do not carry the complaint to the county court itself, matters will continue as they now are. I f the New s can be advised o f the names o f such taxpayers who will circulate petitions in their neighborhood, it will get togeth er with the leaders in this move ment throughout this part o f the county and start the ball a’ rolling. Miss Eva Keeney o f Portland is a visitor at the T. H. Dodge home in Estacada. “ The title to these lands hav ing been by the act o f congress reverted in the United States, they are no longer subject to tax ation and should not be placed upon the assessment rolls which are now being prepared by you,” reads the letter from Mr. Sharp. “ I would therefore request that you kindly see that the lands covered by the said act are now and hereafter omitted from the assessment rolls o f your coun ty. By so doing you will avoid presenting complications which will surely prevent the early pay ment o f taxes, now due in your county, in accordance with the provisions o f the statute.” Spending one’ s vacation in a hospital is hardly the pleasantest form o f a -ecreation, but Earl Day o f Estacada, the popular mail car rier on R. F. D. No. 2 was this week operated upon at a Portland hospital and is reported to be well on the road to recovery. 0 — ----------------------------------------------o IN P R E P A R E D N E S S THE A D M I N I S T R A T I O N HAS F O L LOW ED, NO T LED Mrs. Adolph Wiederhold o f George returned today from a three weeks visit among friends and relatives in Portland. In the demand fur reasonable prefrtl redness the administration has followed, not led Those who demanded more adequate forces were first described us "nervous and excited." Only about a year and a half ago we were told that the question of preparedness was not a pressing one: that the country had been misinformed. Later, under the pressure o f other leadership, this attitude was changed The ad ministration it was said had "learned something " and it made a belated demand for an in creased army Even then the demand was not prosecuted eon slstentlv and the pressure ex erfed on congress with respect to other administrative measures was notably absent We are told that the defects re vealed by the present mobiliza tion n r e d p e t o t h e "system." But it was precisely su h plain de feet» that under the on stunt warnings *»f re eut ye r* with the whole worl 1 in'ent on mili tary con » ms. should have been studied ui.d rectified The ad »• »inistration has ruled to dta barge Its responsibilities Ap parently It Is now seeking to meet political exigencies by Its naval program But |t has lm posed tin* «iMintry an in competent naval u ! tut n (strut Ion - Prom Mr Hughe«* Spee< h of Acceptance Miss Gladys Carpenter o f Es tacada, who graduated from the high school last year and Miss Bess Abbot, who has been spend ing the summer at the home o f her aunt, Mrs. E. W. Bartlett o f Estacada, are leaving Salurday for San Franeisco by boat. Miss Abbot will enter Miss Harkers’ school at Palo Alto, while Miss Carpenter contemplates attend ing a school near San Pedro. One Phase ot Efficiency. "A n d you have had the Name servant for tw o years'*’ "Y e * . ” replied Mr I ’rosslots. ‘ She says she doesn’t believe In cbanglug after she has guue to the trouble o f teaching the farailv her ways —Wash ington Star Sure Enough. "Another new hat? You should save your money, with the price o f everv thins going up." “ But why'* The louver I save It the less I ran buy with It *' Contentment, as it Is a short road : t;d pleasant, has great dellsrlit and lit tle trouble. Epictetus. r o