t: ' OREGO i COUMM 34th Year OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1916 Number 30 -V END WRITTEN IN LIFE TRAGEDY WOULD REPLACE WOMAN AS ADMINISTRATRIX OF ERNEST CASE, KILLED BY BROTHER SAY. COUPLE IS NOT MARRIED Case Family, Ties Shattered by Feud, Brings Pictures of Grave to County Court Room A concluding chapter is ieing writ , ten to the sad life dramas of the Case . families as they haye been told and retold in Clackamas county within the past year, or since the killing at Park- piauc uii wctuuei ot ULOt ui. uiueai v4. Case by his brother Sam. An echo of ' that feudal climax resounded in the probate court before Judge H. S. An derson here on. Monday. Meanwhile the wee daughter of the dead man climbed about the benches and gig-, gled in babyish glee as she found some new sight to attract her eyes and center her attention, taking it .. away from the harsh banter of hate ful sisters and the lawyers whose le gal talents sought to untangle the threads that are adding to the tragedy which caused the death of Ernest Case and which is now causing a fight of hate to be waged among those of the family still living. On Monday, County Judge Ander son considered evidence presented with a petition to "remove Leona Char ters,1 known here as the wife of Ernest R. Case, as administratrix of his es tate, on the ground that the CQuplo was not legally married. The petition , was filed some time ago by Mrs. Ralph Smith, widow of Sam Case, and Cassius M. C. Case) her brother-in-law. It was alleged in the courtroom that no marriage ceremony was ever performed to bind Leona Charters and Ernest R. Case, although a mock cer emony for he benefit of the woman . was admitted. Attorneys brought could not show the tears that had bespoke a wedding ceremony evi dence that, at any rate, the couple lived under contract marriage vows. Pictures of the simple headstone that sets apart the grave in Riverview cemetery of little Thelma Case, anoth er daugher of the murdered man and Leona Charters, were produced a a sadly silent witnesses testifying to a marriage. The pictures were want jf.. ing, though, for they did not they t could not show the tears that had fallen from a mother's eyes on that grave the tears . of a mother-love that vainly wept and prayed that life might be restored to the little body of her first born; a body and soul snatched from a world that proved cruelly cold to the mother, who, though she may not have walked cir cumspectly, seemed always to follow '.-'' " in the path of the love that bound her ,' to7 her husband and to her children. The simple headstone did not show 4 the tears. It did show the inornate . , inscription, "Thelma Case," and an undertaker testified that the name had been placed there at the order of Ernest Case, the father, and the man whose name his own brother and sister-in-law would deny, by means of the august statutes of the state, to little Thelma, sleeping these many - months in her quiet grave, and to the tiny two-year-old tot who clambered . about the benches in the court room Monday, all unmindful of the story that was being told to Judge Ander son. Sam Case, who killed his brother a few days more than a year ago, died following an operation a brief month after the tragedy. His widow, before the legal interval had elapsed, married Ralph Smith at Hillsboro. Smith had been a bartender in the employ of Ernest Case in the days) hefore Oretrnn Citv's nrnhihit-.inn Inwal were made. Investigation has revealed no rec ord of a marriage ceremony "and at torneys in the case liken it to the cir sumstances in the recent Ford trial at Portland. The opinion is that the ctAple married by contract and 'as a precedent the local court will have , the Ford action and the decision, which declared a contract marriage legal. Although the women in this action are sisters, they are bitter enemies as a result of the feud be tween their husbands, who . were brothers, and they are pulling at ev ery legal possibility to write a final chapter in what is declared to be one of the saddest stories of tangled lives and hearts ever aired in Clackamas county. Socialists Rally Under the auspices of the Social ist county committee candidates for office nominated by that party will hold a meeting on Saturday evening at Beaver Creek and on Monday eve ning will meet at Molalla. P. W. Meredith, candidate for the legisla ture, and other county candidates will speak. Marriage License A marriage license was issued here Monday by County Clerk Harrington to Rachael Rebecca Rueck and Lois F. Killing, Aurora, route 1. JOHNSON RECORD IS BUILT ON SERVICE CANDIDATE HAS REVISED TAX BOKS OF TWO COUNTIES. IN WORK MANY YEARS At Wilsonville last night George F. Johnson, demo cratic .candidate for assessor, open ed the eyes of a large number of taxpayers to the i m p or tance ' of competence in that office and laid be fore them for their approval a record of continuous ser vice in one branch of business that G. F. Johnson speaks volumes for the ability of the man. - Mr. Johnson was one of the speakers at the democratic precinct meeting at Wilsonville. Other county candidates won stirring applause from a good audience. . , In his talk Mr. Johnson, who Has been chief deputy assessor here for the past eight years, recited his ca reer in tax assessment work and left for his audience to decide the question of his qualification for the' position, and his ability to hold it down more successfully than any other candidate who has appeared thus far in Clack amas county. , . 'Mr. Johnson entered the tax as sessor's office of Umatilla county un der his father, Burr Johnson, a pio neer Oregonian, at a very early age and he has not been out of that line of work for long since that time. Af ter serving with his father for a num ber of years Mr. Johnson became chief deputy in the assessor's office of Baker county, where he served from 1902 until 1906. During that time Mr. 1 Johnson entirely revised the methods of work" in the office and the new system which he installed is in use tqday. ' Mr.' Johnson is a native of "Yamhill county, born in 1864, and is now a resident of Oregon City, where his two fine children, a son and a daughter, are high school pupils. He and Assesor Jack are alone re sponsible for the splendid system in use in the Clackamas county office now and have eliminated, much of the for mer bunglesome work. ' Those who have visited the office during Mr. Johnson's tenure there, and that has been throughout the past eight years, can best testify to the character of his work and his ability to take up the position vacated ' by Mr. Jack. In addition to being thor oughly familiar with every detail of the office work, Mr. Johnson is a draftsman and has saved the county many hundreds of dollars m the pas: eight years by eliminating the ex Dense of hiring a draftsman, which has been found such a burden in other counties. He has personally platted and mapped every tract and piece of land in Clackamas county, most of them several times. And for this work " he has not accepted one cent above his usual salary. He has alo made maps of every road and school district and every voting precinct in the .county. He has checked every item of work in and out of the office and knows every tract of property in the county. In his interesting address at Wil sonville last night, Mr. Johnson said. "The greatest asset an assessor can have is the inclination and desire to be fair and equitable. He should never get the idea that he is the 'whole show.' In the course of time many knotty problems are thrust upon the assessor problems which only one experienced in the work can hope to solve. The assessor must be fair and square and must always com bine his best judgment with good common sense." Mr. Johnson is conducting a clean campaign and is hopeful of election. He stands solely on his record of the past eight years, and is right in be lieving that there, is probably not another assessor o? candidate in the state of Oregon whose qualifications will compare with his. He has .been a very careful student of tax prob lems all his life and from the time he completed his education in the schools of eastern Oregon he has been en gaged in assessment work. Mr. John son's ability cannot be questioned and his candidacjr js.to be a prime test of the consistency of the voters of the county. Voters have prayed, year in and year out, for capable officials, men capable of handling the work of the offices they seek. If Mr. Johnson is not elected it will look greatly as if the voters enjoy being fooled and that'they no longer care how and for what service their money is spent Mr. Johnson's service is offered Clack amas county at a bargain, consider ing the capability of the man. Admitted to Probate A petition to admit to probate the will of Mrs. Julia Ann Mumpower, who died a Stone on October 2, was filed in the county court by Lorenzo D. Mumpower, a son, of Gladstone. The estate comprises 112 acres of land at Stone, originally the Horace Baker donation land claim, and val ued at $5000. The principal heir and husband of the deceased, Joseph L. Mumpower, is a patient at the state hospital at Salem.' Mr. Hughes has yet to define firm Americanism. , A ROADS CONGRESS LIVE IRE PLAN IDEA IS TO COOPERATE WITH COUNTY COURT TO BRING GREATEST PROGRESS HOLMAN SCORES PAVEMENT Next Meeting Will be "Bee" for Po litical Discussion. County and City Problems Presented A good roads- congress is planned for the near futiwe by the Live Wires of the Commercial club and a report presented at the meeting on Tuesday by a roads committee was adopted with this congress in view. " It is the idea ,of the committee to hold a two- day program at which good roads will be the only topic and when a plan of o-operatiort with ' the county court and other development agencies can be outlined. The committee recom mends that all district supervisors at tend the congress. A detailed pro gram will be prepared, and the meet ing will probably be held soon after the general election. '. The Tuesday meeting was ad dressed by Rufus C. Holman, Mult nomah county commissioner anl prominent in the good roads move ment in Oregon. The hour was de voted to the discussion of roads topics and to arangements for the next meeting, which is to take the form of a political "bee" and will be held next Wednesday evening at the club rooms. At this time the various measures before the voters will be discussed from all angles and civie problems will be introduced. ' The organization will probably take some action with regard to. the city park question. , Good roads sentiment among the members made another advance step at the meeting Tuesday, when Mr. Holman dealt with road building facts and theories in a very interesting talk. Mr. Holman laid special em phasis upon the failure of the plan of appointing county road supervisors and expecting from them construction of good roads. These men, said the speaker, are usually without training, and are almost invariably appointed either for political reasons or because of their, affability, while their capa- bilites are entrely overlooked. "The' supervisor plan, Mr. HoU man said, "is as preposterous as would be a plan to call ahese same men into your home to set a broken arm or cure a fever. They are, in a majority of cases, utterly without training in road work and the result of the system is that the roads we re quire are not being built. It takes as much training to build a road proper ly as it does to erect a building. "There is one way to correct some of the shortcomings in the road pro grams of the county courts of Ore gon. That is, to elect to office men who do not care a snap for re-election and will, therefore, bend every effort toward doing their work without fear or favor."" The speaker stated that not ond per cent of the roads of any county in Oregon, unless it -,be Multnomah, would be hard surfaced within the next decade. He pointed out that hia experience had shown drainage of highways to rank with hard surfacing in importance and said that earth roads were in many cases very ser viceable where proper attention had been paid to drainage. He commend ed the program of the Clackamas county court, although he personally denounced the type of surface applied here, He said, however, that proof of the value of this type at the cost at which it has been laid, would be one of the greatest steps ever made in road development in Oregon. Mr. Holman has found, he says, a hearty co-operative spirit in the mat ter of road development in the state and especially in connection with the construction of the West Side high way from Portland to Corvallis. He pledged the support of Multnomah county to any program outlined by the Clackamas county court or any other, and "promised that any road built to the Multnomah county line from Clackamas county would find a high way of the very highest type to join it and run into Multnomah county and Portland. Mr. Holman suggested the importance of ... the county budget meeting -and pointed to the import ance of a general interest in the prep aration of the budget. BOY THIEVES FREED Trio Gets Heavy Sentence if Boys Fail to Make Good Sentenced to serve from two to five years in the penitentiary and pay the costs of action, Edgar Conboy, Aug ust Prery and Ray Pietzold. indicted and tried on a charge of burglary. were paroled Tuesday by Judge J. U. Campbell. The bovs were found guil ty of a series of thefts in the north ern part of the county. , The parole issued by the judge requires that the youths report in writing twice each month to Sheriff Wilson and that, if they lose employment, they are to re port the condition immediately. NOT GUILTY PLEA IS' MADE FOR WILBUR FRIAR'S CLUB MANAGER TO BE TRIED BY CAMPBELL ON NOVEMBER 9 Not guilty, was the plea entered before Judge J. U. Campbell on Mon day by Julius Wilbur, indicted secret ly by the grand jury last week on a charge of violating the prohibition laws." Louis Rosenfeld, waiter, and Tommy Nishioka, Japanese porter, indicted with Wilbur on the same charge, entered similar pleas through their attorney, ex-Senator Charles W. Fulton of Portland. ' Judge Campbell set the trial of Wilbur, on the indict ment returned against him singly, for November 9 and on the following day Wilbur, Rosenfeld and Nishioka, indicted jointly, will be tried; Wilbur is at liberty under $2000 bonds, an increase of half over the bond that was exacted at first. - Ros enfeld and Nishioka are 6ut under $1000 bail and Casey Jone3, musician and Wilbur's chief roustabout,' who is held as a witness, is free under $500 bail. In each case the bail was provided by prominent Milwaukie and Portland men. , At the hearing on Monday a de murrer to the indictments was pre sented by' Attorney Fulton, who held that the charge of selling intoxicants was not sufficient cause for action, because it did not name purchasers. The demurrer was overruled by Judge Campbell, who advised the ex,-senator and defender of the. notorious Wilbur to read the prohibition laws. The law, pointed out Judge Campbell, made it unnecessary to give the names of purchasers. District At torney Hedges requested that the trials be set for the earliest possible date so that the cases might be promptly disposed of. In compliance with this request Judge Campbell named November 9 and 10. Wilbur and his accomplices were arrested on Sunday morning, Octo-. ber 1, when Sheriff W. J. Wilson and a party of deputies" surprised revel ers at the infamous Friar's club at Milwaukie and confiscated 70 quarts of miscellaneous intoxicants. Thirty- five of the half-drunk merrymakers who were enjoying Wilbur's hospi tality and spending their money fool ishly for tiny glasses f his well known "ginger ale," were brought to Oregon City and their testimony tak en. Much of this is of a certain in criminating character and an excep tionally strong case has been devel oped around Wilbur and his helpers by District Attorney Hedges and Sheriff Wilson. fcyC EX-GOVERNOR HERE J j Oswald West,' former gov- ernor of Oregon, will address ! a public meeting of voters at J Seventh 'and Main streets, Or- J egon City, on Monday eve- J ning. The former executive, S an able orator and a thorough- ly advised man, will discuss & the political issues of the day. J He speaks at 7:30 in the eve- J ning under the auspices of the J Clackamas county democratic central"committee. J 5t vl t?8 YOUNG ROD-RIDER HELD With Letter From Mother Boy Es capes From Training School With fifteen cents in - one pocket and a much thumbed letter from his mother in another, Lacey Oliver, a 10 year old lad, was arrested in the Southern Pacific yards here last night and slept in the city jail in place of on the brake beams of a south bound freight train as he had expected. The boy escaped from the Washington State Training school on Tuesday and boarded a freight train for Portland. He had just completed a walk from Portland to Oregon City when arrest ed by Night Officers Woodward and French. - The letter in the boy's pocket was from his mother, Mrs. J. K. Oliver of Ashland.1. In part it said: "May God guide you and keep you and bring you home to me in His own good time." "His own good time" was in terpreted as the present by the boy and he was making all haste toward Ashland. Several weeks ago the boy went from Ashland to Sunnyside, Wash., to visit an uncle, and from that place was committed to the training school. He was sent from the school to a den tist, but started on his long journey instead of seeing the dentist. Train ing school authorities have. been no tified. LISTS BURNED GOODS Mrs. Mary C. Wells, acquitted some time ago on a charge of arson in connection with the destruction by fire of her houses at Oswego, has filed an amended answer in her suit against the Firemens' Insurance company of New York, through which she seeks to recover insurance on her burned buildings. The new complaint is not different from the original, except in that it lists the contents of the house at the time of its destruction. The original complaint was filed on August 17. IS p LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATE ROUS ES MANY AT BIG DEMOCRAT IC RALLY AT MOLALLA ADVOCATES TAX LIMITATIONS Candidate is Son of Pioneer Oregon ians. Says Too Much Time is Spent on New Laws J.E.JACK Tax limitation, fewer laws, econo my rightly placed with rigid honesty are the planks in the platform of promise upon which J. E. Jack, pres ent county assessor, stands as a can didate for the state legislature from Clackamas county. Mr. Jack, as county assessor during the past eight years, has seen the thorough value of honesty in and out of office and during the years of his life he has practised that honesty to the last letter. Mr. Jack makes honesty a strong point in his campaign arguments. At the big democratic rally at Mo lalla on Saturday Mr. Jack was one of the principal speakers. He told a large audience there that the para mount qualification of any officer is honesty, and that a man who is not honest and whose character, there fore, is in disrepute, should be auto matically disqualified to fill any of fice within the gift of the people. Mr. Jack earnestly requested his auditors to investigate the record of all can didates for office and to use their best endeavor to vote honest men into of fice, regardless of politics. ' "I believe that in former years our legislature has held too many professional politicians, who work more for their personal . interests than for the interests of the people. "As to tax limitation I am con vinced that it is the right thing. We have laws limiting the taxation in cities, counties, road and school dis tricts. , They, have been successful. Why cannot they be applied to the state with the same measure of suc cess? I favor tax limitation legis lation, not radical but legislation with a purpose for the good of the state, and I shall, if elected, work to ac complish such a purpose. "If our state legislature devoted more time to the consideration of ap propriations, through which the tax payer's money is spent, and less time to the passing of new and usually very unnecessary laws, the people would be better served. ' I do not be lieve in the present plan of devoting 39 days to passing laws when we have so little need for additional laws and only one day to the consideration of appropriations and the expenditure of the people s money. If I am elect ed I propose to devote the major por tion of my time to an attempt at the consideration of appropriations and only time enough to additional legis lation as good and needed laws re quire. "The state commissions are, in the majority of cases, well worth-while. They serve a good purpose and are self-supporting. There are many commissions, however and some of them are wasteful and some unneces sary. I think these should suffer in vestigation and I will go to the legis lature, if elected, with such an under taking in mind." Mr. Jack, democratic candidate for representative, is without doubt as well qualified as any . candidate the county could produce for that office. He is anative son of the county which he expects to represent in the next legislature. He is a son of one of the early pioneers of the state and county, his father having located on the Jeremiah Jack donation land claim near Marquam in 1847. For thirty years Mr. Jack remained on the farm and achieved notable success in that pursuit. - After leaving the farm Mr. Jack came to Oregon City and has lived here since that time. For four years he was chief deputy sheriff under J. J. Cooke and the following six years he was in the mercantile business. Dur ing that time he was one of the lead ing grocers of Oregon City. During the past eight years Mr. Jack has been continuously a public servant as coun ty assessor and he bears the distinc tion of having occupied that office to the greatest satisfaction of the ma- (Continued on Page 8) LANK On DEMOCRATIC PARTY RALLIES ARE HELD COUNTY CANDIDATES GREET LARGE AUDIENCES AT ALL MEETINGS. The war horses of the democratic county campaign have put in some very busy days this week. J. E. Jack, candidate for legislative honors, C. W. Risley, who seeks the county commis sionership, G F. Johnson, the demo cratic choice for county assessor, and District Attorney Gilbert L. Hedges, candidate to succeed himself as dis trict attorney, are the local politicians who are stirring things up around over the county. Monday night the four spoke at Brown s school house at New Era. Tuesday evening, at Schuebel's hall at Beaver Creek, they addressed an interested audience. Wednesday eve ning they spoke at Wilsonville, and tonight they will speak at Macksburg, Friday night they appear at Barlow and Saturday evening at Clackamas, where a big program is planned. There is a general awakening in the county to the fact that these four men are citizens of sterling qualities and that that they are to be reckoned with at the November election. On all sides a fine interest is being manl fested, not only in the meeting, but in the men as well, and that old stuff" about a strictly partisan vote is going to be badly upset next month, if the Courier is not mistaken. Next week, also, the candidates will be on the job, but their itinerary has not been made public as yet. One nigm. only will be taken off and that will be when ex-Governor Oswald West and Senator George Chamberlain talk here in Oregon City. The candidates are all splendidly qualified for the offices they seek. Ed Jack, who aspires for legislative honors, has been county assessor for eight years and his fairness and im partiality in conducting the office has made for him a most enviable repu tation. He has served the people faithfully in the past, and this leads voters to believe he would not betray their trust in the legislature. Jack's record is without a blur. Fred Johnson, candidate for asses sor, will conduct an efficient -administration. He has been in assessment work for the past fifteen years and has personally platted every piece of land in Clackamas county probably two or three times. His judgment is good and his long experience should give him an edge which the ' voters should not overlook. . ' C. W. Risley is a man who doe? things. He has done things all his life and today is one of Clackamas county's most prosperous and sub stantial citizens and a man who is respected on all sides. He promises a business administration and thosu who know Mr. Risley know his word is good as gold. If selected for the commissionership the taxpayers may expect the same shrewd, careful and business-like attention to county af-. fairs that Mr. Risley has always given his own personal affairs. Gilbert L. Hedges, who has "made good" with a vengeance, is turning his guns loose in a manner that is creating no'end of comment about the county. His record of big achieve ments while in office has probably not been duplicated by another district attorney in the state. He has won damage cases against the county amounting to $31,000, has won five important cases in the supreme court, secured 14 convictions out of 15 liquor cases tried, and has never drawn a faulty complaint or indict ment in over 500 he has prepared since entering the office. His honesty and integrity are above reproach and there is a general knowledge among democrats and republicans alike that the legal affairs of Clackamas coun ty, a $30,000,000 corporation, will re main safeguarded if Mr. Hedges is kept in office. He has kept the prohi bition fund intact, and a balance ex ists in the county's "favor after all expenses, including the deputy's sal ary, have been paid. Hedges is tried and true and the voting public know? it. DENOUNCE LOAN PROPOSAL Pomona Grange Meeting Yesterday Largely Attended." Spence Speaks A well attended meeting of the Po mona Grange of Clackamas county at Parkplace yesterday went on rec ord at being strongly against the pro posed and so-called people's land and loan measure which will be upon the ballot at the November election. Resolutions were passed condemning the bill after C. Schuebel, Oregon City attorney, had denounced it as vicious legislation. ' Another resolution passed urged the state government to open state lime deposits so that farm ers can get lime for their lands at cost. C. E. Spence, master of the state grange, spoke in favor of the rural credits bill upon which voters will ballot. The grange meeting was in session throughout the day and in ad dition to a very interesting program of speaking and music, delegates from most of the granges of the coun ty enjoyed a luncheon at the noon hour. Mr. Fairbanks' active entry into the campaign put an abrupt end to the hot weather. BALLOT MEA5UES ARE BIRDBLEAfl VOTER WHO HAS NOT STUDIED 1 IS HANDICAPPED BY CON FUSION IN TITLES BILLS CROWDED WITH JOKERS Peoples' Land and Loan Law Denounc ed as Ultra-Radical and Worth less Proposal It is not within the province of a newspaper to attempt a dictatorial attitude in connection with a voter's action at the polls. We were granted, thanks be, by a far sighted ancestry, that wonderful liberty of voice and pen that has made America THE na tion of the world and all the printer's ink in the world and all Webster's words rightly combined could not in a thousand years deprive us of that right. Yet the newspaper fills a peculiar field in each community when it is properly provided with honest minds and motives. There are newspapers that dictate or attempt to but their dictation is more laughable than ser viceable and their motives are too of ten mean. The honest press is close ly in touch with the feeling of its field. It is in a far better position than the individual to gather the sen timent of the voters in its community and it is only fair to the individual that, having gathered that sentiment, the newspaper should discuss with its readers its findings. For that reason alone and without any idea of attempting to dictate or sway the personal feelings of its read ers the Courier here presents, as, con cisely as possible, what it feels to be the very general sentiment toward the ' proposed amendments and measures upon which Clackamas county people '. are asked to vote at the election No vember 7. Oregon has in the past few years taken entirely too much advantage of its liberal privileges. It has cat ered to cxanks and special interests . in ballot hall and legislature until it is in an unenviable position as an ex periment station for the analization of all the freakish and foolish brain storms of every political dreamer and scheme who carfcs to hoodwink the public with catch phrases and nicely worded laws, whose purposes are so different from their promises. Eastern capital frowns upon Ore gon. This is a fact, though it sours ' our hopes to think of it, and eastern capital refuses to consider the pur chase of Oregon securities, except - bonds, because eastern capital, east ern business men, are afraid of Ore gon. They are afraid of Oregon leg islation nd voters, they have no con fidence in the future because the past has seen so much radicalism enacted within the borders of the state. This is a condition that must be remedied by the exercise of the utmost care and precaution on the part of the voters. The voter is duty bound to correct the evils that already exist and to avoid contaminating the state consti tution with further scheming dreams. November 7 is the day to start the house-cleaning in Oregon that will re establish the confidence of the nation in this great state and its voters. November 7 is the day to kill the ri diculous ambitions of those who would pollute our constitution and statute books with their damnable rot and November 7 is the day to show these triflers that the voters of Oregon are done with the degrading efforts, re peated at every election for ten years, to defile the intelligence of the people of the state. There are several measures upon the ballot that are supported but such an evenly divided sentiment that the Courier will not attempt to dis cuss them. They must be decided by the individual voter after a careful study of their meanings. We have our own opinions, but every voter has his own opinion and, withal, must ex ercise his franchise right as that opinion dictates. Because it appears to be the most radically vicious legislative machina tion that has been attempted in the history of this state, the Courier is frank in flatly denouncing the so called people's land and loan law, or the Full Rental Value Land Tax and Homemakers' Loan Fund amendment. Even Socialism has de nounced this foul measure. It is sup ported by single taxers and is out-and-out single tax. Read the propos al. It spells confiscation in large and glaring letters. It takes everything and gives nothing and, according to. the most capable authorities, it spells ruination for the state of Oregon if it is passed and permitted to remain on the books. It is a giant "wood pile" crowded to the edges with "niggers." Indications are that it will be voted down by a heavy majority. It is fathered by W. S. U'ren, the crank whose dreams and schemes have caused so much trouble in this state in the past. Mr. U'ren is due for heavy setback this fall at the hands of intelligent voters who have tired of his criminality. Veto 307 No. (Continued on Page 8)