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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1919.
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BY JUKY 0 "l
DISLOYALTY
l'OKTLANU, Feb. 5.-- Guilty mi two
cdii n in iiml not guilty oil five omuls
Ad tlirt vitnllrl returned today by
thu Jury In thu I'ulted SIiiIdh dlntrlct
couit In Urn. trial of Henry Alliers.
Tli'i former head uf llir Albers Bros.'
Milling company win ncrnm-il of vio
lating ln federal enploniiKn act by ut
tering tiliiliMin iiU on u Southern Pa
cific train October H lust whl'e travel
ing between Grants Pan and Hone
burg which were calculated to excite
(llnlowilty to III,. I r.lliil Stitl'-s t lit-u
nt war with Germany,
Tim i minm In tli Indictment turned
on thine ut to rumen on which thti d-fi-tuliint
witM (oiiml guilty were count
(In en utiil four.
('mint four charged Mint llio Words
wi r Katil with Intent to Incite, pro
voke mid cncoiiriiitd rcHliiliiiicn to tho
t'tilli-il Sliilin or to iroiuot thu
oniit of it mi-mil1.
CoiiiH thrt'A charged that tha words
defendant did support and fuvor tha
cmine of Of-ynnny and oppose tho
caime of the Pulled States,
Tlm m in I in mil sentem-n which may
lo Impound provide for Imprisonment
of 1!0 year or a firm of $10,000, or
tioth, on each anJ every count.
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MANY YANKEES
ARE REQUIRED
ON GEM SOIL
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County Judgu IL 8. Andcraon. Com
iiiIhhIiiiiitk l'roctor and I larrln, M. I).
Uitourelta and tiorK Tracy, Jr., the
luttiT rtipraiioiitultiR thn Commercial
Club, r In rortlnnil Tmunliiy at tha
inectliiX f Mtnto UlRhwiiy com
uiIhhIoh to (IIhciimi tha pnvmncnt
iinntlon of the Went Side brtwetui
Went I.lnn and the Mtiltnomah county
lino.
At the moptlnn the county court ox
proHHcd a wIMIriKiiPsH to pxpetid ap
irolmitt"ly 10,000 for tho xmillng ot
thu highway and tlio commlhHlon aald
they were witlliiR to a v n fant an
tho grading wuh done. It wuh lenrned
that if tho RradlitK wuh completed thin
year that all of tho pavement mlRht
not ho completed until next year. This
delay would be calmed by tho fact thnt
tho commtsHlon couHlderH It noces
nary to lot tho grading thoroughly
aettle huforo the pavement In laid for
In houio cuMrts where tho puvement
wan laid too aoon it luia cracked when
tho Kroimd aottlcH.
There nro plecoa of tho highway
that are not completed hut the other
1h ready for work and the matter will
bo taken up ut the next meeting of
tho com mm ion In March.
U. S. DRAFT PUNS
E
MM MEN CALLED
WA8inMTON, Kob. 5. A total of
24,234,021 mon were enrolled for
Uncle 8am'a armies under tho aolect
lva service act, according to the 'sec
ond annual rojiort of Provost Marnhal
(leneral Crowder, laaued today.
On November 11, when the armlit
tlco was BlRned, Uncle Sam had pro
duced a Hclectlvo army of 2,810,200
mon and the work of handling, clas
sifying and utlllsiinft- Uncle Snm's
mun power was jimt .gettlim Into por
foct swing when the ending of the
war brought It to a close.
"Had the mobilization lasted five
days longer, the selective service or
gnnlatlon would have placed with the
colors mora than 3,000,000 soldlors,"
says tho report.
l'AUIS, Feb. 6. Mamhal Koch be
lleve that 400,000 American t.oop
will bo required to keep watch along
the Rhine until the peace treaties
are aluned, It was learned today from
a reliable source;. France Is prepared
to furnish u contlntunt of twice that
number. The Urltlsh will be asked to
maintain a force of only 200,000 be
cause they are contemplating the con
tlnuance of service sewhore. The
IUjIkUiih ar expoctl to maintain
100,000 troops along the Itliltie.
The maintenance of this allied army
of a million and a half Is considered
noi'mtsary to forestall any German at
tempts to refuse to subscribe to the
allied peac terms. The occupied tor
rltory alontt the Milne is mortgaged
to guarantee, Germany's payment of
damages.
The remainder of the American
army U preparing to return to Ameri
ca at the earliest possible moment,
The greatest delay Is caused by lack
of transports.
LIVE WIRES OFFER
TO
LDI
S
ARE DISCUSSED AT
MEETING OF COURT
A lureo and enthusiastic delega
tion from MacksburK and Nevdy met
with the county court today and dis
cussed the question of a now roadj
from Csnby to Macksburg, to be more
direct than the present one.
The quetitlon of paving this was
brought up but no decision was reach
ed as up to the present the
county court has made no arrange
ments for this Improvement.
Much discussion reaulted from the
meeting and the delegation aired Ha
side of tho question, feeling that they
were entitled to the new road.
A petition was presented to the
court for a new road In the northern
part of the county. This would bt near
the A. I. Smith D- L- C. Joining the
Holllday Territorial Itoad. This peti
tion was referred to the road viewer
for action.
Judge H. S. Anderson presided at
the meeting and Commissioners l'roc
tor and Harris were In attendance.
N
URGES
STATE FAR BOARD
TO
BY
TROOPS GIVEN
OPPORTUNITY
TO VISIT BERLIN
COMI.KNZ, Fob. 4. A limited num
ber of officers and enlisted mon of
the army of occupation will be given
an opportunity to visit Berlin by the
inauguration soon of a dally courier
service between this city and the capl
tal
Condors were docldod upon owing
to the uncertainty of German malls
Each courier will be accompanied by,
an officer and the trip will be made
by express trains between Cologne
Tho Live Wires he'd their last
luncheon In tho present Commercial
club rooms Tuesday and next week
will meet In the banquet hall on the
third floor of the Masonic building
The luncheon Tuesday was featured
by an addreHS from 11. II. Matthleeon
safety engineer of the Crown W'lllam
ett Paper company. Ho laid particu
lar stress upon the necessity for safo
ty measures In Industrial plants and
elsewhere. W. H. Unlr of Canby, told
of tho organization of tho Canby Com
mercial Club, which, he said, would
be glad to work In harmony with Ore
gon City In securing improvements
thnt were not of a strictly local char
acter, Following tho luncheon, the com
mittee to which was roferred the erec
tion of a memorial for the soldiers and
sailors from Clackamas county, held a
meeting, and concluded to offer its co
operation to the committees that have
been appointed for a similar purpose
from the Orand Army of the Repub
lic, Women's Relief Corps and Daugh
ters of the American Revolution.
Y COMMI
DECIDES TAXES ON
SALKM, Or., Feb. 4 ARroemont
wtiB renchod by the joint roads and
highways committee last night on Its
bill taxing gasoline and distillate to
add revenue to the highway fund
The bill provides a tax or l cent a
gallon against doalors In gasoline
and 1-2 cent a gallon on distillate. It
was brought out that the distillate tax
will fall mainly upon the farmers and
compalnt at the proposed tax of 1 ceVt
has reachod the committee from East
em Oregon whore distillate la used
largely for farm tractors.
LICENSE TO WED
Dolla Katherlne Schultz, 20, and
Walter J, Olson, 21, of Aurora, R. F,
I)., were lasued a marriage license
SAI.EM. Dr., Feb. 4. Contrary to
what tho consolidation committee of
the legislature had been led to believe
Is tho attitude of the state fair b6urd
objection to the committee's consoli
dation program, was registered yes
terday by J. E. Reynolds, president of
the board. At a meeting of the coin
mlttee, ha declared that if the board
is consolidated under the agricultur
al department there will bo a deter
loratlon in efficiency In 0eratIon of
tho fair. Notwithstanding the protest
voiced by Mr. Reynolds tho committee
will report favorably In a few days
upon the bill covering consolidation
under an agricultural department.
E APPROPRIATE
TO HANDLE WHEAT
WASHINGTON, Feb, 5. Julius
Hnrnes, head ot the food administra
tion's grain corporation, asked con
gress today through the house agricul
ture comlttee to delegate broad pow
ers to President Wilson as a means ot
making effective the government's
guaranteed price for the 1919 wheat
crop.
Mr. Parties asked tor an appropria
tion of at least $1,000,000,000 with
authority to borrow more if necessary
and authority to buy and sell wheat
and wheat products nt home and
abroad.
REDS TO FORM
BIG CONFINC
SEATTLE
STRIKERS
NSIST ON
DEMANDS
SKATTLE, Feb. 5. With Seattle's
general strike called for 10 o'clock to
morrow morning, pending final ap
proval by the Central Labor Council
tonight, dtrike leaders said they be
lieved nothing would avert the strike
at the 11th hour except a concrete
settlement of the shipyard workers'
demands by Cburles Plez, head of the
Emergency Fleet Corporation.
Interest twiay centered in the re
ported receipt by Pert Swain, secre
tary of theMetal Trades Council, and
by Tacoma labor councils of a tele
gram from Mr, Plez with regard to
summoning a conference at once to
consider the question of wages and
hours of the men provided they would
return to work and live up to their
isreement with the Government until
March 31, the date of its expiration.
This, the strike leaders eald. would
not be acceptable as a compromise.
STOCKHOLM, Feb. 5 An exhorta
tion from Premier Lenlne addressed
to all Holshevik committees In Ger
many, Austria, Poland, the Baltic-
provinces and Finland to convoke a
communist conference intended to
eclipse both the peace conference at
Paris and the Socialist conference at
Heme, Is publlehed by a Petrograd
newspaper, ; v. . .'
1-enlne declares that the Polshevikl
alone will have the right to take the
Initiative at the proposed conference.
Nat Goodwin, Who Died
Suddenly, Known as Most
Married Man on the tag(
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NAT GOODWIN
As a result of a general breakdown
Nat C. Goodwin (Nathaniel Carl),
one of America's best known actors,
died suddenly In ?ew York at the age
of sixty-two. His matrimonial career
was as spectacular as his stage suc
cess. He had been married five times,
divorced four times and at the time
of his death was engaged to marry
Miss Georgia Gardner, twenty-three
years old, who had been a member
of his "Why Marry" company, playing
at Baltimore at' the time a collapse
forced him to give -jp his work.
PARIS, Feb. 6.-Military Interven
tion In Russia on a large scale is not
to be, thought of, declared Arthur J.
Balfour, British foreign secretary, In
an Interview last night. The great
powers were doing everything they
considered could be done, how-ever, he
said, in dealing with what he charac
terized as "a most disquieting situation."
FOR . CIRCULATION OF
CO BLENT,, Tuesday, Feb. 4. Three
Germans have been convicted in mili
tary courts here during the last few
days on the charge of circulating
enemy propaganda among American
Iroops in the occupied area.
One shopkeeper wag convicted af
ter having offered tor sale a watch
fob with American and German tings
crossed upon It. At Treves, recently,
1000 postcards were confiscated by
American offlcors. They pictured a
beautiful German woman with a
handful of strings and at the other
end of the strings were comparative
ly tiny French, British and American
soldiers dancing to her caprice.
MITCIIEL PALMER
MENTIONED AS
ATTY. GENERAL
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. There la
every probability that A. Mltchel
Palmer, allon property custodian,
will be nominated by President Wil
Bon to be attorney general as the suc
cessor of Thomas W. Gregory, who re
cently resigned.
The statement has been made in a
well Informed quarter that the selec
tion has narrowed down to Mr, Palm
er and Qeorge Carroll Todd, who to
now assistant to the attorney gen
eral, with every indication that Mr.
Palmer would receive the appoint-
NEW TAX ROLLS
SHOW INCREASE
OVER LAST YEAR
County Assessor W. W. Everhart
has completod the 1919 tax rolls and
turned this over to the sheriff for col
lection, which will start Monday
morning.
This is the largest tax roll the coun
ty has ever had, caused by special tax
es. The, total amount is S944,S69.15.
This Is $75,000 over the amount ot
1918, and nearly two-thirds of this
is special taxes.
Owing to tha large roll the asses
sor's force of clerks and himself have
worked four hours overtime every
night for the past month and several
extra clerks have assisted in the work.
Tho total amount of taxes to be
collected will be expended as fol
ows: State, County, School
Koad and Library ..$ 550,402.03
Special Schools .'. 146,901.36
County High Schools.... 32,061.94
Special Roads 130,364.24
Cities and Towns 73,593.15
Forest Patrol Tax ...... 657.28
Union High Schools 10,889.15
Total Tax $ 944,869.15
Amount to be collected
SALEM, Or, Feb. 1. (Special)
Under a Joint senate resolution Intro
duced by Senator Dlmlck of Clacka
mas county, the people of the state I
would vote again at the next election!
upon the question ot whether or not!
the crime ot murder would he punish
ed by the infliction of the death pen
alty. - -
In the Joint resolution prepared by
Senator Dlmlck the following provi
sions are made:
Be it Resolved by the Senate, the
House of Representatives concurring,
That the following amendment to
the Constitution of the State of Ore
gon, be and the same Is hereby pro
posed: That Section 36 of Article 1 of the
Constitution of the State of Oregon,
which reads as follows, to-wit:
"Section 36. Tb death penalty
shall not be Inflicted upon any person
under the laws of Oregon. The maxi
mum punishment which may be in
flicted shall be life Imprisonment
"All provisions of the Constitution
and laws of Oregon in conflict with
this section are hereby abrogated and
repealed in ;o far as they conflict
herewith, and this section is self exe
cuting;" be and the same hereby Is
amended so as to read as follows:
Section 36. Every person convicted
of the crime of treason or murder in
the first degree committed after the
taking effect ot this amendment, shall
be inflicted as follows:
The punishment of death must be
Inflicted by banging the defendant by
the neck until he be dead, and the
Judgment must be executed by the
warden of the State penitentiary, or
one of his assistants. All executions
must take place within the inclosure
of the penitentiary. The warden of the
pententlary must be present at thei
execution, and must Invite the pres-j
ence of one or more physicians, the
attorney-general of the state, the sher
iff of the county in which the judg
ment was rendered, and at least
twelve reputable citizens to be select
ed by him; and he shall, at the re
quest ot the defendant permit such
ministers of the gospel, not exceeding
two, as the defendant may name, and,
In the discretion of the warden of the
penitentiary, such relatives and
friends of the defendant as he may
designate, not to exceed five, to be
.present at the execution, together with
such peace officers as such Warden
may think expedient; but no other
persons than those meutioned in this
section can be present at the execu
tion, nor can any person under the
age of twenty-one years be allowed to
witness the same.
The death warrant signed by the
judge before whom the defendant
was tried, shall be delivered to the
sheriff of the county wherein the de
fendant was Indicted and the said
sheriff shall deliver the said warrant
with the defendant to the warden of
the penitentiary for execution of the
said warrants. This section is self executing.
Be it further resolved that the Sec
retary of State be and he is hereby
authorized and directed to set aside
two pages in the official pamphlet
containing initiative and referendum
measures to be voted upon in the
year 1920 in which arguments support-
ng this proposed amendment may be
Drinted; and be it further
Resolved, That a committee of one
Senator and two Representatives be
appointed to prepare and file with the
Secretary ol ftiA arguments In sup-
LEAGUE PLANS
PRESENT MANY
HARD QUESTIONS
DELEGATES
TAKING UP
DIFFICULT
PROBLEMS
PARIS, Feb. 5. The peace dele
gates were working today on the most
difficult problem Involved in creation
of the league of nations the force
with which the league will make its
decisions effective. Opinion seems to
be divided as to whether this force
should be moral or physical. Many
plans had been submitted, ranging
from complete abolition of armaments
to organization of an international
military and naval police under a
single commander.
The plan finding the greatest sup
port among responsible delegates.
however, provides for no such radical
departure. It proposes merely the re
duction in each nation's armament to
a point consistent with the mainten
ance of domestie tranquility: the
league Itself to be the ultimate Judge
as to the size of the army and navy
to be needed by the member nations.
The manner of raising armies will
be left to the individual countries.
Great Britain and the United States
almost certainly would rely on Tolan
teers, attracted by good pay. France
and Italy possibly would return to con.
scription. on the ground that they
could not pay wages corresponding to
those in the British and American
armies.
ROAD FOREMEN ARE
PARIS, Feb. 5. Although the five
great allied and associated powers
which are directing the peace confer
ence have turned over much of the
work to commissions, the society ot
nations question, especially with refer
ence to the smaller nations, is becom
ing rather a knotty problem.
The smaller nations, it is declared,
want full equality in a society of na
tion and greater powers than the
plans already outlined give them. The
great powers, on the other hand, are
faced with a situation that if each
state has one member on a supreme
court of nations they might find them
selves in the minority, although their
Interests might be much greater and
probably would be.
IS
BY
IP.
Mrs. D. P. Thompson ot Portland,
was In Oregon City Thursday closing
the deal for the purchase of a tract
of land at Meldrum, consisting of 30
acres. This land was purchased by
Mrs. Thompson from her brother,
John W. Meldrum, ot Meldrum sta
tion, and is to be dedicated to the
public as a park. Mrs. Thompson had
decided upon naming the park in hon
or of her father and mother, the late
Mr. and Mrs. John Meldrum, early
Oregon pioneers. These pioneers
crossed the plains by ox team in the
year 1845, arriving here in November
bt the same year. They first settled
at what is now Molalla, where they
remained for one year. They later
moved to Ilwaco, where Mr. Meldrum
took up a homestead. At that time
Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Mon
tana comprised Oregon territory. Mr.
and Mrs. Meldrum then returned tq
Oregon City, where they spent the re
mainder of their lives.
The rock foundation of the home ot
Mr. and Mrs. Meldrum was chiseled
by Mr. Meldrum, and as the property
wa3 recently sold, and the little home
torn down, portions of the house are
kept as souvenirs by Mrs. Thompson
The rock foundation was among those
to be preserved, and the large chisel
ed rocks are to be removed to the
site for the park at Meldrum station,
and will be. used In forming an arch
way at the main entrance. A most ar
tistic gateway is being planned by
Mrs. Thompson, and the work of
making the Improvements at the park
will begin in the early spring.
BY COUNTY COURT
The Clackamas County Court ap
pointed road foremen for 1919, and a
list of the names appear below with
the addresses of most of the men. A
few of these cannot be secured at
present as some of the men named
are new and the roadmaster has not
secured the addresses yet:
No. 1, M. C. Gaffney, Clack"amas, R.
1; No. 3, J. C. Royer; No. 4, J. A.
Kltching, Estacada; No. 5, Maurice
Wheeler, Boring; No. 6, Ed Little
page; No. 8, J. T. Mclntyre, Cherry
vllle; No. 9, Fred Llns, George; No.
11, Charles R. Llvesay, Oregon City,
R. 6; No. 12, Edwin C. Gerber, Ore
gon City, R. z; No. 13, J. Fullam,
Oregon City, R. 3; No. 14, Fred Hen-
rid, Oregon City, R. 3.
No. 16, H. Engle, Oregon City, R.
No. 17, D. R. Dlmick, Canby; No.
18, Ab. Thomas, Oregon City, R. 3;
No. 19, Richard Griffith; No. 20, John
C. MiUer. Barton; No. 21, W. S. Gor
bett. Col ton; No. 22, H. J. Rastall,
Molalla, R. 2; No. 23. R. W. Zimmer
man, Aurora; No. 25, R. Klaus, Au
rora, R. l; No. 26, Wm. Vick, Molal
la; No. 27, I. D. Larklns, Marquam;
No. 28, E. L. Palfrey, Molalla; No.
29, W. W. Sporalsky; No. 30, Frank
Whittan.
No. 31, L. Milem; No. 33, Frank
Millard, Estacada; No. 34, W. Kais
er, Oregon City. R. 7; No. 35, Wm.
Booth, Boring; No. 36, John Stanton,
Mt. Angel, R. 1; No. 37, C. W. Kruse,
Oswego; No. 38, John Risley, Milwau-
kle, R, 1; No. 39, Herman Fisher, Ore
gon City, R. 3; No. 40, Carl Han
sen; No. 41, H. H. Udell, Eagle Creek;
No. 43, W, H. Douglass, Barton, R.
1; No. 44, A. S. Newton, Oregon City,
R. 1 ; No. 45, John Puta. Colton. R. 1.
No. 46, E. Nachand, Oregon City,
R. 6; No. 47, J. Risley, Mllwaukie,
R. 1; No. 48, W. Bosholm, Boring, R:
2; No. 49, L. Palmeteer, Estacada, R.
No. 50, F. M. Townseud, Clackamas.
R. 1; No. 51, Jake De Young, Boring,
R 3; No. 52, W. A. Ulrlch, Portland,
R. 3, Lents Station; No. 54, R. F.
Watts; No. 56, W. B. Rarabo, Oregon
City, R. 4; No. 57, A. F, Eyman, Auro
ra, R. 2.
SPEEDER FINED
K. Thompson, a resident of the
South End road, was arrested Wed
nesday evening by Chief of Police
Woodward for speeding on High
street. . . ' .
He was released and appeared
MANY STATES
ARE VISITED
BY LOCUSTS
WASHINGTON, D. C, Feb. 3. Illi
nois, Iowa, Michigan and Wisconsin
are among the 23 states to be visited
this year by swarms of locusts greater
than those which swept tha country
17 years ago. There Is, however, ac
cording to entomologists of the de
partment of agriculture, no cause for
alarm. .
Young fruit trees, the department
states, are sometimes killed by the ci
cadas. The precautionary s measures
are: Defer putting them out till next
year, postpone budding operations
and do no rtninln? tbts wlnW er