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About Oregon City enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1891-194? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 1, 1905)
V C ENr o MEGON LILtkiL JL. THE COMMERCIAL BANK I H. CITY Oregon City, Oregon AUTHORIZED CAPITAL $100,000 D. C. LATOUR ETTE F. J- MEYER Transacts a general banking business. 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. LET US Prices Reasonable Do Your Work Wofk a"ara"teed We do a General Baggage and Transfer Business. Safes, Pianos and Furniture Moved Office Opposite Masonic Building le,epB3cfie833121 Williams Bros. Transfer Co. Bargains Unparalelled Dry Goods of every description at prices to suit everybody. Our immense stock is the most complete in the history of our business in this city. Every lady in this county should avail herself of the opportunity of visiting our magnificent store. Dress Goods of the best materials and latest pat terns, Dress Skirts, Embroideries, Laces, and Hosieries, everything in the Ladies' Furnishing Goods line can be had at THE FAIR STORE WM. ROBISON Willamette Building Oregon City, Oregon. W. L. BLOCK The Home Furnisher 0 Ftitfnittfffe. Carpets. Stoves 1 anj Cffockegy 1ANOS and ORGANS S REGARDLESS of COST to make oom f or out HOLIDAY GOODS j I 1T7T A T7VT A TVTT CCVRTVT HPW QTRFFT. I A President Cashier Open from 0 jk """1 5 OREGON CITY C. D. and D. C. LATOURETTEi ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS AT LAW. Main Street. Oregon City, Oregon. Furnish Abstracts of Title, Loan Money, Foreclose Mortgage, and transact General Law Business. f) W. EASTHAM ATTORNEY AT LAW Collections, Mortgage Foreclosures, Ab stracts of Title and General Law Bus iness. Office over Bank of Oregon City. Oregon City. Or. W. 8. U'Ben - SohneW U'REN & SCHUEBEL Attorneys at Law. Will practice in all courts, make collec tions and settlements of estates. Furnish abstracts of title, lend you mon ey, lend you money on first mortgage. Office In Enterprise Building, ' Oregon City, Oregon. LIVY STIPP Attorney at Law. Justice of the Peace. gger Bldg., Oregon Ciy J. U. CAMPBELL ATTORNEY AT LAW Oregon City, - - - - - -Oregon Will practice in all the courts of the state Office in Caufield Building. l 1 PORTER, ATTORNET AT LAW. Abstracts of Property Furnished. Office with Oregon City Enterprise. CLACKAMAS TITLE CO Jour 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. Astracts from its offices are compiled by experts of long experience, competent attor neys and draughtsmen, and are of guaranteed accuracy. Clackamas County Lands, Mortgage Loans, Estates managed, Taxes ex amined and paid. C. F. Riley, pres... F- B. Riley, sec. W. L. BLOCK 2 The Home Furnisher l HAS NOT THE RIGHT MANNING DROPS MILWAUKIE GAMBLING CASES. District Attorney for Multnomah Coun ty Finds He Does Not Have Jurisdiction. - After a thorough investigation, Dis trict Attorney John Manning, of Port- j land, has dismissed a proposed "prose cution of the Milwaukie Club proprie tors. In announing his inability to act in the premises, Mr. Manning in an interview stated that as District At torney of the Fourth Judicial District of the state, he does not have the le gal right to go outside the boundaries j of his district and undertake to pros-1 ecute an alleged violation of the state's statutes in ,an adjoining dis trict. This decision on the part of the " Multnomah county district attor ney disposes of the cases so far as their prosecution in the' Multnomah county court is concerned. If the pro prietors of the .. Milwaukie Country Club are to be proceeded against, un der the state law, the proceedings will necessarily have" to be brought in Clackamas county where the. alleged violation was committed. However, the original cases against the proprietors of the Club and a few patrons of the resort, resulting from' the recent raid, will have to be thresh ed out in the municipal court at Port land, provided that tribunal can es tablish the right of jurisdiction over the same. The people of Milwaukie, an incor porated town under whose license the Club was allowed to be operated, are very wrathy and indignant with what they consider an unwarranted inter ference by the Portland authorities with their own municipal affairs. The action of Mayor Lane, of Portland, in causing the raid to be made was re cently denounced at a mass meeting of citizens of Milwaukie who emphatic ally asserted their ability to manage their own affairs. So intense is the feeling among the people of that city that if the prosecution of the cases is undertaken to be successfully con ducted by Mayor Lane and his police others, legal steps to check any fur ther interference with the Club from that source may be resorted to. Un der the direction of Mayor Schindler and the members , of the Milwaukie City council, Justice Livy Stipp of this city, who is City Attorney for Mil waukie, has conferred with Judge M. L. Pipes of Portland, and it is possible that proceedings restraining the Port land and Multnomah county authori ties from proceeding further in their fight against the Club may be insti tuted in the Clackamas County Cir cuit Court before Judge McBride. All in all, the situation is a novel one that has created interest through out the state and the final determina tion o the pending controversy and the rights of the different parties to the same will be watched intently. Must be Tried in Clackamas. Judge Cameron Monday afternoon ruled that his court had no jurisdic tion over the Milwaukie gambling cases, which if tried, must be prose cuted in Clackamas county. SAYS LOVER PROVED FALSE. Portland Woman Sues Clackamas Farmer for $15,200. Edward Johnson, a farmer residing near Aurora, has been made defendant in a $15,200 breach of promise suit brought by Mary E. Clay, of Portland, Dimick & Dimick, of this city, appear ing as attorneys for the plaintiff. In her complaint plaintiff alleges that at Portland in July, 1905, defend ant proposed to marry her and that the month of September, last, was the time mutually agreed upon for the per formance of the necessary ceremony. Bat, after she had accompanied the defendant to St. Martin's Hot Springs, in Washington on a camping trip and had remained at his farm near Auro ra, plaintiff complains that the defend ant refused to consummate the mar riage contract and did then and there repudiate the same, because of which she claims tohave suffered great in jur3', both in mind and body. In preparing for the prospective marriage the woman represents that she expended about $200 in prepara tion of a trosseau and she asks to be reimbursed for this expenditure be sides being recompensed for her dam aged feelings which are appraised at $15,000. Plaintiff further alleges that "con fiding in said promise of defendant, plaintiff has always remained and con tinued and still is sole and and un married" and has been ready and wil ling to marry the defendant. ESTACADA AND ITS GROWTH. Something About Development Eastern Clackamas County. of A special dispatch to the Portland Journal says: Estacada is to own its water sup ply and water system. The water works is the property of the Oregon Water Power & Railway company and negotiations are pending for the sale and transfer. The town grew so rap idly that had the railway company not put in a water system there would have been several months that the people would have been without water and there would have been no fire pro tection whatever. The system con sists of two reservoirs, a pumping plant and mains extending all over the city. Soon after the mains were plac ed, a fire department was organized. The fire department is, In a small sense, the pride of Estacada. To pro vide more money for apparatus tne management of the company is ar ranging for a masked ball, to -be giv en at the pavilion on the evening of November 30. All the preliminary arrangements have been completed for the estab lishment of the first free delivery mail route out of Estacada. In about 60 days it is expected that the route will be in operation. The route will be from Estacada on to Currinsville ; thence to Garfield, on into the country beyond Garfield and return to Esta cada. The new plant of the Estacada Brick & Tile company is now prac tically complete. Manager Belknap says the first output of the factory will be pressed brick, which has already been sold to a Portland contractor. Orders are on hand suffiicent to keep the factory at work for several months. The plant will begin opera tion December 1, and will regularly employ forty men. It is quite likely that the capacity of the factory . will be doubled before spring. Frank Miranda or Dayton, Ohio, is now here superintending the placing of the water wheels in the big elec tric plant at Cazadero. Work on the immense dam across the Clackamas is progressing rapidly. The Estacada Wood Manufacturing company, which makes cross arms for telegraph poles, has just erected a large storage shed. The company has orders enough ahead to keep the plant working at full capacity all this win ter. Frank Morris is erecting" a cottage at the corner of Fourth and Zobrist streets. The Clackamas county court has ordered the road to Garfield paved with plank and the town authorities have ordered the planking continued from that point nearest the city into the city over Main street. Linn brothers, saw mill men, have purchased a iot and will erect a build ing and establish a lumber yard. Miss Agnes Watt, a Portland vocal ist, is the guest of Mrs. Lois Mac Mahon. HOLDING THEIR HOPS. Clackamas Growers Think Co-operation Is Their Salvation. Clackamas county hop growers con tinue to hold their 1905 crop, entirely disregarding the offers of 9 and 10 cents that have been made for their holdings. More than 400 bales of this years' crop are being stored at the Oregon Water Power & Railway Com pany's freight depot in this city. Instead of a proposed reduction in the acreage in this county, the senti ment of growers generally favors the setting out of additional yards, . In co-operation of "the "producers is placed the hopes of the growers for success fully wrestling with market condi tions in the future. "We are planning to plant an ad ditional acreage of hops instead of plowing up any of our planted acre age," said D. K. Bill, who is in charge of the Dr. Nichols' hop yards near this city and this property is one of the best in the county for the raising of hops. "Co-operation," claims, Mr. Bill, "is the only salvation of the grower in competing with existing conditions with reference to the hop market. In this way an organization of the grow ers can station a personal representa tive at New York where the Oregon crop can be disposed of at satisfactory prices to the grower. The sale of our holdings through such an agent would net satisfactory returns." IMPROVED TELEPHONE SERVICE. Pacific States Company Will Make Important' Changes. i Complete reoganization of the sys i tern of the Pacific States Telephone & 1 Telegraph Company will be made in ; in this city without delay says the Tel , egram's Oregon City correspondent, j This announement was made by the ! officers of the company Monday morn ing and theassurance is given that the service of the company here will be satisfactory in every respect. The present quarters for the central sta tion are entirely inadequate to ac commodate the growing business, and offices will be secured in a brick build inn fronting on Main street. A requis tion has already been put in for a new switchboard, which will be in stalled as soon as the new location is secured. Ten-party lines will be abolished. This news will be received with un bounded joy by many residents of Oregon City, who for years .have had their ears open during the day listen ing for all manners of rings from the telephone Under the new system no line will have more than four sub scribers, and under a system of selec- j tive ringing,- each subscriber on a four party line will hear only his own ring i and one other. Calls to the central office will be answered more promptly and several additional employyees wilP be engaged by the company. Socialists Begin Campaign. Arthur Morror Lewis, state lecturer for the Socialist party of California, is making- a tour of Oregon and Wash ington and will speak at the Socialists meeting at Knapp's Hall, Sunday, De cember 3. The Socialists will meet for a fraternal dinner at noon, after which there will be a short business session and the lecture will commence at 2:30 p. m. Lewis is well versed in Socialistic doctrines and is considered one of the ablest speakers in the move ment. Those who desire to thorough ly understand Socialism should attend this meeting. He will speak at other points in Clackamas County as fol lows: Barlow, Monday, December 4; Needy, Tuesday, December 5; Macks burg, Wednesday, December 6; Mo lalla, Thursday, December 7 ; Mulino, Friday, December 8 ; and Beaver Creek Saturday, December 9. Each one of these meetings will open at 7:30 p. m. with a concert on a graphophone, and the lecture at 8 p.m. . LOCAL OPTION LAW PROPOSED TO BE CHANGED BY INITIATIVE PETITION. " Liquor Men t Would Make Prohibition a Precinct Affair in Elections. L'iquor men are invoking the initia tive for amendment of the local op tion law, along the lines of the famous Jayne bill, which failed to pass the Or egon Legislature last February by but one vote, says the Oregonian. They will be opposed by prohibition forces and the Anti-Saloon League, and will seek the aid of the anti-Prohibition el ements. The bill which the liquor men offer would change the present law, which was enacted by the people at the polls in June, 1904, in the following re spects: Raise the number of voters neces sary to call a Prohibition election from ten to 30 per cent. Make the law strictly a precinct op tion act, allowing, just as now, an elec tion to be called in any precinct in the state. Prevent the grouping of precincts together for a Prohibition election. Fix general elections as the time for Prohibition election. Take away the advantages held by the Prohibition side under the present law and give "dry" and "wet" the same privileges in elections. The . law now provides that elec tions to decide the question whether liquor shall be sold as a beverage In any precinct or group of precincts may be called in June of any year on petition of 10 per cent of the electors in the voting area. Should the election carry for Prohibition, the voting area is to be "dry" two years, but should the election carry for sale of liquor, 1 .; another election may be called ihe'L next year. - ..: :- The liquor and anti-Prohibition forc es contend that the present law Is a t Prohibition act in the guise of local option and that it should be made a strict precinct option act, putting the liquor and Prohibition forces on equal footing for the election contests. As things stand, the Prohibition voters can force Prohibition on a precinct voting "wet," by including the pre cinct in a Prohibition group of pre- incts, but the liquor men on their side -annot carry a precinct- "wet" by " in-" eluding, it in a "wet" group, unless it shall vote their way. - Again, a precinct or group of pre cincts going "dry" under the present law must remain so for two years be fore another election can be called, but if the voting area goes wet" the election can be called the next year. The petitions for the initiative are being circulated by Knights of the Royal Arch and will be filed with County Clerks by January 1, or there abouts, and with the Secretary of State not later than February 3. Petitions In Clackamas. Initiative petitions, proposing : amendments to the local option law, are receiving circulation in this city and are being numerously signed. The proposed amendments increase from 10 to 30 per cent the representation of the legal voters of a precinct re quired to a petition before an election on the local option question can be ordered. Another amendment to be proposed provides that the precinct shall be made the unit, in conducting these contests, the object being to prevent a combination of "dry" pre cincts for imposing prohibition in a "wet" precinct as is allowed under the law as it is now constructed. BILIOUS ATTACK QUICKLY CURED A few weeks ago I had a bilious at tack that was so severe I was not able to go to the office for two days. Fail ing to get relief from my family phy sician's treatment I took three of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tab lets and the next day I felt like a new man. H. C. Bailey, Editor of the News, Chapin, S. C, These tab lets are for sale by Howell & Jones. REPARTEE. "I go to the theater not so much for amusement as for instruction." "I see. You limit yourself ti the ten, twent', thir' places, do you?" A MATTER OF HEALTH S1 Q Absolutely Fare HAS HO SUBSTITUTE A Cream of Tartar Powder, free" from alum or phos phatlc acid ROYAL BAKINQ POWDER CO., NEW YORK.