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OREGON CITY. OREGON.
'FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 1920. itTAiUiMio m
PRESIDENT MAY
DECIDE TO GO
IN FOR THIRD
TERN IS BELIEF
chicauo, Jim -fmumi wu-
luuy be candidate. In an ad
dro mad at Boulevard hall laat
night, Jatnea llatiiilion IaiwU. for
uer winter frani ! llnols and i ma
Hmn close to Ih. , Mitf executive of
ih country, declared it depended
largely on curtain thin.
"Wilson an n third term candidal
of ih Democracy U in the bmifla of
the ltepuhllcn leader In the onn-
atn," h tald. "aud to be d .1 of
y Hi. condui t of Itepublluan party
master Them- ( an make him a can
dldate and destroy themselves--a
they hav donn In two pant election
In making Wilson their political an
t agonist."
I
FOR LIBRARIES ARE
The county acbool library book
'ought (or the u of the county
t-hool by Superintendent J I
aran have arrived it hla otflc at the
court house and the office force are
busily engaged In cheeking thorn up
with the Invoke and sorting them in
to package
When thU work In completed the
book wilt bo distributed to their
proper dlttrlct throughout the count
It will probably be about ten 'day
before Oil work will be finished.
Hupetintendent Calavan ha not yet
(turned from his trips to I'nrtlano
ind Halem. In the former city ho wan
one of thl county's delegate at the
convention of the Or (00 State Teach
er'a Association,
On the adjournment (if tin- conven
tion he went to Halm to attend the
meeting of the county school super
intendent from the vuriou counties
of the state It Was stated at hi of
fice thut Mr. t'uluvan will be borne by
Monday and In the harness again,
MORE THAN THREE
E
RLED HERE LAST YEAT
County Recorder 0. J, Noe give
out the tabulation o' the number of
Instruments filed in his office during
1919. Thi8 tabulation shows that Ih. r
were a total of 6.213 Instruments of
all kinds put Into Die records of this
county during the year Just closed,
The fees received amounted to $fi,
SC3.2G. In 1918 there were .10r Instruments
of all kind filed and tin- (MM nninimt
od to $4,740.22
More than fifty per cent or the In
struments filed in 1919 were deeds
mowing transfers of properly within
Clackama county.
Abstractors of this county are un
animous In the statement that the
year of 1920 will set more than 10,
000 Instruments filed for record
IS
E
AI SAME LOCATION
The trustees of the Methodist
church have accepted plans submitted
by Tourtellotto ft Hummel of Port
land to build the church over the
store, which Ih to be put up for Price
Prothers.
At first the trustee considered
plan to put the church on a ground
l" vol at the back of the store; they
alio considered the poisiblllty of He
curing a site on the hill, but for tl
uncial reasons and on account of the
high cost of building material they
have decided to go back us they were.
The outside of the upper story of
the new building will have no ec
coleslastlcal appearance whatever; it
will simply be a plain business block.
The auditorium will be constructed
so that the Sunday school room can
be opened into It on extra occasions,
nccomodatng a large audience.
Later It a church Is built on a new
site these rooms can readily be par
titioned off into office for rental.
SOCIALISTS SORRY FOR REDS
CHICAGO, Jan. 8. The Socialist
party from Its national headquarters
today Issued a statement deploring
the raid against radicals. The ar
rests were termed "the greatest blow
yet struck at the pennanence 01
HERE FOR DfSTRIBUTIfON
OF
hOVER HIS SAFETY
r
t'npial. jm B. Abtirnalhy, of
Sou t He in partner, who was as
sistant to ,i (llennon with the
rank uf Hot. " coinuinder during
the world wal .ho. was connected
with the Fael. v Steamship Company
for several year, I the son of Mr.
May Aliernethy. a former resident ot
Clackamas county, und whose home
win at Jennings l odge.
Captain Abernethy' home was also
formerly of that place, and Is the
grandson of the late Mr and Mrs Her
rlmaii Jennings, early Oregon pioneers,
from which the little settlement of Jen
nlngs Udge receive Its name Hi
mother Is a resident of Seattle, and
I a cousin ot I'm.) M. , Vuru and
Nellie Cautield, of this city
Captain Abernethy, whose home is
at Suuttle, was in command of the
5,500-ton tee steamship Kerwood of
the Kerr Steamship Company of Nw
York when she struck a mine and wa
lost off the Netherlands coast Decem
ber 8. but all lives were saved from
word received by Hie anxious mother
and brother, Don Abernethy, who hi
Just returned to Seattle after serving
as .0. 1 mate In the Shipping Hoard
steamship West Imboden during a
voyage to Italy He made the trip to
tlenoa.
This Is the second marine casualty
experienced by Captain Abernethy, as
he was mat on the teamer Stat of
California when tht veisel wn
wrecked in Hainbler llay, AUika, In
1 913
He Ion Hostile nearly a yeur ago,
sailing the Amos steamship Western
Ally. After arriving on the Eastern
coast, Csptaln Abernethy took com
mand of the Kerwood. a former Aus
trian carrier.
At the time of attending the I'urk
place chool near Oregon City little
did the young man ever realise he
would ever command a big vessel al
though at that time he had the desire
to go to aa at ome future dat.
The steamship In which he wa In
command and sunk b y a mine went to
It destruction an hour after striking
the mine, and the crew wus saved by
fishermen and landed at h'mdeu.
The young man Is well remembered
by hi many friend at Parkplace and
at Jennings I .ode... who were pleased
to bear of hi aafety.
IS CUT OUT BY
1
Nearly $100,000 Increase will be
rulsed by taxation In Clackamas equi ty,
according to figures madd public
Monday, the total or the 1920 budget
being $647,XN5, a against $550,402.03
Inst year.
The heavy Increase Is due to the
market mads measure, under which
the county made a levy of one mill
for the slate, equal to about $29,000,
and a county levy of $.16,000 to more
than match It.
The county court, In its final tie
termination of the budget, made sev
eral alternations from the orlglnul
budget that was presented to the tax
payer meeting The Item of $500
each for the home demonstration
agent and the Hoys nntl Olrls Club
work, increased nl the taxpayers
meeting to $1500, were eliminated en
tirely, as was the $200 increase for
traveling expenses of the county
school superintendent, the original
Item of $300 being fixed by law.
The salaries of the second deputy
In the tax collecting department and
the second and third deputies in tno
county clerk's office were increased
from $85 to $90 per mouth. From
the budget of the sheriff's office a
special deputy allowance of $900 was
eliminated, and the traffic officer wa
transferred to the sheriff's office,
with nn allowance of $2000.
The Horn for investigating crime,
automobile hire and traveling ex
penses was Increased from $1400 to
$2300. All other recommendations
made by the taxpayers at the budget
meeting were approved by the county
court, including the half mill levy
for engineering on roads to bo im
proved under the bonding act.
The court learned that there will
be approximately $12,000 on hand In
the general fund when the taxes be
gin to come in next spring, and this
surplus enabled the court to find
funds to meet this recommendation.
The state tax for Clackamas county
amounts to $149,907.
M'ADOO 18 OUT OF IT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. William Q.
McAdoo will not enter the Democratic
primary for the presidential nomina
tion. He is not even in a receptive
mood and will shun the party mantle
If he sees it falling his way.
Though the position of the former
secretary of the treasury and director
general of railways has been causing
much speculation in Democratic ranks
and much concern to the Democratic
aspirants, it Is learned that he has
determined to stay out of politick.
Mr McAdoo is- the only Democratic
alblll
Y
Concerning Mr. Hagemann
H. W. Hagemann, who is evidently losing sleep
over his ambition to become deputy road master for
District No. 5, waxes wroth over a news story in a rec
ent issue of The Enterprise, in which it was stated that
many of his neighbors were opposed to his aspirations
and he requires one and one-half columns in the last is
sue of our esteemed contemporary, the Banner-Courier,
to tell the people the real situation.
Let us say at the outset, for the benefit of Mr. Hage
mann and those who play his game, that we have the
same interest in the welfare of District No. 5 as we have
in other districts, and no more. We certainly have no
personal interest in the appointment of any deputy road
master. That is the business and the responsibility of the
county court.
It is our duty, however, as as newspaper, to print
from time to time any matters of concern to the people
of this county, and we shall be forced to disregard, al
together, the feelings of Mr. Hagemann. We will leave
that gentleman to the tender mercies of his neighbors,
who know him better than we do and who have been
keeping this office hot with protests ever since he was
known to be a candidate.
We never did like a quibbler. The tact that Mr.
Hagemann personally did not file a petition for his ap
pointment has little to do with the statement. The peti
tion was filed by Mr. Kohl and we have yet to hear
from Hagemann that he was not fully aware of what
was going on in his' behalf.
Hagemann may have a right as a citizen, to be an
aspirant for deputy road master. The fact that he has
fought every special tax levy in his district for years
makes him poor timber. The fact that he does not en
joy the confidence of his neighbors is nothing to his
credit. His hide is so thin that he rises in his indignation
because it was stated in a newspaper that his own peo
ple are protesting against his political activity. The
people of Logan district question his conduct and his
attitude in relation to very recent events, which is a
question we do not care to pass upon without investiga
tion. Mr. Hagemann does not deny that he attempts to
control the road district meeting, nor does he deny he
seeks to control the road affairs of his district. We be
lieve that the general atttitude of his own immediate
neighbors is such that he would at least lack the co
operation necessary to do efficient work.
HEARING HELD
MONDAY ON
BRIDGE PLANS
At a hearing in the Commercial club
rooms Monday morning before the
district United Slate engineer and
hlti assistants, the plans ot the new
bridge acroes the Willamette river
connecting Oregon City and West
Linn were submitted, with reference
to the clearance above water ot the
proposed structure. Capt. R J. Young,
of the Willamette Navigation Co.. and
Captain I, W. Exou represented the
river steamboat interest.
The new bridge will have about the
same clearance a the present struc
ture, with probably a greater clear
ance at the west end. where the chan
nel runs.
The hearing was largely a formal
ity that is usual pending the con.
st ruction of a new bridge over ja
navigable stream.
PRINTER IS INVENTOR
RAYMOND, Wash., Jan. 5. O. E.
Kennedy, mechanical superintendent
of the Raymond Herald, has perfect
ed nn automatic space-band cleaner to
attach to the linotype machine which
he says will clean and polish a full
set ot thirty spacebauds in five min
utes. Mr. Kenedy has applied for a
patent.
General Pershing Surrounded by Crowd in
Laclede, Mo., has welcomed Gener -
al John J. Porshln,
M'NARY SUGAR
BILL SIGNED
BY PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON. Jan. 1. President
Wilson has signed the McNary bill ex
tending for one year the life of the
sugar equalisation board, it was an
nounced at the White House today.
At the same time a statement was is
sued at the White House saying that
it is doubtful whether It will be prac
icable for the president to use the
power conferred so far as to the pur
chase and distribution ot sugar are
concerned. This would still leave in
operation the power to control prices,
which, according to the statement is
sued by Secretary Tumulty, have
reached their peaks.
Unless the president had approved
the McNary bill .the sugar equaliza
tion board would have passed out of
existence today. At the White House
it was said the president had signed
the measure before midnight.
ISLANDS FEEL QUAKE
MADRID. Jan. 5. Earthquake
shocks were felt in the interior of
the Canary islands yesterday, ac
cording to dispatches from Las
Palmos. Great crevices were opened
in the earth, from which columns of
smoke are Issuing. A volcanic erup
tion is feared.
1 monies and formalities, but the com -
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Can Run Autos With
Residue of Wood Pulp,
Says Canadian Official
That Canadians soon will be run
ning 'heir automobiles on denatured
alcohol instead of gasoline is the pre
diction ot Professor A. B Macallum,
administrative chairman of the Honor
ary Advisory Council for ScienUc and
Industrial Research. He says that
Canada's pulp mills, by ptillxing the
sulphite liquor, could supply 5,000.000
gallons annually.
T
A 'PRETTY PENNY'
WASHINGTON. Jan. 3 A grand
total of 127.920.300 for prohibition en
forcement and to carry the campaign
into other countries of the world is
what the budget of the anti-saloon
league provides for the next year, ac
cording to the American Issue.
Of this sum 118.360.000 will be ex
pended within the United States in
law enforcement periodicals, books,
pamphlets, personal canvassing, mass
meetings and other details; $6,860.
300 will go for pan-American prohibi
tion in Mexico, the West ludies. Cen
tra, and South America and $2.00.000
will be expended for world prohibi
tion. The world league against alcohol
ism will undertake the . crusade in
Scotland, Scandinavian countries,
Japan, South Africa and other nations.
KAISER AND FAMILY
EXTRADITION PLANS
LONDON. Jan. 3. The former Ger
man crown prince, who has been
spending the holidays with his par
ents, the ex-kaiser and kalserin, near
Amerongen, took part in family coun
cils which reached decisions regard
ing the extradition of the former em
peror for trial, said a dispatch from
The Hague to the Daily Mail today.
The ex-kaiserin's hope tor recon
ciliation between the former kaiser
and his son has been blocked by the
meager allowance which William is
giving his son.
Home Town in Missouri
1 here, the centre ot an admiring crowd
YOUNG PEOPLE ESCAPE
BIF DEATH AS
Walter I .arson, Lloyd Junken and
Mis Elie Snidow, well known young
people of Willamette, met with a
miraculous escape from death at Sa
lem on Sunday afternoon, when the
automobile in which they were riding
was struck by a Southern Pacific
train.
The young men were accompanying
Mi Snidow to Monmouth, where i.he
was to resume her studies at the Ore
gon SUte oNrmal, having but on
more month to complete her ourse
at the institution, and as the road
runs parallel along the S. P. track
until it reaches the crossing near the
fair grounds.
The curtain of the automobile woto
drawn and the weather being some
what foggy, the young man driving
the car failed to see the train coming
toward the crossing, and was not
aware of the incoming train until he
had driven his car onto the track in
making the crossing. He endeavored
to clear the track, but the engine
struck the rear wheels of the automo
bile, and threw the car about 125 feet
from the track, throwing the young
people from the car.
l.ar-on and Junken received pain
ful bruises, the former receiving a
severe gash on the head, necessitat
ing a number of stitches to close the
weund.
Miss Snidow suffered two fracture
of the arm, and it was first thought
she wa internally Injured, but after
a thorough examination at the Salem
hospital, where she was conveyed
soon after the accident occurred, it
was found that she wa suffering from
a broken arm and from the shock.
She is reported to be resting easily
at the hospital and will be able to re
turn to her home at Willamette about
Wednesday afternoon.
Miss Snidow is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. George L. Snidow, of Will
amette, whose brother. George Sni
dow, was killed in France about two
years ago.
Mr. Larson ly the son of Mr. and
Mr. Olaf Larson, of Willamette.
Mr. Junken is the son of Mr. and
Mrs R A Junken, being a well known
contractor of Willamette.
The Chevrolet car is demolished.
and is owned by the Larson family.
January Looks Like
Big Taxpaying Month
January being considered a dull
month in the tax collection office ot
the sheriff office. Tuesday's mail
brought in $1200 for the payment ot
taxe on property in Clackamas
county.
I. I). Taylor, tax collector, and his
assistants. Miss Jessie Paddock and
Miss Ona Renner, have been busily
engaged in checking up since the last
rush in the tax department.
Miss Renner will commence her
duties again in February when the
first payment of the 1919 taxes are
to be received at the office. The tax
levy for 1919 will be 48 mills. 42 hav
ing been for the year of 1918.
During the month of Decembei
$1 2.000 was received in the office for
taxes
LAUREN KNOPP
SERIOUSLY HURT
IN COLLISION
ljuren Knopp. about 19 years old,
is at his home with a fractured skull
and in a serious condition as the re
sult of a collision between his motor
cycle and a Clackamas county road
auto truck Saturday morning at
Fourteenth and Main streets Gerald
Warner, a county employe, was driv
ing the truck.
According to George Morey of Clack
amas station and others who saw the
accident, Knopp approached Main
street at high speed. He was taken
to his home where an examination
was made.
Knopp, according to the police, has
a record for speeding, aud about a
year ago his motorcycle was taken
away from him and kept at the city
hall for a time. He is a son of Mr. and
Mrs. Will Knopp of Fifteenth and
Washington streets. He is an employe
of the Miller-Parker company.
At a late hour Saturday night the
father said the son was resting easier
than in the afternoon but that he haa
not yet regained coscioueess.
Lauren Knopp, son of Mr. and Mrs.
William Knopp, who met with ser
ious injuries on Saturday when he was
riding a motorcycle and was struck by
one of the county's heavy trucks, is
still in a precarious condition at the
Oregon City hospital, and still re
mains unconscious.
Knopp has many friends in this city
who have been much interested in
his condition. He was removed from
the Knopp home on Washington and
Fifteenth street Sunday morning to
the hospital, and is being attended by
Drs. Mount
BUBONIC PLAQUE IN UKRAINE
BUCHAREST, Jan. 5. Bubonic
plague is epidemic in The Ukraine,
according to report
BIG FORTUNE
EACH DAY GOES
OUT WITH IE
IN PULP WATER
Not many people In Oregon realize
that there are more than $5,000 float
ing down the Willamette river Into
the Columbia and out to the sea ev
-ry day, and yet that Is just what I
happening every time the hands of
the clock spin around the hours of a
day.
Every place where wood pulp mills
are located with the exception of one
in Kimberly. Wisconsin, the same
condition obtain, and the only reas
on that it Is not happening In this one
place Is because that mill is utilising
to some extent at least the waste
water from their sulphite mill.
Canadian mill experts and the
chemists in paper mills throughout
this country and Canada know of
these condition and right now are
working to the end that this wastage
be stopped. One Canadian authority
whose picture ia nsed herewith state
that in Canada alone the pulp mills
could produce 5.000,000 gallon of
ethyl or wood alcohol annually from
the waste sulphite water.
Mr. H. R Heuer. chemist of the
Hawley Pulp & Paper company was
seen Tuesday by a representative ot
the Enterprise and was asked about
this matter. He then gave out the fol
lowing statement.
'It is very true that a great deal
ot valuable material is contained in
the waste sulphite water from the
pulp mills. The wood is put Into re
torts in small granulated particles
and here It is treated chemically to
extract obnoxious substances such as
turpentine. Great quantities of water
are used in this process. In the Kimb
erly mill this water is drawn off into
vats, fermented and distilled and
this process gives the by-product
commercially known as wood alcohol.
"Wood alcohol. It is estimated by
some of the great chemists of the
country, can be produced by distilla
tion at a cost not to exceed 18 cents
per gallon, whereas it is now quoted
locally at $1.50 per gallon.
"It is estimated also that about one
per cent denatured alcohol can be
secured by distilling the sulphite
water. In our own mill this would
amount to about 1.200 gallons of
alcohol per day and at the Crown
Willamette the utput would be In
the neighborhood of 1.600 gallons per
day.
"Wood alcohol is only one of the
numerous by-products which could be
taken from this waste water that is
now going out into the river. Not
many people know that the famous
TNT perhaps the most powerful ex
plosive known to mankind, is one of
the by-products from this sulphite
water Manufacturers even make per
fumery from this water.
"The great hindrance to the sav
ing of these by-products is the great
expense attached to the Installing of
a plant to effect the saving ot the
by-products. In the wool alcohol mat
ter, with out output it would be neces
sary to build hundreds of tanks in
which to store the water for a suf
ficient length of time to permit it
fermentation before being distilled.
"The saving of these by-products,
however, is one of the big things that
the paper men of this nation are now
seriously considering and I predict
that the day Is not far distant when
raipd strides in the elimination of
this? waste will be taken."
TAX LEVY FOR
OREGON CITY IS
FORTY EIGHT MILLS
Clackamas county's tax levy will be
22.2 mills, an increase of 3.3mills
over last year, and the tax levy In
Oregon City will be 48 mills, while
that of West Linn will be 50.2 mills.
All road districts of the county, ex
cept District No. 1, will have a levy
of 32.2 mills, plus the special school
district levy and the general high
school levy of .002 mills on all prop
erty outside of high school districts.
Gladstone will have a levy of 40.2
mills, and Milwaukie 49.2 mills. West
Unn has not only the general county
levy, but a special city levy, a spec
ial school district levy and a special
union high school levy.
CAMPAIGN OPENED
..CHICAGO, Jan. 5 N H. Fairbanks,
chairman of the Ohio Republican
State Central committee, opened tem
porary headquarters here yesterday
for the campaign of Senator Warren
G. Harding, of Ohio, for the pres
idential nomination, and announced