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FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, No. 14.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1921.
ESTABLISHED 1866
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al or unusual need3 of $
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umns of the Enterprise. Try
a classified ad. S
EN
WEST LINN WILL
RAISE SHARE OF
BRIDGE MONEY
At a meeting of the West Linn
city council held Monday night, that
body reversed its former decision in
the matter of the new bridge fund,
as outlined by the county court, and
voted favorinz raisinr- share of
the money, according to assessed val
uation. The decision removes the
last obstacle towards the building of
the bridge across the Wilamette riv
er connecting "West Linn and Ore
gon City, and the state highway com
mission will order work on the struc
ture started at once.
Just what arrangement will be made
as to traffic across the Willamette
while the new bridge is under con
struction, has not been decided. Some
allege that a ferry will have to be put
in operation to take care of the west
.side traffic, while others advance the
theory that vehicle traffic will be
suspended until the new bridge is
built.
However, it is up to the highway
engineers to decide this, and until
they have devised a plan, the matter
cf traffic s still up in. the air. What
concerns Clackamas county people
the most is that the new bridge will
be started at once, and when finish
ed, will be one of the finest struc
tures in the Pacific-Northwest. It
will also open up new industries and
increase land values on the West
Linn side of the river, and the Pa
cifie highway then will have nearly
been completed through to Portland
by the Oswego route.
Community Service
Plan Proves Popular
. for Old and Young
The Community' Service meeting at
the Congregational church last Sun
day night has already begun to bear
fruit. - The splendid talks by Mr. Eby
and Miss Kathleen Cockburn so en
thused their hearers that already the
residents of the Eastham school
neighborhood are planning a park in
the school grounds of their vicinity
with a swimming pool, play apparat
us, seats and a hedge of roses. ,
L. S. Pilcher, of New York City, is
in Portland to train son gleaders for
Community Service. Beginning on
Thursday . night, April 7, at Library
hall, central library he will give seven
lessons free. Mr. Pilcher has just
graduated a class at Seattle and is
now here to train a class for Portland
and vicinity.
He sends a special invitation to Ore-;
gon City singers, men and women, to
be on hand at S o'clock sharp for the
first lesson next Thursday night. No
charges whatever, but an agreement
to assist in one's home town. Mr ;
Pilcher is sent out by the National
Community Service as song leaders
were sent to the soldiers in war time.
It is the same work being carried cu
now in, peace time for the general
morale of the country.
The Income Tax Results
E. B. PIPER AND
WERT TO SPEAK
HERE TUESDAY
orrespondent. will give an ad- -ry . t-i "I ' J
before the Live Wires at their 'JtllOtS 111 iLngianQ
nn on next Tuesday noon in yv y-v t-
uccur uver nig
Strike Now On
Edgar B. Piper, editor of the Morn
ing Oregonian and Lincoln T. Wert,
war correspondent, will give an ad
dress
luncheon on next Tuesday noon in
the Commercial club parlors. Both
of tiiese celebrities will speak on the
,near east relief fund, and will bring
first-hand information from the dev
astated regions asking for assistance.
Both speakers will be brought to this
city through the efforts of Rev. Ed
gar, local chairman of the near east
drive.
On the above date, business of the
club will he dispensed with and the
luncheon hour wil be spent in listen
ing to Mr. Piper and Mr. Wert. It
is expected that the largest turnout
cf the year will be present to (hear
the addresses.
POMONA GRANGE
PREPARES FOR
BIG MEETING
The Clackamas County Pomona
Grange will meet at New Era on Wed
nesday, April 13th. The local grange
is arranging to entertain a large
crowd, with a splendid program. Two
banquets will be served, one at 12
o'clock and one in the evening.
Included in the day's program will
be conferring the fifth degree on a
large class.
Warner Grange, one of the oldest
granges of the state, has become fam
ous for the excellent dinners served,
and the coming event wil no doubt
be one of the most successful Pomoiu
grange meetings held.
Blind Musicians
To Give Musicale
for Operation Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Miller, blind mu
sicians of this city, are planning on a
benefit entertainment to be given
within a few weeks. It will be giv
en at the Moose hall, and the pro
ceeds will go towards an operation to
be undergone by Mrs. Miller as it has
been found necessary to remove her
eyes, and all proceeds of the enter
tainment will go towards the opera
tion fund. The program of the ev
ening wil be given tentireiy by these
two blind people both of whom are ac
complished musicians. Mr. Miller,
not only is excellent on the piano, but
is able to play almost every instru
ment. Mrs. Miller is a pianist and
vocalist atftl both are graduates of the
blind school.
Mother, Two Sons
and Daughter Take
up Special Studies
Mrs. W. A. Barnum, who was prin
cipal of the Mount. Pleasant school for
four years, recently taking a special
course at the Oregon State Normal at
Monmouth, graduated from that In
stitution with high honors March 24tU.
She has returned to her home at
Mount Pleasant. While attending
the normal Mrs. Barnum was accom
panied by her children, Donald and
Gordon, who took special studies. Her
daughter. Miss Marjan, enroled at
the University of -Oregon, who has
been spending the Easter vacation
with her parents at Mount Pleasant,
returned to Eugene Sunday evening
to resume her studies.
LONDON, April 5 With all coal
mining in Great Britain stopped, the
public was considering tonight wheth
er the paralysis would extend to the
railroads and other transport and ev
en among workers generally.
Parliament discussed the situation
today without taking any steps. The
National Transport Workers' federa
tion delegate.? conferred without be
ing able to reach a decision as to
whether to call a strike in support of
the miners. The railway men, the
iransport workers and the miners will
meet separately tomorrow.
The miners took strong measures
in several places today against own
ers protecting their property. A suc
cessful attack was made on the guard
ian of a mine near Edinburgh, Scot,
land
People who forgot to file their income tax returns
promptly, may feel aggrieved when they are assessed a
fine plus 25 per cent of the amount due on their income
as shown. But never in the world would it be possible
to get these returns all in, unless it was generally under
stood that they must be made promptly, and that it
would cost heavily to fail in this duty.
Before the income tax was enacted it was com
monly said that you could not possibly make such a
law a success. People would refuse to report their in
comes, it was predicted, and many of them would make
false returns. ' But the severe penalties established by
the law, and the inflexibility with which those penalties
are enforced, has persuaded people that it is better to
obey the requirements. Only by conformity on the
part of everyone, can the law be fair to all. If the
statue is enforced in an easy-going manner, a lot of peo
ple will slip through the net and fail to do their share.
Many people have fretted a lot about their returns,
and have, found it is far from easy to make them but or
to understand them. Many complicated cases arise in
which one has to get an opinion from an expert before
knowing how to make a return. ' j-
In many places lawyers are earning a good deal of .
money by making a specialty of getting out these returns ,
for people. It would seem that any competent book
keeper should be able to prepare a return for his own
business. And if a man does not have business to hire
a bookkeeper, the thing should be so simple that he
could do it himself.
The number of people who fret and worry over
these returns suggests that the system could be simpli
fied. A little pamphlet of instructions, giving spec
ific cases, and covering the subject in the most concise
form, should be issued with each blank. Put some
good newspaper man on the job, Brother Harding, and
he ought to make the instructions clearer than they are
now.
BRIDGE PAYMENT
ADJUSTED; WORK
MAY START SOON
DRAFT EVADER
TO REMAIN IN
PENITENTIARY
TOPEKA, Kan., April 6 Efforts of
Evwin R. Bergdoll, Philadelphia draft
evader, to obtain his release from the
army disciplinary barracks at Leav
enworth were defeated today, when
Federal Judge Pollock of Kansas City
Kan., denied Bergdoll's application lor
a writ of habeas corpus.
Judge Polock upheld the draft acr,
declaring that it was sufficient that
Bergdoll's draft board had mailed him
notice and that it was his responsi
bility to see that, he obtaine'd his mail.
His attprnevg had contended that' he
never received a notice and therefore
had not been legally inducted into
the army. He was convicted by
court martial last August and sentenc
ed to prison for four vears.
AURORA PAPER
HAS BEEN SOLD
TO P. ROBINSON
The Aurora Observer, a weekly pa
per, has been sold to Paul Robinson,
of Banks. Oregon, and the new pub
lisher will take over the paper Mon
day. Mr. Robinson is well known
throughout newspaperdom in . "the
state, and while publishing a paper
at Banks, did much towards
the betterment of that town. N. C.
Wescott, former owner of the Observ
er, will enter a new field.
De MOSS SELLS
INTEREST TO
E. A. BRADY
E. O. DeMoss, who has been asso
ciated in undertaking business with
E. A. Brady in this city for the past
year, has sold his interest in the bus
iness to Mr. Brady.
Mr. DeMoss has not decided as to
his future location, but for the pres
ent will remain in Oregon City.
The undertaking establishment is lo
cated at Tenth, and Water streets.
FORMER NOBLES
OF RUSSIA LIVE
, AMID SQUALOR
RAGUSA, Jugoslavia, April 2.
Friends of the late Czar .. Nicholas,
members of the upper crust of soci
ety of imperial Russia, princes, dukes,
generals ; and barons, are living in
squalor or in -camps infested with ty
phus and typhoid at Cattaro Bay, on
the Dalmation coast.
Altogether they constitute a group
of about 1500 of the refugees brought
out from the Crimea when General
Wrangel's anti-bolshevik army col
lapsed and who since have been scat
tered about the Balkans.
Vestigtes of their former impearial
grandeur peep out from their rags,
when costly jewels saved in their
flight from the bolshevists are brought
out of the recesses of the old bundles
composing their dirty unkept rags.
Princes, princesses, and generals sleep
on hard cement floors and barely man
age to exist on the meager allowance
of food doled out to them. Their cost
ly furs, once exhuberant, but now
scant and worn, almost hairless, show
the former riches of their owners.
The Associated Press correspondent
visited several barracks of the old
forts and airplane hangers where the
Russians are quartered. Generals
could be seen in tatters waiting their
turns for rations and eating soup and
stew out of mess tins and then fill
ing up on black bread. Their uni
forms carried the insignia of imper
ial Russia with strings of medals
across their breasts. Cossaks stood
around in threadbare regalia of the
old regime, wearing dilapidated astra
khan hats and tunics intended for Brit
ish soldiers, while their riding boots
were torn and ragged from long use.
The clothing of the women consist
ed of relics of better days. Some
wore riding hoots, the last footwear
left' from what once had been exten
sive wardrobes. Some carried in
their baggage Persian rugs which they
had been able to save on their long
pilgrimage. Once they become wel'
acquainted with a visitor they offer
for sale such jewelry as they still pos
sess, so as to tide themselves over this
period of distress. Some of the wo
men had linen bearing the imperial
arms.
ELUSIVE WELLS
IS RECAPTURED
NEAR SELLWOOD
G .W. Wells, arrested for burglary
at Milwaukie, r.n r - who escaped -from
the county jail here on February 3,
in company with another prisoner,
George Brown, was recaptured by
Sheriff Wilson and Deputies Lon;
and Lowe in Sellwood early Saturday
morning. Well3 had appropriated
the basement of an old abandoned
school house in Sellwood. near the
Ardenwald hill, and had fixed quar
ters up with a bed, table and stove.
He also had installed a still for mak
ing moonshine rnd was preparing to
put the still into operation when the
sheriff's force nabbed him.
The last Clackamas county grand
jury indicted Wells on a charge of
The new bridge across the Willa
mette river between this city and
West Linn is now an assured fact, and
work will be started sooon on , the
structure. Thi9 came about a3 the
result of an amicable settlement be
tween the county court and the state
highway commission over the money
that Clackamas shall pay the state
for work already done by the com
mission for the proposed new bridge.
The money to be paid by this coun
ty to the commisison for the new
bridge, including the grade between
here and Canemah will be: Clacka
ma3 county, $150,000; West Linn and
Oregon City $50,000, jointly,
making a total of $200,000 which will
pay for the bridge and clean up all
outstanding debts due the commission
for past work done on the Pacific
highway through this county. ,
The bridge matter, which has been
held up for some time was on ac- j
count of the commission asking in the
neighborhood of $511,0p0 tor work
done on the highway through this
county including the grade to Can
emah and the bridge. "When Judge
Cross took office, the county had al
ready paid $90,000 to the commission
for work done and yet a balance was
asked by the commission of some
thing like $421,000 to pay for highway
work , in the county. Judge
Cross took the stand that if the coun
ty paid this huge amount it would
nearly bankrupt Clackamas, and tha
county court and commission f have
been arguing the matter for
several months.
A few days ago, the commission of
fered to gs fifty-fifty with Clackamas
to finish. up the work and build the
bridge, with the understanding that
West Linn and Oregon City proper,
would raise $50,000 between the two
ies towards the settlement. This
would leave a balance for the county
to pay of $150,000. At a meeting last
night between the members, of the
court and representatives from Oregon
City and West Linn, to discuss th
matter, representatives from both this
city and West Linn agreed that $50,
000 could be raised. Howover, Judge
Cross was instructed to address a
letter to both mayors and city coun
cils of West- Linn and Oregon City
and have the matter taken up officii
ally. The letter follows:
To the Honorable Mayors and City
Councils of Oregon City and West
Linn: -
Gentlemen: The county court has'.
for more than a year, been striving
lo effect a settlement of accounts with
the state highway commission on ac
count of moneys advanced by them for
the county in the construction of the
Pacific highway through Clackamas.
county. The entire cost cf this com-
pleted highway will reach over $1.
000,000. Under the law, the part of
this expense chargeable to Clackamas
county amounts to over $500,000,
which includes the cost of the bridge
at Oregon City. Putting the matter
in another shape, the cost to our
SKELETON FOUND
MAY BE REMAINS
OF WOOD-GUTTER
burerlarv and when he was brouerhl
back here and taken before Judge- county, if the entire amount is to be
Canrohell. hf Dleaded sniiltv a chare- paid, will amount to $12.50 for every
BRODIE WILL
RECEIVE ROYAL
WELCOME HOME
MRS. SETERA
EXPECTED HOME
IN TWO WEEKS
Mrs Ann Setera, who was shot b
her crazed son in this city a few
weeks ago, is completely recovering
from her wounds and will be -able to
leave the hospital in Portland in about
two weeks. Dr. R033 Eaton, attend
ing physician, reports that Mrs. Se
tera has no temperature, is eating
regularly and getting along fine.
E. E. Brodie, publisher of the Morn
ing Enterprise will be given a public
reception upon his return to this city
and a committee from the Commer
cial club and Live Wires, headed by
Dr.. Clyde Mount, has made elaborate
arrangements for the occasion. The
reception will occur on Tuesday even
ing, April 12th, in the Commercial par
lors, and special features including ad
dresses of welcome are on the pro
gram. .
Mr. Brodie has been absent from
this city since the latter part of Feb
ruary and i8 making a tour of th
south and east. He .was recently
elected head of the' National Editorial
association at St. Augustine, Florida,
in which city the editors of the United
States met in convention.
ed. He will be sentenced some time
this week.
Wells and a companion prisoner,
George Brown, the latter convicted of
robbing the Cross leather shop some
time ago, eawed their way through the
floor of the assessor's office from the
courthouse jail.. After gaining the
upper floors of the courthouse, they
walked to the rear of the building and
down into the furnace room and from
there through a window to freedom.
Wells alleges that Brown stayed with
him after the escape until they arriv
ed in Portland on the night of Feb
ruary 3, when Brown disappeared, and
that he has not seen him since.
Wells is an old offender, according
to the officers, and when arrested in
Milwaukie, he had broken into a resi
dence ' there in the absence of the
owners, and put up a big two-boiler
still on the cook stove. At that time,
detectives in Portland were looking
for him on another charge, and had
just about trailed him down when the
sheriff here nabbed him. At the time
of his escape from the county jail, h
tried to get the other prisoners to go
with him, and succeeded in inducing
two negroes to take the chance. The
colored men were captured the next
day at Aurora, the same place where
they were arrested the first time.
They were held for the robbery of a
Canemah residence, when a quantity
of silverware and other valuables
were taken in broad daylight
$18,000 TO BE
EXPENDED ON
STATE CAPITOL
SALEM, Or., April 1 Approxi
mately $18,000 appropriated at the re
cent session of the legislature will
be expended in improving the capitol
and supreme court buildings this year.
The improvements will include in
stallation of a new passenger ele
vator in the capitol building, new
freight elevator in the supreme court
building, painting of the state house
and providing awnings for the su
preme court structure.
Plans and specifications for the two
elevators are being sought, and it is
probable that the contract for these
improvements will be awarded soon.
man, woman and child in me county.
Its a large problem. The county
road fund was in debt Janaury 1, 1921
$350,000 and we hesitate to increase
this indebtedness. But we must have
this bridge and construction ought to
begin at once. The court went over
the whole situation in detail with the
city councils from Oregon City ant
West Linn . last evening and each of
your bodies understand the gravity
of the situation.
wow, the county, iB the emergency
and having in mind the peculiar in
terest Oregon City and West Linn
have in the new bridge at Oregon
City, in a respectful but earnest way,
appeals to the two cities for aid - in
helping us to make an amicable set
tlement with the highway commission.
and insure the construction of the
highway. We hesitate to name a
sum that each city ought to pay, but
dare to hope that the total contribu
tions from both cities will aggregate
$50,000 to be divided between the tw
parties pro rata, and the payment,
without interest, to spread in equal
payments over a period of four years.
beginning with the year 1922.
What early assurance can each
council give us of your interest in
this great problem.
Respectfully yours,
CLACKAMAS COUNTY COURT,
(Signed) H. E. Cross, Co. Judge
An,, employe of the McLane Loggin.
company, while taking a short cut
through the woods to Oswego Satur
day afternoon discovered the skeleton
of a man near a narrow trail in
some brush. He notified Coroner
Pace, who left Sunday morning and
brought the remains to Oregon City,
where they are being held at the Hol-
maa & Pace undertaking parlor3 for
identification.
Every particle of clothing was gone
from the bleached bones, but a "gold
watch, bearing the initials "P. P.," a
gold chain and a small purse contain
ing several coins, many of them
foreign money, were found lying near
the skeleton.
According to the conoer, the skele
ton had been there for several years,
as evidenced by the fact that the
bones were bleached and the clothing
rotted away. About ten years ago.
a stranger called at the home of James
Irving, at Oswego, and asked for
work. He was given a job cutting
wood and was provided with tools
for the work and necessary food, and
was also offered a place to stay In
the Irving yard. The man Insisted
upon pitching a small tent in the
woods back of the Irving place, and
after cutting about fifteen cords of
wood, disappeared. After a futile
search, Mr. Irving notified the police
at Portland of the man's disappear
ance, but the officers could not lo
cate him.
At the time of applying for work at
the Irving home, the stranger told
the family that he had been a sailor
and that he came from Stockton,
California. He appeared to be about
45 years of age, and, used the best of
English and appeared to have seen
better days. He was fairly well dress
ed at the time.
A suit case found some time after
his disappearance, contained several
volumes of high class literature, and
incribed on the fly-leafs was te
name of "Rositor." Particles cf
clothing found near the body tallies
with the suit worn by the stranger
at the time of his disappearance, and
the initials "P. P. are believed to be
the first and last name of the wood
cutter.
The remains will be held at the
Holman & Pace parlors until investi
gations are completed as to the man's
identity, and if no relatives ,o
friends -"are tound, the skeleton win
be interred In the Mt. View cemetery.
It is of the general opinion that the
stranger took his own life, although
the remains show no bullet wound or
other evidences of suicide.
LEGION HEAD
WARNS PUBLIC
AGAINST GRAFT
Man Sentenced to
Hang Sleeps Well
and Is Unconcerned
"YAKIMA, Wash., April 1. "My at
torney told me before leaving Everett
to be careful about talking to report
ers," said Isom White, Everett boy,
who faces hanging on May 20 for mur
der, when interviewed at the county
jail here one morning. "I don't min.
telling you, though, he said, "that I
can't believe I will hang on let's see
what day is it?"
White was housed in tbe Yakima
jail over night with other prisoner
en route to Walla Walla. He ap
peared to have no realization of the
gravity of his situation and snored
peacefully in his bunk during the
night, with apparently not a worry.
He was taken to Walla "Walla this
morning. i
SALEM, April 1. Graft, on a wide
cale, is being carried on throughout
the country by individuals and organ
izations claiming to represent the in
terests of disabled world war veterans
according to a warning received
Thursday by George A. White, mem
ber of the national executive commit j
tee of the American Legion, from Com
mander Galbraith.
Masquerading under th claim that
they are working for the nation's
war wounded men, grafters are oh
taining large sums of money, the
warning said:
"At present there are several groups
in the United States attempting to
build organisations, ostensibly for the
ca.-e of the disabled," Commander
Galbraith's message said. "Investiga
tions conducted by national head
quarters have' yet to disclose that one.
of the organizations that is soliciting
funds from the public is entitled to
that support. -The American Legion
is determined that the plight of its
disabled comrades shall not form the
basis of undertakings which savor of
graft and fraud.
One of these organizations re
cently solicited a contribution of $25
each from more than 800 local
branches of a national business club.
While the American Legion seeks the
co-operation of all legitimate organ
izations in carrying out a real and
lasting solution of the problem-, of
the war's disabled, it emphatically
warns the public to be on its guard
against organizations which, cannot
stand investigation.
WORK ON MOUNT
HOOD LOOP ROAD
TO BE RUSHED
PORTLAND, April 5. About $5,
000,000 remains in the state road fund
and the highway commission is work
ing out a policy to cover the next two
years, which will carry on the vork
until the legislature meets to pro
vide further funds or new money
comes from congress. With the
funds available there will be about
$142,000 for each county to epreal
over the two years.
Such was the information the state
highway commission imparted to
county delegations yesterday when
the commission opened its March
meeting. The meeting1 will be re
sumed at 9:30 o'clock this morning
in tne courthouse.
The commission yesterday after
noon sent word to the Wasco county
court requesting the presence of these
officials today, so The Dalles-Calif on
ia highway location can be disposed
of. Sherman county officials are
already in the city, but the Sherman
county road is contingent on the
Wasco county proposition.
As for the Mount Hood loop, the
highway commission received yester
day a resolution from the Multnomah
county commissioners asking the com
mission to proceed as proposed and
declaring! that $85,000 would be appro
priated from the 1922 road budget cf
the county, insofar as the board of
county commissioners is empowered
by law to authorize such an appro
priation. The offer of the highway
commission stipulates that the state
will match all money for the loop be
tween Sandy and Zigzag that Mult
nomah and Clackamas counties con
tribute; that if these counties have
no cash at present, the state will ad
vane the sum on condition that the
sum is repaid next yeai, and .that
work will start at once. It may be
that the highway commission will or
der bids advertised on this Sandy
Zigzag section of the loop for the
May meeting.
LAYS BLAME
" OF HIGH TAXES
TO VOTERS
SALEM, Or., April 5. The people
of Oregon and not the legislature are
responsible for the high taxes prevail
in in Oregon at the present time, ac
cording to a statement made by T. B.
Kay. representative from the- Marion
county, in an address at the weekly
luncheon of the Salem Busines Men's
association here Monday.
Mr. Kay said that the voters of the
state, by approving millage taxes for
elementary schools, higher educational
funds, doubled the state tax. The
state tax, he said, will be increased
from $4,000,000 to $8,000,000 annual
ly, as a result of these millage taxes.
Mr. Kay made -an appeal for Salem
people to purchase road bonds in
the sum of $SO,000 lalloted to the
Salem district, in order that highway
operations may proceed here during
the coming summer. Unless these
bonds are purchased, Mr Kay said,
the Salem road district would lose an
equal amount cf money raised through
taxes for highway improvements.
FIRST HALF
OF TAXES IS
BIG AMOUNT
ROAD WILL
BE COMPLETED
TO ROCK CREEK
The county court has ordered wors
commenced on the stretch of road be
tween Clackamas Station and Roc
Creek and the road crew is busy scai
ifying the highway at that point pre
paratory to laying the hnrd surface.
This road, when completed, will con
nect with the paved highway east of
Clackamas Station r..and running
around an "L" connecting up with the
road leading from Portland, making
a complete paved highway from Port
land to Rock Creek or Clackamas Sta
tion.
KING HOOKS ONE
Luther A. King, physical training
instructor of the Oregon City high
school, landed a 23-pound Chinook
Saturday afternoon with light tackle.
During the past week the tax de
partment has been one of the buisest
in the court house, with I. D. Taylor,
tax collector and his asistants on the
go from 8 a. m. until late in the ev
ening checking up tax receipts and
taking in the money.
Tbe largest day's receipts for any
year was on Monday, April 4, when
there were 450 receipts issued, all
from individual taxpayers, amounting
to $23,000. Tuesday was .another
big day when 350 receipts were issued,
and $26,000 collected.
One of the big corporations of
Clackamas county paid taxes amount
ing to $30,000, while another paid $13,.
000 Friday and Saturday.
One taxpayer brought in eight big
shining gold twenties that made the
eyes of the tax collector "bulge" for
they were the first twenties that have
found their way into tbe department
since the beginning of tbe world war.
Tuesday was the last day of grace
extended taxpayers for paying the
first half of the 1920 taxes without
being penalized, and the long line of
anxious people extended from the doer
of the tax department to the front
doors. .
Capitol Receives
Big Siege Gun
SALEM, April 2. A five-inch siege
gun was received here Friday , from
Fort Worden, Wash., and will be plac
ed on the capitol grounds. The gun
was asked for by a resolution adopted
by the last legislature through tha
request of the local post G. A. R,