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FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR. No. 20.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1922.
ESTABLISHED 1866
OREGON
V
MOUNT'S VERDICT
$20,000; APPEAL
WILL BE TAKEN
Oregon City Doctor Wins Suit
Against Local Physicians;
Judgment Is Returned by 9
to 3 Vote of Trial Jury.
DELIBERATION TAKES
FIVE AND HALF HOURS
COUNTY COURT AWARDS
Portland Firm Low Bidder on
Oswego Work; L. A. Smith
Gets Rock Crushing Job.
Hearing In Circuit Court Is
Ended After Seven Days In
Hands of Tribunal Here.
A $20,000 verdict in favor of Dr.
H. S. Mount, was returned by the
jury in the libel suit which has
been in court here for the past
week. The action was taken after
five hours and 23 minutes deliber
ation. The verdict was returned at
10:05 o'clock Saturday nighi.
The vote of the jury stood 9 to
3, E. C. Brown, foreman, reported
at the request of the court.
The verdict was returned in a
lump sum against all of the de
fendants collectively.
Through the rulings of presid
ing Judge Morrow, the defendants
have two weeks to file their mo
tion for a new trial, or to appeal.
Dr. Oral A. Welsh, first named
of the defendants in the libel ac
tion, stated Saturday that an im
mediate appeal to the supreme
court will be taken immediately
in an efofrt to break the verdict
handed down Saturday evening.
"We will fight the case if it takes
ten years' litigation in every court
n the land," Welsh stated.
The contract for grading 1.6 miles
on the Oswego-Dutehtown road, was
granted by the county court Monday
to Casito and company of Portland.
The contract price was ?7,9S8.74. The
estimates made by Engineer D. T.
Meldrum for the work -were about
$10,000. Seven bids were submitted.
The plan for the improvement of
the road is to rock as much as the
present funds will permit this year.
Some 1500 feet over the new cut will
have to be taken care of, and it is
expected that next year market funds
will be available for the continuance
of the work, Mr. Meldrum says. The
road is included in the big market
road program for 1923, the surveys
for this having been already submit
ted to the state for approval.
The contract for the crushing of
from 6,000 to 10,000 cubic yards of
rock at the county crusher two miles
northeast of Marquam, was awarded
to L. A. Smith at a price of $1.43, rock
placed in the road . The improvement
of this road, known as Market Road
5, and extending from Oregon City to
Silvertom, Is being done by the county
under forced account. This road is
the route over which the interior
hiehwav. beine: advocated between
here and Salem, is expected to be de
dicated.
The county court has also decided
on the building of the two short wood
en span bridges across the Big Sandy
in the Zig Zag section.
GLADSTONE WILL
BE SCENE OF NEXT
GROCERS' PICNIC
Merchants Association Votes
To Use Chautauqua Park
For Next Frolic; Report of
Committee Is Favorable.
Quick Action of
Telephone Girl
Captures Thief
10,000 PEOPLE ARE
TO COME AS GUESTS
Use of Grounds Is Granted by
Head of Association Here;
Transportation Is Assured,
The jury in the $50,000 libel suit
brought by Dr. H. S. Mount against
seven local physicians, retired at 4:ZJ
o'clock Saturday afternoon. The con
clusion of the trial came on the ninth
day since the beginning of the hearing
in the circuit court here, and marked
the seventh day of the hearing.
In addition to the verdict either for
or against the plaintiff, Judge R. G.
Morrow, who is trying the case in
Judge J. U. Campbell's stead, instruct
ed the jury that they might bring in
a verdict in the form of lumped dam
ages against the individual defendants
named in the action.
The entire day was taken up with
the arguments of the attorneys, the
evidence having been completed on
Thursday afternoon.
Judge Morrow set May 27 as the last
day for the filing of an appeal for a
new trial and June 24 as the date for
filing a bill of exceptions.
Indications are that the case will go
to the supreme court. E. B. Tongue,
counsel for the defense, stated that If
a verdict is returned for Mount, no
matter what the sum, the case will be
appealed. Ben C. Dey, Mount's attor
ney, refused to state definitely what
action would be taken in the event the
case went against them, but said that
no decision would be made until the
outcome of the case is known.
The suit was filed February 14, 1921
following the presentation to the coun.
ty court of a protest against the pay
ment of a fee to Dr. Mount for an au
topsy over the body of Alec DeFord.
DeFord was shot while escaping from
a local officer.
The protest was signed by Doctors
O. A. Welsh, M. C. Strickland, A. H.
Huycke, C. H. Meissner, Ross Eaton,
Geo. E. Stuart and C. A. Stuart. They
charged that the bill had been con
tracted by private parties, and that
in asking the county for payment
Mount was guilty of "graft and profi
teering." They also accused him of
"gross ignorance," or giving "grossly
misleading" statements in his testi
mony before the coroner's jury.
The jury is composed of Clare E.
Anthony, New Era; Fred C. Good
ridge, Clackamas; William Lewis,
Evergreen; Grover C. Pomeroy, Kil
len; Thomas E. Brown, Carver; Edgar
C. Brown, Carus; Charles Shranke,
Sandy; George DeBok, Willamette;
Augusta B. Haberlach, Clackamas;
Maggie Johnson, Milwaukie; Adam
Beil, Damascus, and Jake J. Mlchels,
Oregon City.
Atotrneys for the defense were
Grant B. Dimick, and E. B. Tongue.
Ben C. Dey, asisted by George Bui and,
was counsel for the plaintiff.
ANNUAL SCHOOL MEET
IN TRACKEVENTS SET
Contests to Be Held May 27
At Gladstone; Secretary
Announces Day's Program.
HENRY O'MALLEY NAMED
AS FISH COMMISSIONER
Henry O'Malley, former resident of
Oregon City, and one time superin
tendent of the fish hatchery at Clack
amas, has been nominated for the po
sition of commissioner of fisheries on
the Pacific coast.
Mr. O'Malley'a nomination will be
sent to the senate shortly by President
Harding. The appointment follows
the recent resignation of Dr. Hugh M.
Smith, who has held the position for
nine years.
The prospective new commissioner
Is well known in this district, having
lived here for some time.
The annual grammar school field
and track meet is to be held in Glad
stone on May 27, according to the an
nouncement of J. W. Leonhardt, se
cretary , of the Clackamas County
School Athletic league. Six classifi
cations embracine boys and girls of
different ages', have been arranged.
The iprogram of event follows:
Event for boys up to 9 years, who
have not reached 10 years: 50 yard
dash.
Event for boys up to 12 years, who
have not reached 13 years: 50 yard
dash; 220 yard relay (four boys).
Event for girls up to 9 years, who
have not reached 10 years; 50 yard
dash.
Event for girls up to 12 years, who
have not reached 13 years: 50 yard
dash; 220 yard relay (four girls).
Girls Event Arranged.
Main events open to all girls: 1. 50
yard dash. 2. Basket ball distance
throw. 3. Baseball distance throw. 4.
Indian club race (ten girls). 5. 220
yard relay (four girls).
Main events openi to all boys: 1. 50
yard dash. 2. 100. yard dash. 3. 220
yard dash. 4. 440 yard run. 5. Half
mile relay (four boys). 6. Broad
jump. 7. High jump. 8. Pole vault.
9. Shot put (12 lb.). 10. Javelin
throw.
The rules on which the contest are
to be staged, follow:
The OTitrv fee is S1.00. payable to
the treasurer, Supt. R. I. Abraham,
Molalla. Send your fee to the treas
urer, and your name to the secretary.
Each competing school shall not
later than May 22 have in the hands
of the secretary a complete list of
contestants from that school, giving
age of each contestant and events to
be entered. Make up this list at
once and send it in, thereby doing
away with confusion at the last min
ute. Absolutely no entries will be re
ceived after May 22, so get your list
into the mail by then.
16 Years Is Age Limit.
No contestants shall be allowed to
compete who is over 16 years of age,
but contestants shall be eligible until
the seventeenth birthday is reached
Each school shall be allowed not
more than three entries for one event,
ftxpent for the relay, which has four
entries.
No contestants may compete m
more than four events besides the re
lay or Indian club race. Boys may
compete in one relay and four other
events; girls may compete in the re
lay and three other events, or in the
Indian club race and three other
events.
Admission will be 15c for all school
pupils and 25c for adults. Contestants
whose names appear on the lists men
tioned in par. 2, will be admitted free.
Tags will be issued at the gate. It
will be best for each school to keep
together at the gate, and some person
should be in charge of the delegation.
The secretary will be inside the
grounds to check in all contestants.
The track teams will report to the se
cretary in a 'body upon being admitted
to the grounds.
In each event there will be awarded
a first prize, 5 points; a second prize,
3 points; and a third prize, 1 point.
The relays and the Indian club race
will each carry a first prize only, the
5 points going to the winning school.
The school winning the meet will
be given possession of the silver cup
now held by Gladstone.
The annual Grocers' Picnic, largest
frolic of its kind on the Pacific coast,
will come to Chautauqua Park at
Gladstone on July 26 for its 1922 eel-'
ebration .
This decision was reached at the
regular meeting of the Portland Re
tail Merchants Association Monday
evening, after a favorable report was
turned in by the committee. Negotia
tions with local representatives of the
Clackamas County Business Men's As
sociation have been going on since
.the invitation was extended the state
organization over a month ago. A
thorough investigation of the merits
of the park was made by the Portland-
ers, as the grocerymenit do not have
an ordinary picnic and there were
many provisions to comply with.
All in all there will be perhaps ten
thousand people at the park during
the day and evening, and prizes aggre
gating several thousand dollars in
value will be given away. A full pro
gram of sports and amusements, with
a day and evening dance and an eve
ning entertainment in the auditorium
will make the nay memorable.
On the Portland picnic committee
are W. W. Hill, chairman; E. C.
Guenther, and Harry Corkill, with D.
R. Norton as secretary. Representing
the Oregon City group were Presi
dent Jas. Brady, Secreary Arthur
Beattie, Charles Dickey, and Hal E.
Hoss. Brenton Vedder, mayor of
Gladstone and E. L. Pope of Parkplace
also assisted in arranging details.
The use of Chautauqua Park is
granted through the courtesy of Judge
Harvey E. Cross, the owner. The co
operation of the P. R. L. & P. com
pany has been assured to handle the
crowds, and many thousands are ex
pected to attend in automobiles. The
pidnic is confidently looked forward
to as the largest ever held by the as
sociation. Previously they have al
ways been held at Bonneville, on the
Columbia river.
STATE PARK FOR
OREGON CITY TO
BE ADVOCATED
A strange series of coincidents and
the quick wit of a telephone girl, Sat
urday night landed Edward C. Cannon
in the county Jail, charged with ob
taining money under false pretenses.
Cannon tried to represent himself
as Eddie Shannon, the Seattle prize
fighter, but it didn't go with. Mrs. Amy;
Downey, the telephone operator.
Shannon had been a frequent visitor
at her home, and she knew him well.
Likewise she knew that the man who
appeared in Oregon City was not the
ring expert.
Cannon early in the evening went
into Price's department store, and
purchased a $3 shirt. He presented a
check for $20 on the Bank of- Com
merce, signed by "Eddie Shannon." It
was cashed and he received $15
change.
A. A. Price soon became suspicious
and in company with Deputy Sheriff
Henry Hughes started to look for the
man. In the meantime Cannon drop
ped into the phone office. He wanted
a dentist, he said, and asked the
phone operator to call one for him.
He said he could not talk because his
jaw was hurting and asserted that he
had been in a fight with Alex Tram-
bitas. The operator got Dr. Krassig
on the phone, and -Cannon went into
a booth to talk after the girl refused
to conduct the conversation for him.
Then Cannon told Mrs. Downey he
was Shannon, She insisted that he
was not. But the man maintained that
he was, "inspite of the fact that he
didn't look like Shannon."
He left. Just then Price and Hughes
dropped into the office and phoned to
the Portland police to intercept the
man. Mrs. Downey informed them
that he had just left the office and a
chase started. It caried the officers
as far as New Era, but without any
result.
Then Mrs. Downey and her husband
were crossing the Fifth street bridge
on their way home. On the bridge
they passed Cannon. Mrs. Downey
immediately went into the Crown-
Willamette Inn "and phoned the au
thorities. As it happened, Price and
Hughes had .dropped back into the tel
ephone ofice, and the operator there
told them that Mrs. Downey had just
caled in. So when the short change
artist stepped off the bridge, unwel
come arms wwe awaiting him.
Ho was- lotll in the county jail,
and his proper' name determined from
letters found on his person. He would
say little of his life, though one of
the letters disclosed the fact that
someone, evidently his mother, had
written him, asking him to "go
straight."
Exactly what technical charges will
be lodged against him, will be decided
Monday.
TWO PRISONERS
BREAK WAY OUT
OF COUNTY JAIL
E. C Cannon, L. B. Chase
Saw Thru Cell Bars Early
Tuesday Morning; Escape
Said Aided from Outside.
COMPANION DECLINES
OFFER OF FREEDOM
Local Authorities Refuse to
Keep Desperate Criminals
In Quarters at Courthouse.
NEW RECORD SET FOR
TAX COLLECTIOgi'E
Report Va.v -ent Made
for.Aalf of Year;
Work Speedily Handled.
0, E. FREYTAG TO HEAD
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The creation of a state park on the
ground at present operated by the
city as an auto camp site in Hawley
Park, is the proposal made by M. D
Latourette, a member of the park
committee which has the administra
tion of the grounds in hand. The
state, Mr. Latourette points out, is
.taking control of a number of parks
throughout Oregon with the view to
operating them during the entire year.
Hawley Park with its 50 to 60 acres
would make an ideal location, he says
and it is probable that the mater will
be presented to the next session of
the state legislature.
Although the park has been opened
for tourists this year, repairs are still
under way. The P. R. L. & P. is con
structing a new roof to the dancing
pavilion, which was damaged by a
falling tree last winter. A building
16 by 36 is being construced for five
shower baths and other accomoda
tions. A new backstop for the ball
diamond has also been built.
The road has been put into passable
condition by the parkkeeper and no
attempts toward a permanent im
provement in this regard are to be
made until later in the year after the
South End outlet is completed. This
will run within a couple of hundred
feet of the park and will probably con
nect with a hard surface pavement
running to the park.
The placing of the park under the
statewide fee system has been delayed
pending advices from other cities who
have agreed to the plan. City Attor
ney O. D. Eby, who was a delegate to
the Roseburg convention at which the
fee system was framed, states that no
action will be taken here until ad
vice is received from the association
as to whether or not the scheme is to
be put into practice. A 50 cent fee
per car for each day of stay, is con
templated. The local park is being
put into shape so it can be classed as
a stanaara parit. ah application ior
gas service for cooking purposes, is
still pending with the company.
22 BONUS PAPERS FOUND
OLYMPIA, Wash., May 12. Mys
teriously missing for more than a
year, 22 applications for the state
bonus to veterans turned up even
more mysteriously Iq the mail deliver
ed to' the veterans' compensation de
partment today.
Farm Department Organized
by Commercial Club; Plans
for Marketing to be Aided.
Another jail delivery from the coun
ty bastile in the basement of the
courthouse was effected early Tues
day morning. Two prisoners are at
liberty as the result. Discovery was
.made by the sheriffs deputies about
eight o'clock Tuesday a. m.
Edward C. Cannon, of Portland, ar
rested Saturday night due to the
quick wit of Mrs. Amy Downey, tele
phone operator, escaped' and with him
went Leslie B. Chase of Milwaukie,
who had but four days of a 25 day
larceny sentence to serve.
The two men sawed through two
bars on the north side of the jail, a
job which must have taken them
many hours of work. Outside help
from friends of Cannon in Portland
is believed to have made the escape
possible. Robert McGinnis, awaiting
trial on a larceny charge and the only,
other prisoner in the jail, declined to
take advantage of the opportunity to
flee.
Cannon was to have been tried on
Wednesday in justice court. He was
arrested after he had given the name
of Eddie Shannon, Seattle puglist, to
the telephone operator, who knew
Shannon.
The county jaii has been broken a
number of times and the local offi
cials refuse to keep any desperate
criminal there. An attempt to escape
by sawing the hinges off the door was
recently frustrated, and Charles Wells
at present doing time in the peniten
tiary for non-support, confessed to the
attempted delivery.
A fund of $6,500 was provided at the
last budget meeting for rebuilding the
jail, but the contracts are still under
consideration by the county court.
Ku Klux Klan of
State . Attacked
In Proclamation
O. E. Freytag was Tuesday night
elected head of the Agriculture de
partment of the local Commercial
club which Is the tenth of the 11 de
partments to organize under the new
plan. J. R. Humph rys and A. L. Beat
tie were elected members of the ex
ecutive committee.
Plans for fostering the general agri
cultural condition of the county and
to aid In the marketing of farm pro
duce, especially small fruits, were dis
cussed. The department is to meet
next Thursday evening for the pur
pose of further consideration of
plani.
The Conventions department, the
last to organize, will meet tonight at
eight o'clock.
The' final returns on the first half
of the taxes for this year, were made
to the treasurer yesterday by i. L.
Taylor, head of the county tax depart
ment. The collections ofr the first
period this year, aggregated 51 per
cent of the total amount on the en
tire assessment roll and the speed
with which the work was handled this
year has set a new record for the tax
office.
The collections started this year on
February 20, and the final "turn
over" was made May 16. In 1921 the
work required from February 9 to
May 28, though the collections for the
half year were somewhat larger. The
1920 collections required from Febru
ary 3 until -May 15, but during that
year the amount was a third less than
it is this year. In 1918 collections re-j
quired on the first half of the taxes j
from February 3 to May 29.
The total assessment roll for the
present year is $1,498,401.17 while the
collections to date on the first halt
of the taxes total $762,785.50. The
semi annual report for 1918 was $553,
229.55, and the work this year, hand
led in exactly one month's less time
was done with w increase in the tax
department's staff.
The first half of the taxes become
delinquent April 5, but due to the
heavy rush of business more than an
addtional month is required to com
plete the audit of the 'books,
mainder of the years taxes
linquent October 5.
LOCAL FARMING
FIRST IN STATE,
REPORTS EXPERT
County Agent In Talk Given
at Live Wires Luncheon
Describes the Agricultural
Development In District.
MEETING COMMENDS
SCENIC RIVER ROUTE
City Council to be Asked to
Install Electric Illumination
on Blocks at Intersections.
The re
are de-
Earth Quake Is
Felt In Homes
Of Oregon City
EXPRESS CRASHES AUTO;
1 KILLED, 25
SALEM, May 13. Governor Olcott,
in the first proclamation of its kind
ever issued in the United States, to
day denounced the Ku Klux Klan as
an invisible organization attempting
to usurp the reins of government with
aims unknown to others than them-
all courts, sheriffs of the counties and 8uch Zic?nc wouJd
all other law enforcement arms of
the state, to guard closely against in
fraction of the Oregon laws and insist
that unlawfully guised men be kept
from the streets.
"I call upon all loyal citizens of the
state to give support to the proper
law-enforcing arms of the govern
ment in this movement against
masked riders or cloaked and dis
guised figures who unlawfully skulk
about on secret missions for unknown
ends," he said.
"If masked men are permitted to
roam promiscuously at large it will
not be long before .our wives and
daughters will know no safety, our
homes will no longer be our castles,
and the streets will be scenes of dis
graceful riot. Those practices must
cease if there is law in our land and
true Americanism is to prevail."
BATAVIA, N. Y., May 13. The east-
bound Black Diamond Express on the
Lehigh Valley was wrecked near
North Leroy shortly before noon to
day. First reports said threee cars
were overturned and a number of
persons Injured. Doctors were sent
from here.
At division headquarters of the Le
high Valley, it was said, reports from j
PORTLAND, May 13. In reply to
the charges contained in the state
ment and proclamation of Governor
Olcott, F. L. Gifford, exalted cyclops
of Luther I. Powell klan No. 1, realm
of Oregon, yesterday issued a state
ment, substantially as follows:
That the governor's charges that the
Ku Klux Klan is endeavoring to usurp
the reins of government and to stir up
fanaticism and race hatred are un
true. .That there never has been an out
rage of any kind in Oregon that could
be chargeable to the Ku Klux Klan.
That the governor's proclamation is
A light earth quake, which did no
appreciable damage save perhaps the
shaking of a few dishes from shelves
in the cupboard, was felt in Orgeon
City at 9:30 Monday morning.
. ; The quakt w&s general over a- con
siderable portion of the state and is
believed to have been . started at a
considerable distance, traveling from
southeast to northwest.
"It probably was an earth wave,'
explained Ira L. Williams, geologist
of the Oregon bureau of mines and
geology. It apparently was an up-and-
down movement of the solid structure
of the earth."
"Williams, speaking from" a gelogical
viewpoint, expressed the opinion that
in describing the phenomenon as an
earth wave, differentiation should be
made from a "slip" or a positive
earthquake. He considered it to have
been caused by a shock passing thru
the solid structure of the earth with
the up-and-down movement referred
to. When such tremors become suffi
ciently severe, they resudt in an
earth break, or fracture of the upper
layers of earth formation. He ex
pressed the opinion that shocks of
be extremely
improbable here, however, because
the strata underlying this district, are
more soft and yielding.
Williams would not hazard a guess
as to the central point of the disturb
ance or its probable cause. He rather
scoffed at the theory that recent re
ported shifts of the earth's axis might
be responsible, holding that the shift
ing, which goes on all the time, is so
slow and slight at any particular time
as to become a negligible factor in
geologic changes.
THREE ACT COMEDY TO
BE GIVEN BY STUDENTS
North Leroy were that one person
was killed and about twenty-five in-; a matter of politics by which he hopes
lured in the wreck. to win the support of intersts opposed
The train ran into an automobile at to the klan.
a grade crossing, the engine and three j That the Ku Klux Klan Is the larg
cars of the express being derailed and I est numerically of any fraternal organ-
overturned. The driver of the auto
mobile was killed.
10,000 REPORTED SLAIN
IN ONE CHINESE TOWN
ization in Oregon.
2 PORTUGESE AVIATORS
FALL IN SEA; RESCUED
LISBON, May 12. The Portuguese
SHANGHAI, May 11. Ten thousand airmen, Captains Sountinho and Saa-
inhabitants of Cheng Chow, city in dura, who attempted to complete their
Honan province, were slaughtered by ' trans-Atlantic flight yesterday in a
troops of Chao Chieh in two days' i new Fairey hydroplane, fell into the
fighting before the insurrection sea between St. Paul Rocks and Fer-
against Wu Pei Jra was crushed, ac-; nando Noronha and were rescued by
cording to adviceB from Kai Feng Fu. the British steamer City of Paris.
The Class play presented annually
by the graduating class of the Oregon
City high school will be given Friday
and Saturday, May 19 and 20 at Shive
leys Opera House. "The Best Man
Wins" is regarded as one of the best
plays written for high school use. The
entire cast has been putting in much
tune to make this play a success. Mrs
Edna Russell and Miss Hazel Strief
are coaching the team this year and
iney state that tne play will be as
good as any ever put on before.
The cast is as follows: ' Gordon
Wainwright, a senior of Lakeville, not
in society John Bennett; Perry Spen
cer, "Pug" Collins, and "Nick" Meade,
seniors who regard themselves as "in
society" Harold Shaver, Pete Laurs,
and Elof Anderson; "Tommy" Thomp
son, baseball star and sophomore
Richard McGarrity; "Dub" Duffield,
champion debater" Theodore Roake;
Beane, a freshman, who looks the
part Pringle Holliday; Eleanor
Forbes, a popular girl Betty Krause;
Mrs. Lee, Eleanor's aunt, and an aris
tocrat Ardla Ward; Violet, a helpful
sort of person Florence Sharcet;
Gertrude Spencer, Spencer's sister
Pauline Pace; Miss Peggy Jones, a
Lakeville girl Ethel . Gillett; Miss
White, visiting Lakeville M a r y
Oman; Jean, a chauffeur' Cyril Jus
tin; Mike, a lunch hustler Cyril Jus
tin. .
The reserved tickets will be placed
on sale Tuesday morning at Huntley
Draper Drug store.
A forty million dollar industry,
ranking first in the state in numerous
classifications and fourth in the grand
total of its products, was the charac
terization of Clackamas county's agri
cultural development made by Walter
A. Holt, county agent, in a talk before
the Live Wires of the Commercial
Club at their Tuesday luncheon. The
city, Mr. Holt pointed out, is not
prone to realize the great value of the
territory behind it which in enter
prise, often outranks even the indus
trial development of the more popul
ous centers.
"Clackamas county," said Mr. Holt
quoting from government census fi
gures, "ranks first in the state in the
poultry industry. She has the largest
number of farms of any county in the
state, ranks .third in the value of agri
cultural investment and second in
crop diversity. To a large degree the
prosperity of the merchants and the
business -men depends upon the pros
perity of the farmers. Their well
being is reflected in the business of
the city."
Smalt Farms Desired.
Speaking of the current trend in
agriculture, Mr. Holt pointed out that
the movement today is toward smaller
farms, with more specialized crops
and more efficient methods. The re
sult of this will be more people on the
land and correspondingly larger pro
duction," he said. One of the things
which is to be met in the immediate
future of the development of the in
dustry, he pointed out, is the problem
of marketing. He pointed to the fruit
and berry industry as a local example
of the need of organized means of dis
tribution of the produce. "Through
the Farm Bureau a successful effort
to secure the Oregon Growers to lo
cate in the county, was made," he
said, "and as a result the district of
Canby will be well taken care of this
year. Other arrangements in different
districts are still up in the air." He
showed that the future of this as well
as other lines of farming depended
on the ability of the agriculturist to
secure easy and certain markets.
The banks of Clackamas county had
been first to realize the value of aid
ing the farmer and have greatly fos
tered, through their financial support,
the betterment of the herds and stocks
in the county, said Mr. Holt. He laid
enphasis upon the need for more gen
eral consideration of this nature on
the part of the business men. "Clack
amas is primarily an agricultural
county," he said, "though it is a fact
that this is not generally realized.
More attention on the part of the city
to the farming ristritos and their
needs will help to narrow the gradual
breach which has grown between
their interests."
Traffic Menace Quoted.
The Live Wires adopted a resolu
tion, proposed by L. A. Henderson,
asking the city council to electrify
the intersection blocks at 10th and
14th streets. It was pointed out by
various speakers that in their pres
ent condition, with the coal oil lamps
failing to function, they presented a
menace to traffic during the night,
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CARUS NINE DEFEATED
BY WEST LINN SLUGGERS
One of the fastest ball games of the
season occurred at Carus on Sunday
afternoon, when the baseball team of
that place played West Linn team.
The score was 5 to 6 in favor of West
T.fnTt.
Tiie batteries for West Linn were
John and Nick Zaniker, and for Carus
were Fisher and Noeth.
Many from various sections of the
county attended the game. West Linn
being well represented.
A return game will be played at the
West Linn diamond on next Sunday
afternoon.
CARL BOYER ARRESTED
ON CHARGE OF SPEEDING
HOOD RIVER, May 15. Traffic Of
ficer Murray Saturday arrested Carl
Boyer of Oregon City on a charge of
driving 25 miles an hour on danger
ous Columbia river highway curves.
Boyer, ft Is said, was driving 35 miles
on the straight-aways. He also was
unable to show a, driver's permit. He
was released on his own recognizance.