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VOL, 38. NO. 15
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1905.
ESTABLISHED 186
LEADING REAL ESTATE DEALERS
CROSS
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Main Street, Oregon City, Or.
233 Washington Street, Portland, Or.
Oregon City as a Profitable Field
For Investments
FEW PEOPLE are aware of the substantial growth and development of Oregon City. The population it is
true is not increasing at so rapid a rate as its business and manufacturing interests, but more people are
coming into the city right along. Every available' dwelling house Is occupied and tenants could easily be
found for one ' hundred more if they were to be had. It is reasonable to expect a larger and more rapid . growth
from this time on.
No" city in the state outside of Portland can begin to compare with Oregon City, in the amount of its manu
facturing, and in the extent of its manufacturing plants. Over thirty thousand horse power is in operation
and in process of generation. Great wheels representing eight thousand of eight hundred horse power rae now
being installed at , an expenditure of five hundred thousand dollars.
The stupendous character of the new work now being done can only be realized by a personal visit to the
scene of operation. This great work is to be immediately followed by the erection of another large paper mill,
and another power plant to be erected on the east side of the falls by the Portland General electric company.
Public announcement of the latter project has been made and active construction will begin this season. The
scope of this plant is so great that work on it will be extended over several years.
Oregon City employs a thousand hands in its mills and factories and has a pay roll of eighty thousand dollars
a month. V
Oregon ity has the largest paper mills and the largest woolen mill west of the Rocky mountains. It will
make its material growth this present year.
An investment in this prosperous manufacturing town is as sure and far more profitable than a government
bond. Oregon City needs more business men with increased capital and at least half a dozen modern brick stores
on Main street. Such stores would all be rented before they were nearly completed.
It is a fact that no business man with means and intelligence ever made a failure in Oregon City. Success
is the rule and not the exception. We have a manufacturing basis alone for a population of twenty thousand.
Valuations are yet at old figures and handsome, profits will accrue to the careful investors. In all honesty,
let us admit that prices are ridiculously low and will not be duplicated again.
Investors and capitalists desiring to place money in business or manufacturing enterprises or who may wish to
buy lots and erect dwellings can find a choice list of such properties with
CROSS & SHAW
Choice City Property for sale in Portland, Oregon City and Gladstone
at lowest prices.
We are selling lands right along and are always in the market to buy or
sell.
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Farms in Clackamas County are a good safe investment and our prices
are right.
TANNER TELLS ALL
CONFESSES THAT HE PERJURED
HIMSELF BEFORE GRAND JURY.
In Order To Save Himself and Son, Tan
ner Gives Damaging Evidence
-' Against Mitchell.
JQ L.PORTER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ABSTRACTS OF PROPBETT FUKNI8HKD.
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General Law Business.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW
Collections, Mortgage Foreclosures, Ab
stracts of Title and General Law Business.
Office over
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Attorney at Law.
Justice f the Peace.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
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Your Clackamas County abstracts of
Title should be prepared by the
Clackamas Title Company, incor
porated, Chamber of Commerce
building, Portland. This company
Is the builder and owner of the best
and most complete plant of Clack
amas county titles. A streets from
Its offices are compiled by experts of
long experience, competent attor
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guaranteed accuracy.
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Oregon City, Oregon.
i PORTLAND? Feb. 11. The climax , in
1 the land fraud cases was reached today
; when Judge Albert H. Tanner, law part
ner of United, States Senator Mitchell,
Indicted February 8, for the crime of
perjury in regard to the agreement of
co-partnership between himself and Sen
ator Mitchell, went to the witness stand
and entered a plea of guilty. The scene
! was a dramatic one, impressive and sor
; rowfui." Judge Tanner entered the court
! room haggard and worn and bowed as if
j by weight of years. "With him was his
I son Albert .H. Jr., to shield whom the
! plea was about to be made. Following
j both came Harry C. Robertson, private
! secretary of Senator Mitchell. At the
! time Tanner gave his testimony, January
i 31, last, the government had possession
; of evidence which varied from that given
j by Tanner, and linking it together Dis
trict Attorney Heney made such a show
I ing that not only Judge Tanner, but his
! son was indicteV by the grand jury.
I Tanner for several days afterward
maintained his position, but finally when
ne ascertained tne nature oi me testi
mony which Mitchell's secretary, Harry
C. Robertson, intended to give and In
order to save his son from prosecution,
Tanner yielded and went to the witness
stand.
After Tanner was sworn Heney hand
ed him a contract which he had sworn
to before the grand jury was the origi
nal document and was, asked when the
document was written. "December last,"
Tanner replied. Tanner was Risked if
the document was to be used in defense
of Mitchell. Tanner in reply said: "I will
tell you the circumstances and you can
draw your own conclusions. When Sen
ator Mitchell was out here he looked over
the old contract and there was a clause
in it he thought ought to be changed and
told me to fix it. I then drew up in writ
ing here, changing the particular clause
he thought dangerous and we signed it.
At the time that was done I said to him
'Now Robertson is thhe only man on
earth, except you and I, that knows to
the contrary anything about the agree
ment and Robertson will have to corrob
orate this thing. Of course, it may get
us into trouble.' He said he would see
what he could do with Robertson, or
something of that kind, and the agree
ment was left with me in that shape.
The new agreement was signed in De
cember of last year and contained a
clause not included in the original, which
provided that all money received in pay
ment for services rendered before the
government departments should go to
1 . jner. In all other respects the last
agreement was Identical ' with the ori
ginal." Tanner then went on to explain
the division of fees, Mitchell's share
usually being sent to him in the shape of
a deposit tag, showing the amount.
Judge . Tanner stated the firm did a
large business with Frederick R. Kribs,
a timberland dealer in this city, who
paid the firm of Mitchell & Tanner var
ious sums of money for expediting the
cases in the land department of the
government. Mitchell was indicted for
having received money in compensation
of alleged services performed in behalf
of Kribs in the general land department
at Washington.
Harry C. Robertson, private secretary
to Mitchell, was placed on the witness
stand and interrogated regarding his.con-
t nection with the agreements in force be
I tween Mitchell and his partner, Tanner.
I Robertson stated he had had a conversa
tion with Mitchell in Washington Feb
i ruary 3, just before Robertson's departure
i for this city to appear as a witness be
. fore the federal grand jury. Robertson
; stated that Mitchell told him Tanner had
: appeared before the grand jury and testi
fied to the original agreement, which pro-
vided all fees earned before the depart -j
ments at Washington should belong to
I Judge Tanner and the fees earned be
' fore the Supreme Court of the United
i States belonged to Mitchell. Robertson
then continued: "I knew it was not a
genuine agreement and I was fairly amaz
ed and looked at him, I suppose, for a
minute before he spoke again. He told
me he had a conversation with Tanner
when here in December and they had
come to the conclusion that any means
was justifiable to beat the assault being
made on them." Mitchell allowed Rob
ertson to infer that the new agreement
had been drawn up and signed by Tan
ner and himself.
Tanner's son, Albert H., Jr., testified
that during Mitchell's visit to Portland
last December, he prepared on a type
writer a new agreement between his
father and Mitchell, as confessed to by
his father.
a woman a short time ago; John North
rop, one of the men who hung the jury
in the Sorenson bribery trial, and Chas.
F. Lord, a Portland attorney.
MORE PERSONS INVOLVED.
Oregon City Machine Shop
PHILIPP BUCKLEIN, PROPRIETOR
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Oregon Oityr Oregon
Grand Jury Adjourns.
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 14. Just before
adjournment, the Federal grand jury re
turned the long expected indictment deal
ing with the Blue Mountain reserve and
the frauds attempted to be perpetrated
by its creation. In the indictment are
implicated John H. Mitchell, Binger Her
mann, John ' N. Williamson, Franklin
Pierce Mays, W. N. Jones and George
, Sorenson. The charge Is that the de-
fendants attempted to defraud the Gov
j eminent of the United States of the pos
j session and use of and title to 200,000
acres of land situated in various of the
states and territories of the Nation and
of the total value of more than $3,000,
; ooo.
) The grand jury also expressed its dis
. approval of the conspiracy formed some
; time ago to blacken the character of
District Attorney Heney by returning an
j indictment yesterday afternoon against
those who are alleged to have been be
hind the plot. '
Those1 who are named in the indict
ment are John H. Hall, ex-United States
Attorney; Henry Ford, a private detec
tive; Harry L. Reea, formerly major in
) the United States Army; A. P. Caylor. a
grain merchant of Portland; John Cor
dano. Deputy Sheriff; J. H. Hitchings,
the attorney who was thrice whipped by
Federal Grand Jury Indicts Congressman
Williamson and Others.
PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 11. Two in
dictments were returned by the Federal
Grand Jury yesterday afternoon, by one
of which the long-drawn-out investiga
tions into the dealings of the Butte Creek
Land, Lumber Sc. Livestock Company were
brought to a close, while the second ad
ded another mark to the list already
against the names of Henry Meldrum and
his associates.
The indictment against the Butte Creek
Company and some of its employes charg
es a conspiracy to prevent and obstruct
free passage over and free use of certain
of public lands situated in Wheeler coun
ty. The document also alleges that
threats of violence and other means of
intimidation were used to drive those
legitimate homesteaders already settled
on thhe land from the vicinity. As de
fendants the indictment names Winlock
W. Steiwer, ex-State Senator; Hamilton
H. Hendricks, secretary of the Butte
Creek Land Company; Clarence B. Zacb
ary, Adelbert C. Zachary, Charles A.
Watson and Clyde E. Glass, employes of
the company; Binger Hermann, John H.
Hall, Edwin Mays, ex-Assistant United
States Attorney; Franklin P. Mays, Clark
E. Loomis and Edward D. Stratford.
The second indictment abainst Henry
Meldrum, -ex-Surveyor General; George
E. .Waggoner, Meldrum's clerk; David
W. Kinnaird, Benjamin F. Minton, and
Gustave Klaetach, deputy surveyors;
George Sorenson, Livy Stipp and Frank
H. Duncan, notaries public. It is brought
under the same section of the revised
statutes of the United States as the fore
going and alleges that the defendants
conspired to defraud the Government of
the United States by false and fraudulent
surveys.
The .section reads as follows:
Section 5440. If wo or more persons-
conspire together, to commit offense
against the United States, or to defraud
the United States in any manner or for
any purpose, and one or more of such
parties do any act to effect the object of
the conspiracy, all the parties to such
conspiracy shall be liable to a penalty
of not less than $1000, and not more than
$10,000, and to imprisonment not more
than two years.
ARE TALKING FAIR
GRANGES OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY
ASCERTAINING SENTIMENT.
Matter of Holding Annual County
Will be Considered by Pomona
Grange in April.
Fair
Williamson is Indicted.
PORTLAND, Or., Feb. 12. The third
member of the Oregon delegation in Con
gress was brought' under the shadow yes
terday afternoon when the Federal grand
jury returned an indictment against J.
N. Williamson, his partner in the sheep
business, Dr. Van Gesner, and Marion
R. Biggs, for several years United States
Commissioner at Prineville. The crime
alleged, by the document is subornation
of perjury in having induced some 45
f ellowtownsmen to take claims in town
ship 15 south, of range 19. east, under the
agreement that the land should in time
revert to the firm of Williamson & Ges
ner. In order to take these claims, it
was necessary for the claimants to make
false .affidavits, which, it is alleged, they
did before United States Commissioner
Biggs.
The initiative is being taken" by the
Granges of Clackamas county with a view
to arranging for a county fair to be held
annually. There has been had more or
less consideration of this subject through
the Grange organization of the county
for some time and members of a commit
tee are ascertaining public sentiment on
the question preparatory to definitely
taking up the matter at the next meeting
of the Clackamas County Pomona Grange
which will be held at Parkplace in April.
It is argued by the Grangers, under
whose auspices the' proposed exposition
will be conducted, that with the rapid
settling up of this county by new arrivals
from the East, the holding of a county
fair where can be had an interchange of
ideas as to the adaptability of thhe soil
for different products, the particular va
rieties that thrive best and facts pertain
ing to stock there is offered an excep
tional opportunity for promoting the ag
ricultural interests of the community
by acquainting the new locator with lo
cal conditions.
( Prominent members of the Grange were ,
In conference with Harvey Cross this
I week when the subject of a suitable place
: for holding the fair was brought up.
But it was agreed that this feature and
other .. details can be satisfactorily ar-
ranged when public sentiment has been
worked up for a fair. Milwaukie, Oregon
j City and Canby are the points suggested
i for the holding of the exposition. But
at Oregon City in the absence of a suit
able location within the city, should this
city be selected, the fair could be con
ducted at Gladstone where there are am
ple accommodations, already provided.
Mr. Cross informed the committee that
waited on him that he would communi
cate with the officers of the Southern
Pacific Railway company and find out if
that corporation would grant the same
transportation facilities and rates that
are furnished the Chautauqua Associa
tion. Mr. Cross will report the result of
the inquiry at the April meeting of the
Pomona grange.
It is not the purpose of the Grangers
to hold a fair this year. On the contrary,
the members of the organization are
taking a live interest in the exhibit that
is to be made at the Lewis & Clark Fair
from this county and is lending the vari
ous committees in charge very valuable
assistance in gathering a representative
exhibit of the resources of the county.
Guilt Seriously Questioned.
The announcement of the Indictment by
the Federal grand jury at Portland of
Surveyor D. W. Kinnaird, Justice of the
Peace Livy Stipp and Justice F. H.
Dungan, of this county, on charges grow
ing out of the searching investigations
that are being made into the government
land fraud cases, naturally came as a sur
prise to the many friends of these gentlemen.
All three of these men stand high in
the community in which they live and are
the last persons to be suspected of do
ing any irregular act. Surveyor Kinnaird
has long resided at Oregon City as has
Mr. Dungan at Molalla and their honesty
has never been questioned. There is not
a cleaner young man anywhere than Is
found in Justice Livy Stipp and it will
take the most conclusive and convincing
evidence to satisfy his many acquaint
ances that he has been guilty of the
slightest offense against the Government
or any individual.
The fact that upon suggestion of Mr.
Heney, the government's prosecutor. Jus
tices Stipp and Dungan were released
without bonds pending the trial of the
case in which they are alleged to be in
volved, is sufficient evidence in itself that
neither of these men is considered such a
fearful criminal.
MORE ABOUT GRANGE HOME.
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"Granger" Thinks There Is Not Sufficient
- Loyalty Among. Members.
Editor Enterprise:
In you paper of February 10th, I noticed
a communication from Molalla Grange,
310, in regard to a Pomona Hall 'cen
trally located". I would say that if the
Grangers of Clackamas were as loyal to
their own organization as they are to
some other ideas, the Prize wagon need
not be the only way of rolling up funds
for a fair and Pomona Hall..
I have heard it asserted, and I believe
it true, in a large measure, that there
could be derived from the disposal of
that much talked of wagon as much as
$1000. Now with 1300 or 1400 Grangers
in our county, If they were properly ap
proached, I fhink they would nearly all
subscribe at least one dollar, hoping to
secure thhe said wagon and to help along
the enterprise for the good of our order.
Now, if 1000 of them would do this I think
it would make quite a respectable "bung
hole" around 'which to build our barrel. ...
We may .joke about this matter if we
will, but it is up to us to do something
in this line soon on both propositions; We
have got to make some provision in re
gard to Clackamas Pomona, and as ; re
gards the Fair proposition, if we do not
take the initiative some one else will !beT
fore many years. I understand thaij at
the meeting of the State Horticultural
society held in Portland in January, there
was a strong sentiment in favor of hold
ing a county exhibit, and there is other
sentiment along the same line. Now
the question Is do we, the 1300 or 1400
Grangers want to turn over a new leaf
and lead in this matter, or as in the past
in too t many instances, follow meekly
along behind? 1
A GRANGER.
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