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Un,iversit Eugene, Ore 33d Y ear OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1915 Number 1 1 COUNCIL-. MEETS; SPLITS IN T NEW SOLID FIVE" HAS OWN WAY AFTER LONG EX ECUTIVE SESSION M, 0, LATOURETTE IS H0N3RE Other Matters Go Over to Specially Called Meeting Set For ' Friday Evening With a small but patient audience gathered to watch its performance Oregon City's council met in regular session Wednesday night, transacted routine business for one hour and five minutes, went into committee of the whole for one hour and fifty min utes, and then put in ten minutes more of routine work and adjourned to meet again Friday evening, when once again its two factions will prob ably lock horns in a battle that prom. ises to be as long-drawn out as the fight between the Germans and the Allies in Flanders. Things started in at eight o'clock when Councilman Metzner entered the council chamber after stumbling on the stairs. Members present said that it was "bad luck" to fall on the stairs, and it appeared before the evening was over that something had put the "jynx" on the council; though whether it was Metzner's tumble or not is hard to tell. Keguiar montniy reports were read in the line of routine business among them being Chief of Police Shaw's, which showed that ten ar rests had been made during the month of May. One of these was for drunkeness, six for violations of the liquor ordinances, and one was for carrying concealed weapons. In fines $110 was taken in, 97 hoboes were given lodgings for the night, and 41 meals were served in jail. Application from J. 0. Hoff for two duplicate warrants to replace a couple said to have been burned up in a fire in Portland was referred to the finance committee. In applying tor the warrants, Mr. Hoff submitted an article from the Oregon Daily Journal, of Portland, as proof of the fact that they had been destroyed by fire. Mayor Jones said that he thought Mr. Hoff should submit bet ter proof than that of the destruc tion of the warrants, and turned the matter over to Councilman Meyer for investigation. A report from the South Fork water commission, showing the work done, and carrying an estimate of ex penses incurred so far, was read to the council. Before it was placed on file Mayor Jones said that there was a clause in the contract entered into by the city with Moffatt & Parker saying that Oregon City men should be given the preference for work on the pipeline, and asked City Attorney Schuebel if the clause meant any thing. The mayor said that many men had complained to him that they had been unable to get work on the pipe line in spite of the fact that they applied for it daily at the offices of the Oregon Engineering & Construc tion company, and Councilman Long and Meyer said complaints of a like nature had been made to them. "I note in this report that there is an item of $20 for 'extras' allowed the contractors," said Mayor Jones. "If I was a member of the water com mission I would see to it that no 'ex tras' at all were allowed Moffatt & Parker unless they employed Oregon City men on the pipe line. It seems to me a shame that Oregon City men are out of work, and cannot get em ployment on Oregon City's pipe line, though the contractors are hiring for eigners. I don't believe there are ten Oregon City men on the whole job.'' The ordinance calling for the im provement of Main street was put through final passage by an unani mous vote; and Councilman Temple ton moved that the recorder be in structed to advertise for bids, which are to be opened Friday, June 18. Councilman Long reported that while the 500 feet of wax and gum treated fire hose had been received from A. G. Long & Co., of Portland, the two nozzles promised had failed to arrive. Councilman Meyers said that he knew that, and so as chair man of the finance committee he had cut the money to pay for the hose out of the monthly bills. The amendment to the pool hall ordinance was then introduced, which provides for the closing of pool halls on Sundays. Councilman Andrews moved that the ordinance go to first reading, and Councilman Van Auken seconded him. Councilman Temple ton, seconded by Councilman Albright moved that the ordinance be indefin itely postponed. Seeing a fight loom ing, the mayor suggested that the council go into committee of the whole and thresh the matter out. In committee of the whole a com promise from the pool hall men was introduced, in which the suggestion was made that the council raise the age limit of admission to pool halls to 21 years but permit these places to operate on Sunday. Councilman J. E. MORGAN FINED C. Dollar Also Figures in Sequel to Raid on Moose Lodge J. E. Morgan, proprietor of a small store on Seventh street, who was in the Moose lodge at the time of the raid by Sheriff Wilson, Chief Shaw and deputies, was arrested on complaint of Chris Schuebel, city at torney, Tuesday, and taken before Recorder Loder to answer a charge of using vile and profane language. It was charged that Morgan, while in a somewhat excited frame of mind, had expressed his personal opinions of all concerned in a manner that was in violation of the laws and or dinances of Oregon City. Recorder Loder, after hearing the evidence, fined Morgan ten dollars and sentenced him to a term of 30 days in jail. In view of the prison er's plea for leniency, and his prom ise to be more circumspect in his speech in the future, Recorder Loder suspended the jail sentence upon payment of the fine. Similar action was taken in the case of C. Dollar, arrested on a sim liar charge. Mr. Dollar expressed regret that he had let his feelings get away with him, and in view of his standing among the business men of the community Recorder Loder was as lenient as was possible. TROUBLE FOR SHERIFF New Law, Now in Effect, Makes Him Tax Collector As Well W. J. Wilson, sheriff of the coun ty, and generally charged with keep ing the peace from going to pieces, has more troubles on his hands now, thanks to the actions of the last leg islature. The duties of collecting county taxes are now turned back to the sheriff's office, and the county treasurer is relieved of this work, and only has to count the money when it is taken in. County Treasurer M. E. Dunn has collected during the first' half of the year $477,501.41, and for this amount has issued 10,752 receipts. He leaves for the sheriff to collect $306,474.34 the greatest part of this being second-half payments on the regular taxes, though a small por tion is composed of delinquencies. Treasurer Dunn collected about 61 percent of the total taxes, which is considered as a very good record for the first half of the year. Rancher Found Insane Suffering under the belief that someone was trying to confine him in the penitentiary, George Dibble, an Estacada rancher, was committed to the state asylum for the insane, Saturday. Mr. Dibble, who is 60 years old has lived in the Estacada district for the last 24 years and is one of the best known ranchers in that dis trict. Andrews, Van Auken, Hackett, Cox and Meyer formed a coalition, and held out for the Sunday closing; and after the committee of the whole rose nearly two hours later they stayed with it and carried the day, advanc' ing the amendment to second read ing and final passage, to be acted up on June 23. Councilman Templeton and Albright voted for indefinite postponement of the amendment. Councilman Metzner, who had stood with them in committee of the whole, refused to vote. While in committee the council ballotted on the election of a water commissioner, to succeed J. L. Hedges of the old board. The vote in com mittee stood two for Hedges, five for M. D. Latourette and two for Ed Jack. Later, when the matter came up in open meeting, M. D. Latourette received the vote and was declared elected. Mr. Latourette is under stood to be willing that the public elevator on Seventh street should be perated by hydraulic power derived from the city mains. The council spent the balance of its hour and fifty minutes of secret session fussing over the Moose lodge proposition. Gordon E. Hayes, Re corder Loder and Chief Shaw were summoned from time to time to take part in the discussion; the general trend of which was whether it would be better to instruct the city attor ney to prosecute only the steward of the organization for alleged infrac tions of the law, or whether it would be best to prosecute all officers of the lodge. The "solid five" which won out in the pool hall matter, held out for a general prosecution, but the matter was left open until Friday evening, when the battle will be on again. At ten minutes to eleven the council renewed its normal form of regular meeting, did away with se crecy, and got down to routine work. L. Charman, representing the Commercial club and the Live Wires, started to speak about cluster lights on Main street, but at eleven o'clock was choked off and asked to continue his remarks Friday evening when a special session would be held. Mr. Hackett then moved adjourn ment. For the benefit of the new solid five, who appear to be quite interest ed in the sources from which the Courier and other papers derive news of the "secret sessions" of the coun cil, it may be well to add here that the report of the proceedings of the committee of the whole painted .above were obtained from several of the city officials present at the deliberations. BOOZE STATUTE SOON EFFECT! JONES ORDINANCE REGARDING LIQUOR IS STRICT AND WIDE SWEEPING LAW IN FORCE JULY FIRS Under It's Provisions Constitutional Amendment is Made Part of Municipal Government Oregon City's " "prohibition" ' ordi- nance, commonly referred to as the Jones' booze law, becomes effective July 1, and contains many traps and pitfalls into which the unwary may be precipitated unless they have a thorough understanding of its provis- ions. Not only does the ordinance cover all the usual provisions gov erning "dry" territory, but it also has a few little kinks of its own. For instance, the ordinance makes it illegal for any person to bring li- quor into uregon Uty, whether in original packages or not. Liquor or beer desired must be shipped in by a common carrier, and either deliver ed directly by them, or must be sign ed for in their office or warehouse This provision is probably the least understood of all. Under it the man who goes to Portland and who brings home half dozen bottles of beer, or a flask of liquor, is violating the law, and is liable to arrest and prosecution. Many people have thought that as long as the "booze'1 was for their own use, they could bring it in them selves, but city officials have been in structed that the only way liquor may be brought in is by some regular com mon carrier, and the common carrier must seo that each parcel is labelled as to its contents, the person to whom it is consigned, and the amount it contains. In order to legally receive the shipment after.it arrives the con signee must sign an affidavit in which he or she declares that- the m&J, l l f ... . . r ' usriut is ior personal use, will not De given away or sold, and does not ex ceed the limit in quantity prescribed by the law. If the liquor is to be used for sacramental purposes, the affidavit must mention this, to gether with the quantity. Chris Schuebel, city attorney, in construing the law, says that he in terprets it to mean that not more than two quarts of liquor (or wine) AND twenty-four quarts of beer, may be purchased and shipped in within any period of four weeks. Some at torneys have thought that the law provided for either two quarts of li quor (or wine) OR 24 quarts of beer, but Mr. Schuebel says that both quantities may be obtained within the four week period. As Mr. Schuebel will probably prosecute any cases that may arise through violations of the law, his interpretation may be re lied upon as correct for Oregon City. Two quarts of liquor and 24 quarts of beer is enough, it has been figured out by devotees of the glass, to give a man an "appetizer" every day and plenty of beer to drink with meals. Incidentally, under Mr. Schuebel's interpretation of the law, the limit prescribed is for any individual or family. By this it is meant to pro hibit two or more persons in any one family from getting the limit of quantity. A single man may get his two quarts and his 24 quarts, but a married man can get no more by hav ing his wife order some. Nor can a family composed of several broth ers, all living in the same house, get over the limit by having each mem ber order the prescribed quantity. Under the law it is better to be a single man if one has a thirst. The law applies to all persons who may be within the corporate limits of the city, whether they are residents or not. Therefore the following "don'ts" are worth remembering 'if one is interested in the subject of booze in any form. Don't carry a bottle in your pocket. Don't bring up a neatly tied and wrapped package of beer. Don t invite a friend to your room or home to have a drink. Don't go looking for blind pigs, and if you find them, don't buy in them. Don't drive through the citv with liquor or beer in your wagon, even if you are taking it to your home, which may be outside of town. Don't ask your doctor to prescribe liquor for you as a tonic and then try to get it at a drugstore and carry it home. Don't try to evade the law in any way. And if in doubt about its pro visions, call up the city attorney and get posted. . Local Man Honored Rural letter carriers of the state, in session at Salem this week, elect ed D. F. Whiteman, of Oregon City, president for the coming year. Port land was picked as the place of the next annual meeting. Mr. Whiteman is one of the most popular rural carriers working out of the Oregon City office, and has long been in the services. . PROHI LAW USEFUL May Save Poor Man from Exasperat ing Graft So Often Met The following remarks are chiefly for men. That being the case, ' we suppose all the ladies will read them. But if they do, they do it at the risk of being offended. , Maybe you men have noticed that everytime somebody round the house gets sick and has to have a nurse, or when somebody has to go to the hos pital, that the first thing the nurse does is to yell for a bottle of alco hol? Usually the demand for olco- hol is made just after you've expend ed your last cent and are stone broke. But just the same the nurse has got to have a bottle of alcohol. Usually, too, when the nurse goes, only about a teaspoonful of the al cohol has been used, and the rest is left as a souvenir. However, be that as it may, the nurse's first de mand is for alcohol. Well, under the present city ordi nance ferninst the sale of booze, whiskey, rum, gin and other things, alcohol is also barred. So next time the nurse comes around and springs the alcohol graft on you, be very po lite and tell her that you regret ex tremely that you can't get it without a prescription. Maybe the nurse will get the prescription, and maybe she won't. .' Why do nurses always demand al cohol? Well, that is the way they reward the druggist for tipping them off to cases. And that is why every well-trained nurse always button holes the man of the house as soon as she gets on the job, and says "'ll have to have a bottle of alcohol right away get a quart if you can, and if not that, maybe a pint will do." Bell School Closes The Rural Bell school closed last Tuesday, the 25th of May. No pro gram was rendered on the last day, owing to the school having given an ice-cream social on the Friday even ing previous, which was a great suc cess. I he eighth grade class were successful in their examinations and expect to attend High School next year. Miss Estella Criswell, the teacher has taught in this school for the past four years and has done very success ful work. OF FINE PROGRAM "CIRICILLO'S" ITALIAN BAND TO BE FEATURE ON CLACKA MAS COUNTY DAY 3 DAYS OF ENTERTAINMENT Tent Reservations Are Already Com ing in and All Indications Point To Great Assembly With the opening date a little over month away the 1915 Chautauqua program is in excellent shape. Sec retary Cross announced to-day that next week the Chautauqua booklets will be scattered over the county and in all parts of Portland. Preliminary interest centers in a number of the high class attractions that have been secured for this as sembly and it is the opinion on all sides that never before has such a variety of high class entertainment features and also well known lectur ers, been secured. A glance through the booklet reveals an engagement of Ciricillo's Italian Band, the Swiss Al pine Yodlers, Witepskie's Royal Hun garian Orchestra, Saxony Opera Singers, the Schumann Quintette, the Adelphian Male Quartette, the Dixie Jubilee Singers, the Magical Floyds, and the Gullotta Trio. These standard attractions have been en gaged at heavy expense and in addit ion among the noted lecturers who will be heard are: Newell Dwight Hillis, famous pastor of the Trinity church, New York City; Col. Bain, Col. W. H. Miller, Senator E. J. Burkett, famous Nebraska orator,' Nels Darling, the "Community Build er," Dr. Roland A. Nichols, Rev. Father MacCorry, Fred Eugene Ba ker and Congressman W. C. Hawley. The assembly has engaged several well known women speakers and en tertainers this year, realizing that the large portion of the Chautauqua audience consists of women. Among the women lecturers and entertainers who will appear on the program are Mrs. A. C. Zehner, an Eastern wo man of great ability; Marion Ballou Fisk, celebrated cartoonist, Marietta LaDell, celebrated entertainer, Eve lyn Bargeldt, reader, Charlotte Bergh known as the "Norweigian Nightin gale," who will appear with Witep skie's Royal Hungarian Orchestra, and Daisey E. Forest, kindergarten expert. There will be the usual sum mer school classes consisting of ath letics, music, elocution and other in teresting departments. Everything points to a great as sembly, already at this early date tent reservations have come in and hundreds of inquiries have reached the Eecretary'g office for programs. These will be attended to as soon as booklets are off the press. ASSEMBLY BOASTS THIS IS WHAT WATED KITTY AT LAST TELLS HER STORY AND REVEALS COUNTY SECRETS MAYBE SHE WILL TELL MORE First Spasm Deals With Neat Reve nue Obtained from Doing Odd Jobs About Public Offices (By "Kitty") I want to say right at the start. dear readers, that I fear Editor Brown, in the advance notices he has so kindly given me in his paper, may have whetted your curiosity too much, and may have promised that I would tell more than I really know, You must not blame me for this, however; and to make up for it I will try and make my little discours es 'as interesting as possible. In the first place I want to tell you that I am very old. And that I have made my home in the West for a long time. At first I used to hang about the poker games that were played nightly in various gathering places. It was there that my servic es were in greatest demand, for as every good poker player knows, no game is complete without its "kitty." My duty at such occasions was to take care of odd change, white chips and other little financial matters that didn't come out even. However, the time came to pass, with the progress of so-called civilization, when public poker games were put under the ban; and for awhile life was indeed dull with me. Then the county officers found that they could use me, and since then I have had pretty steady employment. In the old days, as some of you will remember, the county officers used to get their pay solely in fees which they took in. Abuses of the fee system, however, made it desir able to do away with this means of paying the more responsible public servants, and in time the legislature passed laws putting county officials on flat salaries. As far as your county of Clacka mas is concerned, the session laws of 1903, page 288, provided for the flat salary of county officials. Among other salaries that were fixed was that of the county clerk, which was placed at $1500 per annum. With the passage of this law, and the fix ings of a specified sum as recom pense, the fee system was supposed to pass out of existence. However, other laws provided that for making certified copies of docu ments, and doing other similar work, the county officials were allowed cer tain fees. No provision was made that these fees must be turned in to the county treasurer, though many people say such was the intention. Well, this permission to collect cer tain fees gave me my chance; and I at once leaped into popular favor with county officers, as I had before been with poker players. Many of the county officers need ed my services. When I was employ ed, all this side money taken in was entrusted to me, and at frequent in tervals I gave it back, and the em ployees of the office joined in spend ing it. Sometimes the whole office force would club together and go to the theatre on what I had collected for them; at other times someone member of the office force would take it all, and buy a new hat, or a suit of clothes, or an umbrella, or pay for a vacation trip out of my col lections. I remember that when Mr. Mulvey was county clerk he used to take all I got for himself; but some other county clerks have been more liberal, and have given all their fees to "Kit ty," and then at the end of every month have divided the proceeds among themselves. You see the law not only provides for flat salaries AND fees, but it doesn't say that these fees must be turned over to the county treasurer. You will want to know how much these fees amount to. Well, some times they only amounted up to ten or twelve dollars in the course of a month; while other times they ran as high as thirty dollars. Maybe it would be a good average to say that they usually amounted to between Bixteen and twenty dollars. Now you can see that in the course of a year this would be quite a tidy sum to divide or to keep. Twelve times twenty dollars is $240, which is not to be sneezed at. And when the amount happened to be $300, or over, it was still more worth while. Also if this sum had been turned in to the county treasurer from each county office in which my services were employed it would have amount ed to close on to a thousand dollars or more a year that the county would have had to pay bills and warrants. I know of several county officials who, with my help, were able to make good investments. The monthly drag from the "kitty" would be suf ficient to pay installments on a type writer, or to pay the rent of a house, OREGON STOCK BARRED Missouri Retaliates Against Action of Western States According to news received at Sa lem from Columbia, Mo., a provision al quarantine has been placed gaainst live stock from the states of Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington by the Missouri board agriculture May 20. Word was received a few days ago by Governor Withycombe from the acting governor of Missouri saying that unless Oregon revoked its quar antine order against the shipment of live stock to this state from Missouri that the Missouri board of agricul- ture would declare a quarantine against live stock shipped from Ore- gon to Missouri. Oregon's action in barring live stock shipments from Missouri and other eastern states was taken in common with other western states in order to prevent the introduction of the foot and mouth disease into the west from the east where it been epidemic among the stock. It was intended to revoke thelquaran tine order June 30, according to mu tual agreement among the western states included in the compact. Upon receipt of the notice from Missouri's acting governor, Dr. Lytle, state vet erinarian, telegraphed to the Missouri executive to delay action until com munication could be had with the of ficials of the other western states with a view to revoking the quaran tine order as it is now believed that danger of the spread of the foot and mouth disease is past. MUST PUBLISH BUDGETS New School Law Provides -People Shall Know of Expenses A new state educational law went into effect last week which pro vides that hereafter in making tax levies every school district in the state must publish a budget of the estimated amount of revenue requir ed for the ensuing year for the mam- ten'ance of the schools, and it is also mandatory that the districts in which high schools are maintained, shall publish notices of special or annual meetings of the districts at least two weeks before the meeting is held. In districts where there are no newspapers the notice is posted on the door of the school house, but where newspapers are published the notice appears in the papers. Following is the section relating to the budgets: "Section 2. It shall be the duty of the district clerk of any district at least two weeks before a meeting is held for the purpose of levying taxes to publish in one or more newspa pers published in the district and having general circulation, a budget statement of the estimated amount of revenue required for the ensuing year for the maintenance of the school district, and in districts in which no newspaper is published the clerk shall post such budget on the door of the school house in said dis trict at least ten days before the meeting. It shall be the duty of di rectors of any such district to make out and deliver to the district clerk of their district, an itemized state ment of the amount of revenues which may be required for the pur pose of carrying on the district schools for the ensuing year, which statement shall be signed by the board of directors at a legally called board meeting.'' It would appear from this plain law that unless it is complied with the school tax will be void. WAR NEAR HOME Seattle Has Sample of Havoc Wrought by High Explosive Being a seaport has its disadvan tages. For instance, take Seattle, that during the week was treated to the breaking of $140,000 worth of window glasB because some dyna mite intended for Russia "went up" in its harbor. The dynamite came from California, and was on a barge waiting loading on a vessel to carry it to the Orient. In the dead of night some person or persons unkown attached one end of 450 feet of fuse to a fulminating (Continued on page 8) or to buy gasoline and oil for an auto mobile. It could be used for lots of things and it was, too. So you see I was quite a useful person to have around. A tangle of laws left the county officials with the power and right to collect certain fees; and while the law didn't say that they must be turned in, skilled attorneys say that the passage of the flat-salary act took it for granted that the county officials wouldn't pinch" off the extras for their own . It is an ethical question, how ever; and one that each county offic ial must settle for himself or her self. To me it looks like this: a county clerk who makes use of my services is getting a nice and comfortable ad dition to his or her flat salary. May be this additidn is all right just be cause it is technically legal. And maybe it isn't. What do you think about it? Next week I may have another batch of news for you. But in the mean time don t get peeved at me it isn't my fault if the county offic ials will insist on entrusting their extra money to me for divison round the offce. JUS CITTMN RAIDS POLICE, SHERIFF AND CON STABLE UNITE IN SEARCH FOR ILLEGAL BOOZE HOLIDAY PROVES EXCITING Considerable Contraband Found, and Private Detectives Have More Evidence of Liquor Sales According to an agreement fram ed up between the city council and the county officers, four spectacular raids were pulled off in Oregon City Monday, furnishing a new and novel form of excitement for the crowds that were thronging the streets be tween rain storms. The council de termined at an executive session held last week, that something ought to be done to stop violations of the li quor ordinances in the county seat, and as evidence gathered by two pri vate detectives showed that consider able booze was being peddled, City Attorney Schuebel and some of the councilmen got into communication with the sheriff; with the result that at the appointed time Sheriff Wilson, Deputy and Constable Frost, Chief of Police Ed Shaw and an assorted group of deputies were ready for ac tion. ... Oregon City Moose Lodge was the first place where the raiders struck. A government license for the sale of liquor was the most important bit. of evidence gathered in the lodge1 rooms by the raiding party, though a couple of bottles of cheering stuff were also seized. In addition to this the officers found 18 five-gallon demijohns, all empty. The steward of the lodge was arrested, and the lodge furniture generally upset be fore the officers departed. Marching down Mam street, Sher iff Wilson and his deputies next struck at Cox's pool hall, while simul taneously Chief Shaw and his aides dropped in unexpectedly at Charlie Young s restauraunt on lower Main street. In the rear of the pool hall Constable Jack Frost found two flasks of what appeared to be whis key cached away, and promptly seized them. Search of the pool hall failed to unearth anything else con traband. While this was going on, Chief Shaw was prowling through the Chi nese restaurant's inermost details. He failed to find anything of inter est, but later, on the arrival of Sher iff Wilson, Lee Pong, the proprietor was taken into custody; it having been alleged by the detectives that they had purchased liquor there. The raiders then took a rest while it rained. After the showers let up, the party boarded Sheriff Wilson's ocean-going auto, and arm ed with a search warrant from Jus tice Sievers, made a dash over the bridge to E. E. Jones' confectionery store in West Linn. The raiders went through this thoroughly, found a tin revolver and a dozen or so empty beer bottles, and not much else. Jones was taken into custody, detectives having declared that they bought liquor from him, as well. Evidence against all of the places visited is said to have been obtained by two out-of-town detectives, em ployed by the council. Part of the time these men wore clothes re sembling U. S. Army uniforms, it is said; and at other times they dressed as laborers. It is said that one of them joined the local Moose lodge, and that he later got his partner in as a member. Commenting on local conditions, the sleuths, who are said to be familiar with "dry town work," declared that Oregon City was the cleanest dry town'' in which they had ever done duly. They are re ported to have been surprised that ut tour violations of the law were found in a two-weeks' search. The most important incident of the aid was the descent on the Moose odge. The state law provides that possession of a government license to soli liquor is primae facie evidence of guilt; so it will be perhaps difficult for the Moose to convince city offic ials that liquor was not sold in their lace. TRIALS POSTPONED Evidence in Liquor Raid Cases Not to be Heard Till Next Week Persons charged with having il legally disposed of liquor, or with having liquor in their possession, as an aftermath of the Memorial' Day raids in the county seat, have all pleaded not guilty. Trials in the case of the pool hall and the lodge have been set for Monday and Tues day of next week. The case against the Chinese restaurant will be heard Friday afternoon, and the West Linn case will be tried in West Linn at the same time. In anticipation of hearing one of the trials Wednesday afternoon, a large crowd gathered at the city hall, but after waiting around for half an hour news of the postponement of proceedings was given, and the gathering slowly melted away.