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About Oregon City enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1891-194? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1898)
Or City EGrON ENTERPRISE. VOL.33. NO. 17. 'OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2,5, 1898. ESTABLISHED 1866 O. 0. BBOWMBLU ' . U.CAMrHI.L. JJROWMKU. A OAMPHKI.L, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Oaaarm City, - . . . Obiqox. Will prenllna In til the eourtt ef tht ilttl. 01- 0o, lu Cnululil bundliiK. 0." . I80M. CIVIL ENGINEER akd DEPUTY COUNTY 8UKVEY0R. Will be at court house on each Saturday and on regular session daya u( county court. c LACKAH At ABHTKACT TKl'HT CO. furnlnh, Aliatranta. Chelne of Till. Ito.nrlp Hun. luaua, lumirir, ray Taxes I'urtool Title, tto., el. lrllo ovur Itmik ul Urf'n -ty. J. r. (XAllK, Fft.,ud Mar, oaaooanrr, .... OB BOON. W. KINNAIKD CIVIL KNOINKER AND SURVEYOR, Railway lacatlun and rnii.lriiclloii. lirlilgoi. plans and tetlmalct lor water au.ply Praluait ancl etreot Improvement of towne Special altautluu lvn to drauiluliif au4 btut rlullu(. J W. WELCH. DENTIST Willamette Hid., oiKnite IWofllce. Olllce hour from 8 t. in. to 12: 1 to 6 :30 p. m. 0 O. T. WILLIAMS, KKAL ESTATE AND LOAN AO.KNT. A food Hut ol bualnnea, rixlclvuo tod suburban Property. farm Property In tracts lo mil on tesy term. Correapeudeura prom ptly tnwr4. Offloa, out dwir uulii ul Mrtlioillat aiiiitou. W. MKI.PHUM. SURVEYOR AND CIVIL ENUINKER. All ordera promptly attended lo. roatofnrw edilrrea Ore Oil. Iloalilanc at Malclrum I'lacw, on Beat Sid Klaclrto Ina two nillne north ol Oregon City. D.O, LATOUHETTK, ATTORNEYS AND ' COUNSELORS AT LAW main street oreooh cut, ureoon. furnish Ah.trecta nt Title. Loan Hnaey, fora oloM lortiMoa, and Irau.aot Uaucral Law Huelneea. J J I. CHU8B, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Viu. Pbacticb im iu coubtb or the Stat. Bral Kttaf and Imuranre. Offloa on Main glrvot bat Slilh and Seventh, oaauoM city. oa. A. 8. DHF.HHKH, ATTORN KYAT-LAW. Olllce over McKUtrlrk'a Hhoe Blore, near the Hank ol Oregon City. Ohbook City, Ohkiom. E. MARKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Will prallre In all Ilia courla of the Hate. Olllce opposite court houae In Canllf Id building. c. 11. UVK, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW Will foreclose mnrUngaa, make abatreota, loan money, aeitlo eattlea and transact a general law bu.liiesa. Offloo Aral floor adjoining llauk of O egnn City. oaaooM city, oatoo XL. PORTER, J" ATTORNEY AT LAW ABtTBACTi or raoriRTY rvRNtaiiiD. Offloa next to Oregon CUT bank on Oth itreot. fTlHB COMMERCIAL BANK, . OF OREGON CITY. Capital, - - - - 1100,000 TRAMHACTB A OBNBBAL BAMBINO BnalMSSB. Loana made. Hills dtsonunted. Makea col lections. Huys and soils exolianue on all polnta In the Hulled States, Kiiropa aud Hong Koiia. Iieposlts ronelod mbjoot to check. Bank opou from 9 a. a. to i r. m. I. 0. LATOUHKTTE, President. F. J. MKYER, Caahler. B ANK OP OREGON CITY, Oldest BanlLlns Boss. In tie City. Paid up Capital, 160,000. Surplus, J0,Hou. raaamaNT, - cuABi.it ic. CAiinii.n. TtCB FKBH1DIMT, 8X0. A.,HRMNa. CAHH1KH. B. 0 CAVFIBLD. A general baa king bualnoai tranaaoted. Deposits reonlved aub)oot to chock. Approved bills and iinteadlsoounted. Oouuty and olty warrants bouKht, Loans mvle on available aeourlty. KmhaiiKe bought and sold. Oolleotloni made promptly. Itraltaaold avallaule In any part of the world ToleKraphlo eiohangoa sold on Portland, Baa Fraiiolsoo.lhlORgoaud New York. nterestpalJ on time deposits. Wedding stutionery, the lateHt atyleH and fineBt aesortraent ever brought to Oregon City at the Enterprise olllce. Bellomy & BuSCh, the Housefurnishers. Opposite Court House. There'? a Piijg to it We have a itrlnu to each Mhoe, of courao. You have a airing to your money, fur, if the ahoe doean't ault you can return it and have your money hack. We put a ttrlng to tills for we guarantee our ahoea to be the lxi"t and they are the beet. Our line la aura to pleaae you. Krausse Bros.... i PWS If tho trousers to your suit have lost shape, or have worn out, this is your op portunity to piece out before buying your spring suit. Hero are four lots, and, truly bettor values never were ottered. You'll find them better than you expect. They are going for ABOUT HALF Regular $2.50 trousers ... $1.50 Regular $3.50 trousers ... $2.00 Regular $5.00 trousers .... $3.50 Regular $8.00 trousers ..$4.00 Get our prices before purchasing elsewhere Rosenblatt's KLONDIKE CLOTHING First and Taylor Streets. Economy's Road THE FIRST OF THE YEAR Will lo a desirable time to enter the New cIhrbos will be commenced after the holiday vacation. For catalogue, address W. I. STALEY, Salem, Oregon. ffin'rVrVt SOMETHING LA ON The New Stock of Canton Clipper Plows Genuine Chilled Plows Harrows and Cultivators Agonts for tho celebrated Simonds Cross cut Saws. Also a full line of HARDWARE, Stoves, Granito ware, Tin and Copper ware, Wagon woods, Etc. Plumbing and general jobbing a specialty. POPE St CO. Corner 4th and Main Get our Prices Horo X clxxxII Just unloaded In the brick block, oppoalte court houne, Ooo Rolls of Matting HI U quality, loc, rer yard. We have alto bought $5,000 worth of Carpets Boat aeloctlon of pattern! and price to auit everybody. Our Bargain Counters are waiting for your Inipetlion. CHANCE.. Leads You Here. SPRINC - TOOTH HARROW WHEELS. . . driver rides Instead of walking. Streets. - Oregon City. inVr'r'rl on Job Printing. INQUIRY CONTINUES Consul le Ad rises Americans to More Their Families. EXPECT ADVERSE REPORT The Captain or the Rattteahtp Maine Ktverely C'rttlclaed by hpanUh Rewapapera. Naw Yohe, Feb. 22. The Herald'a Havana special says that Americans have been advised by General Lee to send their families out of Havana, as the volunteers are anti-American and anti-autonomy, and I.ave been inspired to create trouble In case the Maine in quiry prove that the catastrophe was due to design. Ai Important Discovery. Havana, Feb. 22. An important dis covery was made today in the Maine investigation. Divers brought up a powder case for a 10-inch gun, wbicb they took from that part of the battle ship which was destroyed by the ex plosion and in which the Maine gun powder magaxlne Is situated. The gunpowder discovered was in a bag, and the bag was contained in a copper caee. The cam was entirely closed, but had an exterior mark as if some hard object had struck it on the outside; but, within, the gunpowder is absolutely intact. As the caae was in a forward maga xlne, this discovery is conclusive proof a to whether or not the magaxine ex ploded, and It is the general belief that it did not explode; at !ast. the import ant part of it remains intact. Neither divers nor any one having official connection with the investiga tion is willing to say whether or not the magaxine exploded. Any positive declaration about the matter at this time would be foolishly premature. Yet the copper case with the powder bag intact speaks for itself. The case was taken from the Maine to tbe Fern and put in the gunpowder magaxine of the revenue cutter. Your correspondent saw it. Diver failed today to place the elec tric light apparatus inside the Maine, as the wire obtainable in Havana is worthless for that purpose. The work of the divers is progressing very slowly on account of paucity of material. The wrecking tug, Neptune, is eagerly expected from Key W'est. She will bring all necessary apparatus to raise the big guns and especially to clear away many large objects and iron pieces which are hampering the divers. CJrTAIN SltiSItEE ATTACKED. NpunUh NewHpaper Seriously Objects lo Ills Course. Among the objects brought up today is the fine silverware of the battleship, which waa presented by the etate of Maine, and also the loving cup presented during the last voyage of the Maine to New Orleans. All American ships in port have their flags in full display in honor of Wash ington. Spanish ships are also floating Ameiican flags. , Coehbler died this morning in the San Aiubrosio hospital. After frightful agony in which the poor sailor was delirious several hours, he fell into a swoon and passed peacefully away. Holtxer is still in a very desperate condition and may die at any time. A sensational editorial was printed this afternoon in La Luuha against Sigs bee. It says Sigsbee is unlawfully form ing a part of tbe couit of inquiry. La Lucha adds that Captain Sigsbee is judge in his own caae, and that therefore all conclusions of the court of inquiry will be inadmissible to everv principle of justice. Bavy Department Bnsy. Norfolk, Va., Feb. 22. Work on the monitor Terror was completed at 5 to day. She is ready to sail in the morn ing. The chief engineer worked all last night in the Bhops assisting the men in repairs to the torpedo boats Foote and Winslow, which were rushed even more than those on the Terror, and they will be taken from the dry-dock in the morn ing. They are expected to receive orders to sail within the next 24 hours. Six of the seven boilers of the Puritan have been repaired and woik on the Beventh is being rushed tonight. Eigh teen of her 21 furnaces have been cut in. An addition is being mude to her sniooke stack. Ordinarily the remaining repairs would consume 10 days, but it is ex pected they will be completed by Satur day, when she will probably leave for New York. The Aooident Theory Hot Believed. Naw York, Feb. 23. A Herald dis patch trouo Havana Bays : The further the inquiry into the causes that led to the Maine disaster proceeds the more remote appear the chances that any evidence will be discovered to show that the disaster waa due to an ac cident. Those divers who penetrated in to the forward part of the wreck found that the whole forward part of the ship, from a point abaft the forward turret, bad been twisted 16 or 20 degrees to star board. That part of the , vessel was a wilderness of debris and curled and twisted plates. The sharp jagged edges of some of the plates added danger lo the difllculities of the divers. In one in stance they almost cut through a rub ber tube which supplied the diver with air. One important discovery made was the position of tbe bodies found in the wreck, 100 of which were floating about in the torn compartments. A full score of these wereexamined by my informant. All of them were in hammocks and all had tbe arms curled upward. They looked as if the men had been startled by some sudden shock of danger, and were in the act of reaching op for their hammock hooks to swing themselves on deck when death came. This seems to confirm all that has already been said about there having been two explosions the first startling the men into the act ol rising from their hammocks, the other dashing out tbe lives. Tht lavettigatioa frcgreulng Washington, Feb. 23. The Evening Stsr has tbe following from its staff cor respondent in Cuba: "Havana, Fev. 23, rii. Key West. The inquiry Into the Maine disaster is progressing along definite lines.. Tbe result so far may be summed an in the statement that the probabilities that it was an accident seem to decrease with the progress of investigation. The most intense anxiety is shown by Spanish officials here who are in constant com munication with Madrid. Tbey realize that relations ,with the United States were never so much in danger as now, This is the general feeling. The com mon classes here are hopeful of Ameri can intervention on pearfnl lines, but what they base their hopes on is un known. OURCOASTDEFENSE Fortifications at the Month of the Columbia. Big Gons Arrive for the Govern men t Station at Scarborough Head Opposite Astoria. Astoria, Or. Feb. 20. At Fort Canby, at the mouth of the river, on tbe Wash ington shore, there is at present but one company of 02 men, many of whom are recruits. There is one-15-inch smooth bore gun, five 8-inch rifles and 10 10-incb smooth-bore guns. There are also sev eral unmounted guns, which could not be used in case of sudden necessity. The exact amount of ammunition is not known, but there are plenty of projec tiles and shot. Fcrt Stevens, on the Oregon shore, near the old fort of tbe same name, and the fort at Scarborough Head, immediately opposite, on the Washington shore, are still under construction by government engineers. No one is allowed in or near these works, and the officers absolutely refuse to give out any information. It is known that a large force of men have been at work on these fortifications for more than a year, and that about half a dozen large modern disappearing guns, with their carriages, have come down the river and have been discharged at these two forts. It is believed that they are not yet mounted. At old Fort Stevens are a number of dismounted old fashioned guns. There are no troops yet at either fort, but there has been a rumor of troops coming. It is also understood that from these two forts tunnels extend under the river bed and mines are planted, but the officers refuse to talk. GUNS FOB SCARBOROUGH HEAD. Two immense coast-defense guns ar rived in Portland, over the O. R. A N. Their destination is Scarborough Head, nearly opposite Fort Stevens, where they will form pait of the new equipment, to be placed at that location. The guns were recently built in the East and are of the latest design, and the largest size now constructed, being 3'i feet from breach to muzzle and throwing a 10-inch Bhol. They are companion pieces of the guns recently set up at Fort Stevens, and, with those that are to follow, will make the Columbia, a formidable bar to the progress of a hostile cruiser or warship. The car which brought the great guns across the continent was especially con structed by the Pennsylvania railroad to transport heavy ordnance, and is al most as much of a curiosity as the guns themselves. As the one car carries both guns, each weighing 70,000 pounds, un usually heavy girders and Bteel construc tion throughout was necessary. Each ot the trucks has eight wheels. LATEALASKANEWS Three Steamers Reach Victoria From the North. ' BLOCKADE ON DYEA TRAIL Bobberies Committed Almost Dally Miners' Licenses Issued Klon dike In Trouble. Victoria, Feb. 21. Three steamers, tbe Danube, tbe Thisle and tbe Tees, re turned today from Skagway, each with a few Dawsonites on board. There waa very little gold on board and no late news. Patsengers from Skaguay bring news of a blockade of the Dyea trail by miners and packers, who resisted the demand of a detachment of United States troops to go over the trail before them. It was feared at Dyea that trouble would arise over the affair. Another shooting affair occured at Skagway in frontof a saloon. Tom Ryan shot and wounded a newcomer, whose name was not given. Ryan was promptly arrested and taken to Sitka for trial. Mike Quintan, formerly of Minneap olis, has been appointed marshal of Skagway. A jail is being provided. Two men, whene names are not known, were detected robbing a cache at Sheep Camp, and one of them, while trying to escape, turned and fired at his pursuers, who returned bis fire and dropped to the ground. Thinking that he had killed them, the fugitive turned the revolver on himself and sent a bullet through his brain. The other man was taken back to Dyea, where he was paraded throuicb tbe streets with a placard on him, setting forth that he waa a thief. He waa after ward lodged in jail. Complaints are being made at Skag way in relation to the number of men arriving there by each boat without means of snbsistance. Among the returning Dawsonites was George Beldon, one of the last men to go up the Yukon last fall. He was one of a syndicate which purchased the little steamer from the Creek mission for 10 . COO, and made an attempt to reach Daw son but got it only to Circle City, where the boat stuck in tbe ice. Belden made bis way by dog sled to Dawson and thence to the coast. Tbe delay in the receipt of mail at Dawson is, according to the passengers on the Danube, the canse of many com ing out to tbe coast. They say no mail has been received since last fall, and their business is consequently paralyzed in many instances. W. J. Beat, who arrived from Stewart river, says there is lots of gold there, but it is two expensive to get provisions np the river. The steamer Thistle stopped at the wreck of the Corona and found that the wrecking expedition had begun prepara tions for raising her. As Diver Mc Hardy had not been down, the condition of the Corona's hull was not ascertained, but all' the wreckers were confident of success. ' Nearly 1000 miners' licenses were issued here today. Klondike In Trouble. Seattle, Feb. 21. A party ol 40 Mas sachusetts men who are partners in Alaska ventures, under the name of the Worcester & Northwest Mining & Trad ing Association of Alaska, are in trouble. They are all ready to leave (or Alaska, but their outfits have been attached by the sheriff. The trouble grows out of a suit by the Pacific Steam Whaling Com pany, of San Francisco, against the in dividual members of the Massachusetts party. The complaint alleges that the party engaged passage on the steamer Alliance for Copper river, but just before the steamer sailed refused to go on her. The steamship company was unable to dis pose of the reserved passages and as a result claim to have been damaged ia the sum of $1360. A compromise of suit is pending. For Alaska Government. Washington, Feb. 21. Senator Car ter, from the senate committee on terri tories, today reported the bill providing a government for Alaska. In a report presented, it is stated that the reason for not making three districts of the one judicial district, is the absence of sur veyed lines in the territory, which would cause confusion in the matter of jurisdic tion. Senator Hansbrough today gave notice of an amendment he will offer prohibiting the manufacture, importa tion and sale of liquor in Alaska, and making the offense punishable by fine and imprisonment. To Care a Cold in One Day. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All DruggiBts refund the money if it full to cure. 25c. Ail pain banished bj Dr. Miles' Pain PUIS.