Newberg graphic., May 11, 1911, Image 1

%
'N .? '# ? ," H‘ « -
-O. T*. »,
N ewberg
V O L TY TTr
NEWBEBG. YAMHILL OOÜHTY. 0
this spring for, only in ville, W. T- Stater, and for
FARMER’S SIDE OF IT acquire
this instance, they are willing to valuation he now places on
allow Mr. Skelton $2000 for his erty around Newberg; but
W alton, of spring, all o f the creek, and 18 do not doubt for a moment, if
G raphic
SON. THÏÏE8DAY, MAY 11.19U.
NO. 30
The bridge only brings
ROAD TALK years.
a tew traders and is incomparable THE SPRING CONTENTION
with the opening o f the road.
I freies, Big Clods and Tight The electric line is nót a wonder­ Skelton Shows “ His SlriU and
W ads.
A p tn ess” a t
ful developer. ■' The prospective
acres attached. The other $200 still owned his old place on
buyer falls into the hands o f real
has gone already into the pockets mountain side what his v
estate
men and is steered to one
tion
on
it
would
be
o
r
where
As
a
land
dealer
and
having
o
f
those,
you
employed
as
chief
After reading, N. C. Christen­
T o the Citizens o f Newberg:
locality
or
another.
Owing to the fact that many instigators in this hold up would go far redress, should
considerable experience in
son’s reply, I must give him
tow n or anyone else seek to
With
a
first
class
winter
and
o f the present residents o f the scheme.
>romotion and developemcnt
credit for being the m ost
summer highway and the only
tow n hare not lived here long And now , why should the tow n’s prive him of his riparian
¿‘critter,” it has been my
rork, I believe 1 am capable o f
And now as to the claim
one out of Portland, evdry farm
par been fa ly informed as to the witnesses testify as to knowing
iving a fair estimate o f the
for sale wjll be cut up in 10 and fortune to meet.
«vents o f the past, or the present what water is w orth to us and city makes as to the need o f i
to Yamhill county with the
In this reply, he charges me
20 acre tracts with industrious
states on the water question, putting but from $2 to $6 per water. It c^n easily have it
iog up o f a first class high-
its
disposal,
if
it
wul
save
citizens on them.
w ith misrepresentations. This
notwithstanding that several acre valuation on land watered,
ray t o the « t y o f Portland.
W hat does it mean to all land charge I deny. I will quote from
sta tements have been published, and making us w ho had used it present overflow at the n
aniJ tht owners, to all business? I say it
permit one w ho has sought in and were at present using it, out roira which It cu t d o by enlat*-l P,rV*
my article in the Graphic o f
tag
them,
or
if
thta
ta
not
.
3
.
is a m ortgage lifter.
the past to w ork for the city ’s as-either fools or false testifiers
April 27th.
* plate r^
hgta it a g t and
There are tow ns in the valley,
■welfare and w ho is now one o f when we placed at least half of Scirtt, can dig w ell, along «¡do “ fc tream,
o f the state but of the
ftrst, he says “ fee tried to be
the pow er that Is
smaller now than they were 40
the many defendants against its the value o f the places to Water? and can
hole world; a mild and equitable
years ago. Newberg has no fair with Mr. Skelton.” Now, it
We cannot but notice that in going to waste at the intake to
present iniquitous methods to
Climate and o f wonderful fertility
license to grow unless she keeps running dow n the property,
acquire more water, to be heard. the publications, left at one o f attach to water m otors that art
» ° U " ? * * * , « producing a pace with progress. If we don’t threatening condemnation pro­
I wish to say that we o f the your institutions for us to sent used to pump the water out o f * faeat
variety o f the higherpriced
ceedings, “ will take it anyw ay.”
country, w ho are making use o f to would be'settler* in the east, these wells, so that you have no products grown in any climate. get this road soon, the Pacific
highway association will build a ‘Y ou haven’t any right to the
the w ater furnished us by the that water is counted one o neod.’ot drying up every little
Second. It is the first extensive
water only so far as you have
Creator, have thought o u r your chief assets, along with the brook that courses dow n our horticultural and agricultural j,‘ perfect road up the east side.
’Just one thing sure, the country made use o f it,” and all this the
right's were paramount, but no; canning factory that employs so mbuntain side.
district near Portland.
And now , in the face o f all of
is seen now days and advertised first day, they tried to negotiate
man w ho builds the tow n, has many men and furnishes such, a
Third. It has the call from
constitutes being fair then, and
in* this instance, stepped in and good market for all that' can be these facts can the tow n afford ortland. In other words, Yam- from those w ho ride in auto­
then only will I admit that they
to antagonize those who would
mobiles.
said that you w ho are in the raised around here.
ill county is considered by all
Washington county is going to were fair.
And now fpr a few personal like to co-operate in any endeav
m inority, have no rights that
'ortland as the richest and most
In his reply, he uses the pro­
do all she can to build this road.
we are bound to respect, and if questions. Those w ho attended or to rightfully and by truth to
utifal county in the state.
The Portland Auto Club has noun “ I” «—“ I did not make use
y ou have water or lands ox the trial, are wondering why it build up a community, but
Fourth. It is generally known
o f the expressions.” W ill take it
both that we want, it is ours was that the m ayor permitted think you cannot afford to exact that Yamhill county has the best been stirred up to action and
will raise $5,000, one thousand anyway,, you haven’t any right
himself to be side-tracked on his the pound o f flesh as did that
a t our price!
loa d s in the state.
dollars has been subscribed at to the water only so far as you
And so after having ai^uired way to the witness chair and famous merchant in the city in
Now with a first class auto­
have made use o f it. But hedoes
a spring by three surveys, the taken into an anteroom by the Italy whose streets are streets o f mobile and wagon road leading the little tow n o f Dundee and I
say that men of the big land and not say that he did not say that,
first tw o being on another man’s “ chief instigators,” knowing full water, for the city’s use.
io that great commercial center
Yours for justice,
business interests o f Newberg can they would condemn the proper­
place and drying up the creek, well he was in a public building
and only an hour’s run from the
H ow ard W alton
not set back and refuse to aid in ty, and furthermore te does not
n ot even famishing a drop o f built for justice, and not to cover
■autifal little city o f Newberg,
this movement. From $100 to : dare to say that those expres­
w ater for a public watering up but bring to light everything,
hat will it mean to us?
$250 is a reasonable subscription sions were n ot made either by
trough that the writer built in pertaining to a righteous cause?
SAFETY MITO DEVISI
And here good people, o f Yam-
limself or some members o f the
for a banker.
We have wondered if it w
front o f his place, the tow n now
you must open your eyes
city
council, and at the time re-
There is a big city here 60
issues condem natory proceedings not some scheme to catch coun-
f n
__„_____
. . . ...
i S t-
The safety autom obile crank
o f you have become a
minutes away And
against Mr. Skelton and those try dogs when they came to tow n which is handled from the driv­
set in your ways, if the
Second, he says m y letter to H.
valley
and the best climate H
____________________________________
using the water below his place and tax them so that the tow n er’s seat has been demonstrated
vironment of the slow pace o f
R.
Morris, of September 13,
Abe w orld, separated by a mud
and seek
take forcibly what could get back, the $200 prom­ this week in Newberg b* R. M.
dampened your
110,
disproves m y second
we consider belongs to us, and ised to these modern Blackstone* Heacock w ho is secretary and public spirit and enterprise, so hhte—erfew doBars expended and
| “ malicious” charge o f falsehood.
we are compelled to answer the as retaining fees?
representing the Safety Autom o­ then the hardest o f you are we have the benefit o f thousands
It disproves one charge, and
being expended for advertising.
And now the m ayor w ho has bile Crank Co. o f Salem.
mandates o f the cou rt's^ the
generally known as tight wads
one
only, and that the one made
busiest time o f the year for us been buying all the land he can
Mr. Heacock is not the sole in­ whom no one loves, not even You think a booklet does good. by the city council that I “ was
farmers, making tw o trips to get in the country and w ho owns ventor, as has been stated, but your wife or your children and Just let 4000automobilers know trying to hold the p ty up
” as it
the county seat and devoting a spring a little farther west, Owns 24 per cent of the patent, w ho is bound to leave that un­ that there is a decent highway
proves
that
I
asked
the
city
the
three days o f time in the first why does he not give the spring there being three others in the enviable epitaph to his memory, out o f Portland up the Wil­
same price that I quoted for
lamette valley, and you will
■with some land attached free company-who are business men
defense.
will you kindly be fair with
10,000 people living in Newberg others. However, I think all fair
And now do the citizens o f the gratis to the tow n? And there­ o f Salem.
yourself, come to a sane, logical
minded men will agree with me
tow n realize that this is only by he will earn the tow n ’s grat­ The demand for this safe and conclusion and join in this move­ in a few years.
It is proposed by the board o f that it was a breach o f trust on
one o f an almost endless chain itude as a public benefactor and convenient attachment is s o ment.
governors o f this association to the part o f H. R. M orris in giving
by the citizens of the thickly also save the tow n a long string great that orders are already
I like the spirit and honor, o f one
my letter o f a private and busi­
settled community north and o f lawsuits. As the stream flows piling up on the com pany. As it o f you r citizens whose initials are put in a perfect road betv?een ness nature to N. C. Christenson
chiefly through his possessions, can be attached to any autom o­
Rex and Tigard ville. Every
west o f tow n?
J. D. G. W ithout solicitation he
on which to concoct a slimy
the
tow
n
will
not
be
defendant
M any o f whom are depending
bile the company will not only hunted up our committee and laborer employed must work shield behind which to hide.
on this stream as their sole in a long string o f suits with put them on the cars already in put his name dow n for $100. and we propose to get $1.25
M y “ third charge of falsehood
source of supply and whose those in the country for their ri­ use but expect to sell rights to He has been present at both our w orth o f labor for every dollar will be clearly seen, hinges on the
expended.
rights your counsel admitted parian rights. This land how ­ the factories with a royalty.
meetings and said that he con­
m atter” and conditions as they
This is by far the best public
were equal with Mr. Skelton, ever is held for speculative pur­
The company is capitalized for sidered it an investment as a
exist and not mere m atter o f
but in doing so it was to keep poses and occupied by tenants, $100,000 and are offering a land owner and with other busi­ spirited undertaking that has
opinion as to' the relative value
dow n his cost. Which from a the former owners having sold small amount o f stock for sale. ness interests which would pay ever been inaugurated in Yamhill of the tw o pieces o f land, namely
point o f law , Mr. Skelton has out, as many more will do on Anyone having s o m e money him 1000 per cent on the invest­ county.
The sentiment is strong enough the Snyder and the Skelton
the advantage in every respect. this stream should the tow n rob which they wish to invest would ment.
tracts.
for bankers and business men to
One notable in s ta n c e was us o f our rights. A notable not miss it by purchasing some
Now, what are the benefits?
I will put only one question
cater to. We mean business.
famished by Mr, Sargent, w ho precedent the tow n has found in o f this stock. Many Newberg
Portland is the coming big
to Mr. Christenson at the present
cited one case where a tow n con­ the <BibIe in I Kings, the 21st people have already bought and commercial center o f the Pacific We will say good things and
time, there are more that I would
demned a spring with 1V4 acres chapter which the m ayor and the books will not be open much Coast, her great transcontinent­ favor those w ho assist. We will like to ask him, but space for­
say hard things about the tight
attached for $150 and upon ap­ city council might study with onger. ■
al railroad and commercial
bids.
peal he was allowed $15,000 profit.
The com pany has many testi­ bodies are expending a million wads. We are a factor to be
Immediately upon his arrival
considered. We propose to build
And now as to the chief engin­ monials from autom obile men
and as Judge Kelly instructed
dollars every twelve months in
at
the court house, he was called
the jury and told them they eer o f the pumps on your leaky 1 throughout the country w ho do the m ost extensive publicity the road.
to
the witness stand, but before
could not only allow for the condemnation craft, Mr. Fergu­ not hesitate to recommend it to campaign the world has ever So much good to the entire
business and farming community, being allowed to take the chair
present use it was put to by son, whose resignation has just the people.
known. They are coming by
he was taken by the learned (?)
Mr. Skelton, but could place a been accepted. He no doubt as
If you are interested and wish the thousands to that city, al­ Portland and Washington coun­ attorney o f legislative fame into
value on it, ow ing to its access- with the bovine that has nearly to know more o f the particulars ready . rich with millions to in­ ty to keep, so small a sum to a side room , and after being
raise, I guess all will help.
ability and use that the city reached the end o f his rope, write to the Safety Automobile vest.
This article is not tor the pur­ closeted for a few minutes re­
realizes
he
is
in
a
poor
sail­
might put it to and the jury
Crank Cor, E. M. Heacock, Sec­ There is not a decent highway
pose of attempting to be forward turned. Mr. Christenson being
w ithout doubt put only the ing vessel and so quits. But retary, Salem, Oregon.
leading out o f that city except
in the matter when it is a known sworn took the chair and testified
valuation as they saw it to its before he is totally lost to view
for a few miles. Does any civilized
to the same thing and using al­
present use to the owner and did permit a few questions to be Bids For Rant of Poor Farm and country know o f such a disgrace. fact that Newberg citizens have
been generous in many public most the identical words as the
not figure what it would bring asked:
Suppose we had a perfect auto­
matters, but to vent some spleen witnesses before him and whose
in the market in tow n to those
Did he not desert, because from
Committed Thereto.
mobile road to that great city.
on a wealthy citizen o f the city testimony he did not hear. Now
w ho used it in their houses and the statements he made under
It would be known throughout
who not only refused to make a was this manufactured testi­
on their lawns, nor to the use oath he fully realizes that he
Sealed bids will be received by Portland, throughout the state
mony and put in his mouth by
Mr. Skelton was planningto put could not sell land in the coun­ the undersigned, until June 7, and advertised by the railroads small subscription, but who has the city attorney, or was it a
it to nor the use it could be put try by placing such a valuation 1911, at 10 o ’clock a.m., forcon- and commercial bodies and every attempted to throw cold water mere—well “ happen so?”
to him or those below, not only upon it? Also has he not realised ductrng the County P oor Farm, prospective land buyer and those on the project.
Respectfully,
G eo . E. W aggoner .
for irrigating purposes, but also that the damage he has placed >iddcrs to state m onthly rent com ing to establish varied indus­
------------
G. P. S kelton . ~
as famishing in its several hun­ on his place west of tow n by the they will pay for the entire use tries would know it and travel Dundee, May 9.
dred feet o f fall, pow er for light­ loss of the water which he esti­ o f said farm, exclusive o f the the road and settle in our midst,
W ear a Flower for Mother’s Sake.
ing our homes out here in the mates at $1500, would not be rock quarry now located there­ one o f the few spots on earth
NEW TRANSFER COMPANY
country and which would be for­ very pleasant when as a witness on, and monthly charge per per­ where 10 acres will support a
That is the purpose o f M other’s
ever lost to us, should it be he would be called to verify this? son they will make for boarding family.
T. H. Thorne and David John­ Day, Sunday, M ay 14th. A
These things have been pretty and lodging and doing washing
taken.
I say in all confidence with the son have entered into partnership white flower for mother’s memo­
And now as to the price. Why thoroughly discussed among the or county indigents committed only highway from Portland, and will engage in the transfer
ry, a bright, flower tor mothers
is it that the tow n paid Mr. farmers at the different meetings ■;o said farm. Right is reserved Yamhill county would get 75 business under the name of the
living. We will have flowers on
Oliver $2,200 for a part o f a we have held to fight for our to reject any or all bids. By per cent o f the population com­ City Transfer Co. Mr. Thorne
sale near Post office, Newberg
spring 19 years ago which is the rights. *We can easily account order of commissioner’s court.
ing for the next few years.
was in Portland last Saturday Saturday afternoon between the
same amount after this long a for the testimony o f that other
G. W. J ones ,
It will double the population looking after the purchase o f a hours of 4 and 7.—T. B. Miles,
time that they are seeking to real estate boomer for McMinn-
No. 33
County Clerk.
o f Newberg in less than five new truck to add to their outfit. Florist.
I t pd.