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OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1912.
Peb Week, 10 Cents
MORSE PARDONED;
DEATH IS NEAR
TAFT FREES BANKER ON REPORT
THAT HE CANNOT LIVE
LONG.
WIFE PLEASED, BUT KEEPS SILENT
Friends Plan To Take Ex-Convict To
Carlsbad For Treatment
Civil Rights Not
Restored.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. President
Taft tonight commuted to expire im
mediately the fifteen-year sentence
for violation of the National banking
laws under which Charles W. Morse,
the New York banker and "ice king,"
has served two years in the Federal
penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga.
The commutation of sen', ence, which
gives Morse immediate freedom, but
does not restore his civil rights, was
granted upon recommendation if Attorney-General
Wickershani and Surgeon-General
Torney, U. S. A.
According to the surgeon's report,
Morse could not live one month lon
ger in confinement, and even at lib
erty probably would ot live six
months.
The White House statement grant
ing freedom to Morse follows;
"The President this afternoon com
muted the sentence of Charles W.
Morse to expire at once. This action
was taken upon the recommendation
of the Attorney-General, based upon
the following report of Surgeon-General
Torney:
" 'It is clear to my mind that Morse
is suffering from a combination of dis
eases due to degenerative changes
which are incurable and progressive.
The reports show that both the con
dition of the kidneys and the heart
are growing worse. I regard the at
tack of cardiac dyspnoea, of heart
block, from which he suffered on the
morning of the 15th instant, as an
ominous occurrence. In my opinion
the prisoner's duration of life will be,
in all probability, less than one month
if kept in confinement, and in the
event of his release under commuta-
(Continued on page 3.)
Big Special
A DECADE'S PROGRESS.
AT THE
ELECTRIC Theatre
TONIGHT
NAVAL REVIEW, the biggest
mobilization of War Vessels ever
held in America's waters, 102 ves
sels. Flower of the U". S. Navy.
NEW YORK HARBOR.
Sure you will see this?
NO. 2 THE VOTE THAT
COUNTED. This is another fine
Drama sure to please, especially
the ladies.
NO. 3 THE RETURN, OR WHO
SHALL IT BE.
Last butl not least.
NO. 4 WHO WILL EAT THE
TURKEY. (Good Comedy.)
Remember, we have Four good
Reels. Each one a feature.
Don't miss It. We change here
aany.
Public Demon
stration of the Vacuum Clothes Washer
every day at 2:30 except Sun
day. Wednesday and Saturday
evenings at 7:30. o'clock. 401
Main street.
Oregon Specialty Co. g
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IRRIGATION
AIDING THOUSANDS
IS
ISANi
$67,000,000 SPENT BY GOVERN
MENT IN RECLAMATION
WORK.
WESTERN STATES ARE BENEFITED
Settlers In Many Sections Astonished
. At Modern Conditions Which
Surround Them Work
. To Continue.
SIN BRANDS MEN,
SAYS EVANGELIST
REV. EVANS DECLARES CON
SCIENCE IS GREATEST OF
ALL ACCUSERS.
OREGON CITY AND HADES DIFFERENT
NEW MEMBERS OF
CLUB TO BE DINED
COMMERCIAL BODY TO HAVE
RECORD JINKS TOMOR
ROW NIGHT.
PROMINENT SPEAKERS WILL ATTEND
MRS. BROWNE. MRS.
BROWNE JUNIOR AND MRS. BROWNE JUNIOR'S LITTLE GIRL AS THCY WEC
1901 AND AS THEY ARE TODAY.
COME HERE TO WED
After a courtship of less than a
year Clara Sherman- and A. J.
Rometsch, of Molalla, were married
here Thursday by Justice of the Peace
Samson. Mr. Rometsch is a son of
a Portland business man, and moved
to Molalla about a year ago. He
bought a farm adjoining that of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Sherman, and in a
few weeks was introduced to their
daughter, who has become his bride.
The young couple will spend their
honeymoon in Portland, after which
they will go to housekeeping on Mr.
Rometsch's farm.
JOHN F. SHAFROTH.
Governor of Colorado Active
In Booming His State.
FAIR GROUNDS TO BE
IMPROVED BY PEOPLE
LARGE MACHINERY
FIRMS CONSOLIDATE
The M. Rumely, Gaar-Scott and Ad
vance Machinery houses of Portland
have consolidated under one head,
having been bought out by the M .
Rumely company. The capitalization
of the new company is $22,000,000.
The new firm will occupy the plant of
the Advance Threshing Machine com
pany at East Second and Belmont,
with J. S. Greeny, former manager of
the Gaar-Scott company, manager of
the new corporation.
The consolidation was quietly com
pleted, the property of the Gaar-Scott
and Advance companies being for
mally taken over by E. S. Tockton
ius, northwest sales manager of the
M. Rumely company, from Laporte,
Ind.
No event has been so important in
the machinery and implement busi
ness history of the northwest as the
consolidation of the three big firms.
Heretofore there has been the most
vigorous competition between them.
The specialty of each has been thresh
ing machinery. Under the new man
agement it is said that the business
will be divided in departments, each
department headed by the managers
of the absorbed companies.
The local consolidation is due to a
general combining of the three firms,
the M. Rumely company, of Laporte,
Indiana; the Advance company, of
Battle Creek, Mich.; and the Gaar
Scott company, of Richmond, Ind., the
two latter companies going out of existence.
President Smith, of the Clackamas
County Fair Association, has designat
ed January 29 as "Improvement Day"
at the fair grounds at Canby. On
that day it is urged that everyone,
even the women, turn out with their
shovels, while persons having teams
are especially invited to assist. The
main object of the day is to level the
grounds as much as possible between
the grand stand and the exhibit hall.
If the day appointed be too wet to
work, the first fair day following will
be selected. It is thought the women
will provide dinner.
53 DROWN AS SHIP
CRASHES INTO
Fraternal Brotherhood Dance
COME TO THE WILLAMETTE HALL AND ENJOY THIS FINE
DANCE.
FRIDAY EVENING, JAN. 1 9
WOODFIN & DES LARZES' ORCHESTRA WILL FURNISH
MUSIC. ADMISSION 50 CENTS.
Grand Concert and Ball
GIVEN BY
Portland String Orchestra "Sloga"
In Bttsch Hall, Oregon City
Something new In Oregon City. Never had or heard here before.
SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20th, 1912
Complete Program.
GENERAL ADMISSION 50c.
LONDON, Jan. 18. Fifty-three mem
bers of the crew of the steamer Wins
low, it was learned today, perished
when the vessel was battered to
pieces in -a terrific storm off Peter
Heaa rocks near the coast of Scotland.
Four sailors clung to a portion of the
wreckage and finally were rescued,
more dead than alive. This is the
vessel which was sighted in distress
off the coast of Scotland yesterday,
but whose identity at that time -could
not be learned.
The vessel was bound for . Liver
pool with a cargo of merchandise, but
carried no passengers. All day yes
terday the steamer, with bunkers
flooded, battled with the storm, but
finally was dashed to pieces on the
rocks. Repeated efforts were made by
life saving crews to aid the Winslow,
but without avail.
The storm is reported to have caus
ed enormous damage on both land and
sea. The British steamer Ashgrove
of Glasgow was driven upon the sea
wall at Merthil, on the Firth of Forth,
and four members of its crew drown
ed. It is feared that many smaller
craft were lost.
WORKMEN FIGHT IN
HOTEL OVER WAGES
E. L. Mouzingoand T. H.' Doyle,
employed at the Barney Shingle Mill
were arrested Thursday by Chief of
Police Shaw on a charge of fighting.
Recorder Stipp fined the men $5 each
which they paid.' The quarrel started
while N. W. Barnes, foreman of the
mill, was arranging to pay them their
week's wages. Barnes later was ar
rested on complaint of one of the
men, who said the foreman attacked
him. Barnes denied the charge and
it was dismissed. The fight occurred
in a hotel and caused considerable ex
citement among the guests.
FLOOD RECEDES AND
ALL MILLS RESUME
BRIDGE CLUB MEETS
AT
E
Mrs. G. A. Harding was the. hos
tess of the Thursday Afternoon Auc
tion Bridge Club at her home Thurs
day afternoon, th prize being won by
Mrs. Eber A. Chapman. A luncheon
was served, the hostess being assist
ed by her daughters, Misses Nieta
Harding and Evelyn Harding. The
decorations were artistic, being of
pussy willows and ferns.
Present were Mrs. W. A. Shew
man, Mrs. M. D. Latourette, Mrs. H.
E. Straight, Mrs. H. S. Mount, Mrs.
Nieta Lawrence, Mr3. Rosina -Fouts,
Mrs. E. P. Rands, Mrs. W. S.
U'Ren, Mrs. Theodore Osmund,' Mrs.
E. A. Chapman, Mrs. Charles.. Grif
fith, Mrs. C. G. Huntley and ; Mrs.
L. A. Morris. . ; .
The flood in the river receded to
such an extent Thursday afternoon
that all departments- of the mil!s
were able to resume operations. None
of the plants was damaged by the
water, and not more than 500 work.
men lost more than two days. T'-e
paper njills have received logs which
were delayed by the flood and aie
operating at full capacity.
E
SUES EOR DIVORCE
Asking to have her maiden name
restored,. which is the same name she
bears as a married woman, is
strange feature of a suit for divorce
filed Thursday by Akiyo Shigemori
againstr M. Shigemori. The couple
were married in Hirashima, Japan, in
February, 1899, and according to the
law of that country the husband as
sumed the wife's name. She was Miss
Akiyo Shigemori, and after her mar
riage became Mrs. Akiyo Shigemori
The plaintiff alleges that her husband
has been cruel to her and while they
were living in Wilsonville, Cal., June
20, 1907, he stole $165 from her and
spent it buying whisky. She asks
the custody of their eight-year-old
daughter, Shizu, and their eleven-year-
old daughter, Yasu.
Youffee Farrell sued William B.
Farrell for divorce, alleging cruelty
They were married in Galena, Kan.,
April 4, 1897. The plaintiff says her
husband . failed to. support her and
she had to earn her own living. She
says she is willing that the defendant
be given the custody of their twelve-year-old
son Samuel S. Benton Far
rell. - . ;.
Exhorter Says One Has Advantage
of River And Other Is
Thirsty Place Church
Is Crowded.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. Approxi
mately $67,000,000 have been spent by
the government in irrigation work.
This vast sum is less than half of the
amount that will have been expended
when Uncle Sam's engineers have
completed the present program of re
clamation. In nearly every Western
3tate the flood waters of the streams
are being impounded, and already
thousands of families are benefiting
by this stored water. The activities
of the federal government in reclam
ation work have resulted in awaken
ing a widespread interest in irrigation,
which is no longer a local question
confined to rainless country. Exper
ience has shown that a more general
application of its principles through
out the whole country would result in
material benefit, especially in inten
sive agriculture such as truck farm
ing and small fruitgrowing.
Many Eastern farmers have the
idea that the irrigation farmer is in
a chronic state of water shortage, or
has to fight excess of alkali in the soil,
or is so far from market-that profits
are eaten up by transportation
charges. These things are sometimes
true, but it is a grave mistake to be
lieve that they are unavoidable de-
I fects or that they apply to all irri
gated districts, m building its irriga
tion projects the government selects
only fertile soil: then it gauges the
size of the area to the available wa
ter supply. The reservoirs and ca
nals are built as substantially as en
gineering skill can devise and when
the farms have been laid out and wa
ter is running in the canals then, and
not till then, settlers are invited to
use their homestead rights on the
land. The money actually spent In
building the irrigation works is pro
rated against each acre of land, and
is repaid by the settlers in ten equal
annual payments, without interest.
Call it paternalism if you like it is
making homes by the thousand every
year.
The statistician of the reclamation
service states that success cannot be
attained without work either in the
West or anywhere else and the man
who expects to farm an irrigated
homestead without hard work will be
grievously disappointed. Neither will
he get rich over night The govern
ment holds out no promises of fabul
ous profits per acre or of land values
increasing like a snowball rolling
down hill. The simple facts are
these: Tracts of first class farming
land varying from 40 to 160 acres are
now open to entry; in their raw con
dition they produce nothing and are
worth very little. When properly irri
gated they produce large crops of al
falfa, grain vegetables and fruit; in
fact, all the crops common to the re
gion in which they are located, but in
greater abundance and more surely
than in states where farmers must
depend on the rainfall. Cultivated
land with an assured water supply is
worth from $100 an acre upward, and
in some of the older and more highly
developed fruit districts prices of
$2,000 or $3,000 per acre have been
frequently recorded. These high fig
ures are due to a perfect state of cul
tivation, a thorough knowledge of
packing the fruit for market, and well
organized selling associations.
Settlers locating on government irri
gation projects are frequently surpris
ed' at the modern conditions which
surround them. The Huntley project
in Montana is an example of what can'
be accomplished in three or four
years by progressive people. It in
cludes an era approximately twenty
miles long and five miles wide divided
into farms, averaging 40 acres of irri
gable land, and about 500 families now
live there. Two railroads passing
through the project afford transporta
tion facilities and four small towns
with stores and business houses, are
M. D .Latourette And Gilbert Hedges
Mentioned For President
Reports To Be Made
By Officers. ,
Rev. Bruce Evans preached at the
Baptist church last night on, "Be Sure
Your Sin Will Find You Out" He
said that it was not necessary to
quote the bible in order to prove the
truth of that text.
"A man's sins," he said, "will find
him out in his physical being. Sin will
brand the bodies of men with inefface
able marks.
"A man's conscience will reveal his
sin. What made that puppet in Bos
ton who wore a clerical garb confess
to the crime of murdering his sweet
heart? It was his conscience. No
man can escape from his conscience.
It will become his accuser and will
rise up as a judge to pronounce the
doom of the guilty and the justice of
the condemnation."
The following are utterances of Mi.
Evans:
"The only difference between this
town and hell is that a river runs
through here. -
"Hell will be too cool a place for
the man who by his vices tempt3 a
pure girl.
"A man's conscience is not always
a safe guide. Many men are so low
in sin and steeped in vice that their
consciences are dead. Only the re
generated man can be safely guided
by his conscience and then it must be
illuminated by the word of God.
''The reason men booze, is because
in nine cases out of ten not that they
love whisky, but because rhey are
seeking something to satisfy them.
"There is only one thing capable
(Continued on page 2.)
The Oregon City Commercial Club
will tomorrow evening tender a recep
tion to the new members of the or
ganization. It will be one of the
most elaborate functions ever given
by the club, and nothing will be over
looked to prove to the recent addi
tions to the club that they did not
make a mistake in becoming affiliated
with this progressive body of citi
zens. Music will be furnished by the
club's five-piece orchestra and the
club'3 quartet will render several se
lections. After the festivities three
members of the board of governors
will be elected to succeed John
Adams, R. L. Holman and Henry
O'Malley, and these with the six hold
over members, will elect the officers.
M. D. Latourette and Gilbert L.
Hedges are mentioned for the presi
dency. J. E. Hedge3, retiring president,
will be toastmaster, and several well- -known
speakers from out of town will
be present. Local members of the
club also will respond to toasts.
The buffet luncheon, which will be
served has been arranged for by John
Adams, who has no superior in that
line. The annual reports of the pres
ident, secretary and secretary of the
Publicity Department, will be read..
The following are the new mem
bers: G. F. Anderson, Harry P. Confer,
Ed E. Confer, Frank T. Barlow, Earl
C. Burke, Frank Busch, Jr., Leo S.
Burdon, A. B. Buckles, J. W. Ben-
(Continued on page 3.)
(Continued on page 3.)
Not Behind
. Many people who have hesitated and have hung back heretofore
have now joined the regulars They have found out that the MOD
ERN PHOTOPLAY HOUSE Is-not-what-it-used-to-be. Pictures are
no longer shown in a dark dismal room where evil spirits hold
sway, but are exhibited in a nicely lighted room, thereby hindering
anything that might be indecent. Fathers, mothers, and their chil
dren need no longer refrain attending the modern photoplay.
THE GRAND
All pictures censored by National Board of Censors.
PROGRAM TODAY
Seeing Cincinnati
(Scenic)
Poisoned Arrows
' (Western Story)
In Japan
(Educational)
One On Reno
(Comedy)
Their Charming Mamma
(Very Good) '
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EVERY
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Corner 9th and Main Streets
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