OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE FRIDAY, AUGUST 19. 1921.
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AMBROSE SMALL IS .
THOUGHT TO BE FOUND
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Man Who is Believed Missing
Employer of Doughty
Held in Secret
Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 15. A mel
odramatic tale of being kidnapped by
his secretary, hidden, in tenement
houses and on lonely farms all over
the country,' maltreated and finally
wounded and maimed for life in an
attempt to" escape from his captors
this was the theory that John Brophy
former chief of detectives and now a
private detective here,' held today in
regard to the mute and crippled
stranger he was holding in secret to
day as Ambrose Small, missing Can
adian multi-millionaire.
Word is Awaited
Awaiting word from Small's rela
tives in Toronto, the detectives re-1
fused to make known the where
abouts of the recluse or any definite
information as to how he came to
Des Moines. They talked frely of his
actions, however, and toid of the
physical characteristics by which
they connected his identity with that
of the missing David Belasco cf Can
ada. "Small" cannot explain how it
was that he left Toronto on Decem
ber 2, 1919, with more than $1,000,000
immediately after selling out his
theatrical interests for $"5,000,000.
Replies are Curt
His only r?p!y to repeated ques
tions to how hecame to Des Moines
is "From Omaha," and his only ex
planation of the terrible experience
.:n which he had both legs severed
at the knee, a ballot wound through
his shoulder and huge bump on the
back of his head, was "train."
Asked pointblank who he was, the
invalid cowered' and answered
' Doughty." Doughty was the name
of his secretary, who disappeared
three weeks after Small. Doughty ,
is' now serving a sentence for embez- i
element of his employer's money.
Doughty Arrested Here
Press reports that Ambrose Small,
millioniare theatrical man of Toron
to, Canada, may be alive, are read
with interest her, where his alleged
slayer, John Daughty, was arrested
last November, after being employed
at a local paper mill for 8 months
Doughty, who went under the name
of C. B. Cooper, and made his resi
deuce at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Jess Strain, at 4th and 'Bluff streets
hatf many friends here, gained by his
quiet demeanor and his evident good
breeding and gentlemanly manners,
He was arrested and convicted for
complicity in the disappearance of
Small.
Police of three continents had been
on a year's search for Doughty, as a
reward-of $15,000 for his capture and
$50,000 for the return pf Small had
been posted. The arrest of Doughty
here was effected by Jack Richardsoa
formerly with the Burns detective
agency, and by Constable Ed. For
tune, who had been called into the
case by Richardson. The latter had
seen Doughty in Portland and follow
ed him to Oregon City under suspi
cion that he was the missing man.
Found at Mills
Fortune found that he was employ
ed at the Hawley mills in the yards,
and with the aid of Ed. Shaw, fore
man, they kept bim under survsil
ience for several days. After making
sure, by comparison with photographs
that he was their man, the local of
ficers wired to Detective Austin Mit
chell, of Toronto, who came to Ore
gon City and arrested Doughty at the
Stram home on the night of Novem
ber 23, 1920. He' was immediately
taken to Toronto, and tried on
charges of kidnapping Small and for
the theft of $100,000 in bonds. The
bonds were recovered from deposit
in a Chicago bank later. , .
Richardson and Fortune received
their reward for the arrest of Dough
ty on January :;rd, ihis year, they re
ceiving $7,000 each and Shaw coming
in for $1,000.
There is no competition in the rates of fire insur-
ance in Oregon. Backed by an "insurance code" be- -
stowed by an indulgent legislature, -the great insurance
- companies have the state within their grasp and there is
no appeal from the rating" bureau. Private monopoly
may force the state into the insurance business as a mat-
ter of mere protection to its citizens. The premiums for
accident insurance are reduced with the report of acci-
dents in every plant in the state, but Oregon City can
spend $ 1 4j000 for a modern fire apparatus and its rates
do not come down. Our fire losses may be cut in two,
but our premiums are fixed. The Woodburn Independ-
ent, commenting upon the situation in Oregon, makes
the following pertinent comments :''
Is the rating bureau permitting too high rates?
The general public,, ignorant of facts and fi-
1 gures, can draw a conclusion only after these facts
and figures are furnished by those able to give
them.
The rating bureau can easily ascertain the .
1 amount of fire losses on insured properties during
any month, and knows how much the premiums
paid insurance companies amount to during the
same period of time.
1 We have investigation and control and regu-
lation of rates of electric, telephone, telegraph, ex
1 press, railroad and other companies, but there is no
publicity of any investigation of ihe insurance com-
bines. . '
I Why? ,
1 While the people are groaning under a heavy
I burden of taxation, it would not be amiss to ask
I why the insurance rates are not lowered.
I Nearly every property-holder in the state is in
terested in this subject, and no move is made to give
them relief in this respect, while insurance compan
ies continue to reap a harvest of billions o fdollars
annually.
There are strong insurance companies that
would gladly enter the Oregon field with lower pre--
mium rates, or are already operating here and are
forced to abide by the uniform rates fixed by the
rating bureau.
It may be right, but we cannot see the justice'
in crushing competition in the essential financial 1
factor. No insurance company can transact busi-
ness under certain established rates. That is not
fair.
There seems to be plain evidence that old-line j
insurance companies have had too much influence
with our legislature and proceeded to perfect insur- J
ance conditions that are not very pleasing to the j
thoughtful premium-payers of the state. ,
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COPYRIGHTED
HrTY-THREjE
YEARS AGO
Taken from the Oregon City Enter
prise of August 10, 1867.
The metor of Wednesday evening,
July 31st, turns out to be a more ex
tensive institution that was at first
supposed. It was seen at Portland,
Salem, Vancouver, Dalles, Walla "Wal
la, Astoria and Olympia, Wash., from
each of which places notices of it.
have come to us. In each place it ap
peared to be moving from the East to
the Northwest. One of the most singu
lar things connected with its appear
ance was its nearness to the specta
tors. - - . '
Oregon Justice Gets
Island Appointment
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. Justice
Charles A. Johns of the supreme
court of Oregon has been agreed en
for appointment as one of the asso
ciate justices of the supreme court
of the Philipines.
President Harding is expected to
make the formal announcement from
the wThite House witljin a few days.
Decision to name Justice Johns
was reached at a conference of Pres
ident Harding, Secretary of War
Weeks and Senator Charles L. Mo
Nary of Oregon, this morning, at
which McNary offered his name with
strong recommendations.
The first emigrants train for-1887
arrived at Boise on July 30th. They
were eleven wagons strong and hail
ed from Iowa, Illinois and Missouri.
The name of but one family, A. G.
Cooke was mentioned.
There are several regular gambling
hells among the Chinese residents on
Alder and Second Streets, where the
inmates make night hideous till long
after the hour wnen Church yards
spirits walk.
Two Injured WJien
Stage Hits Ford Car
Hubbard, Or., Aug. 16. Two me.i
were injured in a head-rn collision
between a souihbound seven-passen
ger stage and a Ford truck near Hub
bard Monday. Emil Gross, driver of
the stage, was cut about -the face
arm and hand, and Harry fnverstroni,
Home Hotel 83 First street, Port
land, an occupant of the truck, was
severely bruised.
The truck which bore license "21-
467 Alta" was driven by Chafer
Newton of Canby and was entering
the main highway from a side road
when the "collision occurred. Marks
on the pavement show' that the stage
skidded 7 feet before the collision.
The driver said he" was traveling
about 20 miles an hour at the time.
Other occupants of the stage and
Newton escaped uninjured. Tne
truck went into a ditch!
The exercises at the city Seminary
will be resumed in alj departments
on Monday August 19th, F. Barclay,
supt.
Operas are now popular -in Port
land and Salem, Oregon. Oregon City
would have been included but we
have no public hall.
A country schoolmaster gives it as
his opinion' 'Chat, nowaday ladles
seem to treat their waists as vulgar
fractions to be reduced to the low
est terms.
Examination is Set
For Postmastership
A civil service examination to fill
the position of postmaster at Molal
Ia will be held in the office at Ore
gon City, September 10. Dates for
examinations throughout the state
have been set by the civil service
commission.
Molalla is the only office in the
county for which examination will
be held at this t'me. The term of
the postmaster expires in the neur
future.
-Mrs. Agnes Clifford has been '.n
charge of . the Molalla office for a
number of years. She has obtained
the appointment through civil serv
ice examinations. Molalla is a fourth
class office, and the term of the post
master there is four years.
Family Vocation
Only one month remains before ilv
housewife must buckle down to the
finest job on earth maintaining; the
setting" for the family activities for
another year of work- School will
begin and it will be necessary that the
household machinery run stnoothly if
the children are to be habitually clean,
wholesome, well-fed and groomed,
given opportunity to put their best
into their studies, with still plenty of
time left for play.
This will be "scm job" and the
honor is Mother's She cannot ex
pect much help from the rest of the
family for each will be busy about
tasks of his own. It must be continu
ous, for the fires on the altar of the
lioma hearth must be constantly
guarded.
The rest of the family, may keep
-regular hours and have a daily change
of environment, but the housewife, of
necessity, spends most of her 'days in
door with "her work continually in
sight. From rising 'till retiring, she
hurries from one petty, near-at-hand
task to another washing dishes,
cooking, sewing, scrubbing, straight
ening the rooms'. She never feels
through, nor released from the care of
it, and it often becomes so thick as
to be confusing. Much as she loves
the dear bonds, yet it does wear on her
spirit
It is better that we recognize this
and prepare for it during August. It
is our duty to ourselves, our husbands,
children and friends. We will be
sweeter and more interesting compan
ions if we look up from the mole-hills
and take a gaze into the kingdoms be
yond.. Even if a safety pin has to do
duty instead of a button, or fried eggs
take the place of a meat loaf, or a
few. bumps go unkissed, -still our
families will be gainers in the long
run.
Anocher argument In favor of vaca
lionizing during August is the fact
that the fal lwill bring the work-a-day
spirit to everybody; eacn will be ab
sorbed with his own particular career
for months to come. Father will be
wrapped up in the shop; Tom will go
to college; Jane lost in the joy of high-
scnool sophomoreship ; Ted will get
on the team;" Muffet will enter
kindergarten, and only snookins will
be left at home to share life with
Mother. This is the last month for
the family to do things in unison, to
revel in family chummess. Happy
life-niemories wjjl be stored up if all
hova TlJ'l T rl f (i I . V. .1 T iil,f Inn...
sunny days, camped together under
starry skies, hiked together, fished to
gether, cooked in the open, swam,
loafed, lived and been glad together
When winter winds howl down the
chimney and stern duty goads each on
his separate way, they will-feel that
something unforgettable has knit
them each to each. We have yet one
month to pack full of intimacy and
sport and health and open views and
oxygen. . .
But the family purse J Alas, the
fly in the ointment of all our most
unctious dreams! But need it be ex
pensive; A tent, ten minutes by
flivver, the open country just beyond
the city limits, the shores of stream
or lake, freedom and bliss. These will
not require much cash only wise and
enthusiastic planning, plus the wealth
of imagination which can illusionize
Jones' back wood-lot into a "bit o''
Arcadia." The ;- sky Is apt to be
;nst as blue and the winds as
sweet as those in distant fields which
look greener.
Such au outing or shall we call
it an "inning?" is well worth the
effort. ' The tew harmony with
Nature, the new thrill in limb and
blood the new consciousness of alive
ness will put us into the spirit of the
lines of John Kendrick Bangs
movement for the betterment of rural
life, the teacher is to be a community
leader.
Aside from tnese ethical and social
advantages, teaching is now becoming
better paid and working conditions
being made pleasanler.
To prepare for reaching one should
be well educated in general, have
specialized in the branch she desires
to teach, and if the teacher can have
normal training it will help solve
many of her practical perplexities.
Well, Wisconsin is the first state to
wake up anyway.
August Eating
Use lots of fruit and vegetables,
little meat, corn-meal, fata, sugar or
pastries. Tell husband to hand you
a lemon and not say it with chocolates
during August All succulent fruits
and vegetables are coolinpr, while the
heavy foods keep the fires in the body
burning too furiously. We need only
three fourths as much actual food in
summer as in winter.
Avoid an over supply of the starchy
vegetables; The juicy ones are not
only more full of corrective acids and
salts,' but the actual liquid content is
a consideration. In hot weather th'j
kidneys are in danger of neglecting
their cleaning function because per-
spiration leaves the body dry. Drink,
drink, drink and eat succulent foods.
Recipes
Slice bananas, pour over them cook
ed rhubarb sauce in which Las been
dissolved enough gelatine to form a
mold.
Remove the stones from cooked
prunes, sweeten slightly, add lemon
form into mold with gelatine.
Shred cabbage, add finely chopped
carrot and mango, and mold with
gelatine.
Soak a cauliflower in salted water
to remove insect life, staem an hour,
until tender. Servo with white saue3
and grated cheese.
Make a vegetable loaf as follows:
Chop four onions and two peppers and
add three cups of boiled rice, a half
cup of nut meats if desired, cup and a
half of peas. Bake as a loaf. When
done, tip' on platter, over with wh'e
sauce and garnish with sliced toma
toes and parsley.
Make combination salads of all sorts
of vegetable left-overs.
Scoop out the inside of tomatoes,
and insert a seasoned hard-boied egg
into each and put dressing on top.
Dip bread into beaten egg and fry,
put on top of it fried onion.
berve "succotash" of (1) corn ana
beans, (2) corn and tomatoes, (3
carrots and onions cook the ingred
ients together and cream them.
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THE WOMAN CITIZEN
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- The Sheppard-Towner Bill
The Sheppard-Towner Maternity-In
fancy bill. an unwelcome intruder, was
suffocated in the House last January.
But "it is a very vital bill, and, Pheo
nix-like arises from its ashes and
will soon become a law. The women
of every party, locality, and organiz
ation are "solid" fc-r it. Its passage
wil be the greatest triumph, so tar,
of our possession of the ballot.
No . longer need every eighth baby
nor 15,000 new mothers each year die
of preventable causes. " The remedy Is
the Sheppard-Towner Bill, which or;
vides tat tine nation government mp.y
co-operate with the states in establish
ing health centers, health nurses, and
hospitable care available to mothers
This remedy is not in the experi
mental stage, but has been thoroughly
tested out in Europe. Even during the
war it was found that in England,
Austria, Belgium .nd France, infant
and mother mortality decreased witU
the multiplying; of child welfare sta-
tions and child hygiene experts. Wom
en of America will rejoice to see th-Sheppard-Towner
Bill pass the House
soon, as there is every prospects that
it will do.
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SMILES. ' 4
That's Why
"Then I came," said the shipwrecked
mariner.
"To an island in the sea
Where a tribe of women without
tongues
Were as wild as they could be."
"My sakes, how could tl.ey talk?"
-asked one,
A gullible as a c-hdd
"Thej couldn't," the old salt replied.
"And that's what made them wild."
Dr. Parker
Missing Priest is
Found Murdered
In sun or storm, by day or night.
If skies are lowering or bright, i :
xne mgnroad holds so much delight
I run with heart aglow.
It is enough to ?ive and plan,
To joy in earth and sea;
To do what things a mortal an
With spirit blithe and free.
It is gratifying: to us to note that a
new ferry boat is in the course of
construction at this place, to supply
a want long felt for safer means of
transportation across the river here.
JUSTICE COURT CLOSED
The Justice court closed today, to
reopen August 22. Judge E. X Noble
is attending the Elks convention in
Marshfield Ed. Fortune, court con
stah'o, is. busy arranging the race
nrnrram for the UiaCKauiiW wuu.j
fair.
The roads between this city and
Milv.aukie have been somewhat im
proved of late but the bridge across
the Clackamas has net" yet received
needed repairs.
Officers Exonerated
For Killins: Bandit
PORTLAND, Aug. 16. Jesse Isard
alias George Decker, alias Fred Wil
son, Oswego road bandit, was shot
and tilled by Deputy Sheriffs Kendall
and Alollenhour in performance of
their duty, and his killing was justi
fiable, in the, opinion of members of
a coroner's jury, who investigated the
case last night.
The officers were exonerated and
commended for an important capture.
Deputy Sheriffs Kendall, Mollen-
hour, Lamont and Rodney Hurlbuvt
testified at the inquest, which was
held by Coroner Earl Smith in the
courthouse.
The body of Isard will be cremated
and the ashes sent to his mother,
Lj . j Mrs. Clara Isard, at Pittsburg, Pa. .
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.," Aug. 11
The body of Father Patrick E. Heslin,
missing eolma priest, who disappear
ed from his ijarish, Holy Angels' Cath
one cnurcfl the night of August 2, was
found buried last night at the bottom
of a sand cliff near Salada beach on
the Pacific ocean, -about twenty miles
south of San Francisco.
The party left San Francisco late
last night, acting on information
given by Hightover that he bad dis
covered the grave. The body was ex
humed by the light of a lantern.
Hightower was. held by police pend
ing further investigation.
The body was buried in a cramped
position in a trench beneath an over
hanging wall. It lay parallel to the
wall and against it and was covered
vith two feet of loose sand.
IRELAND WANTS ACTION
DUBLIN, Aug. 15. The pessimism
over the Irish situation which today
in some quarters in Dublin reached
almost the point of hopelessness,
yielded tonight to reasoned opti
mism when the programme for the
meeting tomorrow of the Dail Eireann
was made public
All Ireland is eager for a decision
by the parliament on the British gov
ernment's terms, whether it be ac
ceptance of them, . the expression of
a desire 'ior runner negotiations, or
rejection, iri order to remove the ten
sion which exists.
OPEN DOORS
IN BUSINESS
TEACHING
Teaching has again become a pro
fession par excellence. It was always
a profession which made strong ap
peal to the heart of woman because it
is Mothering social mothering. Re
cently teaching was forsaken by man
women; but now that teacher's wages
nave been increased in general and
tne cost of living is coming doWa.
thosevwho love the work are returning
to it and the problem called "teacher
shortage" is no more.
Teaching is a form of social service
and a patriotic contribution to the wel
fare of one's country. Our state tomor
row will be as the young idea is direct
ed today. Ajid not only is the young
idea to be molded; adult classes are
being formed, in the cities and many
persons of all ages, who have not had
their shgre of educational advantages
are eagerly accepting these. To make
one's personality felt for good thera
are three vehicles notably .available
the pulpit, the press and the schooi.
Each of these is a- form of teaching
and perhaps none is more influential
than the one which catches the plastic
mind while young, and stores away
n it treasures "where neither, moth
rt or rust can corrupt nor thieves break
through and steal."
For a time teaching was not duly
respected, as its poor pay drove from
many who were most capable, but
that is changing and to be a teaher
is now to hold a place of high esteem
in the community With the new
Dr. Valeria H. Parker, of Hartford,
Conn , is one of the courageous
women in America. For years she
has been a public worker in the in
terest of Social Hygiene. She has
recently been made Executive Secre
tary of the Interdepartment Hyg.enu
uoara wnere sne wui nave many
workers under her supervision.
She is not a hazy theorist but ad
vocates a definite program cf Social
reform. Back of her stands the great
organization, The National League
of Women Voters. With her present
office and such backing, it is highly
probable that at least a part of Uet
program may presently be worked cut
Her program is:
First Education. .Through teach
ing the essentials of sex-hygiene to
the boy and girl, by mothers and by
school teachers.
Second, Recreation. Dr. Parkoi
eays, "More persons mak.i their first
mistake in regard to sex in the effort
to have a good time than in any other
manner. Youth needs recreation as
an outlet for energy, and also for
physical, mental, and character de
velopment. If wholesome recreation
not available, youth is prone
to 'seek satisfaction in excitment, and
without guidance this excitement
easily tends to become vicious We
must have abundant recreational facil
ities under trained supervision, to
rake the place of dangerous and un
desirable amusements. Athletic facili
ties, out-of-door games, hikes and
camping-, boy and girl . FCoutsv and
properly organized clubs furnish
'hese There must be provision for
normal companionship between boys:
and girls.
Third, Medical diagnosis and treat
ment for the innocent and others.
Venereal diseases should be classed
as communicable anff the machinery
of government used to prevent their
spread. -For this there should be
ample clinics and hospitals.
Foarth, Legislation. Laws in re
gard to sex morality should apply and
be enforced equally with bo'h sexi,s.
avoring neither. Commercial pros
titution should be abolished Solici
tation be heavily punished. Sentences
thould be inflicted and not merely
fines.
Other helps in social reform would
be a ttrict enforcement of laws against
lrugs and alcohol: suppression at
licentous literature, theatres aid
inovii;s; of vicious advertising ; quack"
doctors and remed-.es; a legal age of
jonsent, for boys and girls of IS;
proper care of juvenile delinquents;
and women oi all boards dealing with
social court cases.
Load Limit is Set at
Nine Tons by Court
The maximum truck load allowed
on the highways of cackamas coun
ty will hereafter be 18,000 pounds
br 9 tons. An' order to this effect
was issued by the county court Fri-
dav. .
This reduces the maximum load
4000 pounds, a-s under the state law
the limitation is 22,000 pounds.
Under the ruling passed by. the
court the total concentrated load al
lowed on 1 axel is 14,400 pounds, or
a concentrated load of" not more
than 450 pounds to each inch of tire-
width on one axle
The court', ruling also prevides a
speed 'of not over 10 miles an hour
for all vehicles while passing over
bridges in the county and a speed of
5 miles per hour for trucks in pass
ing ever bridges.
TEMPORARY LICENSE
TAGS NOW IN VOGUE
SALEM, Or,. Ag. 12.-The secre
tary of state's office is mailing to
sheriffs of the several Oregon coun
ties temporary license tags for use on
motor vehicles pending the procuring
by the motorists of the permanent
number plates for this year.
. "The law requires tnat license num
ber plates must be attached to every
motor - vehicle before the machine
shall be driven upon any road, street
or highway of the state, and the
temporary tags are designed to identi
fy the. vehicle- during the period inter
vening between tho forwarding to the
secretary of state of an application
for registration, and 'the receipt of
the uermanent number plates," says
a statement from the secretary's "of
fice. Owner Gets Refund
"Upon the issuance of a set of
temporary tags the . sheriff is re
quired by law to collect a fee of $U
which is refunded to the motor
vehicle owner when the permanent
plates are received and affixed to the
machine, and the temporary tags re
turned to the sheriff.
'The tags are being forwarded to
the counties at the telegraphic direc
tion of Mr. Kozer, who is spending his
annual vacation attending the regular
yearly conference of the secretaries
of state of the various states in the
union, which is now in session at
Helena, Mont.
Wants Uniform Law.
"While in Helena, Mr. Kozer ex
pects to bring before the conference
the question of uniform motor vehicle
legislation throughout the. United
States, a subject in which he has
ceen greatly interested; tne slates or
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Mon
tana having already largely co-ordinated
their automobile laws as a rasult
cf joint meetings of administrative
officers initiated by him."
Poet is Being Held
for Priest's Murder
- San Francisco, Aug. 12. A formal
charge of murder was to be lodged
today against William Hightower,
itinerant baker and poet finder of the
body of Father Patrick E. Heslin,
missing Colma priest.
This " announcement was made by
J. Franklin Swart, district attorney
of San Mateo county, after he had
carefully analyzed the net of circum
ctantial eidence which the San Fran
Cisco police department has drawn
about the suspect since he disclosed
the hiding place of the bullet-riddled
body of the priest in its lonely Salada
beach grave.
Meanwhile the police are making
an intensive search, for "the foreign
er" believed to have been Hightower's
accomplice. He, the police believe,
"s tbe man who called at the Colm
parish house and persuaded Father
Heslin to go on the errand of mercy
which ended in death. He is also be
lieved to have been the guard while
the priest was. held in captivity. Po
lice also searched for Dolly Mason,
the woman mentioned in Hightower's
story.
TRAVEL ON PACIFIC
HIGHWAY HEAVIEST
SALEM, Or., Aug. 12. -The Pacific
highway carries the heaviest traffic
of all Oregon roads, according to a re
port Issued by the state highway de
partmeut Wednesday" relative to a
traffic census taken July 15, 16 and
17, with the count of vehicles being
made continuously each of the three
days from 6 o'clock a. m. to 10 p. m.
The Columbia River highway stands
second.
The count covers all kinds of vehi-,:
cles, listed as horse-drawn, motorcy
cles, passenger cars of Oregon," pas
senger ears of other states, light duty
trucks, trucks of one and a .half tons
and over.
At the New Era bridge on the Pa
cific highway the count showed a to
tal of 1932 vehicles per day and at a.
point 1000 feet south of Aurora 1347
vehicles passed.
Density Varies.
The census takers then jumped
south to a point 500 feet south of Al
bany, where only S2S vehicles passed.
Traffic was considerably under the
1000 mark'until a point one mile north.
of Medford was reached, where the
count was 12S3, and a mile south or
Medford it was 16SS.
On the Columbia River highway th
heavy point was at the west City lim
its of Rainier, where 1335 vehicles-
passed.
Doctor Brumfield is
Found in Canada
WOMAN-I-TORIALS
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- Rah For Wisconsin
Wisconsin -is the first state to giv-i
to woman equal rights-with man be
fore the law in every particular, even
.o the extent of a half share with tbe
father in the case and custody of their
children. What will they think of that
several generations hence She, whose
"mother love" has always been a
symbol of the highest type of affec
tion, is granted an equal right ovor
her offspring only in the year of 1921. j
CALGARY, Alberta, Aug. 12. A
man, who by his own' admission is
Dr. R. M. Brumfield, wanted in con
nection with the elleged murder of
Dennis Russell at Roseburg, Or, has
been arrested here.
The prisoner, who first eave his
name as Norman Whitney and who
said he was a farm laborer, later ad
mitted to the chief of police that he
was Dr. Brumfield.
Brumfield was taken in custody by
officers of the Royal Canadian mount
ed police and Calgary city police at
a ranch owned .by A.CVader, four
miles south of Midnapore, Alberta
He was held for Roseburg authorities
on a charge of murder. "
Taxes On Gasoline
Are Heavy in Oregon
SALEM, Or., Aug. 13. Since tbe
first gasoline and distillate lax law be
came effective in Oregon, February
26, 1919, to June 30 last, the several
companies that deal in motor fuel have
sold in Oregon 98,340,0S1.1 gallons of
gasoline, 8,366,086.75 gallons of distil
late, and. have paid the state ?1,198,
t'33.83 in taxes, which, of course, is
passed on to the user of the fuel.
Under the tax act of 1919, which ap-
plies to all gasoline and distillate pur
chased, the tax has amounted to $1,
025,231.24, and under the act of 1921,
which applies only to gasoline used
as motor fuel on the highways, the
amount is $173,702 59. Under the lat
ter act refunds to purchasers hav
totaled $6371.42. The law became ef
fective March 1.-
For the period from February 2,
1919, to Eecember 31, 1919, gasolim
sold in the state aggregated 31,853,-
!S8.5 gallons and distillate 4,680.746.75
gallons, and the tax was $341,943.5-!.
For the period from January 1 ti
December 31, 1920, gasoline soil
amounted to 44.900,674.5 gallons and
distillate 2.721,717 gallons, and the tax
was $462,615.33.
For the period from January 1 t
Tune 30. 1321. gasoline sales amounted
t n l r o -r 4i -- -i n inn a arm riiKriiin.ru
!'63,e23 gallons, while the tax unrter
the act of 1919 was $220,672.33. and
under the act of 1921 it was $173,702.59.
Harding Lets Senate
In on Peace Move
Washington, Aug. 11. president
Harding today informally advised the
senate as to the pending negotiations
for peace with Germany when he call
ed Senator Borah (Republican, Idaho)
to the White House and explained to
him the negotiations now in progress":
Senator Borah, following the con
ference, said that It was his opinion
that no peace proclamation would be
issued until a peace treaty had been
concluded with Germany.
$200,000,000 Need
For Road Program
WASHINGTON-, Aug. 12.Congress
will be called on to appropriate $200,
000,000 to make final settlements be
tween the government and the rail
'oads. Director General Davis told th-3
senate interstate commerce committee
oday in continuing his testimony on
the administration's railroad credit
bill.
Davis said "the end of liquidation of
federal control is ia sight" by Decem
ber 31, 1922.' He said everything but
some tag ends ought to be settled up.
PRESIDENTS FATHER MARRIES
MARION, O.. Aug. 11. Dr. George
T. Harding, 7C, father of President
Harding, on his arrival here tomgnt
from Toledo, admitted ho and Miss
Alive Severns, 52, his. stenographer
and office attendant, nad been mar
ried at Monroe, Mich., today.