Oregon City enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1891-194?, May 28, 1897, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextOregon City Enterprise. VOL.31. NO. 31. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY. MAY 28, 1807. ESTABLISHED 1866 J T. HI.ADKN, NOTARY I'lUlUO. liimiranre written In the HnHfi.nl, nf Hartford, ralallue. Hamburg of llreuiau c UCKAMAS AIIHTIIACT A TIUJHT CO. h'll rriUh. A lit' ' la. Chains of Tll'e, lirrle linn-, jimi. Iiiuri rn. ')r Tm I'erfenl 'J Ulna. !().. ii, niliim ovi r Hunk ul t)rii u Cliy. J. K. CLARK, 1Ti.,iiJ Mur, omuiiM riTT, )mi)H. jj II. Ill MICK. ATTOIINKY AND COTNHKLOIl AT LAW. Will praeilne la all nouns of the slate. Ab.lraoU made, TIMi .iainlnd and seneral Uw Du.lim.. lriiMui4. Office wild U I. purler. I) W. KINNAIRD CIVII. KNUINKKK ANl 8VKVXYOK. ' Hallway laoallon end ron.triirtlon, bridges. plausauil o.llinaioa mr waior 'i'i"7 Dralnaif mil alreet liiiiruveineul ol lowna Special attention ln to draughting and blue prinlliig T W. WKI.CII. J -DK.NTIHT-Wtllamolte Itld., opponlto Postoftlee. Office boum from 8 a. in. to 12: 1 to 6 :'M p. in. jf LrXlRTEIt, ATTOHNKY AT LAW aiaraacTe or raorMrv rt'xiM.i. Ortloe next lo Oregon CUT bank on th street. A1 0. T. WILLIAMS. KAL KHTATR ANO LOAN.AOKNT. A good Hut of buln. residence and suburban hfUIHIflf. turn Property In tracts to mil on easy lerms. Correspondence promptly answered. Office, eat door loCeufleld A Ituiilleve drugstore. T III COMMKKCIAL BANK. CP 0KK00N CITY. plul, lioo.ooo IMiti mU. Hill. ill. WMiumil. ItiikMrol iortmni. Hurt ll irlin on all pi'luw j u Hi Cnli Hiim, Bumii uil U (mil. ; ImpuulM rclii Ui check. Buk , o"ju from t a. a. u r. O. 0. LA TO UK MTU, 1'r.milcnt. 1 r t i)KALI)80!. Caahler , JJANIC OP OMUiCK CITY. Oldest UWil House U tut CUT. Cld upC.ltl...0.000. Huiplu. raimniNT. - - tmoi. cmih vici rmtiuT, 0o. A. HAnmnO ctiNiia. - CAi-nato jAMAUia. CMHil.Ii M. CAVrilkD. A fnirl liaiiktni biilu Iraiiueled. Uepo.m reoflKtdiiiblcci lo oherk. At.uroTt.l I. 111. ami iiotf. ill.oiiiimod. Ooiiul) tnil oltjr warrant, bought. Loaua mvla on available ourltr. Kirhli bolllht ami aolil. flolleolliiiil ma.l promptly. Iiraltaaolil tvallanla III any part of the world TolnraphlO eiohanrc. nld on Portland, Han raiioloo,ilili!ai(.iaiid Now York, tiniro.t pal I on lime dcpii.lt. c D. A D C. lATdUUETTIl. ATTORN KYH AND COUNSKLOUH AT LAW MAIN HTKKKT OKKUON C1TV, OKK110N. Purnlnh Ahtracl of Title, lan Money, Pore eloae MurlitaKiia, and trantacl Uvueral Law Mu.lno... IT K. CUUHH, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Will Frurrii in All Coi'ti or tms Btats Itral Katate and Iniurance. Offloeou Main Hirret bet. Hlith and Boventh, OKKUON CITY, OR. T K. MARKS, fj ATTORNEY AT LAW. Will praline In all the courts of the state. Olllce opponite court limine in Catllleld bullilliig. c H.DYF., ATTORNEY AND COUNSKLOR AT LAW Will fireoln.e mottj'iRea, make iib.traola. luau money, e tie c.lalea and tiaiimt't a (enoral law bu-lnena. Oflloo Ural fluor adjoining llank of 0 egon City. otianoN citt, orioon aO. C. BROWN1I.L. j. V. CAMrntLL. T KOWNELL A CAMPIIELL, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Obioon City, Orsoon. Will praotloe In all theoonrti of the Hate. 01 floe, next door to Caufivld A Huntley.'! drug store. -IIT H. DOUYNH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, NOTARY fUULlU CANDY, .... OREGON. Will practice In all oonrta of the state. Insurance written In all leading oom panlea. Ab traot. ol title luriiUhcd. Co leotlonsa apuolalty. jyR, J. II. MILLER, DKNTI8T Seventh etreet, near Southern Pacific dopot, Oregon City, Oregon. c. 1L LSOM. CIVIL ENGINEER and DEl'UTY COUNTY SURVEYOR. Will be Bt court bouse on each Saturday and on regular sefmion days of county court. WML WmM - TtR :iICPIKKNTINOl- IIOYAL OK I.IVKUI'OOI., does laret business In the world. NORTH UltlTIHH t M., largest asU In the world. BUN OK LONDON, oldest purely fire Insurance company in tin world. .V.TN A OK II AHTKoHI), targestand bent American Company. CONTINKNTAI. OK NKSV YORK, one of the best American companies. AND OTHKIt FlilMT-CLAHH COM PAN I K8. CallTun ma for Hntlnu. nnd F. E. DONALDSON, Headquarters for White Mountain and Arctic Ice-cream freezers, finest in the land. - :- Lawn inoweri, rubber lioae, acroen doom and window,, fishing tackle, camping outfit, plows, harrow, cultivators and all kinds of . agricultural machinery. Lubricating oil of all kinds, riumbin: and ' all kinds of Job'work neatly and promptly done, estimates furnished. Pope & Co., Corner 4th nnd Main Streets, - - Oregon City. Y OU ARE WANTED TO EXAMINE THE 1896-97 STYLES OF SHOES ri 7ft KR7IUSI3H.BR09. Finest line of Shoss in Oregon City at Portland prices. 4Tis Spring, Gcntlo Annie" A nice new dress from tho Many Beautiful Patterns of stylish and seasonable selections In Spring Dress Goods will mako you appear to be tho fairy creature, all men think you are. . Thos. Charman & Son have one of tho finest selections of spring goods and novelties ever brought to Oregon City. Call and see them at tho The Pioneer Store. DO YOU NEED ANY Doors, Windows, rS) IVIoulding, OB OTHER BUILDING MATERIAL? :GO TO : C. H. BESTOW I CO- Low Prices. First-class Goods. Corner Uth and Main Streets. Oregon City, Oregon. Spring stock of Baby Carriages just arrived Latest ntylcs ami lowest prices. There arc some lovely ones, upholstered and parasol from up. We also rail your attention to our stock of baby highchairs ml buby rocklngchaira froin 75c up. Please give ui a cull BELLOMY & BUSCH Tho lIoUHffurninhcru. Leading Agency in Clackamas County. nlao for lottrtj and Calendar At Commercial Bank. "r r Window Glass, TIIK WORK OK (;iioli. W. H. Ladd'a Body Nlolrri-Speedy t'Hptiire of I lie Tlilere. The body of W. H, Ladd was taken from its rttsting-place in Itiverview cem etery sometime during the night, May 17 and was recovered from its hiding place in a doserted spot on the west bank of ttie Willamette river just below the rapids at Magone's park hut Friilav, Juit four days after it was stolen by some fiends in human shape. And the perpetrators, Dan. J. Magone, 1 Charles Montgomery, Win. Rotter and Ed. Long are In the Multnomah county jail charged with the crime. To Chief of Police Charles E. Hums, of this city, is due the honor of the speedy capture of the perpetrators of this dastardly outrage, and he was ably seconded in hi efforts by Detectives Welsh and Simmons of Portland. Tom Smith of the West Side brought the first information that led up to the arrest of Magone, which be gleaned from con vernation he overheard between Magone and Montgomery short time before the robbery. Magone bad conversed with Win. Jennings, John Watson, Senator George U. Brownell and others relative i to the possibility of robbing a grave, but Mr. Brownell always looked upon his statements as those of an insane man. Charles Montgomery never had any conversation with Mr. Brownell on the subject of the contemplated robbery at any time. Montgomery weakened after his arrest and gaye away the whole plot. Accord ing to his story Magone had suggested to him that there was a small fortune to be made in digging up Ladd'a bones. A few weeks ago he was again asked to j help get the bodies of Mr. Ladd and Mr. Lewis and the tuouKht of the great re ward which he might gain if he could successfully possess the bodies conatant ly haunted him, and finally he re turned to Oregon City and agreed to ac company Magone. Magone had almo induced William Rector, woodhauler, and Ed. Long, a fisherman, to take part in the expedi tion, promising to reward each hand somely for his night's work. Heeler was made to believe that the body to be stolen was for a medical college, and was that of a pauper. A definite offer of $50 was made to eacli man, and it was under stood that they were to receive a much larger sum if the expedition proved sue cessful. Magone had secured a boat, which he had tilled with all the tools necessary to the graverobbery, and bad hidden a telephone which he had pre viously stolen from the East Side Rail way company In the woods near the cemetery. Sunday afternoon be and Montgomery rowed quietly down the river, pulled their boat anl ore near the old water works, and climbed with their tools to a deserted cabin high on the hilUide near the cemetery, where they spent the night completing their plans. The next day Maone went tc Port land and met Rector and Long, who had gone from Oregon City during the day. The three men ate suppe' together and shortly before dusk set out separately for the cemetery, meeting halfway down the hill. Here Magone, who feared that an alarm of some kind might connect the grave of Mr. Ladd with the residence of Charles E. Ladd at Riverside, stopped, and with the assistance of Montgomery connected the stolen telephone, which was bidden near by, with the wire to Mr. Ladd'a residence. Stationing Long to listen for any word which might be sent to town from the residence, in case an alarm was given. Magone and Recter then proceeded to the river where they met Montgomery. After carefully reconnoitering the sur roundings all three proceeded to the grave, took up the shovels which Mont gomery had conveyed to the scence ear lier in the evening, and began to dig rapidly. They worked more furiously as they realised what the consequences might be, Magone growing frenzied as they neared the colli n. He turned around several times and thrust his pistol before him into the darkness, at a fancied sound and then, replacing it in his pocket, worked like a fiend. Whn at last the earth was cleared away Magone and Montgomery forced the covers of the box with the points of their shovels, and roughly hacked the casket open with the hay knife. A plank was lowered to the head of the casket, a rope fastened about the body, and it was drawn forth. It took the excited men some time to wrap their prize in a blanket and ' fasten it with ropes, but it was finally aeconv plished. One of them secured a scant ling from a pile near by, and, lashing the body to it, they started with it down the hill. The thick brush and steep sifles of the hill made the way very difficult, and when they reached the bottom, even Magone admitted that it was too late to make an attuir.pt on the Lewis grave Lotus waacHllwd from hid post at the tel-j ephone, and a'niHtcd in putting the body nx)nl the hoat. No one thought of go ing bark for the tool. Long and Recter took the river road to Onwego, leaving Magone and Montgom ery to row the body to its hiding-place. When their boat was opiOMile Oswego day broke, but a thick fog protected them, and they met with no one until they reached their destinnatiou. It was a deserted spot on the west bank of the riyer, just below the rapids. The two men carried the body ashore and dug for it a pit six feet long and three feet deep. They carefully covered it ag.tin, spreading ail the dirt that they did not use broadcast over the ground covering it with leaves. When their work was done no one could have known that the ground had ever been disturbed, and but for the fact that Montgomery led the officers to the spot or th- hoped for reward had induced the ghouls to divulge their secret, Mr. Ladd'a lonely burial place might never have been known. Montgomery took the officers to the spot where the body had been roughly interred and although they were stand ing over the place were unconscious of it until Montgomery pushed the leaves and moss aside and showed them the freshly made grave.' Later in the day Charles E. Ladd sent np a naptha launch and had the remains of his father removed to Undertaker Holmati's rooms in Portland. Last Tuesday they were again interred in a bed of concrete. The grave was then vaulted over, and four walls built upon it to serye as a foundation for the slab which is to mirk It and there will be no fear that the grave will be disturbed by ghouls in the future. Since their incarceiation Montgomery, Long and Recter have pleaded ituilty and been bound over to await the action of the grand jury and Magone's friends are endeavoring to have him released on the ground of insanity and sent to the asylum. Dan D. Maitone lived with his family on a farm Der Oswego, but be usually engages in fishing in the Willamette in the spring. He 'S generally regarded as being a bit peculiar, and some have expressed the conviction that be is ment ally unbalanced, lie had a consider able tract of land about half way between Oregon City and Oswego, that he lost under a mortgage foreclosure, ar.d though the mortgagee was lenient in his dealings in the matter, the loss imbittered his soul. He cherished a grievance against certain men of wealth. I said that aoout 10 days or two weeks ago he madea proposition toa man iu Oregon City that they should go together and rob the Ladd grave The proposition was declined, and tiien Magone declared that he was go ng to do it. Not much was thought of his threat, it being regarded as another evidence of his queerness. A year ago last fall, Magone filed a suit to enjoin Clackamas county from paying any of the warrants issued in excess of the 15000 indebtendees mentioned in the state couetitution. Shortly afterward he had a claim against the county on ac count of damages to his property by a county road running through it. He was awarded J500, taking bis pay in warrants. It is said that he permitted his suit to languii-h because of the fear that if it should be success-ful it would result in the nonpayment of the warrants received by him for road damages, though he dis posed of them. Montgomery shot and killed Hiram Hall about a mile from Oregon City on the west side of the river a year ago last December. He delivered himself to Chief Burns, and asked to be locked up in jail. . He claimed that he killed Hall because he was afraid Hall intended to harm him. There were no witnesses to the deed. Montgomery's youtbfulness and bis previous good character and the bad character of Hall weighed with the jury, and the prisoner was acquitted. He is about 23 years of age, and an orphan. He was arrested at his cabin near Oregon City, on the west side of the river. He is a quiet boy, generally re garded as likely to be led into misdoings, but not inclined tooriginateevil schemes. William Rictor and Ed Long live near where the body had been stowed away, and when captured by Chief Burns and Detectives Welsh and Simmons, were in their houses asleep. Neither of the men made any resistance when informed by the officers that they were under arrest, but quietly submitted to having the handcuffs placed on their hands. Both are men of middle age, not being over 35 from their appearane, and look more like the labors they profess to be than the foul desecratora of the dead that evidence indicates they are. Daniel Williams, at the head of Sev enth street stairs, has added a line of pat ent medicines to his stock of school books, candies, notions, etc., which he sells cheaper than the cheapest. Within easy walk of business center Sunset lots. F. E. Donaldson, Agt. KIWTP A TTHM A 1 MHTPQ LfUva llwlifiLilwl LaJ All communications intended for thisu column should be addressed to Mrs. II. 8. Gibson, Oregon City, Oregon. Report ol school district, No. 64, for term ending May 21nt. Those neither absent nor tardy dnring the entire term ol four months were Peshie and Roy Sleight, Ray Vinyard, Lee Eckerson, Cora Armstrong and Harry Howard. Those present each day during the pres ent month were Cordelia Stevens, Birdie Alice and Cora Armstrong, Fred Roth, Willie and Gladys Eastman, Leslie Shank, Lee Eckerson, Ray Vinyard, Roy and Bessie Sleight, Harry, Ethel and Frank Howard. Friday being the last day of school, after the morning exercises the school marched to Howard's grove where the ladies and friends of the district had spread one of those excellent dinners for which the ladies of our district are noted. This dinner bad all the delicacies of the season including an abundance of ice cream. After dinner the following program was rendered : Bong America Recitation The Boy's Complaint Harry Howard Recitation.... The Little Prisoner daily. Eastman Recitation Love and Sorrow Cora Armstrong Recitation The Little Boy Willie Eastman Dialogue Choice of Occupations Recitation Ralph Mandevilla Song The Old Oaken Bucket Recitation The Blind Girl Birdie Armstrong Recitation The Two Children Leslie Shank Recitation Tbs Raven Victor Carotbers Dialogue The Three 8leves bong Recitation Sweet Bye and Bye Frank Howard ........... Recitation . Recitation.. Recitation.. Recitation. Dialogue... Song Kecitation . Recitation. Lee Eckerson Ray Vinyard .The Shadow Flora Armstrong Alma Eckerson Our National Holidays Mrs. Clayson Victor Carotbers ..A Parody Fred Roth Song Star Spangled Banner In behalf of the school I thank all those who took part in the program. Howard Ecclks, Teacher. Following is the report of the Beaver creek school, district No. 15, for the month ending May 21 : Days taught 29; is I pupils enrolled 41; days attendance 681; j days absence 48 ; times tardy 36. Thoso ! neither absent nor tardy were Dors, j Hughes, Marie Herman, Perry Londer- gn, tena Muedeman, iiavia inoinas, Maud Daniels. Gertrude Rick, Teacher. Teachers Association. The next session of Clackamas County Teacher's Association will be held on the camp meeting ground in Canny on Sat urday, May 2S)th. This promises to be one of the most . pleasant meetings of the year. Several schools in the neighborhood of Canby will join with the Canby school and make ibe occasion a grand school picnic. President P. L. Campbell is engaged to lecture on some live educational sub ject which alone insures a profitable meeting. These educational meetings have be come a powerful factor in developing a professional spirit among school officers and patrons. A large attendance is expected at Canby. The program prepared is as follows: Music Kites Orchestra of Aurora Address P. L. Campbell, Pres. State Normal School Music Chorus of young ladles Recitation Victor Carothers " Minnie Zeek Percentage Prof. H. S. Gibson Some Errors in Method and Discipline Maile by Teachers.. Supt.H.G. Starkweather Musid Kiles Orchestra Recitation Vera Knight Recitation Alice Terry Music Kiles Orchestra How Can We Gain the Confidence and Love of Our Pupils Prof. T. J. Gary Recitation Cordelia - Stevens " Ethel Cantwell Music .....Chorus Malarial produces Weakness, General debility Biliousness, loss of appetite, indigestion and constipation. Grove's Tasteless Chill tonic remove the cause which produces these troubles. Try it and you will be delighted. 50 cents. To get the genuine ask for Grove's. For sale by C. G. Huntley. Now is the time to plant tomatoes and other vegetable plants. R. Glasspool has a fine lot that have not been forced and are fully able to Btand the cold rains that so often ruin tender hot house plants. Send your orders to Mr. Glass pool or leave at Horton'a grocery. Send the Enterpribs to your friend in the East and thus give him an idea of what is going on in Clackamas county, It may induce him to locate with us.