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IOIKECdON city enter Baca wk U SntaryrU carries a fuU resum o( the a or (mutual needs or tanning seopls riulro Mia a mdlum a the col- uimia of the KnterprUe. Try a cliinKlflod ad. rifTY rOURTH YEAR No. . OREGON CITY, OREGON. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1920. ESTABLISHED 1MI To buy and sell lb una- 4 PR Hi WILL BE GIVEN TO LOCAL MEN LIVE WIRES TO ASSIST STATE CHAMBER BODY C, C. Chnpman, editor of thn Oregon VuliT of Portland, addressed tho Live WJn-s of tti Commercial club at their' weekly luncheon today noon, with th work tif the Oregon Slate Chamber of Commerce as hit thi-tno. Ongou City has not dotio Its shars In suimortlnir the organization, nnd tt Countable Ed Fortune and Ka i, .,,lnln thn attim of I ho IkkIv ardnoii of Oregon City stand ojfyFj that Mr, Chapman spokf. $7,f.0u nwnrd wwh today t." "fy The Mve Vr, who hud previous thnlr -tfort In locating John IVJq. wed to not support the orgnnias- ty. Intertiallotml thief and kldnnu 0.". In it and wanted In Toronto, H. C, f. mealing I no.ooo lit bonds, and nc vntM'd of kidnapping one of tho wwtlthlest m i' it In Canada, llo wild nrrtt In hit room at tho homo of J. 1. Utraln. 4th nnd I'littf atro H. yiMtrdtty evening hy Chluf Mitchell, of Toronto, who htid hiwtt called to Osteon City hy a wire from Fortune Mtutlllff tll.it llU ItllUI Willi IllTlV I' 'i-l. f Doughty w a a o tn -ploynd a t tho Itnwlov iiitlU and for t h pant ten duya Fort ii n a had I. 14 It It Lit II It, J tt : . ' ttiK him un . ,jt- - dP aurvell limn for a Kd. Fortune 4.luiu,e t(, .. DottKtity whh hi hut off. o thut he ,-oiild compare hi failure with Hl-titrit an tit out from the Canadian Police iKiilcjiiurtxr. l.nt Monday. Fortune K"t n rhawe to i Doughty up dose with htit hat off and Immed iately r'i oKiiz"d biro in tho niiin. lln wlr.il the rhlr f detectives at Toronto to emtio to n?n City at imco ami arrest thi fugitive. Chief Mltihcll tirrlvi-d from Caundu laxt nU:ht. and ai-companh d hy Fort uns went to Ihiunhty'u rootna. Mltc-h-. rapix-d uitoit the tloor find I'ouKhty oM-tn U It nnd utoml In tlio doorway. Iltlio. -hli't," nald lioughty. "How arn you; lii-n IihiUIiik for you ovir two roittlimtitH," aiinworrd Mlt t hi'l! a ho pluri-d iKmshty undtT ar riL The prlomr waa taken to Portland ytBtinliiy tifti'moott wtu-ro ho will lonvo hUIi tho iloto.-tlvo for Cittnida to il ny. 1'otiRlity inino to Orison City In Fohntiiry nnd nppliod for work at tho llavili'y mlll, whro ho riivo IiIh iiiiiiv n C. H. Coopor. I In wn oinploycd na ft tnnkiT for hoiiio tlino und latar Kivii a Joh In tho tlnio kix-ix-r' of flti, Kd. Illrhnrdaon. who docn odd john for thnllnwli-y company, roniv d a circular nhowlntf lhtiiKhty'a pic turo and doncrlhlitK him In th'tall. Af ter TtUhurdHon rwojsnUod IViUKhty'a likitioi'M to t)m photo, and wit Biitl flod that Uouchty waa thn uwm want ed, he Informed l':'l- Fortuno. who j;i: luiny and vorlllod Itlchnnlnon'a n-M)-t. Tho arrost fidlownd. John DoiiKhly, allua Coopi'r, I wnniiil In Toronto, 11. C, for the tlmft of f ltiti.ono In Ciininllnn tKiml nnd ac ctidod In connection with tho disap pearance of Aiuhroso Joaeph Small, a millionaire Canadian, Small wont to a theatre with Iotighiy ono night In Toronto and him Jiot been heard of alnco. Smiill a wifo ponied a reward of $15.0(10 for Information lending to the arrest of 1oughty. who waa prlvatfl aecretnry to tho iiiIhhIiik man for aeveral yeara- According to n Hlatotnetit of tho Canadian dotoctlvo. a world wide Monrt li hna been In pro (irons for tho pnat two years, and evon Kiirom hna boon woured to locnto tho man. When Chief Mltcholl arrived hero yflHU-rilay ovonlng, ha told Cimstnhh Fortuno that 'ha rfid not expect IKnighty, alias Cooper, to he tho man. hut waa not ovnrlooklng a bet. ao enmo to Oregon City on the off chniico of locating him. During Doitghiy'a atay In Oregon City he made many friends nnd was well liked by his fellow workmen. He played pool every evening In one Of tho pool halls on Main street hero nnd did not aeom to ho worried over hlB capture by tho authorities. M ono suspected that ho was wanted and being searched for over two con tinents by tho authorities; ho minded his own ImslncHa and was courtooua nnd gentlemanly In his hearing. According to (Vrtabla Fortune, Doughty Is a well educntod and bril liant man. Unforo making away with tho $100,000 in bonds he hold a very reaponslbln position In Toronto with tho Small corporation. He drew down big money and his employer waa In ternationally known among the theatro magnates of tho United Stat , os and Canada. Small nonlly sold out his theatre intoroatg for over one million dollnra. - Constable Fortune Bald lat night that ho would split the reward fifty fifty with Richardson, who first tip ped him off to DotiRhty's Identity. TORONTO, Out., Nov. 23. Tho Bud don diaapimamnce of Ambrose J. flmull, theatrical magnate a ynr ago, and his secretary, John Doughty, was ono of the most mystifying oaaea in police annals. A world-wide Bearch for Smnll waa Instituted and a reward of $fi0,000 for the return of tho miss ing man or his doad body waa of fered, but without success. Small, who was the owner of a number of playhouses In thla city, disposed of his Interests la.ft year, receiving in part payment a check a drive ror runus in wro- today reversed tnoir optn- hearliitf the talk by Mr (J, vl pasM-d a motion plodg 'if thn ntovi'tiiotit A lug tomiii. appoltti?d conslBtlna of O, I , lmifl Ailntim, M. D. IjilountttV -Will T. Wright, and John It. Humphry, to confer with official of tliu chamber and plan ways and means for rontiectlng tho work of thu lix'iil organization with that of tho atato. .1, W. llrewor and (Jeorpo Kvenain, officials of Die State Chambor if Ct)iu mone were alxo guosta at the lunch eon. KulTrunk Hiiywond Caufleld pretded In the ahsemo of Main Trunk ltnlph Parker. Tho committee on li)Ve:iiii;nton of tho moral condi tion of the city ahkml for another week In hlh to report their limb lni; Tho HiitHijil K.-d Cross ChrlMmaa rol call was culled to tho attention of the Wires by llev. II. O. Kdjjar, who a"ked (i,., siipiio-t of tho individ ual members in putting the campaign Bcrvrt hero In good chape. MAYO GIVEN 15 DAYS IN JAIL HERE TUESDAY Officer lmg picked up three men near Wichita station Tuesday even ing about lO;no o'clock and lodged theni In the county jail a suspicious characters. A search of tho prison ers brought t light a complete burg lr' outfit. Including a largo ca'iber revolver belonging to Mayo. Th uum wero brought before Judgo Stlpp this morning and Mayo was riven 15 day In Jal for carrying concealed weap ons. The other two we-o allowed to go. Officer Uing's attention was call ed to tho me,, after resident in the Milwauklo district had complained of the three men prowling around the neighborhood. C0UN1T NURSE OUT ON TOUR 0F INSIECTI0N Miss Isabel Hums, county health nurse, will tart on a tour of nspet. Hon today which will Include several districts n tho northern part of the county. She will bo accompanied by Mrs. Schreyor, associate stale ad visor. During tho past week. Miss Hums reported (m the condition of tho school children In tho Mnrquam and Molalla districts and contends that about eighty per cent of them have defective teeth, which have boon sadly neglected. The people generally over Clacka mas county have received t.h() nurse In the proper manner and have been glad to loam of different methods for "safeguarding the public health. Miss Hums travels over many parts of the county each day In a Ford. A Loss To Oregon The resignation of S. Benson from the state high way commission is a distinct loss to Oregon. The dean of the commission loved the work, and was able to take the great amount of time necessary for the attention it deserved. His interest in the improvement of the roads of Oregon was backed by his money, and he spent many thousands of dollars to put across road construction where public funds were not available or were not suf ficient. His vision was broad and he possessed that creative foresight, coupled with firm convictions that gave to Oregon a public servant of value. Clackamas county will miss Mr. Benson. It was he who insisted upon the completion of the Pacific High way from Washington to California, ahead of second ary roads. 'Die failure of his associates on the commis sion to place this great trunk road in front of those of lesser importance brought about the withdrawal of Mr. Benson, who recognized the necessity of finishing a road that is a link of the great Pacific Coast nation-to-nation thoroughfare. He was friendly to this county, not only because he wanted the Pacific Highway paved from the Multnomah line to the Marion boundary but he was willing to help with state funds for the construc tion of costly bridges that are bound to bear through traffic. While other members of the commission have not agreed with him, he accepted the theory that no county should be expected to finance the grading of a state road and the building of its bridges, and he also recognized the out-standing fact that Clackamas has been liberal in the expenditure of its money, having the highest general road tax in the state and on top of that -special taxes in many districts. Mr. Benson has had no axes to grind on the high way commission, and he has set a sterling pace for his successor. SEVEN DISTRICTS IN COUNTY VOTE ADDITIONAL TAX FATE STOCK MEN OF COUNTY RECEIVE MANY AWARDS ABOUT 4 PER CENT OF TAX STILL DUE A record has been established this year by tho county tax department which la tho best of any year In th-j history of Clackamas county. Out of tax roll for the year 1919, only about 4 per cent of tho money Is still due and unpaid. It Is alleged that only about 2 per cent will be come delinquent. SILVERTON MEN PAY $1650 FOR BLOODED CALF Fox Brothers, of Sllverton, bought the bull calf. Old Man's Darling ditto bcrt Second, for tho sum of $16,r0 yes terday at the Livestock Exposition. Th0 calf was owned by Plckford Bros., of Marlon. Oregon, and took , first prlzo at tho show this week. SUES ON NOTE E. Vj. Herdlno has entered suit to recover money alleged due on a note given by L. A. Jacobs for $150 In March last year. The plaintiff alleg es that, only $(!0 has been paid on ths paper nnd that a balance of $00 Is due and asks tho court to allow lira $50 attorney's fees. Doth principals live at Mulino. for $1,000,000. The chock was taken to tho bank and nothing more was seen of Small. A few days later his secretat-y also disappeared. It was re ported a few days ago that he had been seen In Portland, Or,, and that an officer had gone to the coast city in an effort to Hocate him. One of the outstanding features at the close of the International Live stock Kxprwltlon at Portland Is that Clackamas county has carried off miir,, lnilivlilu.il prizes th;in any other county In the date. Not only In .the cattle division but in hogs and club work among (hi younger generation. J. C Kiinzman, of Oregon City, who la proprietor of the Green Valley farm on route 3, waa given several first, second nnd third prizes for his showing of pure bred Hampshire hogs, nnij also two chain plonslilps medals were awarded to his brood sow, "Krullta Model" nnd tho boar "Mack Foot Prime." The Ctwrtiftcy and Jersey herds from here were awarded prizes and the Hughes exhibit of Guernseys car ried off first prizo over group herds from several different counties. COUNTY QUOTA FOR RED CROSS SET AT S18&L90 Yv Red, Qross t'nlstmna seals will have to be still tj-vry "person In Clackamas county in order to ralso the quota set for this district of $!S1.90. The campaign started yes terday, and already several large donations have been received by the o-ganization here. Plans are per fected to canvas every district In Ore gon City by the end of next week and it is expected that the quota for the county will be raised in record time. Miss CIs Barclay Pratt and Mrs. Oardnlcr hv-e charge of the work and have appointed several "live wires" over the county as precinct chairmen. MARRIED Axel Albert Larson. 34, and Mis Matilda Wtonour, 2S, both of Oregon City, secured a marriage license from County Clerk Miller yesterday. The first seven road districts In Clackamas county to bold meetings for the purpose of voting special road levies have favored a tax, five of them 10 mills and the other two eight mills. Meetings will be held thU week in other sections, as there have been district meetings called in 40 of the 41 ronntry road dls'rlcts. While the amounts proposed to be expended in the various diatricta are approxi mately correct, they are not final and muiit wait until the county assessor's office rH.-eivs the valuations form the office of the state tax commis sion. Districts so far reporting to the county clerk's office are: District No. 11. Oswego and Haz i.Ua-10 mills, $TSr(i on the Waukr,' Briar wood, Oregon City, Borland, Oswego town roads. Old Town roads and streets. District No. 1j. Mountain Road school house 10 mills, $4S00 on the following roads. South Canyon, $loOfi;' DeBok, IKiO; Tualatin, $230; DeNeul. S"0O; Perry, $700; F- Koallermeier, $200; ifoinz. $500; S. Kelser, $300; Shafer, $1000. District No. 2510 mil's. Cut-off road, $300; Foster road, $1300; Rock Crock. $000; Sunnyslde, $350; Hen rich, $200; Oregon City, $300; tola', $'.',7.30. District No. 5S, Sandy Ridge -10 mills, Erickson road. 20 per cent; Oregon City, 20 per cent; Cross, 30 per cent; Barnsteadt, 10 per cent; Rezzalo. 10 per cent; Sandy Ridge, 10 per cent. District No. 33, Abernethy 8 mills, Uvesay Toad, $300; Clackamas Heights. $300; Holeomb. $350; Maple lane, $100; Washington, $100; Park place, $300; Foraey, $300; paving on county road at Parkplace, $700; total, $2450. These proposed improvements do not exhaust the district appropri ation and the taxpayers have coa- 1 eluded to spend the balance of "the money available on maintenance, which is something that has not been done heretofore District No. 33, Redland 10 mill Funk road, $300; Carlson and Eggrl road, $300; balance on main road. District No. 5, south end of county 8 mills. Canby and Macksburg road. 4 mills; balance to be divided equally on four roada Poc.uliar Incidents which have happened In this dty go to show that one man may be down and 4 the other up according to fate 4 or circumstances. About three years ago D. E- (Jack) Frost was ' constable of this district and in the campaign Ed Fortune filed for the office. Fortune was elec- ted and at the last election was re elected over Frost on the den ocratlc ticket. Today Fortune stands to receive a reward of more than $7500 for the capture of an alleged International crook, while Frost will face the next grand Jury of Clackamas county on the charge of manslaughter -e for shooting a rrtan who resisted arrest. CANK MAN E:GN SALEM, Or., Nov. 23. Mill H. Ben nett, state superintendent of banks, tendered his resignation to the state banking board, of which Governor 01 cott is chairman, to become effective December 31. AN UNPRECEDENTED OFFER During the period of our Special Bargain Week you may secure the OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE ISSUED WEEKLY at a special one-half price rate, oppliable to old and new subscribers THIS IS OUR OFFEK You may secure a year's subscription to the Oregon City Enterprise during the period commencing November 18th, 1920, and ending November 30th, 1920, at just one-half the regular rate, provided your subscription is not in arrears. Thus you secure the paper for one year for only .' ....."!. ....".... 7 Bq WITH THIS PROVISION: Remember that your back subscription must be paid up to within the current year. If you are in arrears you may take advantage of this special price by paying up to date at the usual rate of $1.50 per annum," and then in advance for as many years as you care to at the special half-price rate of 75c dur ing the dates. - - November 18th to 30th, 1920 Remember that this half-price bargain offer holds good only between the dates of November 18th and 30th. Act now! A whole year's reading for 75c. OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE OREGON CITY, OREGON n u u B B n H u H H U n H H n n H U B H n B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B B CLUB TO PROBE POSSIBILITIES OF BERRY INDUSTRY Five members of the Oreeon Cit Commercial club will be appointed io investigate the p-oposition of the Phez Company, submitted to the Hoard, of Governors by Pen Kuppea bender at a special meeting Monday night. The indorsememnt of the club is tx-ing sought for a plan to encoim age the planting of Clackamas county acreage to loganberries and strawberries. The Commercial club proposes to nave its committee, after making a thorough Investigation, report liack to the Clackamas County Develop ment League, and ask that oreaniz- ation to take over whatever details are recommended. The Phez Com pany wants at last 500 acres planted to oerrtes in this county, and will contract for five years at four cents a pound for loganberries, less one third of the cost of nickine. which ought to net the grower around three cents, or a minimum, with carefm sno intensive cultivation of about $350 an acre, but the conrnanv d- slres each grower to subscribe for preferred 7 per cent stock, at the rate of $30 for each acre planted. The com pany la also asking the business men of Oregon City to take $25,000 worth of preferred stock. Dr. L. A. Morris. president of the Commercial club has taken the personnel of committee under advisement. The president, secretary and chair man of the house committee were given authority to employ a successor to Arne G. Rae, collector and stew ard of the -club, as he leaves about January 1 for Eugene to enter the University of Oregon. Mr. Rae wi'l take a cou'se ia the School of Journal Ism, and will be emDloved in his spare time by the Morning Register at Eugene. COUNTY COURT TO LET C0IPT0N GO DECEMBER 1 H. C. Compton, acting road master of Clackamas county, will be relieved from duty December 1, the county court taking the position that his salary of $200 a month can be saved during the winter months when there is comparatively little road work be ing done. Mr Compton was appoint ed road master following the resigr- nation of Thomas A. Roots, and was given the subordinate position of dis trict engineer after the passage ot the $1,700,000 road bond measure a year ago, when Harold A. Rands was named to head the road organization. Mr. Rands, however, could not re concile his operations with the coun ty court and he resigned, and since then the court has not filled the place, though Compton has perform ed the duties. Active direction of the road work will be performed by the members of the county court, through the several deputies scattered in every section of the county. Comp ton was the last link In the organiz ation that was formed to handle the engineering incident to th expendi ture of the money to be derived from the sale of the road bonds, which were invalidated by the supreme court. LOSTMAYrOR IS FOUND DEAD IN WOODS SUNDAY ' AKi;uiVL'K, ISOV. Z6, Willi a white handkerchief knotted about the th-oatr the body of O- A. -Perclval, missing, mayor , ot. Vancouver, waa found hanging to a small tree in the dense woods of lladyen island, near the Spokane, Portland . & Seattle bridge over the Columbia river near Vancouver yesterday afternoon. The discovery was made by 0. F. Williams of Kenton, who had been visiting a farm house in that vicinity. On his way back to Kenton, Williams took a short cut through the woods and came upon the body of the former Vancouver, Wash., mayor, about 100 yards from the bridge on the Oregon side ot the river. Mr. "Williams immediately notified Coroner Smith, and Deputy Coroner Goetsch went out to take charge of the body. It was positively identi fied later as the body of Mr. Perclval. iUHTEII IS CHARGED 111 WARRANT Alec DeYoung, who was shot hers last Sunday evening by D. E. Frost, while attempting to flee from an of ficer, died at the Oregon City hospit al yesterday morning at 6:00 o'clock from the effects of the bullet wounds and contracted pneumonia. The re mains have been taken to Portland by the Kenworthy funeral directors and the funeral will be held Friday afternoon at 2:00 o'clock from the undertaking parlors of Brady ft De Moss, In Oregon City. Interment will take place in the Mountain View Frost is now held for manslaughter and will be tried be fore the next grand Jury of 'Clacka. mas county. His bail has been fixed at $SOOO. It is reported that Frost is confined to his home, a nervous wreck over the affair and the doc tors in attendance upon him report that he is in a bad way. J Dr. Welch, who performed the oper ation to remove the bullets from De Young's body, reports that the man was also suffering from pneumonia and between the wounds and the dis ease he was unable to recover from the shock. ' ; DeYoung was shot when hie at tempted to get away from Night Of ficer Surfus last Sunday evening. As the fleeing man ran past Frost and Wm. Weismandel, who were standing at the entrance to the Moose club, Frost attempted to stop him. DeYoung struck Frost in the stomach and after running a short distance further, Frost called out "Halt." The man kept on running and Frost shot twice from his revolver, both bullets taking effect DeYoung was taken to the hospital where he died Tuesday morning. Officer Surfus, who tried to arrest DeYoung, refuses to talk of the af fair and alleges that he will tell what he knows at the trial before the jury. According to report, the next grand Jury of Clackamas county will be call ed some time in January, when Frost will be arraigned at that time for triaL BLOOD TELL IN T PROFESSOR ALLEGES "Blood Will Tell" is the heading under which James Dryden, Professor of poultry husbandry at O. A. C., de scribes the success of a Pacific coast millionaire and an expert poultrymau in running one of the biggest trap nested flocks in the world, in the Country Gentlemen for October 23. The investment in the business is $63,000. Eggs from one of the breeding pens sell at $2 each. One illustration shows a day's egg production 5S95 eggs from 9322 hens. The breeding stock was from high record, trap nested hens with long pedigrees behind them, and Professor Dryden calls this use of them "put ting heridity to work." He has written a number of special poultry articles for the Country Gentlemen and ia pre paring still others. IMNIED- INDUSTRY IN COUNTY 0. D. Eby. Raymond Cauffeld, O. E. Ferytag, G. B. Dimlck and Judge Thos. F. Ryan have been appointed a com mittee to make an investigation of the proposition of the Phez Company look ing to the planting of acreage in Clackamas county to logan berries and strawberries and to the. sale ot stock in the company. HUGE SUM SPENT ON CLACKAMAS COUNTY ROADS .. ... ........ 7 ; In the last seven years ending January 1,-1920, Clackamas" county has Jevied and expended $2,366,361. 06, aside from the funds spent In ex cess of the appropriations and for which warrants of ftidebtedness have been issued. Beginning January 1, 1913, and cbvering the seven-year period, the county has levied $1,671, 762.22 in the general and district road fund upon all of the property in, the county and $694,598.34 in special taxes. In the first three years commenc ing Jn 1913 th9 general road levy was eight mills, for the two years follow, ing it was seven mills. In 1919 9.3 mills and last year 9.7 mills, believed to be the heaviest, millage of any county in Orprnp .fTr