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FORTY-SECOND YEAR No. 35.
OREGON CITY, OREGON. , FRIDAY, AUGUST 28, 1908.
ESTABLISHED 1866.
BIG REVIVAL
OF BAPTISTS
REMEMBERS
McLOUGHLIN
DISASTER ON
HUSBANDS 3
SAYS SHANDY
OPEN FRONTS
IN PORTLAND
MEDALS FOR
SPANISH WAR
ESPEE ROAD
ENTE
EXTENDED 8ERIE3 OF MEETINGS
TO BE HELD FOR 4 WEEKS
IN OCTOBER.
PLANS NOW BEING MADE
Evangelists of the Moody and Sankey
Type Will Come to Oregon City
to Sing end Preach the
Goipel.
Tim First Iliiplltit church of Oregon
City will enter upon tut 'xt'til'l mo-
rlirn of revival n tings about tho
Hist week In October. At loost four
weeks of iiireiliiHH are planned, hut
they will continue longer If tlio Inter
est wurriuitH, Blneo Juno every
Sunday norvlco and ovory Thursday
proyor uicciIuk. Homo plinso of ro
vlviil effort Ihim been considered. Sub
jects were (llHciiHHed willed Imvo had
xpoelol reference to tlio preparation
tlmt Ik needed liy tlio church ami peo
ple to curry on HUoisHfully revival
meetings, mid tliu pastor will continue
to (IIhciihh MiihJccU of like nature un
til tlio beginning of tlio special meet
ing. TIioho ' meeting nro planned on n
very Inrgo mciiIo, The evening moot
Iiikh will lie held nt the church and
the afternoon meetings will ho held
In the HiitmrbH about Oregon City. Tho
lutler meetings will ho held In tho out
r.klrlM of the city In order that Uioho
may attend who 11 ml It Inconvenient to
como to tho city and that ninny may
ho reached by tho evnngollHtH who
would not otherwlne como under their
Influence.
At tho end of IhU week, when nil
the facts relaatlvci to very niicrcsHful
evniiKellHlM. who niliy he obtained,
are In the IiuiuIh of tho piiHtor, tho ex
ecutive committee of tho church will
moot to determine who Hhall bo en
gaged to do I til h work. Several very
prominent and successful ovoiiKHlHt
are under ronHhleraatlon and Kpeclnl
care will tie taken In making the se
lection of the rlhl klml of workers,
who may ho able to Influence all
cIumhom of peopltt III Oregon City and
vuhurba who nro now Indifferent to
religious matter. With tho preach
Iiik evangelist will bo engaged a sing
ing pvangellnt who will have clmrca
if tho nolo and chnnm work. When
those helpers are engaged, facts rela
tive to their hiiccchm In other place
mid llielr method of work will appear
In the piipera ho that all may ho ac
quainted with them before their work
begins.
TIiIh Im to be an old-fashioned re
vival meeting of the Moody and Sank
ey type. The burden of the message
Hhall he that "all have hlnned and
como Hhort of the glory of Cod" and
that Jchiih ChrlHt Is the winner's Sav
ior. TIicho meetings will be for all
who may care to attend and 'all will
be cordially welcome.
SHE SPENT HUSBAND'S COIN.
o , -r.-.. ci. n,..u i ir a tin.
bearable After Twenty Years.
Trouble of considerable magnitude
Iiiih entered Into the domestic life of
It. I and Delia Tlcer, according to
bin statement which made up the com
plaint In a suit for divorce that wiih
filed Saturday in the Circuit Court.
They were married .Inniinry lit. tsss,
nt I'oolvlllo, Texas, and Mr. Tlcer says
IiIh wire exhibited III temper and be
came dlssatlslled with her lot. While
living In Multnomah County In March,
l'MHi, he purchased a bond lor a deed
to a lot on the corner of Itenlon and
Dixon streets at I'ortland, placing thoi,
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pill.! M u e " '. ex. .-,,, ,c ,.,..,
Hum of $l.0. Mrs. Tlcer sold her In-
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teri'Ht. for $L".mmi rash and left for
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Oklahoma, where she Hpent consider
able of her time with nno Jap Anson,
nnd after on absence of eight months
sho rotiiined home, having expended
f 800. '
Tlcer .miyH she asked to lie forgiven
nnd told him she hud been Insane and
Tlcer. out of kindneH or bis heart, nnd
out of respoct for their children and
his family, Im took her back as his
wlfo and deeded to her four lots In
St. JolniH. Tlcer complains that In
July, August nnd November, 191)7, alio
came to Oregon City, where she mas
queraded as a widow under tho haino
of Mrs, llorllng, that she formed the
hnblt of remaining out late at night
while they were living In Portland.
Tlcer requests tho court to vest tho
title to the St. Johns propcry In his
name.
THREATENED TO KILL HER.
Mrs. Jessie L. A'ndert la Afraid of Her
Husband and Wants Divorce.
Jessie L. Anders, who wns married
to J. L. Anders In Medford, Or., No
vember 20, 1900, hns filed a suit for
divorce and hns obtained from Judge
Dlmick an order restraining hor hus
band from Interfering with her in any
mnnner. They have on child, Leota,
aged six years, and Mrs. Anders says
her husband Indulged In thfl" exces
sive use of Intoxicants and abused
her until she was forced to lenve him
October 20, 1907. She charged him
with expending nearly all of his earn
ings and falling to purchase clothing
for his family. She also says he
threatened to kill her, and she asks
for $20 per month alimony.
BRIGADIER-GENERAL CRAWFORD
.
VI8IT8 FAMILIAR SPOTS IN
OLD OREGON. ,
HE CAME HERE IN 184'
Famous Warrior Graduated Fron1.
West Point In 1867 and la Con
nected With Prominent
Pioneer Family.
Brigadier-General Medon-tn Craw
fonl. I!. H. A. retired, who has been
visiting IiIh sister. Mm, H. C. Btov-
eiiH, of thin cliy, left on Saturday for'cal, which whm derailed at 9:30 Sun
Nowborg, where bo remained with hl !
brotherM until Monday, when he went
to Kcattle for a few days' visit with!
relative. General Crawford bus been
spending the pant six week In Ore.
K'Mi, a greut deal of IiIh time being at
(lie old Crawford homestead. IiIh old
Imino at Newbcrj;. Although It Iiiih
mien many yearn since he Iiiih been
here, he at 111 bus u longing for IiIh
old homo Ht.ate, lie camn here In 1M7
from Whenllaild, Orcein, where ho
was horn, and well rememberH Dr.
John Mcltiglllii.
The distinguished Orcgonlnn bun
been away from I'ortland nearly .'15
yearn, and many of hi old aHoclutos
ami frleiidH In Oregon have, cither
moved or passed nwoy. Since coming
to Oregon hIx weeks ago he Iiiih Hpent
moHt of bin time on tin- old farm
where ho wan born, near tlnj present
town of Wheatland, Yamhill County.
Among tho friends he foil ml there wan
M. F. Spencer, n well-known resident
of Old Yamhill. When Ihi.vh they went
to school, herded cowh, rode wild pon
ies, hunted native pheasants, fished
and chummed together for yeara until
Craw ford wan appointed In 18G3 oh a
cadet to Went I'olnt Military Acadiv
my by Senator NeHtnlth. ThoHe old
frlendH had not aeen euch other alnce
tho time they parted when boya, and
they havo been Kreutly enJoylnK tho
piiHt hIx woekn tnlkliiK over old times
and rm ml n k alMiut and vlHltlng fumll
lar landmnrkH. They vltdtcd the nHims
of tho Orcnon HlHtorlcal Society to
Ket her.
Hut General Crawford nays the coun
try Ih iiothlnx like what it was when
he wan a boy. Many changes have
taken place, becaiiHo of tho rapid de
velopment of tho country, and ho Ih
HiirprlHed to find no much thrift and
eiilerprlHo uh Ih shown by tho people
of Oregon. Ud In nlno untouched at
the great city ho found, where tho
little country vlllago of I'ortland stCHid
when ho wan liiHt hero. He ban been
looking for Homo of his old haunts,
but Ih unablo to mid them, and where
once atood Hinall framu Htructures,
now tower great HkyHcraperw.
General Crawford Ih the mm of Cap
tain Meilorem Crawford, who camo to
Oregtin neroHH tlio plaltiH In 1842 and
settled In Yamhill County. Tho cii
tnlu wiih iiIho a famlllur figure In poli
tics In Oregon for many years, and
for a time after the Civil War wan
I'nltod StnteH Internal revenuo col-
ctor for Oregon.
Young Crawford was graduated
from West Point in lSdil and commis
sioned second lieutenant and sent to
the Vancouver barracks, Washington.
He spent several years on thli coast,
seeing service In Oregon, Washington,
California and Alaska, and then was
sent East. He was promoted from
one ofllce to another, and during the
Spanish-American war he was chief
oriliuiiiu'o ofllcer In Cuba and had
charge of tho appraisement of all tho
guns in the Spanish forts. Ills last
post of duty wiih ut Port Wadsworth,
In New York harbor, from which post
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his career he was In that branch of I
)((10 k . ni) ,h0 Hl,(u,()ns, n.til.
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-.On January 25 lust, General Craw-1
ford was C I yenrs old, and had served ,
Id year continuously In the nrmy. lie,
was retired and ordered homo, and
although his family is not in Oregon,
he took the orders and hastened to
come to Oregon, from which point ho
enlisted In the nrmy lind which ho has
technically called homo all these
years.
Hut once during the 45 years ho has
been In the army has General Craw
ford voted, and that was In 1872, while
stationed at the Presidio, ho got n
leave of absence and camo homo nnd
voted for General Grant for President. I
This Is strange, as General Crawford 1
Is comewhnt of n politician nnd takes
great Interest In tho affairs of tho na
tion. It has happened that, when elec
tion time comes, he has been so far
nwoy from the place he called home
that ho could not get there to enst bis
ballot. x
General Crawford Is charmed with
Oregon. IIo Is thinking seriously of
mnklng this state his permanent
home, although ho Is not decided Just
what, he will do. Ho believes there
Is a great future for Oregon.
Mr. Gary Takes a Vacation.
County School Superintendent T. J.
Gary loft Tuesday night for Aschoffs
for a week's vacation. Mr. Gary has
worked untiringly of lute in behalf of
the county schools and the Clackamas
County annual Fnlr, and has earned
a rest. He will come Into Sandy Sat
urday to attend a school meeting,
which hns been colled for the purpose
of levying a tax to construct a new
school building. The district is In
need of this Improvement.
I FOUR KILLED AND FIVE INJURED
.
' ON TRAIN NEAR EUGENE
8UNDAY NIGHT.
!ED BULL IS THE CAUSE
nglne Strikes Animal and la Thrown
From Track Killing Engineer
and Fireman No One to
Blame.
Four dead, five seriously Injure
and a score slightly hurt Ih tho count
on tho wreck of the Cottage Grove o
day evening by the engine running
over a big bull on tho track about a
mile and a half nouth of Irving, and
nearly four miles north of Eugene.
The dead are: Jack Nichols, en
gineer; Frank Holler, llreinan; Georgo
Ilalley, of Kngene, and Hay Schwartz,
of Junction City, who were riding or,
the blind baggage.
The Injured are: Verno Apperson,
Kugeno, back and arm badly bruised;
John Wllbrlght, rittsburg, left k-c
broken and back Injured; It. C. Gil
bert, Eugene, hack Injured, and Albert
llahn, I'ortland, left arm cut. It is
not thought any of tho Injured will
die.
Tho verdict of tho Coroner's Jury
was to tho effect that tho disaster wag
unavoidable and that nobody was to
blame.
Of tho four killed, all but tho en
gineer met death Instantly. Englnoor
Nichols died about 3 o'clock from the
sculdlng ho received when his engine
went over. He wos brought to Eu
gene Just before midnight In an auto
mobile and taken to the Eugene hos
pital, hut little could be done to re
lievo his agony.
Tho train was well out of Irving,
having left that station on time, and
running about 35 miles an hour, the
usual rate for this section of the road.
Tho Rushnell farm had Just been
passed when the first shock came, an
the air went on and the brakes down;
then the collision, a stop, a slide as
the engine left the track In front of
the train, and the. terrible pile-up In
total darkness The conductor and
brakemen hnd Jovt their lanterns and
the night was dark as pitch, heavf
clouds hanging all over the heavens.
As tho unhurt trainmen and pas
sengers climbed from the wreck out
lines of the locomotive showed that It
hod been turned over and completely
reversed, Its noso pointing straight
back along toward tho tw-o cars which
remained on the roils and the turn
had been mndo and the big engine
rested within five feet of the track.
The engine tender wos crushed like
a tin can, lying upright on Its side,
nnd tho mail car was balanced 10 feet
In the air, swinging by Its middle
across the upturned tender. The ex
press car was lying on Its side and the
smoker, which contained 30 or 40 pas
sengers, was thrown half over, being
saved partially by the half-buried en
gine on which It lodged.
The whole tangled mass was made
i more terrible by the barbed wire from
the fences that had been caught up
and twisted In with the cars until it
baffled those who were seeking the
Rilled and Injured.
Out to the loft of the track, lying un
derneath the tender, the conductor
:., tumbled onto the dead body of one
of the boys who had ridden the blind
nnd as he ennic bnck. trying to get
at the engine, which was on the other
side of tho wreck, he found the other
hoy mangled beyond recognition, lying
just behind the tended In a puddle of
loll
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ho found the engineer, pinned in his
, tpr.lb! scal(l0(, , ,h fl
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the earth only one side of his head and
shoulders being visible by the light of
wimmiir in. nm inwi uiuiru oil in."vi l '
a lantern. The engine blew out nt the
whlstlo. Oil was flowing about over
the ground, nnd two small fires had
started, but the conductor put these
out before any damage was done, and
tho train was saved from the flames.
After sending his hrakemen before
nnd behind tho train to signal, Con
ductor M Inkier found a phone nt a
farm bouse nearby and sent word to
Agent Gillette, at Eugene, for relief.
As soon as the word reached Eu
gene, Dr. Pntne. the Southern Pncillc
surgeon, started for tho scene of the
wreck on a hand car. An automobile
party had preceded him however, nnd
had taken charge of Engineer Nichols
before he arrived, bringing the Injur-
ed man to tho hospital, where Drs
Scalffe and Bnrtle gave him aid. Au
tomobiles, buggies nnd bicycles were
pressed Into commission and soon a
hundred citizens were on the spot. The
Wendling tfain, which lies over night
nt Eugene was steamed up and a
party boarded it, getting down to the
wreck about 10:30. The wrecking
train at Roseburg was sent for and
also help from Junction City. Both ar
rived In good time and the work of re
moving and clearing the track was be
gun before daylight.
The work of digging out the body
of Frank Bolter, the fireman, was dlf-
flcult, his body being burled beneath ,
the boiler head of his engine nnd his
arms and legs pinned so hard that it
was necessnry to dig several feet be-
low the body and raise the engine !
with grappling hooks before the re-
mains could be taken out This re-
quired several hours' work. The fire-
man was killed instantly.
SAY8 HIS WIFE IS TIED TO THREE
MEN, ONE OF WHOM IS
HIM8ELF.
CAUSES HER ARREST
Citizen of Andereon 8tatlon Positive
of His Wife's Guilt But the Wo
man's 8lde of the Story
Contradicts Him.
Asserting that his wife, Mary Shan
dy, haH three husbands living, J, I).
Shandy, of Anderson Station on the
Estanada division of tho Portland
Hallway, Light & Power Company,
swore out a warrant for her arrest.
Tho woman was brought hero Wednes
day afternoon by Constable Miles, but
her husband was not here to face her
nnger and she will bo compelled to
remain under survlllance until she Is
Riven a preliminary hearing before
ustlce of tho Peace Samson.
Mrs. Shandy's eyes flashed fire
when Informed of the reason for her
orrest. In her Indignation she charg
ed her son-in-law. Fred Smith, with
Instigating- the affair, as she doe8 not
get along very well with Smith, but
when she discovered that her own
husband was responsible for her po
Bltlon, her wrath broke its bounds.
Shandy states that he will have no
difficulty In proving that his wife was
married to a man named Robinson,
and later to Mr. Poole In Portland,
and that both of these men are living
and she had never obtained a divorce
from either of thera. The evidence
In the case was secured by L. L. Lev
Ings, superintendent of the 'Western
Detective Bureau, of Portland.
The woman does not deny that she
married Robinson, but avers that he
was a gambler and when he went to
Alaska and left her, he was killed for
his bank roll. This she learned from
a newspaper. Whether this is true
or not. It Is certain that Robinson
never troubled her since, even If he
should be living. She afterwards mar
ried a man named Elliott, and later
another whose name was Calvert. Both
of these men died of pneumonia. Mrs.
Shandy, however, asserts positively,
that she has never heard of Poole, and
she believes that her present husband
has trumped up charges against her
In order to have grounds for a suit
for divorce, with the expectation of
preventing her from sharing In his
property, valued at 3500, which she
has assisted in enhancing by her own
hard work. She was married to
Shandy April 12, 1902, in Tacoma,
Wash., and they came, to Anderson
last Spring. Shandy says his wife's
domestic life was not all it should
have been.
District to Issue $5000 Bonds.
At a special bond election held In
the city hall building Wednesday.
School District No. 62, was authorized
to issue bonds amounting to $5000
for the purpose of covering the cost
of construction of a four-room addi
tion to the Eastham school building.
The election was very quiet, only 24
the affirmative. 'David Caufleld, C. E.
Cmsc nn.l TMnlmrH Pr rr worn h
Judges nnd Henry Mlley clerk. The
school directors will take the neces
sary steps to soil these bonds. Con
struction of the new addition is now
In progress by the contractors.
Grays to Play at Canby.
The Oregon City Grays will go to the provisions of this ordinance.
Canby next Sunday to play a return j Section 4. Any person, firm or cor
game with the Canby team. The two i poration violating any of the provl
aggrcgntlons played Inst Sunday on j sions of this ordinance shall, upon
the Canemnh Park grounds, the score , conviction thereof, be punished by a
being 11 to 3 in favor of the Grays, i nne Cf not more than $250 or by im
The smoker wns saved from turning
over bv the position of the engine, j
which pnrtlv held it up. The engine i uarroom ur auiouu in me uy oi run
was completely turned around, the land who shall be convicted in the
hMirenire and exnress car nassinc by! Municipal Court in the City of Port-
it about three car-lengths. Engineer i land for any offense under this ordi
Nichols was ninnod to the ton of the nance ipso facto forfeit the license to
cub bv the seat, which had fallen over
him, holding him until he was fatally
scalded.
The train crew consisting of En
gineer Jack Nichols, Fireman Frank
Ftolter. Conductor C. L. MinUler,
Rrakemen, Newton P. Scruggs and P,
J. Brvan; Mail Clerks R. E. Hanna. oi tne omce oi Louniy uierK ureen
.Tohn R. Nash and Frank E. Sehoville; asr follows: Anna Strong and
p eman rete Wilhelm.'
aRlt M EuKee Davis.
ho nntsi.io the emrino wns hurt 1
worse than bruised. 1 at the court h0,,se bv County
There were from 60 to 75 passeng-1 J'i'ise Pinnck. and Mabel Sievers and
ers aboard. More than half of these Orig Benson, who were joined in wed
were In the smoking car. Several , '"ck by Justice of the Peace Samson,
women and children were in the front j
chair car. but no one was seriously, . ,, "T.. V
hurt. There were only four passeng-1 W omen s lit Miss Inez L. Cra
ers in the rear car j vatte. Miss Josie Crooks, Mrs. Frances
George Bailey, of Eugene, aged . J- Edwards, Mrs. Flora Ferguson,
about 17 was a partner In the Palm j Miss Nan Fraley, Miss Oleva Larson,
lunch counter, near the Southern Pa-1 Miss Jane McLeod (2). Mrs. Emma
clfic depot He wns in the habit of
riding the blind baggage, and Sun
day went to Cottage Grove, where it
ii'no thnnn-ht hp rpmnlnoit until noon
Mondav. His partner identified him,
argeV from his watch and chain. His
pBrents live In the Gordon block with
thplr one (aup;hter.
Ray Schwartz, aged about 20. lived
wlth nig parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al
Srhwnrt7 of Junction Pltv who. with
an 0i(ier brother, survive the unfortu-1
jnate boy "
METROPOLIS FACES CONSIDERA
TION OF ORDINANCE TO
REGULATE 8ALOONS.
TRIED IN OREGON CITY
Publicity Measure For Liquor Estab
lishments Failed -of Enactment
Here After a Hard Con
test. Portland Ih following in Oregon
City's lead In one way that is tho
same attempt will be made there to
regulate saloons a.s was made here.
The effort to pass an open-front ordi
nance did not pass in Oregon City. The
people turned It down. What the
Council of Portland will do with a sim
ilar measure can only be conjectured.
A saloon without chairs, tables or
seats of aDy kind and with but one
entrance and no alcoves, screens, par
titions or curtains and no frosted win
dows or anything to obstruct a view
of the entire room is what Councilman
Wills wants to see in Portland. There
fore he has the draft of an ordinance,
constructed by the City Attorney,
w-hlch will be submitted to the Coun
cil for action. It will probably be re
ferred to a committee for considera
tion. Councilman Wills states the belief
that. If the Council will pass this pro
posed measure, it will do. away with
practically all of the evils of the sa
loon. He believes it will abolish the
nuisance of women frequenting liquor
shops; that it will do away with loung
ers and the thousands who "hang
around" saloons. Absolute publicity,
he thinks, combined with the bare
floors and walls, there being nothing
on which to sit, will correct the "loaf
ing" habit and will prove of great ben
efit. As drafted for presentation to the
Council, the ordinance reads:
Section 1. Any person. Arm or cor
poration engeged in selling spirituous,
malt or fermented liquors or wines In
any barroom or saloon in the City of
Portland, shall not maintain in any
such saloon or barroom or in connec
tion therewith any alcove, booth or
box or shall have or maintain any
private or separate entrance or exits
to such barroom or saloon.
Section 2. It shall be unlawful for
any persons, firm or corporation to
conduct, carry on, open or maintain
any barroom or saloon within the City
of Portland that has more than one
entrance or exit to such barroom or
saloon; and it shall be unlawful for
any person, firm or corporation to
maintain, have or use in any such
barroom or saloon, chairs, tables or
seats of any kind or maintain, use or
have any screen, partitions or cur
tains in any such barroom or saloon,
and any room and any building now
or hereafter used as a barroom or sa
loon shall be constructed so as to give
a full view of the interior of such bar
room or saloon from the street, and it
shall be unlawful to use any screens,
painted or frosted windows, or other
obstructions whatever to prevent the
full view of such barroom or saloon
from the street.
Section 3. Buildings now used as
barrooms or saloons in the City of
ruuinim lioi tiruaiiuiiru ill ui'iuiu-
nndfi with the terms of this ordinance
shall be made to conform with the,
provisions of this ordinance, and' the
owners of said buildings or the owner
or proprietor of any such barroom or
salon shall have GO days from and af
ter final approval of this ordinance in
which to reconstruct said building,
barroom or saloon to conform with
prisonment not exceeding 90 days;
and any person, firm or corporataion,
owning, operating or maintaining a(
conduct, carry on, or maintain such
barroom or saloon.
Cupid's Arows Fly Swift.
Pan Cupid was active with his lit
tle bow and arrow last Sunday and
four licenses to wed were issued out
The news I 11,1 11 iinoerciu, r iuro u. Kooeri
None of sn and E. W. Ilabach, Carrie Boston
and George E. Yarno, who were mar-
Miner, .Mrs. .. u. iicnoias, miss nop
ma Reid, Mrs. W. I Richards, Miss
Lola Smith, Mrs. Mary Suiter, Mrs.
John Symes, Miss Esther Totten, Mrs.
R. L. Viergutz, Mary Weber.
Men's list Jos. Eryalrsh, W. L.
Hughes, Oliver Lazenby, William Lin
day, Georgle Pearle, Clarence Pier
polut (2), Charles Sherrell. John Sim
ons. Victor Spring, Web Thomas, H.
t. Totten. E. Wells, Oren C. Wilson,
Ed Utiger. O. W. Vater-Lewis.
T. P. RANDALL, P. M
VETERANS DO NOT SEEM TO BE
FAMILIAR WITH THE
EXISTING LAWS.
REGULATIONS SIMPLE
Application Blanks Will Be Sent Upon
Request By Quartermaster
General to All Who May
Be Eligible.
There would seem to be some sort
of misunderstanding in the ranks of
veterans of the war with Spain and
subsequent Philippine Insurrection
concerning proper method to be ob
served in obtaining the Congressional
medal. The War Department regu
lations are simple enough, says tho
Oregonian, and all those who served
in the Volunteer and reirnlnr aervlen
and who are entitled to receive these
meaals only have to make application
to the Quartermaster-General's de
partment, Washington, D. C, for the
award of one of these emblems and
forthwith he will be sent nn annliea.
tlon blank to be filled in. If he is en
titled to receive the award, it will be
forwarded to him unon the return of
the blank.
Many members of the Second Ore
gon regiment make Inquiry of the ex
Colonel, General O. Summers, which"1
leads him to believe that only a small
portion of the former soldiers of hla
command have applied for the medals,
and he is of the opinion if these old
soldiers understood that it is requir
ed of them first to apply for the med
als before the official machinery at
Washington is set in motion, more of
the men would be receiving their
badges of honor.
The act of Congress and Instructions
printed on the application blank fol
lows: '
1. An act to provide medals for
certain persons. Be it enacted by
the Senate and House of Representa
tives of the United States of America
in Congress assembled. That the Sec
retary of War be, and is hereby, 'au
thorized and directed to procure a
bronze medal, with suitable device,
to be presented to each of the several
officers and enlisted men and families
of such as may be dead, who, having:
volunteered and enlisted under the
calls of the President for the war with
Spain, served beyond the term of their
enlistment to help to suppress the
Philippine insurrection, and who sub
sequently received an honorable dis
charge from the Army of the United
States, or who died prior to such dis
charge of the United States, or who
died prior to such discharge.
Approved, June. 29, 1906.
The medals provided for by the Con
gress in the above quoted act, are to
be presented to those men, both of
the volunteer and regular forces In
cluded within its provisions, who were
enrolled under a call of the President
and served in the Philippine islands
in the prosecution of the war with
Spain. On April 11, 1899, these volun
teers (the war with Spain being over)
were entitled to be mustered out. A
! new war, however, that of the Philip
j pine insurrection, broke out Febru
ary 4. 1S99. The Congressional medal
' will be issued to the Spanish war vol
unteers and men of the regular army
entitled to their discharges under the
provisions of General Order 40, Head
quarters of the Army, Adjutant Gen
eral's office, May 10, 1S98, who served
beyond the conclusion of the. Treaty
of Peace with Spain, viz. subsequent
to April XI, 1899, and who received an
honorable discharge.
2. It is important that the appli
cant supply fully and accurately all
of the data needful to complete a
blank form (to be furnished upon ap
plication) concerning the military ser
vice rendered while earning the right
to the Congressional medal.
3. The name of the soldier should
be identical with that given on his
discharge certificate, and where the
soldier was enrolled and served under
a different name than the one signed
to the application, the fact should be
explained in the blank space immedi
ately above the signature.
4. To receive the consideration of
the War Department an affidavit must
bear the official seal of the officer ad
mlnisterinfl the oath, if he uses an of
ficial seal.
Teacher for Mount Pleasant.
Miss Maud Walker, of Syracuse, N.
Y.. has accepted a position as princi
pal of the Mount Pleasant school, and
will arrive in this city in a few days.
The primary department will be in
charge of Miss Mabel Smith, of Eu
gene. Miss Walker, who is a gradu
ate of the New York University,
comes to Oregon highly recommended.
The Mount Pleasant school term will
begin September 14.
Store Building is Sold.
The store building on Ninth and
Main street occupied by the Seeley
store, and was formerly the Red Front
Store, has been sold by E. C. Ham
ilton. The property on which the
building stands is owned by St. Paul's
Episcopal church, and Is one of the
most valuable business sites In Ore
gon City. The property has been leas
ed by Mr. Hamilton for a number of
years, who afterwards leased the
building to J. E. Seeley. Mr. Seeley
has still a three years' lease.