c FIFTY-SIXTH YEAR NO. 36 OREGON CITY, OREGON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1 922.. ESTABLISHED 1868 COMPLAINT FILED TO TEST VALIDITY OF NEW DISTRICT Vote for Canby Union' High School Declared Out-Iawed Because of Failure to Post Notice in Required Manner, AUTHORITY OF ACTION BY BOARD ATTACKED Measure Held To Be Harmful To Taxpayers and Others; District Recently Created. A complaint has been filed with the County Clerk's office by the District Attorney against the directors of the newly created Union High school dist rict No. 1, to determine whether or not the recent election which created the new high school district is valid. The suit is brought by the district at torney upon the relation of J. H. Kraus against' J. C. Mark, Aurora; I. A. Weber, Canby; George G. Randall, Oregon City, C. O. Cole, Canby, and F. J. Kraxberger, Aurora. The complaint holds that the dist rict school, board of district ,No. Marks Prairie, failed to post the not ice of the election as required by law. The election, which was to be held August 21, was postponed until Aug ust 26 on that account. The complaint 'holds further that the relator, and oth er electors, residents and taxpayers will be greatly damaged and school funds of that district and county will be wrongfully expended if the new. union high school district is allowed to continue. The complaint asks that the defend ants in the case show by what author ity of law they have acted in becom ing the board of directors in the new district, and in hiring a principal and "threatening" to hire teachers for the school. A judgement is asked to pre vent the board from accepting such of fice, and to require them to " refrain . from further activities in connection! "wfth':i5e Yfew"school district. According to Charles T. Sievers, at torney representing Kraus, the com plaint is being made "in order to de termine whether or not the election is valid, and to determine whether or not the district is legally organized." The Union high school district No. 1 includes the districts of Marks Prai rie, New Era, union i;-:i, MacKSDurg, Central Point, Lone Elder, Canby, Barlow, Highland, Oak Lawn and Mun- dorf. The measure organizing the district was voted on recently and . passed by a vote of 461 to 253. The defendants in the suit brought were elected to the school board for the district at the August election. An election of teachers was held Tuesdav evening at which Lucille Cogswell, of Portland, former Univer sity of Oregon student, -was elected instructor- in mathematics and physi cal education. Roma G. "White, of Portland, has been elected principal of the school. PORTLAND MAN SHOOTS SELF: CAUSE MYSTERY PORTLAND, Aug. 31. Close beside the walls of a nearly completed build ine which he had planned for his home, the, body of Eric Elfstrom, 51-year-old bachelor, was found today. He had slashed his throat and than buried a bullet in his brain. Reason for Elfstrom's act is a mys tery to the police, who are investigat ing to determine whether it was bus iness troubles, declining health or a love affair that had led him suddenly to take his own life. A taciturn man, Elfstrom had re sided at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Fildes, No. 655 East Sth street north, i"or more than a year without revealing much of the history of hio dered. to expedite shipments of essea fpenter. As far as is known, however, the only work he had recently done was on the house he was building on his own account. Jersey City Trains Collide; 17 Injured JERSEY CITY, N. J., Aug. 31. Sev nteen persons were Injured, some seriously, today when two Hudson ana Manhattan electric trains collided in! a dense fog on the Hackensack Meaa ows. The most severely injured was Mo torman Burke of train 606, which smashed into the rear end of train .3246. The others hurt were passengers in. the rear car of train 3246. Four of the Injured were taken tol .Jersey" City, where ambulances had been summoned; to meet them at the Summit avenue station. The trains are all steel and are op erated by electricity. WEST LINN SCHOOL HAS HEAVY 165 Students Enrolled For New Fall Term; Auto Bus Will Carry Rural Students More than 165 students registered at the Union high school in West Linn, when the doors were opened for the fall term Tuesday, according to Sup erintendent J. L. Gary. Registration will continue through out the week and as many of the stud ents are, at the present time, employ ed in the hop yards and in other occu pations, it is expected that the total enrollment will exceed the 200 mark. The total registration fop last yean was 181. Regular class work will begin today with the following faculty members m charge: Charles F. Beatie, science and athletic coach; W. W. Davis, manual training; Vesta Lamb, commercial; Helen Leathers, girls' physical train ing and music; C. O. Main,, mathema tics; Erma Readen, domestic science;, Ruth Schaeffer, history; Myrtle io bey, English; J. W. Sutherland, for eign languages; J. L. Gary, principal. In order to accomodate students re siding in outlying districts where no ctber means of transportation are available an automobile bus will be operated. More than 35 students were aided in attending school by this serv ice last year. AUTOMOBILE CAPSIZES: FOUR MENARE INJURED California Car Meets Accident Near this City on Highway; Cause is Steering Gear. When their automobile capsized o the River highway near Rothe station yesterday morning, three men from, Sebastopol, Cal-, were seriously hurt and another slightly injured. The in jured were rushed to St. Vincent's hos pital, Portland. One of them is Anton Ingwaldson. The party -wag en route to Wenatchee. Broken steering gear is said to have been the cause of the wreck. The driver of the car, Harold Fran zen, was only slightly hurt. Plans Frustrated To Wreck Express CHICAGO, Aug. 31. An alleged plot to dynamite and wreck the "Western Express," a New York to Chicago train on the New York Central, was frustrated today, according to the po lice, by the capture of three men. The train was to have been wreck ed between Gary, Ind., and Chicago, police stated. The men under arrest are Frank R. Hartman, alleged to have been the brains of the plot; J. J. Boyle and C. A. Kaglan. Private detectives, posing as rail road strikers, are said to have secur ed the information of the plans to wreck the train. Explosions Cause Big Damage in Ohio CLEVELAND, O., Aug. 31. Four houses under construction were de stroyed, foundations of many others were, loosened and windows in houses for an area of half a mile were shat tered early today as thed result of four explosions in the Garfield Heights section of the city. Police say the blasts were caused by bombs and sus pect labor troubles prompted their planting.' Fire broke out and the shat tered houses were burned to their foundations. The four houses completely destroy ed were two-family buildings and were nearing completion. The dam age is estimated at $40,000. 14 Are Arrested By Local Constable in Month; Cases Varv Constable Ed Fortune Saturday made the report of his activities in! that office for the month of August. During the month fourteen arrestal were made, for the following causes:' hogging the road, 1; peddling without! license, 1; driving cars without licens es, assault, ana oanery, ; Bpeeuiug, 4; dumping garbage in public high-1 wajv uaviug lULUJLicaiuig iiquur "i I possession, 2; and larceny, 1. Salem Bov Drowned r In Willamette River SALEM, Sept. 4. Milford Miller, 15, son of Major and Mrs. H. O. Miller, waa drowned in the Willamette river two miles south of Salem yesterday when he ventured in beyond his depth. The boy, a poor swimmer, was bathing with some companions at the time. His father is connected with the state adjutant general's office. The drown ed lad is survived by four sisters in addition to his parents. IRRIGATION PLANS AT MOLALLA FIRST ATTEMPTS KIND Committee Named to Proceed .With organizing farmers Into . District; Involves From 5000 to 10000 Acres. O. A. C. EXPERTS MAKE FAVORABLE ANALYSIS Productoin Can Be Increased From 75 to 100 Per Cent With Application of Water SALEM, Sept. 1. The first venture in irrigation on an extended scale to be undertaken in the Willamette val ley, was launched at a meeting of farmers in the vicinity of Molalla, in southern Clackamas county, Thursday night, according to representatives of the state engineer's department, who attended. A committee was named to proceed with the organization of the district, which will include be tween 9000 and 10,000 acres. The proposed project will be wa tered from the Molalla river by a sim ple gravity system, through a canal approximately five miles in length. Soil experts from the Oregon Agri cultural college, who attended - the meeting, declared that production in that section could be increased from 75 to 100 per cent through the artifi cial application of water during the growing, season. . State Engineer Cupper, who at tended, said that precipitation in the Willamette valley during the summer months is less than that of the so called arid sections of Oregon, aver aging but two inches during the grow ing season each year and this year falling far below that annual average with disastrous results to growing crops". According to County Treasurer W. W. Everhart', who has been active in the Molalla irrigation movement, about thirty signatcres were secured from farmers favoring the venture at the Thursday meeting. Plans were made for the perfection of an organ ization to carry the project through, and L. A. Shaver, temporary chair man, and Oliver Buxton, temporary secretary, were selected to continue their offices for the present. Peti tions are to be circulated for presen tation to the county -court. The prospects for the project are very encouraging, according to Mr. Everhart, and analysis of the soil in) the section, to be irrigated indicates that it is especially well adapted to irrigation. Percy A. Cupper, state engineer and president of the state water board; W. A. Bowers, professor of soil f n A. C; ex-state engineer John H. Lew is, and G. H. Abbot, Portland engin eer, were present at the meeting. Ab bott i3 the man who made the origin al plans, and plats for the project when it was first considered about six years ago. Two Officers Killed In Fight By Indian DALLAS, Sept. 4. Two. men are dead and two wounded as the result of a desperate gun battle between gov ernment prohibition agents and a dep uty sheriff on one side and an infuri ated Indian moonshiner on the other, which was staged shortly before I o'clock yesterday morning on the streets in the Indian town of New Grand Ronde, Ore., on the government reservation. The dead are Glenn H. Price ana Grover C. Todd, federal prohibition agents of Portland. The wounded are Phillip Warren, and Edward Holden, deputy sheriff of Indian moonshiner of Grand T?nnri Tillamook ""Van-en was shot through the back, but is said to have a good chance for recovery. Holden's wounds are slight. Within twelve hours after the shoot ing, a coroner's jury at Dallas, Polk county, found that Price and Todd had come to their death by gun shots at the hands of Warren. . -pj . lJUiet HdgnS Uver City On Labor Day Labor Day in Oregon City was quiet ly spent, there being no unusual ac tivities or celebration here. Farmers pf Clackamas County assembled ' at the New Era camping ground, to at tend the Clackamas County Farm Bur eau annual picnic. An all day pro gram was held by the Bureau, and lunch served at noon. Addresses were made by George A. Mansfield, presi dent of hte Oregon State Farm Bur eau, and by Professor N. H. Cornish, of the department of economics at O. A; C. Special music was furnished by the Meadowbrook Male quartet. REDUCED RATE FOR GAS AFFECTSJDREGON CITY General Manager of Portland Concern Gives Out Extent Of Company's Decrease. Hilmar Papst, general manager of the Portland Gas & Coke company, yesterday advised the Morning Enter prise that the voluntary reduction, of approximately 10 cents on each 1000 cubic feet of gas which was placed in effect in. Portland yesterday, will also) be effective in Oregon City, and in the territory that, the Portland Gas & Coke company serves. According to the announcement made in Portland Thursday, the newt rates will affect all consumers of gas after the first 300 cubic feet have been consumed. -The reduction was made by the Portland company sub sequent to reductions made' to them on the cost of fuel oil used by them!' in the manufacture of artificial gas. RECALL OF JUDGE CROSS DISCUSSED AT 2ND MEETING Charles Holman is Chosen As Candidate by Organization To Succeed . Incumbent If Move Meets With Success. PLANS DISCUSSED TO FINANCE PROCEDURE Petitions Will Be Circulated to Obtain Sufficient Names j I to Place Measure on Ballot. -" ; -f - - 4 ' ! The second meeting of the county J i residents who are seeking the recall j of County" Judge Harvey E. Cross waa held Wednesday afternoon at ' Mt. j Pleasant Hall, and a candidate unani-, niously selected to run as recall candi- date for the office of county judge. The candidate chosen is Charles Hol man, owner of the Meadowbroolc Farm, near Molalla. Holman, while known to be in favor of allowing his name to be placed on the ballot, has not given final consent to the com mittee appointed by the meeting to urge him to accept. His answer, ac cording to H. F. Gibson, of Barlow, chairman of the organization, is to be given to the committee tomorrow. About fifteen or twenty county resi dents were said to have been at the Wednesday meeting, representing many different sections of the coun ty. Plans were made for a subscrip tion to finance the recall move, and : to pay expenses for the petitions. About 2000 signatures will be required to place such a measure on the balloi, and must be filed by October 7. The first meeting in the recall movement was held Saturday after noon, August 26. at Mt. Pleasant, H. F. Gibson was made chairman of the organization, and G. R. Hobbs, of Ore gon City, secretary. County Treasur er W. W. Everhart was first asked to allow his name to be used on the ballet- as recall candidate, but he de clined the offer on account of his health. It is reported that two or three other possible candidates . have been approached by the organization. Formal charges and specific instanc es bearing out the charges are said to be in preparation, and are to be in cluded in the petitions which are to be circulated, according to Gibson. He declined, however, to state what the charges are before the petitions are put out, other than to reiterate the charges of inefficiency and curt treat ment. ' . ' TREASURER CANDIDATE WITHDRAWS FROM RACE 111 Health' Causes Democrat Nominee to Change Plans; Central Committee to Meet PORTLAND, Aug. 31. Because of ill health, Milton A. Miller today noti fied Dr. C. J. Smith, chairman of the Democratic state central committee, that he had withdrawn his name from! the ballot as the Democratic candidate for state treasurer. Under the law it will be Incumbent on the committee to name a candidate to take- Miller's place on the ballot, and Dr. Smith intends convening the committee for that purpose within the next few days. SHERIFF ARRESTS MAN SUSPECTED OF CRIME IN IOWA Suspect Claims to be Fred Hansteen; Thought to Be Russell Dove, Wanted For Attempted Murder, Theft. FAIRFIELD OFFICER WILL ARRIVE FRIDAY Prisoner Fails To Satisfy Authorities As to Identity; Extradition Is Required. Sheriff W. J. Wilson arrested whom he believes to be Russell Dove, want ed by the Fairfield, Iowa, authorities for attempted murder and- robbery. The arrested man claims to be Fred Hansteen , of Seattle, but answers the description of Dove. He denies any knowledge of the crime for which he has been arrested. The arrest was made Saturday at a dairy farm near Bull Run where he was working as a dairy hand for the past three weeks. Sheriff Walter Harris, of Fairfield, left yesterday morning for Ore gon City with extradition papers, tot take his prisoner back to Iowa tar trial. Hansteen , although claiming his i home to be at 3046 14th Avenue Norm, j Seattle, where he, say s his mother and" father have lived since last Mareh, has little else to Identify himself. He claims to have been working in and around Portland since March. He states that he has worked at Hills- boro, North Plains, Bull Rri and Port- land, since that time. " He refused to go to Iow.a without ex tradition when asked to do so by Sher- iff Wilson upon the request of the I Iowa sheriff. He also refused to coa- sult aa attorney about his case. Sher- iff "Wilson examined him for about two hours relative to the Iowa crime, but could learn, nothing from the suspect His only comment on the affair was, "How are they going to prove it," and "It is up to them to prove it." Sheriff Harris is expected in Ore gon City Friday to get . the prisoner and return to Iowa with him. CAT TAKES COUNT: BLUE BIRDS VICTORS IN FIGHT SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Sept, 4. One Santa Barbara cat now knows how the canary feels. He found out the other day, while perched on the top cross beam of a telephone pole, frantically defending his eyes, ears and nose against the attack of two shrieking blue jays, with a shrilly ap plauding audience of linnets and spar rows twittering for a knockout. An anxious human spectator tele phoned the humane society, whose representative, aided by a telephone company lineman, tried to rescue Thomas from the beaks of his tor mentors. The panic-stricken cat gave one look at the lineman climbing the pole toward his perch, aimed a last despairing uppercut at the blue jay nearest him, and then jumped. He landed right side up and disappeared' down the road in a cloud of dust. Robber Enters Home Saturday Afternoon The home of John R. Bowland, 620 12th Street, was entered by a robber last Saturday afternoon between one and four o'clock, and jewelry valued about $75 to $100 was stolen. The rob bery was discovered by Miss "Frankie' Bowland, on her return to her home! Saturday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Bow- land are out of the city on their vaca tion. Entrance was made to the house by unlocking the back door. A watch. necklace and other jewelry were tak en, - Witness Declared To Be Remarkable OAKLAND, Cal.. Sept. 5.-"She's the most remarkable woman I ever saw," was the characterization today of Clara Skrin, held here for Seattle authorities in connection with the murder of Ferdinand Hochbrun, Seat tle millionaire, by W. J. Peterson, cap tain of detectives. "Her poise is perfect: her wit is keen; and she entirely baffles ques tioners." Miss Skarin continued today as calm and confident as if her arrest was but a trifling incident. "Til do my talking in Seattle, when the time comes," she told interviewers. "It won't help me to talk now. Be sides, I don't know anything about this affair I can't say anything worth while." She was ready to chat and to smile whenever anyone approached her. ' 15 KILLED AND 16 HURT L Afterdamp Thought Cause of disaster; mast may nave Been Set Off ftrematp&t1 o CUMBERLAND, B. C Autfl. Fit teen men were killed and sixteen in jured in the explosion which occurred late yesterday in No. 4 mine of the Canadian Collieriese, Dunsmuir coal properties here. All of the bodies have been recovered. The dead are: Robert Dunsire, John Johanssen, John Gibson, seven Japan ese, five Chinese. Hospital authorities said this morn ing all the injured probably would re- Lcover. , The cause of the explosion could not be determined today. One report suggested afterdamp caused the dis aster, which did comparativelv little damage to the mine. Another report was to the effect that a blast exploded! prematurely. ut the white men killed, Robert Dunsire and John Gibson each leave a widow and six children. The third, John Johanssen, was unmarried. SIX KILLED IN 'FRISCO' PASSENGER TRAIN CRASH '- Two Coaches Go Throuch Trestle Over Small Creek Near Wittenburg, Missouri. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Sept. 1. At lest six persons were killed and a number injured w-hen two coaches of a "Fris co" passenger train crashed through a trestle over a small creek near Wit- tenberg, Mo., early today, according toj telephone messages here. Two bodies had been recovered at the last report. First details said that a trestle gave way just as the engine of the train had passed over the structure and that the baggage car, mail t car and smoker plunged into creek below. The train was No. 805, which left St, Louis at 9 p. m. and was due at Wittenberg at 12 : 12 a. m. It was run ning three and a half hours behind schedule, as the accident is reported! to have occurred shortly before 4 o'clock this morning. The train was due in 'Memphis at 9:45 a. m. Unable to get in "communication! with the point of the accident, and) with train service lacking, newspapers were making impromptu arrangements to get men to the scene. CONFERENCE ON STRIKE WASHINGTON, Sept. 5. With the convening of the senate and house aft er the Labor day adjournment and meeting of the cabinet today, the gov ernment again centered its attention on the coal and rail situations. At torney General Daugherty, who has been absent from the capital since his trip to Chicago to institute the gov- ernmen's injunction suit against the striking railway shopmen, was expect ed back. Any officer of the government who issues or causes to be issued "any il legal injunction, not in good faith and with the willful intent" of depriving a person of his rights or intimidating1 him would be held to have committed malfeasance in office under a bill in troduced today by Representative Huddles:on, Democrat, Alabama. While the Chicago injunction pro ceedings will be followed up with the determination of guaranteeing the country against interference with transportation, a high official of the s dm inisl ration asserted today that constitutional liberties of law abiding; men will not be abridged. Editor is Arrested; Released on Bonds MEMPHIS, Tenn.. Sept. 5. Jake Co hen, editor, of the Labor Review, a leading southern labor organ, was re leased today on $1000 bonds, following his arrest on a charge xf having vio lated the "Chicago injunction" by pub lishing an editorial in his publication attacking non-union railway workers. Cohen declared the editorial was published prior to application by At torney General Daugherty for the in junction. Two Ships Seized by Prohibition Officers NEW YORK. Aug. 31. The British three masted schooner Gamma, witn $200,000 worth of Scotch whisky aboard and the excursion steamer SmithOeld, which Is alleged to have been carrying a 'floating bar, were seized by customs and prohibition' authorities today. SURVEY OF BASIN -HIGHWAY BEGUN ? COMMISSION Court - Hears Remonstrances Against Vacating Canemah Route; Many Residents Attend Wednesday Session THIRD STREET DEAL IS PLACED ON TABLE P. R. L. & P. Attornev To Look Up Law; Papers And Deeds To Be Put in Escrow. Engineers from the state highway departme(.it are surveying a route out Main street and along the basin south of the ciy, along the lines previously run for the proposed Pacific Highway entrance to Oregon City. When ques tioned as to their intention, they de clined to reveal any information, stat ing that they were working under or ders from the state highway commis sion with instructions to survey the route, it is expected that they will also draw plans ajnd specifications for the highway construction, as was done before the subsequent route over the bluff was selected. Just what the plans of the state highway commission may be appears to be unknown. The city council Jias instructed their recorder to write them for information, as no neaotia- .tions have been held between the two bodies for some time. Conjecture is current that with so many obstacles in the path of the bluff road the com mission will proceed with the road up the basin, although no one in the city appears to have beeii advised that such is their intention. The County Court met in regular session Wednesday and considered the matter of the vacation of the basia roadway between the limits of Oregon City and Canemah for the use of the P R. L. & P. company. Canemah peo ple who are remonstrating against , closing this road were present, amd were represented by Gilbert E. Hedges The Portland coccern was represented by Harrison Allen, of Griffith, Leiter and Allen. J. E. Hedges represented the Oregon City Manufacturing com pany. The principal point at issue between the attorneys was whether or not it would be tegal to vacate the roadway and rededicafe the six foot strip to be used for a walk between Oregon! City and Canemah. According to the proposals made by the P. R. L. & P. company they agree to pay $35,000 toward a highway out of Oregon City, to construct and keep open to pedestrians a walk between Oregon City and Canemah, and to fur nish street lights for the walk and for Canemah free of cost. These pro posals are contingent upon the vacat ing of the basin road, and the con struction of another route out of Ore gen City south. . -A legal point was brought up by Gil bert Hedges as to whether or not the court could vacate this strip, and mak ing the vacation contingent upon agreements to be carried out later. He held that if the road was vacated the subsequent owners would not be bound to fulfill any obligations in con sideration for that vacation. Joseph Hedges suggested that the court va cate all of the road except a six or seven foot strip along the basin to be used for a walk. The court instructed ie . A. TU. &' P. company's attorney to look' up the law as to whether or not it would be legal for the county to vacate this road, and the Portland company to re dedicate the six foot strip for use of the walk. If the attorney finds that this will be legal, he was instructed by the court to place the papers rela tive to the vacation and deeds in es crow until further action can be taken. The city council at its regular meet ing last night ordered that the mat ter of vacating hird street between' Main street and Railroad avenue be laid on the table for thirty days, his action by the council was taken on ac count of the remonstrance made by Oregon City property holders against the action to vacate the street for use by the Hawley Pulp & Paper company and Portland Railway Light & Power company. Councilman Dr. Mount sug gested in relation to this action that the matter be laid on the table and that the city ask the State Highway Commission what they intend to do do relative to the Fifth street outlet from Oregon City. Tariff Sidetracked For Soldier Bonus WASHINGTON, Sept 5. By a vote of 5. to 3, senate and house conferees recommended- today to sidetrack the administration tariff bill for the sol diers' bonus measure.