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rnxv NTEKPraSE!! Entarprlat la tha Clackamas County that prlnta nawa of thla County, FIFTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 51. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1917. ESTABLISHED 1866 "pi bf rrtx. Ths Watkly EnUrprUs 1 Yl liworththtprloa.Com- ii II II part It with othtn and II I I Jf than aubioriba. VI II ETON WATIFK mm ,1 ly. w M IW County's Quota 000 For 2L lis acin Worker s The Red Croas drlvs In Clackamas hlp hud been sold and taked fur 200 county la mumming largo proportions more blank. ('. 8cliuolel and L. and with two duya gone of the week Btlpp went to Btone achoolhouao Mon nut apart for Iho big cumpalgn, the dny night and addressed a mooting leader ara aungulne ihut Clnckuiuua t lie re and 15 membership were auld. county will euHlly rulito Ita quota of. Clifford Ilult, one of the Oregon City 112,000 bxfore next Monday night, 1 cnptalna, hna taken charge of the plac when the drive will end. j lug of bootha, and one was Installed Hourly reporta are coming Into the Tuesday In the atore of Bsnnnn & Co., office of O. I). Ebv. chairman for and Mlas Ruth Walter placed In Clackamas county. A. C. Newlunds, charge. Another will be located In captain of tbo Oswego dlatrtct, tele-, the postofrice building. phoned Tuuaday that 200 member- John R. Cole, captuln of the Molalla district, waa heard In two of the church pulplta Sunday at Molalla In behalf of the fled Cross campaign and he talked at the achoolhouHo Monday. Meeting will be held tonight at Meadowbrook, Oak Lawn, Evergreen, Canby and Hock Creek achoolhouaeg and on Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock there will be a meeting at the Moun tain Road schoolhouae. W, A. Dlmlck will talk at Canby and John W. Loder and Kev. V. T. Mllllken at Hock Creek. PARKPLACE B0Y8C0UTS FIGHT DUEL 01 KILLED HIGH STAGE 0 LOCAL 1, k JfLrt RH1 Town of Gladstone Will Operate In 1918 Without Making General Tax Levy (iladatono, Incorporated, U. 8. A., la patriotic to a point where Iho town will operate next year without any visible means of aupport. The city dads, either because they felt that the popular conaervatlon move ahould apply to municipalities. One felt the municipal machinery could run another year without any ad ditional greuae. At any rate they fulled to puna an ordinary voting the usual G mill tax which la necessary for the aucceaaful operation of every well regulated town. December Aral haa come and gone, and no records have reached the county aaaeaaor allowing any signs of the annual financial flurry at Glttdatnno. Juatlco jf the Peace John N. Slevers and Deputy District Attorney liurko are the two cltlzona of the town who will auffer most. The two are city re corder and city treaaurer respectively and the only anlarled official of the town, except the water superintendent whoxe department la aelf support ing. According; to the city treasurer there la a goodly, aupply of round sil ver dollars In the general fund left over from the 1917 purse, which It la thought can be used for emergency. At the expense of spoiling; the patri otic glamor of thla yarn It might be said that In special convention assem bled a few weeka ago, the citizens voted a 10-milI tax for hord surfaced roads through tho town. This money can be used for no other purpose, however. ITIUtlN IS CHARGED ON HIGHWAY in II II I'M TRAFFIC FACTORIES CLOSED ICAZADERO DAM SAE TEST ALA8KA COAL. OREGON CITY NOT AFFECTED. SEATTLE, Dec. 17 Two 20 ton aam- SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 17. Rcgu ples of coal from the Mutanuaka fleldalntlona promulgated by the fuel ad of Alaska received here recently bymlnlstratlon sotting aside Thursday the United States bureau of mlnea areand Sunday as "llghtlcsa nights," do to bo wushed Immediately and sent tonot apply to localities deriving power Industrial plunta for testing. Goorgufrom hydroelectric plants, according Watklna Kvans, of the bureau, said to-to a telegram received today by Albert day ho thought the teBt would be aatls-K. Bchwabachor, federal admlnlstfa factory and would prove tho coal to botor for California, from Dr. II. A. Gar ' good blacksmith coal. The entlrofield, national fuel administrator. All coast muy be supplied from the Alas-persons were urged to conserve olec ka mines If tost Is satisfactory, Mr.trlclty as much as possible on tho two Kvans aald. nights, however. Sp ectators At School Trial Hear Profanity The Timber Grove school district prize fight was given a badly needed airing in Judgo Slovera court Tuesday afternoon, with the result that "But" Sullivan, momber of the board, was found guilty of assault and battery upon the Iter. W. II. Wottlauffor, a fellow momber of the board. A. F. lluche, Jointly charged with assault was freed. Sullivan is to bo Bontoncod today. District Attorney Hedges began hanging out tho dirty linen about oloven o'clock and from then on until late last evening whon the Jury re turned their verdict and Sullivan re marked "I didn't like the looks of the (1 jury anyway," the trial was fea tured with tho finest assortment of evldontlnl profanity over hoard In local circles. The trial was a regular circus day for out of town folks, and they como In droves to get ring side seats at the final round of a school battle of long Rtanding, which the good people of the Timber Grove school district out in the Clurkes community, have been tolerat ing for almost a year. District Attor ney Hedges and Sonotor Walter A. Dlmlck, representing the defendants, wolfomed an unconsored review of the whole campaign, and the charges, counter charges, admissions and de nials of profane and vile language, flow thick and fast, until on one or two occasions Judge Slevers blushing ly left the room, and the Jury consist ing of Henry Salisbury, H. Krummel H. H. Hughes, J. E. Jack, B. H. Cooper and J. H. Sawyer, hung their thought ful heads in shame, and bit their lips in extreme mortification. , According to the testimony, the cli max came a week or so ago, when the two factions of the school board met to sign P the teacher's contract for another year. Each faction had pre pared a contract. The teacher, Miss Slromgroen, was preparing to sign tho Sulllvan-Duche, etal, compact, while Rov. Mr. WettlaulTor and Mrs. Wottlauffor sat at tho official desk nervously fondling the agreement their faction had prepared. The toacher ap proached the desk to fill her fountain pen and laid the Sullivan contract on the table, Rov. Wottlauffor, in a moment of curiosity, picked up the contract and sat back comfortably in the big chair behind the teacher's desk. Here, ac cording to the testimony of the com plaining wltnesRoa, the assault took place and the dignified gentleman of the cloth, was rolled about the floor in a manner seldom witnessed at a Clackamas county school meeting. Mrs. Wottlauffor looked about for a poker, but not finding one, Jumped in to tho fray. Hero, is was claimed, Mr. lluche took part in the proceedings, but the evidence was not altogether convincing aa to his part in commit ting an assault. Senator Dimick attempted to show that Mr. Sullivan was simply trying to obtain possession of the contract which rightfully belonged to him, while the state's contention waB that he used porhaps a little more force than was reasonably necessary in so doing. Sev eral witnesses for the defendants at tempted to show that Mr. Wettlauffer had previously made undignified re marks concerning the flag, but the evl donee wna not clear on this charge. Mr. Sullivan on the -stand admitted calling the minister various epithets which would not look particularly well In print, nor would they sound particu larly euphonious at a school director's meeting. Mr. Dimick has intimated he would appeal the case, it is understood, NEAR CITY S. llenson, W. L. Thompson and E. J. Adams, together with E. J. Cook compuny, are individually made de fendants in a $7,500 damage suit filed Friday by the heirs of Ganong estate, owners of property adjoining the new Tactile highway being constructed Just beyond Canemah. The suit Is the outgrowth of the State Highway commission's activities along the Ganong property line this summer, in luylng out the line for the now highway, which cuts off a section of the Ganong premises. J. W. Ganong and Martha Ganong, his wife, Richard C. Ganong, and Cella Field (ianong, Dr. Hugh S. Mount and Matil da Mount, his wife, are the plaintiffs In the suit. They are all prominent locally and In Portland, where J. W. Ganong Is manager of the Portland Flouring Mills. The complaint alleges that In the month of October, 1917, the defendants entered upon the premises which consist of a 48-acre tract about a mllo south of Oregon City along the Willamette river, and that without any right or legal authority, tore up the premises, removing valuable shade trees which adjoined the front proper ty line of the premises, tore up grow ing shrubbery, mutilated the lawn, and loft tho premises In a dangerous and uneven condition. The plaintiffs fur ther recite that the premises were loased for a two-year period beginning December 24, 1916, and that they have suffered by reason of the damages to the leasehold estate. r.xempiary damages oi xa.ooo are asked and In addition on account of the peculiar value of the shade trees and shrubbery an additional $1500 is claimed ;the damage to the leasehold lestato la estimated at $1,000, making In all $7,500. Tho case dates back to early fall when it Is said an attempt was made by officials to purchase a right of way through the Ganong premises. No agreement could be reached between the parties, however, and sometime later the highway commission entered upon the place, It Is said, and cut the road through. The highway takes off about twenty feet of the Ganoug front property line, and a row of big popular trees was token from in front of the residence portion of the tract. The complaint is filed Individually against the members of the commission and not In tholr official capacity. 10-CENT PIECES USED FREELY TO SEND BOYS GIFTS The Soldiers' Relief League of Ore- gon City will send Its first shipment to tho soldlors lir France. Monday. It is plannod to have a box go from this city about the 15th of each mouth to the Boldlers, by those desiring to con tribute towards the fund. Only 10 cents is accepted from each person. Miss Vara Caufiold Is treasurer of the league. The box contained 2 pack ages of tobacco, five packages of gum, seven packagoa Hershey's chocolate, bIx packages cigarette papers, over 100 pencils, sharpened. One little life, that of Leslie LaDoux 14 years, was snuffed out Saturday afternoon In tbe W1U bark of Purk place, when four boys, three of then armed with 22-caIlhre rifles, diliber ately arranged what they termed a "duel," The fatal shot was fired by either Cell Green, wd 13 year and nephew of the d ;ad boy, or by Lake Smith, the 15-year old son of W. W. Smith. It la a strange story that Sheriff W. J. Wilcox extracted from the lips of Green and Smith and from Cecil Shaw, aged 8 years, at tbe court house Sun day morning, soon after tbe recovery of Ieslie's body. The four boys wera on good terms and after lunch Satur day the Smith boy came down to the LeDoux home with Cecil Shaw, aged 8 years, and proposed that Ieslle and Green. Join them In a hunt and they all started out, going back of Park place about a mile, beyond the gravel pit. For a while they enjoyed the in nocent sport of shooting at a mark in a pasture dotted with woods, but this amusement Boon became stale and, according to the other boya, it waa Leslie who proposed that they fight a duel and that .; lake Smith's gun. which is a magazine rifle and Green his own gun, both single shot rifles. Leslie took up a position behind a big tree, while Green and Smith crouched down together behind a large stump, it waa at this point that the little chap of the party, Cecil Shaw, pro tested and warned the contestants that they bad bMter be careful or somebody would jiet shot. His advice fell on deaf ears md he withdrew to a safe distance, but remained to watch the fray. The three boys opened fire and ewry time a bead would appear around llie stump or from behind the tree a rifle would crack. The lads husbanded their ammunition and did not attempt a fusilade, and keep up the firing for probably 15 minutes, when suddenly Cocil Shaw yelled to Green and Smith to stop firing. "You have shot Ieslie," cried .the boy. The trio rushed over to the tree and found Leslie, with a bullet hole squarely in his forehead, but alive. He was breathing heavily and was vom iting, but wus unconscious, and the frightened hoys eased his position and placed his cap under his heed, and then, terror stricken, proceeded to study out a framed-up story to take homo with them. They swore each other to secrecy and placed Leslie's own gun in his hand and then fled leaving, as they supposed, mute evi dence that the boy had died by his own hand. The three boys arrived nt their homes In Purkpluce before 5 o'clock and when Mrs. LeDoux questioned young Green, her grandson, who lives at tho LeDoux home, about tho where abouts of Leslie, the lad stoutly af firmed that Leslie had been taken 11 along the rond and had turned bad The story appeared plausible enougt but when night fell and the boy did not return, tho father, Jooeph N. LeDoux, organized his neighbors into a search ing party and they scoured the near-' by woods for the missing boy, without success. After midnight they tele phoned the Bherif, who went to the scene promptly, and, after bearing the story, advised the party to renew their investigations at daylight, and about 7 o'clock Sunday morning, while Sher iff Wilson was going to Pnrkplace for a second time, ho met Lake Smith and Cecil Green together, the latter hand ling a paper route and being on his way to tho interurban car after his pupers. The sheriff stopped the boys and talked with them and, suspect' lng thnt the truth had not been told he urged them to make a clean breast of the whole affair. The Smith boy mndo the first break to shed light over the tragedy by saying: "Leslie's gun went off yesterday unJ nearly shot me. ' Sheriff Wilson promptly marched Cecil Green to the LeDoux home, and In the presence of Mrs., LeDoux, he questioned him sharply, and finally the boy broke down and confessed the truth and went with Wilson and Claude Rittenhouse straight to the spot where tho body was found. The Bherll'f brought the three boys to Oregon City and they made a de tailed statement of the affair to him and to Acting Coroner Slevers, Dis trict Attorney Hedges, Deputy County Clerk Fred A. Miller. Later they were v (Continued oa Page 4) E High water has paralyzed the manu facturing Industries of Oregon City and West Linn. Every department of the Hawley Pulp & gaper company was forced to close at noon Wednes day, and mill'offlclals said it is doubt ful it tbe plant will be able to resume until after Christmas. There are about 425 men employed in the Hawley mills and practically all of them are out While the paper machines are oper ated by steam, the water has reached the driving belts, forcing the machines down. Splash boards have been put upon the concrete wall next to Mill B.j No damage to the property is antici pated. The wood mill and pulp mill of the Crown Willamette Paper company have been closed and while the paper machines are still running, it is expect ed that some of them will be down to day. The upper river Wednesday night was 63VS feet, or 13 feet above low! water, and is rising fast. It is probable ! there will be a further rise of three feet" In the upper river by Friday morn ing, and six feet in the lower river. There Is two feet of water on the floor of tbe pulp mills in West Linn and the floor will probably be covered to a depth of eight feet before the enst of the flood is reached. The Oregon City Manufacturing com pany woolen milla closed Wednesday night for several days on account of high water. The government locks were closed early Wednesday morning. Owing to the fact that no over flow wall was constructed it has been necessary toj keep the gates open whenever the; water reaches the top of the gates and it is considered likely that the locks will be out of commission for nearly a week. River conditions are very unusual, as the deluge of water is coming down the Willamette from the Santlam and streams between that river and the falls. The river at Eugene is falling. This condition means that the drop will come quickly, when it does come. The Oregon City Transportation com pany dock at foot of Twelfth street was closed Wednesday morning. The South Fork pipe line, furnish ing water to Oregon City and West Linn is out of commission, though there is no danger of a water scarcity, as there is 12 days' supply in the res ervoirs. The screens at the intake have become blocked with sediment washed from the hills. The cable line across the river at the headworks, 20 feet above low water, is covered over. by i Persistent reports circulated Wed nesday that the two dams at River Mill and Cazadero bad gone out, were de clared unfounded Wednesday night by R. M. Standish, publisher of the East ern Clackamas News, who was reached at Estacada by phone. He said the damage to property In Eastern Clacka mas had been slight, but that no mail had been received there since Tues day night due to interruption of the car service. Trains from Portland were taken off Wednesday morning, when the road bed at Alspaugh station near Eagle Creek bridge was damaged, and the railway bridge at Rock Creek was declared unsafe. Minor cases of damage have been re ported in Oregon City. The Fifth, street road is literally torn up, and! Center street from First to Fourth is indunated by the overflow from a -ream near the old Jones rock crush erf The property east of Washington street from Fourteenth to Eighteenth is under water. The property of Fred Schwartz in Kansas City addition was damaged Wednesday afternoon when a slide 100 yards in length, carrying valuable fruit trees and telephone poles in its path, went down the hill and covered the Willamette Valley Southern track. Coffee creek, a stream that usually dries during the summer months, flow ing through Canemah, is threatening the homes of several of the residents i of that place. This stream is a raging torrent, and the Smith home is in dan ger of being washed from its founda tion. The water rushing against the woodshed and is close to the house. Wong Wing's Chinese garden in the northern part of the city, is almost submerged, and the loss will be some what heavy, as there were many vege tables still In the ground when the water commenced to rise. E .M. Howell visited his farm near Stone Wednesday, but the trip was a hazardous one. Mr. Howell went as far as he was able on the Carver line, and from Stone made the trip by foot to his farm, in charge of his son, Ora Howell. The farms of William Llllie, and Geo. Reddaway, which Joins that of E. M. Howell's are In danger, also farm of George Haberlach. The barns are almost surrounded by water. GASTON MEANS ACQUITTED. E OF HIDING A HINDU CONCORD, N. C, Dec. 17. Gaston P. M?ans has been acquitted by a 1ury of a charge of murdering Mrs. Maude A. King,' a wealthy widow, whom the jury decided had committed suicide as contended by Means, who was her business manager. Means will now face charges of em bezzlement of Mrs. King's funds in New York City. Aside from the Portland-Oregon City branch of the Portland Railway, Light & Power line, railway and high way transportation were at a standstill in Clackamas county Wednesday and but one road was available from Ore gon City to Portland, this being a round-about road through the town of Willamette. The Clackamas river is a raging torrent and has been steadily rising all night. The Willamette river at Oregon City came np nearly a foot Wednesday afternoon, and the vast flat section between Oregon City and Gladstone is a sea of water covering the big hop yards, the county, road, and rising up close to the railroad tracks of the Southern Pacific and the Portland Railway, Light & Power lines. The bridge across the Clacka mas at Parkplace was closed by order of the court Gladstone, by reason ! of the extensive drainage from adjoin ing hills was a Bea of water Wednes day morning, several business houses having from an inch to a foot of water on the floors. Citizens rallied to the cause Wednesday and constructed a drainage ditch to the Clackamas river. Sidewalks were afloat and school chil dren had to wade through almost a foot of water to get to school. The situation at Gladstone is now slightly improved, although the river is higher than it has been In years. Southern Pacific service was dis continued Wednesday, and the high way between Oregon City and Canby is under water in many places accord ing to those who made the perilous trip overland Wednesday. Molalla is completely isolated from the rest of the county. Slides along the Willamette Valley Southern near the Molalla river crossings have un dermined a few short sections of track, and it is thought train service will be resumed by Friday. Wright's bridge along the roadway between Oregon City and Molalla has been washed out and the county road for a distance of almost a mile is under water. The west side road via Oswego to Portland is not safe according to those who were in Oregon City Wednesday. Several sections of the road have been washed away, and auto traffic will be extremely dangerous for the next few days until the high water recedes. In several places the county road is sub merged. This leaves but one possible road open to Portland, and this is a round about way through the town of Willam ette. Several made this trip Wednesday. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 13. A high official of the Japanese government was linked with a proposed conspir acy to foment revolution against British rule in India when evidence was given today in the trial of 31 al leged conspirators to the effect that this official had secreted Hiramba Lai Gupta, indicted Hindu not in custody. for four months while British secret service and military operatives searched Tokio in vain for him. The Japanese official whose name was not given later secured safe passage from Tokio to San Francisco for Gupta. This testimony was given by Detective Sergeant George T. Bar- wltz, of the New York police depart ment, who said the revelations had been made to him by Gupta, while the latter was in his custody on a charge of participating in a bomb explosion CLACKAMAS BOYS ENLIST. Two more Clackamas county boys have listened to the call and enlisted Lloyd Schram, of Highland, going into the aviation branch, and George Watts, of Beaver Creek, in the am bulance corps. They reported for duty at Vancouver Monday. E. G. Wait Is Dragged 170 Feet Beneath S. P. Engine And Ground to His Death Testimony introduced at the cor-1 engine which ran th.im down, was oner's inquest held at Canby Monday over the remains of E. G. Wait, who was killed in a railroad collision Sat urday evening, showed that Mr. Wait was dragged 170 feet beneath the en gine, and that the handcar which the deceased and others were attempting to lift off th.3 track, was dragged over 330 feet before the engine came to a stop. The verdict of the coroner's jury was to the effect that deceased "came to his death by being struck by a Southern Pacific engine and instantly killed." L. H. Wang, Andrew Keen ler, C. L. Bates, Geo. F. Meels, D. R. Dimick, and A. H. Knight were the members of the jury. According to the testimony of Alex Schwabauer and Wm. Kreuger, who witnessed the accident and were aboard the hand car prior to tbe tragedy, the men thought that the planning to turn out on what is known as the "left switch" to give the right away to Passenger train No. 27, south bound, which was due about that time. Instead of turning on the sidetrack the engine came on down to the main line toward the town of Canby, and after realizing th predicament, the men did not have time to clear the track. 'Others helping lift the hand car off the track got away in time but Mr. Walt held on longer than tlie rest thinking, evidently that he could clear the track. The funeral services were held at the family home near Canby on Mon day afternoon. The services were conducted by the pastor of the Nazat ene church, and friends of the deceas ed were in attendance. The inter ment was in Zion cemetery. The wife of the deceased Is an in valid, and confined to her bed. She has been an Invalid for Bonie time.