Q0N GITY
22nd YEAR
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 9, 1904.
No. 17.
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MAKE TERMS
WITH RAILWAY
Southern Pacific Will Build
Underground 'Crossings.
TO ERECT NEW DEPOT
Railroad Corporation in Ex
Change For Trackage
Rights in City Will
Build Crossings.
The contest, which has been waged
for sevoral years between the South
ern Paciflo and Oregon City, and
which was finally taken to the Su
preme court for settlement, has at
last been adjusted in a manner highly
satisfactory to both praties. At a
special meeting of the city council
Tuesday night the railway company
, in consideration of certain trackage
rights allowed them on land lying
below the bluff which belongs to the
city, agreed to build three under
ground crossing at the intersection
of Third, Seventh and Fourteenth
streets for the accomodation of Ore
gon City people who have cause to
travel from the lower part of the city
to the hill.
The decision of the supreme court
whereby it was stated that -the prop
erty along the bluff claimed by the
Southern Pacific belonged to the city,
was handed down last winter. This
put to rest the claim of the railroad
company in time direction, ana tney
have sinoe entered into negotiations
. with the city officials to confirm their
present trackage rights and to obtain
certain concessions along the same
lines from the oity. '
During the discussion in the coun
cil meeting Tuesday night, it was di
vulged that it is the intention of the
railroad oompany to soon erect a large
new depot on the site of the present
structure. This step is taken in order
to better accommodate the constant
ly increasing traffic here. The pres
ent depot has outlived its usefulness
and has ceased to be adequate to
meet the demands made upon it.
Nothing further will be given out
by the railroad oompany than that
they have plans under consideration
now for building a large depot here.
General Superintendent J. P.
O'Brien, Superintendent L. R.
Fields, Attorney W. D. Fonton and
Engineer J. BLDonald of the South
ern Paciflo were present and made the
proposition from the railroad com
pany which was finally aocepted. The
matter was thoroughly discussed, and
the city's interests were carefully
looked after. It was believed that as
the proposed improvements will cost
about $19,000 to build the oity is get
ting its money's worth in making the
deal. The new orossing will do away
with a large part of the danger which
is now present when residents of the
city cross the tracks, going either up
or down the hill.
The railroad company will build
three subways under their tracks seven
feet high and eight feet wide for pe
destrians at the crossings of Third,
'' Seventh and Fourteenth streets, and
one twenty feet wide by fifteen feet
high where the South End road will
enter the city.
In return for these improvements,
the city will grant to the railroad
company the right to maintain their
present tracks, and in addition there
to to build a siding 1200 feet long on
the east side of their present tracks,
as well as a second siding 450 feet long
in a northerly direction. The com
pany will be allowed to maintain their
present section houses and to erect a
new watering tank of a capacity of
65,000gallons 100 feet north of the site
of the present tank.
An ordinance providing for these
changes will be drawn up and passed
by the council soon. After the city
has ordained to the above effect, the
Southern Pacific will commence con
struction on the subways.
Swarm to Hop Fields.
Last Saturday there was a veritable
swarm to reach the hopfields from
this city and neighborhood. It is
estimated that 500 people left Oregon
City on Saturday alone. The boats and
trains were already crowded when
they reached this point and the bats
refused passage to many on account of
their crowded condition. Owing to
the shortage of the hop crop and the
good prices paid for picking, it is said
there is a surplus of pickers, who will
not be able to get work. Picking was
generally commenced this week.
Will Burn OIL
Work was commenced this week on
excavations at the woolon mill for
two large oil tanks which will hold
fuel oil for the boilers of the mill,
The tanks will be made of steel and
it will require a month to erect them.
So soon as the necessary apparatus
can be installed, the mill will discern
tinue the burning of wood altogether.
The orude petroleum will be shipped
to the mill in tank cars on the line
of the Oregon Water Power & Rail
way Company, a spur from whose
tracks will be run into the mill yards
where the tanks will be located.
' Tho oil has proved an ideal fuel at
both the paper mills aoross the river
and there is no reason to believe that
it will not be fully so successful at
the woolen mill. Besides being
cheaper, it is muoh easier handled
and furinshes a steadier heat. Before
the introeduction of oil at the paper
mills, about 200 cords of wood were
burned every 24 hours by the three
large manufacturing establishments
of this city. This was expensive and
inconvenient to handle. The intrO'
duct ion of crude petroleum has appar
ently solved the fuel problem in this
oity f or manufacturers.
M0LALLA GRANGE NO. 310.
The Members Eat Ice Cream, and
Plan
the Winter's Work.
Molalla Grange No. 810 had a very
pleasant and profitable -meeting Sep
tember 3rd. Although it oame right
in the midst of the stir and exodus to
the various hopyards, the "faithful
few" that tarried yet a little while,
demonstrated that where there is a
will there is a way of overcoming
seemingly unsurmountable difficulties.
While gathered around the table
spread, Oak Point ice cream was
bei.das a "cooler . Alter tne lit
erary program, a peanut contest was
suggested by the sisters, which was
soon declared the order of the hour
and for fifteen minutes much amuse
ment prevailed in transferring peanuts
on case knives into the enemy's fort.
A contest is to begin with the regular
October meeting and continue until
next March. The highest point of
merit is to be given for prompt attend
ance at all meetings ; next highest will
be original productions.
By order of the grange the Worthy
Master appointed a grange reporter
whose duty it will be to report to
county and state papers desiring
grange news.
The subordinate grange by-laws
recommended by the state grange
will be adopted at the next regular
meeting. The question chosen lor
discussion in October is "Which is the
more profitable to keep on the farm,
cattle or sheep. '
The clerk of the bureau of informa
tion had chalked on his bulletin
board" 25 Angora Goats for Sale.
Sawtell Bros. "
In absence of the organist, Bro.
Alvin Perdue, the youngest member,
presided at the organ. When the ga
vel fell for the day completed, mem
bers congratulated one another for the
enjoyment of being present.
Ill of Heart Disease.
A man giving the name of O'Day
was suddenly taken sick on Main
street Sunday, and was unconscious
for sometime. He was taken in hand
by the physicians and put in the city
jail. He was able to be about the
next day. The man is a sufferer from
heart disease and often takes such
spells as he suffreed Sunday.
End of Bitter Fight.
"Two physicians had a long and stub
born fight with an abscess on my right
long" writeB J, F. Hughes, of DuPont'
Ga. "and gave me up. Everybody
thought my time had come, As a lust
resort I tried Dr. King's New Discovery
for Consumption. The benefit I received
was striking and I was on my feet in a
few days. Now I've entirely regained
my health." It conquers all Coughs,
Colds and Throat and Lung troubles
Guaranteed by Howell and Jones Drug
Store. Price 50c, and $1.00. Trial bot
ties free.
Sells Farm to Illinois Mao.
Ex-Sheriff J. J. Cooke this week
negotiated the sale of 83 acres of farm
property belonging to A. W. France
to J. H. Heater, late of Ilinois. The
price paid was $1600. The land lies
about three miles from the city in an
easterly direction.
SHOOTS HIS
PARAMOUR
Geo. Lauth Shoots Woman of
Whom He Was Jealous.
SHOT IN COLD BLOOD
Gambling Man Resents Fa-.
miliarty of Woman With ,
Other Men and Takes
Terrible Revenge.
Mad with jealousy because his para
roour, Mrs. Lenora Jones, spent her
time with other men, George Lauth,
a reoent arrival in this city, fired four
shots at her last Tuesday morning,
three of which took effect. The
shooting occurred at the home of the
woman's fathor, J. - M. Wood, the
place being situated on the corner of
Fourth street and Railroad Avenue.
Coming to the house at 9 o'clook in
the morning, Lauth pulled a blue
steel, hmnmerless ,38-caliber revolver
and fired point blank at his common
law wife, a bullet in the abdomen be
ing especially severe.
As she fell to the floor, he dashed
from the house, but was followed by
Mr. Wood, the woman's father,
Lauth offered no resistance as soon as
he got from the house, but waited to
be taken to the county jail. Consta
ble Trembath took him in charge and
soon landed him behind prison bars.
Meanwhile Drs. Norris and Carl!
were called to attend the woman, who
in a desperate condition. At
noon she was taken to the hospital in
Portland, where an operation was re
sorted to to save her life.
The cause of the shooting was sup
posed to be' jealousy because the wo
man, with whom he wag infatuated,
allowed the' attentions of other men.
She bad been away on a visit at Rose
burg for some time, but returned here
Sunday in company with a Southern
Paoifio engineer. The two went to
Portland and the next morning Mrs.
Jones returned alone. This visit is
supposeed to have roused the ire of
Lauth, and he went after the woman
in a premeditated fashion. He is
said to have showed his revolver to an
acquaintance the same . morning and
remarked that "this is the last day. "
After he was placed in jail, he
seemed to realize the rashness of his
conduct and said he was sorry for what
he had done, and that he had better
have gone away. 1 He eagerly asked
for news of the woman and expressed
himself as glad that she was resting
easily at that time. He said that he
had first met the woman in Aberdeen,
Washington, about two years ago.
She later deserted her husband and
the two lived as man and wife. A
dispute about the possession of a
diamond ring was one of the things
which led to the trouble and in a state
ment made just before being taken to
Porlaud to the hospital, Mrs. Jones
said that she was about to leave Lauth,
and the division .cf certain property,
such as the diamond was the chief
cause of the trouble.
Lauth will be given his hearing
Friday, and he will then plead. It is
understood lie will enter the plea of
not guilty and will stand trial. At
tornev Grant Dimick has been en
gaged by the man to conduct his de
fenso. During the week the man has
been very nervous and realizes keenly
his serious position. He says that his
home is in Sparta, 111., where his
mother lives. He has a brother in
Washington. He gieg hia age at 24
years, and is said to have been a gam
bier by occupation before he came
here, he having worked in the Port
laud Olub in Portland.
One of his limbs is an artificial one,
he having met with an accident some
years ago wlrlch rendered him incapa
ble of hard labor and he took to gam
bling for a living. In appearance
he is not a bad looking man and shows
considerable education in his talk.
Mrs. Jones died from her wounds at
an early hour Wednesday morning at
the Good Samartian hospital. Before
her death she made the following
ante-mortem'statement :'
"Knowing that I am about to die,
the following is true :
"The man who shot me is George
W. Lauth. I had been going with
him two or three years.
"It happened at my father'
house
in the bedroom across the
halL I
asked liini for the things he had of
mine in Portland. He said he wanted
the things he had given me, and I
said he was wolcome to them. He
then said he wanted me, but I told
him he could not have me because of
the dirty, mean letters he had written
in which he cursed me, swore at me
and called me names.
"He said he would have me and
then grabbed me and held me against
the wall and shot me. Before I went
to Rosebnrg I told him I would have
nothing more to do with him and
after my return from Roseburg, I re
fused to see him. He wrote a letter
to me at Roseburg and said he would
kill me, but I have not the letter as
burned it. "
I Lauth will be taken from his cell in
the oopnty jail today and given
chance to plead to the charge of mur
der in the first degree. His attorneys,
Geo. C. Brownell and G. B. Dimick,
state that the plea of not guilty will
be entered. When told of the death
of his victim, Lauth showed every in
dication of "extreme penitenc9 and
sobbed aloud. He now realizes the
terrible position in which his folly
has placed him and the probable con
sequences of his acts. ' Should he be
hanged as now seems likely, he will
be the first white man ever executed
for murder committed ,in this county
In early days there were four Indians
hancod here for the murder of white
men. Others have been sentenced to
death but sentence has been com
muted. Wilson the Milwaukie mur
derer, escaped hanging only by suicide.
The coroner's jury immpannelled to
inquire into the cause of death of Mrs.
Lenora Jones, thejviotim of the insane
jealousy of George W. Lautk on Tues
day, Thursday morning returned the
following verdict :
"We the jury impannelled to inves
tigate the cause of death in the case of
Mrs. Lenora Jones, find that her name
was Lenora B. Jones, and that she
was aged about 28 years, and that she
came to her death at the Good Samari
tan hospital, Portland Oregon.
"We find that Qeorge W. Lauth pur
posely and of deliberate and premedi
tated malice' killed said deceased by
shooting her with a pistol September
6, 1904, about 9:80, a. m. . in Oregon
Oity, TJlaokamas county, Oregon, in
a house located on the south side of
Fourth street between Main street and
the Southern Paoifio railroad, from
the effeots of whioh shooting said de
ceased died September 7, 1904. Dated
September 8, and signed by J. S.
Purdom, . B. Moore, J. A. Tufts,
John Younger, W. W. H Samson,
A. M. Frost."
TO ADVERTISE STATE.
Judge Ryan Leaves for the South With
Lots of Literature.
County Judge T. F. Ryan, accom
panied by his wife, loft Saturday
last for San Francisco, CaL, where
he will attend the Knights Templar
convention and later the Odd Fellows'
convention at Los Angeles. While
away Mr. and Ms.' Ryan will also
visit Long Beach.
Judge Ryan took with him a gen
erous supply -or aavertising matter
pertaining to the state and to the
Lewis and Clark Exposition which
he will distribute to the best advant
age. The Exposition commission
armed the Judge with a large supply
of pamphlets telling all about the
coming Exposition and he will scatter
these about where they will attract
the most attention. Attended as the
two big conventions will be by dele
gates from all over the country, ju
dicious advertising of this sort will
nrobably prove most valuable to the
state..
MAKE SHORT CUT.
Electric Line to Portland Will Reduce
i Time of Trip.
Commencing this month the Oregon
Water Power & Railway Company
will run their Oregon City cars over
a cutoff from Sellwood to the eastern
end of the Madison street bridge,
thus cutting off a large part of the
distanco from this city to Portland
and reducing the time necessary to
make the trip. The way traffio
through Sellwoood , and other way
points will thus be hauled over the
Sellwood cars. Assistant Superinten
dent Fields states that the trip will
then bo made in 40 minutes from Ore
gon City to Portland.
The cars will take the new tracks
at the golf links and run along the
river bank to the Madison bridge.
This will be a decided! advantage to
passenger traffic from this place, do
ing away with a large number of
stops along the old line.
WAS OREGON'S
FIRST CAPITOL
Building Now Occupied by
Wilhelm Tell House
LEGISLATURE MET THERE
Hostelery Was This Week
Sold by Former Owner to
Business Man From
t Eugene.
Uhe Wilehlm Tell House yesterday
changed hands, the new owner of the
hostelry, J. N. Woods, formerly of
Engene, taking charge of the proper
ty. The sale was made 'during the
past week, ' the consideration being
12000 for the hotel business and furui-
ture. A. H. Griessen, the retiring
proprietor still remains in control of
the bar, while the building is owned
by Portland parties. Mr. Woods has
been in business in Eueene for the
past five years.
The building which the hotel occu
pies was the first capitol of the state
and for nearly 10 years hold that dis
tinction. In the old days from 1840
to 1850 when Oregon City was the cen
ter of the official life of the state, the
legislators met upstairs in what is now
the Wilhelm Tell House. During to
the reign of the Provisional govern
ment, which was organized in 1848
and oontinned until '49, this building
was the official capitol. In 1849 the
territorial government oame into force
with Govrenor Lane at- its head. The
first session of the legislature under
t he new regime met here, but the
capitol was soon moved to Corvallis,
where it remained only a short time,
after whioh H wont to Salem. 4
The building was ereoted at an early
date by J. L. Morrison, who wfcen last
heard from was still living on the
Sound. At the time , the upper part
of the building was occupied by the
legislators of the state, the same hall
Yvnouaou ujwio iuasuui at) a loage
room. ,
At the time when this old hotel
figured so prominently in early Ore
gon history, the government of the
state was directed by Clackamas and
Yamhill counties which were larger
in extent at that time and were the
only organized counties in the state.
Later , Washington and Marion be
came counties. Prior to 1850 Clacka
mas county occupied an immense ter
ritory, stretching from the Rocky
Mountains in the east to the Willam
ette river in the west and south to the
California line. It also extended to
the Canadian boundary on the north,
but went as far west as the crest of
the Cascades.
Of this immense territory Oregon
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City was the official center. Gov
ernor George Abernethy had his resi
dence at Green Point, but the site of
his house, which stood on the river
bank, has been washed away by the
high water. The old walled brick
well whioh stands on the river bank
just below the Abernethy was his old
well At that time the Legislature
was of courso much smaller than at
present, but those prominent in the
early history of the state gathered
here for the session of the Legisla
ture. John G. Campbell, Kilbnrn,
Lovejoy, Tavaulat, Gov. Abernethy
and Dr. John MoLaughlin were then
familiar figures in Oregon City's
streets. This old building is observed
with a good deal of veneration for it
marks the first civil government in
the immense territory whoih has since
been divided up into many state
Hatching1 Salmon At Salmon RJ er.
Master Fish Warden H. G. Van
Dusen Jwaa in the oity last Thursday
and said "that there were at present
about 1,300,000 Chinook salmon eggs
being hatched out at the Salmon
River hatchery, fiom which he had
just returned. A dam across Salmon
River is being built to facilitate the
take of salmon for spawning pur
poses, as raoks which have been used
heretofore, . have proved unable to
withstand the current of tho river and
have been repeatedly washed out.
The dam will be permanent and will
render the work of taking salmon
easy.
01 Interest To Sick People.
We have all the sympathy in
the
world for Bick people, and want to treat
tbem in a serious way. Tbere la no
humor In pain and affliction, but hard
earnest tact. It is Impossible fori the
patient to impress on others the extent
of suffering tbey endure, and their
anxiety for relief. To get well or be re
lieved is their one thought any remedy
that will, bring this about has their
verlarting gratitude. We have thou
sand! ol letters from people who have
had dyspepsia, sick-hedache and bilious
attacks, who tell us bow thankful they
were for having need Dr. Gunn'i Im
proved Liver Pills. They are old at all
drag stores for 25o per bos. Only one
for a dose. These piUa ramova the
cause of disease and make the skin clear
and healthy looking.
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Moves to Make More Certain.
A motion in the case of Dr. E. A.
Sommer vs Lizzie Ropple was filed
,nring the past week whereill attor,
f, ha AatanAt mnv Hmfc th
complaint make more definite and cer
tain the allegations against their
client and that the plaintiff speoify
definitely what . professional services
are unpaid for.
Child Burled Sunday.
Jame Riggs, the 14-months old son
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Riggs, . of
Clackamas Heights, died Saturday
afternoon and 'was buried from the
residence Sunday afternoon, Rev.
Father Hillobrand of St. John's Catho
lio church officiating.
Marriage lioenses were iBsued on
Saturday to JosephJSobeskl and Mary
Boy lan j Houry W. Jewett and Jane
Bailey.
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