TY COURIER
22nd YEAR
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPT, U , 1904.
No. 17.
OREGON
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S.P. FRANCHISE
POSTPONED
Membessof City Coun:ilSeek
More Light
ORDINANCE IS DRAWN
Meeting Next Monday When
Ordinance For Third St.
I Improvement Will Be
Passed.
special
to con
to the
""The city council held a
meeting last Monday night
aider the proposed franchise
Southern Paciflo Co. , granting to the
company an additional right of way
on Railroad Avenue, and permitting
the construction, operation and main
tainence of certain side r tacks, water
tank, tool and section houses and
water columns.
Under an agreement entered into at
a recent meeting of the council be
tween the officials of the 8. P. Co.,
and members of the city counicl, the
company has agreed, in consideration
of these privileges, to construct an
underground team crossing at Third
Street and pedesrtian underground
crossings at Fourth and Seventh
Streets.
Mayor Dimck and all of the ooun
cilmen were present at the meeting
and the body resolved itself into a
committee of the whole, JJwith Coun
cilman Sheahan in the chair. The
ordinance was read section by section
and after some discussion it was de
cided to postpone the whole matter
until next Monday evening, when a
special meeting will be held for the
purpose of voting on the final passage
o f the ordinance for the improvement
of Third Strreet. The Southern
Paciflo Company will be requested to
send up an engineer to be present at
this meeting, confer with the council-,
in order that the track routo may be
more definitely located.
The committe on streets and public
property was authorized to purchase
500 cubic feet of orushed rock for the
improvement of Molalla Avenue.
Mr. Sheahan stated that Jackson
Street had never been accepted by the
city and he desired every member
of the counoil to make an inspection
of the improvements on this street
before the next meeting.
for the degenerate remnant of a once
noble race, and exalts them into
martyrs clothed with attributes which
they do not possess. Col. Cooper's
characters are full-blooded Indians
in every sense. Not only this, but
the plot develops so naturally, so in
accord witli the well-known traits of
the aborignes, that one may drift
along with the story, unconscious of
the fact that only a master hand conld
have written it ; for the highest art
is that whioh conceals art.
From Wealth to Poverty.
Thomas Devine, a well known resi
dent of this city, was hned $20 on
Friday by City Recorder Curry for
begging on the streets. His case is a
somewhat aggravated one, made more
so by the ' fact that he was at one
time wealthy, it being estimated that
he was worth t200,000. He once op
erated a bank in the state of Washing
ton, and has of late years been a tim
ber cruiser. While under the influ
ence of liquor he would solicit small
sums of money with which to buy
drinks. His sentence was remitted
with the understanding that he would
leave town and not return for six
months. He promised to do this and
immediately left the city.
Will Sell Highland Store.
Marshall Bros. , who have conducted
a store at Highland for the past year,
will dispose of their business there
in a short time, having purchased a
general merchandise business at Rns-
sellville, a suburb '. of Portland, of
which they will take possession Octo
ber 1. They have already had several
offers for their Highland business.
Will Marshall has been clerking tem
porarily in Huntley's book store this
week.
PICKERS RETURN.
Oswego Qrauge Will Hold Fair.
Editor Oregon City Courier:
Oswego Grange No. 175' held its regu
lar meeting Saturday, Sept. 10th.
The attendance was the smallest dur
ing the year as is usual during the
hoppicking season , bfit those that
were present had enough work to do for
this meeting was a regular
business meeting. One member was
instructed in the third and fourth de
grees and one in the first and second,
and we have now a membership of
over 80.
Oswego Grange will hold a fair and
Pomona day combined at its next meet
ing, October 8th; dinner will foe
anrvod of On pnnta a nlntft n.nd ice
cream and peanuts and home-made
caudy will be sold.
As it is our desire to make money
as wo must have a new roof, all are
invited. Farm products will be on
exhibition and a short program will
be had in the afternoon with the doors
open to all. Some of the Bulletin
'questions were discussed, there' not
being time for all. Reporter.
An Interesting Story oi Indian Life.
Thoroughly acquainted with Indian
character, Col. J. 0. Cooper, in the
Yamliills, has given us a story of Indian
life that i hard to match in litera
ture pertaining to the aboriginal
American. The Indians in James
Feunimore Cooper's novels are au
tomatons, interesting only as they are
associated with the one great character
that that writer created Leather
stocking. Col. Cooper's Indians are
living, thinking human beings, sav
ages it is true, but human for all
that. Helen Hunt Jackson's India
characters were depicted by one who
knew the race only superficially and
as modified almost to the point of
transformation by contact with the
white race. Mrs. Jackson, possessed
of an abnormally sensitive nature,
and deeply moved by the wrongs in
flicted on the Indian, descends, at
times, into almost maudlin sympathy
Many Are Disappointed At Conditions In
Hopyards and Leave.
During the past wek many hund
reds of disappointed hoppickers have
returned to their homes from the up
per valley, where they expected to
help harvest the hop crop. They went
expecting no trouble in securing
work at fifty .pents vper box. Much
to their disappointment they found
that in the Butteville district the
highest price being paid is forty cents,
and a large majority of Japanese are
in evidence in about all the yards.
These foreigners work by contract and
are paid only about twenty-five cents
per box for pioking.
In this county a good crop is re
ported, free from all sorts of insects
including he red spider. While the
yield is not so heavy as usual, the
quality is even bettor. Harvesting of
the crop in this county has been gen
eral during the past week. The new
Bill yard below town commenced pick
ing on Monday.
Two Men Sent to Asylum.
Rev. Mathews, of Canby, was
brought to this oity Monday morning
by Chief of Police Evans, charged
with insanity. Matthews is past 80
years of age, and is unable to take
care of himself and is suffering from
a religious mania. ,The old man is
really a physical wreck, and has a
mean disposition and his fellow citi
zens at Canby do not feel very kindly
disposed toward him. He was exam
ined Tuesday afternoon by Justice
Stipp and committed to the insane
asylum and was taken to Salem Tues
day night by Sheriff Shaver and Con
stable Trembath.
Jim Taylor, a dope fiend, was ar
rested Sunday at Parkplace, and
placed in the county jail, charged
with insanity. He is a habitual user
of morphine and is crazed when un
der the influence of the drug. Tues
day afternoon he was committed to the
insane asylum where he will receive
treatment.
MAD PARSON
SHOT TO KILL
Rev. S. Martin Fires Twice at
Ed Wollman
WOUNDS ARE NOT FATAL
ence
Preacher Angered at Interfer
of Another, Who
Protested Against His
Beating Child, i
Sues For Divorce.
Suit has been commenced in the
Circuit Court by Mrs. Marie Tingry
for an absolute decree of divorce from
her husband, C. G. Tingry. She asks
for 50 a month alimony and the costs
and disbursements of the action. Mrs.
Tingry alleges that her husband be
haved in a brutal and inhuman man
ner toward her, and that he called her
vile names. They were married in
Vancouver, Wash., May 24, 1893, and
have one child, a boy of 10 years.
Was Fined Five Dollars.
Harry Clark, half Indian and half
Eanake, was fined $3 for drunken
ness late last week. He paid his fine.
His is an aggravated case, as he
often troubles the city authorities. He
was given a severe lecture by Judge
Curry.
Ed Wollman, who has been em
ployed at Herren's hopyard near Au
rora, was shot Monday morning by
Rev. 8. Martin, an Italian preacher
from Vancouver, Wash. The wounds
are not serious, and with careful
attention the ' wounded man will recover.
Martin, with his family, came up
from Vancouver to piok hops and in a
short time achieved an unenviable rep
u tation for his brutal behavior to
wards the members of his family,
finally resulting in a strong protest
from the other pickers in the yard,
and on Monday morning Martin pre
pared to leave for home in wagon with
his family and camping outfit. While
there are many conflicting reports, it
it seems that Martin, who is a man of
violent and ungovernable temper, be
came angered with one of his sons from
some trifling act of disobedience, and
tied the boy to a fence and beat him
severely. Woolman witnessed this, and
protesetd and finally interfered, where
upon Martin drew a revolver and
shot him : twice, one shot striking
Woolman in the breast and glanced
and the other hitting him in the hand,
taking off two fingers.
indignation against Martin ran so
high in the yard, that it finally cul
minated threats, of lynching, and the
reverend gentleman did not starry,
but stole a bicycle and fled towards
this city.
An account of the crime was at once
telephoned to the officers here, but
the description of the man was vague
and although the poilce kept the
roads closely watched, he was not ap
prehended Monday. His wife and
family came down on Monday night's
train, enroute to their home in Van
couver, and Sheriff Shaver boarded
the train and followed them to Prot-
land, but he saw no one holding com
munication with them who answered
the description he had of the fugitive
parson. A sharp look out is Jbeing
kept for Martin and if he attempts to
hold any communication with his
family, he will be captured. He is
believed to be without money, though
his wife is supplied with funds, and
upon this account, it is thought he
will try to steal into Vancouver under
cover of night.
The shooting was done with a 88-
calibre revolver. A maii giving his
name as Brown, came down toOregon
City Monday night, and stated that
Martin had fired a third shot, which
struck a baby carriage containing a
child.
Frank Woolman, who was shot on
Monday by Rev. S. D. Martin at
Herron's hop yard noar Aurora came
down on Wednesday morning's train
and talked freely regarding the shoot
ing. He is a mere boy in appearance,
and came to the hopyard from Cheha
lis, Wash. , where his parents reside.
He states that lie was camped witli
four others and his pi rty became in
dignant over Martin's treatment of his
step children, and worried the preach
er to sucli an extent that he finally de
cided to take his family and leave the
yard. Wollman says that Martin one
morning early tied one of his children
to a hop pole and left him there in
the burning sun, while the parson
went to the tent and had his break
fast At other times he beat the
children without mercy, and whipped
one of them because the child failed
to remove a bone from the floor of the
tent. Martin warmly resented thejn
terfernce of the others and threatened
them. He offered to fight any one of
them, but said he could not whip a
crowd and also stated that if ever they
laid hands on him, he would shoot
them. TiiO men knew that Martin
carried a gun-, and one of them said,
in his hearing :
"Damn a preacher who will carry
a gun in a hoptyard. He .ought to be
strung up!"
Mrs. Martin took her husband's
part and said his mistreatment of her
children was none of the business of
anyone but themselves. In telling
the story of the shooting, Wollman
said:
lve of ns were camped together,
and when Martin started for home,
we decided to swear out a warrant for
his arrest, on the charge of beating
his children. He secured a wagon
from E. Cornell, a driver in the yard,
and placed his family and camping
outnt in the wagon Monday morning,
and started for Aurora, intending to
take the train here. Martin was on
the seat with Cornell.who was driving
and his wife and three children sat in
the rear of the wagon. I intended
telephoning to Aurora, but finally
decided to go with him, and swear to
a complaint when we reached there.
So Just before they started I jumped
on the wagon, and just as I did that,
he drew his revolver and shot me, but
when I saw him pull the gun, I half
turned, and the bullet struck me on
the chest, glancing off and hitting
me in the palm of the hand, and going
through and smashing sonie of the
bones. Then I jumped to the ground
and Martin shot again, and missed me,
He then jumped on his wheel and rode
away."
Wollman is without funds and Dr.
Geisy, of Aurora, who took care of
his wounds, will have to look to the
county for his money. The injured
man is being held here, pending the
examination of Martin at 2 o'clock
Friday afternoon.
Rev. Martin, who is in Jail at Van
couver, says he is no "Dago," as has
been stated. He will be allowed to
remain at Vancouver until Friday, as
his attorney resides there, and he will
probably secure bondsmen in that
city. He evidently expeots to be bound
over for trial, and is arranging his
affairs accordingly.
Rev. S. Martin, who shot Ed
Woolman at Aurora Monday, was
caught Tuesday morning at Washou
gal, and was otrought to this city
today. He now has to face a
charge of assault with intent to kill,
but says he is not sorry he fired the
shots. His only regret - is that he
"wasted good bullets on , poor men. "
He claims that he can establish that
he fired in self-defense. V '
A dispatch from Washougal states
that Martin is well . known at Van
couver, where he came as an enlisted
man in the Twenty-Eighth Infantry.
He isbelieved to be partially insane,
his mania being religion. After the
shooting near Aurora he followed the
country roads to Troutdale, and there
crossed the Columbia to Washougal.
Here be was found and arrested.
Martin declared that he was never
cruel to his children, and that the
attack on him at Aurora was caused
by the fact that he held himself and
family above associating with others
employed in the hop "fields. This, he
says, made him unpopular.
For this canse, so Martin main
tains, a party was organized to hu
miliate him and "kangaroo" him.
Hearing of this he loaded his family
into his wagonjnnd attempted to leave,
but was attacked. The man he shot
was climbing into the wagon at the
time the shot was fired, and Martin
says he had laid violont hands on
his wife. ,
After beating off his pursuers he
left the family and fled. It was
thought ha would come into this
section of the country, where he had
first lived after leaving the Army,
and this theory proved true.
NEW STOCK OF DRY GOODS
JUST RECEIVED BY
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Dealtr in
General s
Merchandise
8 Bars Perfecion Soap for 25 cents.
Shoes at Greatly Reduced Prices.
Lowest prices and good goods will be our rule.
Goods delivered promptly to an part of city.
Selling real estate is our business. You
know we have sold a : great many farms
within the last year. Letters from East
ern men coming west thi3 fall indicate
lots of customers, and we would like to
have more good farms to sell. List 'your
farmnow and get the benefit of the fall
market. ,
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1 ' Over The Bank of Oregon City.
Death ot Mrs. Curran.
Died, at her home in Ely, Oregon,
September 9, 1904, Dorcas, wife of
Walter Curran. Mrs. Cuurran has
been a patient sufferer for more than
a year. A kind husband, frionds and
neighbors did all in their power for
her comfort, but death is sure to como.
The deceased was aged 33 years, 2
months and 25 days. She loaves a hus
band, three children, two sisters and
two brothers and many friends to
mourn her her death. Funoral ser
vices were held at the Mountain
View church at 2 o'clock September
11th, conducted by Rev. Beaven. In
terment was made in Mountan View
cemetery.' The Artisan Assembly
No. 7, of which the deceased was a
member, attended in a body.
Charged with Serious Crime.
. Robert Trinjble, formerly a black
smith of this city, is in the county
jail, charged with seducing Frieda
Buol, under promise of marriage. The
girl, who is a domestic and works for
a family in West Oregon City, expects
to become a mother in a short time.
Trimble was located and arrested
Tuesdi.y at Grants Pass and Consta
ble Trembath went there Wednesday
morning and brought Tremble to Ore
gon City, where his preliminary ex
amination will be held.
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Superior Service
Lowest Prices
Hearse to Funerals in town $S.oo.
All Caskets, Coffins, Robes, and Lin
ings at same low rate. All work guaranteed first-class.
f. f)0lttiant Undertaker and Embalmer,
Office ona Door North of Courthousa, or at cigar store opposite Bank of Oregon City
I
We Want Your Trade
At Harris Grocery
And are going to make special
inducements to close buyers.
Cash and Small Profits is Cur Motto.
Brunswick House and Restaurant
Newly Furnished Rooms,
Meals at All Hours Open Day and Night
Prices Reasonable.
..Only FirstClass Restaurant in the City ....
Opposite Suspension Bridge, Oregon City, Ore.
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The Pioneer Expressman
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parts of the city. Oregon City, Oregon.
BRICK ON HAND AT
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O. M. B. JONES, Manager.
Yard on the Afcenethy.