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4MM-4-t"MMt-s d OREGON CITY ENTEIRP Hat your iubsjNptkwi ex- plredf Look at the label. You should not mil any of our now number. 4 Attend to It now. MS rORTY FIFTH YEAR No. 48. BEATTIE ADMITS URGES U s! AIDTn RAILROAD HALTS GUILT AND DIES BUILDING ROADS WORK FOR VINTER DASHING YOUNQ VIRGINIAN BAYS HE IS SORRY FOR SLAY ING WIFE. , RETAINS COMPOSURE TO LAST Confession Md To Minister Juit Before Condemned Man Goes To Electric Chair. , . i 4- , . ! r Is t P " RICHMOND, V, .Nov. 24. V v 1 1 f ii i y (lay linattlo, Jr., beforo liU death In the electric chair, ut "i.'ii n. in., today, confcimed to i Iik murder of Ida wire. The slato- incut, whli'h wim kIvimi nut In tlio roliiiiilu of a down town hold, f folio: t p "I, Henry Clay lkmiile, Jr., desirous of standing right before Coil anil man. do, on OiIh, th'i 2:iil Jay of November, 11)11, con r f'H n.y guilt of tho crime rluiM- t cil against mo. Much tliut wm i' published coiK'i'ruliiK t lie detail ' wiih not trim, but the awful fact, without tho burrowing clrcum- stances, remain." Kor this ac- r t- tton, l am truly .torry uml, btdlev- t - I iik tint I am at peace with C;cl i uml am aoon to pan Into ilia i- pri'N iici, tlila etali incut Id made." P 4- t t i' RICHMOND, Va.. Nov. 24.-With lips tlKhlly cloned, Meudy and illcnt. Henry flay llattlt. Jr., wo executed for klllliiR his young wife In the elec trie clialr here early today. lie refused to apeak a word admit ting tilx guilt, and It wan generally HiipiHiKi'd, until later the condition wuh inado ptilillc, that he hud died protesting lila Innocence. Tho electrocution moved swiftly hikI Hinoothly, and tho young Vlr Klnlan died uImiohi liiMtantly whim the heavy electric current was turned Into his body. hi the death chumber the voice of Jlie warden could be heard plainly rending to the doomed man tlo tlnal summon. The warden'a voice droned on, It seemed to tho witnesses. Inter mlniihly. In reality,' the compliance with tho lnw occupied only a liilef moment. Then, wlitv. Ileuttlo between i hem, the deputy w irOeti began their progress towurd llic (.hnlr, only a lew (eel awiiy. When the procession followed by Superintendent Wools started, a six mil was kI vimi which plunged the ilealh rhnmbiT lu bl.ickness, nave for a hIiirU. light linmeiilately over tho chair. Tit Ih wiih o boodud tmit It oulllned the chair In a circle of bltz Ihk radiance no Ink-use that the re mainder ol the room seemed In uller darkness Tho witnesses scarce could see each nlher. prlnoiier aa.v not lil iik but tbe chair. There was no delay In preparing for the end. lleattlo took hts place, tln prlaon Hiirgeon aiid ;hu electrlchm. iiiljimlcd tho HtrapH, half dozen claiupH were quickly thrown Into place mid Hiiappcd. The cup, reHemlilliig a leather foot ball head ImrneHU, w ia iidJiiHted nirl the men Btepped back. The. warden ratHed his hand. In Htantly llenttlo'a body Btlffonod lth Hiich violence that the Hlrapa creaked with tho Htraln, mid rlampH ratUid, and thi'ii thai wbU-b once hnd been Henry flay lleattlo, Jr., relaxed. It wiih 7:2.1 o'clock when the shock wa applied. One niluutu later lleat tlo was dead. Tho Biirgoon hnd Kno forward nd, with a atethoHcopn, had llatenod fir another faint bentitiK of tho near, that lean thnn sixty seconds before. bad lived. He stepped back. "Ho U dead," be said. SALEM, Nov. 2X (Special.) As a p.rtlim move, Just before leaving for iho Knst and his trip on the Gover nors' special. Governor West today commuted to life Imprisonment the sentence of Jans M. William Hnsslng and Issued n formal statement to the effect that during his administration capital punishment will be eliminated In thl state mid that as a policy of the office nil who are convicted of murder In the first degree will receive a commutation of sentence to life Im prisonment at his hands. HnasitiR was convicted of murder In lh. flst degree for murdering his wife In rortland. OLCOTT ACTING GOVERNOR. SALEM, Nov. 23. When Governor At i i ii m . on west rrossen me s me ime ' I while the roadways get practically o'clock onlght on bis way Last tOjnthnR. ( Join the Governors' speclnl at St. hy Is this? i'aul. r."n W. Olcott. Secretary of! nnt the' government a right to State, lecame Acting-Governor of,CXIlflIld tnntU on ll)1Ic hKhways? Orecon and will act In that rapacity- The writer holds that lt has. until the return of the Governor, De- i.ten! cembcr 20. I The government built roads In j Taft To Dine Leader. W.'SIUNuTON, Noc. 23. rresl-: dent Taft will be host to the mem- j l ers ef the Republican national com-j ml:e at a dinner In the White House Tv-mher H. The dinner Is regarded as the active commencement of the real work of the President's campaign. j MAJOR NODLE THINKS GOVERN MENT 8H0ULD STAND HALF OF COST. FARMERS DESERVE APPROPRIATION Special Tax To Be Voted By Various Dlftrlctt Will Not Be Suf ficient To Oulld Ade quate Thoroughfaree. Major Churlea 8. Noble, City ICn glueer of Oregon City, In a letter to the Morning KulerprUe, urges that the ('oiigri.'H,iuicii and Bcnatora repre denting Oregon, should be asked to use tbeli liilluencu In having the I'nlted HtntoH appropriate money for building roads In this stuto. Major Noble's letter follows: The writer has been so busy that lie has not had tbe privilege of ut tiimlltig the numerous road meetings that have been lield from week to week, for the last few months. Ills sentiments, of being heartily In favor of anything tending to the betterment of mads has been ex prchscd at the few meetings lie win ulile to be at. Kor li ng years he was Secretary of (he (iood Roads Association of an olh'T state and his interest in the cause Is still aa great as ever. In the legislature of that State he was a persistant advocate of good roads legislation, and now If It Is not tak ing up loo much spare he would like to express a few views on tho snme subject. There no farmer but will admit that Kod roads are a good thing, yet some are loath to admit that they should bo built at their expense. Some say (hat they do not propose to be taxed to pay for the conven ience of automobile owners or own ers of tine (rotting stork. To one who has been the advocate of good roads, for long, long years the objection of the farmer so oft repeat ed begins to have weight. The writer has argued good roads regardless of who pays or gets the most benefit nod has more than done his shitre of paying for road Improve ment In front of his pmporty und others and have seen those enjoy the privileges of those same good roads that have contributed very llttlo to their building or upkeep. ' Hut this Is a situation that we ran not overcome under the present ways and means of raining funds for this desirable attainment. Yet this Is food for thought, and the writer w ishes to point out a way that could help out In this particular. Tbe public road, the public high way has always been the pulse of civi lization. More than ever tho good road Is demanding Its place In the legisla tion and political affairs of the state and nation. The town that has the best streets, the community that has good roads, i the state that has the finest high ways, will be the town, community and st ite that will draw the people. The intercommunication In such communities aild.i to tho commercial mid social advioitugus that fully re pays for tho outlay. The (iood Roads Association of the counties and stnto of Oregon have been doing strenuous work lately and it Is n noticeable feature of the many good mads meetings, tho absence of discord or rancor. The labors of these gentlemen will ibe of lasting benefit to tho entire state. All of the communities visited are willing to vote a special tax. This is good. Hut we want better ronds thun these small taxes will give, us and wo want them more permanent How (ire we to get them? Hy tho government doing tbe right thing by tho citizen tnat ploughs the Debts as the citizen that ploughs the harbors, rivers and seas. Tho government owes an onorjnous debt to the agriculturist. In the Oregonlnn of November 22, we find the following: Detailed esti mates of appropriations for water ways In the Northwest. Mouth of tho Columbia Riv er $1,000,000 Willamette and Columbia, rortland to sea 47!i,000 Celllo Canal 1,00,000 Columbia nbovo Celllo Columbia, Bridgeport and Ketflo Falls Willamette above rortland Sulslaw River Snake River Cowlitz and Lew is Rivers . . 30,000 25,000 20,000 120,000 25,000 5,500 3,000 5,000 1.000 Coos River Tillamook Ray . .' Clntskanle River Entrance to Gray's Harbor, Wasn BOO.OTlO Wlllapa Harbor and River Ijike Washington Canal.. Tributaries ruget Sound.. Snohomish River Skagit River Ilellingham Harbor .;. 75,000 400,000 25,000 75.000 15.000 52,250 When you realize that this is for only a small part of tho United Slates and only for one year's ap propriation, you can Imagine perhaps i the enormous oirtlny for wnterways, Cubs, but not for you farmers! The government built and Is bulld- Ing roads In the rhillpplnes. Not for you fruitgrowers, The government Is building roads away up In Alaska to connect the gold mines, but not fop you truckers, Before the advent of railroads the government built roads, (Continued on page 4) OREGON CITY, OREGON, KM DAY, DECEMBER 1, 3911. CLACKAMAS SOUTHERN HAS SOLD ENOUGH STOCK TO COMPLETE GRADE. DEMAND FOR BONDS ENCOURAGING Money Raleed Through Issue To Bo 1 Used In Equipping Line Success Of Enterprise Assured. Very nearly all of tbe work on the Clackamas Southern Hallway Com pany line bos been closed for the winter and only a few men will bo reiuiued during th'i winter months for the purpose of keeping the grade In good repair and the culverts open, so that the work done during the sum mer will not deteriorate. Since March fl, 1911, the company lias sold approximately tHO.OUO worth of stock, and that Is sufficient to com plete tbe grado and bridges. Tbe en gineer reports that a little more than ten miles of tbe grade on the line has been completed and about sixty more working days In the spring will fully complete iho gruile from Oregon City to Molallu. The directors will devote ull their spare time during the winter months in disposing or sufficient bonds to pur chase the steel, and lay the track us aooii us the weather will permit of that work. The bonds are Issued In denominations of $100. $500 and l,0o0, and bear Interest at tbe rate of six per cent per annum, Interest payable semi-annually. The company Is receiving subscriptions for the bonds Irom some of the most con servative Investors in the county, and they expect to dispose of the re quired amount before the work opens In the spring. Every citizen lu tbe county who lives or owns land tributary to thU road should come forward and assist the Hoard of Direr tors. In finishing the work thai huj b itu started, and as soon as tbe rocd Is in operation there will be no Letter paying proposi tion In Clackamas county than the Clackamas Southern Hallway, as it will traverso a for.Je terrltorv und the largo belts of i tuber will insure u heavy traffic from the flrBt week of the operation of the toad. The company received a letter u few days ago Irom d resident of i'ortland. who owns land near the Clackamas Southern Railway Com pany line, and which is located about nine miles from Oregon City, and he states In his letter tU it tho comple tion of tho line will greatly Increase the value of his l.iiv.1, and he Kit that he should subscribe for a thous and dollar bond so a to cncouigo the early completion of the road that meant so much to.- him Individ ually. When the O. W. C. line was b lilt to Estaenda a large part of the bonds issued for Its construction were sold to Individual Investors lu Portland and other Willamette Valley '.owns, aud as tho Clackamas do.ltl'ni line inv erses a far richer territory and great er possibilities, for freight enrnli.gs the bonds Issued by the latter com pany, limited as they are to $10,t'0 per mile, makes the security for the Clackimns Southern' Im.j.U rirst-clafcs. RATE REDUCTION T INTERSTATE COMMERCE COM MISSION ORDERS 20 CENT CUT EAST. NO SERIOUS LOSS IS THREATENED Figures Of Railroads Are Basis Decision Fight Is Made By Portland And . Seattle. Of WASHINGTON. Nov. 24. rortland. Seattle and Tacoma Jobbers won an Important victory before the Inter state Commerce Commission today when that body ordered a twenty cent reduction of all Interstate class rates from these cities to points In Wash Intgon, Oregon, Idaho and Montana, and directed that the new rates be put Into efToct January 2, 1912. The fight for this reduction was made by the Chambers Of Commerce of rortland and Seattle. Today's or der Indorses the tentative decision of tho Commission , announced some months ago, the railroads having ut terly failed ln their endeavor to show that a 20 per cent reduction would be ruinous or even unfair to them. When the Commission first an nounced Its belief that a twenty per rent cut should be made the railroads obtained six months In which to sub mit figures showing what losses they would sustain If such regulation should be made. The Comnlsslon, af fer studying those figures, lost no time In promulgating Its order, for it discovered from the statistics com piled by tbe railroads themselves that a twenty per cent cut In class rates would neprlve the railroads In ques tion of less thnn one per cent of their ojierntlng revenue. In view of the financial condition of the four roads affected, the Commission holds that they will not be adversely affected by this reduction. IS WON BY COAS IRK AT STONE OIL WELL TO BE RESUMED The stockholders of tbe Stone Oil wyll at an enthusiastic meeting In the Commercial Club parlors, Satur day unanimously decided to resume work and to make a new stock issue of 11,000. More than $2,000 of the Issue was subscribed at the meeting, nnd It Is thought the remainder wlrr be disposed of soon. L. I). Mumpow er, Mrs. M. J. Dickens and C. D. La touretto subscribed for 1100 each, and W. M Mumpower and George K. Glbbs were named a committee to solicit subscriptions for stock. The shares are five cents each. After more than a year of work tbe corn party was forced to abandon the well berause of the loss of a drill In It. The uew well will be near the old one. Several gas and oil exports think that oil eventually will be found In large quantities. L PROGRESSIVE BUSINESS MEN THINK BIG PAPER WILL AID CITY, t OTHER TOWNS WILL COOPERATE Arrangements Being Made With Com mercial Clubs For Dis tributing Booster Edition, After one week of active work n canvassing the progressive busines Jnterests of the city In behalf of toe forthcoming Progress Edition the En terprise Is pleased to aunounce that the big booster number is receiving almost unanimous sapport This Is perhaps best Illustrated by Ite tact that upward of ninety per cent of the firms called on have signi fied their willingness to co-operate with tho management on the Issue. These firms believe In ingress. They believe In a Greater Oregon City and a more populous Clackamas county. They believe that an attractive Pro gress Edition, printed on good book paper in magazine form, explaining the opportunities here as they actu ally exists and distributed by the thousands Into the hands of prospec tive Bettlers In the East and else- whore WILL L'RING POSITIVE AND DEFINITE RESt 'LTS In attracting New Blood, New Brains and New Money to this city and county to as sist in the further development of Its natural resources. Further than this they believe tUnt this issue covering Clackamas County nnd Oregon City, as It will, offers a splendid medium cf local publicity, Although no work has been done outside of Oregon City letters are being received from other towns In the county asking for further Inform- at Ion than that conveyed In the orig inal cnnottneement nnd expreasig a desire to participate In the good work. Our representatives will visit each of Ibe towns later, and It Is the inten tion to have every section represent ed In a creditable way. Arrangements have been made with the Publicity Committee of the Com mercial Club of Oregon City whereby they will co-operate In the distribu tion of the Trogress Edition to the lnqiirlP! on their mailing lists. Similar arrangements will doubtless be mndc with the Commercial Clubs of the other towns throughout the county, thereby largely increasing the circulation and the benefits of the Issue r.s a publicity medium for Clackamas county. JURY CWT AGREE L. Ellis against A. J. KlUrailler, after considering the evidence for more than twelve hours without being able j to reach an agreement, was dismissed by Judge Campbell Saturday after- noon. It was reported tnat tour were in favor of awarding a verdict to the plaintiff and eight were against it. At a previous trial the plaintiff was awarded $500 damages, but the court set aside the verdict and granted a new trial. Judge Morrow, of Port land, presided nt the second trial. Kltzmiller had Ellis arrested on a charge of stealing posts In June, 1910. The posts were made from trees, cut from a right-of-way on the Kltzmiller road, north of Eagle Creek, by Kitx mlller and his son, George. Kltzmill er, lt is said, had permission of the county court to make the posts. Ellis, manager of the East Side Milling Company, said the trees from whlcli tho posts were made, were on land belonging to that company. Ellis was arrested by Kitzmiller for taking the posts, and the former accused Kltz miller of assault and battery. Both charges were discriminated. Brownell j MERCHANTS A R PECIA EDITION ana &ione represented tuizmiiier. The bid, which came In wttnout any : seven years and paroled. The men possible marks of Identification, will were charged with stealing clothing. TEACHERS HOLD INSTITUTE. , not be opened until after the Post-1 riamara Is a sailor and expects to About seventy five teachers attend-1 master-General returns on Monday, j leave on a ship ln a few days. ed the Institute at Milwaukie Satur- Bates & Chesebrough cannot som-j d?y. Addresses were made by prom-ipiv with the terms of the proposed! . c . . Inent educators, and the Institute was ! contract until after they have put w Te see Divorce, pronounced one of the most success- J steamers on the route between New j Margaret Barkshire Friday sued Al ful ever held in this county. Dinner York and Colon, the service out of ; red R. Barkshire for divorce, aneg was served by the Mothers' and New Orleans not beins sufficient, j Ing cruelty. They were married De Teachers' Club. event If the ships are fast enough. cember 19. 1910, In Oregon City. E HAS 2 IN FIELD 0. E. FREYTAO AND H. E. CR08S CANDIDATES FOR MAYOR OF NEW CITY. I EXCITING CONTEST IS PROMISED William Hammond Declines To Offer Again For Recorder J. N. Slevere Announces. Clty Recorder William Hammond, of Gladstone, has all kinds of office hours, and be was routed from bis bed after 11 o'clock Thursday night to receive the petition: of candidates for municipal office Thursday bins the last day that cand'dates could file I and get on the ballot for the annual election on December 4. It was the eleventh hour In moie ways than ooe. Two tickets are in the field for tbe coming election, which will be the first since the original election was held for the- purpose of Incorporating the town, when officers were cbosen to serve until January, 1912. The ticket that wag filed late Tuesday night Is headed by O. E. Freytag, the present Mayor, who Is a candidal) for re-election. Alon w-ith Mr. Fiey tag are the following candidates for Aldermen: One year term Frank A. Hammerle, James Wilkinson. Two year team C. E. Forshur. C. W ParrUh. Opposed to Mayor Freytr Is Har viy E. Cross, founder of the torn of Gladstone. Mr. Cross was u;-ec to lun for Mayor when the town was Incorporated, but he declined, but now he has entered the lists, and wltb him are the following candidates for Aid ermeTi: One year term William La Salle, Frank P. Nelson. Two year term Thomas E. Gault, Chambers Howell,, C. A. Williams. Mr. Howell Is tbe only member of the present council to go after a thankless Job, the others being F. A. Burden, F. S. Baker, C. A. Baxter, Brenton Vedder and G. S. Williams.. Mr. Bax ter Is moving to Oregon City, but the other Aldermen would Dave been eligible. Recorder William Hammond has declined to run again, and the only candidate is John N. Slevers, a law student In Oregon City. The position pays $150 per annum. J. C. Paddock, former treasurer of Clackamas coun ty. Is a CBndidate for city treasurer nf r.lmUtrne. mid has no'onnositlon. the pre?ent treasurer. J. K. Pardee, having declined .to run. There Is a salary of $30 per annum for the city treasurer. I Therp nro more than ISO vntern In ; GIaiIstne and lt ,s gad a hot cam. j pHle.n be wri. The polling ; nlaf.e j3 ln the cty naII on Dartmouth j 5trPet. p.nd the election officers who )lave 1)een appointed are: Judges T R Ganlt w F Schboley, J. M. TraPy. Clerks Charles- T. Slevers, E. p carter. Mr. Gault Is a candidate for Alderman and will not serve on the ebction board, so another will be named. OLD LINES ACCUSED OF THWART- ING INDEPENDENT - COMPANY, BAKER IS GIVEN CREDIT FOR COUP Bates & Chesebrough Cannot Com ply With Terms of Proposed Contract Until Service WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. Only one bid was submitted today In answer to Postmaster-General Hitchcock's advertisement for the establishment of a subsidy mall line between the two coasts. The fact. Is being cited now in support or the Indirect charge being made by Bernard H. Baker, of Baltimore, that the transcontinen tal lines are thwarting his effort to. establish an Independent steamship company to operate through the ca nal. Nobody knows who made the bid. although In one quarter tbe suspicion exists that Baker put ln that bid, the assumption In tnat quarter being that he a complished a coup on the trans-continental lines and every oth er possible bidder by making lt possi ble for the reports about the choking to be set afloat and thus leaving the field to himself. At the time the advertisement was ; put out. aside from Baker there were I only two possible bidders, the Ha- j wsiian-American SteamshlD Line and the Bates & Cheseorough Company, j GLADSTON TICKETS onlyIe! is BE MADE FOR SUBSIDY ITHIRD GLADSTONE A OPPOSED RAILWAY OFFICIALS SAY STOP WOULD INTERFERE WITH FAST 8CHEDULE. CITY, HOWEVER, TO FICHT FOR IT Hunt Declares If More 8idlngs Were Made Trip To Portland Would Take Only ' 35 Minutes. Contending that the large number of stops between Portland and Oregon City makes It difficult to maintain a fast schedule for passenger trains, the I'ortland Railway, Light It Power Company has refused to establish a new station at Hereford street In Gladstone, and despite tbe company's refusal, the city council of Gladstone has passed to its second reading an ordinance designed to compel the com pany to put In the new station. While the ordinance comes up for final pas sage on the second Tuesday lu Decem ber It Is understood that an effort will be made to lay it over for con sideration at tbe hands of the Incom ing council that will be chosen at. the city election In December. The Portland Railway, Light Power tympany has stations at Dart mouth street and at Arlington street, the latter station having been estab lished about one year ago, and the officials of tbe company say that oth er requests for stations have been turned down upon recommendation of the operating department and that If the request of Gladstone Is complied with, others cannot decently be re fused. Hereford street Is near the resl dence of J. M. Tracy and Chambers Howell, and tbe latter is a member of the council and Is said to be the champion of the movement to compel the company to make another stop. F. D. Hunt, traffic manager of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, states that there are more than forty stations between Portland and Oregon City, and that If some of the stops in Oregon City were reduced and 'more sidings Installed, It would be possible to make express , speed between the two extreme points. 'We are running an lntenirban line." said Mr. Hunt, "and not a streetcar system, and we would like to event ually make the service better, but we cannot do this under present operat ing and trackage conditions. With three or four new sidings, we could easily maintain a limited car every two hours between Portland and Oregon City and by making, say four or five stops, at Milwaukie, . Oak I Grove, Gladstone and Oregon City, we cnild cut the time down to 35 min utes, as against CO at the present time. 0'.ir cars run fast enough, but too much time is lost ln making stops and this service should be handled by local trains." Mr. Hunt and W. T. Buchanan, pub licity manager for the company, were present at the Gladstone council meet ing and explained the reasons for tbe company's refusal to place a new sta tion at Hereford street. WASHINGTON, NoV. 24. PresI dent Taft today directed the warden of the Atlanta Penltentlarv to trans fer Charles W. Morse, the New York banker, to the Vnited States Army Hospital at Fort McPherson, near At lanta, where he will be under medical observation. ' The President's further action In the case It was said at the White House, would be determined by the observations of the Army physicians. Information which has reached .Washington is that Morse Is suffering from an acute form of kidney disease. It was said here today that at times the banker dozes for 17 to 18 hours at a stretch and evinces little interest In things around him. . Prison officials are convinced that his condition Is serious. The Attorney-General caused a thorough Inves tigation to be made before approving his removal. HANTHEY ADMITS GUILT; PAROLED Fredrick Manthey, pleaded guilty to a charge of shoplifting In Judge Campbell's Court Saturday, was given an indeterminate sentence of from one to seven years and paroled. Manthey admitted that he had stolen from a department store on Sat urday nights for almost two years. He has obtained work and will report to the sheriff once a month for sev- eral years. C Schuebel appeared In court for Manthey. X. D. Damara, a Filipino, and Del- man McConnell oleaded eulltv and ere given sentences of from one to jRANKFR ESTABLISHED 18M HAWLEY PROMISES TO WORK FOR CITY CONGRESSMAN WILL USE EF FORTS TO OBTAIN LOCKS AND PUBLIC BUILDING. DISTINGUISHED CHEST CETS OVATION "Oregon City Is Busiest 8pot In My Whole District," Declares Visitor At Big s Meeting. - POINT8 FROM HAWLEY. Uncle Sam Is the meanest rent - payer on earth. The moBt common things In i Washington are greatness and eloquence. I am going to get you a public building Just as soon as I can. Oregon City Is the busiest spot - In my whole district so far as values In manufacturing euter- prises are concerned. It Is not capital alone that ? makes a country. The first thing to make a country Is Its people. After a man has been on a '? homestead six months, be should r9 not be dispossessed except by due 4 process of law in the courts of ihe I'nlted States. . . Congressman Hawley waa greeted Tuesday night by a large and enthus iastic tody of men ln the rooms of the Commercial Club, and after listen ing to bright and entertaining talks on the needs of the city, be made an exceedingly neat speech, replete with epigrammatic utterances. He was in troduced by J. E. Hedges, president of the Commercial Club, who first pre sented several of Oregon City's good speakers. B. T. McBaln was assigned the topic of "Bars" and he talked interest ingly of the obstacle to navigation In the Willamette River below Ore-. gon City, referring to the bars at Magone's, Meldrum and Jennings Lodge. "These bars," said Mr. Mc Ealn, "prevent boats from going down to Portland with full loads, and ur veys have been made to give us an open river to the metropolis. With deep water from Oregon City to Port land, we shall be ln a position to de mand terminal rates. We ought to have a minimum depth of six feet during the low water periods, and we want free locks." Rapids Are Drawback. C. D. Latourette was asked to talk on the Clackamas Rapids He refer red to the fact that many prominent Portland men had first come to Ore gon City, but that In the pioneer days It was impossible to secure congres sional appropriations and lack of money prevented clearing out the rapids. J!r. Latourette said the Clack amas Raupids had made Portland the head of navigation. H. E. Cross and Gilbert L. Hedges hid a scheduled tilt relative to the location of the new locks." The form er said that the location of the locks on the East Side or West Side Is not of the highest importance to Oregon City, except as they may affect her growth. He insisted that the loca tion on the East Side would mean the virtual absorption of water power for future development. Mr. Hedges s?'d the East Side locks would give protection to the city In the event of a ilood and that the people of the city should stand behind the recom mendation of the Government engin eers. State Senator Dimlek made a strong plea for a public building and present ed an array of figures to show the growth of the local postofflce, the receipts Increasing In eight years from $8,000 to $17,000. Congressman Hawley talked to the point about the Clackamas Rapids and the free locks. He was not ln a posi tion to express his preference as to the location of tbe locks because of his unfamlllarity with conditions. He is confident that there will be an appropriation In the next river and harbor bill for the removal of the rapids at the mouth of the Clacka mas River. Live Wires to Entertain., The distinguished guest was enter tained at dinner Tuesday night at a local restaurant This morning he will be taken down the river as far as Jennings Lodge on the steamer N. R. Lang leaving Oreogn City at 9:15 ' o'clock, and will return here at noon to be the guest of the Live Wires at their weekly luncheon. Mr. Hawley will not leave for Salem until late Wednesday afternoon. The following menu will be served at the Live Wire luncheon today: Clam bouillon Baked chicken and dressing Cranberry sauce Chicken gravy Mashed potatoes Brown sweet potatoes Bread and butter Celery Beet pickles Asparagus mayonnaise Pumpkin pie Whipped cream Coffee. Hawley Is Feted. Congressman Willis C. Hawley Is the guest of Oregon City today. From the time of his arrival at a point two miles above Oregon City until late last night he was feted aqd enter tained most hospitably. Mr.' Hawley left Salem at 6 o'clock Tuesday morn ing and came down the Willamette River on the steamer Oregona, which was met above Pulp Station by the steamer N. R. Lang, with a large delegation from the Oregon City Com (Con'Jnued on page 4)