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OREGON CITY. OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1921.
ESTABLISHED 1866
OKEGON
EN
COMMITTEE SAYS
BRIDGE DEAL IS
NEARLY CLOSED
.MEN CLEKD BY
JURY: OUT ?5 MIHUIES
The much advertised fish trial, in
which 13 local men were arrested
and accused of interfering with an
officer in the discharge of his duty
on the "Willamette river here Monday
night, April 25, came to hat before a
justice court jury yesterday. The
jury, after being out 25 minutes, re
turned a verdict of not guilty. The
jury was composed of Al. Price, E. P.
Elliott, S. L. Stevens, Henry Cooke,
W. L. Little, and George Schultz.
The trial commenced at 9:30 in the
morning before Judge Noble in the
Early settlement of the problems
confronting the county court and state
highway commission relative to the
construction of the bridge across the
Willamette river at this point appears
to be a possibility, according to the
renort of a. Kncia.l committee ren-
resentine- the T.iv Wires of the Com- ! justice court room, Masonic building,
meredal club and the cities of West ! and after three or four fish wardens
Linn and Oregon City. On the com- j testified, the court adjourned about
mittee were M. D. Latourette, L. L. 11:45 for the afternoon session. The
Porter, and Ir. Hugh S. Mount, and , county court room was secured for
their report as made to the Wires ! the afternoon and at 1 o'clock sharp,
Tuesday noon discloses a well matur-1 Gilbert L. Hedges, attorney for the
ed plan for the consumation of pre-' accused men started the ball rolling
liminary details. I with a motion asking that the case be
SuDDlem entitle- the committee's ', thrown out of court on a technical
report, L. L. Porter quoted from a let- j point of law in the matter of arrest
ter written by the highway commis- j mg officers their authority, etc.
5 YOUNG MEN OF
THIS CITY FACE
FEDERAL CHARGE
sion to the county court of Clacka
mas county, where the proposal sub
mitted by the county was accepted.
with minor qualifications. Accord
ing to the letter, a steel bridge paint
ed with "gunite," or an enamel paint
shot from guns and sprayed on the
structure would be built, being dif
ferent from the original plans with
regard to the material and width. A
type "A" bridge as originally planned
would be of steel, incased in con
crete, and would be wider and of much
better appearance than the type "B"
now proposed. As the club at a pre
vious meeting had passed resolutions
endorsing the plans first submitted,
some of the members have taken an
interest in the matter to the extent
of going to Salem today for the pur
pose of interviewing the highway de
partment on the possibility of secur
ing the better type of ,bridge.
The report of the committee, cov
ering the Mt. Hood loop road and
the bridge question, .follows:
To the Live Wires:
Immediately upon appointment
your committee offered its services to
the county court and the same were
accepted, and the court offered the
committee the information concern
ing the bridge situation as it then
stood and agreed to keep it in touch
with the activities of the court and
the highway commission and. would
call on it when needed.
On investigation your committee
finds:
That the Oregon City-West Linn
bridge and the Mt. Hood loop will be
settled between the county court and
the highway commission together.
The county to contribute the sum of
$83,000,000 towards the Mt Hood Loop
project as follows:
Hard surface bonds under j
$17,000,000 Bonding Act ..$46,000.00
Market road money to be ap
plied above Sandy 20,000.00
Special road tax money rais
ed in that district 7,000.00
Cost of rights of way on
project 10,000.00
Total
.$83,000.00
The road to cost approximately
$840,000.00 in Clackamas county. The
bridge situation as outlined is as fol
lows: The cost of the bridge to be some
where between $225,000.00 and $300,
000.00. The exact type has not yet
been decided upon. The funds to
be raised as follows:
Bonds under. $1,700,000
bonding act $105,000.00
Cash by county court 45,000.00
Cash by West Linn and
Oregon City 50,000.00
Balance by state highway commission.
The cash above referred to will be
paid by future payments by the cities
and the count', covering a period of
from one to four years, and to be
made in annual installments. The
highway commission now demands 5
per cent interest on deferred pay
ments and this matter is now being
thres-hed out by the court and the
commission. The interest situation
is now holding up the complete negl
tiation, and the early settlement of
the affair. The court is of the op
inion that these matters will be ad
justed shortly and the interest situa
tion layed before the councils of Ore
gon City and West ' Linn for accept
ance. After which time the agree
ment will be entered into and signed
up with the state. The court also
states that it has" demanded a cred
it from the state highway commission
for paving through Canemah of $5000
will be tendered these funds to help
and that Oregon City and West Linn
take care of the interest on their
bridge obligations for a couple of
years.
' The committee is of the opinion that
when the deal is cfosed and complet
ed Clackamas county will receive in
bridge and road construction approx
imately expenditures'of $2,000,000 and
the cost to Clackamas county under
$300,000.
Te committee la also of the opin
ion that the county court is using it?
best efforts to close the matters in
question and save all the money it
can for Clackamas county.
If the deal is closed a3 outlined the
county . court will have done a great
service to Clackamas countv and
should receive your congratulations
for the job "well done."
M. D. LATOURETTE,
U L, PORTER,
H. S. MOUNT. !
legal battle between District Attorney
Stipp and Hedges followed over the
uronosed motion, lasting for about
thirty minutes and ended with Judge
Noble overruling the motion, and the
case was on
Witness after witness took the
stand, both for the defense and state
and the fight on the river between the
local netmen and wardens was re
viewed. All of the testimony prac
tically substantiated the following
story of the much advertised rivei
fight on the night of Monday, April
25th
That the fish wardens were on the
river, with two gasoline power launch
es and that one of the state boats en
countered another launch containing
two local fishermen, who had gone
out on the river attracted by the
lights of the state boat to see what
was up. Upon the aproach of the
local men's boat, one of the wardens
rose up in the state boat and fired
one shot towards the local netmen's
boat, followed by two or three shots
toward the bank These shots at
tracted other netmen who were on
Main street at the time, and all gath
ered together and made a rush for
Chas. Gate's power launch and started
for the scene of the shooting on the
river. When the -boats got together,
Oscar Smith jumped into the state
boat and found a net, which he claim
ed belonged to him. He told the
wardens to stand back as he would
prove that the net was his and that
he was going to take it with him, and
warned the wardens not to cause
trouble as he would be responsible
for the act. Two fish were also
under the net, which the wardens
claimed were caught in the net when
found in the river. The netmen al
leged, however, that the net was tak
en from the Smith scow or boathouse.
Following the taking of the net by
Smith, there was considerable pro
fanity, both by the wardens and the
netmen, and after abusing each othei
by way of mouth, no arrests were
made and the trouble enfled for the
evening.
The wardens alleged on the stand
that they did not attempt to arrest
members of the local crowd that were
in the melee for the ieason-that they
feared the trouble would terminate
in bloodshed. Later, the warrants
were served upon the men that were
in the mixup. Jack Albright, one
of the men arrested and accused of
being implicated, proved an alibi early
in the trial by witnesses, who testi-
necl that he was on Mam street in a
restaurant at the time that the trouble
took place on the river.
Chas. Hosey also proved an alibi
earlier in the trial, by witnesses, who
swore that he was home in bed at
the time that the rtouhle was suppos
ed ' to have taken place.
Following the testimony is was evi
dent that the case would hinge
around the point whether the local
men had a right to board a state
launch and take the net away from
the wardens. District Attorney Stipp,
in his opening address before the jury,
attempted to prove that the men broke
the law in boarding the launch and
the taking -of the net by Smith, and
therefore interf erring with an 'officer
in the discharge of his duty. Mr.
Stipp alleged that while he regretted
that he was compelled to prosecute a
number of local men for alleged law
violations, as district attorney, he ask
ed that they be found guilty and up
hold the law, irrespective of persons
involved.
' Gilbert L. Hedges summed up the
Five Oregon City boys were arrest
ed by Chief-of-Police Hadley, Sheriff
Wilson and Officers Hughes and
Wagonblast yesterday and will
face a federal charge of impersonat
ing an officer. The young men are
Joe Murphy. Art McKinnis, Haroid
Forshner, Clint Warren and Albert
Corvall, the latter from Montana.
Last Sunday the five accused men
went to the residence of E. Sheff,
farmer living near Redland, broke into
his cellar and made away with a gal
lon of wine. They were arrested by
Deputy Sheriff Hughes later In the
evening for having liquor on them.
but were later released. On Monday
evening it is claimed by the officers
that the five again" visited the Sheff
residence, and impersonating federal
revenue officers, told Sheff that they
had come to take away the liquor in
his cellar and that they wanted a gal
lon for the county officials and one
gallon for the state authorities to an
alyze. Sheff demanded of them to
show their authority, and one or two
of the gang threw back their coats
and showed police badges. Sheff
thereupon turned over to them several
gallons of home-made wine, which the
gang took away.
Upon leaving the farmer's house.
they told him and his wife that they
would probably be back and place him
under arrest if the wine was found to
be intoxicating. Chief-of-Police Had
ley suspicioned something amiss when
the five arrived in Oregon City togeth
er, and when Sheriff Wilson drove out
to the Sheff place and found that the
young men had impersonated revenue
officers, all of them were placed under
arrest by Chief Hadley 'and Wagon
blast Tuesday afternoon. An offic
er from the department of justice ar
rived here Tuesday evening, and af
ter investigating the incident, ordered
the five young men to be held and tak-;
en to Portland this morning. They
"Shadow"
is
Retaken
Full of "Moonshine
i
To the City Calahoose
George Billings, alias Joe Brady,
"shadow" suspect and held at one
time by the Portland police as the
talkative burglar, was billed for a vau
deville stunt in a local theater this
week, but alas, he now reclines in the
city bastile. It all came about when
the famous "shadow" suspect arrived
in Oregon City Monday night cock
full of "moon," or in other words, dis
tilled liquor ,and with a companion
by the name of Leo Patterson, raD
up against the night police force. Both
Mr. Billings, alias Joe Brady, and Mr.
Patterson were locked up in the city
jail to await the arrival of Police
Judge Kelly in the -morning. The
judge fined them $25 apiece, and in
default of payment, both are now
serving a 12 days' sentence in the
city jail. It is said that the alleged
talkative burglar, "shadow" suspect
and vaudeville artist left orders for a
number of advertising signs to be
painted advertising his coming to this
city, but the sign painter received no
tice that the placards will not be
needed for several days.
BOND MEASURE
CARRIES: LIGHT
VOTE WAS CAST
The voters of Oregon City gave the
council authority to meet the city's
obligations yesterday, when they. vot
ed favorably by a majority of around
100 for the new bond issue. The
number of votes cast were light how
ever, and 230 were recorded at the
polls in the four wards. Under the
verdict of yesterday, the city council
will be able to meet $30,000 indebted
ness due and float a new issue to take
care of the amount, until such time
as the money is available to finally
cancel the obligation.
The vote by wards was as follows:
ward No. 1, 36 for, 16 .against; ward
2, 53 for, 5 against; ward No. 3, 40 for.
14 against; ward No. 4, 35 for, 31
against.
Majority in favor of the issue,
votes.
WILLA1
BE CLOSED
ETTE MAY
TO
NETS
SECTION NORTH
OSWEGO CAUGHT
IN NEAT POCKET
FIVE MEASURES
TO APPEAR ON
BALLOTS JUNE 7 AMERICAN LABOR
COUNCILMEN AT
WEST LINN ASK
today to face the federal charge.
When Sheriff Wilson drove out to
the Sheff place, both Sheff and hi3
wife saw him approaching and think
ing that they were again being vis
ited by a bevy of federal men, they
became exceedingly alarmed. How
ever, when the sheriff explained the
trick that had been played upon them
they then told him the story as re
lated above
The official from the department of
justice, who was in Oregon City ye3
terday remarked that it would go hard
with the gang, especially two or three
of them, who have a bad reputation
locally. Albert Corvall, one of the
gang, is from Montana, rnd at the
Sheff farm at the time the gang visit
ed there, displayed a star, which he
had secured and used he said in Mon
tana.
TEACHERS OF
EAST SEEKING
JOBS HERE
Many applications from eastern
school teachers are being received by
Brenton "Vedder, county superintend
ent, tut it is probable that teachers
of the west will have first opportun
ity to secure schools here. A num
ber of the. school boards of Clacka
mas county are already selecting
their. teachers, and in some places
much difficulty is being found to se
cure suitable instructors Many pre
fer to teach near Oregon City or the
electric lines, not caring to teach in
the rural sections.
The following measures will be sub
mitted to the voters of Oregon at the
special election to be held on June
1321, and the titles and names of
the proposed measures to be voted on
follow
Submitted to the legislature Legis
ative and Compensation Amendment
Purpose: To establish the duration
ef the legislative session at not more
than sixty days and of an extra ses
sion at not more than twenty days;
fixing compensation of members there
of at. five dollars per day and three
dollars for every twenty miles trav
eled in going to and returning from
their place of meeting upon the most
usual routes; prohibiting introduction
of any bills after the fortieth day of
the legislative session, except appro
priation bills and bills pertaining! to
1 3 1 J. l 4- J 51 ft..
were yiaceu iu lue ruuuiv jaii j. ueaa .
day evening and taken to Portland . , . . . 1
by consent of four-fifths of the mem
bers present, obtaiiie'u' on roll call.
Submitted by the legislature-
World War Veterans' State Aid Fund.
Constitutional Amendment Purpose:
To issue bonds not to exceed three
per cent of the assessed valuation of
all property in the state to raise mon
ey to be loaneed in amounts of not
more than $4000 or paid as a bonus
of $15 for each month of active ser
vice but not exceeding $500 to each
honorably discharged resident of Ore
gon who served in the United States
army, navy or marine corps, between
April 6, 1917, and November 11,
1918; to levy an additional annual tax
of two mills to pay principal and in
terest of such bonds; and ratifying
correlative legislative enactments.
Submitted to the legislature Emer
gency Clause Veto, Constitutional Am
endment Purpose: To amend section
15-a of article V of the constitution
of the state of Oregon, empowering
the governor to veto provisions in
bills which declare emergencies with
out thereby affecting any other pro
visions of such bills. Such power
to be in addition to the power to veto
single items in appropriation bills.
At the regular meeting of the West
Linn council held Wednesday night.
and West Linn are complimenting the
West Linn council and mayor on the
action taken.
Other business to come up before
the council was the erection of the
proposed new Clackamas county hos
pital at West Linn, sponsored by Drs.
Meissner, C. A. and G. A. Stuart, Ross
Eaton, Strickland Huycke, , O. ' A.
Welsh, and a committee made up from
the Oregon City physicians mention
ed above appeared at the session and
asked for the council's tupport re
garding the new institution. Council
man Bittner, McDonald and Will
iams were named as a committee to
help facilitate the speedy construction
of the new hospital and theywill meet
In the offices of Dr. Pickens in this
city tonight to discuss the project
Smoking on electric cars in the
citiy JUmits,oX West Linn was taboo
ed by the city fathers and an ordin
ance was passed restricting the prac
tice. The ordinance also prohibits
smoking in the depot. Another or
dinance setting the speed limit in the
city limits was passed and hereafter
25 miles on the straightaway and 15
miles, on the curves will be enforced.
L. L. Porter, recorder of West Lina,
was named as a committee of one to
meet with representatives of the Ore-
ion City Commercial club and council
when the three, committees will inter,
view the state highway commission
asking for immediate construction of
the new Oregon City-West Linn
bridge across the Willamette river
here.
Councilman Simpson, McDonald and
Barnes will act as a committee to in
terview Fire Chief Ruconich regarding
the purchase of a fire chemical cart
and fire bells for West Linn. .
A peculiar situation haa developed
over the filling in of the. trestle just
north of Oswego by the Southern Pa
cific company recently, and an area
of about 40 acres containing some of
the sightliest residences in that neigh
borhood have been caught in what
one may term a "pocltet." ' When the
S. P. company filled in the approaches
to the trestle rather than construct
better ones at an additional expense,
the citizens living in that section diu
not become aware that the read
would be shut off leading out of the
district until it was tco late, and
then they fairly yelled for help from
the county court. Before the ap
proaches were filled in, the road lead
ing cut of the section ran under the
trestle, but naturally, when the ap
proach was filled in, there was no road
and hence the difficulty.
The members of the county court
were called out to the affected dis
trict by the residents, and asked to
find a way wherein they could get
out with a road. Representatives! of
the S. P. company and county court
went over the territory yesterday, and
.ifter considerable difficulty in diag
nosing the trouble,- found, that the
road could be built out of the sec-
tio crossing; the railroad tracks half
way to the bridge, or fill-in. Two
plausible approaches could be con-
ttructed, the court found, but both
would cost in the neighborhood of
$10,000, which the court refused to al
low, if a way could be found to cheap
en the building of a different road.
However, the court and S. P. officials
left with the understanding that the
road would be built as suggested, and
at very little expense. The taxpayers
affected were satisfied with the 'Plan
as outlined by. the court, although it
is reported that the &. P. officials did
not like the idea of having another
crosing over their tracks to take care
of.
PORTLAND, April 29. To close the
COMMISSION AND
COURT ARRIVING
AT SETTLEMENT
RAID RESULTS
IN 50 GALLONS
MASH. FORD
A resolution condemning the action
of the United States supreme co irt in
allowing tae liberty of Henry Albers
was authorized and copies of It will
be sent to the United States attorn
ey general and to Senator McNaiy,
who has been asked to present the
case to the department of justice
Main JTrunk E. E. Brodie created the
office c "trouble shooter' in the or
ganization, and appointed Clyde
Mount to fill it. It will be the prov
ince of this office to guide the delib
erations of the body aloi-3 the pro
per parliamentary routes.
R W. Kirk, superintendent of the
city schools, invited the business men
at the meeting to attend a physical
training exercise at 7th and Main
street Wednesday afternoon at 3
o'clock, when 350 high school students
will be put through their paces b5
the instructors. If the afternoon is
showery, the stunt will be postponed
till a better day.
case for the accused men before the
jury and alleged that no law was
broken when Smith took his own pro
perty the net from the warden's
boat, and that Smith identified the
net, took it and said at the time that
if trouble arose over the act, he,
Smith, would stand responsible. Hedg
es roasted the game commission and
said that he was convinced that there
was a concerted action on the part ft
the Columbia river fishermen to get
the Willamette river closed to com
mercial fishing, so that the Colum
bia river men could catcht all of the
fish.
"You don't see a member of the
fash commission appointed from
Clackamas county, do you," Hedges
exclaimed to the jury, "you bet you
don't, for the reason that here are
where the fish are, but we haven't
anything to say" about catching them."
"Yet," continued Hedges, "a Jot of
Finns and other, foreigners operate
their fish ladders and nets on the
Columbia and sell the product to the
millionaire cannerymen and we pa7
for the salmon in the can. They don't
care to see the fish taken from this
river and would let the salmon die
and rot here rather than see the local
American citizens get the fish, which
rightly belong to them."
The men acquitted by the jury on
the charge of interferrlng with an
officer ta the performance of his du
ties were: Matt Story, Bill Freeman,
Charles Gates, Herbert DofCt, Oscar
Smith, Sam Finnucane, Jim Ellis,
"Tuffy" Russell, Gilbert Long, 'TJubb"
Finnucane and Geo. Story.
Submitted by the legislature Hy
gienic Marriage Examination and Li
cense Bill Purpose: To require both
applicants for marriage license to sub
mit to and pass an examination by
regularly licensed and competent
physician as to their health, in regard
to contagious or communicable ven
ereal disease an mentality, and in
case of failure to pass such examin
ation prohibiting marriage unless ono
or both applicants are rendered ster
ile; to establish requirements of phy
sician's certificate and providing for
an appeal from order of county clerk
denying a license.
Submitted by the legislature Wom
en Jurors and Revised Jury Law
Purpose: To permit women to serve
as jurors; to provide a special notice
by which women may release them
selves from jury service; to require
the names of qualified jurors to be
ascertained from the latest tax roll
and registration books and any other
sources of official information; to re
quire the proportional selection , of
jurors to be made from the registra
tion books as well as from the assess
ment roll; to require at least one-
half of the trial jury to be women
in criminal actions involving a minor
under eighteen years of age either as
defendant or complaining witness.
Sheriff Wilson and deputies Long
and Hughes made a raid on the home
of one Linford Isaacson at Bell Station
last night and found over 50 gallons of
mash ready for stiling on the prem
ises Isaacson pleaded guilty and
was fined $150 in the justice court
Folowing this arrest, the officers were
returning from the scene of the raid
when they ran into a "booze running'
car on the highway near 82nd street.
They saw a man leave the car and
walk off with a suit case, and the of
ficers started in pursuit. The man
was found to be carrying only some
clothing, however, and the officers
returned to the car to find the driver
gone. Upon search of the machine,
quarts of liquor were found, and the
sheriff brought the, car, which is a
Ford back to this city. The owner
lives in Corvallis and he can have hi-
car maybe, If he reports back to
this city for a conference with the au
thorities here.
Class At O. A. C.
To Criticise Letters
of Professional Men
CANADIANS TO
BAR HEARSTS
. PUBLICATIONS
TORONTO, Ont., April 30. Shortly
before adjournment of the Ontario le
gislature Saturday R. A. Fowler, mem
ber for Lennox secured unanimous
vote of the members present In favor
of his resolution that all Hearst pub
lications should be excluded from clr
culatton in Canada.
The resolution askk." the federal gov:
ernment to take immediate steps in
connection with the matter.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL
LEGE, Corvallis, April 30. Criticizing
professional sales and credit letters
put out by leading commercial estab
lishments of the country is a task be
ing undertaken by the advance classes
of business correspondence at the col
lege under Carl Naether, instructor
in English, who has had wide exper
ience in training salesmen in handling
sales ad credit letters.
The students have written commer
cial . establishments for samples of
their letters. A careful study will be
made of them and a copy of a rgport
on the student finds will be sent to
each firm. The idea was tried out
last year with the result that several
concerns reported that they had re
ceived valuable criticism of which
they intended to make use.
Indications point to an early under
standing between the state highway
commission and the county court of
Clackamas county over the negotia
tions involving the construction of
a new bridge across the Willamette
connecting Oregon City and West
Linn, the settlement of claims against
the county on the part of the state
for the cost of grading and bridges on
the Pacific highway and the share
that this county is expected to con
tribute toward the: construction of
the Mount Hood loop road. Nego
tiations have reached a noint where
the only difference involved is the
question of five per cei.t interest on
deferred payments by the county, ami
the county court will probably ask
that West Linn ani Oregon City guar
antee the same rate of interest on
$50,000 which the two cities have
agreed to contribute, hut for whicli
funds are not immediately availably
The contribution of lackamas to
ward the loop road around Mount
Hood is $S3,000, then it :s reported
that the highway commisrion will ao
cept county road bonds for $46,000
of the total sum. There i3 $20,000
available from the market road fund,
$7,000 from a special district tax and
$10,000 is to come from the general
fund.
It is also underrtood that the com
mission will accept bonds for $105
000 to apply on the new bridge, and
that the county will agree to pay $15,
'100 more, plus the contribution of
West Linn and Oregon City of $50,000,
The joint committee from the Live
Wires and the twin cities, M.'D. La
tourette, L. L. Porter and Dr. Hugh
S Mount, have had several confer
ences with the county court and have
a feeling of optimism that the negoti
ations that have been pending for
many months show sigrjs of early
termination.
Governor Sets
May 22-28 As
Forest Week
SALEM, Or., April 29. Governor
Olcott, acting at the request of Pres
ident Harding,' has designated the
week May 22 to 28, inclusive, as for
est protection week.
"Oregon, more than any other stale
in the union, is dependart upon its
timber wealth, the perpetuation of Its
lumber industries ad conservation of
its stream flow," said tht governor's
proclamation.
I respectfully urge, upon all civic
nd other organizations that during
the week designated as forest protec
tion week they bring to the attention
of their membership the need for care
with fire in forested are&s xnd the
duty of every citizen to help prevent
and suppress forest fires." .
Willamette river to commercial fish
ing and leave the stream for anglers
is a motion which will be made at the
next meeting of the state fish com
mission by Chris Schmidt, of Astoria.
This proposed motion -of Commis
sioner Schmidt will . anticipate the
t alked of proposal, of the Live Wires
and Chamber of Commerce of Oregon
City to have the river so closed
through the initiative. The prospec
tive closing of the Willamette river
to commercial fishing is an outgrowth
of -J.he disputes and troubles which
have occurred near the falls in the
past few days.
Measure Thought Drastic
The state fish commission looks af
ter the commercial end of fishing and
the proposal to eliminate the Willam
ette as a commercial stream will be
a somewhat drastic and disciplinary
measure. The commission has, it
was said, power to close the stream if
it sees fit. Closing the Willamette
will cause some loss in revenues, but
this loss is considered of small con
sequence when compared with the ad
vantages of spreading peace along
the stream.
Thr. season in the Columbia opens
Sunday night. The season in the Wil
lamette does not open until May 10
Master Fish Warden Shoemaker plans
reinforcing the patrol in the "Willam
ette with two power patrol boats
now in service on the larger stream.
With the opening of the Columbia
season, the patrol boats will not bo
required here, and " they will double
the protection on the Willamette.
Meeting Is May 12
As the fish commission meets again -May
12, two days after the open sea
son in the Willamette, the commis
sion may then throw up the bars and
cut off the commercial fishermen.
Sentiment in favor of closing the Wil
lamette has been growing for some
time. There have been growing con
troversies between" the-. anglers and
the commercial fishermen for many
seasons and the warden service fre
quently has been called into play re
Eulting in arrests" and prosecutions
and sometimes convictions of offend
ers. The recent battle royal when
about 30 fishermen were said to have
swarmed the patrol boats and three
fishermen were said to have threat
ened to throw a couple of wardens
into the river, with the resultant stone
throwing and use of firearms, all this,
appears to have caused a climax and
crystallized sentiment for closing the
stream.
Fish Leave Willamette i
While about IS nets have been pick
ed up by the warden service, Mr.
Shoemaker does not believe that many
fish have been caught illegally for
the reason that the fish were not in
the river. The salmon started to
run, but then came backwater from
the Columbia and the fish in the Wil
lameite retreated to Willamette slough
and loafed there and in the Columbia.
This is the explanation why so few
fish have been caught by anglers .and
why most of the nets picked up by
the officers have been empty.
Officers have prosecuted two cases
where the defendants were charged
with snagging fish and in both in
stances the defendants were acquit
ted by a jury. A case where the charge
was use of an illegal net was tried i
recently and the jury brought in a
verdict of guilty. This case was ap
pealed, but this week the conviction
was sustained. There are now abaut
14 - fishermen with charges
against them by the state, fish com
mission and the state game commis
sion These charges were an out
growth of the melee which took place
several nights ago.
According to officers public senti
ment in Oregon City has shifted away '
from the fishermen and the sentiment
is increasing in favor of closing tiie
stream to commercial interests. .
CUT IN WAGES
ANNOUNCED BY
2 PAPER MILLS
A flat 20 per cent cut in wages has .
been announced by both the Crown
Willamette Paper Co. and the Hawl-
ey Pulp & Paper Co., effective May
The mills here have been paying
minimum wage for unskilled labor
of $4.32 per day of eight hours, and
the new scale will carry with a wim
imum wage of $3-46. Skilled labor
will be cut in proportion on the same
20 per cent basis.
The reduction has been contemplat
ed for some weeks, according to a
statement made by one of the paper
mill officials Friday night, and follows
the reduction made by the Interna
tional Paper Co., which is the larg
est paper manufacturing concern in
the east. The local paper companies
hacl agreed with their operatives to
follow the International schedule.
There has been a severe drop in the
selling price of paper products and
a falling off in demand during the last
few months.