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Or City ENTERPRISE. Nff ..... - ' ki v VOL. 37 NO. 45. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1904. ESTABLISHED 1S6S. CROSS and SKI AW LEADING REAL ESTATE DEALERS Mala Street, Oregon City, Or. 233 Washington Street, Portland, Or. 1 'JO iitn of level Unit (m Mill Creek, 11 mltr from Oregon City, half mile to school 40 acres In cultiva tion M acres fenced, 40 acres light clearing- two living creeks run through tlif place, 1850 00 - new dwelling, T rooms two burin, and vther good out -buildings 7 head of rutll, 10 loiia hay, span horses. Wagon, harness, 5 dosen chickens, and all funning tuula. Price :600. Very cheap. Terms Eighty acres-,art of Run rttrlck lln'a old place at Highland, 30 acres In good cultivation-living creek fruit only fair buildings. A No. I bargain at HUGO:' GiN lon bal ance In S year time at ( jier rent Inlerral. 8. A. M-Hlieery place, 1 mile from Highland, 71 arrea. 15 utrt In cul tivation all food a-ill. a Running water. One and one-half aorei or chard. lixnl dwnlllhg;, room, mat $ofl. Uood barn and U buildings, rrlce 12100. With team, head rattle, and burn Implement, I.'.IJC 00; lltio uo dowfi, balance t year. A (me hundred and sixty ai re In Ihgh laud. 1.0 acrea leel, good oll, all fenced, 40 uci.-a III cultivation, run nlna alream through ttia place, water In all fields, 1 a, -re orchard, 4 room box house, bum 44kuO, 20 acres In clover, :o ucrra In grain and vegetables, great outran!, 7 mllea to Casadem. ii h. ad of stock with Increase, all for l'.'',0U, tmlf down, hulunce In 5 ycura at 6 per cent m-i milium Two hundred mid fifty mre (lock rnuch. rolling 111011x11 fur good diuln age, mill good, Mi) acres In eultlva I Ion. XI acres morn slaxhnd and City property for sale In Oregon City and Gladstone at lowest rates We are selling lands in Clackamas county and desire some choice bar gains for sale, especially do we need some farms from $1000 to $2000 If you don't see what you want in the above list, write at once and gfU ) full list to select from. j j 'j L.P0BTEf4fc ATTORNEY AT LAW aasraACTtor raoriarr rcsM.ssD. OHIO oaf to Oregon CUT Fnl ri-ri-e. it: ;t Acute and chronic dlscates. nervous dis orders, women's and chlldren'a dlseasea a specialty. Office hours of Dr. Parker t to 12 a. m , 1 to 5 J. in.. Conjultatlon free. i OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN'S DR. K. T. rAKKF.R Huocesaor of lir. IjOV DIt.CUACK E. MAIN of Portland Office hours of Dr. Haln 9:30 a. m. to i Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Oregon City office, rooms 13 and 14 (tanle building. Portland office 319-320 Mowhawk DUs 0 W. EASTHAM AITOUNF.Y AT LAW Land Titles Kianiined. Abstracts Made. Heeds, Mortgsiiea Prawn, Money Loaned orricg orra Bank ol Oregon City. ( UtruoS City, Ok. 1 W. B. U'R.a C. Schubil U'REN Si 8CHUEBKL Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all courts, make collections and settlements of Kstates. Furnish aostracte of title, lend you money and lend your money on first iii'orgtKe. Office In Enterprise Building, OrfK"i City, Oregon. JJY STIPP Attorney at Law. Justice ol the Peace. JegKer RUf Otegon Ci'y J U. CAMPBELL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, asaoM Citt, Osiaos. Wlllpraotlceln allthaoourtief theatate. Ol ios, lu OauScld bui ding. D.k 10. LATOURETTk ArrORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LA 7 MAIN MTRKgT OBIOOR CITY, OHSOO rorolsh Abstracts of Title. Loaa Money, rorwoIoM Mortsaaa, and transact General Uw Bualoasa. ml burned, and could be put Into culti vation for 110 per acre, balance pgs , tore lu ml, email creek runa through the place. 3 living aprlnga, 1 acrea orchard, I -mom bog house, covered with ruatle, painted, 1 one-half atory, big home made barn 30x60, ahedded nil round, large outrange on main road 23 mlli-a from Oregon City one and one-half mllea from Wllholt Hprlnga. $-0 per acre; f'JOOO down, balunce on long time at six per cent per annum. Block and Umber. 2S! acrea, T. S 8.. K, I E .one mile from Molulla river and on line ol extcnln of motor railway, too acrea lei el, CO acres fenced, 30 acres In cultlvat on, no houae, burn GUxTS, living water, 200 acrea heavy timber, fir and cedar, valuable, would crulee five million or more feet of good, merchantable timber, bealdea piling, 1-4 mile from achonl, great outrange, 17 mllea to Oregon City, perfect title. Price 1, 113.60 per acre; $1009 cash; balance ; "L In 1 yeara at 6 per crnt Intrrcat. Eighty-acre fruit and vegctuble. farm , nt Can by on line of Southern I'aclflc railroad, all level, 74 arrea In nice ' cultivation. All fenced, border on Molalla rler. It acres prune. In Al condition, 13 acrea peachea, 4 acrea apple), S acrea strawberries, 6 -room frame dwelling, large burn, 40x60, prune dryer, Hxl. coat IIG00, grun ury, warehouse, -2 mile to school. 1-2 mile to railroad station, one mile to eti'uinhout landing. To go with pluce: 1 un burses, 2 cowa. chick ena, 3 plows, wagon, hack, harrow, mower and all other furmlng Imple ment, and growlnr crop ut time of anle. I'rlce Ituou; Jj'iuO cuah. bal unce In t year, ut t percent Interval. JUST RECEIVED If you need anything in the Glasa-ware'or Gianite-ware, I can inspect my stock. pflir Tight 7f STEEL fei' RANGES Complete line of new and second liand FURNITURE carried. It me supply you with a hoiixe- keepinu outfit WALL PAPER of tlie best quality aod latest styles at right prices. Attention, Here's a Bargain 5000 feet, 14 inch 9rt class Manila rope, In one piece, is offered for I sale at a barnaio for few dat a. , i Main Street, Brunswick House & Kestanrant Newly Furnished Rooms Meals at All Hours. Prices Reasonable. Opposite Suspension Bridge. Only First Class Restaurant In Town 5 WSSSSfSSSSSSSSSJV'SSMWSJSSSJVMWSSM UNDERTAKING We ate in a posi tion to savH yon from 10 to 20 per cent, on undertak er's supplies of which we carry complete stock. R. L-. HOLMHN, Office: One door south of Court House o! Orcion City. Stock Farm Investment. 3)4 acrea two mllea from the termlnua of O. W. P. fly Co. line at gprlngwuter. 160 acrea In cultivation, whole place fenced, 60 acrea In clover, 14 acrea orchard, two million feet good mer chantable timber, three fine living aprlnga of pure water, small dwell ing, large new barn 60x84, outrange of elkweed and pea vine for a thou sand head of stock, about 40 head of cattle, apan homes, wagon, new binder, and all farming tools with present crop for $20 per acre; very easy terms. Good school and grow ing neighborhood. Two hundred and twenty-five acres at Ixgun, ( miles due east of Ore on City. IS miles from Portland, 100 acres In cultivation, (0 acres more nearly ready to break, I acres prune orchard, whole place fenced, moun tain troul stream running through the ranch, several large springs, frame dwelling, 6 rooms, cost IG00, post barn, 2 miles to cheese factory, same distance to creamery that sella flooo worth of butter a month, school one. quarter mile; splendid neigh borhood $.10 per acre. Terma to suit. Three hundred and forty-nine acrea of level, rich soil, in Marion county, 6 miles from Woodburn, 220 acrea In good cultivation, free from stumps and rocks, balance In pasture, whole pluce fenced and cross fenced, one fair old dwelling, 8 rooms, two large hums, other outbuildings conven ient to place, six acrea orchurd, 7 acrea hup., one quarter mile to school, title perfect. I'rlce 131 per acre; terms made to suit the pur chaser. This Is a rare bargain. A FULL LINE OFl 3 A i way of Hardware, Crockery, supply your wanti. Call and jiq ft A A A I. TOLPOLAR Oregon City.' A A CHARLES CATTA, Proprietor We are under small eip nse. Have no middle men to pay, own our hearae and will treat you fair. O.st ricrto All Undertaker & Embalmer or at Cijjar Htore opposite Bank s Ij 3 OREGON HAS GROWN LABO" COMMISSIONER HOfW SHOWS GROWTH Of STATE. Non-Attendance of Children at Schools Is Increasing te an Alarming Degree. According to the figure made up by libor CoinmlaalonT IlofT, based upon a statistical syat-m, the population of (Ingun for 1904 numbers 470.0-4. against 413. 5: In 1S00. an Increase of (4.488 po ple In the past four yeara. The uaual ini'thod employed In obtaining the stat istical population Is based upon the av erage erhool population of the atate, taken from the annual school census. An uvrnige Is struck of the total school population, all residents of the state be tween the are of 4 and 20 yeara, the total number of pupils enrolled In the schools and the total attendance. This average Is then compared with the total population of the state according to the laat federal census, to obtain the per centage, and the population of other yeara Is found upon the same propor tionate ratio.. Commissioner II off. how ever, striving to secure what he con sidered more accurate figures. If it were posalble to obtain them. Improves on this system by taking the average of the school population and that of the vote cast for Justice of the Bupreme Court at the last two general electlone, and finds the total population of the state upon the same proportionate ratio. In adopting this method, however. Mr. I (off mukes the Important discovery that a very large percentage of children of siho.il agu in the atate. according to the reports of the county school superintend ents, do not attend any school. This fact has been apparent for several years past. as the non-attendance average has In creased from year to year, and the legis lative session of 1903. In an effort to cor rect this evil, enacted a law muklng It compulsory upon children of 14 years and under to attend school. The figures ob tained by Commissioner Huff reveal that no apparent effort has ben made to en force the provisions of this law. and that the non-atendance of schools on the part of children Is Increasing to an alarming degree. It la the averuge obtained from the school enrollment und attendance statis tics that Is responsible for the apparently low ttgures obtained for the population of the state for 1904. which show an in crease of only about 56,000 people. ,The following Interesting deductions from the four tabulated statements will show that Murlon county Is not alone In the decrease In school attendance and en- rtriillmenl. In decreases m enrollment ap- pear me lOllimilia IV lUUlllira urniur rlon: Henlon, 6S3; Gilliam. Harney. 141: Juckson. :: Klamath. 8: Lincoln, 91; Morrow. 3; Polk, 133; Sherman. 51; Wash ington, 73. Decreases in attendance: Cur ry. (4; Gilliam. 478; Harney. 39; Klamath, 2S; iMkr. 65; Lincoln. 47; Mnn, 737; Mor row. 33. Decrease In school population: Lincoln. 69: Linn. 19; Polk. 56; Tillamook. 6; I'nlon. 91. The only county showing a decrease In the vote cast for Supreme Judge between 190 and 1904 Is Lake, which Is short 10 votes. According to the figures compiled by I-abor Commissioner Hoff. Clackamas county in l'.lOQt had a nopuJation of 19.6r.S as against H'O.Gll In 1904. These stutlstlces concerning Clackamas county at least are quite unreliable. The pop ulation of this county ut the present time more closely approximates 30.000 than the total of 20.611 as reported by Mr. Hoff. During the last two years this county has experienced an unpre cedented growth. MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE. George W. Lauth Will Be Tried on Charge In November. The Coroner's jury, called to enquire Into the death of Mrs. lonore B. Jones, returned a verdict charging G. W. Ijiuth with the murder of the woman. 'Premeditated malice" Is charged In the verdict, which reads as follows: In the matter of the inquest on the body of Leonora B. Jones, deceased We. the Jury, duly Impaneled to In vestigate the above case, rind deceased's name Is I.eonoru B. Jones, aged :S years: that she came to her death at the Good Samaritan Hospital, Portland. Oregon. We llnd that George W. Lauth pur posely and of delllierute and premeditated malice killed the said deceased by shoot ing her with a pistol on the 6th day of September. l'.'Jl. at about 9:30 a. m., In Oregon City. Clackamas county, Ore.. In a house located on the South side of Fourth street, between Main street and the Southern Pacific Railroad, from the effects of which shooting the said de ceased died on September 7, 1904. Little public sympathy Is uccortlid either of the principals In the tragedy. For tt ncmber of years little good has been known of the murdered woman and the prevailing sentiment Is that Lnuth who is a keen, reasonably well educuted fellow, has had the misfortune to be come mixed up In bad company. Lauth was arraigned before Justice Stipp at 10 o'clock last Friday morning on a charge of murder In the first de gree. The murderer waived the reading of the information and any examination and he was held to the Circuit Court, which meets In November. . Less than a doxen persons were in at teiiibince at the County Judge's office when the prlsmner was brought Into court, l-anth was unshuven. in depressed spirits, and exuemely nervous. He al ready shows the effects of close confine ment. It Is expected that at the trial of the case insanity will be pleaded In be half of the murderer. C. J. Lauth. a brother of the murderer, arrived from Aberdeen. Washington, where he Is en terrsted In a sawmill, and will lock after his brother's Interests. J. M. AVods, father of the murdered woman, was called, and told the same story concerning the shoting that he had related at the coroner's Inquest. Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Schuebel announced that the state would offer no other testi mony. The attorneys for the prisoner offered no evidence and I-atith was re turned to the custody of Sheriff Shaver. Just before Lauth was taken from the courtroom Woods walked up to the mur derer of hla daughter and extended a warm handshake that was cordially re ceived. ' " The general conduct of Woods and other members of the murdered woman's family toward Lauth since the shooting has been unusual. If not remarkable. The father was the first person to break to the prisoner the news that the shoot ing had resulted fatally, and then there was great weeping on the part of both. funeral servoces were held over the murdered woman at the home ol, her par ents Friday afternoon. THERE ARE MANY FOREST FIRES. Oenslty of Smoke That Rivals That of Disastrous Blaze of 1902. Not since the disiastrous forest fires In Clackamas county In the Fall of P02 and for many yeara prior thereto has the smoke been so dense in this locality as It was this week. Reports from differ ent sections of the timbered lands of this part of the state indicate tbe preva lence of many forest fires. J. A. Shibley, of Bpringwater, who was in the city Tuesday, says there are Ores burning near Damascus and Bor ings while a fire of larger proportions Is raging north of Clackamas. There Is an extensive fire In the edge of the Cascade Forest Reserve that threatens to consume much valuable timber. So dense was the smoke for a number of days that the paper mills could not be seen from the suspension bridge, the two points being less than half a mile apart. STATE NEWS. It is said that the Salem banks will put out at least 1100.000 in small coins during the season, that Is to say of pieces of value less than 15 each. Of thla. fifty thousand dollars In silver and fiduciary coins Is brought Into circulation. One bank has had to Order 20.000 nickels. 6.000 dimes, and 2,500 quarters already for the convenience of the hop growers In paying off their help. All this money goes to the pickers. It is for no other purpose. The Independence National Bank will pay out In fractional coin I30.0W to 135.004. Here, unlike Salem, hop checks passes current. The pickers have now begun to receive hop tickets. and from now on, hop tickets will be the principal small currency handled in this community. Independence Enterprise. i A traveling man. who seems to be neither a Hebrew nor a Gentile, and according to report, has taken no les sons In the high school for gentlemen. was called down hard yesterday In a Salem dry goods store. Going out he slopped one of the young lady rlerks and handed her his card: "John Doe. Not Married" was the Insulting inscrip tion. The young lady took the mutter as an affront upon her dignity as a woman, and called the atention of one of the proprietors to the action. Mr. Drum mer was called back and given a talk that was more nearly In the nature of a crimson roast hot off the bat. the unwise drummer going his way somewhat crest fallen from his former role of general mush-artist, wholesale ond retail. The conduct of some of this class In stores and in hotel dining rooms would almost Justify resort to the more heroic methods of dealing with such fellows employed In other sections of the country'- Suffice It to say that his card will not be handed out In that form in Salem again very soon. Salem Journal. Albert Vlning. of Alsea, has lost his family among the hop fields of Inde pendence. His family consists of a wife and seven children, four boys and three girls. They left Alesa In advance of the i head of the family, leaving home Sat urday and arriving here Monday of last week. Mr. Vlning did not arrive until lost Friday and he has put in his time since loking for his family. Up to yes terday he hud found no trace. He knows they arrived here and are camped at some of the numerous hop yards, but to find them is a most hopeless task. Know ing the camp in which they are located If a big one like Horst Bros., Otten helmer's or Burton's. It would not be an eusy matter to find any particular per son, but only knowing that they are at some of the yards within a radius of ten miles of Independence, the finding of the proverbial needle in a may stack holds out more hope of success. A con soling thought, however for Mr. Vlning and his family to nurse Is the hope, that when the hop harvest Is over they will again meet at their home by the sea. Independence Wst Side Enterprise. I Subscribe for the Enterprise. BMiiUCr POVDER. Imparts that peculiar lightness, sweetness and flavor noticed in the finest cake, biscuit, rolls, crusts, etc., which expert pastry cooks declare is unobtainable by the use of any other leavening agent. Made from Pore, Grape Cream of Tartar. SOTAt BAKING POWDER CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. PARSON USED GUN tO. WOLLMAN VICTIM OF HOP VARO SHOOTING AFFRAY. Wounded Man Assaulted Without Provo cationWounds Not Serious Preacher Escapes. Ed. Wotlman, an ex-soldler from British Columbia, was shot twice but not seriously wounded, by Rev. 8. Mar tin. Monday morning at Herren's hop yard In Clackamas county, between Au rora and Buttevllle. Immediately fol lowing the shooting, Martin, who la aa Italian clergyman, mounted a bicycle and hurriedly departed from the hop yard before the angry crowd that had collected could (ieze him. otherwise there was every prospect that the preacher would have been roughly handled for from the reports received. It aeems that the shoot ing was done without any provocation whatever. Martin and family left their xVaa couver home and were spending the bop picking season at the hop yard where the shooting took place. It la reported that Martin was extremely cruel to hla step children, of which there were a number. He repeatedly punished them for very trival offenses until the pa tience of the other hop picker In the yard had about terminated. On the day before the shooting tt la reported that the father tied a mere infant to a hop pole and allowed the little thing to re main there exposed to the sun until it became deathly 111. During the same day he is said te have cruelly struck a 17-year old daughter merely because she helped herself to a piece of bread from the table before the hour for the ' meal had arrived. Because of this unusual severe treatment of the children, a dele gation of the pickers called on the preach er Sunday and notified him to take his family and move on. The shooting occurred Monday morn ing about 8 o clock, just as Martin and family were about to be driven to the railway station. C. Brown, of Portland, who was a witness to the affray, says that Mollman, who was also intending to take passage on the same train, came up to the wagon and asked permission of the driver to ride to the railroad. Securing the driver's ' permission, Woll man leaped Into the rear of the wagon and had no sooner seated himself than Mar tin, who was sitting on the front seat, turned around, and drawing a 38 -calibre revolver, began to shoot. One bullet passed through, Wollman's ' left hand, another struck him in the shoulder in the region of the collar bone and the third bullet struck a baby carriage In the roadway. Martin hurriedly Jumped oft the wagon and, siezing a wheel, start ed down the road towards Oregon City. About forty persons witnessed the shooting and they were also badly frightened that none of them were able to telephone the authorities at Oregon City and furnish a correct description of the man who did the shooting. About two hours after the shooting had taken place. Chief of Police Burns was tele phoned to be on the look-out for a man having a red moustache and whiskers of the same shade. Special deputies were stationed on the roads leading Into Oregon City and a close watch kept for such a man. About i o'clock In the afternoon. Brown reached the office of Sheriff Shaver and notified that officer that Martin was a man of medium stat ure, weighed 160 pounds and wore a dark moustache with no beard. Because of the incorrect description with which the officers were at flrirst provided it Is probable that the preacher passed through Oregon City undisturbed in mak ing his flight. Martin, was captured Tuesday morn ing near Vancouver. He did not fight extradition papers and was brought to this city Wednesday by Deputy Sheriff Trembath. Martin wilt be arraigned be fore Justice Stipp today on a charge of assault with Intent to comlt murder. When arrested Martin declared that he was never cruel to his children, and that the attack on him at Aurora was caused by the fact that he held himself and family above associating with others employed in the hop fields. This, he says, made him unpopular. For this cause, so Martin maintains, a party was organized to humiliate him and "kangaroo" him. Hearing of this, he loaded his family Into his wagon and attempted to leave, but was attacked. The man he shot was climbing Into the wagon at the time the shot waa fired, and Martin says he had laid vio lent handls on his wife. Va Vs VA-sWa's WW A a" sWa WV, VkVsVVVsWflsVWUWA' SArVWa