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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY ti, 1008. JAILER IS BEATEN UP burned, but lilu Injury Ih not tiorloim. (In, ah well ni thu otlmr tttoekholder of I ho concern, ar" firmly convinced that their blunting powder Ih tlm prop or oiipor mid llinrii Ih uo doubt about ItH OXploHlve pIlWCIH, ATTEMPT TO VICIOUS JAIL MADE BY ALLEGED MURDERER. TRY TO OBTAIN KEYS Petr Nehren Struck On Hoad With Heavy Stick of Wood, But Some of th Prlionsri Aaalat Him to Escape Assailants. Dynamite Cap Kicks Out. liinlH Nobel, of HiIh city, mi em- i ployo of tliir Homo Telephone Coin I puny, Iiiim learned Kovornl IIiIiikh I ulioiit ii kIiuiI cnp that lio wim not BREAK i aware of, among olhorH, Unit It would Ko off, taking Willi It a pint of hlH lort Imnd. Nobel wiih nt tlio eompnny'H wnroliniiMo In firocii point, when h Hliirtod to examine tlio cup, which no rldonlitlly exploded, blowing off n mut of tlm tliuiiib mid find linger on li Ih left Imnd. Other einployoH of the phono company broiiKht him to town In u wagon, mid Dr. H. A. Homruer dri'MHod the wound. In addition to tho linger and thumb that wore partially blown off, Hid Index finger of tlm twine hand wan a I ho terribly Ian-rated. PLAIN FACTS BY M00RES Through, tho prompt action of two primmer In the County Jail Tnemlay iilKht, a wholedalu oncuptt wan pre vented, hut only arter Peter Nehron, the Jailer, had been Htruok with a Mick of wood and knocked down and nil attempt niaili) to take IiIh keyH away from him. Nebren went Into the Jail about l o'clock In loclt the eight prlnonern In celln ami wan uccoHtud by Walter T. Ht, Clair, who Im chained. nloiig with J. M. HlckeiiHoii, John IHcIii'Iimoii, William IHckotiHon, John Jtlley, Karl UaiiNler and Vernon IIuwch, with the murder of IIIkIiwhu Hlngh, a Hindu, nt llorhiK IiihI October. Kt. Clulr linn over hIiicii he wiim llrMl Incarcerated iniitilfi'Mteci an ugly dUpoMtlon, mnk liiK continual complaint to IiIh Jailer, II ml I hk fault with IiIh iiuarterH, and unking for fiivoiM not UHiially Krnnted prliioniTK awaiting trial. Only a few weeka a ko he, aHHUti'd by John IHck otlHoll, HHHliultetl iiml Heverely heat L'roy Carden, who Ih auto awaiting trial on a charge of looiault. Caiileu 1m ilraf and dumb, and only a lad, Vul he declined lo he ImpOHi'd upon nod the other pllMoliern n upecled lillll, but St. Clair and John lilcki-nmui nimprct- ed him of being friendly with Jailer N'ehren and both men ouiiced upon lilui. St. Clalr'n fancied grievance wan not met cordially by Neliren, and the prls oner Hel.ed a heavy billet of wood htniek Ii Im Jailer, foiling 111 III to the ground, hlit head htrlklng tigiilimt tlx iliMir of the cell. Neliren revalued hlH feet, when St. Clair, helped by (Mime of the other men In Jail, tried to ob tain the Jaller'H ke.VH, and would iirob ably have been HUccHHful, had It not been for the prolliptllCKH of Otto F (llmm and Caiilen. who riiHhi'd to th aid of Neliren and made for the door of the Jail, which wiih unlocked by Neliren. Sheriff lleatle and Iiepuly Sheriff linker were III the Hherlff'H office up HtitlrM, but little iioIhc wiih made and they were not aware of the attempt at a Jail delivery until Neliren ap peared. One of IiIh cyeH wiih clotted and hlH none broken. Sheriff Heatlc at once made an Invrittlgiitlon of the rlrcuniHtanceH tturroundlng the affair, but the prlnoniTH were reticent ami xhowed no wlllliiKiicHH to dlHcumt the matter. St. Clair wiih locked In a Hep urate cell and a diet of bread and wa ter for a few dayn will probably cool hlH heated brain. He averred that Nuhren had Htruck hlin, but SherllT lteatle Hunimoned Dr. W. F Carll who, after an examination of St. ('lair could not llud a lngV mark on the man. With the exception of St. Clair and John DIcketiKon, the Jail bun a crowd of model prlMoneiH, who have given their keepers little trouble. Vernon llawen, who Ih churned with the mur der of the Hindu. Ih at liberty on I'liiui) IioiuIh, buf the remaining nix men, who are Implicated on the name charge are In Jail. NEW 0. W. P. SCHEDULE. Cart to Portland Now Leave Oregon City Every 30 Minute. The now achodulo of tho Oregon lly dlvlHlon of tho Oregon water 'ower & Hallway Company went Into ffect Hunday with the iiho of tlm new hIkiihI Hyatem, which aliollHiien mo former Hyntem of illapatcinnn earn oy telephone. Tlm llrnt car leuvcn Port land at 4 a. tn., tlm next at (5:30 a, m., and every half hour thereafter to and Imiludlnic l l. wn,,n t,m carM "!ftV" at 10, 11 and Urn laat car at midnight. The leaving tlnm at Caimniati iii-kiiih with llm o:4U a. tn. car, men tc.o, 0:M) and 7::io a. in., ami limn every hi.lr bour to and Including K:.I0 p. in., and after that hour at l:o:!, 1 0 : n:j and 1 1 o:i i). "tn. The leavliiK Hum from Oregon City Ih eight mlnuteH later than Caiiemah. The new tline tabb-H will be UHUed In a few daya. SHERIFF BEATIE ENJOINED. at W. A. Hall Saya Special Levy of Road District No. 5 It Invalid W. A. Hall, who roaldea in Hoad Dlatrlct No. .1, Iiuh obtained an III Junction to prevent. Sheriff lb-atle from collecting money from tlm Bpcclnl levy of live iiiIIIh made by the taxpayer of the road district, on the ground that tlm proceeding of the meeting which the apeclal tax wiih levied, wen manlfeHtly Irregular. In IiIh com plaint, Mr. Hall aveiH that a meeting if the votera of the district wiih h December 1!8, 1!M)7, and at this niocilng It wiih decided that tlm money to In received from the Hpeclal levy wiih to be expended oil hIx roadH. lie hb.vh that no resolution wbh Introduced at the meeting, iih required by law, and, an fact, aaya that none of the moth odH employed In levJ'liiK the tax wen) Htrlctly In acordance with the Htat utc. On February 7. t!H8, Mr. Hall went In to pay IiIh taxen and tendered the Sheriff the amount due the county, Ichh the amount of Hpeclal road lax, mid tli Ih tender wbh refused, ho Im proceeded to brliiK milt and obtain a reHtralnliiK order. The matter will bo urnued before Circuit Judge Mcllrldo and In the mean time the Hpeclal tax will not be collected. MARION COUNTY MAN 8TATE8 THAT THE BOSSES FAVOR STATEMENT NO. 1. MACHINE DEMOCRATIC Republican Membera of tho Legltla ture From Marlon Will 8upport Party Candidate Who Re ceive Majority. Letter LltL Letter lint for week eiiilltiK Febru ary 21, P.I0H: Women h UhI -UHiranuer. wra. Win.; Wilcox, Mra. Sylvia. .Men'H l.lHt Allen, I). II.; Dunbar, Mr. ami Mm. Claude (3); Parmenter, Paul. MOUN THOOD RAILWAY NOT TO ENTER CITY ANTAGONISM OF PORTLAND'S OF- FICIAL8 FRIGHTENS THE NEW COMPANY. GOOD BLA8TING POWDER. The Mount Ilood Hallway & Power Comnany will not apply for a fran chine to enter Portland, becaiiHe of the aiitiiKoiilNtlc attitude of the Port land city olIlclalH. Mayor I-ano Ih ex- erclrtliiK the veto power on franchltfi-H very freely, and the company'H olllclals believe It will be uhc-Ii-hh to try to pro cure a franchlHo while I.anu Ih In the Huddle. Tlm Mount HihhI Hallway Ih build- Iiik only to the vicinity of the O. W. P. crohHlnK near UreHham. Work be tween (hat point and Portland Iiiih not been Htarted. althoiiKh from Gresh am out. KradlnK for the railway line Ih well ulc hi K. The Mount Hood road may enter Portland over either the O. W. P. tra.-kH from the OreHham croHHlnK. or by way of the O. H. & N. line from Moiitavllla Into the I'nlon Depot. DeHplto l IiIh anticipated hostility to the project at the Portland cud of the line, preparatloim are i?olng forward rapidly for the completion of thu road from the O. W. P. ciohhIiir near drcnli am to the power Htatlon now being built at Hull Hun. CoiiHtructlon crewH are being asHi'inbled and within the next three weeka about 1000 int.'n will be put to work finishing up the grade for the laying of track. The object Ih to piihIi the construction through at thu carllcHt ihihhIMu moment and It Ih estimated that the L'O hiIU-h of track from the (). W. P. crossing to Hull Run will be completed within 110 days after the work Ih alarted. The only reason the full construction force is not put on Immediately Ih the uncertainty of weather for the next few weeks. A Htcam Hhovel ban been put to work and Is digging a cut 21 feet deep and UiOO feet long near (ij-eshaig. ' (Irado Ih ready for track-laying from that point oBHt, with the exception of a few placeH. One bridge, and two trestles will be built, the grade fin ished and the track laid. Steel rails to lay the track have arrived on tho ground ami trolley wire for tho over head work will ho here by March 1. Tho greater number of the condemn ation kults that retarded progresa on the new road have been cleared up and right of way Hecnred. Only a few remain to be Holt led. These will bo handled an expeditiously as possible, and an soon iih the spring weather set tles, work on tho Mount Hood project will be rushed. Meanwhile work on the power station at Hull Hun la pro gressing well and by the 11 rut of next vear It la expected to deliver power to Portland. It Ih planned to have the trolley line completed during tho com ing summer. What Ih the more Hurprlslng In the stand taken by the Mount Hood com- pnny Is tho fact that already the pro motors have expended over $1100.000 within tho city over which to run their tracks, and those j purchases extend from tho lty limns on the oust almost to the Willamette Dr. Stuart Experiment With an Ex plosive That Is Successful. Occupants of the Willamette build in., nini-Moii Tbursilav afternoon i... .. ,.iw,vi.,.ie,i evnloslon that shook Hlver. The original purpose of the tho structure and ahnttered the Main , company wiih not. to ask for franchises Htrcet windows In the offices of Doc- along the city Htreots, but mere y to tors Stuart & Stuart. The sidewalk cross certain streets In order to build was covered with kIiihh and a sheet of the tracks on tho .company's own prop- flame buiHtlng from tho windows erty. It la believed by the company caused an alarm Of fire to be turned .that even this concession from the In but the firemen, ever ready to pro- city will carry with It the demand for vent a conflagration, were not needed, common-user tracks, fees to the niu- Dr C A Stuart Ih Interested In a nlclpallty, etc. The company believes company that haa been formed to that with the trackH laid on Us own promote, the manufacture of a new land there should be no demands for kind of blasting powder, warranted to common-uner tracks, move .So bomeslowly and without Tho company's representatives say be Bhock that Ih usual to most varle- the property purchased for right of es ?f bUtlnV iK?wler. It la said way within the city Is worth all that that the nowder will ahatter the larg- wan paid for It and can be sold at any t ricks slowly and .there will be no time for the full amount. They mil- WlnT fragn Z s. He waa experiment- cnte that this hVwhat will be done in with the material Thursday, when, Hvlth It and that it will not b used for without wam"ng! the explosion oc- the original purposes for which It was curred, and the doctor was slightly purchased. ... Charloa H. Mooroa, of Salem, wat for five years HegUter of the United Ktatea iJind OlIIco and a resident of Oregon City. Ho Is well known all over the State of Oregon a a man of high character and Hterllng Integ rity, and his views on any Huojeci -..I i wnMh rendlnir. For this reason Tho BnterprlHo Ih publishing in this Issue a communication irom mr. Moore that appeared in I ne urcgon- Ian a few days ago: .... I Ah one who Ih not a canuioaie i any political o dice,-who has never re ceived a political raver m uuy from either Mr. Cake or Senator Ful ton and who has no future political favors to ask for hlniHelf, or for any body el ho, I desire to enter a protest agalnKt repeated mlKreprenctitatloiih that have been inline, noui oi me -Hon and the purpose of the recent meeting of the Republican Committee men of thlH county In proteHtliiK agiilnHt Statement No. 1. This meet ing wan not held, as has been charged, at tho InHtance of any coterie of Port land politicians, but wbh an absolute ly Independent movement. It was i.ot held In the Interest of any Senatorial candidate. Tlm most active opponents of Statement No. 1 are not In barony upon any candidate. It wan not a movement of the town agalnHt the country. The no-mbem of tho com mittee were elected under the direct ..-i law nml are alinoat whoby from the country, and the subcom mittee which unanlmouHly reported resolutions against Statement No., 1. were all from tlm country. The res') lutlonH were adopted by a practically unanlmouH vote, only two opposing. It Ih significant, too. In view of the fact that those who. luiowlng nothing about the facU. have referred to the reHolulloiiH an the work of machine politicians, that the only committee- 1 ........ l lin rnanllltlonS man acuveiy owim".... wan from Salom. and wan one who has Intention to nullify the direct primary law It was. however, me uui--.-exprCHHlon that the Republican mem bers of the UglHlature from thin county should support tho Republican candidate for Senator who received the majority vote in the Republican primaries. . The committee recommended the holding of a county convention, Just as wan dono two years ag by the Democratic party all over the State What principle of the direct primary law was violated In doing that? Such a convention would be simply advis ory Its work would have no binding effect It would nffonUwo additional chances to sift out the horde of can didates. A primary election and a general election must follow. The boss, who might attempt to take any advantage, would be remembered lxth In tho ensuing primary and the en suing election. How could such a convention thwart the wishes of the i..- wiii,i it in any way limit freedom of action in the primary? It would bring together Republicans fiom every section of the county to consult over matters in which they have a common Interest. As a general proamnion this would be in the Interest of the country pre cincts and give them an opportunity to present their claims In the effective wav. The late Jndge'John 11. Waldo. as 'radical a reformer as Oregon ever knew opposed our primary law. it Is understood that hla loading objec tions were that It favored the town as against the country, and that. It tend ed lo build up olllce-holdlng aris tocracy, giving tho Incumbents of or lice, who have a wide personal ac quaintance, a distinct advantage over other candidates. in the last Republican primary in Marlon County there were 13 country candidates for tho legislature ,a ma jority of nil. but live out of tho seven1 nominated came from Salem, and an other was from Woodburn, the second largest town in the county, while the Joint Senator came from Albany, lu Clackamas County the Senator and all of the four Representatives came from Oregon City. In other counties there were similar results. Would not a convention tend to a more equitable distribution? Is a man necessarily a boss or a machine politician who thinks It would. The "wlld-and-woolly" opponent of Statement No. 1 cannot discuss this question without referring to the last Legislature, elected under the primary inw the worst we ever had, and abusing Senator Uourne as a tyranni cal political boss, and denouncing what he calls the corrupt Hourne- U'Ren machine, while on tne oinei hand almost every advocate of State ment No. 1 deems It necessary to de nounce every man who does not agree, with him as a "corruptionlst," a "bot tle holder for the machine," and the "henchman of some political boss." Thats' one way they all have of illus trating the calm, Intelligent, Judicial temperament of the people who are now supposed to be supreme. Even so conservative a man as Gov ernor Chamberlain declares, in a pub lished interview, that you cannot scratch the back of any man who op poses Statement No. 1 without find ing a man who Is allied with "the machine." The facts are that the great majority of those opposed to that statement have no Interest in, any i i Dannlillnfln bosses maCUlllB, U1IU mo voFn". oAlollaf' are split upon the question as they are Sdclallst upon almost every other. There Is not, however, a single Democratic boss, op a dingle Iximocratlc machine politician lit tho Hlate who lit In fa vor of Statement No. 1, for tho very almpli) reason that under It tho mi nority party has everything to gain and nothing to lose. Republicans of Oregon, who have nothing In common with "the machine," cannot be driven Into the Hiipport of Statement No. 1 by any specious argument that relates wholly to the form and not to the aubstaiico of the direct primary law. Men are presumed to be Republicans because they believe that the success of Republican prlnclpleH will redound most to the proHperlty of the country, and because (hey believe that the principles of the Democratic party are destructive. They know that organi zation Ih necessary to make the party effective end to make the party prln orlnclnlos secure. Actuated by princi ples of this kind, the loyal party man Ih the most loyal American and the Dost citizen. If, as the Democratic minority always preacheB Just before election, there Is no real difference In the two parties, Jet the Democratic organization disband and make It unanimous. Members of both parties almost universally believe there Is a radical difference. If you submit to the people of Oregon the abstract question as to whether they deHlre a Republican or a Democrat U repre sent them In the United States Sen ate they will reHpond by a majority of at least 30,000 that they warn a iw publican. If you summarize the elec tion returns on candidates for the Leg islature, and all the county office In the State you will get the same re sponse. If you canvass the vote on every candidate for a State office who has not had to face any factional ngni, you will find tho same overwhelming Republican majority. Every test tHat eliminates faction, and that relegates the cut-throat politician and the devo tee of faction to the rear, will show the same result. The 4000 or 5000 Republicans of Marlon county, wimn they send a man to the Legislature to vote upon the only purely political proposition that he will have to con sider, expect htm to vote for that man for United States Senator who re ceived a majority of 30.000 in the State. How is that playing into the hands of the boss or the machine? Statement No. 1 is the hope and the dependence of the boss who Is defeat ed In the Republican primaries u..u it Is the one thing that would throw the balance of power Into the hands of those who place the interests of faction above party and party princi ples. The disgruntled party bosses, itrn.i Mown bv the rank and file In Lthe party primaries, gets even by ne- r,.tl,it nt with the uemocrauu uw.ioco for the transfer of their following to v,,. nerm.rratlc nominee.. It is then a battle between the Republican rank and file and the Democratic rank and file marshaled by the Democratic bosses, and backed by a defeated Re publican faction. If such a combination overcomes the ijomitillean malorlty of the llllli jvvjn-. , i Frank ousel!; Housefurnisher OUR prices on turniture and Carpets are always lower ; than Portland closing out sale prices, No rent to pay that's why we cannot be undersold. ftgiy i5c per yard 6 Foot S Extension P&lf?3 Table y mn . $4.50 1 j : Phone 22 Res. 'Phone 2633 GEO. W. BRADLEY Successor to C. N. Greenman. Pioneer Transfer and Express SAND AND GRAVEL Office: Postoffice Bldg., Main St., Oregon City, Ore. State It Is an actual perverBlon of the i popular will, and the suDoruinimuu what should be a fight for a political principle to a rough and tumble scrap between two Individuals. Loyalty to the direct primary law does not re quire that every vestige of our former .... ..hmiiH he eliminated. The ov-tom f.f checks and balances tnai was adopted by the forefathers was esteemed one of the chief merits of the form of government they devised. They realized that, as it Is often nec essary to restrain the Individual, so It Is necessary for the people as a whole to place upon themselves the effect of hasty and Inconsiderate ac tion. In this -case the spirit of the. pri mary law Is violated by the legislator who so votes as to give effect to prln clples approved by the great majority of the people, as against a hasty and purely personal verdict -born in the heat and passion of a purely personal conflict. Whatever the system under which we live the boss and the' ma chine exist only by sufferance of the pdople. The primary law shou d not bfl burdened with any conditions Which will not conduce to make its .i liioM more effective, anil more,A :L... ...j Qff.,rr Khnnld be devoted to T o,rinr n the civic pride of the peo- Public Warning "Unscrupulous patties, with no ap parent regard for business honor, having without authority announced themselves as makers of Royal Bakery Table Queen Bread, we de sire to announce that the only genu ine Royal Bakery and Confectionery (incorporated) in the State of Ore gon is the Bakery bearing that name located in Portland. Furthermore, V. HARRIS is the SOLE AGENT for our goods at OREGON CITY. $1.00 too A WEEK WILL DO Diamonds, Watches, Jewel y and Stive wat e SOLD ON EASY PAYMENTS. AND YOU WEAR THE GOODS WHILE PAYING FOR THEM EVERY ARTICLE GUARANTEED STANDARD JEWELRY STORE 1S9 THIRD STREET BETWEEN YAMHILL AND TAYLOR PORTLAND, OREGON Any other bread bearing ocr name is an imi tation. Royal Bakery & Confectionery (Inc.) Mil IH'S . . . .Vl- 1 A our statute books with m-consme.ru legislation. iThe protest against Statement No. l'js voiced by many who have no dis position to question the motives of Mr. raw nr tn dpnv him credit for the Work he may have done n bettering the political conditions of the State, m ia simnlv a demand on the part ot Republicans that any vote they may , cast upon a purely political question j shall be recorded and made effective. The Republicans of Marion county are not disturbed by any predictions that the opponents of Statement No. 1 will he snowed under by the people at the .mils. In this county that question has already been tested, as It has In Mult nomah and Washington, and other counties of the State. In our last pri marv election there was but one man nom'lnated who was an unqualified supporter of Statement No. 1. and a though he was a popular and well known man of high character, he was nominated by ap lurallty of only two votes. One nominee accepted the statement in a qualified form. The other six nominees were open and ag gressive opponents or statement m. I and were elected by large majori ties. ' There seems to he a widespread Idea that Statement No. 1 is an essential anil vital part of the primary law. The law expressly provides that it may be ac cepted or rejected, and this of itseU U a concession on the part of the frani ers of the law that many friends of the law had no use for Statement No. 1, and no man who repudiates it can be charged with disloyalty to the law. When Us acceptance becomes a ne ceislty U' wlU be a work of superero gation for any Republican to seek a nominated by a plurality of only two party ticket, or to look for support on political grounds, for the only political duty required of him can just as well he discharged by a Democrat or a D. C. LATOURETTE President. P. J- MEYER, Cashier THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of OREGON CITY , OREGON CAPITAL, $50,000.00. Transacts a General Banking Business. . Open from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M.