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FIFTY-FIRST YEAR NO. 51.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1917.
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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
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FIGHT DUEL
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.