Albany daily democrat., January 01, 1920, Page 6, Image 6

OREGON CITY WAS
ONCE BIG TOWN
Development of State is Trac
ed Through Growth of
Former Capital
Old Mine Mules
To Be Brought .
To the Surface
BUTTE, Mont., Soma scores of an
jcient horses and mulct that for year
have dona underground work In tha
dcrp mine of Butte, some of which
are a mile tn depth, are to ba brought
to the surface and tent to pasture ac
cording to the plant of the Anaconda
Copper Mining company. The time
vu when hundred nf the beast wrer
If a brief history of Oregon were to empoy.d undcrgroudn, but miniature
lie given the following report of the railroads gradually are replacing them
history of Oregon City ai published land now the remaining animals are to
spend ineir declining aays pointing
their forefeet at thestarswhilet hey
scratch their backs on binch grass.
in a recent issue of the Oregon Jour
nal leades one to realise the rapid
development that has taken place in
this western country during tha time
of many peaple now living:
la 1844 Oregon City was the met
ropolis of the west By the spring
of 1843 there were over 80 houses in
tha city by the falls and by the fol
lowing spring more than double that
number. Vancouver and Astoria,
though older, were trading posts, and
and laid no claim to .future greatness
as cities. Salem was a mission settle
neat A. L. Lovejoy and F. W. Petty
srrov had bought William Overton's
claim on the west side of the Willam
ette midway between Vancouver and
Oregon City, but as yet it was unsur
Teyed, nnnsmed and not even a log '
cabin, had been built on the site of '
what is now Portland. Fort William,
the proposed settlement made by Na
thaniel J. Wyeth on Wapato Island
now known as Sauries island had
come to naught Its single street was
grass-grown and the cows and pigs
of Jean Baptists Sa'ivie wandered at
wrill through the abandoned buildings
Linn, the rival of Oregon City, across
tier,. Multnomah q,y. started b, ito " J""1". men- e "Ut '
amith shop and a cabin and refused to
make further growth. Linnton, strat
cd that year by General H. M. McCar
wer and Peter Burnett, also failed to
Attract settlers. St Helens did not
into existence till the following
sr. Hilwaukie . for several years.
Montana Man
Sets Queer Death
Trap At Cabin
HELENA, Mont, James Abbot,
who lived ina cabin On Mount Helena,
slopes are within the city limits, dis
appeared but when he disappeared he
.left a veritable death trap to foil mar
auders. Officers who went to his cab
ing to ascertain what had become of
Abbot found posted on the door a
rsign reading: "Don't knock here.
Danger." The officers stepped aside
and chopped in the door. As it swung
back an ancient rifle , set at the
height of a man's stomach, biased.
Abbot later was found to be visiting
friends in Kansas.
ONE-FOURTH WORLD'S
WOMEN IN CHINA
Hun Forces Are
Estimated to be
Nearly . lfiOOfiOO
LONDON, Jan. 1 A. P. Germ
any's armed farces are estimated by
the British War Office to total close
Maccabees At
Corvallis Hold
A Smoker
The Maccabees of Corvallis held
a Smoker last night about two hun-
Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane were not dred Maccabees and friends in atten
yet dreamed of San Francisco, then
known as Yerba Buena, had less than
a dozen buildings and its population
did not exceed 60 people. It was em
igrant from Oregon that helped build
Saa Francisco prior to the discovery
dance. State commander J. W. Sher
wood and deputy district manager N.
N. Christon were present and took
an active part on the program of the
occasion. Clinton Conn, E. C Smith
and B. G. Hall represented the Albany
WITH THE AMERICAN
CROSS.. ftfV
AtSaloniki. M
ot goto. A consioeraoie nurooer oi , Iodfre and took with them two Albany
the residents of Oregon City went boxe ,nd wrestler, who contribut
eather cither by boat or overland to to the am-asemet 0f ,he members
California in 1843, and increasing present.
smmDrrs eacn year tnereaiter until
the discovery of gold at Sutter's mill
ahnost depopulated Oregon. L. W.
Hastings, who had come with- Dr.
Elijah White m the fall of 1843 with
a party of 03 Oregon settlers gather
ing at Champoeg from which point
they left on May 30. At about where
Medford was lite located they met
Jacob P. Leese and John McClure,
wbowere coming to the Willamette
valley from California. Hasting had
25 men capable of bearing arms in
bis party. Nine of them decided to
torn back and return to the Wllam
ette valley with Leese and McClure,
John McClure, who hailed from New
Orleans, settled near the mounth of
the Columbia, and his claim became
part of the townsite of Astoria. By
Hay 1, 1847, San Francisco had 79
building, 31 frame houses, 22 stanties
and 20 abode buildings. By Christ
mas of the same year the city had
danbled its population, 47 addition
el fram houses, 20 shanties and 11 ab-
obe houses had been erected, and there
The veritable mountains of relief
supplies turned out by the millions of
chapter workers , during the war
made the American Red Cross one of
the biggest "manufacturing concerns"
In the world, with great warehouse
miM m hnnti nf art-Ateirle rtnlnta all
considerable travel back and forth around the globe.
between Oregon City and San Fran
cieo. San Francisco and Oregon City
wvre the two western communities
showing phenomenal growth, but
though San Francisco was making a
most excellent showin in increased
population, Oregon City far outdis
tanced its southern rival. Nearly
thousand people who had crossed the
plains during the summer and fall of
1848 now thronged into Oregon City
or its close vicinity by Christmas day,
1843.
Sidney W. Moss, who with his hand
compass had laid out the townsite of
Oregon City for Dr. McLaughlin, start
rd a botel where he did a thriving bus
inesa. Various enterprises were start
ed. Athey, who was in the Oregon City
flooring and grist mill, and then, mov
ing to the east bank of the river,
started a furniture factory, the first
one to be operated in Oregon. He
made tables, bedsteads, chairs stools
and chests. He built his own turning
lathers ttiSre were none at that time
vest of the Rocky mountains. Later
he boathge a wheel from the teacher
at Fort Vancouver and made lathe
which ha turned iron. Still later
be built a small steamer at Oregon
City.
Sidney W. Moss engaged John P.
Brooks to teach school and paid his
salary and furnished him a room in
bis hotel in lieu of a School house.
This was tha first public school in
Oregon. -
One of the biggest distribution cen
ters was at Snlonlkl, Greece, and In
this picture Bulgarian prisoners of
war are seen there unloading a Red
Cross cargo of 2.300 boxes from a
French transport At the light la
seen one of the American Red Cross
camions, fleets of which were used IP
rushing relief to points where tiia suf
fering was greatest .
Montana Will
- Have Exciting
Campaign
. HELENA, Mant 'Montana, onfrca
zed by three years of drouth in cer
tain sections, appears to Judge from
the scats press, to fe about to enter
upon a moit interesting year. One
of the liveliest political compaigns in
the state's history is expected; dev
elopment of oil fields is likely, and
.the greatest rival of mining since the
state was discovered is in prospect.
In addition, among other things,are
expected the influx of many immi
grants; completion of a number of
railway projects, opening up rich and
as yet comparatively unsettled sec
tions; and completion of many high
ways.' Millions of dollars in bonds have
.been voted by nearly all tha counties
to the expended on highway improve
ment, and the railroads are expected
to complete projects which had been
planned before the war.
Seventy Per Cent.' Employees in
Shanghai Cotton Mills Wonv
en and Children Working .
Twelve Hour Shifts.
One-fourth of tha women In tha
world am Chinese 300.000,0110 of
them. They are going Into Industry
li large uumnere to work long hours
and for little money.
In Shanghai, fur Instance, seventy
per rent, of the empliiyvee In tha
cotton mills ara women ami children.
Working hours for spinners are from
six In the morning until six at night
and from six at night until six tn the
morning. Weavers work from 5:30 In
the morning until seven st night and
the wages are from ten to twenty rents
a day. Hundreds of women are em
ployed In silk mature mills, standing
hour after hour washing cocoons la
basins of boiling water In the ex
cessively hot rooms necessary for
apartments where One silk Is spun,
la Canton alone, there are 130.000
women In factories at a maximum
wage of forty rents a day for women
and of fifteen rents a dny for girls.
As part of Its pmgrnin of world
service for women the Nntlonal Toung
Women's Christian Association Is ex
pecting to put on Its staff of sec
retaries In CrlWia . sn expert on In
dustrial conditions who will develop
social work In factories, and work -to
Improve conditions for women em
ployees. Tills work will Inrtnde the
Introduction of recreation and social
life among the workers and of health
lectures and educational classes.
Y. W. C. A. STUDENTS
TEACHINGJN CHINA
Physical Training School Main
. tained in Shanghai
Tha vast majority of Chinese men
remember tbelr mothers as cripples.
Msny girt wanders Into a mission
school who hss not hsd her own fret
bound, but has never seen a women
of her own clsss who could walk, a"nd.
therefore, she walks In a most ungain
ly fashion scarcely conscious of bar
natural feet
Tha Chines Medical Association
sn Association composed only of Chi
nese physicians mostly graduates from
American and English Institutions
here asked the entire educated commu
nity of tha country to co-operate In
batter health for the children of Chi
ns. All the Mission Boards operating
In China felt that one of the grealsst
contributions the Toung Women's
Christian Association could offer to
tha health of China would be to es
tablish a normal school for tha train
ing of physical directors.
Accordingly, In Shanghai, which la
the greatest port In China, tha nation
al committee established such a school
In 1014. Tha school hss won fsvor
with sll educationists, both missionary
snd government There have already
been nine grsdtmtes from this sraooL
Miss Ylng Mel Chun, a graduate of
the Wellesley School of Physical Edu
cation, has been desn of the school.
Graduates of the school are scattered
from Canton to Peking, teaching with
conspicuous success In twelve mission
and government schools.
SHOWS INCREASE Cr&
COUNTY BUSINESS
JAPANE8C DOCTOR IS Y. W. C. K
OFFICIAL.
Dr. Tomo Inouye of Tokyo, Japan,
treasurer of the National Committee of
the Toung Women's Christian Asso
ciation In Japan. Dr. Inouye has bees
h4 2
Dr. Tama Inouye ef Tokyo, Japan, a
delegate to tha six-week International
Confers noe of ' Women Physicians
called by tha Y. W. C. A.
particularly Interested In tha poWIe
health and recreational plans of her
dry for some tiros and Is medical
Inspector for girls In tha public schools
of Tokyo, as also 16 several private
schools In the city. There are ap
proximately COO women physicians InJ
japan now, ana says, and 400 women
medical students. I)r. Inouye wss the
only delegate from Japan to tha Y. W,
0. A. International Conference of Wo
men Physicians, In session during Bea
tember and October.
Court and' License Feca Are
Larger Than in Prcv
lous Year
Linn county officials closed anoth
er year's work at S o'clock yesterday
with an Increased volume of business
In most kit the offices. The county
court has fixed the budget for all
public expenses for the year 192Q at
$481,758.80 which does not Include lo
cal tax of the towns, school and road
districts.
During tha past year tha county
clerk has received aa fees for the
county $1058.50 from the circuit
court; $1,306.53 from tha probata
court; marriage licenses, $660; mis
cellaneous, $242.
Two- hundred twenty-three marriage
licenses ware issued this Krar, while
the year before but 158 were issued.
Thirty-one divorce suits were filed
and 30 divorces granted. Fourteen
hundred seventy-seven hunters' and
1301 anglers' licenses were granted,
and 92 combination licenses issued, in
addition to one non-resident license
Issued. Tha total fees from -these
sources waa $4548.75, of which the
eounty retains five per cent and the
balance is remitted to tha state fish
and game commission.
The funds of the county aa set
forth in the budget of one year ago
have been appropriated by the court
aa itemised at the beginning of the
year.
British Factories
LONDON, Il'y Mall) Tha 'great
Increase In the number of women em
ployed In British Industries has be
come an Important factor, and only
an expansion In Industry can take
care of all tha labor both male and
female now available, according to
a statement by the American Cham
ber of Commerce in London.
Sir Auckland Guides, prealilvtit of
.the Board of Trado, recently declared
that tha country's production would
hava to be Increased, not only for the
sake of export marketa, but to absorb
surplus labor. According to his fig
ures, said tha American Chamber
there are already over 300,000 more
men and women employed, or look
ing for employment In the industrial
world than before the war. Tha de
mobilisation of troops would necesst-
tats tha absorption of almost another
1,000,000.
Democrat Want Ads Bring home tha
bacon.
; Greatest Losses
By Storms Are
Given Denial
HELENA, Mont., Recent reports
concerning losses of livestock In Mon
tana do NOT appear to be borne out
by tha state press. While tha recent
storm and cold spell undoubtedly caus
ed loss In cattle, horses and sheep,
fears that ths losses are the greatest
In the annals of tha slate apparently
are groundless.
There have been Isolated Instances,
it is declared, in which ranchers suf
fered very severely, but indications
are ttut tosses thus far are no worse
than ordnaryly Is expected from such
severe weather as has been experien
ced In Montana this winter.
ALBANY HAS FINE
PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Splendid avHtcm of Education
ia Maintained Here; Five
Modern Buildings
Albany pibtie schools closed tha
year 1910 with 1251 students In at
tendance and with a faculty of 46 tea
chers rrpresenil.iR the work in all tha
.grades of a modern city school sys
tem front tha primary grade to the re
quired subjects taught in ths state
standardised four year high school.
The Albany school district has fiva
school buildings well distributed In
.the district The last building lo ba
constricted Is modern building in
.every respect and is being used as a
Junior high school building where tha
work of tha first nine grades Is be
ing taught The high school has 544
students In attendance carrying tha
work of five courses of study, as fol
lows: Commercial, History, Language,
Mathematics and Science. The schools
of-the city hava shown a substantial
increase In attendance this year and
now have the largest mmber in their
history, tha recent enumeration of
children of school age being 1503.
Tha chitons of Albany ara loyal
subjects In the support of tha high
standard of efficiency attained and
ppear to fully realise tha importance
f the developing of the youth into
tha highest and noblest type of eiti-
senshlp.
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B Allison and Tway
O Corner of First and Washington St.
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WALDO ANDERSON & SON r ;
. Dealers In : M .i .,
' Maxwell Automobiles and Trucks
- - Chalmers Cars '
Full line of Tractors. Farm Implements and Other Farm
Equipment. .-.-'. -j-.i
Seeds Bought and Sold
Automobile Accessories, Supplies and Repairing
X ootoi croaaaiDin bt.
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