OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1917
age
BILL WHICH MEND
STATE WIDE WORK FILED
SALEM, Or., Sept. X. Fishing in the
Btreams of Oregon with seines, traps
or fih wheels Is absolutely prohibited
by the provisions of proposed initia
tive bill which was submitted to the
secretary of state Friday afternoon
for approval as to form, by Charles C.
Mabcock, street superintendent of Or
egon City.
If carried to completion it will go
on the ballot at the general election in
November, 1918. The text of the bill
is as follows:
' Section 1. That from and after the
first day of January, 1919, it shall be
unlawful for any person or persons to
fish for salmon in the waters of the
state of Oregon or any part of the
waters over whih the state of Oregon
has concurrent jurisdiction, by means
of seines, traps or fish wheels.
"Section 2. Any person violating the
provisions of this act shall be pun
ished by a tine of not less than 1C0
and not more than $1000, or !y impris
onment in the county Jail not less than
60 days or more than one year, or by
both such fine and imprisonment!
'Section 3. AH acts and parts of
acts In conflict herewith be and the
same hereby are repealed."
In the past Oregon City Interests
have fought for the right to fish with
nets in the Willamette river below the
falls at that place. Where the dead-!
line should be placed below the falls'
has been an Issue which has caused
fireworks and rancor at every session
of the legislature for many years past
At the last session the deadline was
moved down the river to near Oswego.
The drifnet Is not included In the pro
posed bill.
This is the first proposed initiative
measure to be submitted to the secre
tary of state since the 1917 law relat
ing to initiative petitions was enacted.
The law provides that signatures on
a petition must be checked by the
county clerk with the voters' registra
tion lists. The county clerk is re
quired to certify to the genuineness of
the signatures.
The genuineness of the signatures of
legal voters who are not registered
may be established by the affidavit of
a notary public that he has personal
knowledge that such persons are legal
voters.
Under the new law the ballot title
for the measure shall be prepared by
the attorney general before, instead of
after the petitions are circulated. The
official ballot title must be printed on
the petitions.
To initiate a measure 22,533 signa
tures of legal voters are required.
How
By George S. Dougherty
Inside Story of How the Famous Clark Diamonds
" Were Recovered After Billy Coleman, a Notor
i ions Thief Had Stolen Them and Then Buried
Them On the Lonely Shores of a Lake.
' f ' Copyright, 1813, by The Iateraatlona Syndicate,
8 EM robberies are of almost dally
eocnrrenoa. In fact If it waan't
for the publlo's Interest In such
matters many of our beat known
ctreasee would find that even with
the errtcVa of a hard working and
reeooreeful press agent H would be
much harder to get their Dames on
the first paces of the yellow journals.
But when real and genuine rem
theft has been perpetrated, and the
. vlotlm Is a woman whose name oc
cupies an exalted place In the society
eolumns of the most dignified of our
newspapers. It Is a different matter
and on that creates world wide In
terest I am referring now to the
theft of $100,000 In gems from Mrs.
V. Ambrost Clark, whose husband, a
noted sportsman, was a stepson of
th late Bishop Potter, of New York.
Safeguarded Her Gems.
This young matron had come to the
country estate for a visit and fearing
to trust her wealth of jewels in a
country home sent them to the offices
of the estate In Cooperstown that
they might be locked in the big vault
and there kept until she had occa
sion to wear them. The gems were
kept in a big jewel casket and this
In turn locked In a safe within the
big vault Supposedly they were Just
as safe there as though they were
reposing in the strong box at the safe
leposlt company in New York City.
The robbery occurred at a time
when I was with the Plnkerton
Agency. We were notified of the rob
I cry the day it occurred and I was
virt to Cooperstown at once to take
' '.urge of the Investigation that was
ii follow. I learned that at an hour
. hen the clerks employed by the
s-.ate had left the building for their
ij.icheon, the watchman supposedly
i .-.ng left on the Job, somebody had
'! ped into the building, gone stralgh;
i".t the "vault, opened the smaller safe
. iihin and then took the Jewel casket
i the cellar where with a hatchet he
v :id broken it open, extracted the
: ms, end decamped. The puzzling
;-.ature of the case was that none had
I eard a struggle, or any unusual noises
in the building although the floor
r'out the shattered Jewel casket waj
Vnspattered with blood. At first
i lance one would naturally suppose
ihat the thief had been interrupted
1: his work of extracting the gems
;' a fight followed, or else there had
liuan more than one person concerned
the job and the thieves had fallen
. . t and battled over the division of
hi spoils. Either theory seemed
iiUuslble. yet neither seemed to take
i, very far In our deliberations and
'Eductions.
Footprints Point To Woman.
Another puzzling feature of the
ws ws picked up in the cellar was
M frequent appearance of a worn
.il a footprints. They were well de
ii 'd and seemed to encircle the spot
re the casket lay. That led to
:- supposition that a woman was
- m-erned In the Job in which event
. might bear out the theory of the
rks and members of the Clark fam
I that It had been an inside Job and !
WASHINGTON POLICE
D 24 IN CHARGED
ill
WITH AIDING L W. W.
SIX) KANE, Wash., Aug. SO. Twenty-four
more alleged 1. W. W. are held
in the county jail here today as mili
tary prisoners, following their arrest
last night when they arrived from
Troy, Mont, on a Great Northern train.
Conductor L, A. Brauekhauser, of the
train, said the men created a disturb
ance almost the entire way from Troy,
where they had been fighting forest
fires. The men, with three others who
later were released, were met at the
j railway station by policemen and held
at the city Jail, until Major Clement
Wilkins, in command of the Idaho Na
tional Guardsmen here, arrived and
took them into custody. Major Wil-
i kins declined to make a statement
j regarding the arrest of the men, other
! than that they would be held as mili
tary prisoners.
James Rowan, district secretary of
the I. W. W., and 11 other alleged mem
bers of the organization, arrested here
August 19, the day before a general
strike of agricultural and construction
workers in the northwest, called by
Rowan, was to take effect are still
held here as military prisoners.
The alleged rioters were met at the
depot by a detachment of police and
2" of them were taken to the city Jail,
where they were held until the arrival
of Major Wilkins. Later 24 of them
were taken to the county jail by a de
tachment of SO Idaho National Guards
men. Three of the men were released on,
their protestations that they had taken
no part in the disturbance.
Eugene Delvoye, said to an I. W. W.
organizer, ia one of the men held by
the military.
BOARD'S SECRETARY DIES
CHICAGO, Sept. 3. Charles F. Mer
rill, 66, secretary of the Chicago board
of trade, died today of angina pector
is. He was president of the board in
1911 and since that time has been its
secretary.
So Be Cheerful.
"It pays to he Hiwrful."
"You bet. As long as you- lok is if
you had money your creditors will
have confidence in yon "-Boston Tran
script.
Giva Hor Tim.
Teacber D ymt know the population
of New Vork? Mamie Backrow-Nof
all of them mri'nm Hut. then, we've
lived bereojJy two year Puck.
someone In the Clark household had
directed the footsteps of the real thief
to the big vault and the strong box
within.
Naturally every clerk In the estate's
offices, as well as all the servants In
the Clark home were grilled. Not one
was overlooked, but there wasn't a
single lead from that source that even
looked promising. The all Important
point to establish was the presence in
Cooperstown that day of any suspici
ous looking person or persons, or of
any stranger that might have been
noticed In the vicinity of the office.
That meant many persons were to be
Interrogated and, strange to say, 1
found two such persons In far distant
points in the village who were able
to shed a little light on the subject
A woman told me she had been Dass-
lng the estates office shortly after
the noon hour and her attention was
attracted by an old man who wa
lounging near a fruit stand across the
street. She gave a very good descrip
tion of the man, adding that he
crossed over from the fruit stand
corner to that of the Clark office Jus;
as she was about to board a car In
anotner part or the village I found a
young man who said he too had seen
an old man standing near the fruit
stand and later cross to the Clark
office side of the street. His descrip
tlon of the stranger tallied exactly
with that given by the woman. ThN
was at least promising and I value..'
It more highly than anything else
had gathered In Cooperstown.
The Plnkertons. in those days, aM
much store by their Rogues Gall.;ry.
They had photographs of all thp
cleverest crooks in the country and
these were duly classified. When a
detective went out on a bank Job h
was given a book containing likenesse
of the country's most noted bank
sneaks and yeomen. Prior to locat
ing the young man and woman who
had sepn the stranger I had run over
In my mind all the crook" who woulc'
have been likely to pull such a trick
had they been near. There were many
fully capahle of doing the Job, but
nearly all were eliminated because n'
first one and then another reason
Indontifles My Suspect.
I went to call on the young womar
who had seen the stranger and of
course took my little "gallery," the
"hasty pulling bag" som of th
"Pinks" called It. She had dwelt on
the fact that this stranger, while a
bit nervous and fidgetty, Impressed her
as being the soul of good humor be
cause of his "pleasant, laughing eyes."
That settled it. I knew the man she
meant and upon opening the book
pointed to the face of Billy Coleman
and asked: "Ever sea that face be
fore?" "Why that's the man I saw." she
exclaimed.
Then I went to see the young man
who said he had seen a man near
the office. I handed him the book and
asked him to pick out any likeness
In the book that resembled the per
son he had seen. Without the least
hesitation he picked out the same face
the young woman had done. "That's
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Italian sharpshooters have a new plan to protect Venice with hor costly works of art and architecture from raid
ing Austrian airplanes. They have built a frame work on the top of a house for gun rests, and there So or more of
them all take aim at the Invading plane and fire on It This gives a concentrated tire, which It Is difficult for the
airman to escape as from a rapid tire gun.
FRANCE, BY TAXING WAR PROFITS UP
TO EIGHTY PER CENT, IS ABLE TO
PAY FOR THE CONFLICT
PARIS, Sept 3. France proposes
to put the cost of the war on those
best able to bear it by taxing war prof
its up to SO per cent.
Minister of Finance Thierry made
this announcement today, explaining
France's scheme of financing the war.
He added a special plea that Ameri
cans aid FVance by purchasing their
luxuries from FTCtu-h factories these
industries yielding a large part of
France's taxes.
"We in France are following very
closely the financial debates in Amer
ica," declared M. Thierry. "We ap
preciate the dftticuUies and the new
problems before America especially
the problems of taxation for war pur
poses. 'Effective legislation regarding the ;
latter has been difficult, particularly
in ranee, where there was no In
come tax before the war. This lack
has made it necessary for us to estab
lish the fixed revenue in before-the-war
periods in order to tax the excess.
the man." he said "I don't know
A'hat he was doing here, but hu was
n that corner all right and I'd stake
my life on It. a man can'l forget
hat face. He waa loo tood natured
.uokiiiu."
Now to hnd iillly Coleman 01
ourse, 1 had nothing on rum. .None
nad seen htm In the oilice and none
had seen him emerge from II. 1
luesn't always follow that a country
magistrate will hold a man for the
Lcrand Jury simply on the charge that
he was In the vicinity of a burglary
when It was committed. There wasn't
a particle of doubt In my mind what
Billy was doing In the vicinity and I
felt confident that It would only be a
question of time before I would con
nect him up with the case and get
him right at that.
I returned to New York and roamed
the streets looking for Billy day and
night. 1 had asked that he be picked
up by the police In the event of their
running Into him, but I didn't look
for a grent deal of help from that
source. After roaming around for
about two weekj without seeing, or
even hearing of Coleman 1 met one
of his old pals coming up Eighth
avenue. I figured that this man would
New Plan to Protect Venice
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TS: '
"The war profits in France during
the first year of" the war have been
estimated at 1330,000,000. The second
year was about the same. But collec
tions have been slow, owiiii; to the
difficulty in establishing the taxable
Bums."
'To daje, only about J loo,ooo,00i has
I t,en collected.
"Our law of July, i;U!, taxed war
profits under $300,000 f0 per cent.
"We are now Introducing a law tax
Ins these profit-makera' revenues of
fmore than a million dollars a maxi
mum of SO per cent, according to a
sliding scale
"The French nation is well able to
boar the larger share of war ex
penses." To date, she has contributed
13.000.000,000. But this Is hardly a
fifth of the total war cost New taxes
will add a billion of state revenue to
this.
"It is naturally difficult for France
to subject large properties and Indus
hi The I hioehl
ultimately get In touch with Billy, so
I determined to keen him In sight. I
shadowed him all night following him
from h' in f to h.-nmt. The next morn
ing when he retired to a rnonilmf
house and asked for a bed. I put two
otlie- men on hi.- trail while I caught
a Fh.vi ntip
Thirty-six hours after 1 first sighted
this hlrd he Joined Hilly, 1 had pro
vided myself with a warrant charging
Hilly with the robbery, although I
knew deep in my heart I h.idn'l a leg
to stand on unless the unforncen hap
pened and 1 picked up some much
stronger clews than I had at that time.
I followed this pair for several days.
Billy Is In constant touch with thieves
Just as notorious as himself. -These
he would meet In saloons and other
cribs. In the evenings ho frequently
left his home, far uptown, and ac
companied by his wife take their lit
tle dog out for an airing. One even
Ing, to my amazement, he and his i
wife entered an Episcopal church, re
maining all through ihe service. 1
told Bishop Potter this and ho laughed
heartily saying: "Surely Dougherty
you don't want me to believe that one
good Episcopalian would rob another,
do you?"
mYjOyy' I.it!liitfii indies it: tow Tlif Milled- in .1 i l
Ol Willie
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v.t U4 s4s)
tries to any generul tax Imk'huims many
Industries are now no longer in opera
tion. The Invasion by the (ienimns
aeUod many of our plants, but the
French fiscal system Is most demo
cratic and most flexible.
"We feel confident our new legisla
tion will have the desired results
namely In throwing the main burden
of taxation on our richer cluaaes.
"Our aim now Is to consolidate our
strength and safeguard our financial
prestige to enable France to fulfill
all her obligations to the allien.
"If we nrcompllitlt this It Is enact.
tial that France continue her eco
nomic effort for a long period after!
the war reforms now Instituted. Our
easy before thewar mode of living
must become generally more ntistere.
It Is especially necessary to forego
luxuries as far as possible.
"We are now Introducing a law tax
ing such luxuries.. On the other hand,
the Industries manufacturing luxuries
In France have been always a great
source of revenue to u. Therefore
It Is essential they bo maintained and
encouraged.
"For this encouragement we are de
pending on our allies, and especially
on Americans."
u. I Jar V nipped
Kiiblier. Were Tie C'lai-K Jewels.
I figured that as things were now
going I was miking no headway.
Billy hadn't made a single suspicious
move that might tend to shed light
on his connection with tho Clark rob
bery. 1 decided that it would be best
to arrest him arid let him see hat I
had really nothing on him. Mo would
be released and maybe flushed with
success he would grow careless and
let something drop that might prove
of value to me. Of course, 1 had na
Intention of permitting him to be out
of u Plnkerton man's sight for a sec
ond. Held For Hrand Jury.
Hilly was arrested, arraigned and
held for the Urand Jury. I did not
deny that my case was very weak. In
fact I let everybody believe It was
even weaker than It was. The grand
jurors were much Interested In the
blood stains and when tney railed to
find any scars or swathes about Billy
they uron ptly discharged him. Then
two detectives, disguised as typical
rubes became his shadow and he was
never out of their sight.
That was In October. It was not
until early In January that the con
stant shadowing of this wily old fox
ESPEE HELD RESPONSIBLE
The fact that freight car cannot be
secured at any chhI led the members
of the Slate Highway commUnlon,
meeting in ttalom Saturday, to agree to
tin) cancelling of the contruct.wlth the
Ilassaitt t'nvir.s company for the mv-
IngMf ten miles of road lit Cluckamui
and Mill ion countlim. Tlio contract was
let recently for the paving of five
miles of road south of the Marlon coun
ty Una and five miles north of It, In
Clackamas county,
For a mouth the contractor hint had
his plant at Hubbard ready for work
and Is under an expense of $7B a day,
Ho ha tried everything within his
power to Ret cars to bring rock to the
Ob but without success. H. Ilcuxon,
'halnunn of the coiuiiiIkhIoii, hna plend-
eiKwIth the ralUroud, but also without
success. About 40.000 cubic yard of
rock are needed and If the contractor
could obtain ten car he could worry
along, The railroad company ha ex
plained that It Is not uj))oncd to high
way development, but It nlmply hasn't
car kvntlablo.
The solution offered by the commis
sion I to cancel the contract and re-
advertise for eight mile from Oregon
City to Canby, on the alignment now
being graded, with the exception of
ettlng new contract In Marlon coun
ty In the spring.
There I 30,000 available, half from
the state ijnd half from Clackama
county, for the new grade from Can
by to Oregon City, but this In not
enough to complete the job. The uew
road will have a 5 per cent maximum
grade and will not only save two mile
but will ellmtnnte the dangerous hill
at New Kra where so manw yople
have been killed or Injured,
The Oregon Hassnm company will
1 bid on the new work and the prospect
Is that other contractors, reallxlng the
I'"'" thiv'"i','l'tor Is In, will keep
off and let the Oregon Hassam coin
pany bid without opposition.
10,000 MARCH AT TACOMA
TACOMA. Sept. 3 -Weather I an
aplclou for the Labor day parade, In
which upward of 10,000 marched
Many floats were In lino. K. T, Kings
ley, of Vancouver, was the speaker of
the day at Wright park, A program
of sport In the afternoon and a great
ball In the evening are feature of the
celebration.
led to results, I found that Billy was
making frequent trip to Morning
side Park. lie always mad for th
same locality where he appeared to
walk aimlessly around although with
his eyes glued to th ground and sm
Ingly counting hi steps. I was con
vinced I was In the right track at
last. On morning, thr was dep
now on th ground, he returned to
the pot and at the trunk ft a tre
began to dig. Whatever ha was seek
lng he failed to find for he rturnd
home and th air of dejection plainly
howed that h was worried. Wha
I knew Billy waa isfely houd In hi
home I returned to th spot where he
had been digging, McDonal and
Wade, two Plnkerton men accompany
ing me
We Find The Jewels.
After digging for a fw moment
we at last struck our lead. Ther
eighteen Inche below th lurfac In
a fruit Jar, wrapped In th thlnest of
whit rubber, were th Clark Jewels
almost Intact, excepting a few loose
stones which Hilly evidently had re
moved and realized on for running
expense. We removed the gem from
the Jar and wrote Billy a note, signed
by each of us tolling him we had the
lewels and would bo around to see him
at the earliest opportunity. We then
rcburlod the Jar and left things a
we had found them In that vicinity.
We lost no time In going to a near
by room and checking up the loot w
htu: found. According to the list given
us by Mrs Clark only a few piece
were missing and wo felt sure ws
would ultimately recover them. From
there we wont to Billy's horn and
arrested him. If he was shocked or
surprised ho cleverly concealed It, for
ho greeted un In the most nonchalant
manner saying: "Hello George. I
thought you would pay m a call
sooner or Inter. What'U you have t
drink"
In searching Billy's home we fount
all tho loose pieces of Jewelry. Om
unset diamond wo found sewed lot
the lining of one of his neckties 1 1 1 i I
was Just as good a hldcr as h w-i
a thief hut we went over that ('
with a fine tooth comb and mil bit
got sway from us
How llillv (Jot The Jewels.
When Billy saw the gums wo h i
taken from ihu fruit Jar ho made i
clean breast of everything. He salil
ho was In Cooperstown simply to In
cttte soma easy crib to crack. Whci
ho entered tho Clark office ho thought
It was a bank, finding no clerks In
and the safe door ajar he said he
couldn't resist the temptation to ex
plore a little. The Inner safe looked
promising and as that waan't locked
either ho opened It and found th
Jewel casket. This he took to the col
lar and opened It with the hatchet he
found there. 1 asked him about the
blood which he explained by sayln
that when he opened the casket and
saw the fortune In gems that had fal
len Into his possession he became so
excited that it brought on a hemor
rhage of the nose. He said hi clothes
were to blood stained that he was In
mortul fear of being arrested on that
account, but fortunately he had worn
a black suit of clothes and the stains
didn't show up as plainly as they
might have under other circumstance.
Well, old Billy was convicted ol
course. But I think my mention ol
Billy's evening spent In an Episcopal
church appealed so strongly to Bish
op Potter that he pleaded In his be
half and Billy got off with a seven
year stretch.
OF
WASHINGTON, Aug, 3l.The prion
of No. 1 Northern spring wheat wa
fixed nt $li)0 a bushel at Chicago for
the 191T crop today by tlm wheat fulr
price committee, headed by lr. it, A,
Garrield, whose finding, reached, after
three tiny' deliberation, were submit
ted to and approved by President
Wilson.
Labor representative on Ihn com
mittee voted first for ft, 84 ami the
farmer for 2,M, Afyr long discus
sion tho compromise at 13 M ws ap
proved unanimously.
To be Maintained
The announcement wntjimda at the
WliltH House In the follow lug state
ment by th president:
'Section 11 of the food act provide,
among other thing for the purchase ol
whout and flour ami Ihe utu thereof
by the government and appropriate
money for the purpose, Tho puit bnse
of wheat and flour for our allies and
to a considerable degree for neutral
countries also hn been placed under
the control of the food ailinlimitr.itlun,
I have appointed committee to de
termine a fair price to be paid lit gov
ernment purchase. The price now
recommended by that committee- $2 20
per bushel at Chicago for Ihe basin
grde-wll Ibe rigidly adhered to by
the food administration.
"It I the hope and expectation of the
food administration and my own also
that this step will at once stabllUe
and keep within moderate bound (he
price of wheat for all transaction
throughout Ihe present crop year, and
In consequence the price of flour and
bread also. The fowl act ha given
lurge power for the rout nil of tor-
age and exchange operation and these
power will be fully exercised. . ,
Dealing are Expod
"An Inevitable consequence .wilt be
that financial dealing cannot follow
their usual cnuriie. Whatever the ad
vantage and disadvantage of the or
dinary machinery of trade. It cannot
function well under nuch disturbed
and abnormal condition now ex
ist. "In It place the food administration
now fixe for It inirchasers a fair
price, a recommended unanimously by
a committee representative of all In
terest and all suction, and believes
that thereby It will eliminate (pecula
tion, make possible the conduct of ev
ery operation In the full light of day,
maintain the publicly-stated price fur
all and, through economies made pos
sible by slnhilltaUon and control, bet
ter tho position of consumer also,
Hoover Left Out
"Mr. Hoover, at hi expressed wish,
ha taken no part In the deliberations
of the committee on whose recommen
dation I determined the government's
fair price, nor hns he In any way In
timated an opinion regarding that
price."
"In Its deliberations the committee
hn kept constantly In mind the three
following factor:
Kirst-Tho fact that the United
Stntes Is at war.
"Second The need of encouraging
the producer.
"ThirdThe necessity of reducing
tho cost of living to the consumers.
Abnormal Conditions
"Tho normal laws of supply and de
mand have been violently Interfered
with and congress hag undertaken to
remedy this disturbance by conferring
ordinary power upon tho president tot
stabilize prices. Each of tho foregoing
factors grows out of conditions which
have received the careful attention of
tho committee.
OF SEDITION MADE
AGAINST U. S. COLONEL
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. Mrs.
James Anderson, of Victoria, B. C,
wife of a captain In the Canadian ar
my, testified today before a somite mil
itary committee yesterday In support
of hor charge that Colonel Carl Ileich
mann, nominated to bo a brlgndlcr
general, matin pro-German statements.
Mrs. .Anderson reiterated state
ments made previously by her In let
ters to Senator I'oindexter. She said
that at a tea in Chicago she heard Col
onel Uolchmann criticize this coun
try's entrance Into the war, doclare it
was an outrage for the United States
to send troops to France and defend
ed air raids over England by saying
all the warring countries In Europe
were doing the same thing.
Colonol Relchmann was presont at
the hearing and denied all the charges.
Bend: Brook-Scanlon Lumber com
pany working two shifts, box factory
running to capacity.
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