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Tho Oregon City Enter- Prise covers the news field Of (3aokama As an advertising median" to meet the rural needs, the Oregon City Enterprise is second to none. A small classified ad In these col- S urns will convince. Try one today and watch tha results. KGON OTY ENTERPD E ougkly. Lire correspondents frant every section keep the S readers posted every week 4 f your neighbors activities. fifty-fifth year no. 48. OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY. DECEMBER S, 1921. ESTABLISHED 1866 OK S FARMER'S WEEK TO BE HELD HERE DECEMBER 13-16 IABRAHAM MAY BE TRIED BEFORE JUVENILE COURT Knowledge of Threatening Letter Sent to Roy Yoder Is Denied by Youth 1LETTER SENT TO ROY YODER THOT FINALLY TRACED PROGRAM FOR 4 DAY MEET COMPLETE Co-operative Marketing Chief Topic; School to Be Conducted I ' The complete progTam for Farmers "Week, which is to be held in Oregon City December 13 to 16 has been out lined and plans are under way to pro vide accomodations for nearly 1000 Clackamas county farmers who will come here during the week to attend the sessions, sponsored through the Clackamas County Farm Bureau. Marketing, and co-operative sales methods are to receive special atten tion. Representatives from the Ore gon Co-operative Marketing organiza tion will be on the program and will assist in the working out of the special details for an association suited to the needs of Clackamas county. It is expected that as the immediate out growth of this work, cc-operatjve mar keting programs for the county fruit and potato crops will be instituted. FAMILIES ARE INVITED The meetings are open to all farm ers and their families, and are to be gin at 10:30 each morning. A practi cal farm school to deal with local prob lems will be one of the features of the sessions. There will be two days, besides tne four regular sessions, James Abraham, seventeen-year-old youth who is in the county jail charged with the writing of an anonymous letter threatening the life of Roy Yoder, may be tried' in the juvenile court, according- to the state ment of District Attorney Livy Stipp. Definite decision, however, has not been reached. Abraham is charged, upon a com plaint signed by local officials, with penning a letter to the cousin of SI mon Yoder, who was murdered mear Woodburn last March. The letter contains the terse information that the youiiKer Yoder was bo.kc.fi In be VZiied The iad denies all kcow'.e of the letter, nnd mr.4ntains thar hi fcnews nothing of th Yoder murder except what lrc has 1 p?rd. H adroit? how ever, that the letter, shown him by the officials, is practically identical with his own handwriting. A hand writing expert who examined speci mens of Abrahams writing believes it identical with the letter. The lad. says that his arrest is a frame-up, though Tuesday afternoon he denied the published statements, accredited to him, to the affect that the local of ficials, who caused his arrest were re sponsible for the alleged "frame up.' He states that his predicament is the result of a row with someone who, for the present, he says he is unwilling to name, but says that this person is out side of official circles. WOODBURN YOUTH UNDER ARREST IS James Abraham Is Held Grand Jury; Experts to Examine Writing for which will be devoted entirely to wo- j 3 OI"i 11 (T of Elk Rock. men's meetings. The sessions are to be held in the local Moose hall, and no night meet ings are planned, unless by special arrangement. The program is as. follows: December 13, Poultry Day 10:30 a. m. "Poultry Farming in Clackamas County," H. E. Cosby, Extension Specialist. Noon, Lunch. 1:15 p. m.. The Pacific Cooperative Poultry Pro ducers' Cooperative Supply Company There will be an exhibit of eggs, grad ed to Association requirements, giv ing the poultry producers an oppor tunity to observe the Association grad ing standard. 2 to 2:30: "The Pro ducers' Cooeprative Supply Company and its value to the Poultry and Dairymen of the Willamette Valley," C. S. Whitmore. Crops Day Planned December 14, Crops Day 10:30 to 11:15: "Farm Management in Clacka mas County," R. V. Gunn, Farm Man agement Demonstrator of O. A. C 11:15 to 12:00: "Potato Varieties for Clackamas County," Discussion lead by H. C. Belton of New Era. 12:00 Lunch. 1:15 p. m.: "Potato Disease and their Control," Professor M. B. McKay of O. A. C. N"o potato grower in the county can afford to miss this All growers are asked to bring in samples of the varieties they have grown during the past season; five potatoes of each variety will be suffi cient. This will be an opportunity for growers to secure indentification on potato diseases which will be done by bringing in samples of the infected tubers. December 15, Animal Husbandry Day. 10:30 a. m.: "Utilization of Farm. "Wastes in Swine Feeding," H A. Lindgren. 12:00, Lunch. 1:15 p m., "Sheep Management in the Wil lamette Valley." 2:30 p. m., "Mar keting Oregon Wool," R. A. Ward Manager Oregon Wool and Mohair (Growers' Cooperative Association 3:30 p. m,, Open Discussion. December 16, Horticulture Day. 10: .JO a. m., "Soil Fertility and its Relationship to Orcharding," C- L. Long, Extension Horticulture Special ist. 12:00, Lunch. 1:15 p. m. "Mar keting Fruit," C- I. Lewis of the Ore gon Growers' Cooperative Association. 3:00 p. m.. Open Discussion led by E. C Brown of Carus. This should be one of the big days of the week, as the fruit survey, which has been un der way during the past months, will be given consideration and steps tak en toward the organized marketing of Clackamas county fruit. Every fruit and berry grower in the county will attend. Tunnel is Accurate Five Foreigners File For Citizenship Here Five foreigners, during the month of November, filed their first citizen ship papers, or declarations of inten tion to petition, according to the rec ords of the county clerk's office for the past month. They are: John Eisman, Russia, living in Ore gon City. Carl Iverson, Sweden, liv ing at Clackamas. Frederic Alkinson, England, living at Waluga. Jacob Wolter, Russia, living at Clackamas route 6. Roy Wiedman,' Canada, liv ing at Gladstone. Vienna Misery Riot Stops All Business VIENNA, Dec. 2. Virtually all bus iness was suspended today as a con sequence of the serious rioting which raged here yesterday. Damage is es timated by the newspapers at many billons of crowns. Engineers who drove the tunnel through Elk rock for the Southern Pa cific electric line made a most re markable record of accuracy in plan ning the bore, reports to Southern Pacific officials indicate. Working from either end of the giant monolith which juts out from the west bank of the Willamette river near Oswego construction crews worked toward each other on a big arc. When the crews came together at the peak of the arc and the debris was cleared out, it was found that the two bores came together only one- eighth of an inch away from center. The length of the tunnel arc was figured carefully before the work was started. When the bore was completed it was found that the bores from either end overlapped only three-quar ters of an inch, which meant that each of the gangs figured they had to go three-eighths of an inch farther than they did. In consideration of the length o the tunnel, 1395 feet, construction leaders said if the figures had been more exact they would have thought something was wrong. The work was done by the Hauser Construction company and Scott E. Cordon was chief engineer. Within 10 days the tunnel will be placed in service aud electric trains operating on the west side will aban don the trestle, which has carried trains around the face of the rock since the road was constructed. Domestic Science Classes Will Meet Final arrangements have been made for the domestic science and art class es to be given in Room 27 of the Ore gon City high school building with Miss Marine Reitan as instructor, who is working here under the direction of the government. Miss Reitan is well posted in this line of work, and she is much encouraged over the pros. pect of large classes both in millin ery, needlework, art as well as cook ery and home-nursing. The following are the evenings ar ranged by Miss Reitan: Tuesday eve ning, 7:30 Sewing. Wednesday eve ning, 7:30 Millinery. Friday eve ning, 7:30 Cooking. The evening for the instruction in home nursing will be announced later. Those desiring to arrange for any study may com municate with Miss Reitan by tele phone 441-R. RESPONSIBILITY PLACED FOR RED BLUFF ACCIDENT PORTLAND, Nov. 2. (Special), Responsibility for the death of 14 high school students is placed upon the driver of motor bus by the Board of Inquiry appointed to inquire into the crossing accident which happened near Red Bluff Wednesday morning to telegraphic report just received by Wm. Sproule, President of the South ern Pacific. This accident occurred when the Mulino-Red Bluff high school stage was struck by Southern Pacific train No. 15. The 14th victim died today. The Board of Inquiry places full responsibility for the accident upon the driver of the motor bus and fully exonerates the railroad and its- employes. The automobile . bus was owned and operated by the Red Bluff Union High school. The Board rec ommends that a suitable law be en acted (requiring drivers of automo biles to stop, look and listen before attempting to cross railroad tracks at grade. James Abraham, 17, of Woodburn, was arrested Monday by Clackamas county authorities upon a warrant charging him with the writing of an anonymous letter threatening the life of Roy Yoder, cousin of Simon J. Yoder, whose murder near Woodburn last March has never been solved A letter mailed in Oregon City on Armistice day, postmarked November 12, 7 a. m, was received by Roy Yo der in Oregon City, reading: "Roy Yoder down by the Bartlett. Your time is coming to. The nights of the road have condem you to die. We got the reward you are looking for, the nights of the road." HADLEY INVESTIGATES The letter was turned over to Chief of Police J. L. Hadley of Oregon City whose investigations have led to Abra ham's arrest. Abraham was taken in to custody at 3 o'clock Monday after noon at Woodburn by Constable Ed. Fortune who served a -warrant signed by the local police officials. Abraham stoutly maintains his innocence, and has wjaived a preliminary hearing, being held to await the action of the circuit court grand jury. He is in the county jail in default of $2,000 bail.. The Yoder murder has been under investigation since the date of the crime, and the officers are holding Abraham and will bring him to trial in an effort to determine whether or not the anonymous letter, for which he is believed responsible, has any bearing upon the case. The letter,' together with a manu script known to have been written by Abraham, has been submitted to handwriting experts for comparison. MURDER IS RECALLED Simon J. Yoder was murdered on the night of Saturday, March 5, 1921. Two men hired the garage man by phoning from the Moore Drug Store in Woodburn. They stated that they were bound for Portland. At 11 o'clock a man residing near Gervais heard a single shot. Sunday morning the body of Yoder, shot through the back of the head, wa3 found in the ditch along side of the road near Gervais. The Willys Knight car was missing. Officers arrested Harry Staben at Woodburn and "Dutch" Wilson at Ore gon City. The former was held for some time, altho the latter was re leased shortly after his imprisonment. Neither was found to have been sut ficiently connected with the case to warrant official action. The people of Woodburn, a week later, posted a $1,000 reward for the capture of Yoder's murderer, which is still standing. MOUNT MADE HEAD flF . DENTAL ASSOCIATION Local Doctor Wins Distinction of Re-election by State Organization PORTLAND, Dec. 3. (Special). Doctor Clyde Mount of Oregon City, was today re-elected president of the Oregon Dental Association. Doctor Mount has held the position of president for the past year, and in ; . i. r -' y "(' L,iMT ,.. , succeeding himselt to the chair gained the distinction of being the only offi cer of the association ever re-elected to chief position of the organization. Doctor Mount was active in the re cent joint meeting of the dental as sociations of Oregon, Washington and British Columbia which met during the summer in Vancouver. RAISE IN CAR FARE FOR WEST SIDE ABANDONED S. P. Will Not Change 5 Cent Rate On Electric Line; Hearing Called Off CENSUS SHOWS BIG INCREASE IN BOYS AND GIRLS SCHOOL SURVEY FOR COUNTY COMPLETE Gain of 639 During Past Year Is Held Indicative of District's Growth The recent movement to have the fares changed on the South ern Pacific Electric on the west side raised from five to eight cents nas been dropped by th$ company, accord ing to the announcement of the Pub lic Service Commission. The line which operates from Bol ton, West Linr4..nd. Wilamette was scheduled for a rise in price, and a hearing had been set for December 2. With the failure of the company to present its claim at the hearing, the matter was automatically dropped, tho a number of citizens from the af fected districts were waiting to pre sent objections to any increase. Aurora Plans Boom In New Organization AURORA, Dec 1. Aurora has adopted as a program for 1922 a Knights of .Pythias home, new high school, more homes, cannery, cream ery, new camp grounds, and a Fourth of July celebration for the Willamette valley. An increase of b39 children in Clackamas county between the ages of four and 20, is revealed in the 1921 school census which was ' completed here Saturday. The number of children over four and under 20 in the county this Octo ber, when the census just tabulated, was taken, was 12,679. Last year the number was 12,040. Division of this year's census into boys and girls has not yet been completed. The growth, according to County School Superitendent Brenton Vedder, is for the most part due to the num-. ber of families which are moving in. With a stable population, he points out, the average would remain the same, for statisticians figure that the ratio between children of school age to the entire population is constant, being approximately 1 to 3.1. A notable fact about the school cen sus this year is that the biggest part of the increase In the number of children is found in the north end of the county, especially in the commun ities bordering the main arteries of travel. In the south end, there are a number of districts which show a slight falling- off, though several have a remarkable gain. In the northern part of the county however, there is the largest distributed growth. Oregon city this year has a list to talling 1902. against 1678 in 1920. This gain of 224 is accounted for by the fact that the Mt. Pleasant and Ore gon City districts were combined. The ML Pleasant census, however, taken by itself, totals 149, leaving a growth for Oregon .City proper of 75 during the year. ' In Oregon City there " are 989 boys listed as against 862 the year before and 913 girls where there were 816 last year. TENKILlFnjyF c-V 4&6. AT CELILO O. W. R. & N. Detour Scene Of Fatal Collision; Six Of Dead Identified Ten persons were killed and . 60 others injured when two O.-W. R. & N. passenger trains. No. 12, east bound, and No. 17, westbound, crashed together in a head-on col lision a half mile east of Celilo, Or., at 12:30 a. m., yesterday. The bodies of six trainmen and pas sengers have been identified and re moved to the morgue at The Dalles. Workmen engaged in clearing- the mass of wreckage yesterday afternoon came upon the bodies of four men near the forward end of train No. 17. They were believed to have been tran sients beating thir way on the west bound train and it was considered pro bable that positive identification might never be made. Because of the damage sustained by the railroad bridge at Eagle Creek all O.-W. R & N. trains were being routed over the Spokane, Portland & Seattle line between Portland and Celilo. Train No. 12, the Spokane limited, had just crossed over to the O.-W. R. & N. tracks and . had pro ceeded eastward but a short distance when train No. 17, out of Chicago with Portland as its destination, came crashing into it on a deep fill a short distance out of Celilo. Both Engines Demolished Both trains were traveling over the same track because of the detour, al though there is a double track sys tem at this point. Both engines were entirely demolished, and two coaches of train No. 17 left the track, badly wrecked, while a Ions tourist sleep ing coach in train No. 12 was dam aged. This car was telescoped. Al though the Pullman porter, Yarbor ough, . in this coach was killed al most outright, none of the other pas sengers were injured. Nearly all the injuries and fatalities were sustained by passengers and employes of train No. 17. MORE BUSINESS NEED OF OREGON, LIVE WIRES TOLD MAYOR BAKER SPEAKS AT LUNCHEON Development of State Hinges On 1925 Exposition1 Says Portlander PLANS APPROVED FOR TEMPORARY Storm Rebate to be x Given Phone Patrons MUMPOWER IS CONVICTED Newspaper Men Give E. E. Brodie Banquet SALEM, Ore., Dec. 6. Thirty news paper men from the Wilamette valley and Southern Oregon entertained E. E. Brodie, Oregon City editor, who was recently appointed minister to Siam, at a banquet here last night. The guest of honor responded to toasts given him in a brief address. He paid his respects to the news paper men of the state. Elbert Bede of Cottage Grove, president of the Oregon State Editorial association, spoke briefly. Jess Mumpower was Thursday found guilty of larcency. The circuit court jury returned a verdict recom mending extreme leniency of the court Sentence nas not yet been passed. The jury was composed of: Aaron McConnell, Chas. Gallagly, Robt. Jonsrud, Philip Streib, S. A. D. Hungate, John Lowry, A. J. Marrs, R. G. Chubb, A. L. Beatie, J. F. Adams, Henry Klinker, Henry T Kister. DELEGATE RESIGNS WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. P. K. C. Tyau, the secretary general of Chinese delegation, has wired his resignation to the Peking government, it is learn ed from authoritative sources, as a protest against the "wrong tactics" of the Chinese delegates to the Arms Conference in coping with the secret diplomacy that has been going on be hind closed doors of the Pan-American building for the past few weeks. Oregon City patrons of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company. whose phones were put out of com mission by the storm, will receive credit for the time lost when they make their January payments. According to the advice of Fred C- Buchtel of the public service com mission, this rebate will be establish ed over the portions of the state which have been suffering from the recent bad weather conditions. "We appreciate that this service in terruption was beyond the control of the company, and further realize the abnormal expense incurred in your efforts promptly to rebuild and rehab ilitate the destroyed plant," Buchtel writes. "Nevertheless, it is our opin ion, that a patron should not be re quired to pay for the elapsed time wherein his phone was actually out of use. "Knowing that your records are so kept , as to permit of authentic deter mination of the time of reestablish- ment of service in the various indi vidual cases, we advise that such steps be taken as will enable your company to refund, in the form of a credit on ensuing bills, that amount to which the subscriber is equitably entitled "Inasmuch as the December tnlls are now in course of distribution, we apprehend that the credits, where due, will be shown on the January state ments." Where Unknown American Soldier Was Buried T) f fit t4 ' 1 f ft if It i t I "If 11 : li f If I: U w I f ' - -' i- fc i f " - fr 2 The iuemoru-J to the unknown American soldier of the World wur, who will be buried in Arlington National ceme tery on November 11, Armistice day, will-be located directly in front of this main entrance to the amphitheater The body of the soldier will be escorted to Arlington cemetery by a great official mourning partv and there will be a de tailed completeness to the solemn ceremony which the nation will observe for the men who lost their lives on the bat tlefields of France. The trouble with the state of Ore gon, according to Mayor George L. Baker, of Portland, is that there Is too much overhead in proportion to the business and the population. The remedy is get more people and get more business. Mayor Baker was speaking to the Live Wires of the Commercial Club at their regular luncheon' here Tues day noon. The 1925 Exposition form ed the theme of his talk. He made a plea for the fostering of the vision which builds empires, makes nations prosper and develops state and com- munity. The 1925 Exposition, he said, is the way to increase the;population and business of the state and by work ing together, put Oregon 25 years ahead. ADVERTISE; SAYS MAYOR Mayor Baker drew a striking paral lel with California and the good that has accrued to them through the ad vertising which has brought within their borders $365,000,000 in tourist trade annually . "And California," said the mayor, "has nothing to sell but sunshine But they have a, bunch of boosters unexcelled upon the face of the earth. That is what has made them known over the entire country. Oregon, with its wonderful mountains, rivers and verdant forests has God made possibilities. It is up to the people to advertise, as California has, and show the nation and the world the advantages,, scenically and indus trially of the great Northwest." MOSS BACKS SCORED Every progressive movement in the state and in the city of Portland the . mayor showed, has been opposed. The Interstate bridge, the Columbia high- CD ATM fW T L' L T T I Li' L 3' P"-" C uut&a, auu yet luuajr SrAiN KJ V JCiJLX XXX V XLXX I the very opponents of these projects point with pride to the benefit which they have brought. Thus, he said, will it be with the Exposition. The unprogressive element will see only the expense of staging such a gi gantic affair, and will not consider that as one item alone, the automo bile travel will bring into Oregon more than ten times what the fair will cost. The result will be that every person who comes will return home, a walking advertisement for Oregon, giving settlers and Investors a new field, with the wide scope of the big west, for their activities. "We must give the tourist of the . world an objective in 1925" said the -Mayor Baker. "People will not travel just to go here and there. They go to a definite location, regardless of how they travel. Some may go to Yellowstone Park, to Rainier, to Cal ifornia, but they all start out with a definite idea in mind. It is up to Oregon to make this state the termi nal, to draw the travel this way, so that the world wil lbecome acquaint ed with what we have to offer. God gave us this state in all its grandeur and with all its resources. But God will not do it all. Man must perform - his share. We built highways spent $65,- 000,000 on our roads. There are three transcontinental highways leading to Franchise Action ? Tfl must, as California has done, let them know that there is something here worth coming across a continenet to enjoy. Then in future years, we will profit from the influx of people here as the result of our advertising. This is not a thing for the present, but something which will extend ini its influence 50 years into the future." ' The mayor drew an apt parallel with 1116 Pacific Highway, recently completed to Oregon City. The new bridge, he said, represented the com pletion of a fine improvement, which would have lost its significance had the old bridge been left standing. Thus, he inferred, would the exposi tion act to the progress and advance ment of Oregon the final step in the present era of development to build a greater state and foster bigger and finer communities. Harry Baxter and E. F. Sullivan, re presenting the Crown-Willamette Pa pr company and West Linn; R. A. Furrow and C. P. Richards, represent ing Clackamas county, and 3. R. Staf ford, representing Oregon City, Thurs day approved the plans for the tem porary bridge designed to care for foot passengers between Oregon City and West Linn, while the new span is under construction. The contract ors have agreed to several changes de signed to strengthen the structure. These changes will increase the cost by practically $1000. The east end of the bridge will be at Fifth street, and work on the new struc ture will commence at once. The schedule time for closing the old bridge had been set for January 1, but under an agreement made with the contractors the old bridge will be kept open to traffic until the temporary structure is completed. The bridge isi to be ten feet wide, and will carry foot traffic only. It is estimated that its construction will, under normally favorable conditions. require in the neighborhood of sixty days. Plea Entered In E. William Dent, manager of the Portland-Salem and Albany bus lines, Friday entered a plea before recorder C. v. Kelly, of not guilty, and his at torneys gave notice that they intend ed to demur to the complaint. Dent was arrested last Tuesday for viola tion of the newly framed interurban bus law, requiring all stages and trucks passing through the city to obtain a franchise. It is understood that the law will be attacked upon the ground that it is unconstitutional. The case is in the nature of a test to determine the val idity of the statute. Work Is Begun On Temporary Bridge Work has commenced on the tem porary bridge across the Willamette which will care for traffic while the old bridge is closed to travel. The superintendent in charge of the work announces that the tempor ary bridge will be completed in six weeks. The old bridge will then be stripped, leaving only the piers and cables which are to be used in hoist ing steel for the new bridge. BABE RUTH SUSPENDED CHICAGA, 111., Dec. 5. Babe Ruth's share of the world's series profits in 921 were declared forfeited and Rurh himself suspended until May 20, 1922, by Commissioner K. M. Landis in a ecision today, fixing punishment for the New York Yankee ball player for participating in a post season barn storming tour. Ruth .may apply for reinstatement on May 20, or within ten days after that date, Commissioner Landis said. Increase In Dues to O. S. T. A. Requested An increase in the dues of the Ore gon State Teachers Association, so that a portion of the payments can be given to county chapters for the fi nancing of their activities, is recom mended as an amendment to the con stitution of the organization by the executive committee of the Clacka mas County division. It is recommended that the dues be increased from $1 to $1.50 and the ex tra 50 cents per membership be paid to the county divisions. This would aid in the more active work as foster ed by the branches of the association. The local dues of the individual coun ty associations amount to 50 cents. ' The State Teachers Association has been Indentified with some of the most progressive movements of re cent years.