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QTY ENTEK'PKIS IMlM! OREGON Th Waaaljf (MarprlM I worth h rlc. Cam. ear II with Mhin n4 thsn tubacrib. FIFTY flHtT YIAH-N0 7. OltKdOX CUT, OKWJON, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 16, 1917. CITABLIIH tO 1M ROAD CODE BILL IS APPROVED LOWER HOUSE MtAoum providing for cre ATION OF NEW BOARD It OIV IN OFFICIAL IANCTION. ' PROMISES OF OLD COMMISSION ARE NO! TO BE REPUDIATED Nw Ira Road Ballavad to B Bafa Although Administration of Fundi Is Passsd Ovar Into Nw Handa. PA I.EM. Or., Fob. . (Special) , Tha ubatltute road cod blil. A mvae lira of groat Interest In Clnckamaa county, paascd (he house today. It provides fur three commissioners lo b named by tha governor, one (mm each congressional district Each man la to bold offlr Hire year, but Ilia lerma of tha Oral thra comnile Ion era will ba arranged to vary aa to eiiilrallon. Will Ralsa Road Fundi. A on fourth mill tax la to t based by tha tai cominlsalun against each roiinty for road funds. Thn money la to ba eipcnded; first. for tha expenec of tha department and: aeoond for tha maintenance of highway already Improved and con structed; third, to meet federal aid; and fourth, for the construction of secondary stst htghwaye. Counties may asslnt In the mainten ance of state hUhwaya, but In sum not t oiceed 10 per cent of the amount eipcnded for such mainten ance, Naw Road Bafa. Tb highway engineer la provided for. Convict labor may also be used Tha present highway commission will Insist that all agreements mada by It are at least moral obligations to be fulfilled by tha Incoming commission In casa tha road code becomes a law It la certain that $15,000 aet aside by tha old commission for the Now Era road In Clackamas county will not be repudiated by the new commission. Mian burs of tha hlghwaya commit teo explained In speaking for the bill that tha committee endeavored to lay asldo every sectional feeling In the matter and tried to send In a aubstl Into bill which would bo of advantage to every county In tha stato. The state hlKhway department, un der tho measure, will also have super vision of all work done by counties on statu highways. Auto Owner Mut Dig Up Twice at Much as of Yore for Their License '8AI.KM. Or., Feb. 12,-UccnHes on automobiles and automobile trucks are to tin doubled under provision, of a bill pasai'd by tho house today and tho proceeds will bo nppllod to tho Hluto highway fund for distribution In counties outside, of Multnomah. This bill la a part or tno legislative road program; waa prepared by tho joint liouso and cennto commlttoo on ronda and hlgliwnys, and In a compan ion to tho gonoral road codo put through tho Iiouho lnat week. It la expnetod to rulHO approximately $3X0,000 tn cash noxt year and to In creaso from your to year as tho num ber of 'autoinohllos In tha state In crease, To Beer, $180.75; By Cash ??? "Evils of tho liquor traffic nro bo. Inn folt koonly by tl'0 holm of tho old Olympic Brewing company. - Chief among said evils la a bill for 1180.75 worth of beor. Fnuik Schmidt, who heads tho nffulro of the discrjjunlisod browing concom, alleges In a milt filed Fri day that J. W- Johnson, formor sa loonkeeper, bought the beor but ' novor paid for It. King Boone Is dead; Schmidt hope to mako his ghost walk. Division Board Doesn't Act on Dickey Petition After much dlBcuBslon, the county school district division board Friday doforred action on a petition asking that almost an entire township now Included In District No. 10, known as Engnl'a district, be cut off an attached to Dlckoy's prairie, district. Tho land Involved Is valued at $400, 000, but only three children would be affected by the change. 1 According to the petitioner tt change would give Dickeys' prairi AT Hrandlnavlan day at tha alata fair will I mi observed this year Jimt aa th Ullo years. I Jr. Jobu O. Hull baa been named by tha iat fair board aa director for tha day. Dr. Hall la member of tha Willamette University faculty, la of Norwegian descent and la well known by tha Hrandlnavlan people, throughout the stale. Ills name was presented lo the hoard by Itev. John Ovall who organized the Idea of a Hrandlnavlan day at the fair and who had charge of that day for two successful yeara. Jtev. Mr. Ovall la of Swedish descent but thought It advisable to suggest tha nam of a man of Norwegian descent so that different factor among th Hcamllnavlan people b represented. The day will be on Friday of fair week. F PERSONALITCS FLOW FREELY WHEN CLACKAMAS MAN IS ACCUSED OF PERSECUTION COMES BACK, SAYS OLSON IS TOO THICK WITH PAVING CONCERNS Force Bill Through Snat to Bring Suit to Test th Validity of Pav ing PaUnts Held by War ran Company. SALEM, Or., rh. 14. (Spoclal) Bonator Dlmlck this morning gained substantial victory whon his bill authorizing tho stato highway commis sion and the. attorney general to en ter suit to contest the validity of pat ents waa punned by tho acnatu. Iilmlck nindo an attack on tho War ren Construction company nnd the Coast Bridge compr.ny. Ho and Oltion ongnr.ed In pernonalltlea when Olson accused Dlmlck of attempting to per secute thoaa companies and Dlmlck hurled backtthu chnrgo that Olflon was warmer In their defense than any member of tho ainato should bo. Dlmlck also nindo tho demand on Olson (lint ho report out from his com mittee, Dlmlck' bill proposing to al low freo completion of bidding on road work, and his demand was upheld by a vote In tho senate - COUNTRY OVER SELF HAW LEY SLOGAN ''America first; nafoty socond!" This Is tho new slociiQ just adopted by tho Hawlcy Pulp & Pnpor company of this city. Printed In bold letters, the slogan will bo placarded throughout evoryone of tho mills. "Tho thing which ennsad us to adopt tho Bloan.V oxplalnod Wtllard Ilnw ley, Jr., yestorday," was our bollef that In thn present International crisis our country Bhoujd bo at till times put be fore our porHotml safoty." It It possible that tho slogan will be carried Into nil departments of the companies buulnons. Mr. Hawlcy stated that tho proposition of putting It on nil stationery of the company was being considered. district an opportunity to Improve Ita school, something It Is claimed It can not do very well under the present division. - It now has a valuation of approxi mately 175,000, while the undivided Engle's district has a valuation of 1000,000. The board did take about 100 acres from the Mark's prairie district and put it on the Lone Elder district The action affect three children. DIN CLASHES WITH OLSON LOOK Or SENATE MORE FACTORIES OBJECT OF YEAR'S COMMERCIAL CLUB COMMITTEE PLANS EFFORT TO INCREASE NUMBER OF PAYROLLS. A campaign to bring more mannfac tilling plant lo Oregon City will form the basis of th work of th publicity committee of Hi Commercial club during the next year. At a meeting of the committee and of subscribers to tba publicity fund held Monduy night In tha Commercial club rooms, It was decided to center tho efforts of the organltatlon on tbla one problem. To this end It waa decided to accum ulate all possible data on available water-power which It might be possi ble for factor!" to use here. Tbla Information will be forwarded to any concern which la considering th erec tion of plant In the I'aclflo northweet. Will Focus Activities. "It Is the hope of tba club to bring aa many factories here aa possible," explained I'resldent K. II. Eby. "And to that end we shall focus our activi ties." At subsequcst meeting of the publi city committee held Tuesday, way and means of forwanding the enter prise were considered. It la agreed that any attempt to better Oregon City by adding to Ita already long list of pay-rolla should be backed not only by the united commercial Interests of the city but by the city In general a well.! Will Make Strong Try. Every opportunity of bringing a new factory hero that offers Itself during the coming year will be sclicd upon and the committee wilt not reuse tta effort until the concern has made ar- rangomenla lo build here or there I not a chance left of Inducing them to come. Oregon City ha a great natural ad vautoge In tho water power offered by the fulls of tha Willamette and the com mlttee Intends that during the yeur of 1917 the world shall coma to know It. WATER BOARD MAY PUT PROPOSITION TO PEOPLE Oregon City has good water an plenty of It nnd to this fact Is attrib uted a posslblo cxtonslon In the city limits to tako In most of tho neighbor- Ins towns. Applications for community service from llio Oregon City-West Una pipe II no have been recolvcd from practi cally every suburb of Oregon City by tho Joint water commission. The possibilities arise. Either tho board can furnish water to these com miinltlos on contr.iot or Oregon City can absorb the:n and furnish servlc just no to any othor part of tho city. ' Here Lies the Rub. Tho rub of tho formor method lies In tho fuct thnt under any contract Oregon City Will havo to spilt the re ceipts with WoRt Linn. Under the prccent arrangement Oregon City owns two-thirds of the pipe lino and Wont Linn owns tho other third. The ronult is that If Orcr.on City soils water It 1ms to pay WeBt Unn one-third ot the rocolpta, whllo It moroly furnished wutor to additional users within ex tended city limits the local vroter board gets all tho funds. For this reason the matter of putt ing tho question or absorbing Glad stono Parkplnce, Clackamas Heights, Canemah and Muplo tana to the vot ers is bolng considered by tho water board. ' Whllo both the people of Oregon City and of tho various communities would have to agree by a strong vote on the Increase In tho size of the city, the wntor board believes that tho peo ple of the smaller towns would gladly come Into tho city In order to obtain water. None of tho towns Is strong enough financially to back an Inde pendent pipe line. Would Show a Profit. Such addition would be a paying thing so far as the vator board Is con cerned, because the amount supplied by the pipe line at the present time Is fr.r In excess ot Hie amount absorbed by tho users. towns, Oregon City would only be fol lowing the example of West Linn, which recently took In Dolton and Willamette. By doing this that com munity added considerably to Its water, receipts without being forood to pay anything more ftito the Oregon City treasury for the additional water used. Withycombe Says He's Against Double Auto License Charge SALEM, Or., Feb. 12. (Special) Governor Withycombe declared him self today as being unalterably and unequivocally opposed to any schema of bonding which will presuppose a largely increased or excess llconse fee upon the owner of the small automobile. PUBLICITY DRIVE Geo. Washington May Be Cause of War;He'saNero I.ONDON, Feb. -An Amer ican negro named George Well ington, a fireman 0,1 the HrtuVh steamer Turlno, was killed when lhat vessel was torpedoed by Herman submarine today, record ing to a report ren-lved by the American embassy from Queens town. On of th survivors la Calvin Hay, an American clllu-n of mimore.l'tah. LOCAL MAN COMES ICTORYBUT UN IS TOO GREAT SALEM, Or, Feb. 14. (Special) Representative Drownell lout the fight of hi career In tha bouse today when bo staged an attack on the GUI bill which would clos Willamette river against commercial fltliing nearly to Oswego. Ta bill passed, despite a stirring speech by wblch he succeeded In mustering 200 vote against the bill. For time it aeemed as though bis effort would protect the Interest of Oregon City coramerclol fishermen, but the tldo eventually turned aKalnst him, largely because of the enormous ef forts of a lobby of Multnomah county sportsmen, which bos been exceed ingly active to socur all benefit of the river. Bread Out of Mouths. "You pass this bill and you will rob 343 fishermen In Oregon City of tholr means ot livelihood' wus the challenge Drownell hurled at I ha members ot the bouse. He declari-d that the need J was not ao much to prevent fishermen from scraping fish out of the hole but to InBtnll an adequate fish ladder to keep the fish from committing sui cide. "I Oregon City the only place where Ash commit suicide by butting their heads against a stone wall," asked Representative Lewis, of Mult nomah. "No! They do it In Port land as well," responded Prownell, amid shouts of other representatives. Now Up To Governor. The bill has now passed both houses and Is up to the governor disptto the determined opposition of Clackamas members in both the senate and house. Drownell's fiKht today was one of tho best witnessed this session in the lower bouse and he received congrat ulations even from members who voted against htm. ORGANIZATION TO MEET AND DISCUSS NEW PLAN At the meeting of the Mount Pleas ant Civic Improvement club held in the Commercial club parlors at that place Tuesday evening arrangements wore mndo for carrying the work of the organization for tho Bummer months, and also for a series ot enter tainments to be given in the near future. As March 20th will be the tonth an niversary of the club, it was decided to celebrate this occasion by giving on entertainment and banquet.. . Since the Mount l'loasant Civic Im provement club was organized much work has been accomplished in the way of beautifying that section of the county and In the way of building sldo walks. One Stdowulk has Just been completed to the Mount Pleasant Bchool house from the city limits. Al together there have been seven miles of sldowalk constructed by this club. It is probable that the club will again be represented at the county fuir at Canby next fall. The organiz ation has always won a first prize ot the fair whenever it has exhibited at the county fair. All the prize winning products have been grown In that sec tion. . Estacada Will Get ' A Slice of State Funds For Its County Fair SALEM, Ore., Feb. 13. (Special) The Stovens bill apportioning a part of the eastern Clackamas county fair funds to Estacada was passed by the house tax Monday. There wo no op position to the bill- According to Its provision Estacada will receive $500 of the (2100 allowed by the state for the staging of the event. IEARV OPPOS WEST LINN FOR ELECT N L ISSUE OF 114,000 MAY BE MADE TO ERECT A MODERN GRAMMAR SCHOOL BUILDINO. PLANS OF ARCHITECTS ARE OH WMM AT MASS MEETING Director Will Call Eltctlon In Lata Than 30 Days! Sentiment De clared To B Strong for Pro posed Improvtmsnt. An election on th sal of bond to i build a 1 1 4,000 school bouse waa auth orized at a mas meeting In West Linn Friday nlgbt. The question will be submitted to the people Just 20 day following the meeting of the school director early next week, Tkls will be the earliest time at which the election can be bold under the law. Many Vot For Plan. More than 74 people were present at the mass meeting. Dy a nearly un animous standing vote the people told the directors to go ahead with the election. Most of the people were from the bill aection, but representative of the Bol ton district reported that the erection of a new school building waa favored by a large percentage of the people there. Will B 15 Year Bonda. The plan for bonding the community la the sale of 114,000 bondh, which are to be retired at the end of 15 years. Drawings and plana submitted by four competing architects wero exhib ited at the meeting. ' The directors, however, will mako the final selection in cane the bond issue passes. W. C. McDonald, chairman ot the board, presided at the meeting, which was held in Sunset school house. J. H. Carey and others spoke in favor ot issuing the proposed bonds. CLACKAMAS MAN PUTS PRETTY FIT AGAINST ANTI-PICKETINC BILL SALEM. Ore-. Feb. 9. (Special) One of the most vigorous fights of the session was made by Representative Ilrownell today against the Kublt antl- picketlng bill. His argument was the outstanding feature ot the debate. Although he was unable to stem the tide which swept onward In favor of tho measure, Brownell made a heroic effort to bring about its defeat and the bill was only passed by a scanty mar gin and without the emergency clause bolng attached. Bill a Bugaboo. The antl-plckcting bill has been one of the bugaboos of the legislators, and many ot them have been afraid to open their mouths' relative to Its merits or demerits. Eut Brownoll made a fear less and bitter attack on its provisions and his speech clearly swung many votes against the bill. Union labor, the grange, the For mers' union and many other forces were behind the movement to crush the bill if possible, and its assured that if the measure passes it will be promptly referred. While the appar ent inclination on the part of ninny members is to pass the buck up to the senate, this did not deter the Clackamas representative from taking the bull by the horns and attempting to hurl the measure back into the teeth of the men behind it. BILL TO REPEAL HEALTH LI SALEM, Or., Feb. 9. Senator Cu- slck's senate bill 2C5, repealing the law requiring health certificates be fore marriage licenses are issued, passed the senate this morning by ti vote of 16 to 11. Senator Cuslck contended that people who could not pass the physical examinations went over to Washington or other states to marry and the effectiveness ot the bill was thereby lost The vote follows: Ayes Baldwin, Barrett, Bishop, Cuslck, Eddy, Garland, Ha ley, Hur ley, La Follett, Lewis, Orton, J. C. Smith, Steiwar, Vinton, Wilbur, Wood, and Moser. Nay Dlmick, Farrell, Gill, Hus ton, Leinenweber, Plence, Shanks, I. S. Smith, Strayer and Vonder Hellen. 0 BONDS JULIUS ViLBUR APPEAL IS READY TO BE SENT ON TO SUPREME COURT With the bill of exceptions settled Friday, tho rase against Julius Wilbur, former proprietor of the Friars' club, who Is under conviction In the atate circuit court on a charge of breaking the prohibition atatute, will be ap pealed at once to tb supreme court Agreement over tha points to be contained In the bill was reached Fri day after a conference between Dep uty District Attorney tiurke and Sena tor C. F. Fulton, of Portland, who la representing tb defendant Wilbur, who waa for a toog time In charge of the resort at Mllwaukle, haa been prosecuted In several court ou tharge growing out of alleged in fraction of the dry statute, a case against blm In the I'nlt-d State dis trict court, charging him with soiling liquor without a government license, wa compromised on agreement of the Internal revenue authorities. DIMICK GETS HIS CONSPIRACY BILL THROUGH SENATE CLACKAMAS SENATOR'S ORATORY MOVES UPPER HOUSE TO PASS FIRST BILL OF KIND. MEASURE IS AIMED AT COLLUSIVE BIDDING ON PAVING CONTRACTS Not a Dissenting Vote Registered Against Proposed Law After Affi davits and Other Evidence Ar Presented. SALEM, Ore, Fob. 1J. (Special) Dimick'i conspiracy statute, designed to prevent collusive bidding on road work, passed the senate today without a dissenting vote. It was the first time that the upper house ever put through such a bill. Several times in past years a ' con spiracy measure has come up to the senate from tho house, only to be killed. Several similar bills. Intro duced in the senate have died there. Tho success of the Dlmlck bill is generally attributed to the speech which the Clackamas senator mr.de In preparation for the passage of the measure. In ono of the best efforts of his car eer Dlmlck addressed the senate, read ing telegrams, letters, and affidavits designed to show that an understand ing existed among paving concerns which was causing the state great ex pense. The bill will now go to the house for consideration. It makes It a punish able offense for paving concerns or road contractors to agree with compet itors as to the amount they shall bid on road or paving work. TOOTHLESS CICARET BILL SALEM, Ore., Feb. lb. (Special) Shorn of Us drastic provisions, the anti-cigaret bill was passed by the house here Monday. After the Sweeney bill had been re called from the senate after Its pass age by the house, a special committee was appointed to operate on it for re moval ot the stinger. Tho revised bill, which provides a penalty against the sale and use of clgarots by minors, received 37 affirm ative votes. SALEM, Ore., Feb. 9. (Special) Brbwnell's bill to abolish the office of county recorder of Clackamas. county passed the house today. The bill pro vides that, it It is made a law, it shall not become effective until the end of ! the nresnnt Ineunihantta' topnt Iwnl years from now. Bridges States His Defense in Sworn Statement to Court After being cited to appear before Circuit Judge Campbell on February 13 and show cause why he should not be punished for contempt of court be cause he attended a council meeting Wednesday night after he had been ousted by an order from the Judge. I. C. Bridges, councilman from the third ward, today filed an affidavit stating his defense. According to the affidavit Bridge TWO BILLS PASS THESENAIEAFTER DIMICK SPEAKS CONSOLIDATION MEASURE ARE EXPECTED TO MAKE BIQ SAV INQ TO THE STATE. LITTLE OPPOSITION FOUND WHEN BILLS ARE EXPLAINED BV ADVOCATE Clackama Man Throw Effort Be hind Proposed Law Called "Real Consolidation" by CoU laagu. 8ALEM. Or.. Feb. 13. Three bill Introduced by th Joint consolidation committee, passed the aenat thla morning with but alight opposition Th first bill passed, senate bill 302, provides for the elimination of on commissioner from the s'ate Indus trial accident commission. Senator. Dlmlck, chairman of tha consolidation committee of the ann ate. In speaking for the paaaage of the measure, declared that there wa no dealre on the part of the mcmbere of the committee to interfere tn any way with the workmen's compensa tion act "By pasalng tbla measure we are avlng the taxpayers approximately $9600 biennially in eliminating the salary of one commissioner and cut ting down clerical work and reducing the salaries of the two remaining commissioners from $3(00 to $3000 annually," declared the Clackama county aenator. "The work now be ing done by three commissioners will be done by two, and In case of a dis agreement the commission physician will be called upon to act as a me diator." "Real Consolidation." Tbla Is real consolidation," de clared Senator Pierce, who hereto fore has held out against any form of consolidation. President Moser declared that he was tn favor of the bill and that it was the . most - Important measure that had been introduced by the com mittee. On the grounds that It was an at tempt to finally do away with the commission. Senator I. S. Smith op posed the bill, saying be believed that the efficiency of the commis sion would be retarded by, such a consolidation measure. Senator Hus ton declared that he had received a large number of telegrams from em ployers of labor, expressing satisfac tion with the commission in its pres ent working form and expressing a desire to see it remain as it now is. The senators who voted against the measure wore: Baldwin, Hus ton, Handley, Leinenweber, Olson, I. S. Smith and Von der Hellen. Dlmick Speaks for Both. Senate bill 303, alBO Introduced by tho consolidation committee, and providing for the placing of the In dustrial welfare commission and the child labor commission under the control and supervision of the labor commissioner, passed . unanimously. Senator Dlmlck declared that . by this consolidation the state would be saved about 6000 in two years. The act takes the appointive power away from the governor and gives the labor commissioner power to make appointments in the case ot a va cancy on the board of inspectors of, child labor or on the board of the In dustrial welfare commission. " Senate bill 304, also passed by a unanimous vote, is a companion bill to Benate bill 302. It provides that is case employers have failed to install and maintain safety appli ances In accordance with the law there shall be no duplication In the work of the industrial accident com mission and the commissioner of la bor so far as inspections are con cerned. MARRIAGE LICENSE. A marriage license was issued Wed nesday to Henry Peter Klinker, of George, Oregon, and Flora Annie Mar garet Johnson, by County Clerk Har rington. Other marriage licences were issued to George Earl Bentley, of route 2, Oregon City, and Letha Viola Crites- a-. t-. n . . rp 4 11.1.-1.. ., i . . ta L. Waldron. attended the meeting on advice of hla lawyers, who bad previously filed 'an appeal of bis case to the supreme court. Following that meeting, the state ment says, Bridge agreed with bis at torneya that be should not vote at coming aesslons, altHough he should attend in order to see that the people cf his ward were protected.