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VOL. II No. 157.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1912.
Peb Week, 10 Cents
ENTEKP1RISE
1 .
R. R. CLERK BACK,
18 CALLED FORGER
T. W. ALEXANDER, OF O.-W. R. &
N.p ACCUSED OF STEAL
ING $25,000.
IMMUNITY MAY BE GRANTED
Railroad Urges Captive To Reveal
Names Of Others Thought
To Be In Pact To
Defraud.
PORTLAND, Jan. 5. Accompanied
by his wife, Temple W. Alexander,
former clerk in the purchasing de
partment of the Oregon-Washington
Railroad & Navigation Company, re
turned tonight from Salt Lake City to
be confronted by the charge that he
had forged signatures to disburse
ment vouchers, forged signatures to
requisitions and receipts and had
signed names of fictitious papers in
indorsing railroad vouchers to his
own account, the whole - totaling
$25,000.
With its evidence" already in black
and white, the railroad company
plans to send Alexander before the
grand jury, Monday or Tuesday. Up
on his testimony at that time the rail
road company hopes to uncover the
system by means of which the young
man has been enabled to accomplish
Ala alleged embezzlement.
Examinations of thousands of old
vouchers, which has been going on
snice the recent reorganization has
disclosed that on a large number of
the orders for payment three and
sometimes four of the seven signa
tures required have been forged.
So obvious and ridiculous are these
forgeries that "what Is now causing
officials of the O.-W. R. & N. the ut
most concern is how the palpable im
itations passed their checking clerk3
in the auditing department. It has
been found that peculations extend
ing over three years have been com
mitted in the purchasing department.
It has been shown that either Al
exander forged the receipts for labor
that was never performed, for goods
that were never delivered and for
supplies never consumed by the rail
road, or else had in league with him
from one to six clerks in various de
partments of the road.
To Alexander himself officials of
the railroad do not plan to show the
slightest consideration. Were he the
only one to be considered, he would
be made an example of, it is said.
But Alexander has an aged father,
J. C. Alexander, a gatetender on the
Morrison street bridge, an old moth
er, who lives at 1075 Rodney avenue,
and a brother who stands well in the
community.
For these reasons, should Alexander
decide to turn state's evidence before
the inquisitorial body, clemency may
be shown .toward him.
For many hours last night he was
closeted with counsel of the O.-W. R.
& N. and at a late hour the session
was still on.
RUEFS PAROLE IS
PUT IN JEOPARDY
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 5. Plans of
friends of Abe Ruef, San Francisco's
former boodle political boss, now serv
ing a term in prison for bribery, to
obtain a parole for their man, receiv
ed a serious set-back today when con
traband articles were discovered up
on Ruef's person in prison, following
the visit of a friend outside the prison
gates.
The guard, who said he made the
customary search of the prisoner up
on his return to his cell, has been
discharged, and the little boss is held
strictly incommunicado in his cell.
Ruef is eligible to parole on March
12, after having served one year with
good behavior. It is problematical
now whether his action in breaking
prison rules will permit his release.
The articles found were only some
chocolates and newspaper clippings,
but the innocence of their character
does not mitiagte the offense in the
eyes of prison officials.
DYNAMITE IS COURT RECORD.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 Two sticks
of dynamite, taken into court in a
handbag by a woman detective, were
placed on exhibition today in the triai
of Bert H. Conners, one of the three
union men indicted on the charge of
having conspired to dynamite the
County Hall of Records.
The explosives and a long section
of fuse and several caps were carried
into the courtroom by Miss Eula
Hitchcock, a detective attached to the
District Attorney's office. She gave
them to G. Ray Horton, the Deputy
District Attorney, who was prosecut
ing Conners. Horton showed them
to Alexander Galloway, formerly
Chief of Police In Los Angeles, who
Identified them as the same that were
shown to him September 9, 1910, and
which were found In an alley adjoin
ing the Hall of Records.
SEE HERE!
I have four nice level
lots, nearly new 5-room
house, wood house, barn
and well, 3 blocks from
school. Price $1500 Will
trade for acreage. What
have you? Call on or
address Cyrus Powell,
Oregon City, Or., Steph
ens building, room 11.
John Bull (to nonmilitant suffragist):
concrete arguments, which I find rather
OF CRIMINAL ATTACK
William Hardin, a well-to-do ranch
er of the Bull Run district was. found
guilty of criminal attack on his stei
daughter, Eva Phelps, now Mrs. Eva
Woods, by a jury in Judge Campbell's
court late Friday night. The case
had been on trial three days. Mrs.
Woods testified against the defendant
and her mother testified in his be
half. The attack is said to have been
made three years ago. Hardin de
nied the charge and blamed the hus
band of his stepdaughter for the pro
secution. He was represented by
Mayor Diinick, Q. L. Matthews and
M. Moorehead. District Attorney
Tongue, Assistant District Attorney
Stipp and C. M. Idleman prosecuted
the case. The extreme penalty for
the crime is twenty years in the pen
itentiary. The charter board, at its meeting
Friday night continued its work of
revising the city charter so as to
conform to the business form of gov
ernment idea. The board has made
considerable progress and has about
come to the conclusion that the com
mission form of government would
not be suited to Oregon City. It
seems to be the opinion of the ma
jority of the members that the city
should have a business manager to
work under the city council and mayor.-
The board, which was appointed
by ex-Mayor Brownell and the City
Council of 1911, is composed of
George A. Harding F. J. Tooze, R.
L. Holman, William Andresen, Livy
Stipp, C. Schuebel and H. E. Stevens.
EOR CHIEF FIREMAN
The Columbia Hook and Ladder
Company Friday night elected the fol
lowing officers: President, F. D.
Simmons; Foreman, Thomas Trem
bath; First Assistant Foreman,
Charles Tidd; Second Assistant Fore
man, R. Tobin; Secretary, Dell Hart,
and Treasurer, Charles w. Pope. The
company made Joseph Beauliau Its
candidate for chief of the fire de
partment, and F. W. Humphry s its
candidate for fire commissioner. The
company will hold its annual ball at
Busch's Hall, February 22. The com
mittee in charge will be Joseph
Beauliau, Charles W. Pope and J.
W. Davenport.
SHEWMAN SELLS HIS
T
M. J. Brown, for eight months edi
tor, and Allen E. Frost, for eight years
foreman, have bought from W. A.
Shewman the stock, good will, and
business of the Oregon City Courier
Publishing Company, and have taken
possession of the plant. Mr. Shew
man, who will engage in another busi
ness, will "remain in Oregon City. The
new management of the company
plans the installation of a new type
setting machine. In the current
issue it is announced that the paper
will be changed for the better.
Schooner In Distress.
ASTORIA, Or., Jan. 5. The gaso
line schooner Patay, Astoria to Tilla
mook, is In distress about one mile
off Tillamook Bay. She carries no
passengers but has a crew of ten.
Read the Morning Ep'ijrprtse;
SERMONS IN STONES.
"I could listen more attentively, ma
distracting."
LA FOLLETTE BOOM
NO LONGER JOKE
TRIP OF SENATOR THROUGH
OHIO MAKES HIM FAC
TOR IN RACE.
ANTAGONISTS NOW RESPECT HIM
Senator Bourne Has Interview With
Sage of Sagamore Hill "Demo
cratic Year" Is Called
Fallacy.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Jan. 5., (Spe
cial). While President Taft , is rep
resented as believing that Ohio is no
longer to be considered a "western
state" when it comes to casting up
his fortunes in a poll teal way, there
by making it desirable that a man
from out of the region west of the
Mississippi be selected " as running
mate for the President, should the
latter again be nominated, still it
must be admitted that Ohio is cutting
a big figure with both, one might
say with all, political parties. Added
force is given to this remark by the
action of Senator LaFollette, avowed
candidate for the Presidency on the
Progressive platform, in just making
his political declaration from the hust
ings to the voters of Ohio. What he
has said may ,be considered the for
al declaration of faith by a man who
is out for the highest honors his
country . has to bestow, and who is
accustomed to get what he goes after
if the getting of it lies within the
range of his abilities.
Senator LaFollette has won the re
spect of his antagonists. He has qual
ified as a fighter whose thrusts draw
the crimson, and while many prefer
to believe that his present campaign
is more of a qualifying round for the
fight to come four years hence, he
is making a great showing with his
present organization. At any rate,
he has added his testimony to that of
other big politicians that Ohio is a
State which has almost a preponder
ating influence on the final result.
That he goes from Ohio to Michigan,
Illinois and Indiana in no way weak
ens the strength of his statement, but
rather adds to it. Later In the sea
son the Senator from Wisconsin will
invade territory regarded as more
friendly to him, probably taking in
Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa,
the Dakotas and Minnesota. Presi
dent Taft's decision to follow LaFol
lette through Ohio only adds to the
feeling of pleased importance that res
idents of that State may be supposed
to enjoy.
The gathering of strength by the
incipient Roosevelt boom Is causing
some dismay among Progressive lead
ers. They declare they are a unit
for LaFollette, and that the diversion
in favor of Roosevelt is a device of
the enemy to weaken their support,
and that it is without the sanction of
the Colonel himself. Senator Bourne,
of Oregon, has recently had an inter
view with the sage of Sagamore Hill,
and he feels a confidence that he is un
willing to put into worls that all's
well in that quarter.
Somehow the Impression Is being
cultivated sedulously that this Is go
ing to be a "Democratic year," and
that the Republicans can't win; at
least until they decide to recall the
Cincinnatus of Oyster Bay from his
agrarian labors to carry the party
standard. The Republicans who have
other candidates than the Colonel in
view hoot at this sort of talk and de
clare that it Is always rampant about
the time of the political moon just
preceding a Jbig convention. They
tell us that the seemingly disaffected
Republicans will get together
just as soon as a leader is chosen and
wipe the earth with free-trade hosts,
and more talk of the same kind. Yet
we see an unusual earnestness among
candidates for the Democratic nomU.
nation, and It looks as if they could
see that the honor would mean some
thing more this vear of grace than to
carry the banner to a noble defeat.
(Continued on page two.)
dam, to your plea were it not foe there
LAST TRIBUTE PAID
TAMES A. STUART
The funeral services of the late
James A. Stuart were held in the I.
0. O. F. hall Friday afternoon at 2
o'clock ,and were largely attended.
The services were in charge of the
1. O. O. F. lodge and Rev. S. A.
Hayworth, pastor of the Baptist
church. Many friends of the deceas
ed attended the services. The inter
ment was in the family lot in Moun
tain View cemetery. The pallbearers
were F. A.- Miles, S. S. Walker, W.
H. Howell, F. A. Ely, J. O. Staats
and William Shannon. The burial
service -of the I. O .O. F. order,
which is very Impressive, was used
at Mountain Clew cemetery.
OREGON EXPRESS
ROBBED BY BANDITS
REDDING, Cal. Jan, 5. The North
bound Oregon Express of the South
ern Pacific, which left San Francisco
at 8:20 last night, was robbed of a
large quantity of registered mail by
two unmasked men early today. En
trance to the mail car was forced
curee mail clerks were bound ant
gagged and six pouches of registered
,nen the train stopped at Red Bluft
thirty-five miles from this city, the
mail were rifled. When the train
drew into the station here at 6:40,
the robbers dropped off and escaped.
A good description of them was ob
tained, however, and the officials
think that they will soon be cap
tured. Mail sacks had been exchanged at
Red Bluff, and one of the clerks was
about to leave the car to wait for a
train that was following, when the
two bandits bounded into the mail
car and closed the door.
"What's up?" exclaimed Charles J.
Rhein, formerly of Portland, one of
the clerks'
"This is a hold-up," cooly respond
ed one of the men, drawing a revolver
and covering the startled trio. Rhein
and Robert B. Warner, both of whom
reside in Berkeley, and their assis
tant, were bound by the second bandit
with cords from mail pouches. AH
were then gagged with handkerchiefs
and thrown flat on their backs. The'
robbers then proceeded leisurely to
loot the mail sacks.
At Cottonwood, seventeen miles
north of Red Bluft the train stopped,
and the bandits, without arousing the
suspicion of the station agent, acted
as clerks in exchanging maiL At An
derson, five miles farther on, a simi
lar exchange was made without at
tracting attention.
When the train stopped at Redding
at 6:40, George Westlake, the local
clerk, was waiting to receive the Red
ding mail. The bandits threw open
the doors on each side of the car and
walked off in opposite directions.
Westlake thought they were regular
mail clerks, and for the moment paid
no heed to them. He threw a sack
into the car and was surprised that
no one received it. A moment later
he heard a feeble cry and discovered
the plight of the clerks. Mail sacks
had been piled on them, but Rhein
had managed to loosen his gag and
give the warning.
' Strewn over the floor were the
wrappings of hundreds of registered
mail packages. Every sack 'of regis
tered mail had been cut into.
Patrolman James Trainer's atten
tion was called by Westlake to one of
the disappearing robbers. The fugi
tive had a good - start ; and dodged
around the long train and escaped. - -
STAATS ENTERTAINS CLASS.
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Staata enter
tained Friday night at their home,
602 John Quincy Adams street, the
young people of Mr. Staats' Sunday
school in West Oregon City. Sing
ing and a social time .were the fea
tures of the evening. The Sunday
school class is devoted to Mr. Staats
who preaches every Sunday after
noon at the West Oregon City school
house. ,
17.5 IS TAX LEVY
MADE FOR COUNTY
LARGER SCHOOL AND STATE
TAXES ARE GIVEN AS CAUSE
OF INCREASE. .
LEVY OF EIGHT MILLS FOR ROADS
Salaries of . School Supervisors In
cluded in Increase Court -
Starts Naming Elec
tion Officers.
The County Court Friday fixed the
county levy at seventeen and one-half
mills. The levy was fifteen mills last
year. It was announced by the court
that the increase was due to the in
crease in the school and state tax
levies. On the same basis as last
year the levy this year would have
been fourteen and nine-tenths mills.
Under the state tax levy last year the
county had to pay $46,000 and this
year it will have to pay $105,000. Last
year the amount that went to th&
schools and libraries was $72,000 and
this year the amount will be $88,200,
or a 3.4 mills assessment. The levy
for the county this year is 1.9 mills
and for the roads 8 mills.
The court began the selection of of
ficers for the April primaries Friday
afternoon and will finish the work to
day.
An act of the Legislature required
the court to raise $8 per capita for
school children instead of $7 as here
tofore. The census taken in this
county recently shows a large in
crease in the number of children of
school age, and this In connection
with the salaries of the school super
visors required an increase in the
school levy.
ERNEST WALKER IS
HEAD OF ARTISANS
The Artisans met in regular ses
sion at the Woodmen Hall . Thursday
evening the following officers were
installed: Master, Ernest Walker;
superintendent, Dr. L. L. Pickens;
inspector, William Harvey; secretary,
Mrs. E. H. Cooper; treasurer, J. A.
Tufts; senior conductor, Miss Maude
Lightbody; master of ceremonies,
Mrs. B. F. Linn; junior conductor,
Miss Anna Gardner; warder, Leslie
Burke; instructor, Mrs. Paul Nau
mann; musician, Oscar Woodfin.
The next meeting of the lodge will
be at the Woodmen Hall Thursday
evening. It will be social night, and
in the form of a leap year party.
VALLEY CITIES RAISE
FUND FOR RATE FIGHT
CORVALLIS, Or, Jan.5. The rail
road and transportation committee o
the Salem board of trade and Albany
Commercial Club met with the busi
ness men of Corvallis at the Corvallis
1 ninh rooms todav. for th3
purpose of discussing railroad tariffs.
After consiaeraoie aiscussion, n was
decided to raise money from the vat
ial organizations in the
Willamette Valley to send a represen
tative to wasningion, u. l.., iu up
near hofnro the interstate commerce
commission at its next meeting.
At a previous meeting or tne. inter
state commerce commission towns
within a given radius of a terminal
Trli ivorP I'il'Pn the henefit of the
terminal rate on all goods shipped by
class rates. On the day on which
the action taken by the Interstate
Commerce Commission was 10 nave
gone into effect, the railroad compan
nion into efftvt a new tariff on
commodity rates, naming commodity
rates on practically everymmg mat u
shipped from Eastern to Western
states. This action on the part of
the railroads defeated the - purpose
and intentions of the Interstate Com
merce Commission, and the meeting
today was for the purpose of raising
money to try the case before the In
terstate Commerce Commission.
About $1,400 ha3 already been sub
scribed by Salem, Albany and Cor
vallis, while Eugene, Lebanon, Mc
Minnville, Oregon City, Newberg, In
dependence and other towns will be
asked to contribute to raise the
amount of funds to $3,500 or $4,000.
There is a possibility that Southern
Oregon towns, Medford Ashland,
Grants Pass and Roseburg, will con
tribute also, providing the question of
a regulated tariff for points between
Portland and San Francisco may be
tried before the Interstate Commerce
Commission.
It is the contention of the commit
tees at work that the freight rate
from San Francisco to Corvallis
should be the same as the rates from
San Francisco to Portland, the rate
now being the through rate to Pert
land plus the local rate from Port
land to - Corvallis, or twenty-eight
cents more for not having to haul it
so far.
. MRS. MPDUFFY DEAD.
Mrs. Mary McDuffy wife of J. W.
McDuffv, of 508 Jefferson street, died
at the family residence Friday morn
ing at 7:45 o'clock. Funeral arrange
ments will be made as soon as a
daughter In the East is communicated
with. ' She probably will come to this
city to attend the funeral. A
'- Read the Hwrnmg Enterprise
CITYTOHAVETWO
IS
Rival Chiefs Expected
To Be On Duty Today
i-r.
E. L. SHAW.
CHARLES E. BURNS.
MIDDLE WEST IN
GRIP OF BLIZZARD
CHICAGO, Jan. 5. Gr
severest winter weather of the season
and with the coldest record in many
places for the past five years shat
tered the suffering in the frozen dis
trict between the Great .. Lakes and
the Rocky Mountains is intense.
With 150,000 persons here out of
work and the thermometer register
ing eight degrees below and due to
take another tumble before night, the
charity agencies in the city are prac
tically overwhelmed and helpless. The
municipal lodging houses are packed
to the doors and hundreds of men,
women and children are besieging
the police stations, pleading for ad
mittance that they may keep warm.
The mercury began to drop here
last night and by 8 o'clock this morn
ing it was standing at eight below
and the forecaster predicted still col
der weather. Two fires in the early
hours of the morning sent the mem
bers of twenty families into the
street In their night clothing. They
nearly froze to death before finding
places of refuge. Ice had to be chop
ped from the fire plugs and the water
froze in the nozzles of the pipes, leav-.
ing the firemen helpless.
A terrific blizzard today swept
down upon Nebraska and Kansas.
The railroads are blocked and some
of the branch lines had to be aband
oned. John Jackson, eighty, - was found
frozen to leath today in a cellar where
he had crawled to escape the "cold.
HERE WEDNESDAY
The third entertainment of the
Lyceum course will be held at the
Shively opera house next Wednesday
evening. The Virginia Warblers,
composed of six persons all of whom
are excellent singers, and will be the
attraction.
The Virginian Warblers Company
is one of the oldest companies before
the public. It was organized in 1893,
and was re-organized in 1905 under
the management of Walter R. Gar
ter. Many of the favorite negro
melodies and plantation songs will be
rendered. This concert will probably
be one of the best of the course, and
will attract a large audience. The
singers are Mrs. Gertrude Jones, so
prano; Mrs. Lena Huggins, contral
to; Nolan T. Washington, America's
greatest bird Imitator; Fred Gresh
am, basso; James H. Meadows, bari
tone; H. C. Jenkins, second tenor
and pianist.
Among the commendations of the
company is one from the Colorado
Springs Gazette, Colorado Springs,
Col.:
"The Virginian Warblers have the
reputation of being one of the fore
most companies of colored artists in
America, and their work here has cer
tainly been such as to maintain this
reputation, for they have called forth
most enthusiastic applause."
CHEFS
Patronize our advertisers.
POLCE
AFTERN
SHAW WONT QUIT
MAVflR niMIPK HFF1FQ MIIf-TH
imiuii via uuil vuilu VUU14VSA.
OTHER APPOINTEES OF CITY
EXECUTIVE ALSO EXPECTED
TO TAKE UP DUTIES
TODAY BURK AN
SWERS CHARGE.
"I shall file orders of dismissal
Saturday noon, and if any of my ap
pointees refuse to assume the places
assigned them they will be dismissed
for good."
The above is a part of a statement
issued late Friday night by Mayor
Dimick. E. L. Shaw, present chief
of police, said that he would continue
as chief, and it is presumed that
Charles E. Burns, appointed chief by
the Mayor, .will go to work at once.
So Oregon City today probably will
have two chiefs of police. Shaw de
clared that he would hold on until
the council approved his successor.
The council at the meeting Wednes
day night was eight to one in favor
of Shaw.
It also is thought that Street Com
missioner Babcock, and City Engineer
Noble will refuse to surrender their
offices to Messrs. Green and Meldrum,
the appointees of the -Mayor. The
Mayor and the members of the coun
cil who are opposing him are determ
ined and It is likely that the courts
will be called upon ..to make a decis
ion. Mayor Dimick gave out the follow
ing statement Friday night: . 41
"I have made my appointments in
ronTormiT.v 10 me nrovisioua 01 tuo
charter of oreeon c;itv nut for some
unknown reason certain membera of
the Oregon City Council are under tb.
impression '.hat they can override the '
city charter and direct the Mayor
what to do. I shall be governed en
tirely by the city charter regardless
of any action of the City Council.
I have made my appointments -and
was careful in my selections. I pro
pose that those appointments shall
stand unless for some good and valid
reason, other than politics. I shall
file orders or dismissal Saturday noon,
afld if any of my appointees refuse
to assume the nlaces assigned to them
they will be dismissed for good.
"While several members of the
council have stated that they will de
feat my appointments by cutting off
the salaries of the officers, as most
of the salaries are fixed by charter
provision, I will not lose any sleep
over the threat."
In support of his position the May
or calls attention to the following
sections of the charter:
"The Mayor has the power, and it
is his duty, to organize, govern and
conduct the police force within the
limits aforesaid, and to that end
shall: m
""Appoint a chief of police and1 a
suitable force of regular policemen,
such appointees to be confirmed by a
maioritv of the counciL
"TT mav remove or suspend an;
of the police, including the chief, for
any cause which he may deem suffi
cient to be stated in the order of re
moval or dismissal, a copy of such
order to be filed with the recorder."
F. C. Burk, chairman of the street
committee, of the city council, in an
swer to the statements made by May
or Dimick, said Friday night:
"Every street, excepting Monroe
and Fourteenth streets, was laid out
by Mr. Meldrum who Mr. Dimick
has-appointed, when he was city en
gineer. , He was , the engineer and
laid out the South end sewer ditch,
which Mayor Dimick says cost five
times as much as it should have cost.
The South End Road, instead of be
ing closed ,as stated by the Mayor!
five months, was ciosea uciuuer -a,
and will be opened in a day or two.
It will hare been closed about ten,
weeks."
There is every reason to believe
that the solid 8 members of the city
AnT..n will ataryf not In their reflisaf
nnfi t-t-i Yit nnnointment of Mr.
I W V.H.HIl 11. vuv. ft
Burns as . chief of police. Prominent
lawyers say that the council can reg
ulate the salaries of the Mayor's ap
pointees. Under similar conditions
twentv years ago the salary of the.
chief of police was fixed at $5 a
month. .
The Mayor said that if the
council refused to approve the salar
ies of his appointees it would be an
4. vatv. o-et their
asy matter it,i 111 w ov
money by suit. The eight members
of the council who are opposing the
Mayor have Intimated that they will
refuse to approve the salaries of the
appointees of the Mayor but will
approve the salaries of the old of
ficers. ELECTED LIBRARIAN
Miss. Lenore Stinebaugh has been
appointed librarian of the Oregon City
library. She had three years of ex
perience in library work at San Jose,
Cal., before coming to Oregon City,
and is a most estimable young wo
man. Miss Myrtle Buchanan, who;
acted in the capacity as librarian for
five months. -took much Interest in
her work, and did much to increase
tie popularity of - the library. She
was courteous in her treatment to all
who visited the rooms, find her resig
nation was regretted.
II!
S1EBAUGH