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FIFTY-FIRbT YIAR No. 29.
OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1917
ESTABLISHED 1886
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PUTS TWO
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IN PRISON
FOREST RRES RAGING
IN UMPQUA RESERVE
PORTLAND, or., July H.-Two
Hindus wer seriously wounded and
two mora aro under arrest at tha re
autt of a riot anionic tha employei or
tha Went OrRm Lumber company'a
mill Just below Llnnton Friday night.
Tha federal authorities probaby will
ba asked to Investigate whether or not
tha trouble waa atarted by agitators
against tha commercial Interests of the
United States.
The fight atarted in the Hindu bunk
houea in lower Llntonn, and wan
fuuKbt tor a distance of a quarter of
a mile towarda tha city. Tha wounded
men ware chopped with an at.
How many men participated In the
affray la not known, although the po
lice are certain there wero five, at
leant. One of the men waa a stranger
In the camp, and the police were In
formed, although they have no proof
of the atatement, that tha man It an
agitator tent her to atart trouble
Whether or not the trouble Is co
net-ted with the Hindu plot In Sun
Francisco, where a number hare been
arrested and are held for conaplracy
against the DrltUh government in In
dia, la not known.
Neither of the Injured men bad been
Identified at an early hour thia morn
ing. One who recovered consciousness
at tha Good Samaritan hospital said
that bin last name was Singh, and
asked that the autborltiea communi
cate with bla brother, but refused to
tell the rent of bla name. The other
man waa still unconscious,
Singh sustained aevere cuti about
the head and a dlalocated ahoulder.
The other man baa a dangerous ax
wound on the back of bla neck, a brok
en arm. and Injuries to bis kull. He
fcAl a chance to recover.
The police were notified of the riot
at 10:20 o'clock. Sergeant Oelsner.
with Patrolman Tully, Morris, Pratt
and Onioning, ruihed to the scone In
an automobile.
One of tha Injured men bad by this
lima been found lying on tha porch in
front Of the home 6f F. B. Itobertaon.
a quarter of a mile from the mill. La
ter another was found lying uncon
acioui In tha mill iuelt.
Tha police Immediately began a
oearch ot the camp. Harry Singh, who,
the police were Informed, la the "out
alder," waa found in one of a group
tot amall bunkhouaea soma distance
from tha scene of battle.
Tha police kaftcked on the door,
but the man refused to answer them
until they puahed the portal aside and
entered. They sar he pretended to
be drunk, although be showed few
aymptons of Intoxication.
The prisoner waa placed in an emp
ty cabin after the police searched him,
and one officer was left to guard him
Blood stains were found on his coat.
Later the police found Dowa Sing
wearing a bandage on his bead, and
placed him under arrest. Both the in
jured men had been drinking so heav
ily that It waa impossible to determine
the exact extent of their Injuries. Their
coma may be due either to Intoxication
or to cerebral Injuries.
ROSttUUItQ, Or., July 16.-Thlrty-six
fires In .different parts of the
Umpqua natlonul forest bave been re
ported at the local forestry office
since last Saturday night, according to
an aunouncement made by Bupnrlo
tamlnut 8. G. Ilurtrum late today.
Most of the fires were reported ear
ly Hunduy nd ore said to have fol
lowed severe electric storms In var
ious sections. Reports of other fires
continued to ranch the forestry of
fices throughout the day. Although
not having knowledge of the definite
location of all of the fires, Mr. Bart
rum says a majority of them are con
fined to the grassy elevations and are
now under control. The most serious
fires are located In the timbered sec
tions, however, and were not under
control at a late hour tonight, Six
fires are causing considerable alarm.
Additional patrolmen were sent out
today snd others will be equipped and
placed in commission during the pres
ent emergency. Mr. Bertram went to
Rock Creek early today and later di
rected some work In the vicinity of
Hoaglin. Tonight be feft for Tiller
and other points in the southern part
of the forest.
Hcacuse of the lack of rain 'during
the past six weeks, coupled with the
extreme hot weather of the last few
days, Mr. Bartrum says the danger of
fire Is greater In the Umpqua forest
than tor 13 years. All ranger and pa
trolmen have been asked to report
fires ss quickly as possible. In order
that men may be sent to their assist
ance. District Fire Warden William
Landers, stated tonight that only three
fires had been reported to him, and
these were now under control.
SHEIUDAN, Or., July 16. Fire,
burning fiercely on a six mile front
In the mountains weet of here, was
tonight threatening the 3000 acres of
timbered holdings of the Sheridan
Lumber company. The fire original
u, according to tne mil. men, rrom a
locomotive spark yesterday, and the
flames spread rapidly in the under
growth, dried by the intense heat of
the last week. One hundred men were
fighting the blaze tonight.
SALEM, Or., Juljf 14.State Fire
Marshal Well today Issued the first
bulletin to cdme from that department
In the form of a small newspaper,
iwhlch hereafter will be Issued quar
terly.
"During the last five years," eays
the bulletin, "the approximate fire loss
in the state of Oregon was $17,895,
909.13. The amount of property de
etroyed, of which no record waa ever
made, we are unable to ascertain.
Statistics show the aggregate losa in
five years to have been more than
$6.69 a minute. Not only In the loss
of property, but In the loss of Uvea as
well, we bave paid a stupendous toll
by reason of carelessness, Inattention
and neglect.
"It will be the plun of this office to
be of service to every tire chlot in the
state, to help every municipality re
duce its fire hazards. Our aim will
be to show that real fire prevention. Is
the elimination of carelessness and
(the cultivation, of carefulness."
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IIEL8INGFOK9, Finland, July 18.
If the Bolshevik), the majority faction
of the Social Democrats, succeeds in
rushing through the Landtag on third
reading tomorrow the' bill for the In
dependence of Finland, the senate,
which Is Finland's cabinet, will resign
snd the country will be left without a
government, In a state bordering on
anarchy. This conclusion is Inevitable
if one accepta. the statements of Fin
land's most prominent public men.
Senator Bettalae, minister of edu
cation, made the atatement that
all 12 members of the aenate, which in
cludes six Socialists, would be com
pelled to resign In event of psssage of
the Independence bill, Inasmuch as the
senate, as the supreme guardian of the
law, could not promulgate a revolu
tionary enactment contrary to the
laws of the country.
The constitution requires the senate
to promulgate laws only after they
bave been sanctioned by Russia, so
that Is the La n tag succeeds in estab
lishing Finland's independence with
out the consent of Petrograd, the sen
ate must resign.
Thereafter the Socialists in the
Lantag would form their own revolu
tionary senate, m which would rest
responsibility for a conflict with Rus
sia. On bis return to Helslngtors Pre
mier Toklo admitted that he could not
follow Senator Settalae In flatly con
demning the policy of the Landtag. He
said he supported the Independence
law in principle, but that, though a
strong Socialist, be was unable to give
unqualified approval to the policy of
defying Russia.
The premier expressed the opinion
that the resignation of the senate
would bring on a grave crisis whose
consequences could not be foreseen.
The proposed promulgation has
caused extreme tension and nervous
ness. The situation Is complicated by
the diet's continual refusal to grant a
full 850,000,000 marks loan to Russia
and by a threat of a general strike
If the diet postpones the passage of
the new communal bill by abolishing
property qualifications.
The bill ia backed by Socialists and
a handful of Bourgeois members.
Other Bourgeois members of Swedish-Finnish
nationality oppose the
measure, declaring they, too, support
In principle complete Independence,
but that the proposed law is, in fact,
unconstitutional, and a coup d'etat
would be certain to provoke Russia's
resentment
A. I. Shlngaroff, Russian minister
of finance, explained Russia's difficul
ties through inability to pay her sol
diers and sailors in Finland owing to
lack of Finnish currency and Finland's
refusal to accept the rouble. There
upon Americana undertook to put at
Russia's disposal all Finnish marks
obtainable In America, also to fur
nlsh money of other foreign curren
cies which Finland accepta.
Governor-ueneral Staaovitch out
lined very briefly the Russian
standpoint "The seriousness of the
situation today," he said, "arises from
the fact that a majority of the aenate
In the diet has abandoned legality and
the principle of mutuality, and Insists
on regulating its own inter-relations
by the will of Finland alone.
"That Is not all. The new inde
pendence bill Is also a flat violation of
Finland's own continental laws. The
latter require a five-sixths majority
In the diet tor an amendment of the
constitution for a quick procedure.
There la no prospect of a five-sixths
majority on third reading. The So
cialist backers of the bill must, there
fore, declare It, not an amendment to
the constitution, but only an ordinary
law, or, to gain the required majority,
must make a compromise with the op
position which stands in agreement
with Russia. They demand realiza-
tion of their independence by friendly
negotiations with Russia. The sit
uation regarding loans Is somewhat al
levlated, thanks to American interven
tion."
L
SAYS IT WAS EASY
TO POSE AS ROOKIE
LONDON, July 18. A summary of
the census returns of horses in Great
Britain glvos the total number of all
ages and classes as 2,310,000.
UNION COUNTY MIS3E9 DRAFT
UNION, 8. c, July 16. Not a man
will be drawn from Union county un
der the selective draft. Famous for
Its patriotic responses to the call of
arrms during other wars, the county
has already enlisted voluntarily 11
per cent more men than its allotment
under the draft.
City Loses Property Suit
With Portland Railway On
Appeal To Supreme Court
ROLAND MORRIS
IS NAMED FOR
POST IN JAPAN
.The opinion of Circuit Judge J. U.
Campbell In the case of the Portland
Railway Light & Power company ver
sus the City of Oregon, a suit to quiet
title to property at the south end of
Main street, was reversed by the su
preme court of the state In Salem
Tuesday. Judge Campbell's decision
was for the city and against the rail
way company.
The question involved in the suit,
which was begun by the P. R. L. & P.
Co., about a year ago, has to doi with
the title of the city to land now used
by the street car company for a 'right
of way.
It is a triangular section of land
near the Hawley mills, which is In
volved, at the very southernmost ex
tremity of Main street In fact one of
the questions Involved In the cane Is
that of determining whether the street
limits extend to the breakwater or
whether they end at the edge of the
triangular strip.
Former City Attorney Chris Schue
bel announced last Tuesday night that
he had not been advised as to the ex
tent of the decision but that in all
probability he would appeal for, a new
trial. Mr. Schuebel handled the case
for the city. ,
The case had Its origin In the fam
ous water rights controversy In which
the city Became entangled seven or
eight years ago. The Portland Rail
way, Light ft Power Company as'
sumed permission to use the land, it
was claimed, for a right of way, until
they now hold it.
'AN AMERICAN PORT, July 17.
Mrs. Hazel BWuser Carter, 22 years
old. of Douclas. Ariz., the girl who
donned khaki after her marriage to
an Infantry corporal, passed herself
oft as a soldier and boarded a trans
port with Pershing's troops en route
to France, probably will start for her
Arizona home late thla afternoon.
Arrested after her voice betrayed
her sex on the fifth day at sea, she
was brought back to the United States
a prisoner. But today she was per
mitted to don skirts and resume her
feminine apparel by the use of a wit,.
"It was easy to fool them," the girt
bride said, laughingly. "I wanted to
have a bit of a honeymoon with i2d.
I kept moving all the time and no one
ever suspected. I wasn't a regular
rookie. It was embarrassing to have
to sleep on the berth deck with all
those men. But we all wanted to be
ready for submarines at night, and
hardly anyone undressed. If I hadn't
raised my voice when an officer was
around, they wouldn't have discovered
me at all."
DOUGLAS. Arli, July 17. Uncle
Sam's first woman "Sammy" Ys not
regarded here, where she Is known,
iiB an "amaxon," but an ordinary
American girl with extraordinary
courage and devotion, and enough re
sourcefulness to see her through any
emergency. As the wife of Corporal
John Carter, Bhe met and overcame
at least temporarily the obstacle of
separation that stared her In the face
when Corporal John was ordered to
France. She was married here a year
ago and was Miss Hazel Blowser.
Providing herself with a private's
full uniform and war equipment and
two weeks' training In military lore,
"Private" Carter mustered in with the
regiment end went away, presumably
to France.
willingly she sacrificed her beaut'
fvil block hair and discarded dainty
feminine slippers for the heavy foot-
gear of the marching men. As far as
Is known here she "got by," even onto
the shore of France.
Her father lives In Salem, Or. Her
Erandfather, old warhorse ot the Civil
and Indian war days, lives here, and
is proud of his .granddaughter's
"spunk."
WA8HINCTQ?JJvl 18. Roland.
8.. Morris, of Philadelphia, has been
chosen for appointment as ambassa
dor to Japan to succeed the late Am
bassador Guthrie. It la understood
he la persona grata to Japan, and that
the nomination will go to the senate
shortly.
PHILADELPHIA. July 18 Roland
S. Morris is a Philadelphia lawyer,
about 44 years old. He Is a graduate
of Princeton university and of the
law school ot the University ot Penn
sylvania.
Mr. Morris is identified with the
so-called reorganization wing of the
Democratic party in Philadelphia and
waa one ot the Pennsylvania leaders
who stood steadfast for President il
son In the balloting at the Baltimore
convention.
PICKETING AGAINST
LAW WASHINGTON
BURIAL IS IN WASHINGTON.
The remains of Elbert Morris Reed,
infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Reed, who
died at the family home in this city on
Thursday, were shipped by the Myers
& Brady undertaking establishment of
this city to Rehrdon, Wash., on Satur
day, where the interment will take
place in the family lot. The remains
were accompanied to Reardon by rela
tives or tne ramuy. The child was
three days' old.
H
SEATTLE, Wash., July 18. The
state supreme court makes illegal the
picketing ot business establishments
where a strike Is In progress.
In handing down ita decision the
supreme court ends a two-year
fight over the picketing question be
tween N. H. St. Germain, local res
taurant proprietor, and the unions.
Besides enjoining pickets, the court
also directs that nominal damages
against the anions be awarded St Ger
main. '
The gist ot the decision is that the
strikers have no more right to picket
an employer's place ot business than
the employer has to blacklist any
workman. '
ST. HELENS, Or, July 18. Andrew
Carlson, aged 30, Ellen Carlson, aged
14, and Agnes Mattson, aged 11, were
drowned In Scappoose slough near
Warren yesterday afternoon.
number of children were swimming
or wading near the bank of the
slough, which on account of the high
water is now quite deep. Carlson
offered to take several of them for
boat ride across the slough. The
girls were afraid, but Carlson In
slated and they got Into a boat which
was too small for the party and was
leaky. When 100 feet from the shore
the boot sank. The girls clung to
Carlson, who according to eyewit
nesses on the shore, tried to save
them, but all three went down. Agnes
Mattson was the only one that again
came to the surface of the water and
her 11-year-old sister, Edith, who was
clinging to the capsized boat, tried to
reach her but could not Children on
the shore gave the alarm and Fred
Abbott who was working in a "bear by
field responded. He arrived too late to
save theothers, but secured a skiff
and went to the rescue of Edith Matt
son.
Two hours later the bodies of all
three were recovered.
Carlson leaves no family, but has
many relatives in the vicinity. Ellen
Carlson was the only girl in a family
of six, her five brothers assisting In
recovering the bodies.
MIA
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MORE THAN A SCORE
OF COUNTRIES NOW
. OPPOSE THE KAISER
LONDON, July 18. An official
statement from the foreign office re
cently informed the British public that
23 countries bad severed diplomatic
relations with Germany. "Of these,"
the atatement added, "13 are at war
with Germany and may be considered
In alliance for that purpose." The list
of the 22 Is as follows:
I Russia, France, Belgium, Great Brit
ain, Serbia, Montenegro, China, Brazil,
Bolivia, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicara
gua, Japan, Portugal, Italy, Roumania,
United States, Cuba, Panama, Liberia,
Hayti, San Domingo.
FORMER LOCAL
WOMAN MARRIED
I N CALIFORNIA
Mrs. Letha Jackson O'Brien, ot
Portland, but formerly Miss Letha
Jackson, of this city, was united in
marriage to Mr. Edward H. Holt, ot
Portland, on July 7. The marriage was
performed st Son Francisco, Califor
nia. Mrs. Holt Is well known In Oregon
City, where she lived many years. She
is the second daughter of J. B. Jack
son, of Clalrmont, near Oregon City.
Billy Sunday, the noted baseball
player-evangelist and farmer, who has
adopted Hood River as his home, Is
to speak Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock
at the Gladstone Chautauqua.
Announcement to this effect was
made late Wednesday afternoon by
Secretary Thomas A. Burke of the
Chautauqua association upon his re
turn from an automobile trip to the
home of the evangelist on the East
Side of the Hood River valley.
The, monster new auditorium which
Is to be completed tomorrow will be
dedicated by Mr. Sunday before his
afternoon address. The new building
will seat 6000 persons, and with the
additional seating arrangements to be
provided, 10.000 people can be accom
odated, said Secretary Burke.
Absolutely refusing to consider the
acceptance ot any fee tor his lecture,
Mr. Sunday stood this morning with
Mrs. Sunday on their ranch and
laughed when the delegation from the
association here who went to his home
to make arrangements for his visit
mentioned It
The members of the association who
made the trip to Hood River this
morning were John W. Loder, presi
dent C. H. Dye, Chris Schuebel, the
Rev. J. W. MacCallum, and Thomas
A. Burke, secretary.
The evangelist and his wife had
made an early morning trip to their
berry patch and were returning when
the committee hove in sight After
the proposal was made to Mr. Sunday
and he agreed, the question of terms
was touched upon. i
Nothing doing In th,at line," he said.
"1 will be glad to come down and help
you people out, but this is the only
trip I will make this summer. Tht-t
much is certain. "I'm here for a
reat"
Scoring condltiona In Portland that
will permit of such laxity in the man
agement of the hotels as Is grossly
evident, Major Gilbert, Chaplain t of
the Third Oregon regiment stationed
at Camp Withycombe, speaking at the
Coram hcror of the Chautauqua this
morning, flayed the patriotic and mor
al conditions In the city and said that
Camp Withycombe should be protect
ed from the influences of Portland
rather than, as has been recently sug
gested in Portland, the opposite.
Portland as a city, he said, ia doing
much to protect her own young men
and nothing tor the young men who
are preparing to offer their lives in
the nation's service. Chaplain Gilbert,
who speaks with the authoritative
and commanding voice of a born sol
dier, challenged the Portland police
department and accused them of be
ing "blind as bats" in the toleration of
prostitution in the city's popular ho
tels. That the two cases ot drunkenness
found recently in the camp at Clack
amas were caused by the proximity to
and the influence ot Portland, was the
statement ot the chaplain, who said
that the Influence of the city's vice
was reaching out to the camp through
the agency of trtpsto the encampment
by immoral men and women who can
easily motor out from Portland.
-Colonel May, in charge of the Third
Oregon, was highly complimented by
the major, who said that the encour
agement of his superior officers was a
great help and support and that the
state of Oregon was to be congratulat
ed on having a man of the moral fibre
ot Colonel May as head ot Its fighting
forces.
That the response of this state to
the call to arms has been a revela
tion to him, was the statement of the
chaplain, who said that particularly
was this true ot the small cities like
Woodburn, which he mentioned as a
typical town. It has been, he said
the patriotic response qf such com'
munlties al this that has made it nec
essary tor Oregon to have but 770 men
to furnish in the coming conscription.
Woodburn, he said, had a population
ot but 3200 people and yet 182 young
(Continued on page 4)
CAMPS It
READY FOR
HARD WORK
WASHINGTON, July 1. Mobiliza
tion of the national guard began to
day. While no orders for embarka
tion of state troops for France will be
given until after August 5, when the
entire force will be formally drafted ,
Into the United States army, there are
indications that some divisions will
be regarded as ready to board trans
ports soon after that date.
The first clause ot President Wil
son's proclamation providing for the
federalization of the national guard
for the war became effective yester
day. Under it all guard units from
New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West
Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Min
nesota, Iowa, North and South Da
kota and Nebraska went on the fed
eral payroll from that date. I
Actual concentration of troops in
their state camps began, today. Ap
proximately one-half of the total
strength ot the national guard, or
more than 125,000 men, is Included
in the force assembling.
Rapid progress is being made In
relieving guard regiments which
have been In the federal service
since the declaration of war guard
ing property. This worn will be
tr.ken over largely by civilian watch
men. It will be necessary to retain
guardsmen for the protection ot cer
tain big munitions works and othei
property vital to the conduct of the
war. -- Tha department commander
will hold such troops as they deem
advisable for this purpose.
The next step In the general mob
ilization will be the ordering of divi
sions to the camp sites dready se
lected for them. A full supply or
tentage Is available, department re
ports show, and the division will en
train as rapidly as the commanders
of the departments from which they
come and of those in which their
camps Pre located agree as to dates.
The most serious shortage of war
equipment tor the guard ia in the ar
tillery. For training purposes the
big gun regiments undoubtedly wlh
continue to use the equipment they
have, supplemented, by such addi
tional ordance as the regular serv
ice can spare. It is regarded as prac
tically certain, however, that if the
guard divisions are sent to France
at en early date they will be
equipped with French artillery on
their arrival there. Presumably their
first war work will be with the fam
ous French "76's."
Departure of the guardsmen for
France, It waa Indicated today, will
be governed by the shipping prob
lem. War department officials re
gard many divisions of the state
troops as virtually ready now for
the Intensive, training behind the
fighting line In France which will
prepare them for their place In the
trenches.
There is no reason why some ele
ments could not go forward at once,
except lock of transportation and
the submarine menace.
Salem State Highway commission
made appropriations for construction
this year: Pacific highway, Douglas
and Josephine counties, $380,000, Co
lumbia River highway, The Dalles to
Astoria, grading $500,000. Fort Rock
to Lakeview, $15,000. Wasco county,
graveling, $10,000. Wasco county's
money to match forest fund, $135,000.
MT. ANGEL STORE
IS ROBBED OF
JEWELRY STOCK
MOUNT ANGEL, Or., July 16. An
other robbery occurred in Mount An
gel when John Ebner's store was re
lieved of goods valued at $100 during
last night, principally Jewelry. This is
not the first robbery that has occurred
in the vicinity lately. Several others
have been perpetrated and presumably
by the same person.
Forest Fires Raging Near
Sheridan, Beyond Control
And Lives Are Menaced
SHERIDAN, Or., July 17. The for
est fire that gained headway Sundoy
and yesterday in the timber holdings
of the Sheridan Lumber company is
beyond control, according to reports
received here tonight, and now fiovers
two sections of territory, having swept
portions ot sections 16, 17, 8 and 9.
Between 25 and 30 men of the com
pany have been placed as guards, but
all attempts to tight the fire have been
given up, as the flames are now in the
timber and unless a rain comes or
the wind veers and sweeps the flames
back and forth and crowds the fire
back to the burned territory there la
no chance of stopping ft.
The fire is kept in a direct path now
by the sea breeze that has blown
steadily. The path of the flames is
in the 3000 acres of timber owned by
the Sheridan Lumber company and ia
12 miles west of here.