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35th Year " OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1917 Number. 30
DECIDE FOR KERKES
AGAINST MR. GIVENS
$25,000 SLANDER ACTION FAILS
AFTFJil TRIAL IN CIRCUIT
COURT. NO DAMAGES
After a trial lasting most of the
day, and into which many sensation
al features were injected, a jury in
Judge J. U. Campbell's court Thurs
day found a verdict for M. J. Kerkes,
who had been sued by Walter Givens,
of Estacada, for $25,000 for slander.
The suit was an outgrowth of alleg
ed statements against the character
and private life of Givens, said to
have been made by Kerkes. Givens
is a prominent eastern Clackamas
county business man, and was form
erly a minister in the Christian
church. He still occupies the pulpit
occasionally and has been suggested
as the permanent - supply for the
Gladstone church. He was a leader
in the fight before the last legislature
for the creation of Cascade county.
. Kerkes denied having made the
statement attributed to him by Giv
ens, which had to do with the latter's
relations with a Portland woman.
Kerkes did testify, however, that he
had stated that Givens had been seen
running around with a pretty woman.
Judge Campbell held that the exact
words need not be proved so long as
Kevkes' meaning was made clear by
what he did say. Attempts of at
torneys for Kerkes to bring in fea
tures of Givens' life before he came
to Oregon were not admitted by the
court, and attorneys for Kerkes
failed to pass a motion of non-suit on
the ground that Givens had failed to
prove Kerkes' exact language.
That Givens attempted to use the
court as an . agent to eliminate
Kerkes as a competitor in livestock
purchasing in eastern Clackamas
county, was intimated by Judge
Grant B, Dimick, who appeared as a
counsel for Kerkes.
Tht juryhich heard the case and
found a verdict for the defendant,
Kerkes, included A. J. Marrs, E. L.
Palfrey, John R. Oatfield, J. C. Saw
yer, W. H. Zivney, J. C. Edmonds, A.
B. Hibbard, Harry Ameele, A. Engle,
W. G. Brickley Chris Moehnke and
G. C. Pelton.
SEVEN MORE MEN WILL
RESPOND TO WAR CALL
Clackamas county will be called
upon to send seven more . men to
American Lake to complete this coun
ty's quota for the first draft and
there are 15 certified men to select
from, aocording to County Clerk Iva
Harrington. The first draft called 52
men from this county and the first
quota to depart for the national army
cantonment was 5 per cent. Forty
per cent left late in September and
an additional 40 per cent departed
Friday. This leaves 15 per cent yet
to go. Because of the fact that sev
eral in the first call ' in the draft
were absent from their homes and
others were ill and couldnot be ex
amined, more men than necessary
were certified, which is responsible
for the fact that there are 15 men
from which to pick seven for the
last quota
The men who will answer the last
call on the first draft will be the
alternates for the last quota, with
possibly one exception. The alter
nates were: Harry Crawford Reid,
Estacada; Ennis Sherman Townsend,
Bull Run; Walter Sidney Smith,
Mulino; Ray Leigh Francisco, Ore
gon City; Arduius Stefani, Molalla.
THREE SEEK DIVORCE
Disgruntled Wives Ask Change in
Conditions of Servitude
Three wives seek to alter the con
ditions of their servitude through di
vorce complaints filed in Judge Camp
bell's department of the circuit court
Thursday. Bertha Fischer charges
William Fischer, to whom she was
married at Walla Walla, Wash., on
March 29, 1916, with cruelty and non
support. She wants her maiden
name, Bertha Powell, restored.
Desertion is the ground of the
complaint filed by Elta Hayden
against Herbert H. Hayden. The
couple was married at Vancouver,
Wash., on February 27, 1915. Mrs.
Hayden says her husband left her in
September last year. She also seeks
the restoration of her maiden name,
Elta Verville.
The custody of their three children
and $2500 alimony in gross are asked
in a complaint filed by Zada Akerill,
of Barlow, Clackamas county, against
Harry Akerill. They were married at
Walla Walla, Wash., on February 8,
1907. Mrs. Akerill charges cruel
ty and says she was forced to support
herself during a continued absence of
her husband. She also asks that
her husband be restrained from dis
posing of the season's crops on sev
eral tracts of land which he controls.
The crops are said to be worth $8000.
Stones Get Decree
W. M. and Nina Stone yesterday
won a decree in Judge Campbell's
court declaring them to have title to
nine acres of land in the Ezra Fish
er donation - land claim. The suit
was brought by Mr. and Mrs. Stone
against T. S. Clapp and the First
Congregational church of Portland to
quiet title to the property.
HAWLEY DECLINES
Ml TRUNK JOB
LIVE WIRES TO SOW WHEAT
ON THEIR MODEL FARM
AT MOUNT PLEASANT
BIG SPAN DECLARED UNSAFE
Donations Made for Planting. . Cost
. of New Bridge Would be Most
ly Borne by State
Willard P. Hawley, Jr., Tuesday
resigned as main trunk of the Live
Wires of the Commercial, club, giv
ing pressure of private business as
his reason, and Mort Latourette was
elected to fill the vacancy. 'The po
sition of chaplain, a new one on the
roll of the Live Wires, was filed by
the election of the Rev. C. H. L.
Chandler of St. Paul's church.
At their meeting Tuesday the
Wires gave the committee in charge
of the club's' bean demonstration
farm the authority to continue the
experiment with wheat and dona
tions of $10 each made by W. P.
Hawley and J. R. Jacobs will pro
vide seed wheat for the patch. In
addition to the donation the Wires
will put $100 to the credit of the
committee to cover the cost of the
wheat experiment. Given a crop of
40 bushels of wheat to the acre at
$2 a bushel, the Live Wires figure
they could net $70 to the acre, as the
cost of production is estimated at
$10 an acre.
The beans grown on the same
ground by the club will be dried on
the top floor of the old armory
building, which W. P. Hawley do
nated for that purpose. It is pro
posed by the Wires to hold a "bean"
day in this city and sell the crop
from their farm direct to the con
sumer at cost. Several grocers have
volunteered to aid in the disposal of
the beans in this manner.
A committee was appointed, upon
recommendation' of J. W. Moffatt, to
take up the matter of condemning
the suspension bridge over the Wil
lamette here after the structure was
declared to be in a serious condition
that might at any time result in
disaster. The state engineer's office
will be called upon by the commit-,
tee to inspect the bridge and advise
as to what action should ' be taken
toward declaring it unfit for use.
The Wires were told that a new
bridge would cost about $50,000 and
that the chief part of the cost should
be borne by the state, inasmuch as
the bridge is a link in the Pacific
highway and in no way is a distinct
possession of Clackamas county.
Oregon City and West Linn together
would pay one-third the total cost of
the new bridge if its construction
was arranged for according to Live
Wire ideas. The committee in
charge of the bridge matter is C. A.
Miller, city engineer; M. J. Lee and
D. N. Byerlee.
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MRS. BROBST NAMED
Oswalt Estate Valued at $8000 Has
Three Beneficiaries
Sophia Brobst was Tuesday ap
pointed administratrix of the estate of
her late husband, William Brobst.
There are seven children to share
with the widow in an estate valued at
$1240.
Ida Oswalt filed in the probate
court Tuesday a petition for letters
of administration in the estate of
Jacob Oswalt. The estate, valued at
$8000, is to be shared between the
widow and two children.
TOTAL WILL BE $400
Treasurer Hedges Sends in More than
Amount Originally Asked
When complete returns are made
on Oregon City's collection for the
war library fund the total will be
close to $400 according to Joseph E.
Hedges, treasurer of the fund here.
Tuesday ,Mr. Hedges forwarded to
the central committee $332.40 as the
major part of the collection in this
city. . The city was asked by the lo
cal committee to donate $300.
PIONEER MARKER ON
OLD OREGON TRAIL
D. A. R. UNVEILING CEREMONY
TO BE HELD HERE ON
NEXT SATURDAY
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At the intersection of the old Ore
gon trail, over which many pioneers
found their way into the new west
of 50 years ago, and the Abernathy
creek, the Daughters of the Ameri
can Revolution are to unveil a mark
er on Saturday afternoon. , The event
will be attended with appropriate
ceremonies conducted by the organiz
ation and a number of prominent then
and women are to be here for the
occasion. The marker will stand di
rectly in front of Mayor E. C. Hack
ett's home.
The marker will be presented by
Mrs. W. H. T. Green, regent of Wil
lamette chapter, D. A. R., to Mrs. I.
L. Patterson, state regent. It will
be unveiled by Miss Ruby Stark
weather and Miss Esther Scott, mem
bers of pioneer Oregon families.
Miss Starkweather is a daughter of
a '46 family and Miss Scott is a
daughter of Mrs. W. D. Scott, chair
man of the Children's society.
Mayor E. C. Hackett will make an
address on behalf of Oregon City
and W. H. Dufur, president of the
Pioneer association, will speak for
that organization. George H. Himes,
secretary of the Oregon Historical
3ociety, will also speak. Mrs. E. A.
Scott will read an original poem writ
ten for this particular occasion by
June McMillan Ordway. Miss Metta
Brown will have charge of the mu
sical program and Dr. W. T. Mil
liken of the Oregon City Baptist
church will lead the devotjonal exer
cise. LOYAL CITIZENS BRING
VICTORY'S DAY CLOSER
Declaring that "we owe it to those
who are to do the fighting to stand
behind them loyally, and bring near
er the day of victory," Governor
Withycombe Wednesday issued a
proclamation designating the ' week
of October 14 to 20 83 patriotic
week, and urging the citizens of the
3tato to inrest their money" liberally
in Liberty bonds.
"Oregon's share of the fund re
quired is from $16,500,000 to $24,
000,000," says the proclamation.
"This sum is too large to be raised
without the co-operation of the whole
people. Every. Oregonian with an
income should consider it a duty and
privilege to purchase one or more
bonds, in ploportion to his means.
The government asks us not to con
tribute, but to invest. There is no
safer investment in the world than a
loan to the United States. Oregon
has thus far responded to every ap
peal. We have given the flower of
our young manhood. Let ua not be
a sordid people; let us not place a
greater store by our money than by
our men. If our people can only be
aroused to the necessities of the situ
ation we cannot fail to have the co
operation which will spell success."
L EBY SUFFERS UNDER
WHEELS OF LIGHT AUTO
Loosened teeth, a broken jawbone
and several cuts and bruises were
sustained Monday evening by Louis
Eby, a young woolen mill employe,
when he was knocked down and run
over by a small automobile. The
young man had just left work at the
woolen mills and was starting up the
street on a bicycle when the automo
bile turned sharply into Main street
and collided with the cyclist. Eby
was thrown a considerable distance
and two wheels of the car passed
over his head. The injury to the
young man's jaw prevented him from
telling the details of the accident, but
it was learned that the car which ran
over him, was driven by a Portland
woman.
FRENCH RETURNS GUN
Insane Man's Weapon With Which He
Threatened Parents Returned
Chief of Police Lee French on
Saturday returned to the dealer, the
gun and ammunition bought by Nor
man Seiler after his release from the
state hospital and with which he was
threatening the lives of his parents
when arrested some time ago. Seiler,
following his release from the asy
lum, worked for a short time in Port
land and with his first money bought
a high power rifle and a box of shells.
After he had been arrested for brand
ishing the lqaded gun menacingly
near his parents, he was taken to
Portland to undergo an operation to
relievo the pressure on his brain.
VAUGHNS NOT GUILTY
Suit to Recover Hotel Property De
cided for Renters .
A verdict for the defense was re
turned in Judge Campbell's court
here Monday after the trial of the
case of Mrs. Cassie Evans Fuller
against T. J. and Florence Vaughn,
occupants of the Cottage hotel prop
erty at Canby, of which Mrs. Fuller
was formerly in active charge. Mrs.
Fuller charged the Vaughns with
holding the property forcibly and the
jury found for the defendants.
TALES OF MEN DF
NORTHERN LANDS
FORT YUKON MOST NORTH
ERLY INHABITED PLACE
IN UNITED STATES
SUMMER DAYS HAVE NO END
Country Where Man and Elements
Constantly War. Gruesome
Stories of Starvation
(M. J. Brown)
In the afternoon our boat crossed
the Arctic Circle and in the evening
we landed at Fort Yukon the land
of the midnight sun.
If you will look at your map of
Alaska you will see that north of
Fort Yukon there is nothing not a
habitation, not a dot, just one waste of
white and desolation to the Arc
tic ocean.
North there is nothing but dis
tance the greatest silence of the
map maker. It seemed to me that the
little town on the banks of the Yukon
was the last place on earth the
place, where the white man could go
no farther.
Two. or three stores, a mission and
a cluster of Indian cabins, that was
Fort Yukon. A few white men, two
missionaries, and no women. It was
desolation, a place remote from civi
lization a silent habitation of the
great north.
Two weeks earlier we would have
seen the midnight sun. As it was Old
Sol went down for a little while, and
before there was any sign of twilight
or darkness, up he rose and started
on another 23-hour shift. It was all
so unreal, so mysterious, so uncanny.
It made me feel as if I was in some
far away country. I could not appre
ciate I was in the United States under
the Stars and Stripes.
There is no night in the Arctic
circle in summer--darkness never
comes, ... For . thr($ months -.thera. . is
almost continuous daylight, and the
people make the most of it to prepare
for the terrible winter that will soon
set in, when there will be months
of absolute darkness, and when a cold
will come down over this north land,
so intense at times that no animal
can live in the open.
Fort Yukon is a trading point and
supply station for the Indian trap
pers. Once there was an army post
there, in the days of the gold stam
pede to Nome. But today, like all
other Alaskan towns, it is going back.
When the rush stopped, when the
great tidal wave buried the rich gold
diggings on the Nome beach, then the
need for soldiers in this God-forsaken
spot was past, and they were trans
ferred. "Do white men ever go north of
here?" I asked a trader. "Yes, thou
sands of them have gone up every
year," he answered. "Prospectors
have traveled to the headwaters of
Chandler and Porcupine rivers and
their branches, far up into the Endi
cott, but the trouble is they don't
carry outfit enough, they haven't got
enough cashi and they have to start
on the back track for grub about as
soon as they get there."
And then he sat on the counter and
explained the gold game to me. These
men are so willing to talk to a new
comer. It is a treat, to them.
He told me there was gold in the
land north, and there wasn't any
doubt about it. He said two prospect
ors picked up nuggets at the middle
fork of the Chandiar that weighed
from $500 each, "but," he said, "the
country is as spotted as a leopard's
hide and men can't take the time to
find the pockets."
He explained in detail the handi
caps of the prospectors. With a
small dog team two men would start
out with all the supplies they could
carry. Or they would start out with
a boat in the summer time. He said
there were no roads and few trails
and it was terribly difficult to pros
pect, and that when a man had got to
his destination and had started to
work on a prospect, then his grub
was running out and he must return.
He said some day men with capital
would "grubstake an outfit right"
and then "there will be a strike that
will make Bettles look sick.'1 Bet
ties is a producing mining camp
about 150 miles west of Fort Yukon
at the headwaters of the Koyukuk.
The trader told me a graphic
story of a tragedy that happened
just before the break up this spring
that illustrates what men have to
stack up against in this forbidding
land.
Two prospectors came in, outfitted
with packs, and started up the Chand
iar. About 25 miles out the river
winds like the letter U. It is 80
miles around the bend and 25 miles
across the portage, and there is a
trail. Both men were young, hardy,
and had had years of roughing it in
Alaska. One of them, he said was
Tom Wheeler of St. Louis. He had
forgotten the other's name.
In a blinding blizzard they miss
ed the trail that cuts across the big
bend in the river, so they followed
the stream day after day when the
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BOYS WANT GOODIES
OF MOTHERS' MAKING
COTTON NOT GOOD FOOD AND
THE CORN IS TOUGH
KENT WILSON SAYS
"Once in awhile some of those
wonderful home-made things to
eat." That is what the Oregon boys
at Camp Greene, Charlotte, North
Carolina, want more ttuin anything
else. This is a plea for some of the
goodies from mother's kitchen voic
ed by Sergeant Kent Wilson, son of
Sheriff and Mrs. W. J. Wilson of Ore
gon City. Kent, who is a sergeant
in the medical department with the
Oregon troops, says in a letter re
ceived by his parents this week: "The
only things that grow down here are
cotton and corn. We can't eat the
cotton and the corn is as tough as
leather."
Kent finds the southern negroes in
teresting characters and tells of one
coal-black gentleman who heard the
boys were from Oregon. "Whar's
dat?'1 the negro asked. "Is dat up
in V'agini?" And the maidens of
the southland the white lassies
whose dispositions are usually as sun
ny as home skies Kent tells of
them, too, in the following letter:
"I have just been watching a crowd
of negroes working. They sing all
the time while they are at work as
soon as the singing stops, the work
stops. They certainly are interest
ing. One big negro, (they call them
all negroes here, not COONS), ask
ed me 'Wha' you-all from?' I told
him Oregon, and then he said 'Is that
up in Va'gini?'
"The funny part of it is, all the
people here talk just like negroes,
too. Coming down on the train one
of the boys said to a girl out of the
window: 'You talk just like a negro.'
'Well!1 she said, 'that is bettah than
talking lak' a Yankee.'
"This is 'some camp;' just loads
upon loads of men, row after row
of tents, and buildings inumerable.
They say you can walk for three days
and never get around the camp. It
covers 50,000 acres. Just to give you
an idea of its immensity, the Quar
termaster says that as soon as all
the-men are here it-will take' 8,000
tons of food a day to feed them.
The weather here is ideal in the
daytime, but the nights are awfully
cold. You wake up about three in
the morning and think sure you are
in Clackamas, but thank heaven, the
rain is absent.
"The city of Charlotte is three
miles from camp. It is certainly dif
ferent from the western towns it's
a regular church town. Just think
69 churches in the place. You have
to go to church to meet anyone, for
down here in the south you absolutely
have to have an introduction to a per
son in order to talk to them. So,
Sunday we are all going to 'doll' up
and go to church.
"We are no longer the 8rd. Oregon
but the 162 infantry, 81st brigade,
41st. division U. S. N. G. some title,
uh? Everything is military here;
they are drilling the men 8 hours a
day, and only allow them out of camp
on Wednesday afternoons, Saturday
evening and Sundays and they ab
solutely have to be in camp every
night' at 10 o'clock.
"I can't think of anything I want
you to send me except once in awhile
some of those 'wonderful home-made
things to eat!' The only things
they grow here are cotton and corn,
and we can't eat the cotton and the
corn is ast ough as leather."
PUBLIC RECEPTION FOR
NATIONAL ARMY QUOTA
Judge Grant B. Dimick presided at
the public reception given Thursday
night to the 21 recruits and five al
ternates who compose the quota of
soldiers which left here Friday morn
ing for the national army canton
ment at American Lake. An inter
esting program was featured by the
address of District Attorney Gilbert
L. Hedges and the vocal selections of
Mrs. Carl Moore and James Chinn.
George A. Harding, Civil war veteran
and member of Meade post, G. A. R.,
closed the program with a Btory of
military affairs during the Civil war
and of the departure of the Oregon
City company of which he was a
member. The entire quota of 21 men
reported to Sheriff Wilson Thursday
noon and the five alternates were dis
missed. The men who left Friday
morning were allowed to spend the
night at their homes where these
were near enough to permit them to
return next morning. ' The quota left
here in charge of Maynard Cole and
Ferdinand A. Scott.
ELKS SEND GLOVES
Reading Matter and Sporting Goods
Go to Capt. Williams
The Oregon City lodge, B. P. O.
Elks, Friday night voted to present
magazines from its reading room and
a set of boxing gloves to the soldiers
at the national army cantonment at
American Lake. The books and
gloves will be forwarded to Captain
Harry E. Williams, past exalted
ruler of the local lodge. Captain
Wiliams and Philip Hammond, lead
ing knight of the local lodge, are
among the Oregon City Elks at
American Lake.
SAVING OF FOOD
WILL BT TALKED
PLANS FOR SERIES OF CON
SERVATION MEETINGS IN
OREGON CITY
JUDGE APPOINTS ASSISTANTS
Committee Includes Members from
All Parte of County. Public
Meeting to be Held
, A public meeting at the Commer
cial club will be a feature of the food
conservation day program to be held
in Oregon City on October 20, at
which O. M. Plummer, assistant state
food dictator, and Mrs. Millie Trum
bull of Portland will speak. The first
meeting of the day will be that of the
county conservation committee at
9:30. An hour later Mr. Plummer
will talk on "Why and How to Con
serve Food," to an audience in the
high school auditorium.
Following the high school confer
ence luncheon will be served tq the
visitors and committee at the high
school, the Flechtner orchestra will
render selections and Mrs. Millie
Trumbull of Portland will speak on
"Child Conservation," under the
auspices of the Parent-Teacher asso
ciation. The county committee will
hold a conference later in the after
noon. The meeting at the school
and that to be held at the Commercial
club in the evening are designed to
arouse interest in the food conserva
tion program of the week following
October 20.
Judge H. S. Anderson of the coun
ty court is chairman of the county
conservation commission and he has
announced the appointment of the
following committee chairmen: John
F. Risley, industrial labor; J. L.
Kruse, farm labor; W. P. Hawley,
manufacturers; .Philip Hult, lumber;
H. E. Cross, transportation; Sheriff
W J. Wilson, home., def ensev E,,-E,
Brodie, publicity; Dr. L. A. Morris,
sanitation, medicine and morals; O.
D. Eby, finance and law.
The food supply and conservaton
committee, including members from
all parts of the county, is composed
as follows: H. E. Gibson, 'Barton; C.
E. Spence, Beaver Creek; Albert
Erickson, Mulino; H. Trabue, Clack
amas; J. G. Dregnie, Barlow; J. W.
Draper, West Linn;. O. E. Freytag,
Gladstone; H. G. Starkweather, Oak
Grove; W. S. Corbett, Colton; E. L.
Pope, Parkplace; Paul R. Meinig,
Sandy; F. P. Stangel, Wilsonville; O.
W. Boring, Boring; John Bickner, Os
wego; Phillip Streib Milwaukie, Judge
Grant B. Dimick, Oregon Cty; A. O.
Whiteomb, Estacada; T. H. Bair, Can
by; A. W. Albright, Marquam; Otis
Dougherty, Molalla; H. J. Rastall,
Dickey Prairie, and A. H. Gribble,
Macksburg.
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WOULD GUARD ESTATES
Mrs. Ellen C. Smith Seeks Papers
for Late Husband and a Son i
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Ellen C. Smith, widow of John C.
Smith, who died on September 26,
Friday filed a petition for letters of
administration in her late husband's
estate. Mrs. Smith, who lives at
Boring, and two sons and two daugh
ters are heirs to the estate. Mrs.
Smith also asks to be named admin
istratrix of the estate of James Gar
field Smith, who died at Wallace,
Idaho, on February 1, 1916.
Fred A. Calger Friday petitioned
the county court for letters of admin
istration in the estate of his brother,
Emil R. Calger, who died on Septem
ber 29. The estate is valued at $1500
and includes 31 acres of land in sec
tions 2 and 3, T. 8 S., R. 2 E.
The will of William H. Hance was
filed for probate Friday. It cov
ers an estate valued at $1850 in land
and personal property. The entire
estate is bequeathed to a nephew,
Maurice D. Hance, and wife, of
Barton.
Powers Gets Verdict
A jury in Judge Campbell's court
on Saturday found a verdict for G. A.
Powers in his suit against Fred Alt
for possession of 63 cords of wood.
The order signed by Judge Campbell
calls upon Alt to pay Powers $178.50
in case the wood cannot be delivered
to him. - ,
PROMINENT TALKERS
PREACH PATRIOTISM
MILLER AND BOWERM AN WILL
HOLD LIBERTY BOND
MEETINGS IN COUNTY
Clackamas county's Liberty bond
campaign will have added impetus
after the visits and speeches of Milton
A. Miller and Jay Bowerman promi
nent Oregonians; who will be among
us next week. These gentlemen
come to the county to arouse its peo
ple to a patriotic support of the sec
ond Liberty loan and they have
scheduled a series of three public
meetings during ;what has been des
ignated as Liberty week by a procla
mation made by Governor Withy
combe. s
The nation needs $16,500,000 of
Oregon's money, and would like to get
as much as $24,500,000 if possible.
Clackamas county's share of this as
one of the populous counties of the
state, is large. Returns at local
banks already show a remarkable
support of the second bond issue
which is providing money for the
purchase of America's freedom. Lo
cal speakers have taken a great in
terest in the sale of Liberty bonds
and through the Four Minute men
have spoken to many county seat
audiences. The Portland men, how
ever, will take the bond campaign to
other parts of the county as well as
Oregon City. , '
The speakers will be at Oregon
City on Monday at 7:30. On Tues
day evening at the same hour they
will speak at Canby and the final
meeting of the series will be held at
Molalla at 7:30 on Wednesday even
ing. Mr. Miller is collector of in
ternal revenue for Oregon and Jay
Bowerman is a prominent attorney.
He was once acting governor and lat
er a candidate for that office after the
death of the late Governor Benson. :
GAMBLING AND LIQUOR .
' ARE HUBBY'S UNDOING
Liquor and gambling are among
the things that are alleged to have
caused the matrimonial tangle of
Rose ami Hugh Mulkms ancV-the-'re
suit is a divorce complaint filed here
Tuesday. Mrs. Mulkins charged her
husbartd with cruelty and says that
his conduct forced her to leave him on
November 12, 1911. He took most
of the available money, she says, and
spent it for liquor and card games.
They were married at The Dalles on
October 29, 1908, and one child was
born to them. The little one died.
Mrs. Mulkins wants to resume her
maiden name, Rose Callaghan.
Josephine Mathers, married to
Martin L. Mathers, at Portland on
November 27, 1906, charges her hus
band with desertion in a complaint
filed in Judge Campbell's court Tues
day. He left her and their two chil
dren on March 11, 1915, Mrs. Math
ers charges. She wants custody of
the children.
Judge Campbell Tuesday signed a
decree separating Lelah R. and Phil
lip H. Tucker. Mrs. Tucker had her
maiden name, Lelah Graves, restor
ed to her.
KRAFT CONTINUES HIS
EFFORTS FOR RELEASE
August Staehley, father-in-law of
Jacob C. Kraft, who is at American
Lake with the Clackamas county
quota, Friday attempted to open, be
fore the local board, the Kraft case,
which has been passed upon by local'
and district boards, Adjutant General
George A. White and United States
Attorney Roames. Staehley met'
with little success before, the local
board and has gone to the adjutant
general with a request that the latter
instruct the local board to again take
up the matter of dismissing his son-in-law,
who is a Swiss subject, from
military service.
Jacob Carl Kraft, living near Or
egon City, owns 40 acres of choice
farming land, and has lived in Amer
ica since he was 6 years old. He is
now 24 years old. Kraft was born
in Russia, although he is a subject of
Switzerland. At the time he was
called before the board he fought to
impress upon that body his claim for
exemption on the ground that he was
an alien. The board went to the high
est authority in Oregon before it
finally denied the claim and certified
the young man for service. Kraft
has two or three brothers, each own
ing 40 acres of land near his own,
yet he enhances his exemption plea
with the statement that his crops will
be lost if he does not get out of the
army. He left here for American
Lake with the first 40 per cent quota
on September 21. He was notified
some time before to report for serv
ice, and on September 13 he ap
peared and secured a marriage li
cense. On that day he married Emma
Staehley, daughter of the American
citizen who is now fighting for the
young man's release.
Marriage License
A marriage license was issued in
County Clerk Harrington's office here
on Saturday to Theresa Carlson, of
Berkeley. Cal., and F. A. Davis, a
Scotts Mills farmer.
The Courier and The Oregon Farm
er, one year for $1.