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FIFTY-SECOND YEAR No. 29.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1918.JV.
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COUNTY AGENT SALEM
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OILUKRT KINDER, Conductor.
WILLIAM MURRAY, Motorman.
Injurad
H, L, KKARNKY.
Five cart plunged through a bridge
crowing tha Clackamas Hirer at
River Mil), balow Bstacada, Thursday
afternoon at 1 o'clock, killing two
and Injuring a third member of tha
train crew. Two snotora and three box
care made up the train, which convey
ed a wood oar to a aiding across the
Clackamaa from the main line. On
tho return over tha aiding, the whole
train plunged, through the bridge car
rying 100 feet of the atructure to the
water, SB feet below, and burying
every one of the can In 69 feet of
water.
Gilbert Kinder, well known In Ore
gon City, the oldest freight conductor
employed by the Portland Railway,
Light k Tower Co., waa instantly kill
ed when the train tell, being struck
by a broken piece of hla car. Ilia body
waa recovered aoon after the accident
by J. W. 8tubb. of Eelaeada, who wont
Into the river and Bought among the
nitui of wreckage for the body of the
unfortunate conductor. Klndur'a body
waa taken to Portland. He ktavea a
widow and aevn children.
William Murray, the o 1 d e a t
freight motorman In the company"!
employ, waa drowned and hla body
has not been recovered. It ilea tome
whore near the bottom of the Clacka
nma river, under a Dlle of twtated
wood and ateel.
II. I Kltenlioe. a trolleyman who
waa In the car with Kinder, eacaped
Injury.
The body of Motorman William Mur
ray, 1791 East Fourteenth alreet,
Portland, who loat hla life Thuraday,
together with Conductor Arthur Q
Kinder, of Oak Grove, when a P. R.,
I ft P. train went through the bridge
ovar the reiervolr at River Mill on
the Estacada line, bad not been re
covered by Diver Frit De Rock, up
to tait night. Efforte for Ita re
covery were commenced a early aa
WMMlble In the morning, but dolayt
In locating He Rock and In adjuattng
bla apparatua made tha hour late be
fore the diver went down.
The breaking of the bottom cord In
the center of the bridge la bslloved to
have caused the accident, although a
complete lnveatlgatlon haa tbua far
been lmpotMlble becauae of the aur
rounding wreckage, which haa not
been cleared away. A recent Inspec
tion showed the bridge at that time
to be aafe and It had been used of
late for loada heavier than that of
probably the 125 tone of locomotives
and two freight care that fell
through In tho accident.
Prealdont Griffith, president of the
company; F. I. Fuller, vice president;
0. 11. Coldwell, general superintend
ent, and Frank J. Miller, of the publto
service commission, went at once to
the scene of the accident. Their ln
vesthtatlon disclosed nothing more
than was known from the first re
porta.
The two trainmen who lost their
Uvea wore veterans In the P. II., I 4
P. service. Conductor Kinder, aged
47. waa born In Missouri. For 19
years he had been with the company,
He la aurvlvod by hla widow, Mra,
Alice Kinder, and five daughters,
Neomlo, Evelyn, Thelma, Vivian and
Ozella. Three brothers, J. W,
Kinder, H. E. Kinder and J. R. Kinder,
live In Portland, as doos one sister,
Mrs. I. F. Teyton. Another alster,
Mrs. II. N. Walling, resides In Salem,
Motorman Murray, 44 years of age,
had been with the company 17 years,
His widow and four children survive,
One son la In the employ of the P. R,
L. ft P. as a brakeman and the other
Is now serving In the United States
navy.
Coroner Ed Johnson returned to the
city late last evening, after holding
the inqueat at the scene of the wreck,
The report of the jury was as follows
"The death of Arthur Kinder was
caused by the collapse of the bridge
while operating a train across It. Al
so, William Murray was drowned in
the same accident."
The jury made no recommendations,
and gave no more detailed findings
R. II. Runyon took the testimony, and
District Attorney Gilbert Hedges
questioned the witnesses. The story
of H. I). KUneline, who was in the cab
when the car went down, was an In
teresting account of his 70 foot plunge
to the bottom. He states that he was
thrown out of the cab door by the im
pact of the car striking bottom, and
that he shot up so fast that he bobbed
clear out of the water. He was lucky
In striking the only open place in the
wreckage and was able to keep afloat
until rescuers came, The startling
part of Ills testimony came when he
stated that the crew of the train
when they, were ordered accross the
River Mill bridge, objected, aa they
felt the bridge unsafe. It was said
that the men met with the superin
tendent of bridges, before they would
go across, and when thoy placed their
complaint with him, he is said to have
told them to go ahead, that the bridge
was 0. K. "
KUneline was standing near Mur
ray whon thoy startod back across
the trestle, and says that just before
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INJURED AT CLACKAMAS
A light delivery truck, with Ralph
Johnson Jnd Elmer Drawer, of Clack
amaa, In it, waa struck by a fast mov
ing Southern Pacific passenger train
Saturday aftornoon, picked up and
carriad for two hundred yards before
the train could be stopped and the
two young men were taken from the
wreckage alive and conaclous, al
though, badly injured.
The accident happened In a nar
row lane teaming from the county road
to the United States fish hatchery on
the Clackamas river. The boyt had
delivered supplies to the hatchery
and were returning to Clackamas. Mr
Pourser, an employe at the hatchery.
law the train leave Clackamaa sta
tion aa the boys started and called
tbetr attention to It. He went about
hla work and a few minutes later
hoard the crash aa the train struck
the truck.
That the boys were not instantly
killed Is considered nothing short of
a miracle. Tho train waa travelling
very rapidly aud the machine waa
almost demolished. The engine struck
the car dead center, picked It up and
carried h on the pilot until the train
was brought to a stop two hundred
yards from the crossing.
Elmer Drower was sitting on the
right aide of the automobile, which
was struck, and he sustained the mow
serious Injuries. At first it was not
thought ho would live, but there are
hopes of his recovery. Unless Internal
Injuries materialize later, Ralph John
ion will not suffer much from the ac
cident. He was driving the truck.
Ralph Johnson It the eon of Rich.
ard Johnson, of Clackamaa elation, an
employe at the government flh hatch
ery. He Is 20 years of age and has
been driving the delivery truck for
W. F. Huberlaeh. a grocer of Clacka
maa station. Elmer Ilrower, aged 15
years, la the, eon. of David Brewer, of
Cluckaiiias station.
Both boys were brought to the Ore
gon City hospital on the train.
In his runh to the scene of the ac
cident, Dr. Hugh Mount, drove bla
car Into a telephone polo near Park-
place and tore off a rear fender,
smashed In the top and put the ma
chine temporarily out of commission
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The vast amount of detailed work
to be done In handling the record of
payments on Thrift Stamps and War
Savings Stamps payments has been
taken over by the publicity depart
ment of the Commercial Club. The
publicity committee, at a meeting
Monday afternoon, determined to use
the department to render aid for this
governmental activity and made an
appropriation of $15 a month from the
available finds fur this purpose. Mrs
Ivy Swafford. the department's sten
ograpner, win Handle the necessary
bookkeeping, under the direction of
Chairman Eby and Secretary Robey.
All of the record cards that are now
being checked over and Indorsed, will
be turned over to the publcity depart
ment and will be posted and credits
recorded as payments are made ac
cording to the terms of the pledges,
Tho department becomes responsible
for tho completion of the work, as
far as the Oregon City district is con
cerned. L OFF!
Wlien I. H. Pipps, rancher of Bor
ing, Clackamaa county, was solicited
to buy war stamps he la reported to
have told the committee that he had
no use tor the Government, which he
denounced vigorously, saying, "the
Government has done nothing for me
and I do not propose to do anything
for it." He was arrested by tho Fed
eral authorities yesterday and will be
given a hearing before United States
Commissioner Drake, Friday, cn a
charge of violating the amended es
pionage act
' As modified by congress recently,
this statute now makes tt an offejiBe
for any person to use "disloyal, p'ro
fane, scurrilous language about the
form of government of the Constitu
tion of the United States.
they crashed down he said, "Bill, this
looks bad to me!" J. Marchbank, an
other witness examined, knew very
little about the accident, as did J. W.
Stubbs, who took Kindor from the
water.
Clackamas county haa again dem
onstrated her ability "to go over the
top" whenever the necessity arises.
In the drive for the sale of War Sav
ings Stamps lust closed the county
subscribed 1670,000. The - quota waa
$164,260.
One hundred districts raised their
quota, several of them doubling the
amount. "
The quota for Oregon City waa plac
ed 'at 115 (IS, and Jlhe amount sub
scribed waa tllt.000. Of tha total
amount one-halt waa paid in caah and
the balance In pledgee.
Among those donating their serv
ices In the war stamp work that has
been conducted under the aupervlslon
of J. B. Calavan, and working in the
office of O. D. Eby are Mr. Eby, Mra.
O. D. Eby, r. O. Eby, Mra Llvy Stlpp,
Mra. Dan McMahan, Mlas Helen Lov-
ett, Mlsa Marie Walker. Mlas Mary
Ellen Grace, and Mist Clyde Schue-
bel
Much work waa accomplished dur
ing the past few days, and up to Sat
urday afternoon many hundred! of
cards had been checked.
FINED $50
Edward Sobzlnskl, a resident of
Parkplace, arrested two weeks ago on
a charge of beating hit wife, was fin
ed $50 and costt by Justice John N.
Slevers, upon the man pleadlnr guilty.
G.
AWARD OF DAMAGES
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Judge George Bagley, of HUlsboro,
sitting on the circuit court bench In
stead of Judge J. U. Campbell, yes
terday handed down a Judgment or
der in tbe amount of $900 in favor of
0. Hanson against the County Court
of Clackamaa county. The case was
heard on an appeal from the decis
ion of the commissioners a short time
ago, when they allowed the plaintiff
damages In the Bum of $750 for run
ning the highway known aa the W.
J. Hester road through hla place, near
Gladstone. Hanson claimed the
amount Insufficient compensation, and
appealed to the circuit court, and
the judgment of yesterday waa the
court'a decree. The Hester road makes
a short cut between Gladstone and the
SPEEDERS FINED
FOR FAILURE TO
OBEY SPEED LAW
Traveling from 35 to 38 miles an
hour over the public highway of
Clackamas county cost six speeders
from $5 to $10 fline In Justice Slevers'
court Monday, the violators being ar
rested Sunday by County Speed Of
ficer If. E. Meads. They were L. B.
Mullen, MUwaukie, with 10 persons
In his car, mostly children, going 38
miles, $10; Mrs. L. A. Klesel, 35
miles, $5; H. Stadler, motorcycle, 38
miles. $5; A. L. Wles, 38 miles, $10;
Q. G. Garrison, 35 miles, $5; Dr. L. H.
Meadows, Vancouver, 35 miles, $10.
MARRIAGE LICENSE GRANTED
A marriage license waa Issued yes
terday to Fred D. Huklll, aged 34, of
Portland, and Pearl E. Thrasher, aged
33, of Denver, Colorado.
Must Take
4i
WSk "V .
Because several persons who
watched the Fourth of July parade
In Springfield, Mass., failed to remove
y n- 4 f in i) :r '"
It 0. Scott, a graduate of Harvard
University, baa arrived in Oregon
City to take up bis duties aa county
agent of Clackamas county. Mr. Scott
It succeeding A. W. Arena, who rec
ently left for Camp Lewis, Wash., to
enter the tervlct. -
Mr. Scott hat) been residing at
Sherwood, and hie wife and four
children are to make their bom here
In the fall. For the past nine yean he
haa been engaged in farming in
Washington county, and baa always
taken an active Interest In public af
faire. The new agent la recommended by
the Oregon Agricultural College. The
extent Ion service of that Institution
first became aeoualnted with Mr.
Scott about a year ago, when be vol
unteered hla eevTlcea to assist In the
war garden campaign in Portland
shortly after the breaking out of the
war. !
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Oswalt Smart . the Harmony lad
who was not smart enough to cover
all his tracks hi his attempted draft
evasion, was on Monday sentenced In
Federal Judge Wolverton's court in
Portland to serve Ave daya in the gov
ernment bastile, upon the completion
of which he is to be immediately in
ducted into the army, for service at
Camp Lewis.
At the time of the affair at Har
mony, young Smart told the registra
tion officials thai he had attained the
age of 31 just a few days previous
to the time Bet for signing up for the
selective rvlce. His contention was
sustained by affidavits regarding his
age from hla parrots, but the govern
ment men jjir thgru-pcured evid
ence from the schoor records which
resulted in his conviction
NEEDED TO AID
To date no volunteers have appear
ed In answer to the call for men for
the spruce production division of the
signal corps at the office of the local
selective service board. The allot
ment for this county has been receiv
ed, and shows that we are to furnish
three chokermen, five head-buckers,
and two planer trlmmermen. The
men will be Inducted from the special
and limited service branch of class
one, although the call is still open to
volunteer enlistment from classes 2,
3 and 4. No class 1 men in the July
or August calls may enlist for this
call. The ten men will be inducted by
the 23d, and are to entrain on the
29th, for Vancouver barracks, where
they will be assigned to the highly
important work of getttng out airplane
spruce.
HARMQNYMANINJAI
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Off Hat to the Flag in New England
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their hota when the flag passed there
was a riot, and this picture shows
SALEM, Or., July 15. Union print
ers and pressmen In the employ of
the Dally Capital Journal published
here by Charles H. Fisher, today
walked out in a body, following adop
tion of resolutions excoriating the
Journal and ita management for Its
editorial views Implying, accoidlng to
the union men. that union labor la In
sympathy with the Kaiser and enem
ies of the Government of the United
State. The resolution, which were
adopted by Capita.! Typographical
declare that the nnlon "hereby In
dorses and authorizes the withdrawal
of its members from that office and
that such withdrawal remain in effect
so long aa the present management
of the Dally Capital Journal exists."
Publisher Fisher issued a handbill
today stating that the man had walk
ed out because of criticism in hit edi
torials and stated that the paper will
"not be gagged" and that it will be
published within a few days.
L. S. Barnes, of Portland, president
of the Capital Journal Company, com
municated with the executive council
of the union by telephone asking that
step be taken to publish a paper to
day to guard his interests. The ex
ecutive committee agreed to publish
a paper for Mr. Barnes, providing Mr.
Fisher left the office. Mr. Fisher de
clined to allow publication under those
conditions.
Accompanied by Officers Burk and
Surfus, one Iovan Nlchollove haa
returned to Vancouved, where he will
be held by the local war board to ex
plain why hla classification card
happened to be not with him. The man,
who la a Bulgarian, was arrested here
late Thursday night hy the police, and
while he had hla registration - card,
there was no evidence that he had
tilled out a questionnaire for the
selective service. He registered at
Vancouver on June 5, 1917, and after
spending two nights in the county jail
here the authorities decided that he
be sent back there for disposition.
The man is a husky fellow, and the
two officers took no chances with him.
He waa securely hand-cuffed for the
trip, and between the two of them
they got there without accident At the
time of his arrest the man was inclin
ed to be rather nasty, but the police
had some brand of persusaslon other
than moral to which he declined to
submit
ITALIAN ADMITS
HAVING VIOLATED
PROHIBITION LAW
Angelo TIgli, an Italian, at whose
home the sheriff's department found
a large quantity of liquor a few days
ago following the arrest of three
fellow Italians in Milwaukle on a
charge of having liquor in their poss
ession, pleaded guilty In Justice John
N. Slevers' court on the charge of
having liquor In his possession and
waa fined $25 and costs. The court
instructed Deputy Sheriff A. E. Joyner
to proceed at once to Tigll'a home near
Milwaukle, and destroy the liquor.
9 it If
a
Its beginning, with the police trying
to stop it.
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'isSfSS.. ortUrURIIIA
The report reached tbe city through
a telegram to the sheriffs office yes
terday, that Tbomaa Moore, who was
shot by a San Francisco police officer
last week while endeavoring to make
away with a stolen automobile, had
died, from the injuries received.
Evidence that young Moore, who
waa 19 years of age, bad stolen the
Hudson car frem here belonging to
W. A. Long, and driven at far aa Ash
land, and then with two companions
making hla way into California, la al
most conclusive say the authorities.
Mr. Long's car waa recovered, and
warrants were out for Moore'a arrest,
when he tried the tame stunt with the
police at San Granciico, and failed
to get away with it Details of his
death are lacking, but It It under
stood that he waa bot in the abdo
men by a revolver in the bands of a
constable at Daly City, nine miles
from San Francisco. He is said to
have started to run when ordered to
halt, and after his two pals had given
up. The car which he had taken be
longed to a San Franciscolan, la the
report, and the lads bad made their
way as .far as Daly City when they
were caught
Moore is survived by his parents.
Mr, and Mrs. John Moore, of Mt
Pleasant, and by one sister and four
brothers. The family has resided in
this vicinity for the past 15 years, and
are well known. Young Tom has been
in a number of escapades before, and
the local police credit him with a half
hundred or more petty thieveries
around the neighborhood.
Arrangements for the funeral have
not yet been announced, but it it
understood that the body is being
shipped to this point for burial.
CAMPFREEMONTCAa
In a call which it is calculated will
clean up the claaa one registration of
the county, nineteen selective will
be ordered to prepare for departure
to Camp Freemont, California, on or
about the fifth of August Provided
the list of available men will not
cover the call the orders received by
the local board are to accept the men
from the 1918 clasa to complete it
The names of those to be selected
have not yet been made public.
Fifty-six of the new class of regis
trants reported here yesterday fore
noon for their phycical examinations,
and it ia expected that the coming
week will see the whole list of 192
with their classification completed.
Definite figures on the per centage of
class one men in the number have not
yet been compiled, but the original
estimate of the war board of about 35
percent still seems to be holding
good, mere are also a number of
class five men being called In for
physical re-examination and It Is ex
pected that a portion of them will be
qualified for special and limited ser
vice work. These men are mainly
those who were put in class five lasi
year, due to slight or permanent
physical disqualifications, but a num
ber of the cases will have been so im
proved as to make the men available
for an immediate call.
IH FEDERAL COURT
Oswald Smart charged with per
jury in making a' false statement when
he failed to register on June 5, 1917,
has been convicted in the federal
court at Portland and will be sent
enced Monday. He contended that he
had reached the age of 31 years on
June 2, 1917, and this statement was
supported by affidavits from his moth
er and father. School records and
registration Information, however,
showed Smart to have been within
the draft age.
WALTER UNIKER
BADLY INJURED
OVER SMASH-UP
Walter TJmiker, of Gladstone, was
severly injured when his motorcycle
crashed Into a touring car at Clack
amas Saturday afternoon. He was
taken to the office of Drs. Mount,
where his Injuries were dressed and
he was taken to his home. The tour
ing car was badly damaged.
LONDON, July 17. Lieutenant
Quentin Roosevelt, Colonel Roose
velt's youngest ton, who has been at
tached to the American line forces
on the Marne front, waa killed at
Chateau Thierry on July 14, taya a
dispatch from Paris to the Exchange
Telegraph comnay.
Lieutenant Roosevelt, the dispatch
aays, waa returning from a patrol
tight when he waa attacked by a Ger
man squadron. It was teen that Roose
velt suddenly lost control of hit ma
chine, having probably received a
mortal wound.
PARIS, July ,17. Lieutenant Quen
tin Roosevelt, youngest son of the
former president, baa been killed in
an air fight, the semi-official I lavas
Newt Agency announces. Hit machine
fell into the enemy lines.
Philip Roosevelt, Quentln't cousin,
witnessed the air battle In the vicin
ity of Chateau Thierry, in which
Quentin waa engaged and taw the
machine fall but did not know until
later that the airplane wat that of
hie cousin, Le Journal says today.
Lieutenant Roosevelt waa last seen
in combat on Sunday morning with
two enemy airplanes about 10 miles
inside the German lines In the
Chateau Thierry sector. He started
out with a patrol of 13 American
machines. They encountered seven
Germane and were chasing them back
when two of them turned on Lieu
tenant Roosevelt
FIGHT WITH VI LORD
Amsterdam, July u.Th death
of Field Marshal von Hihdenburg it
announced In Lea Nouvellei, a French
language newspaper at The Hague.
' Von Hlndenburg'a death, which re
sulted from congestion of the brain.
Is said to have occurred after a
stormy interview with, the German
Emperor at great headquarters at
Spa. The Emperor and the field
marshal are declared to have had
serious differences of opinion con
cerning the German offensive toward
Paris.
The violent Interview between Von
HIndenburg and Emperor William
took place on May 16 Les Nouvelles
says. It was followed by an apoplec
tic stroke.
The newspaper says Its information
was obtained ''from good sources In
the occupied district of Belgium."
GANBY CITIZEN UNDER
ARREST EVADES DRAFT
Facing a charge of impersonating an
officer of the U. S. Army and of evad
ing the draft law, Merle Cox. formerly
of Canby, Clackamaa County, has been
arrested in Fairbanks, Alaska. He la
a married man, with four children, but
his family la in Portland, where his
wife is employed at the Home for the
Aged. Cox waa placed in Class 4 when
he registered, but last February he
went away, and upon an affidavit from
his wife that he had ceased to support
his family, he was reclassified and
placed in Class 1. When he failed to
report for physical examination, he'
was reported as a delinquent to the
adjutant general's office. News of his
arrest reached hero Friday by wire
from Alaska. He may be compelled to
enter the service. His case will be
rigidly investigated, as he has lost
three fingers from his right hand,
although only two of the digits were .
missing when he left Canby.
LOAN OF
FOR DAY RUNS
OVER 3 YEARS
Alleging that she had made a loan
of $300 to R. W. Cary and W. F. Can
in January of 1915, with the express
understanding that it waa to be re
turne to her the following day,
Aurelia C. Gerber has come to the con
clusion that the defendants in the
action just filed, do not Intend to keep
their promise. So the court is asked
to grant her Judgment for the sum,
and also $22 additional, which was
loaned at the tame time by O. S. C.
Gerber to the defendants, under the
same conditions. This account has
been assigned to the plaintiff in the
suit for collection. Interest on the
sums at the rate of 8 per cent since the
date of the deals is asked for in the
complaint.
ASKWITH GETS JUDGMENT
H. A. Askwlth was yesterday after
noon awarded a judgment against the
First State bank of Milwaukle, C. F.
Richardson, Richard W. Scott and
Theodore Schiel in the sum of $348.16,
with interest at 6 per cent since March
of last year, and with the sum ot $50
additional for the attorney's feet.