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OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE
Published Every Friday.
E. E. BRODIE, Editor and Publisher.
DOCTORS SUED
FOR $50,000 BY
HUGHS. MOUNT
CAPTAIN BARCLAY HAS WONDERFUL
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Divide Clackamas
(Taken from the Oregon Voter)
"Taxation "Without Representation"
was the slogan of the Clackamas
County divisionists during the cam
paign for the creation of Cascade
County before the legislature of ,1917.
The slogan, sums up the situation
today and is responsible for the Clack
amas division and Multnomah an
nexation measures facing the 1921
session.
During the '17 session, the propon
ents of Cascade County put up a
game but losing fight. They suf
ficiently well promoted their cause
that H. B. 165 for the creation of
Cascade County passed the House by
a vote of 43 to 13. However, Oregon
City succeeded in defeating the meas
ure in the senate.
The secessionists, at that time were
well fortified with a wealth of evid
ence in the form of statistics, the re
sult of an audit of the county's re
cords. Their claim was that that
portion of the county remote from
Oregon City, the county seat, waa
not getting a square deal either In
the proportion of expenditures ot
their tax monies or of representation
in county government
These statistics made a deep im
pression, having been obtained and
ably presented to the legislature by
one of the state's leading firms of
public accountants.
However, during the session, East
ern Clackamas, that part desiring
secession, was not entirely witnoui
representation, for it had succeeded
in having elected one of itz ablest
residents, H. C. Stephens of Estacada.
Since then, however, it has never
been able to be represented and such,
its champions fear, will likely to the
condition so long as Oregon City con
trols the balance of voting power.
In the case of Clackamas x;ounty
the need of division appears more
than as to many of the other large
Oregon counties, for its county seat
is situated away from the arteries of
travel between Eastern Clackamas
and Portland, which is the geographic
al and logical trading point. It is
even necessary for Eastern Clacka
mas residents to pass) through Port
land In order to reach their county
seat.
Oregon City is a typical county
seat, manufacturing town. It is one
of the oldest in the Northwest and for
years has been the headquarters of
one of the strongest political or
ganizations that ever manipulated a
rural constituency. Its manufactur
ing interests alone employ a suf
ficient army of transient workers,
most of whom axe non-taxpayers and
susceptible to voting control, thereby
providing a strong defense against
county division by either the ballot
or legislative representation.
Eastern Clackamas divisionists
feel that they have all of the require
ments necessary for self government,
including sufficient population, as
sessed valuation, area and, last but
not least, "pep" or ability. Also, they
contend, their proposed county if
established would leave sufficient
population, valuation and area in the
remaining parent county.
"While too often advertised by the
opponents of division as a vast sec
tion whose only resources consist oi
timber, Eastern Clackamas is in real
ity one of the oldest agricultural dis
tricts of the state, with thousands ot
acres of well cultivated farms and
orchards with a number of flourish
ing towns as trading centers. While
it has an abundance of timber withm
its boundaries, the most of it lie
within the confines of the government
reservations. It also has other valu
able resources, among them being
the Clackamas river, with its present
quota of hydro-electric plants and its
possibilities for further hydraulic de
velopment. In all, that section of
Clackamas county has an assessed
valuation of about eight million dol
lars and for years has been a source
of taxation which it is, contended has
been too largely expended in other
parts of the county.
The very fact that division, or an
nexation is constantly and perpetual
ly brewing in Clackamas county, with
the eastern portion having made two
or three futile attempts within the
past decade by legislative or state
wide vote, is evidence that a con
dition exists, that can only be rectified
to the satisfaction of its residents by
the creation of a separate unit of
government in that far from the
county seat section or by annexation
to Multnomah County.
History shows that the smaller the
unit of government, the better and
more economically the functions of
same are administered. This is en
tirely due to the personal equation,
for the nearer the seat of government
Is to -those governed, the more Inter
est is taken in its operation and the
closer its revenues and expenditures
are watched.
It Is doubtful if county division can
be effected in Oregon today under the
existing procedure, either by legis
lative action or by obtaining a 65 per
cent favorable vote of the residents
within the proposed new coHnty anil
a 35 per cent vote of those of the re
maining parent county. Even a much
larger favorable vote could be ob
tained within the proposed new coun
ty, bat to obtain a 35 per cent favor
able sentiment from the ranks of the
opponents is almost an Impossibility
and the fathers of the Oregon statut
es well knew that it would safeguard
their Interests.
One reason why the present laws
remain unchanged and why legis-
lative relief Is -unlikely ls that the
-; Captain "W. Charles Barclay, well
known sea captain and son of early
Oregon pioneers, the late Dr. and
Mrs. Forbes Barclay, who re
cently arrived in Oregon City to visit
his sisters, Mrs. W. E. Pratt and
Miss Katie Barclay is throughly en
joying his visit In Oregon City, where
he spent his boyhood days, and visit
ing among his old time friends.
Captain Barclay has brought with
him his valuable collection of curios
and relics from the Philippine Islands,
a room in the old historical home of
the Barclay family in this city having
been set aside for the present for the
disDlay of the handsome . collec
tion, which has been collected from
the time Captain Barclay arrived at
the Islands..
The collection, which has been ar
tistically arranged, has been viewed
by many friends of the captain. A
portion of the room is entirely devot
ed to musical instruments of the
natives, while another part has been
set aside for reptiles, baskets, hand
somely carved brass, various sized
and shapes of war weapons and chairs
made from the fibre of the island.
Noticeably among the collection
will be seen a cobra, fourteen feet
long, one of the most venomous
reptiles in the Philippine Islands; a
python, another reptile, fifteen feet
in length killed with a club by Cap
tain Barclay; a water snake, 3a
feet in length that was killed by a
lad and presented to the sea captain.
There are also a number of lizards in
the collection of reptiles, among
these being an iguana. One of the
peculiar looking animals he has 13 a
kangaroo rat, similar to the kangaroo
from which it receives its name; a
spider crab, porcupine fish, flying
foxes, noses of several large sawfish,
similar to the sword fish; goat horns
from the wild goats of the Himalaya
mountains; horns from a caraboa
that measure six feet from tip to tip;
fruit bat, four feet from tip to feet;
turtle, whose shell measures over
three feet long. There are various
sized and species of fish that have
been handsomely mounted, and many
brass trays of unusual size and
beauty.
In the collection of war weapons
many of them have been used in
some of the big battles, and are
among the highly prized relics of
Captain Barclay, for there is a his
tory attached to each. Among the
majority of Oregon counties are to a
greater or lesser extent similarly
dominated by countyvseat political
control, which often means that re
presentatives favorable to county
seat domination are elected. They
naturally can hardly be expected to
favor division of a neighboring coun
ty, for fear of a similar secession
movement in the home precincts.
Deschutes county did succeed in
creating itself a few years ago by the
voting method, but it was primarily
due to the great lumber manufactur
ing development of the City of Bend,
which so attracted population that
sufficient voting power was obtained
to win the election against the thlniy
populated, vasit parent county of
Crook.
Eastern Clackamas wants a separ
ate county. Other sections of Clack
amas, and several of them much near
er Oregon City, ask for annexation to
Multnomah county, their reasons be
ing one and the same -namely relief
from county-seat domination and a
right to have their property within a
county which will give them in re
turn what they feel is fair expenditure
of their taxes. These dissenting fac
tions have now united in hopes that
some scheme can be evolved that will
furnish relief, whether it be annex
ation or county division or both.
FORUM OF THE PEOPLE
GLADSTONE, OreL, Feb. 11.
(Editor of the Enterprise) We see
by this morning's Enterprise that the
tax payers' have a friend in the legis
lature in Representative Shank.
More power to him and others like
him with Clackamas county about
$350,000 in debt and interest on same
at 6 per cent growing, there is no rea
son that any state or county official
should be increased, seeing that the
cost of living is coming down and
taxes are increasing, and the farmers
have to almost buy thisjtiand every
year paying taxes.
There is an old Scotch proverb
that says, "Many a Nickle Makes a
Muckle." Economy is the road to
prosperity and it is a community as
well as, a individual business. It is
not what a man earns, but what he
saves that counts. We have had
lavish expenditures in public ana
private affairs until we have to call
a halt. The official that is wanting
more salary won't want it next elec
tion. Known yours for economy and
honesty in public and private affairs.
H. S. CLYDE.
Fisherman Gets K. O.
by Game Officer
Somewhat the worse for a fistic en
counter with Ed. H. Clark, district
deputy game warden, Fred Christo
pherson, Id offender, and Jack Swee
ney were fined $100 and $50 respect
ively by District Judge Deich at Port
land yesterday for fishing for
sturgeon under the four-foot limit,
contrary to the state game laws.
Christopherson, who had threatened
Clark in the past, showed a disposi
tion to resist the game warden when
he drew alongside the boat in Mult
nomah slough shortly before 4 o'clock
in the mornlntg. He had been arrested
by Clark three times before. Clark
was alone and when set upon prompt
Iy knocked Christopherson nncon
sclous. When he revived Christopher
son offered the deputy $20 for his
freedom, said Clark, though in court
the offender said he would not be able
to get enough money to pay his fine.
battles in which these were used are
Camp Vickers, 1901, with Captain
Pershing in command; Bayon Cotta
Lanao, 1901, General Baldwin in com
mand; Taraka Valley, 1902, Captain
Pershing in command; Taraka Val
ley, 1903, General "Wood in command;
Lake Butig Lanao, 1902, Captain
Pershing, commander; Bud Daho,
1906, General . "Wood, commander;
Patian Island Sulu Isho, 1909, when
Jarike a renegade, waa killed; Bag
sak, 1913, General Pershing command
er (having been promoted from cap
tain); Sahipas Cotta Jolo, 1913, Cap
tain McNalley, commander; Sahipas
Cotta Jolo, 1913, Captain Parrott,
commander; Johandahs Cotta Hoi,
1913, Captain King, commander;
Mount Ttelipae, 1913 Major Shaw,
commander; Tin Can Camp, 1914;
Tin Can Camp, 1910.
In the collection of fire arms Is one
that is highly prized by Captain Bar
clay, this) being a Matchlock gun 300
years old, with a history in connec
tion There is also a beheading ax,
this being the last beheading official
ax of the last sultan of Cattabato Val
ley. There are shields and arrows,
besides IS varieties . of bolos and
swords.
The captain has sailed on the seas
for the past 47 years. He has been
master for the U. S. transport Lis
cum for the past ten years, being in
the inter-island service. For the
past twenty years he has been in the
transport rervlce, previous to being
master of the Liscum. Among the
vessels he served on are the Seward,
master of the General's dispatch
boat, at that time Duvall was the
general; Mindana, Warren, Merritt
He has been for 27 years, on deep
water ships.
Captain Barclay has been ship
wrecked seven times, and will long
remember the terrible experience ne
endured when off the coast of Africa
in 1879 when the ship went down up
on which he was sailing. The only
survivors were himself, the carpenter
of the ship and the mascot and a pet
dog. They were without food for
four and one-half days when they
were picked up by a passing vessel.
The men had almost given up hope
when rescued. He has sailed the
"seven seas," and has seen much of
the world, and the old sea has pull
ing power, says the captain, and he
will resume his duties as captain of
the Liscum in April.
What to Plant In
Your Garden
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallis, Feb. J.5. Since the
variety of garden vegetables is a big
factor in the success of the garden, a
list of some of the most popular and
widely : grown varieties of leading
garden crops is offered by A. G. Bou
quet, head of vegetable gardening at
the college station. Some of the sorts
such as sweet corn, beets, carrots,
peas, spinach, onions, parsnips,
squash, pumpkins cabbage, brocoll
and lettuce do better from strains
grown in the northwest.
In the following list the varieties
connected by "or" represent a choice
of either, while those bought so con
nected are all to be included:
Beans dwarf green snap Refugee
of Burpees Stringless Pod; dwarf wax
snap Kidney Wax, Black Wax; pole
green snap Kentucy Wonder; pole
mottled snap Dickersons Yount;
shell pole Oregon Pole Lima; shell
dwarf Lady Washington, Red Mexi-
i can.
Beets early Early Model, Dark
Detroit Red.
Broccoli Saint Valentine, Late
Queen.
Brussels SproutsOdense Market
or Long Island Dwarf.
Cabbage early Early Jersey Wake
field; medium Copenhagen Market,
Glory of Enkhuisen; late All Sea
sons, Danish Ballhead, Drumhead
Savoy.
Carrots Chantenay or Danvers
Half Long.
Cauliflower early Snowball, Dry
Weatherford ; fall Autumn Giant.
Celeriac Large Prague.
Celery Golden Self Blanching or
White Plume.
Chard Swiss Lucullus.
Corn early Portland Market,
Golden Bantam; medium early Howl
ing Mob; late Plant above varieties
successively.
Cucumbers Davis Perfect, Boston
Pickling.
Eggplant Black Beauty.
Endive Large Green Curled.
Horse Radish Maliner Kren.
Kale Tall Green Scotch Curled,
Dwarf Green Curled.
Kohl-rabi Early White Vienna.
Lettuce head New York, Big Bos
ton, Hanson, Iceberg; ! leaf Grand
Rapids.
Muskmelons Emerald Gem, Pine
apple, Burnell Gen. -
Onions Oregon Yellow Danvers,
Australian Brown or Red Weathers
field. Parsnips Hollow Crown.
Peas tall early Early Morn;
dwarf early Alaska, American Won
der or Little Marvel; mid-season
Laxtonian, Telephone.
Peppers Ruby Giant or Chinese
Giant.
Pumpkins Winter Luxury, Con
necticut Fieldl
Radishes White Icicle, Early Scar
let, Turnips White.
Smelt May Prove
Popular in Oil
Smelt, now reported to be running
In some coast streams, may be can
ned in oil. The home economics
specialists at O. A. C. say any good
nil may be used. The cleaned fish
are packed raw in sterile jars, and
to each pint jar is added a fourth cup
of oil, blended with a teaspoonful of
prepared mustard and a slice of chop
ped onion. The lids are then fitted
on and the fish sterilized.
TO AUNT JENNIE
(Editorial Note The fine thing about this poem Is that is was not
"witten for publication," but is a really, truly tribute to a "sure nuf" aunt.)
This is not a song or sonnet to some princess) of romance,
It's the tenderest of tributes to the kindest of all Aunts,
It's a poor and slender pay m ant, and its worth is slight and cheap
While my debt to you is heavy, many long-lost hours of sleep
I have owed you, unrequited.through the unforgetting years
You sat up nights with little tads with aching teeth or ears!
You had many small relations and when one of them fell sick
'Twas our routine rule and custom to "call Aunt Jennie, quick!"
And a routine matter also with the waning ot the light
Came Aunt Jennie's calm arrival for the vigils of the night,
Now my memory melts in moisture that you might mistake for tears
You sat up nights with litte tads with aching teeth or ears!
Your convenience counted little we'd have called you all the way.
Through our efforts ahd been fruitless, to Calcutta or Cathay
Knowing well that there was magic in your soft, magnetic hand
That could drown the fiends of torture on the shores of Sleepyland,
So to you some small relations, owe a debt long in arrears,
You sat up nights with litte tads with aching teeth or ears!
We recall, from that dim distance, how the ticking of the clock
Would stretch the hours of ages, and your chair's slow, rhythmic rock.
How our fevered little figures, tossed in Pain's relentless clutch.
Found at last relief in slumber through your tranquil tender touch
Distance dims some young impression this itdeepens and endearsi
You sat up nights with little tads with aching teeth or ears !
Today our wider vision finds, a stricken world that bleeds
With armies of "Aunt Jennies' scarce sufficient for its needs;
Gone are the ills of childhood that loomed large in other days
But the sympathetic spirit finds its place in other ways,
An erring earth needs many such, between its icy poles,
To "sit up nights" with grown-up kids with aching: hearts and souls!
OPEN DOORS
IN BUSINESS
THE OCCULIST.
The profession of an occulist i3
one which women are beginning to
enter, In which there is no prejudice
against the sex, in which woman's
reputation for careful detail work is
an asset, and in which there is ample
remuneration to the skilled worker.
It is a fine field for one who has
taste in that direction and the will
to do her work with exactness and
conscientious care.
The public is beginning to appre
ciate better the relation of eye
health to general health and the
movies and incerasing studiousness
and eye work of Americans are lead
ing to the wearing of glasses by
those who will wear glasses will be
more and more numerous, giving cor
responding work tor the occulist.
To prepare for this profession one
needs two years of study in a school
or three years of study with an ex
perienced and excellent optometrist.
An examination must be passed be
fore one is! permitted, to practice.
The optometrist is licensed and regis
tered, a small fee being charged for
this.
After the license is secured one
should have two or three years' ex
perience in the office of a good op
tometrist. To Becure such a position
one visits an optometrist and applies
in person or place an application by
letter.
To-day most of the largest depart
ment stores have their own optom
etrist whose services are free to
their customers. These make good
openings for the beginner.
When beginning business for her
self one must make her name and
business known in some matter, either
by advertising in papers or by let
ters to prospective patrons. The sat
isfaction she gives is her best adver
tisement and her work must be so
skilled and so reliable that each pa
tron will make a center of friendly
influence which will help increase
her business by recommending other
patients to her. Men generally like
a man optometrist, but women often
prefer the service of a woman for
themselves and their children.
The optometrist must have confi
dence in her own ability and beget
this in others. Her manner must be
one of pleasant cordiality and of
confidence in her own skill. She
must be willing to work hard ani
will need pluck to preserve past the
time when patients come slowly. She
can hardly hope her business to be
come self supporting for some time.
After it is well established she will
find it a steady and very satisfac
tory proposition.
In this business, as In the practice
of medicine the first rule must be
Know your business thoroughly.
Eyes are too valuable possessions to
be dealt with bunglingly by a no
vice who is apt to treat them mistak
enly. The optometrist should be con
scientious. No poor grade of glasses
nor of work can rightfully be foisted
upon the confiding public.
The optometrist is often assisted
by an optician, who does the mechan
ical work of adjusting glasses and
carrying out the orders of the op
tometrist in the making of the
glasses. A girl who has not the con
fidence nor courage to deal with pa
trons directly might find herself
more successfully in doing this me
chanical work on glasses.
A WORD TO THE WISE
Clothing Trlft. The Government
has Issued a booklet which tells how
to choose the different textiles and
gives directions for the care of cloth
ing. A copy may be obtained by ask
ing for F. B. 1089, addeeeing the Di
vision of Publication, Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C.
$ NATIONAL FEDERATION OF
S BUSINESS AND PROFES-
SIONAL WOMEN.
g
Among the worth while national or
ganizations of women which are labor
ing for the betterment of the sex and
of humanity, is the National Federa
tion of business and Proessional Wo
men's clubSk This should not be con
fused with the Federation of Women's
Clubs, which is an older and larger
organization and is composed mostly
of literary clubs. The Federation of
Business and Professional Women's
clubs is like the business women
themselves, a comparatively new en
terprise in the world. It has a mem
bership of more than a hundred and
is devoted to bettering not only the
condition of the Business and Profes
sional Woman, but the business as
well. It aims to make her a better
worker.
Mrs. L. L. Forrest, a business wo
man of Detroit, is National president
of the Federation.
To teach business morale" is a
strong purpose of the Federation. By
"morale" is meant unselifph service
given to a business by the worker; a
community of interests with each per
son doing his best and enjoying the
task. This leads to self respect and
satisfaction in the job. It overcomes
the restlessness and lack of responsi
bizlity prevalent among many employ
es. Another purpose of the Federation
is "to eliminate the sex question from
business and professional circles."
This means that the men and women
working in a business shall take an
absolutely impersonal attitude toward
one another, that they shall realize
they are to perform a work and that
they should leave social conditions
outside. This will be helped if women
will dress more simply and in a more
business-like manner. Rouge, extreme
styles of hair-dress, obtrusive jewelry,
diaphanous apparel, and eyes alert for
everv sien of admiration all these
should be taboo in business. Courtesy
should be the rule but women should
expect no advantage from sex. Simple
and frank friendliness, with the em
phasis placed upon the human, and
not upon the sex relations, this is a
characteristic of all eminently suc
cessful women workers. It Is becom
ing more common as girls and women,
as well as men, come to understand
what business means.
Among Its jeneficient purposes it
also undertakes to encourage "a solid
business training" for all women. It
believes that a college training forms
a good background for business suc
cess, but unless business training is
added to this, the college training
may prove a handicap. The Federa
tion hopes to see a department in
each college which shall give to every
woman a thorough training in busi
ness and business ethics.
USES FOR OLD BLANKETS.
Housewives who have obeyed
Uncle Sam and conserved wool axe
now finding themselves, with a supply
of old wool blankets which are fast
growing too shabby to use. When
this time arrives they may still serve
a purpose in thrifty homes as filling
for comforters. Such blankets may
be carefully washed and the ' best
parts sewed together into the size
and shape desired for the comforter.
Thin spots may be patched with old
underwear pieces. This filling may
be covered with pretty goods and
tied with yarn knots as any comfort
er; the knots will not need to be so
close together as in cotton filled com
forters. This bedding will" be warm
and light weight for next winter and
no danger of lumping up when wash
ed. HAPPY THOUGHT.
Reflect on your present blessings
of which every man has many not
on your past misfortunes of which
every man has some Dickens.
THE WOMAN CITIZEN.
S'S$'S4SS$.S
Fr A Department of Education.
The Smith Towner bill is now be
fore the House. This bill is to es
tablish a Department of Education
with Its head a member of the Presi
dent's cabinet. We now have only a
Bureau of Education of the Depart
ment of the Interior. The bureau
hopes to aid in the Americanization
of illiterates, and to aid the states
in the school problem.
Independent Citizenship for Women
The Johnson Naturalization bill
now before the House provides that
women shall become citizens, as men
do, in their own right and not by
virtue of marrying; a oitiaen. A
woman citizen shall not lose her cit
izenship by marrying a foreigner
who is eligible to American citizen
ship unless she resides in a foreign
country.
Women Study Politics.
All over the land schools and
study classes are educating women
in citizenship. Y. W. C. A.'s as Illi
nois are tackling the problem of
making women an asset to govern
ment and are organizing classes of
teachers who will be entitled to in
struct other classes over the state.
The League of Women Voters Is
planning Citizenship schools in many
parts of . the country. Many Women's
clubs in all parts of the nation are
carrying out citizenship programs
and courses of study this winter.
SiSj$$j,$sj.S.S.SS
A SPREAD FOR YOUR
S BREAD.
This year when berries and small
fruits have been scarce and high
priced, many a table suffers for the
"spread" which breaks the monotony
of plain bread-and-butter. The fol
lowing recipes will help:
Orange Marmalade
Slice very thin, rind and all, three
large seedless oranges and one lem
on. Pour over the sliced fruit eleven
cups of cold water and set away for
twenty-four hours. Then boil slowly
for one hour. After boiling, add foul
pounds granulated sugar and set
away for twenty-four hours longer,
then boil for one hour and twenty
minutes, or perhaps longer. Pour in
to jelly glasses and cover with para-
fin. This makes eight glasses.
Prune Conserve.
Soak four pounds of prunes and
remove the pits . Add four pounds
of sugar, the juice of four oranges
and thin strips of yellow rind which
have been separated from the white
pithy part, one pound of raisins and
a cup of walnut meats broken Into
pieces. Boil together until thick.
Put into jelly glasses and cover with
parafin.
Fig Preserves.
Puncture with a fork, one pound of
white, not over-ripe figs. Add one
pound of sugar and two pints of
water and soak overnight; then cook
down very slowly to a heavy pre
serve.
Variations.
Preserves as above may be made
with raisins, dates, prunes, dried
apricotes, peaches, or apples. A very
little salt sometimes adds to the
flavor and often an acid, as lemon,
is needed; or the flavor may be var
ied by the use of cinnamon of nut
meg, or brown sugar, or mapleine
flavor.
SMILES.
"Is Harduppe pretty well known in
your town?"
"I should say he is. He's so well
known he can't even borrow an um
brella." New York Times.
Now that wo have wireless tele
phones, will the hello girls tell us the
air is busy?
FOOD STUDY
Idaho women hove been comparing
the results of foo.l problem study in
classes stc have found them to bo
these: One husband brought to nor
mal weight in three months; one boy
gained eight pounds and another five
in two months; the planning of
meals was easier; family feeding be
came more intelligent; one' woman
made fewer pickles this year; others
learned the value of milk, and that
minerals came from vegetables. They
obtained "a glimpse into a new
world and an appetite for ' more
knowledge."
GIRL'S FACE RIPPED BY ROOSTER
MARSHFTELD, Or., Feb. 15. A
young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Her
bert A. .Olson of this city met with a
peculiar accident, which will disfig
ure her for life.
The child was playing about the
Olson premises and was attacked by
a large rooster, which seemed to
dispute her right in the yard. With
his spurs and beak he tore the child's
cheek so badly that a number ot
stitches had to be used by the doctor
who attended her to close the wound.
The girl was rescued from the
rooster's onslaught by her mother,
who, hearing her cries, beat the
fowl off.
Seven physicians of Oregon City,
Drs. O. A. Welsh, M. C. Strickland,
A. H. Huycke,' C. H. Meissner, W.
Ross Eaton, C. A. Stuart and George
E. Stuart are facing a suit for damag
es filed here today by Dr. Hugh S.
Mount, who asks for $50,000 damages
from each of the seven who affixed
their signatures to a statement that
Dr. Mount characterizes as defam
atory. Ex-Senator George C. Brown
ell appears as Dr. Mount's attorney.
The alleged libel was brought about
by the death of Alexander DeFord,
who was shot by D. E. Frost on the
night of Sunday, November 21, while
DeFord was resisting arrest. DeFord
was taken to the Oregon City hospit
al where he was attended by the
county health officer, Dr. O. A. Welsh,
who diagnosed the case as confluent
pneumonia, which he gave as the
cause of DeFord 's death, stating thai
It was similar to that of the type
found in pneumonia following flu.
DeFord died on Tuesday following
the day he was shot and Dr. Mount
was called by the family of the de
ceased to hold a post-mortem. His
findings were not known, until a few
days later when Coroner Johnson held
an inquest and asked Dr. Mount to
testify, and upon the witness stand
at the inquest Dr. Mount testified to
an opinion absolutely contrary to
that held by Dr. Welsh. Under an
agreement between the county of
ficials, and Dr. Mount, the latter filed
a bill of $25 for conducting the post
mortem, and received no pay fron
the family for his services, whereup
on the seven physicians, headed by
Dr. Welsh filed a protest with the
county court against the payment of
the fee, and the statements embraced
in this protest are charged to be de
famatory by Dr. Mount The state
ment signed by the physicians fol
lows:
"We, the undersigned taxpayers ot
your county and licensed physicians
and surgeons of Oregon City, Oregon,
do hereby protest against the paying
of an autopsy fee to Dr. H. S. Mount
for an autopsy on Alexander DeFord
for the following reasons:
"Presumably as stated by him the
autopsy was . performed at the in
stance of his relatives and inform
ation was confidential.
'Upon request by the coroner for
his testimony, he insisted upon all
information being confidential until
j.romisert by the coroner that he
would O. K. his autopsy fee into the
County court. Then he willingly
testified that the death of DeFord
was due to Septic Peritonitis.
'Furthermore, he either through
gross misrepresentation or . gross
ignorance, stated the man- died from
Septic Peritonitis (blood Poisoning)
when the temperature was normal '
never going above 99 degrees Fahr..
and then only after the first two
times taken after his admission to-
the hospital. No person ever suc
cumbs to a septic condition as soon
as 31 , hours after the infection ana
then only after a more or less pro
longed abnormal rise in temperature
or fever.
We do not believe that the coun
ty's money should be paid for sucn
misleading testimony or that it should
be spent paying for services already
contracted or paid for by other part
ies. In other words we do not believe
euch attempted graft and profiteer
ing should be countenanced as it re
flects upon the medical profession
when allowed to continue unchecked.
"O. A. WELSH,
"M. C. STRICKLAND,
"A. H. HUYCKE,
"C. H. MEISSNER.
"W. ROSS EATON.
"C. A. STUART,
"GEO. E. STUART, M. D.
Dr. Mount charges in his complaint
that the language in the foregoing
statement is false, malicious and de
famatory and was publihsed falsely
maliciously and with the intent to In
jure him, and he goes on to set out
in his complaint the following:
"That the word 'graft' had in the
vicinity where and at the time when
the aforesaid words were published
a commonly accepted and unambigu
ous meaning, to-wit, the advancing or
one's position or increasing of one'a
wealth by dishonest or unfair means;
that said defendant used said word
graft' as above set forth of and con-
ernlng the plaintiff in said com
monly accepted sense, meaning there
by that said plaintiff by dishonest or-
unfair means had attempted to in
crease his wealth and advance his
position."
Dr. Mount charges that his charact
er and reputation as an, honest ana
law abiding citizen and his good name
and credit as a physician have suffer
ed and that he has further suffered
through mental distress and angul3n
damages to the extent of $50,000.
WEST LINN
STUDENTS NET
$30 SATURDAY
The proceeds from the entertain
ment and basket social at the West
Linn school building Saturday even
ing amounted to $80 and many hand
some baskets were sold. The young
people were well supplied with money
and there was a great demand for
the baskets containing luncheons.
John Kizer acted as auctioneer oi
the evening and went at the auction
ing in great style.
BAD FIRE AT COLLEGE
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallis, Or., Feb. 12. Fire
which started in the basement of the
Beaver fraternity house here shortly
before noon today threatened to de--stroy
the building, but was checked
by the prompt action of the Corvallis
fire department.
Only the furnace room and dining
room above were severely damaged
by the fire and water, but smoke
played havoc with the personal ef
fects of the 30 members. The loss is-
fully covered: by insurance.