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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.