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CITY
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31st YEAR
OREGON CITY, ORE., THURSDAY, DEC, 18 1913.
.' No. 30
OREGON
COURIER
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TO SITUATION"
CONSTABLE JACK FROST CRITI
CIZES HIS NEWSPAPER
STATEMENTS
LESS TALK, MORE ARRESTS
Asks Chief Why he Doesn't Come
Thru if he Has the Goods
Editor Courier:
I saw in Sunday's Enterprise, un
der a big heading, some statements
and observations by Chief of Police
Shaw, to which I would also like to
add a few observations . The
Chief says:
"I am aware that a large
number of Oregon City boys
smoke and that they secure the
tobacco in direct opposition to
the state law.
Then why doesn't he stop it, and
why hasn't he arrested the law
breakers? What good does "being
aware" do? If he KNOWS the boys
secure tobacco in direct opposition to
the state law, he must know WHO
sells it to them. And if he DOES
know, why doesn't he arrest them,
rather than to rush into print with
a four flush?
Here's another from the Oregon
Big Chief:
It is almost impossible to
catch or convict a dealer on
this charge, but despite this we
have already made a number of
arrests. I have been keeping
close watch on certain stores in
this city and may arrest one or
two dealers at any time.
If the Burns agency should ever
read this Oregon City would lose its
sleuth. He has "been keeping close
watch" and MAY arrest one or two
dealers any minute. And then again
he MAY NOT.
If he may arrest them any time
he must have the goods on them, and
if he has, why doesn't he act more
and talk less? The fathers and the
mothers of children are more in
terested in what he DOES, than what
he MAY DO.
This reminds me that some months
ago a Portland detective was hired
to locate gambling places in the
city. He located them and reported,
and then his report was "published in
the Enterprise. And there weren't
any arrests.
The Chief says "we have already
made a number of arrests." Who and
when? I have lived in Oregon City
for 21 years and have been on the
police force for 4 years, and I would
like to have the Chief point out this
"number of arrests I"
In the next statement the chief
says:
This matter of the sale of
tobacco to boys has been one
that I have worked on for some
time, but without the combined
efforts of the people of the city
I am almost helpless."
In the first statements he tells
the public he is aware the boys get
the tobacco contrary to law, in the
' second that he has the goods on the
dealers and may arrest them any
minute, and now he wants all the
people of the city to join the police
force and back him up force him to
make the arrest. The people pay Mr.
Shaw to do this work, now why doe3
he shoulder it onto them? ,
Here's another one:
The matter is really out of .
my department Upon the arrest
of a boy for having tobacco in
his possession, it is necessary
for me to turn the case over to
the juvenile court and leave -the
charge in its hands.
Then why doesn't he? As juvenile
health officer, I will promise there
will be something done if he does
turn them over to me. But he will
not do so. He is supposed to patrol
the streets daily and is in a position
to know of these violations. If ho
will give me the information which
he says he has of dealers having sold
tobacco to boys, there won't be any
"MAYS," there will be PROSECU
TIONS. I have instructed the night
force to increase their diligence
and I will see to it that the day
force is on the constant lookout
' in the future even more than
in the past.
Chief Shaw is all there is of the
day force, and I take it he will round
himself up, call himself into the city
headquarters, get in front of a mir
ror and read to himself the riot act.
And if the Chief doesn't obey the
Chief's orders, Chief Shaw may fire
Ed Shaw.
In case I find that there are
any more stores selling tobacco
to minors, I will not wait for
the parents of the boy to make
out the complaint. I will make
it out myself and do my best to
see that the law is carried out
to the letter.
"Any more." Do you get that?
Those who have violated the law
will be given absolution by the High
Priest, but if any more of them sell
tobacco or cigarettes to boys, the
police club will fall.
And he is even going so far as to
rush things. He will not wait for the
parents to do their duty for him, but
will really go ahead and make the
complaint himself. Such moral cour
age in a police officer is certainly
most commendable. If Mayor Albee
hears of it, he will draft him. Just
think of the send of it Really going
ahead without having a father prod
him.
Chief Shaw's recent announcement
of what he WILL do to the saloons
(now that they have been put out
of business) and what he MAY do t
the tobacco dealers, who are yet
business, are some declarations.
The Chief might make an investi
gation of the locker and the bottled
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RISES
goods that have been kept under lock
and key for private use in the jail,
and let the public know all about it.
He might find out where the down
town night force was on Saturday
night when there was a drunken
street fight on the corner of Fifth
and Water streets, and where resi
dents were obliged to get up and
dress.
Jack Frost.
Going Up
The cement foundation, walls for
the new postoffice building are in,
and the wall will now be rushed.
Salmon are Running
Altho the river is high and muddy,
yet some line catches are being made,
and quite a number of fishermeii
spend their spare time on the river.
Finest in the County
J. W. Wilson's cement livery barn
is nearly ready to open, and it is one
of the most modern livery stables in
the country. It covers nearly half a
block, is fire proof and has every con
venience. Winterless Oregon
Christmas is almost here and yet
the Willamette Valley knows no win
ter. To date we have had but one
white frost; not a flake of snow, ros
es in bloom and bud and grass and
foliage as green as in May.
Free Advertising
Oregon City drinking water has so
shady a reputation that one of Bar
low's prominent resident, H. T. Mel
vin, carries his supply of water with
him when he goes to Oregon City for
jury service. Barlow water, by recent
analysis, is shown to be perfectly
pure. Aurora Observer.
SHIFTING
"Mary had a little waist,
Most puzzling to her beau,
For everywhere the fashion went
That waist was sure to go.
"Sometimes it' was beneath her arms,
Sometimes around her knees;
Sometimes she was straight up and
down,
With no waist, if you please."
' On With the Tango
A Portland dancing master is go
ing to teach the Tango to our young
people, so the papers state.
Good! Give us the' ' hoochie-kooch-
ie," the "bunny hug," "Texas Tom
my," pussy cat sneak and all the
rest '
They are so educational, so elevat
ing.
BUILD APARTMENT HOUSES
Convert Dead Property on Lower
Main Into Living Places
On upper Main street, in the old
section of the city, are blocks of ab
solutely dead property, that do- not
bring in a cent of revenue.
Why some wise guinea does not
get hold of some of this and convert
it into flat buildings and rooming
apartments has been the wonder of
the Courier office for two and a half
ye"rs: ....
This city is hard pressed lor places
to house. Day after day men and wo
men hunt the streets for rooms and
suites. Day after day people call at
the Courier office wanting places to
live.
The woolen mills employ about
three hundred people, largely women.
They would enlarge their plant and
increase their output if they could get
the needed help. They could get the
help if the city would accommodate
them.
Women will not live in miscellan
eous rooming houses of the city; it is
almost impossible to find rooms in
private houses, so many a girl or
woman comes here, hunts in vain for
accommodations and gives it up.
A local company could be form
ed here, or private parties could take
hold of it, and make a good invest
ment for themselves in tho city.
On the old vacant property on up
per Main street a big twojjr three
story tenement building could be
erected, furnished with three and
four room apartments, witn private
rooms and furnished rooms, at reas
onable rents, and it would simply
prove a money maker for the invest
ors. It would have to be done right,
and managed right, with a caretaker
constantly to oversee the building.
This matter is one the Live Wires
should keep warm. The city needs
such accommodations.
PLAYING FAVOURITES
Clackamas Writer Scores Tax Assess
ment Methods in this County ,
The following letter, printed in the
Portland Journal, has been sent to
the Courier by a farmer of this coun
ty, and asks that it be re-published.
Clackamas,, Deo 12
I have read in the Journal an ar-
tide on tax assesments in Oregon at
an average of 66 per cent That may
be true about the rest of Oregon, but
Clackamas County is different alto
eether. Some favorites may be asses
sed 55 per cent, but the farmers in
the northern part of the county are
assessed from 200 to 250 per cent
cash value. Some of the farms dont
bring enough rent to pay taxes and
no difference is made in rocks or hill
land. It is all assessed the same. That
is the reason that Clackamas county
is en the standstill. No eastern far
mer of any business ability will in
vest under such conditions. There is
property here that has been raised in
taxable value 600 per cent in 10
years, not because the land is worth
more, but some fool improved it and
must pay a fine for ther est of his
life, and after he is dead someone else
will be skinned, and if he is unable to
pay that fine, the county court will
sell the land to some other victim.
H. Geshardus.
Ask Kloostra
Just for fun. drop into the Seventh
street market and ask Kloostra if he
has found out who stole his hides.
LET 115 LAND TIE
BIG miX ILL
AND GROW CROPS THAT WILL
HAVE MARKETS
TOO MUCH FRUIT AND TRUCK
In this County. Time to Take Up
Other Farming Lines
That proposition to locate a flax
mill in Oregon City is one the far
mers of this county cannot afford to
shy at until they have have thorough
ly looked into it.
A company will put $200,000 into
a plant here on conditions, and the
conditions are largely in the way of
guarantees of a supply for the
plant.
The company will invest $150,000
if the people and the farmers will in
vest $50,000, and the proposition to
the farmers is that they pay for
their stock with one-half of the flax
crop each year until the stock is paid
for. He is asked to raise five acres
of flax and pay a half of it on his
stock. -
If the farmers would readily take
hold of this, we would have a big
flax mill for this county.
If the mill pays the investors of
the $150,000, it must pay equally to
the subscribers of the $50,000, and the
farmer doesn't take a hundredth part
of the promoters' risk for he only
invests a part of his labor, and he
lias much more to gain, for every new
market for his product increases his
profits and the value of his land.
It is said flax is a natural product
of this county,- and it is certain that
there is a great field for the pro
ducts of a flax mill, as there is not
a plant west of the Rocky mountains.
This crop would be one that would
not rot like apples or potatoes. It
would not have to be marketed at a
certain time. It would go to a market
not over supplied and glutted. It
would not be a fruit raising propo
sition. What this county needs above all
is markets for products that can be
grown here outside of fruits, berries,
potatoes and garden truck.
' The farmer wants to raise some
thing he can rely on, and the fanner
wants to warm up to any proposition
that gives promise of such a mar
ket. The flax mill looks good. T. W. Sul
livan has gone into it thoroughly and
he thinks it will be a splendid invest
ment for the county..
Business men of the city and the
farmers of the county should warm
up to this proposition and land it.
Big Job Half Completed
For four weeks a force of men
have been working on the cut to
straighten Seventh street to the bluff,
and it will take about three weeks to
finish he work. The cut goes to the
very line of the Thompson residence
at the head of Seventh street and
takes off the verandah of the house.
Once Upon a Time
Last summer there went up a pro
test against the discrimination of
rates in telephone service by the Pac
ific Telephone Co. The council took it
up and there were many hearings
and much investigation. Then it went
to the public service commission, and
hearing after hearing was called and
postponed. Finally one date was
made- to stick and the evidence was
presented. Then there was a calm,
great silence, which still continues.
Remember the Mail Boys
Last week there was published a
poem "The Mailcarrier," written by
a local man, the object of which was
to remind the people that it would be
a fine thine to remember these men
who bring you all Christmas cheer
with some little token.
In the eastern states it has become
custom for the patrons to remember
the carriers on their street, and every
year they are given Gome remember
ance. A few years ago in Portland on
Christmas day someone started a
"keep the change" on the street cars,
, The carriers, both city and rural,
have their work doubled during the
holidays and they do not get a cent
extra for the extra work. .
It isn't so much the value as the
remembrance. The boys will appre
ciate it greatly, for it shows you ap
preciate them.
The eastern custom should be a
western custom. Let us start it in
Oregon City. Remember the mail
boys Christmas.
Firemen Will Banquet
Arrangements are under way for
a big banquet of the entire city fire
department to be held between
Christmas and New Year's. It will
probably be held in Knapp's hall.
and many a hard working conductor
received a shower of dims and nick
els during the day.
Monday, Year's Short Day
Next Monday is the year's short
day, after which daylight will be
gin to stretch out a little at each
end. V
Wanted!
(over 18 years of age)
To operate SEWING Machines
in garment factory
Oregon City Woolen Mills
Christmas Dance
Jack Frost will give a big Christ
mas dance at Busch's hall next
Thursday night, Christmas night.
Out for Boozeless. Oregon
The campaign for State wide and
National Prohibition is on in Clacka
mas County. S. MacDonald is in
charge of the work in this county. He
says that Clackamas County will be
found ready to do its part to carry
this state for a boozeless Oregon.
Krohn's Saloon Closed
Klaus Krohn, owner of a saloon at
Fifth and Main streets, was made the
defendant in an attachment suit in
stituted by the Mt. Hood Brewing
company for an unpaid bill of $349.75.
The attachment order was obtained
Monday and the place closed by Sher
iff Mass.
OREGON J3CENERY
Those photographs and photo
graphic enlargements by S. P. Davis
(some of them in colors) which now
appear in the window of the Cour
ier office, s hould be seen by those
fond of artistic representations of
the Willamette Falls, Mt. Hood and
some of the beauty spots near that
mountain. Better see them before
Christmas.
A Condition A Reason
A Portland man dropped in to tell
the Courier that it seemed good to
get into one real live town. Hi3
work carries him all over Washing
ton, Oregon and California and he
said Oregon City had more life and
business in proportion to size than
any town between Seattle and San
Diego. And the reason is payrolls.
Hard, times passes up the city where
big mills run night and day, 1)65
days in the year, r .
Lutheran Church Services
German Lutheran Church (Ohio
Synod) Rev. H. Mau, Pastor, Corner
J. Q. Adams & 8th Street.
The following services will be held
at the church for the remainder of
this month:.
Sunday, Dec. 21st, Sunday School
and Service at 9:30 and 10:30 A. M;
Tuesday, Dec. 23rd, at 8 P. M.,
Christmas tree and program; Thurs
day, Dec. 25th, Divine Service at
10:30 A. M.
Everybody is cordially invited to
attend all of these services
O'Malley Gets Boost Up
Henry O'Malley, who has been in
charge of the affairs of the United
States bureau of-fisheries in Oregon
and Washington , f o a number of
years, received his appointment a;
superintendent of the fisheries of the
entire Pacific Coast, Monday. Mr.
O'Malley will continue in his office
in Oregon City temporarily, but it is
probable he will move it to : some
more central point later.
Henry O'Malley entered the service
of the United States bureau of fish
eries as assistant fish culturist at
St. Johnsbury, Vt, 17 years ago. He
was placed in charge of the Clacka
mas station and came to Oregon City
in 1907.
UNDER THE WHEELS
Misses Brake Rods and Train Cuts
Man to Pieces
'James Gillispie, whose home is at
Forest Grove, was run over and hor
ribly mangled at the station here
Tuesday night.
He attempted to go under the car
of a moving freight train to reach
the rods, missed his hold and the en
tire train passed over his body.
The man, with oeveral others, wait
ed for a south bound freight to pull
out, and when it left the siding and
was well under way, ho shot under
a car for the rods the hobo's safest
place.
None of th eother hobos heard any
alarm, and it was not known hen ad
missed the rods and been cut to piec
es by the wheels until later, when a
brakeman on a north bound freight
saw his mangled body and signaled to
the officials at the depot, as his train
passed.
Coroner Wilson found letters on
the body which proved his identity,
He had been in the employ of the
Pacific & Eastern railroad, and why
he should have been stealing a ride is
not understood.
He had a wife and family at Forest
Grove and a mother at Medford. He
was an Odd Fellow. His father came
here Thursday and took charge of the
body.
JANUARY 1, ONE DOLLAR
Courier will be this Price to all who
Pay in Advance
Commencing next Thursday De
cember 1. the Courier will be one dol
lar a year to any - and subscribers
who pay one year in advance, and
$1.50 a year to all who do not.
This proposition simply gives the
man who pays a year ahead a dis
count of one-third. It means a cash
in advance system for the Courier,
and we can afford it.
But bear in mind that this rate
WILL NOT apply to any who do not
nay and keep paid one year ahead. If
you are six months behind it will cost
you 75 cents to date and one dollar
for a year ahead. We are going to en
force this rule literally and if you are
a week behind we cannot give yoi
the benefit. A postal card request will
inform any subscriber when he is paid
to.
Hillsboro to be "Dry-
Following practically the same line
of reasoning as in the case in this
city. Tuesday Judge Campbell ren
dered a decision at Hillsboro that the
local option election in that city, No
vember 4, was legal, and the "dry"
vote should stand. The complaint
chareed that the notices of election
had not been properly posted; that
the polls did not close at the proper
time: that the judges and clerks had
not been legally appointed, and that
several persons who weie allowed to
vote lived outside of the corporate
limits.
A MATTER OF
"GET TOGETHER"
ALL WANT GOOD ROADS, QUES
TION IS WHERE?
DINTS WHERE MEN DIFFER
Whether Laterals or Trunk Lines
Shall be Built First
What will Clackamas county do
for good roads? That's the question.
That the people are keenly awake
over the problem there is no doubt.
The question is, can they get close
enough together to accomplish any
thing? Since the road meeting in this city
last week, this office has heard a lot
about the right way to go after the
problem.
The Courier is an open paper and
any man's ideas can find a column in
it. .
And we are going to bunch up and
give in outline the many letters this
nffina haa i-fweivoH nn thfl mutter.
and the ideas of many who have per
sonally expressed themselves.
Mere come the rarmers. we navo
yet to hear from one who is satisfied
with thn nresent wasteful conditions.
They are in favor of permanent good
roaas.
But (and there you go) they want
to know where the permanent roads
are to be built
The farmers favor laterals first.
They say provide roads to the rail
roads, the towns and tne river list,
if you want to make the big expendi
tures an investment to the county.
ni,a ta pAiintv cnnH rio-ht AnoA
leads from the Willamette river and
the problem of logged-orr and waste
lands will solve themselves," an El
wood man writes.
On the other hand, it is argued
that when trunk lines are once es
tablished the laterals always follow;
that. t.h Pacific hichwav from Alaska
to Mexico will do more to firmly es
tablish and demonstrate good roaas
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than any other way tne worn couia oe
unrlarfnlron. onH that it is the historv
of every state that has solved tho
problem (New York, Indiana and
Ohio) that state highways were first
established. ,
The plan as outlined by Judge
niiviinV Vino stirred no end of inter
est in' the county. Briefly, it is this:
Bond the county for $600,000 for
the construction of 100 miles of hard
surfaced roads; take $100,000 per
frnm nresent wasteful expendi
ture of about $225,000 a year, you will
provide for the interest, tne main-
fatiflnPA nn rl the absorbtioh of the
principle in 12 years, and in the mean
time you will have nad tne use oi
inn miles of first class roads.
and will still have had $125,000 a year
for repair and maintenance of later
als.
This plan seems to be fairly well
received by the people but the "but"
creeps in.
"Where will this luu mues De
built?" is the question. One promi
nent farmer and large property own-
n nnVD 4"Vl O
CI 0"J O V - 1
"If the county win outline a poi
Irtw if will oarrv nut: build 300 miles
of good road on the Dimick plan, each
100 miles five years apart; aiviae
these roads where they will do the
fnr the most oeonle of the
county, print and show just where
the roads will be, l Deneve mis county
will satnd behind the undertaking, as
on invnafnnfini"
But the next man says, 'let us
go a little slower ana surer, xie
.s.n.in, that in Til Ore flf COUntV POnd-
UlUUUObO v.. ... J-- w
ing that we take $100,000 and build
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year, and continue it as a policy,
4-v.ii.. DfliFinv intareRt on bonds.
ta W. . i a o Af horn HiirTAca rnaas everv
IlllUO DHT...fi
A Redland farmer, out and out for
hard surfaced, lasting nignways,
comes in with a kick. He says the
i.,:.,iut,.r hnH nn Wal or constitu
tional right to pass a A mill appro
priation for the racmc mgiiwj
without a vote of the people, as it is
.iinol tionpfit. and the state has
no right to force eastern Oregon to
help build a nignway in we.i u -gon,
that they will never use. He
cites the Crater Lake appropriation
that the supreme court aeciareo. un
- .:, .tinnol onH Hectares that if
tUIIDUbUMWunt, v.. aw. "
,;- tmn-nnrintinn is to be assessed
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the counties should use their propor
tion of it where they cnoose.
Mnui ua nnvA Drienv reviHicicu
tv,a iriMra nnrl rmnnts. and summed up
it finds the people of the county gen
erally wanting tne same euu, uw,
irn rtifToranr. ronton to obtain it.
urir, 9H Hinrricta nf this county
vote special taxes for roads in face
of the Diggesi taxes vreguii iu
.u on1, them can De no aouut uuou.
the sentiment for better roads.
Our present system is an awiui
waste of money. But a small part of
tha hio evnenrlitures comes back in
good roads. The present system is a
failure.
And it would seem that a policy of
nu..inii.tilni cmiM ha a creed upon
and that the country could get to
gether ana go aneaa.
The best of roads would shove
Clackamas county ahead as no other
project could. We all know this, now
let us get together, agree on some
plan, cut out the present worse than
wasteful system and build roads.
FOR SALE OR TRADE One stump
puller with wire cable already to
work. Value $40.00; one large farm
wagon, value $10.00; one Mandy
Lee incubator, 200 eggs capacity,
value $10.00. $50-00 takes the lot.
What have you to offer? Address
N. C. Westerfield, Oregon City,
Ore., R. D. No. 2.
A little change all around will
make a merry Christmas for many a
little tot Be a gooa xeuow.
Next Wednesday, Tax Day
Next Wednesday, December 24, tha
county court will hold an open meet
ing at 10 A. M., for the taxpayers of
the county to discuss the coming es
timates and county tax levy.
CHANGES MAKE .HIM DIZZY
Charles F. Terrill Asks the Enter
prise Several Pertinent Questions
Oregon City, Ore. Dec. 17, '13.
Editor Courier:
Please allow me space in your pa
per to ask a few questions. I would
like to know when the Morning En
terprise changed hands, or has the
Editor been converted lately? I no
tice quite an article in Sunday's En
terprise, regarding the selling of to
bacco and liquors to minors. The En
terprise wants to know why these
things are not investigated, why the
officers don't get busy and etc? The
Enterprise is provoked at the way
some of the officers act.
This change of tactics on the part
of the Enterprise amuses me.
Along about the first week in Au
gust the Enterprise was taking ex
ception to Tom Kay visiting Oregon
City. Tom, you know, was acting as
Governor West's special and Oregon
City should be open to inspection at
any time. About the same time, Aug
ust -d, the ladies sent in a signed pro
test about the way the Enterprise was
boosting for a certain Sunday show.
The paper paid no attention to the
protest, but went merrily ahead
boosting the show and laughing be
cause the sheriff was tied up. The
Enterprise didn t see anything wrong
in violating a law made in 1854.
It also stated that Governor West.
came to Oregon City to stop the
show, probably because he was afraid
of losing popularity with a certain
portion of a voting public. Now the
Enterprise knows, if it knows any
thing, that -Governor West came to
Oregon City because he was appeal
ed to by the people after a certain
lawyer had succeeded in tying up the
sheriff.
The Enterprise asks why the of
ficers don't enforce laws, then jumps
onto them whenever they do get busy
Prosecutions for selling liquor to mi
nors have been going on for some
time.
Can the Enterprise remember as
far back as last spring when 5 sa
loons were closed for violating the
law? Can the Enterprise remember
how certain lawyers appeared before
the city council and pleaded against
the council for doing what the law
and charter says they must do ? Does
the Enterprise remember how a for
mer council and mayor, or part of
them, took away a saloon license one
Saturday night and handed it back on
Monday morning? '. . - '
The police have been working on
this minor question for some time,
and it makes us laugh to have the
Enterprise jump out Sunday and
make the break it did. Then this
morning it goes after Chief Shaw for
searching a premises for evidence of
gambling. A certain lawyer tells the
Enterprise that Chief Shaw is liable
for damages for doing his duty. This
lawyer can't be very familiar with the
city charter, or the home rule ordU
nance, or he would see that the Chief
has a right to inspect dwellings in the
daytime and at night too under cer
tain conditions.
The Enterprise should either come
out for law and order and stick to
it or get back on tne other side of
the fence and stay there. These sud
den changes make us dizzy.
Chas. F. Terrill.
TO MAKE KIDDIES HAPPY.
Churches and Orders Unite to Give
Needy Ones Merry Xmas,
The poor and needy of this city
will be looked after at Christmas time
and all will have a Merry Christmas.
The Brotherhood of St. Andrew of
St. Paul's Episcopal church, as is tho
usual custom, have taken up the mat
ter in the assisting to make merry
these people, as also are the two
lodges, Moose and Elk. Rev. C. W.
Robinson, rector of St. Paul's Episco.
pal Church, has sent out circular let
ters to the physicians, mail-carriera.
city officials, police department and
teachers of this city asking for in
formation in regard to locating the
needy in this city. The circulars
read as follows:
"The Brotherhood of St. Andrew of
St Paul's Church is attempting again
as in former years, to make Christ
mas a little happier for all the poor in
and about Oregon City. If you know
of any needy families or individuals
will you please write their names,
with approximate ages of children
and whether boys or girls in the space
provided below. We regard this work
of helping the poor, especially at
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"'Oregon JumboDimick Stock Farm
Oregon Jumbo, the largest barrow I
exhibited at the international Live
stock Show held in Portland Decem
ber, 8-12, 1913 was seen by hundreds
of visitors at this show. This animal
tipped the scales at 862 pounds, and
at the close of the show was pur
chased by the Union Meat Company.
This animal was exhibited at the
Clackamas County Fair of 19913
The Dimick Stock Farm was well
represented by gome of the best reg
istered Poland Chinas in the West.
Among the other swine that were ex
RIGHT
FULL AUTHORITY
CHIEF SHAW RESENTS STORY
' THAT HE "BUTTED IN" ,
HOME RULE LAW VIOLATED
And His Star Gave Him Full Au
thority to Investigate
Answering the published state
ments that he "butted into a private
house on mere suspicion" and with
out "warrant, papers or authority."
Chief of Police Shaw says that in
common fairness the newspaper
should have investigated the matter
and should have been familiar with
the Home Rule Law before it pub
lished such damaging statements.
"I have been on the police force
too many years and know the state
and city laws too well to butt into
Buch a blunder as the Enterprise
charges." said Chief Shaw. "I had the
authority to do what I did. I not only
had the right but it was my duty, and :
that fact that Carl Buse was found
guily and fined for violation of the
Home Rule Ordinance, and the Home
Rule Ordinance itself, are proof that
I was doing my duty."
Mr. Shaw says that for a month
or more he has been watching tho
rooms back of the Carl Buse saloon
and the rooms up stairs for gambling
and he believed that games had been
run there. i .
Directly back of the saloon room
is a glass door leading into a room .
supposed to be connected with the sa- ,
loon. This room adjoins another, out
of which there is a Btairway to rooms
above. There is an alley and stairway
at the side f the saloon and one could
go up the outside stairs, into the
the rooms over the saloon- and then
down the stairway into the room back
of the saloon where he had reason
to believe gambling games had been
conducted.
Chief Shaw says he went into tha t.
saloon, and found the door leading off .
from it locked. He asked Mr. Buse if
he had the key. He told him he had, ,
he put the key in the lock, turned thrf
bolt, tried the door, then rapped on
the window and called to someone in
side to draw the inside bolt. In less
than a minute it was unlocked and.
Buse told hint to go in and see if
he could find any gambling.
Mr. Shaw said he was suprised to
see a woman in the rooms, and ho
made the remark that "this does not
look much like a gambling joint." The
man told him there had been no
gambling in the place, that they were
private living rooms, and asked him
to go up the inside stairway and sea'
if he could find anything that look
ed like a gambling house; that he
went upstairs, found two women
there, no sign of gambling, and left
the place. ' - '
"My authority to investigate that
door and the rooms adjoining the sa
loon, is contained in the following
section of the Home Rule Law," said
the Chief, and I challenge anyone to
deny this authority."
The section which Mr. Shaw re
fers to is in part as follows:
"It shall be unlawful for any pro
prietor of any saloon, bar-room or
any other place in Oregon City,
to erect, have or maintain in such
place as aforesaid, any private boxes, '
rooms, or screens or partitions or to
have any door or entrances leading
fram such saloon, bar-room, or other
pluces as aforesaid, into any private
boxes or rooms
This saloon had such a door, and
if it was not closed permanently in
Buch a way it could not be opened,
it -was a direct violation of the law.
It was my duty to KNOW it has been
barricaded. It was only secured by
locks, which were opened for me by
thep roprietor, who rents the build
ing and sub lets the rooms.
This was clearly a violation of tho
law. The proprietor of the saloon wa3
arrested by me, was found guilty,
and was fined by the city recorder.
Now, I am perfectly willing to Jet
the people judge whether I butted in
to private rooms without authority,
or whether I was doing just what I
am on the police force to do.
Mr. Shaw thinks the attack in the
Enterprise was unwarranted and un
fair, and if that paper had taken the
pains to have investigated the mat
ter, which in fairness it should have
done, it would not have published the
statements it did.
r
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hibited were "Polly Anne," a sow,
with her litter of seven pigs, also
"Indian Chief," a boor that won
championship honors at the Oregon
State Fair of 1913, this being in a
class under six months.
Mr. Lankins reports that durin?
the month of November there were
sold from the Dimick Stock Farti
$1,045 worth of swine, these to ba
used as breeding stock. Some of the
best foundation stock in the West
can be found at the Dimick StocK
Farm.