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34th Year
OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1917
Number 52
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PULLED BT ROOTS
INDISCREET ROADMASTER GETS
IN BAD BY SHADY DEAL
WITH BRIBER
ACCEPTS $100 BRIBE MONEY
Comes Home to Brag of the Clever
Thing He Did. It Was
Crude Trick
About the crudest little blackmail
game that has been played in Clack
amas county's littlehistory is cred
ited to Thomas A. Roots, roadmaster.
It was so crude that it is disgrace
ful. It is too bud that county officials,
vested with authority and honor, can
not abide by the rules of common hon
esty and manly decency. And its
shame is made the greater because
the perpetrator of this low-brow stunt
brags about his accomplishment
thinks he's clever. We have no bones
to pick with county officials, but when
they get off the track of righteous
ness in the transaction of county bus
iness it is high time to show up their
true colors.
The most mild characterzation of
Thomas Roots' little game is that the
roadmaster was woefully indiscreet
The meanest thing that could be said
about him is that he blackmailed with
. an evil result and goodness knows
that's a terrible thing to say about a
public servant.
County authority can Command re
spect only so long as its actions are
respectful. It can enforce justice on
ly while it is just. When these qual
ities are lacking in county officals we
have arrived at a state of moral cor
ruption in public affairs that is no
thing short of dishonsety. And
we should waste little time listening
to the bragart who tells of his clev
er doings, for his actions are repre
hensible and should be scorned.
Tom Roots told a story last week
of his own heroism and honesty which
places him in a disgraceful position
before the public. The Courier re
views the simple . narrative for the
benefit of those who may have for
gotten it. Mind you, this is the story
as told by Mr. Roots himself!
The roadmaster was in Portland
with the county judges and commis
sioners wining and dining at the Ben
son hotel. At the conclusion of the
feast some dishonest dealer in road
supplies handed Roots $100. Roots
couldn't help taking .the money, for
it was handed him while he was shak
ing hands with the Portlander.
Roots hunted up the county judge,
showed him the $1T)0 bill and told him
of the transaction. The money was
put in the county vaults, and the road
master laid in wait to "get it back
on" the Portlander.
Weeks went by before Roots met
the briber. The conversation over a
dinner table turned to road supplies,
and our crafty official turned the tab
les no the underhanded dealer and
with threats of exposure secured a
promise that the dealer would give
the county a 10 and then a five per
cent discount on all supplies pur
chased from the Portland firm.
Moreover, Roots compelled the man
intimating that the cost was much
less than the shame of exposure to
give a five per cent discount on all
goods purchased by the county in
1916. It is one thing to see the coun
ty's balance on the right side of the
ledger, but there's a deal of difference
in how transactions are recorded.
Honesty can be the only policy in
public business as well as private af
fairs. That is the story that was told to
the Courier last week by the proud
Mr. Roots himself.
Perhaps Mr. Roots has become
aware of the fact that his blackmail
game was the worst kind of dishon
esty even casting a shadow over the
crime of the briber. Perhaps he real
izes by his own confession that he not
only kept the bribe, but added wrong
to folly by deliberately blackmailing
the briber. The county benefitted
through the crooked transaction, but
that makes no difference. The fact
remains that the county accepted
tainted money and by threatening to
blacken the reputation of the giver
Roots blackened his own with his
outrageous blackmail game.
If Thomas Roots was indiscreet
and really had an honest desire not
to accept the bribe, why did he not
report the matter to the district at
torney? He should have seen to it
that the man who belittled the moral
character of Thomas A. Roots by
tendering unholy money was legally
prosecuted. The Courier believes
Roots to be as immoral as the Port
land machinery dealer, and it also
has a firm conviction that Clackamas
county's officials should be above
bribes and above blackmail. It be
lieves the roadmaster and all other
public servants should have manly
, stamina enough to flatly refuse to be
a party to such shady deals as this
was.
Not only was Mr. Roots a- party to
the scandalous affair, but he came
home from Portland and spread the
story of his clever bit of gambling.
He not only viciously erred, believing
PECULIAR
Gl
that he was pulling off something
CAMPAIGN FOR BOND
IS TO COVER STATE
SENATOR WOOD WILL CONSID
ER ESTABLISHMENT OF A
CENTRAL OFFICE.
Requests from counties in eastern,
southern and western Oregon have
been received by Dr. W. D. Wood,
state senator from Washington coun
ty, asking him as senior member of
the state legislative committee of
eight, to take up with that committee
the advisability of calling a confer
ence of all the counties to arrange for
financing and organizing a state head
quarters to serve the local and coun
ty roads organizations in providing
maps, pamphlets and other informa
tion asked for in their road bond cam
paigns. The legislative committee of eight
consists of Senators Wood of Wash
ington county, E. D. Cusick of Linn
county and Julien A. Hurley of Mal
heur county; and Representatives W.
E. Schimpff of Clatsop county, W. H.
Gore of Jackson county, C. C. Clark
of Gilliam county, O. Laurgaard of
Multnomah county and Roy Ritner of
Umatilla county, the latter five being
members of the house committee on
roads. It has been appointed in pur
suance to a joint resolution passed by
the legislature requiring the naming
of a committee to prepare the official
argument for the state pamphlet to
be sent to voters prior to the special
election June 4.
v Representing the entire state as it
does, this committee, it is said, would
be the proper body to call the state
wide conference that is proposed.
This would insure that whatever
headquarters are established Would
be under the domination and control
of the counties outside of Multnomah,
and would insure that the headquar
ters be kept free from the influence
of paving contractors. It would also
insure that whatever campaign funds
were raised, should any be deemed ne
cessary, would come from the people
of the whole state in small subscrip
tions, and that no contributions would
be permitted from any paving inter
est. Senator Wood has the suggestions
under consideration, and states that
if he calls the meeting of the legislat
ive committee of eight he will do so
some time next week. -
BaBY IS DROWNED
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Mjlln of Port
land Dies in Bathtub
The infant son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Milln was drowned in a bath
tub at his home at Portland
on Wednesday. While the mo
ther was absent from the room
the year-old baby climbed into the
tub and in a moment, when Mrs.
Milln returned, was laying face
downward in the tub, dead. All ef
forts to revive the baby were futile,
although Mrs. Milln rushed to a doc
tor with the child in her arms.
Funeral services will be held in
Oregon City Friday afternoon at two
o'clock, with the Rev. Father Hille
brand officiating. Interment will be
made here. Mr. and Mrs. Milln are
well-known in Oregon City, where
Mr. Milln was born and raised. He
is a son of Mrs. A. W. Milln of this
city and was formerly connected
with the Pacific Telephone Co., with
whom he is employed at Portland.
OBJECTS TO NAMES
Husband Loiters in Pool Halls
and
Spends Cash for Horns
Charging that her husband spends
his money "for brass horns, music and
frivolous things, Mrs. Anna M. Mul
lan Saturday filed suit for divorce
from Homer M. Mullan. They were
married at Milwaukie, Ore., Decem
ber 19, 1900, and have three children,
of which the mother asks custody.
Mrs. Mullan alleges that she has aid
ed as a laborer with the work about
the farm, digging potatoes and milk
ing the cows and that her thanks were
to see her husband loitering about
pool and card rooms and in being
called by him "a lazy old cow." Mul
lan is prominent in the Milwaukie
neighborhood.
WILL CHANGE ROAD
Mortenson Wants ti Build Sawmill
on Banks of Molalla
The county court Saturday grant
ed F. C. Mortenson a permit to change
the route of a county roadway along
the banks of the Molalla river In
township 5 south of ranges 2 and 3
east Mr. Mortenson is the lessee of
the property there, and wants to erect
a sawmill on the bank of the river.
With the road as at present there
would not be room enough between
the river and the road for his opera
tions. The permit for the change
covers a period of eight years, after
which, if the time is not extended,
Mr. Mortenson agrees to route the
road as it was originally.
unusually clever, but he draped the
thing in a mantle of shame when he
told the story to the press and sat
back to enjoy the praises that he
probably expected from a public long
since tired of stories of the failings
of officials, of the dishonest actions of
men who are supposed to be upright
citizens and irreproachable ctiarac
tera.
CITY CELEBRATES
'5
MERCHANTS VIE FOR PRIZES
AND FOR PRAISE OF THE
VISITING FOLK
IT'S TO BE A MERRY NIGHT
Music, Merriment and Friendship
Will Welcome Country People
to County Seat
There will be a hot time in the old
town on Friday night.
Although the hot time will be on
tap throughout the day, the night will
be hotter.
Oregon City's first "Spring Opening
and Get Acquainted Event" is the oc
casion for the hot time. Music and
merriment are the trimmings, good
fellowship is a basic element and bus-
business is an incidental.
Everybody and his brother and sis
ter are coming to Oregon City Friday.
If Dobbin has the heeves they'll give
the tin lizzie a shot of gas, or get out
the old rowboat and paddle through
the mud. They'll get here somehow.
Then, too, there is a specal train over
the Willamette Valley Southern to
bring a crowd from all along that
line. Indeed, folks, it is to be a glor
ious time.
All the live merchants in Oregon
City are in on the affair. There wll
be special features in every display
window that amounts to much and
that includes practically all. There
are to be prizes for window displays,
there are to be living models, showing
the new direct-from-Paris fashions,
maybe some enterprising merchant
will serve tea to the women folks.
Anyway, the spring opening and
get-acquainted event is to be SOME
celebration. If you have any doubt
about is just glance over the adver
tisements in this issue of the Cour
ier. See the wide awake merchants
who are presenting their wares to
you.
These firms are not asking you to
buy from them tomorrow as much as
they are asking you to p-y them a
social visit, asking you to come into
their stores and shake them by the
hand. Get acquainted. That is the
idea behind the spring opening affair.
The merchants want to know the peo
ple they are selling their goods to.
They want to know the rural dwell
ers better than they do now in order
to serve them better in the future.
This get-acquainted idea is a good
one. People like to buy from mer
chants they know and merchants who
do business honestly like to sell their
goods to their friends better than to
strangers. The plan is to make the
buyers and the sellers friends. And
the more people who come into Ore
gon City tomorrow the more friends
Oregon City merchants will Lave.
The P. R. L. & P. Co. has added its
mite to the gayety of the evening by
donating electric lights snd several
of the buldings are being decorated
with streamers of electric globes.
The service is without charge and
Main street will make the Great
White Way look pale by comparison.
The Commercial club building, where
guests in the city will be entertained,
will be brightly illuminated.
Orchestras have been engaged by
some of the merchants participating in
the grand opening evening and the
music that will ring in the ears of
shoppers throughout the day will be
the bargain counter tunes. But not
all will be bargains. The new spring
stocks have arrived in all the stores
and a special effort will be made to
display these.
That the merchants are serious in
their determination to get acquainted
with their patrons is attested by the
fact that none of the stores will sell
any of their goods after the closing
hour in the evening, yet every one oi
them will be wide open and . all the
clerks will be on hand. During the
evening hours patrons will visit the
stores, inspect the stocks and chat to
their hearts' content but they can't
buy goods.
Several of the stores have arranged
for premiums for their visitors to
morrow night. Little tokens of re
membrance will be given out and the
entire evening will be devoted entirely
to making patrons feel the welcome
that is extended to them upon this
occasion. .
Aside from the program in the
stores the Commercial club will have
an active part in the spring opening.
Bands will play on the streets, the
show houses and club rooms will be
open and hospitality will be written in
big letters all about the town.
(,5t $J v& $ 5t M
Jfr C. W. P. CO. COMPLAINS
i The Crown-Willamette Pa-
v per company has filed a com
J plaint at Washington, D. C,
J charging that the rate of $1.25
. a hundred on wood pulp from
J that point to Portland is exces
" sive to the extent that it ex
jt ceeds 75' cents a hundred. The
establishment of a reasonable
J rate and reparation for $1100
J excess charges is asked.
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MAN OF MANY FLAGS
WANTS CITIZENSHIP
MANY APPLICATIONS FOR PA
PERS COME TO COURT .NUM
BER ARE GERMANS
No one could truthfully call Mi
kael Stern a man without a country.
The trouble seems to be with Mr.
Stern that has too many countries.
He wants to get rid of at least two
of them and become a full-fledged
American citizen. One of his coun
tries is at war and the other is in the
hot water of revolutionary activity
the peace and quietness of Amerca
appeal to Mr. Stern.
He is of Swedish birth, is this man
of many flags. He came to the Unit
ed States from Acaponeta, Mexico,
and tells County Clerk Iva Harring
ton that he does not longer want to
be a subject of King George -V of
Great Britain. Mr. Stern came to the
United States on December 2, 1912,
and on Tuesday he declared his in
tention of becoming a partner with
Uncle Samuel. The man with too
many countries is a miner. He immi
grated from Sweden to Canada and
there became a British subject. Lat
ehr he went to Mexico to work in the
mines and from there came to the
United States. That's how he hap
pens to be connected with so many
nations.
Ernest Koster of West Linn Tues
day applied for a final certificate of
citizenship. He is a native of Ger
many and 10 days after his arrival
in America, in March, 1910, declared
his intention. He is a machinist.
Siebenschloeschen, Germany, is the
birthplace of Fred Moehnke, who ap
plied here Saturday for a final certifi
cate of citizenship. Mr. Moehnke,
who is 65 years old, came to the Unit
ed States from Canada in August,
1876, and took out his first papers in
January, 1879. He is a farmer, living
near Estacada, and is the father of
13 children, 11 of whom are living.
Griffith Griffiths is a native of Car
narvonshire, Wales, and has been in
the United States since January 2,
1904. He secured his first papers in
June 2, 1908, and applied Saturday
for the final certificate. He is a
farmer, and lives at Hoff.
John Nofzinger and Rudolph Ad
rian, natives of Germany, have ap
plied for final certificates of citizen
ship. Mr. Nofzinger came to the
United States on May 12,, 1872, and
received his first papers on May 17,
1913. He is a farmer in the Macks-
burg counttry. Mr. Adrian came to
the United States on October 15, 1911,
taking out his first papers almost im
mediately. He lives at West Linn.
Daniel McLaren, a native of Glas
gow, Scotland, has applied for hnal
certificate of citizenship. He came
to America on April 1, 1880, and has
been a logger in Oregon since 1903.
He lives near Molalla and is the fath
er of seven children.
TWO GO TO ASYLUM
Young Derelict Drank Patent Medi
cine and Firey Liniment .
C. O. Holther was committed to
the state hospital Thursday by Judge
Anderson, following an examination
which proved that the man's mental
ity had been seriously affected by con
stant use of alcohol. Holther, who is
28 years old, had been intoxicated for
six weeks before his commitment,
and, in the absence of whisky, he has
been drinking patent medicines and
liniments. Holther lived in Oregon
City.
William Krueger, of Milwaukie,
is sent to the state hospital with
Holther. Krueger is practically with
out mentality, although the cause of
his insanity was ,not determined by
his examiners. He is 60 years old
and relatives say he has suffered
since he was thrown from a horse 12
years ago.
tJ i$
JURYMEN CALLED
The March jury term will
open here on March 26, when a
number of minor cases will be
disposed of in circuit court.
The grand jury for the term
will sit beginning March 19.
The grand jury is made up of
C. G. Stone, H. G. Ziegler, O.
L. Hammond, Nat H. Scribner,
J. W. Bennett, H. E. Straight
and A. J. Johnson.
8 v&
Studer is Pardoned
Sheriff Wilson last week received
notice of the pardon from the peni
tentiary of Phillip Studer, sent up
from this county last year for chick
en stealings. Mrs. Studer sent heavi
ly signed petitions to the governor,
pointing out the heavy sentence
against her husband. Studer's home
at Stringtown was raided when he
was arrested last year and evidence
of wholesale chicken stealing was un
covered. Studer was sentenced to a
minimum of two years and his pardon
is made conditional by Governor
Withycombe.
Teachers Will Meet
The Clackamas County Teachers'
association will hold its regular meet
ine at Milwaukie on March 17, in con
junction with the Schoolmasters' club
of the county. Mrs. Barnum of
Mount Pleasant is president of the
Teachers' association and Professor
J. R. Bowland is secretary.
MEET
A TILT
SPLENDID MEAL WINS HEARTS
OF OREGON CITY BUSI
NESS MEN
GOODNESS, HOW THEY ATE!
Impromptu
Talk
on Roads Rouses
Logan Grangers
to
Debate
Road Bond Issue
Near fireworks did not confine the
joy at the Live Wire meeting with the
good people of Harding grange at Lo
gan on Tuesday evening. And the
big feature of the joy program was
the wonderful dinner served by the
matrons of the community. Chicken,
cake impossible! It cannot be de
scribed. The women veritably loaded the
tables with tempting viands and won
the hearts of 40 Oregon City business
men who were guests at the grange
hall. Ten automobiles carried the
delegation to Logan and it was a will
ing army that attacked the splendid
dinner. The women were praised for
their culinary achievements and were
given a vote of sincere thanks.
After the Wires had done justice
to that dinner they were in a mopd
for any fray and had their feet not
turned a little cold under the pressure
that better judgment exerted upon
them they would have had their de
sire for wordy battle entirely ap
peased.' O. D. Eby, president of the
Commercial club, started the action
when he explained to the grangers
that the Live Wires were not all of
one opinion as to the merits of the
proposed $6,000,000 bond issue and
said there was no desire to debate the
subject. But, he said, the Wires
would debate if the grangers said the
first word. It was the sign of battle.
"We'll fight if you hit first," Mr. Eby
had said, and forthwith one of the
Logan men landed a blow.
B. T. McBain came back with a
strong argument in favor of the bond
issue and literally "spilled the beans."
The debate that the Live Wires had
wanted to avoid was on. When Mr.
McBain had spoken his little piece,
Williafn Lillie, the Logan farmer
lawyer, came back at the speaker in
a popularly humorous vain. Other
grangers who spoke against the bonds
were George Gerber and Louis Funk.
The time of night was the only thing
that saved the Wires from the orator
ical onslaught of the farmers. The
Logan farmers were loaded for de
bate and showed their disappointment
at its absence.
Willard P. Hawley, Jr., sub-Trunk
of the Live Wires, presided at the
meeting. He called upon O. D. Eby,
Senator Walter A. Dimick and Coun
ty Judge H. S. Anderson. The judge
outlined the status of the county's
road business, touched upon the sub
ject of bonds and told of the work the
court was attempting to do for the
rural communities. Senator Dimick
reviewed the county division proposal
that met with defeat in the senate at
the last legislative session.
The evening's entertainment was
featured by the delightful vocal so
los of Miss Lillian Anderson, accom
plished daughter of the county judge,
and by Dr. Roy A. Prudden, who also
sang. The Rev. J. W. MacCallum
pronounced the invocation.
The Wires, to the last member, are
glad that they were in a position to
do justice to the spread put before
them by the women of Harding
grange. The only regret they have,
aside from any unpleasantness that
might creep under the Bkins of some
farmers because of the talks made
without the sanction of the Wires,
is the fact that Harding grange wo
men cannot furnish more of the reg
ular luncheons of the organization.
YOUTHS ARRESTED
Break into Chautauqua Buildings and
' Steal from Grounds
With the arrest of Harry and Nor
man uunmire anu William Marx,
Sheriff Wilson believes he has stopped
the losses reported from Glad
stone Chautauqua park within the
past few weeks. H. E. Cross,
owner of the park, repoorted that
several of the Chautauqua buildings
had been entered and that valuable
tools had been stolen from Mack Riv
ers, who was employed at the park by
Mr. Cross. The trio arrested are 14,
15 and 17 years old respectively. The
boys turned over to the officials the
tools they had taken and confessed to
their theft. Articles taken from the
park buildings have not been recov
ered. In the Divorce Court
Elsie Barbur charges Orange L.
Barbur with cruelty in a divorce pe
tition filed here Thursday. The cou
ple was married at Vancouver, Wash.,
on November 30, 1915. Mrs. Barbur
alleges that her husband did not prop
erly support her and attempted sev
eral times to force her to lead a life
of shame. She asks the restoration
of her former name, Elsie Blood.
Adolph and Minnie Woelm were
divorced Thursday, a default decree
going to Mr. Woelm.
S
FISH FAMILY ASKS
DAMAGES OF COUNY
ACCIDENT AT NEW ERA LAST
YEAR RESULTS IN SUITS
FOR $4400
Clackamas county is asked to pay
the damages resulting from an acci
dent to the Fish family on the. Pacific
highway south of New Era last Au
gust, in complaints filed in Judge
Campbell's court here yesterday. The
damages sum up, accordng to the
complaints, $4400, including hospital
bills for the injured.
Separate complaints were filed by
the three members of the family in
the accident. Frank E. Fish, driver
of the automobile, escaped from the
accident uninjured when his machine
went over the bank. He wants $400
for the repair of the machine. Mrs.
Alice Etta Fish wants $2000 for per
sonal injuries sustained. The com
plaint says that Mrs. Fish suffered
broken bones and a nervous shock.
Amy Fish, a daughter, seeks to re
cover $2000. She alleges she suf
fered several broken bones and cuts
about the body. Her left leg was
mangled, the complaint says. Frank
Fish has been appointed her guardian
for the purposes of the suit.
The three complaints against the
county are similar. Each alleges
that the Pacific highway at the point
where the accident occurred was in a
defective and dangerous condition.
They say a cut in the road had been
filled in, leaving a 12-foot bank on
a curve. The edge of the bank was
hidden in the ferns, it is charged,
and when Mr. Fish tried to avoid an
other car on the road he drove close
to the edge. The fill gave way and
the car crashed to the bottom of the
fill, resulting in the serious injury of
the mother and daughter and damag
ing the car. The accident occurred on
August 10, last.
OLD BILL IS PAID
County Book Auditors Accept Court's
Figure After Much Delay
A bill for auditing the books of
Clackamas county in 1914 was or
dered paid by the county court Friday.
E. H. Collis & Co. of Portland audited
the books and presented a claim for
$1023.85. The court cut $400 off the
claim and issued the warrant in Feb
ruary, 1915. . The warrant was re
fused by the company and has been
on file in County Clerk Harrington's
office for two full years before the
court, at its last meeting, ordered its
cancellation. In the meantime the
state legislature has ordered the
county courts owing similar bills to
pay what they thought a. just amount
Friday the Collis company pre
sented its claim again for the $1023.
85. After debating the question the
court ordered a warrant drawn in the
sum of $623.85, exactly the same as
was made in the first place, and the
company accepted payment.
BOXERS ARE FAST
Soldier Gets Number of Martin
Schultze, Oregon City Pugilist
The feature of the smoker card of
the Falls City Athletic club Thursday
night was the six-round battle be
tween Martin Schultze and Soldier
Jack McDonald. The bout was a mer
ry slugfest and the referee's decision
in favor of McDonald was popular.
The headline bout between Tommy
Clark and Jack Wagner was declared
a draw after a fast six rounds. It
took Joe Farrell of Oregon City
three rounds to show his colors to
Frankie Warren of Portland, and
the fight was stopped after Warren
had taken all the punishment he could
stand. Ping Bodie and Eddie Olson
fought a draw that lacked fight and
Carl Martin of Oregon City went to a
draw with Jimmie Moscow of Port
land. DOWNEY LOT REFUSED
West Linn Voters Support Council
at Special Election
The voters of West Linn at a spe.
cial election held last week rejected
by a large majority the proposition
to purchase from James Downey a
site for the proposed fire house.
Downey secured his hearing at the
polls through initiative petition and
lost by 201 votes to 56. He offered
a lot for sale to the city and the pur
chase was not approved by the coun
cil, which authorized the purchase of
another site at a lower figure. The
councilmen of West Linn campaigned
ugainst the object of the special elec
tion yesterday.
COURT IS PETITIONED
Road Matters Will be Brought up by
Taxpayers of Several Districts
At its April term, the Clackamas
county court will be presented with
petitions from at least three groups
of taxpayers asking, in two cases, the
location of new county roads, and in
another the vacation of a roadway,
The Noland's Mill and Gribble Prairie
road is the subject of a petition to be
presented by taxpayers who want to
establish a uniform width of 40 feet,
Another petition asks for the creation
of a county road over what is known
as the Hugill route, and the residents
along a certain section of the Oswalt
road want the road vacated.
CRT VOTED
OF
MATES ON THE CIVIC SHIP AS
ONE IN EXPELLING AN
ERRANT KNIGHT
IS TO BE TRIED SATURDAY
Early Meeting of Aldermen Will
Consider Successor to Ousted
Member
A climax was written to the dra
matic and novel career of John F. Al
bright as a city councilman on Fri
day afternoon, when Mayor Hackett
called a special meeting of the alder
men and the errant .knight was ex
pelled from his seat by ' unanimous
vote.
Albright was in his seat at the spe
cial meeting and heard himself ex
coriated by several of those who have
been in the body with him through the
past few years. H. M. Templeton
led the attack upon Albright, and
when a resolution of expulsion was
presented all voted for it save E. B.
Andrews, whose right to vote was in
doubt Albright was represented at
the meeting by Joseph E. Hedges,,
who made a plea for his client
Public sentiment is said to have
been growing against Albright for
several weeks, or since he was arrest
ed for driving his big automobile on
the sidewalk in front of a theater
while intoxicated. The council con
sidered that Albright had added insult
to injury when he was arrested last
Thursday night on the charge of in
toxication and spent the night in jail.
Until Albright came into money
some time ago he was connected with
the local paper mills. He has been
a member of the city council for five
years and his second term would have
expired next January. When he re
ceived money he bought a big auto
mobile, and his career in the courts
started immediately. He was ar
rested several times in Portland for
mixing up with the traffic and pro
hibition laws. The resolution passed
by the council Friday says that Al
bright had attended several meetings
of that body while intoxicated.
It will be the duty of the council
at an early meeting to elect a suc
cessor to Albright, who, with H. M.
Templeton and F. A. Metzner, repre
sents the first ward. Voters in the
first ward will recommend Thomas
Randall and W. L. Mulvey for the
vacant seat and others may be desig-'
nated for the council's consideration.
Twice Albright's trial has been set
by Recorder Loder and at present is
ready to be heard on Saturday after
noon. The former councilman will
tell his story to a jury of six men,
if another postponement is not grant
ed, at that time. He is said to be
ready to base his contest of the case
upon a plea of not guilty. Because
of Mr. Albright's position and influ
ence in the city reports have been
in circulation that the authorities
would bury the case if possible. Re
corder Loder and City Prosecutor
Story are firm in their denial of the
rumor.
Gets Judgment Against Park
A judgment for more than $7000,
with attorney fees in the sum of $300,
was signed Saturday in favor of John
h. Bowman in his suit against the
Mount Hood Hotel company and Don
ald Bodley. The judgment carries
with it a first Hen upon the company's
property, the Arrah Wanna park and
hotel, in the Mount Hood country.
The case went by default to Mr. Bow
man, who has a summer home ad
joining the park property.
Germans Want Citizenship
Otto Schmieser and Joseph
Schmidt have applied for final citi
zenship papers, and their names have
been filed until the next hearing. Mr;
Schmieser was born in Germany, and
has been in the United States since
May 1, 1881. He has been a resident
of Oregon since 1910, and is a farmer
in the Carus country. Joseph
Schmidt was born in Bavaria, and
came to the United States March 15,
1886. He has been in Oregon about
25 years.
Concord Teachers Meet
The Parent-Teacher association of
Concord met at the schoolhouse on
Friday afternoon and the question of
having a directed play at the school
grounds for the children this summer
was discussed and wilf be voted upon
at next meeting. Miss Lobdel, a pas
senger agent for the O.-W. R. & N.,
gave the club a talk on "Do's and
Don't's" for the traveler.
Sues Because of Injuries
Ernest O. Froese is suing the
Crown-Willamette Paper company for
$2999.99. The suit is brought because
of accidents sustained by Froese while
in the employ of the company. On
October 11, 1916, 650 pounds of pulp
fell upon him in such a way that his
knee, he alleges, has been permanent
ly injured.
Get acquainted with Oregon City
merchants; they are a fine lot or
folks to know.
COUNCIL