OEEGOF CITY COURIER
34th Year OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1917 Number 51
BRIBER IS HELD
III HIS0WN NET
"JOHN SMITH'S" FOOT SLIPS
AND CLACKAMAS COUNTY
BENEFITS
$100 GREENBACK IS GIFT
Money is Slipped Into Roadmoster's
Hand at Banquet, and Portlander
Disappears in Crowd
This is a story about a Portland
dealer in road machinery and sup
plies, a county official he tried to
brige, and a $100 bill which reposes
in sweet innocence in the vault of
Treasurer Dunn's office in the Clacka
mas county court house.
The county official is Thomas A.
Roots, county roadmoster, and the
Portland dealer is well, that would
be telling. The roadmaster turned
the tables on the Portlander and the
county benefits. For the sake of
brevity we will call the Portland deal
er John Smith.
Mr. Roots, with members of the
Clackamas county court, attended sev
eral months ago the convention of
county judges and commissioners in
the Hotel Benson, Portland. The ban
quet was just coming to an end in
the evening, and the crowd was stand
ing around the tables. Mr. Smith
approached the Clackamas county
roadmaster and extended the right
hand of fellowship.
"How are you this evening?" he
asked as the two shook.
By the time Roadmaster Roots had
replied that he was 0. K Mr. Smith
was lost in the crowd. Roots opened
up his hand, and there, reposing gen
tly in his palm, was a $100 greenback.
Roots saw green, then red, white,
yellow and blue. At first he decided
to hunt up Mr. Smith, give him back
the money clearly a bribe and then
knock the stars out of the machinery
man, but Mr. Smith had disappeared
in the crowd about as completely as
any girl ever dropped from sight bj
vaudeville magic.
Roots walked out to the street, the
bill firmly clenched in his hand. He
saw Judge Anderson across the
street and he handed the note to the
judge.
Judge Anderson opened the bill
in a deliberate fashion and exclaimed,
"Why, its a greenback."
Roots grunted that it was.
"Its a hundred dollars!" exclaimed
the judge, his examination completed.
Roots explained from whence the
money had come. The next day the
note was put in a carefully labeled
and dated envelope and placed in the
vault in the county treasurer's office.
Weeks went by, and Roadmaster
Roots met Mr. Smith again. "Come
have supper with me," was the cor
dial invitation from the Portlander.
The two began a conversation con
cerning roads and road machinery
over the supper table. Mr. Smith, re
calling the $100 greenback, and figur
ing that he "had something on" Roots,
remarked, "Of course, you will buy
all your road supplies from us this
year."
"Oh, that depends upon the price
you make us," was Roots' sweet re
ply, a remark totally unexpected by
the road machinery dealer.
"Don't you think that you had bet
ter buy from us?" asked Smith, a
veiled intimation, a threat, in his
tone.
"Say," blurted out Roots, "what
kind of darn fools do you think we are
up in Clackamas county? Do you
think that I took your cheap bribe?
I showed that money to the county
judge as soon as I left this building,
and it is now in the vault of the
treasurer's office in the Clackamas
county court house, properly labelled
so that we will not forget where we
got it."
"For the love of heaven, man,
you'll ruin me if you let it become
known that I slipped you that green
back," exclaimed Smith.
"Yet, I would have been ruined if
I had accepted and spent that $100
bill," replied Roots. "I have got
you just where you thought you had
me."
Smith's face was pale, and the food
which was spread Before him had lost
its savor. "What shall I do to keep
"this quiet?" he asked Roots.
"Give Clackamas county a 10 per
cent and then a 5 per cent reduc
tion on all supplies we buy from you,"
was Roots' ultimatum then he edded,
"And you will also give us a five per
cent reduction on what business
Clackamas county gave you last
year."
Smith demurred. He did not think
that he could do that. The discounts
to the county would eat too far into
his profits. Ten per cent and then
five per cent that's a steep cut, and
then added on the top of it all, five
per cent off of business in 1916. But
Smith thought it over, and the more
he thought the more he realized that
he was in no position to dictate terms,
and he consented.
The other day Roadmaster Roots
received a check for $130, five per
cent of the county's business with
Smith's firm during 1916. The check
is reposing gently beside the $100
greenback in the carefully labelled
BOND ISSUE TO GET
OFF TO GOOD START
ESSAY CONTEST OPEN. MANY
PRIZES OFFERED WRITERS
PLANS OUTLINED
Plans are being made by Oregon
City business men "and others inter
ested to stage -a big campaign in fav
or of the $6,000,000 road bond issue
upon which the people of the state will
be asked to vote in June. The cam
paign will be carried to all parts of
the county, and with this object a
temporary organization of Oregon
City business men will soon be perfect
ed and the campaign will be launched
immediately. Subscriptions for car
rying on the work will be. asked by
business men.
Dr. L. A. Morris, one of the prime
movers in the plan, believes the mat
ter of supporting the ' bond issue
should not be the work of the Com
mercial club nor its branches, and if
the present plan is worked out these
clubst will not be asked to even give
their endorsement. The local organ
ization will cooperate with Portland
groups and those of other parts of the
state to bring out a heavy vote in fav
or of the issue.
In the meantime there is a rapid
ly growing interest in the good roads
essay contest.- The first essays writ
ten have already been received by the
committee of which Senator W. D.
Wood of Hillsboro is chairman. All
essays placed in the mail before the
evenng of March 15th will be enter
ed in the contest. The prize winners
will be named March 25th. The in
tention is to use the essays as a basis
for the arguments for the road bonds
which will appear in the state elec
tion pamphlet, and some of the better
essays may be published in the same
place. There are four divisions in
the contest and one person may enter
only one division. The entrant must
mark his paper so that judges will be
able to judge it in its proper division.
No essay in any contest is to contain
more than 200 words. The following
prizes and rules for the four divisions
have been designated by the commit
tee: Contest ..A Subject: The benefit
accruing to the county in which the
writer is a resident from the improve,
ment of the roads described in the
$6,000,000 bonding act. '
For the best argument, a first prize
of $5. '. ...
For the second best argument, a
prize of $2.
There are 36 first prizes and 36
second prizes in this contest.
Contest B Subject: The benefit
which will accrue to the state at large
from the improvement of the roads
described in the bonding act.
For the best argument, a first prize
of $25.
For the second best argument, a
prize of $15.
Contest C Subject: same as con
test B. This contest is open only to
bona fide students of Oregon high
schools.
- For- the best argument written by
a high school student, a prize of' $10.
Contest D Subject: the same as
contest B, and is open only to bona
fide students of Oregon grammar
schools.
For the best argument written by
a grammar school student a prize of
$10.
LIQUOR OWNERS PAY $50
Officials Qualify in Class with Mr.
Sherlock Holmes, Detective
Two official representatives of the
law and order element of Oregon City
qualified as sleuths on Tuesday even
ing when they made a melodramatic
arrest aboard a north bound street
car while on their way to their homes
at Gladstone.
"I'll bet there is liquor in those
suitcases," said Deputy District At
torney Thomas A. Burke, as he and
Justice of the Peace Sievers watched
three Austrians board . the Oregon
City car. They noticed that one of
the men was a bit under the influence
of liquor. Before Judge Sievers and
Mr. Burke arrived at their station,
Gladstone, they kicked one of the suit
cases and were rewarded with the
merry clink of glass.
Quietly they advised the Austrians
that they had better stop at Gladstone
and see the sights. There was no de
murrer, and Morhor Broetoz, the in
toxicated Austrian, sonfessed owner
ship of the five quarts of strong home
made red wine uncovered in the case.
Broetoz was on his way to Chicago
and was taking a little wine to Port
land for a celebration. The strong
wine was made by the three men at
their home here and for the purpose
they had imported half a ton of Cali
fornia grapes last fall.
The officials, who believe their
catch has qualified them as detect
ives, brought the Austrians back to
Oregon City, where Broetoz pleaded
guilty to a charge brought under the
new dry law and paid a $50 fine. The
other two men detaineed with Broe
toz, all of whom are employed at the
paper mills here, are Philip Misley
and Aurea Roblak.
Courier tnd Daily Journal $4.75.
envelope in the vault of the county
treasurer.
And this is the story. Mr. Smith
a well-known and prosperous Port
land citizen was caught in his own
net and the county profits.
WRANGLE OVER A -JOB
IS SETTLED
PEACE MAKERS TAKE A LONG
STEP TO SAVE COUNCIL
FURTHER STRIFE
CITY IS THREATENED AGAIN
Ctrrl for Assessment Objections. May
Purchase Thirteen
Park Site
The peace and quietness of en
forced harmony wraps the city coun
cil in its soothing folds as a result of
the regular monthly meeting of that
august and highly businesslike body
last night. It cost a group of peace
loving citizens $105 to turn the trick
but it was turned and C . Schuebel
and George L. Story, leaders of the
respective batteries, have gone on
their ways rejoicing.
The honorable mayor and city
council gathered themselves together
in executive session only the peace
tribunal was admitted to the sacred
chamber of civic chivalry and set
tled the fight between Mr. Schuebel
and Mr. Story, whose battle has di
vided the council into factional groups
since the first of the year.
. The peace propagandists, entirely
qualified for work with the warring
nations of Europe and recommended
for such duties, were E. E. Brodie and
M. D. Latourette. The dramatic dis
play of five $20 gold pieces, the eagles
uppermost and the bottoms, or tails,
supported by nothing more than the
cold, cruel top of the mayor's table
and a lone, straggling $5 gold piece
was a feature of the nice little party
and the merry tinkle-tinkle of the
pure gold lent a charm to the occa
sion that not even a flowing orator
could overcome with his gilded words.
The first line trenches, occupied by
the C. Schuebel forces, agreed yester
day to accept $495 as their share of
the spoils of battle. The forces gen
erated by George L. Story, properly
elected and qualified city attorney,
refused to surrender for less than
$600, or $50 a month. The city treas
ury had only , $990 to pay for legal
talent and the compromise plan need
ed ready cash in the sum of $105.
This was produced in solid gold coin
of the realm at the meeting last night
donated in the cause of civic har
mony, it is alleged, by certain well-to-do
and worthy business men. The
white flag of peace was hoisted in the
council chamber and the peace mak
ers stated their terms. The warring
factions grabbed the offer of a settle
ment like a thirsty man reaching for
free lunch and there wasn't a word
or contention. The battle is over and
the council's hymn--a vote of thanks
was rendered right merrily. E. E.
Brodie and M. D. Latuorette, the
peace-makers, and C. Schuebel, the
attorney, were given the council's
thanks.
The $105 contribution makes a to
tal of $1095, of which Mr. Story gets
$600 and Mr. Schuebel $495 and the
latter is to continue in charge of the
city's defense of the P. R. L. & P. Co.
case. Mr. Story will take all future
duties of city prosecutor and city at
torney. The action last night came
after the refusal of Mr. Story to ac
cept half of $990 for his year's work.
The council was threatened last
night with a lawsuit if it refused to
consider the cash bid of the North
west Fire Apparatus Co., for the Main
street lot occupied by the Cataract
hose company building. W. P. Haw
ley, Sr., had agreed to buy this prop
erty for $1500 and donate in addition
$1000 so that the city could buy a fire
truck. The Northwest company
wants" to get in on the sale of a truck
and was accused by Councilmen Metz
ner of attempting to hold Mr. Haw
ley up to gain its ends. The mayor
and recorder were instructed to close
the deal with Mr. Hawley, come what
may of the threatened litigation. The
Hawley people have offered the city a
free site for the Cataract building
when it is necessary to move it to
permit mill development. For this
offer W. P. Hawley, Sr., was extended
a vote of thanks.
The recorder was also instructed
to notify the P. R. L. & P. Co. to close
its street car doors on the left side
when coming through town. Chief
of Police Blanchard will cooperate
with the committee on streets and
public property in preparing a traffic
ordinance to prevent a recurrence of
the many accidents that have occurred
because there have been no laws gov
erning traffic.
The finance committee sent in a
majority report against the purchase
of the 13-acre tract near the bluff
which it was desired to purchase for
park purposes. The debate that fol
lowed resulted in the adoption of the
minority report submitted by Coun-i
cilman H. M. Templeton and the com
mittee will consider an exchange of
property with the water board, which
owns the land in question.
The fire truck election vote was
canvassed and bids and specifications,
sealed, have been called for by March
26. All bidders will be admitted,
while the council reserves the right
to refuse any or all bids. The street
commissioner reported the poor con-
(Continued on page 10)
GRADELESS ROAD TO
PORTLAND IS HOPE
WOULD SURFACE AND IMPROVE
HIGHWAY. REROUTES TO
BE PLANNED
Important improvements in the
Eighty-second street Portland-Oregon
City road through Clackmas sta
tion, so that the highway will be hard
surfaced practically all the way and
all grades of any importance elim
inted, were announced last week by
Thomas A. Roots, county roadmas
ter. This road is not only one of the
most important north-and-south roads
in the county, but it is also a road to
market for hundreds of farmers.
As soon as weather clears in the
spring, Roadmaster Roots said last
Saturday, the county paving plant,
now1 located at the Wills gravel pit
near the Clackamas-Multnomah coun
ty line, will be put to work. All of
the road between the county line and
Clackamas which is not now hard sur
faced or improved with bituminous
macadam, will be hard surfaced, and
the oil-bound macadam, which has
stood up well under the heavy traffic,
will be repaired.
' Plans for improvement to the road
south of Clackamas to a point about
a quarter of a mile from Chautauqua
park have not been announced, but it
is understood that the stretch will be
resurfaced.
Petitions are now being circulated
asking for a new route for the road
from a point a hundred yards north
of the Parkplace bridge past Chau
tauqua park. This proposed route,
which is part of the general plan to
improve the Oregon City-Portland
road, parallels the Southern Pacific
tracks and runs east of the Chautau
qua park. It is quarter of a mile
shorter than the present road and
would eliminate two five, per cent
grades.
The county court and Roadmaster
Roots are planning an active season
in road construction. The capacity
of the county paving plant has been
increased by the addition of two rolls,
making the total number of rolls in
the plant six. The machinery is be
ing overhauled at the present time so
that as soon as the weather clears
work can begin.
Roadmaster Roots believes that the
county can lay between six and seven
miles of high grade asphaltic con
crete next summer. The first work
will be done on the Eighty-second
street road, and then the county will
turn its attention to the River road,
repairing it in a number of places
where oil or water bound macadam
has begun to go to pieces.
After securing pledges of state and
federal aid for the improvement of
the Oregon City-New. Era road, the
county finds that the proposed $6,
000,000 bond issue for hard surfaco
may defeat the scheme. The survey
for a new road south out of Oregon
City, which will follow the river and
parallel the Southern Pacific and cut
the grades on the present road, was
completed several months ago by the
state highway commission, and mon
ey was appropriated by the state and
county. The government, under the
new federal aid road bill, is to dupli
cate the appropriations of state and
county. However, if the road bond
bill carries the county will not re
ceive outside aid, as the bond issue
measure provides that the money de
rived from the sale of bonds can be
used only for hard surface, and not
for grading, surveying or opening up
new routes.
The last week has seen the erection
of two new rock crushers in the coun
ty. One has been put up near Canby
where a ledge of a good grade of rock
has been found and the other is at
Baker's Bridge on the Clackamas.
Clackamas county will spend close
to a third of a million dollars for
roads this year, exceeding the expen
diture of any other year in the history
of the county.
EAR SPLIT AND SCALP CUT
Robertson Injured When Hammond
Throws Hatchet at Him
F. M. Robertson has a deep scalp
wound and a split ear from being hit
with a hatchet, thrown tomahawk
fashion by Thomas Hammond Mon
day, according to Robertson's state
ment. Both men live in Oregon City
and, according to Robertson's story
of the affair, he was driving peace
fully along the road when Hammond
came from his house and challenged
Robertson because, he said, the latter
was driving on the wrong side of the
road. Before Robertson could pull
his team to the opposite side to avoid
trouble, Mammond is said to have
thrown the hatchet. Hammond has
not been seen since and police officers
are searchng for him. He is a fam
man and is supposed to have gone to
the home of relatives in Linn county.
SMITH PAYS $25 '
Amos Smith was arested Monday
on a charge of assault and battery
preferred by C. A. Cassidy, as a re
suit of a fist fight that occurred at a
dance at Clackamas Heights on Sat
urday night Mr. Smith pleaded
guilty and was fined $26 in Justice
of the Peace Sievers' court Tuesday.
Cassidy was floor manager at the
dance, which was raided by local of
ficials on Saturday night, and, it is
said, when he attempted to quiet
Smith, the fight started.
IN 25 YEARS ALL
OONDSJRE PAID
INCOME FROM AUTO LICENSES
AND MILLAGE TAX WILL
BE $530,000 ,
ISSUED TO BEAR 4 PER GENT
After Quarter-Century There Will be
Surplus, After Paying AH of
Debt, of $452,000
How the interest and principal on
the road bond issue, to be voted on
June 4, can be taken care of exclu
sively by the automobile licenses and
the present millage tax, has been
worked out by financiers. In 25 years
not only will every interest charge be
met and the entire bond issue be re
tired, but there will still be on hand
at the end of that period $452,000.
The income from the present mill
age tax is $220,000 a year. Income
from the automobile license, which
has been increased by a . separate bill
from the bond measure, will be $310,
000 a year. This will make a total
revenue annually from the automobile
licenses and the millage tax of $530,
000. The road bond issue is $6,000,000.
In addition, the Bean-Barrett bill au
thorizes the issuance of $1,900,000
to meet the federal road appropria
tions for Oregon. Both the road pav
ing bonds and the bonds to meet the
federal appropriation for post and
forest roads can be paid for out of
the automobile licenses and the mill
age tax of $530,000 a year.
It is not probable that the entire
issue of bonds will be sold at once,
for there would be no occasion for
the state highway commission to have
$6,000,000 available in cash at one
time. The commission is expected to
dispose of the bonds only as money
is required to carry on the work and
the bonds would be sold over a per
iod of years. As for the bonds to
meet the federal road appropriations,
the state board of control would dis
pose of only enough each year to
match the government money dollar
for dollar. . . . . -
Even if all the bonds, aggregating
$7,900,000, were issued at once, how
ever, the automobiles and the millage
would take care of them without diffi
culty. At the rate of $530,000 in
come a year from these sources, in 25
years this would aggregate $13,250,
000. The amount required to pay the
entire 'principal and interest on the
$7,900,000 is $12,798,000. Thus the
licenses and millage will produce in
25 years $452,000 more than enough
to pay off all the charges.
The bonds are to bear 4 per cent
interest. They are to mature serial
ly, the first bonds of the series to be
retired in the sixth year, and there
after a portion of them will be re
tired each year until at the end of
25 years all have been paid. Inter
est charges on $7,900,000 for the first
six years amounts to $316,000 a year.
As the income from millage and li
censes will be $530,000 a year, and
will give a surplus of $214,000 a year
to be placed in a sinking fund to re
tire the bonds. This surplus for five
years during which time no part of
the principal is payable will amount
to $1,070,000, and this . surplus or
sinking fund will he on hand when
the first bonds become due.
BY TWO VOTES CITY
ORDERS FIRE TRUCK
ELECTION IS CLOSE AND GEN
ERAL INTEREST LAGS ON
AN IMPORTANT JOB
Oregon City will have a modern
fire fighting apparatus as a result of
the approval given the proposition by
the voters of the city at the special
election on Monday.
By a scant majority of two votes
out of a total of 552 cast at the spe
cial election, the voters authorized
the council to proceed with plans for
the reorganization of the fire depart
ment and to appropriate $4000 to
cover the balance of cost on a motor
driven fire truck. The special elec
tion did not cost the city a dollar.
Judges and clerks donated their ser
vices throughout the day to the cause
which the election represented. When
the truck is purchased the entire bus
iness part of town will enjoy a five
per cent reduction in its fire insur
ance rate.
Voters in ward No. 3 on the hill
expressed themselves strongly against
the purchase of the truck, but the
plurality was made up in the two
other wards by a good vote in favor
of the plan. In ward No. 1 there were
96 affirmative votes and 88 against;
ward No. 2, 153 for and 106 against;
ward No. 3, 28 for and 81 against.
Total: For 277, against 275.
The total vote cast was one of the
lightest ever cast at an election in
this city and for that fact the weath
er conditions and a lack of interest
Continued on page 10)
COUNTY'S MINERALS
GET WORTHY NOTICE
BUREAU OF MINES RECOGNIZES
RESOURCES. SAYS ORE
IS EVIDENT
Three Clackamas companies, the
Clackamas Mining and Milling com
pany, the Ogle Mountain Mining com
pany and the Sherwood Oil company,
are listed in a handbook of the mining
industry of Oregon, soon to be issued
by the Oregon Bureau of Mines and
Geology. The volume, which con
tains 306 pages and is the fruit of
four years of woork by the bureau,
is No. 4 of volume 2 of the Mineral
Resources of Oregon, put out montth
ly by the bureau.
The Sherwood Oil company and the
Clackamas Mining and Milling com
pany receives but slight mention in
the book, but the bureau has made an
extensive study of the Ogle Moun
tain property, and the report takes up
the history of the company in more
or less detail. As this mine is owned
locally, hundreds in Clackamas coun
ty being interested, the Courier re
prints, in main, the bureau's com
ment upon the property:
"This company's property consists
of 22 claims which are located on the
north side of Henline mountain at the
headwaters of the South Fork of Mo
lalla river in Sec. 9, T. 8 S., R. 4 E.,
reached by a poor wagon road 35
miles east from Silverton. The prop
erty can also be reached from Gates
on the S. P. railroad by good wagon
road for 10 miles northeast to the Sil
ver King mine, then 4 miles by trail
over the divide to the north.
"The country rock on this property
is very largely andesite and closely
related igneous rocks. The ore body
as shown by a stope in the upn,e
workings near the surface is a well
defined fissure vein with smooth,
clear walls and averaging about 5
feet in width. The earlier operations
on the property Were confined to the
upper workings where 2 tunnels have
been driven to connect with the vein
and the vein stoped to a depth of ap
proximately 200 feet from the grass
roots. Some very good ore is re
ported to have come from this stope,
being largely oxidized material hav
ing numerous particles of free gold
and wire gold scattered through it.
It is claimed by the company that the
entire tonnage stoped netted about
$5 a ton in free gold.
"The development in latter years
consists of a long crosscut tunnel 560 .
feet below the upper workings and
1460 feet long intending to cut the
vein exposed above at this depth.
Numerous small veins were cut with
this long crosscut and an aggregate
of several hundred feet of drifting
on these different veins has been ac
complished. The ores exposed in
these veins, according to the report
of the management, are usually quite
low grade and the principal problem
has been to determine which of these
veins in the lower crosscut is the same
as the more productive vein devel
oped in the upper workings.
"The company has been unfortun
ate in spending several thousand dol
lars on revising the equipment of the
old mill, which was ill-arranged and
failed in many respects to be a suc
cess. The mill was planned and in
stalled by an incompetent engineer
who was apparently well recommend
ed to the company. Under his ad
vice the stamps in the old mill were
thrown out and the ore fed directly
from the crusher to the tube mill, the
individual pieces of the ore being
about the same size as the grinding
pebbles. An attempt was further
made to experiment with some un
tried schemes of agitation in the cy
anide plant rather than accept stand
ard successful agitation processes.
In numerous other regards the instal
lation was ill-advised, with the result
that the experiment was entirely un
successful. The failure of the mill
to do what was expected of it has
been quite discouraging to the stock
holders with the result that little ac
tivity is now in evidence at the prop
erty." DANCE HALL RAIDED
Early Morning Call Sends Police to
Clackamas Heights
City and county officers early Sun
day morning raided a dance hall at
Clackamas Heights when reports
came in. that a riot was about to re
sult from a fist fight between two
men who had been drinking. When
Constable D. E. Frost, Police Chief
Blanchard, Patrolman French and
deputies arrived at the hall they found
good order. They made no arrest
and found no liquor, although there
were signs of drunkenness. The offi
cers believe that hard cider was re
sponsible for the conditions found at
the dance. Amos Smith was arrest
ed the following day, charged with
assault and battery by C. A. Cassidy,
floor manager at the dance and fined
$25 by Justice of the Peace Sievers.
Lavier Elected Chief
The volunteer fire department Mon
day night elected Ed Lavier as chief,
and Walter Young assistant. Lavier
is a member of Cataract hose compa
ny and formerly was chief of the
Woodburn fire department For
chief, Lavier and Paul Nauman were
candidates, the former winning by 40
votes. Three fire commissioners
were elected M. G. Noble, Daniel
Nolan and Ralph Green.
LANE CONDEMNED
B! WIRES' VOTE
RESOLUTIONS CALL SENATOR
DISGRACE TO STATE
WILSON PRAISED
WILL LUNCH WITH GRANGES
Naval Miltiamen Tell of Plans. Will
Bring Goldsborough to
Oregon City
Senator Harry Lane, whose action
in connection with the filibuster that
succeeded in denying the president
authority to arm merchant vessels,
came in for a strong scoring in a set
of resolutions adopted by the Live
Wires of the Commercial club at their
meeting on Tuesday. The resolutions
showed the Wires to be unanimously
against Senator Lane for. his part in
the filibuster and labeled the legislat
or as a disgrace to the Btate. At the
same time Presitent Woodrow Wilson
was heartily indorsed and the support
of the club was pledged to him in his
efforts to maintain the honor and dig
nity of the United States. The reso
lutions have been forwarded to Wash
ington. The Live Wire meeting Tuesday
was devoted to a presentation of the
aims of the Oregon Naval militia,
which has undertaken a recruiting
campaign in Oregon City. The vis
iting officers of the organization
promised an early visit at this city
of the torpedo boat Goldsborough,
which arrived in Portland this week to
become a training ship for the organ
ization. Lieutenant Jett of the mi
litia represented the organization and
he was accompanied by Lieutenant
Commander George F. Blair and En
sign LeTourneau.
Next Tuesday evening the Live
Wires will be guests at a dinner
served by the women of Harding
grange at Logan. This is to be the
first trip of the series that is planned
to take the club to all parts of the
county. Harding grange presented
its invitation Tuesday and it was
promptly accepted. The Wires and
business men who care to attend will
assemble at the Commercial club at
6:15 Tuesday evening and will be
taken to Logan in automobiles to be
provided by members. The Wires and
residents of the Logan country will
attend the dinner and will undoubted
ly engage in debate upon several im
portant topics. The meeting next
Tuesday noon has been omitted in
view of the evening session.
The resolutions adopted Tuesday
and forwarded to the Oregon delega
tion at Washington and to President
Wilson read as follows:
"Whereas, Our country is facing a
crisis that may lead us into war with
one or more of the European nations,
and
"Whereas, It is our duty aa patriot
ic American citizens to strengthen the
hands of the chief executive of this
nation, who has been entrusted with
the administration of its foreign pol
icies, and
"Whereas, We believe the president
of the United States is acting for the
good of the country and for the lib
erty of its citizens; therefore be it
"Resolved, That the Live Wires of
the Oregon City Commercial club do
hereby pledge their earnest support
to President Woodrow Wilson of the
United States in any action he may
deem necessary to take in maintain
ing the honor and dignity of the peo
ple of the country that we all love;
and be it further
"Resolved, That we most emphat
ically condemn the action of United
States Senator Harry Lane of Oregon
in his refusal to support the president
at a time when the chief executive of
this nation was entitled to the unani
mous endorsement of the American
people. We characterize Senator
Lane's conduct as a disgrace to our
state; and be it further
"Resolved, That a copy of this reso
lution be forwarded by mail to each
member of the Oregon delegation in
the United States senate and house of
representatives."
TO HAVE OPENING
Hawley Mills Will be in Operation by
First of April
Plans for the official opening of the
fine new addition to the Hawley Pulp
& Paper company plant in this city
call for that event on April 1, when
Mrs. W. P. Hawley, Sr., will turn the
handle that starts the big paper ma
chines in operation. The opening
may be delayed after that date some
what, but W. P. Hawley, Jr., who is
taking a great interest in the affair,
believes everything will be in readi
ness by that time. Some of the com
pany officials, probobly Mr. Hawley,
Sr., will speak at the gathering of
employes attending the opening.
Last Thursday the new Main street,
addition was adorned with a huge
flag and this will be put up again at
the time of the opening. The banner
is the largest yet displayed in Ore
gon City and hundreds of the Hawley
mill employes who saw it saluted it
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