To buy and sell tie hsu- al or - unusual needs of farming people requires rach a medium as the col- S umns of the Enterprise. Try - a classified ad. & Each wek thm ffiirtwrprlse Carries a fnfl resasM the most important bajjpBiBs O S throughout tha state and nation. It's worth, your sub- scription. CITY FIFTY-FIFTH YEAR, No. 17. OREGON CITY. OREGON; FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1921. ESTABLISH BO 1866 JL fl n U La i NS Oregon City is again in the lime light this time over the scrap last night between the fish wardens and the net fishermen. About 11:30 last night three shots were heard on the river near the suspension bridge fol lowed by shouts and cries for help. Those in the neighborhood of Sev enth and Main streets rushed to the bridge to see what the trouble was, while other fishermen on the street found a launch and started up stream to gather in the mellee. Curses, shouts and threats were hurled back and forth in the darkness, and when the smoke of battle cleared, the wardens were docked near Brown's boathouse while the netmen were farther down the river. Neither side Inflicted any damage, it is reported, although the scrap furnished considerable excite ment then and now. The fight started things, anyway, and yesterday afternoon Carl Shoe maker, head of the state fish com mission, accompanied by Frank C. Brown, head deputy and several other wardens, appeared on the scene, Shoemaker immediately got busy with the district attorney and follow ing a long conference with that offic ial, fourteen warrants were made out for local fishermen accusing them of resisting an officer, and two special warrants, one for larceny and the other for "threatening to kill were Issued from the district attorney's of fice at the instigation of Mr. Shoe maker. The warrants were given to Deputy Warden Brown about 5:30 p. m. to he sworn to in the justice court but that official, upon arriving at said court, found that the justice had lock ed up for the day and the warrants were not served at a late hour last night. The fourteen local men named in the warrants, accusing them 'of resist ing an officer are as follows: Chas. Gates, Herbert Doffitt, Jim Baxter, Oscar Smith, Bill Freeman, "Tuffv" Russell. Pete Long, Mat Story, George Story, Sam Finnucane, "Dub" Finnucane, Jack Albright Chas. Hosey, "Skinny" Mass and Jim Ellis. A warrant for Oscar Smith was made out accusing him of larceny and a warant also for George Story Sam and "Dub" Finnucane accused of threatening to kill, was also made out. All sixteen warrants are expected to be served some time today by Con stable Fortune. It is reported that H. E. Meads chief deputy game warden for Clack amas county, was injured at Oswego by a flying rock as he was engaged in hauling an illegal net into his boat from the river. According to two or three of the netmen engaged in last night's fray, the trouble started when the wardens were seen on the river dragging for nets. They claim three of their crowd started out in a launch to see what the wardens were up to, and as they neared the wardens, one of the latter took a shot at them. This "started something." according to their story, and a live mixup resulted Mr. Shoemaker, head of the fish commission, has an entirely different story to tell, and gave out the follow ing to an Enterprise reporter for pub . lication. concerning last night's do ings on the river: Last night one of the boats belong inc to the Fish commission picked up a set net just below the bridge at Oregon City, on the west Side of the river. While the wardens in this boat were dragging another eddy just above the one where the net was pick ed up, illegal fishermen stationed on - the bluff above them began to throw rocks at the wardens in the boat Boulders weighing twenty-five poinds or more were hurled at the wardens and a shot was fired from the bluff at the occupants of the state boat. Another state boat, hearing the shot, rushed to the assistance of the first boat, and for the moment the trouble ceased. ' The two state boats then made for the landing on the east side of the river just above the bridge at Oregon City. Just as the two boats reached the water above the bridge, three boats manned by thirty-four Illegal fisher men swooped down upon the patrol boats and piled on board and took possession of the state patrol boats. Oscar Smith, who has the reputation of being! one of the worst violators on the Willamette river, grabbed the net In the patrol boat, claimed It as ms own and threw it on one of the pir ate boats, and threw the two fish tak en from the net Into the river. Some one of the fishermen told the wardens that if any resistance was offered to the efforts to retake the nets, there were enough guns in the crowd of fishermen to "get" the of ficers the first round. The fishermen then proceeded to tell the wardens that they the fishermen were "white men," and delivered a lec ture to the wardens on how to oper ate the patrol service. The nirate boats then pulled away and landed at their dock, and then camo down to where the patrol boats had landed and offered an apology for what had occurred, and said that they were sorry that it had happen ed. The wardens in the service of the -Game commission had a similar ex WARDE MEW STAGE AND N ET BA ttle perience, one of them having been rocked and seriously bruised. One of the fishermen threatened to kill Roy Bremmar, deputy game warden, and throw him off the suspension bridge at Oregon City, if he ever appeared there again. During the session of the legisla ture, automobiles, carrying fifty of the leading citizens of Oregon City appeared before the legislative com mittee in support of Senator Ryan's bill opening the Willamette river from the former dead line near Oswe go up to the suspension bridge at Oregon City. These men guaranteed that the fishermen would observe the closed season and the other regula tions safeguarding the interests of the salmon, and included among these citizens was the district attorney, for mer Representative Chris Schuebel, County Judge Harvey Cross and other well known residents of that city. These fishermen have not only bro ken the law, but have broken faith with the people who pledged that vi olations would not occur. Occur rences similar to that of last night will have a strong tendency to make th6 people of the state close the riv er to commercial fishermen a con sumation devoutly to be wished. Complaints will be filed against all of the fishermen who were recog nized by the wardens, charging them with resisting officers and the con version of property belonging to the state. It is hoped that the good cit izenship of Oregon City will not per mit such outrages to go unpunished. WEST LINN HAS BUILDING BOOM ON During the past few months and at the present time West Linn has en joyed a building boom, when a num ber of modern and attractive homes have been erected and are now un der construction. Gwillim (Green Is erecting a home that will be attractive when complet ed. Eugene Hor'on has under con struction a modern bungalow on his farm, which will be occupied by his mother and himself as soon as com pleted. Frank Fisher is building a nine-room house that commands an excellent view for miles around, and is in an ideal location. Mr. and Mrs. Solomon's new home was recent ly started, and construction will be rushed, so that they will be able to occupy the residence in the early summer. The fine new home of Mr. and Mrs. Cart is almost finished. Charles Andrus, the mail carrier, is having a new home built. The new bungalow of Mr. and Mrs. Dodge is completed and they have taken pos sesion. A new garage is being erect ed' by Mr. Bailey on his place. Among the improvements that are being made is on the Chambers' resi dence the family recently taking pos sesion. This family has occupied a home near Willamette for many years. Mr. Chambers recently resigning his position as superintendent of the locks after. 4Q years' faithful service. MOLALLA WILL . INSTALL $45,000 WATER SYSTEM During the months of January, Feb ruary and March, 97 permits to ap propriate water were issued by the state engineer, Percy A. Cupper. These permits, cover the irrigation of approximately 6500 acres of land, the development of 20 horsepower and the construction of 180 miles of canal, at an estimated total construction cost of approximately $1,400,000. During this period seven reservoir -permits were issued, covering the storage of U405 acre feet of water at an etsimat- ed construction cost of approximately $22,000.00. Among the developments contem plated are: Tbe construction of the municipal water supply system Iby the City of Molalla, which contemplates the ex penditure of $45,000 in securing water supply from Trout Creek. In Clackamas county, permits have been issued to Hannah E. White, cf Portland, Oregon, covering the appro priation of water from an' unnamed stream- for irrigation of a two-acre tract, and for the development of ten horsepower, at a cost of approximate ly $350, and to the City of Molalla, Oregon, covering the appropriation of water from Trout Creek for muni cipal water supply, at an estimated cost of $40,000. Chautauqua Grange Day Set July 23 Grange Day at the Willamette Val ley Chautauqua wil be on Saturday, July 23, with a grange banquet at 12 o'clock. Senator Charles McNary has been invited to be the speaker at the forum hour. Young Oregon City Boy Leads Military Academy Team to Victory in Recent Test CAPTAIN LEE Hill Military Academy cadets in Portland, and their friends throughout the Northwest are justly proud of their company that defeated Company B, Oregon National Guard in a recent competitive drill in the O. N. G. Ar mory. The cadets won a silver lov ing cup. Their points were made in company movement, which were "just like clockwork." Lee Strickland, son of Dr. Strickland, of Oregon City, was captain of the winning company. Sev eral boys in this part of the state who were in attendance helped either by drilling or as rooters for ihe aca demy. The judges were officers from Vancouver barracks. HAWLEY MILL i PLANS TO ADD I BIG MACHINES ! Possibility of the early construc tion of another addition to the Haw ley Pulp & Caper company's mills here was announced yesterday by Traffic Manager Sheppard of the Hawley company during the Pacific Highway discussion at the Live Wires meeting. Mr. Sheppard urged that the highway be not routed past the mills, as the company would probab ly need all available ground for the new section of the plant. Tentative plans had been prepar ed he said, for two 15-ton paper ma chines and arrangements had been completed for the necessary water power. The new machines, he added would increase the capacity of the mill about one-third, and would add to the importance of the industry as one of the city's resources. For that reason he urged that the Live Wires not endorse routing of the highway over the lower Canemah- River road, in order that the mills might not be cramped in their future expansion. " MRS. BUCKLEY RE-ELECTED AS SUPERVISOR Mrji. Agnes Buckley, who has been supervisor of county schools for the last year, was reelected today to that position for the coming school year by the county educational board. She receives tbe maximum salary, o $120 a month for. 11 months, and is given an expense account of $60 a month for 10 months. The boar-1 decided tc employ an additional supervisor, in order to comply with the state law, but deferred the election of the sec ond supervisor until other applications are received. The la provides that the county shall be divided into su pervisor districts of ro less than 50 school districts. - SERVICE ' Service" will be the slogan for the Oregon Agricultural college Y. M. ' C. A. the next year. Housing, financial, social, and religious problems will bs solved for men by the college t'Y", ac cording to plans announced at the an nual banquet. STRICKLAND Hill Military Academy will hold an encampment at -Port Stevens soon, The boys were so delighter. to be ex cused from drill on the opening day of ihe ball game series in Portland that they presented the Portland ball team with a rabbit's foot and to prove the efficiency of the Beavers won that day after playing and losing everyone of 13 straight games in the south. Cadets who were not in the compel ing company in the recent contest with O. N. G. loudly praised their bro ther cadets when the silver loving cup was awarded. Every state in the northwest was represented in the vie tonous company of cadets. ETHERIDGF IS GRANTED RARDON BY NEW JERSEY That John L. Etheridge, ex-presi dent of Morris Bros., Inc., a bankrupt bond house, has been granted a par- ,don by New Jersey authorities, was announced Friday by W. P. LaRoche, counsel for Mr. Etheridge. Mr. LaRoche issued the following statement. "The New Jersey court of pardons, consisting of the governor of chan cellor and the judges of the court of errors and appeals on . April 12, 1921, unanimously granted a free and un conditional pardon to John L. Ether idge Jr., for offenses committed by him in 1905 and 1907 in New Jersey, to-wit: False pretenses, which were for issuing two checks, one In the sum of $45 and one in the sum of $15, without sufficient funds In the bank. No one lost any money, as both checks were made good. "A pardon was not esential as un der the constitution of the state of New Jersey, section 1, article 2, the offenses committed did not involve moral turpitude and did not exclude a person committing such offenses from being either a witness or from enjoy ment of the' rights of an elector. The board of pardons, however, issued the pardon so that Mr. Etheridge could not be made to suffer any further em barrassment from these offenses com mitted when he was in bis early 20s and the f.rst of them some 36 years ago. The Portland Telegram on Monday, December 27, -printed on the front page of their paper a profile picture which was described as "Profile view of alleged wrecker of Morris Bros. Inc., taken from records of New Jer sey state prison '. above at lefti." ' "I have a statement from James H. Milheron, principal keeper of the New Jersey state prison, that nc picture was ever taken of Mr. Etheridge while confined and that they had at no time any photograph of him.on file." y MARRIED Vlrgel H. Haller. 23, of Woodburn, and Bertha Azora Straw, 21, of Moni tor, secured a marriage license from the county clerk yesterday. Dangerous Delays The ' lives of thousands of people are being en dangered every day because we have a bridge across the Willamette river at Oregon City that is unsafe. The old structure is tottering. It has plainly outlived its usefulness and the people have twice indicated their de sire for a new bridge and a willingness to pay for it by voting bonds to finance its construction. The people have done all they were asked to do, the bonds can be sold with proper cooperation and publicity, and our peo ple have been for months looking forward to the early construction of a bridge that would not only be an orna ment to the two cities that have agreed to finance $50, 000 of the total cost, but would be adequate for the heavy traffic it has to bear and afford safety to the peo ple who use it. Investigation shows that there is a disposition on the part of the highway commission to tie up the negotia tions, looking to a new bridge with payment of a debt due from the county to the state for funds advanced for the construction of the Pacific Highway. This may be well justified. If the county court agreed to pay the cost of grading and bridges along the highway, and failed to arrive at a definite understanding of the amount, then the court is in honor bound to meet the obligation, even though the amount is in excess of the court's ideas. The highway commission will probab ly be reasonable in its adjustment of the indebtedness in view of the unusually heavy construction cost at various points. ' Further investigation, however, indicates a new angle that has had something to do with .the delay. The commission has evidently determined to give no state aid for the bridge project until the county guarantees the payment of $46,000 on the Mount Hood loop road, that has no more to do with the bridge on the Willamette than a theological student with the daily doings of Dempsey. Let us by all means have the Mount Hood loop if we can, as-a scenic asset, but there is no justifica tion for permitting the loop highway to delay the build ing of a bridge which will mean safety to our citizens. . We hope the county court will not become a party to such delay. The Willamette river, , with its traffic load and its human freight, is certainly entitled to as much consideration as the Clackamas, which has its -bridge without aid from either the- state or the city to which it leads. We have been led to believe that everything was in readiness for definite actibn. We have had enough of delays and excuses. We want the bridge. COURT TO KEEP CLOSE TAB ON ROAD MONEY Each road supervisor in Clackamas county will receive a letter from t"?o county court asking them to fill out and mail in a report of expenditures of road money each month in their respective districts. Heretofore, ac cording to Judge Cross, a close tab on the expenditures has not been kept on record each month by the court, and in several instances certain districts in the county have exceeded their al lotment for road money and run the district into debt. The letter mailed Saturday to each supervisor, asks that the special road funds and that of the general funds be segregated, and each district head has been notified of the exact amount that has been allowed for the current year both in special and general funds. It is reported that one dis trict, in the course of two years, was in debt to the county court in the neighborhood of $8000. MONITOR FIRST TO GET ROADS UNDER BONDS The first bonds of the issue of $1,700,000 for construction of perma nent roads in Clackamas county will be ready for devllery May 1, and a block of the amount of $36,000 will be delivered to the residents of the Mon itor section. The money received will be used for the construction of three and one-quarter miles of permanent road between Monitor and Barlow. Residents of the Barlow section had previously arranged for tbe sale of bonds to the amount of $23,000 on condition that this amount would be used In constructing a permanen,t road in tffls section. Monday R. F. Watts and other lead ers fro mthe Monitor section appeared before the county court with addi tional subscriptions for bonds, bringi ing the amount up to $36,000. Local Woman to Teach History In Salem Schools Mrs. W. A. Barnum, of Mt. Pleasant, has accepted the position of teacher of history for the remainder of the school year at the Junior high school at Salem, and will leave for that city Sunday. Mrs Barnum will begin her duties Monday morning. Mrs. Barnum, who is one of the pro minent educators of the state, has ac cepted the position as principal of the Columbus school at McMlnnville for next year. HENDRY SAYS HIGHWAY FINE TO CALIFORNIA Hugh E. Hendry, recently leaving on a business trip to California by automobile, has written the folowing to friends in this city on the condi tion of the highway between Oregon City and California: "Tell all your friends to get their cars oiled up and put In some 'grub-' and a few gallons of gas and hit the trail for California, as the roads are in wonderful good' shape all the way, The dust is flying everywhere, and I never saw any mud on the entire trip. "The tourists' are coming north by the droves from Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Kansas and they sure are one big happy family. No reason for delaying their trip now, as everything is ready and the scenery is wondefful. I cannot ex press in words the beautiful sights one can see on the Pacific and Lin coin highway south. Beautiful camp grounds everywhere, and everyone is out with the glad hand to assist you. "Was just one day behind Mrs. Spencer and Mr. and Mrs. Duncan Shanks, of Oregon City, when arriv ing at Redding, California. "Tell the folks contemplating tak ing the trip south to register at Red ding, and they will Ye furnished with roa-d maps free for the entire trip south." The letter was written at Fresno, Calif., and dated April 16, 192L Jury Out Six Hours On Case Friday After the circuit court jury was out for six hours, the case of Krebs vs. Lukas Rubanske was decided in favor of the defendant. Krebs sued Ru banske for possession of some per sonal .property. Gilbert L. Hedges was the attorney for the plaintiff, while Grant B. Dimick acted as at torney for Rubanske. Members of the Jury were: John Wl Eby, John Heina, John Eid, Geo. W. Clark, Wra. Bard, Fred C. Bartholomew.-"!). C. Eby,P. E. Bonney, L. C. Carrothers, Henry Bickner, H. H. Eastman, John M. HolloweL REBEKAHS CHOOSE DELEGATES TO GRAND LODGE ASSEMBLY Delegates to the Rebekah assembly of the Grand Lodge of Oregon to be held at Albany May 7th, have been se lected from the local order. They are Mrs. May Waldron, Mrs. Gladys Han. niford, Mrs. Izetta Albright, Mr?. Christina Barbur, all active members of Willamette Rebekah lodge. WIRES ENDORSE ROUTE TO SOUTH END HIGHWAY After considerable debate the Live Wires of the Commercial club at their noon luncheon Tuesday passed the resolution prepared by the south-end highway route committee, endorsing the plan to route the Pacific High way through Oregon City via Seventh street to Railroad avenue, south .to Fifth street, and, thence east and south under the tracks of the South" ern Pacific company, and over the hill through Canemah park, joining the present Third street route on the , grade. This resolution was tabled at last week's meeting, due to lack of time for consideration, and came up again in the form of a new resolution. Ben Harding opposed the endorsement of . the plan with a strong argument, con tending that it was not the policy of the club to favor one route over an other, and that it had not been proven that this was the most feasible of the four routes suggested. Another resolution passed author ized the appointment of a committee ' to cooperate with other units inter ested in the construction of a bridge across the Willamette river between - Oregon City and West Linn. Main Trunk E. E -Brodie appointed Mort Latourette to represent the Live Wires, and Mayor Shannon has des ignated Hugh S. Mount chairman of the street committee to represent the city,-- West Linn will apnoint a com mitteeman at a meeting of their city , council Wednesday night, and these three, under the terms' of the reso lution will work with the county court and the state highway commission in an effort to expedite the building of the bridge, bonds for which have al ready been voted. Harvey H. Holland, representing the Home Buying Exposition, of Port land, presented a plan for putting oa a play at one of the local theaters; for the purpose of exploiting the "buy-at- home" idea, and asked the support of rhe Live Wires as individual mem-- Ders. The play, will probably be given "about the middle of May. Ralph C. Parker reported that a lease had been secured on Canemah park for ten years, at $1.09 per year, and that all the details of putting the park into shape for an auto camp ground was being handled by the committee. A vote of thanks was passed and ordered transmitted to the Portland Railway, Light & Power company for their cooperation In es tablishing the camp grounds. Main Trunk Brodie announced the appointment of the following regular committees to serve during the pres ent administration: Trolley Wire, or program committee, A. C. Howland; contact, or - reception committee, L. Adams; Feed Wire, Rev. M. T. Wire, anf Resolution committee, L. A. Hen derson. The resolution on the bridge matter passed by the Wires, follows: Whereas, Oregon City, West Linn and the Live Wires of the Commer cial club are all vitally interested in having a new bridge of the best type and built in the shortest possible time,' and Whereas, we believe that these bod- -ies can be of assistance and cooper ate with our county court and state highway commission in bringing about this most desired result, there fore be it Resolved, that we desire to cooper ate in a most friendly spirit with,, the county court and the highway com mission and to that end we recom mend that there be appointed a com mittee of three members, one from this body, one from Oregon City and one from West Linn with the object of securing the best possible type cf bridge in the shortest space of time practicable, and be it further Resolved, that copies of this reso lution be transmitted to the state highway commission, the county court and the city councils of Ore gon City and West Linn. Grange Exhibits at County Fan to Be Excellent At the last meeting of Milwaukio Grange, a committee was appointed to arrange for an exhibit at the Clack amas county fair to be held at Can- by, beginning September 14th, and continuing for four days. Other granges in the county to have exhibits at the fair will be Warner, Harding, Garfield and Oswego. There is to be a good, keen rivalry between these granges for first prize. The Osrwego grange has carriei off f irst prize for quality and arrangement the past two years. Mrs. E. T.Weath. ered, member of Oswego grange, and a woman who knows the fair business from "A. to Z," has been giving the other granges instructions as to what will gain or lose points. She has re marked, "There is no credit in win ning points if the competition is not close and keen." There will be a grange day at the Clackamas county fair, when each grange will put on a stunt for the amusement of the crowd.