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About Morning enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1911-1933 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 3, 1912)
S 8 $ The only daily newspaper be 5 tween Portland and Salem; circu- $ 3 l8 in every section of Clacka- S mas County, with a population of 4 30,000. Are you an advertiser? , -v 3 -i$S.$J.S-$S WEATHER INDICATIONS. $ Oregon City Fair Saturday; $ S easterly winds. Oregon Fair Saturday; colder $ east portion. -" ' xx&9 WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED IS66 VOL. Til No. 28. OREGON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1912. Peb Week, 10 Cents LA FOLLETTE WILL CONTINUE IN RACE ROOSEVELT FAVORS EQUAL SUFFRAGE TEE OTLETF: JUDGE A. B. ANDERSON. IS PERPETRATED BY WALT MPDQUGALL In Charge of the Indianapolis Grand Jury In Dynamite Probe. AND THE DOCTOR GOT ALL THE CREDIT. OF COURSE ? DEMAND THAT ROOSEVELT EN TER DOES NOT DETER WIS CONSIN SENATOR VogVE. COT EITHER COLONEL, HOWEVER, ASSERTS THAT BALLOT IS SECONDARY -TO HOME. BUILDING THRONGED ALL DAY AND EXHIBITS ARE FAR ABOVE AVERAGE PULMONICUS EXFATICO OR DIABASTICUS DISCOBOLUS POULTRY SHOW BIG SUCCESS ttS.ITS GREGORIAN V W-- ( I'LL GIVE. YOU A, . -' SfV . SPASMOPICITIS OF f $r3- PRESCRIPTIONS" I X the Arr ''fVy UNDERSTANDING IS NOT- SOUGHT Growing List of Aspirants Considered As Aid To Taft President Does Not Fear Stampede WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 Special) Leaders of the La ' Follette move ment, after their conference here have decided to continue their campaign for the Wisconsin man.not withstand ing that they view Colonel Roosevelt seriously as a candidate. It was said after the conference that no thought was given to any arrangement by which Rooaevelt and LaFollette might profit by each other's strength in the future. The La Follette movement from this time forward is to be con ducted as a thing apart from all other candidacies. It was admitted that the Roosevelt boom has had a decidedly bad effect on the La Follette chances, and that it never will be what it might have been if the name of the Colonel had not be gun to figure so prominently before the public. The La Follette manag ers themselves have no false ideas on the subject. They may be proclaim ing, for purposes of their own, that there is "nothing to" the Roosevelt movement and that it is composed chiefly of noise, but privately they be lieve nothing of the kind. This is part of the fight, just as it is part of all fights of the kind and almost always has been. Taft leaders in Washington see in the determination of the La Follette leaders an improvement of the chan ces of their own candidate. On the candidacies of Cummins and La Fol lette and the movement for Roose velt they see a hopeless splitting of the forces of the opposition. Every thing, they say, conspires to add to the certainty that the President will be renominated unless the one thing happens that the Roosevelt move ment becomes a stampede that cannot be controlled, The Taft managers do not regard this as a probability. PatronKie our auvertlserr LI AND FRANK PORT WED Miss Lena Chamberlain, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Chamberlain, of Gladstone, who recently returned to this city from San Diego, Cal., where she spent five months, was married to Frank Port, formerly if this city, but now of Milwaukee, Wis., Friday. The marriage was solem nized at Mr. Port's parents' home at Milwaukee, Mr. Port meeting his bride to be at Chicago. The newlyweds have gone to New Orleans, where they will spend their honeymoon. They will live in San Diego. The bride is one of Oregon City's well known young women, and was prominent in church work, being an active member of the Baptist church, and superintendent of the Sunday school at Canemah until her health failed, which necessitated her going to California. She was for some time connected with the W. A. Holmes store in this city, and was popular among the large number of patrons of that store. It was at the Holmes store that she met Mr. Port who was connected with the establishment for several months. He has an interest in a clothing house at Milwaukee, Wis. T HISS LEETE LUNCHEON The teachers of the Barclay school Friday gave a luncheon in honor of Miss Ruth Leete, who has resigned her position with the school to ac cept one with the Portland schools. Miss Leete made many friends while in the city, who regret to learn that she is to leave. Professor A. O. Freel, Principal of the school, delivered an address in which he praised the work of the retiring teacher. Mis Leete will receive $115 monthly in Portland. Those attending the luncheon were Mrs. Estella Salisbury, Mrs. Jessie Hull, Mrs. Ruth Notz, Mrs. Helen Grisez, Mi3 Nieta Harding, Miss Ilah Mickey, Miss Ruth Leete and Profes sor A. O. Freel. . , For Columbia River Smelt Come to MACDONALD'S MARKET V (Next Wells Fargo Express Office) We have large quantities arriving daily. Special low price for Smelt In box lots delivered to any part of town. Out of town orders will receive our careful attention. Ship ments made day orders are received.' Fish of All Kinds FACSIMILE OF 533"" " aL I 2-c THE SAI-D PRESCRIPTION feCS -'IS .- . , RIVER COMPANYTO ISSlcH Ifti AnsTMF fihhk BE FORMEDTODAY ARTICLES FOR INCORPORATION FOR NEW CONCERN ARE PREPARED STEAMERS LANG AND RUTH IK DEAL B. T. McBAIN, of Willamette Pulp & Paper Company will Be Man ager of New Company Articles of incorporation will be filed today with the Secretary of State, forming the Willamette Trans portation business on the Willamette and Columbia rivers. The company, it is belived will take over the steam er, N. R. Lang, of the Willamette Pulp & Paper Company, and the steamer, Ruth, of the O.-W. R. & N., negotia tions for the transfer of the Ruth "hav ing been completed Friday. The de livery will be made February 20th If the government officials will grant permission, tiie name of the steamer Ruth will i9 changed at the time of transfer of i-egistry to Oregon City. This would be a big advertisement for the city, and would help the river traffic. It is understood that the new comp any will be controlled by the Willam ette Pulp & Paper Company, and that B. T. McBain will be manager. The steamers controlled by the company will be common carriers, and will handle freight to and from all points, as decided upon by the officers With new free locks, a deep river to Portland, terminal rates, and a home transportation company, the indus tries at the Falls of the Willamette have a' great future. The transfer of the steamer Ruth will be passed upon by the Interstate Commerce Commis sion because of the transferring of the tariffs. It is not believed that there will be any objection raised to the transfer, but it will take some time to complete the deal. Read the Korning Enterprise SINKS WITH 14 MEN PORTSMOUTH, England, Feb. 2. The British submarine "A-3" sank this morning, after a cbllission with the British gunboat Hazard off the eastern end of the Isle of Wight. Fourteen men sank, imprisoned in the subma rine, and were drowned. The Hazard threw out life buoys and launched boats, in case any of the men should escape, but none came ,to the surface. The "A-3" carried a crew of 11 men, nine seamen and two officers, and three other Lieutenants were on board. The submarine, which went out of the harbor this morning to carry out a series of diving and torpedo exer cises, sank like a stone immediately after her collision with the Hazard and the flooding of the craft. A big escape of gas which was ob served on the surface immediately af ter she sank indicates that the vessel quickly filled with water. A cruiser stands by the spot where the disaster took place. The submarine lies on the Princess Shoal, almost on the same spot where the submarine "A-l" was lost with all hands, on March 18, 1904. The Commander-in-Chief of the Portsmouth division of the British Navy confirms the flooding of the "A-3" and the drowning of all the men oboard. British submarines belonging to the "A" class have been singularly un fortunate. The "A-5" had six men killed and 12 injured by an explosion at Queenstown on February 16, 1905. The "A-8" sank off Plymouth on June 8, 1905, when 14 men out of her crew of 18 lost their lives. The "A-4" sank during the maneuvers at Portsmouth on November 16 of the same year, but the whole of her crew were rescued with considerable difficulty. ' The "A-lll had seven of her crew badly injured by an explosion on August 6, 1910. This class of boat is a single screw submersible of a modified Holland type, with a length of 100 feet and a beam of 12 feet eight Inches. Their displacement is 180 tons. They are driven by gasoline motors when on the surface of the water and by elec tric motors when submerged. They have a surface speed of 12 knots and a submerged speed of eight knots. The motors develop 500 indicated horsepower on the surface and 150 horsepower when submerged. Their armament consists of two torpedo tubes. ' HARDWARE FIRM RENTS STORE. Wilson & Cooke Take Lease On Part - of Gambrinus Building Wilson & Cooke have leased the store room in the Gambrinus Brewing Company's brick building on Main near Sixth, and the. store room has been fitted with shelving and cabinets This room will be used exclusively for harware, while the old store of the company will be used for farming im plements. The rooms used for the farming implements are in the Jaggar building, and have been occupied by Wilson & Cooke for twenty-two years. An archway has been contructed be tween the two buildings. The office, which is inclosed in glass, will be in the rear, and also in this building will be a large storeroom. The office is 12x12 feet, while the store room is 40x26 feet. ULniUIUllL I1U1IIU ST EFFORT WILL BE MADE TO EN JOIN P. R. L. & .P. COMPANY .. .. COMMERCIAL CLUB IS ORGANIZED Demand Also Is To Be Made For An other Station In City Harry Williams President of Club A Commercial Club was organized Friday night in Gladstone at a meet ing of about forty citizenu. A consti tution and by-laws were adopted and the following officers were elected: President Harry Williams. Vice-President Cahrles Hageman. Secretary Chambers Howell. Treasurer Thomas Gault. ' Sergeant-At-Arms Thomas Burns. A resolution was adopted urging the city council to file suit to enjoin the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company from erecting more feed wires in Gladstone. It was announced that the company had been erecting poorly insulated wires on.. the old poles, which are not of the required heighth. The company has never had a franchise to erect wires in Glad stone, it was announced. The first wires were put up after the privilege of erecting wires for a motor line had been obtained from The Gladstone Real Estate Association. The railway company recently asked for an exclusive and unlimited fran chise in Gladstone, and that being' re fused, has not wired any houses in the city since then. It is thought that (Continued on page 3 ) AGAIN WRS INDISCREET LEADERS CRITICIZED Good And Wise" Mother Should Have Right to Vote, Says Ex President in Outlook. NEW YORK. Feb." 2. Theodore Roosevelt, in the current issue of the Outlook, today placed himself squarely before the public as generally favoring woman suffrage. Roosevelt, however, places the ballet as secondary to the home. He says: "The exercise of suffrage can never be the most important of women's right or duties. Women's vital need is a war against vice, frivolity, cold selfishness and timid Shrinking from unnecessary risk and effort. Vice, the folly of men and women, leading to the divorce court or taking shape in the curse of voluntary sterility, are fun damental evils of prime importance. "I am glad that a good, wise and brave mother should have the ballot. I believe in the movement for woman suffrage, and I believe it will ultimate ly succeed and justify itself. But I regard it as, being of far less conse quence than many other movements for betterment of conditions which af fect both men and women. "Perhaps one reason so many men, believing as emphatically as I do in women'3 full equality, take little in terest in the suffrage movement, will be found in the unfortunate actions of certain leaders of the movement. They seem des'rous of associating it with disorderly conduct in public, and thor oughly degrading it by vicious assaults on the morality and the duty of wom en within and without marriage. "In western states where suffrage has been given to women, I am unable to see that any great difference has been caused, as compared with neigh boring states, yet what slight changes there have been are for the better. "I do not see much difference be tween Denver and the big cities of the east; yet it is the women of Denver who stand behind Judge Lindsey. "When I passed through Seattle last spring the city had just finished going through a badly needed houseclean ing, and the votes of the women have been a potent factor in securing de cent government. "The same thing is notably true as a result of the recent Los Angeles election." SPOUSE WANTED TO BREAK CHINA, HER PLEA Declaring that he has repeatedly threatened to smash decorated china, painted by her, and from which she makes a good income, Annie Holman has filed suit for divorce from Guy E. Holman. They were married Sept ember 20, 1905, and the plaintiff al leges that her husband has beeh cruel to her in other ways. She avers that he has been cross to her son, Gustav Tingry, by another marriage, -and that she had been compelled to keep the boy away from tha husband. She asks the custody of their son, Edward Guy Holman, and ?25 a month alimony. LECTURES TONIGHT Harold Morton Kramer, famous throughout the United States as an author and lecturer, will lecture to night, under the auspices of the Ly ceum Bureau at Woodmen Hall. Al though a young man, Mr. Kramer has been on the lecture platform several years, and has a reputation second to no platformist now under engage ment. Before entering the lecture field he was a newspaper man, and became famoua in this state through smashing political machines and cor recting civic abuses. He served in the Spanish-American war as the head of the first company of soldiers organ ized in his state. One critic has said of him, "He has become a master, in the use of his native tongue." School Days Bring Many Problems You owe it to your children to see that they are well dressed and comfortable. How can it be done on the least money ? Stockings have been the greatest trouble. You know the kihd that look well until the first recess. If your boy is the right kind of boy, he plays so fast he forgets all about his stockings. To grow he must play that way. Give hull the kind of stockings that take care of themselves Leap-frog, hop-acotch, foot ball, and many other games need have no terrors for the mother who hat bought her ion Qgtdmfiteg. Let him scuffle, slide, jump all over the play ground no strain, no holes, no raveL These wonderful stockings are made from Wunderyarn; dyed with Wunderdye. Wunderyarns are spun from the largest aad toughest cotton fibre known. They are twisted and combed until they have the strength of rope, with the "feel" of silk. Only double threads of Wunderyarn no single ones whatever are used in ffjwndennoac The heels, toes and knees are reinforced, and remember the strength of re-inforcing yarns does not depend on the thickness. That is one of the reasons why the heels and toes of IcWndcnhrxA are so soft and pliable and yet so strong. In andptnoaa families the mother helps her children with their books when other mothers are slaving with the darning needles. ADAHS GIG DEPARTMENT STORE OREGON CITY, OREGON lyij jf - - AC' T s,v s i PAPER MAKER BURIED BY GERMAN SOCIETY The funeral of Frederich William Keferstein, formerly a wealthy paper manufacturer of Germany, who com mitted suicide by shooting himself in the right temple, was held Friday aft ernoon at the Holman Undertakng Establishment, the German Verein be ing in charge. The society defrayed the expenses of the funeral and has aided the son and sister-in-law of Mr. Kefestein. Beautiful floral designs were placed on the grave by members of the Verein. Gustav Schnoor, pres ident of the society, delivered the fun eral oration. Among those who at tended were R; Petzold, L. A. Noble, Gustav Schnoor, B. M. Klemson and August Buse. The society has ob tained a position for young Keferstein at the Hawley Pulp & Paper Mill. SAYS HUSBAND KEPT Declaring that her husband became intoxicated the day they were married and remained so for twelve days, when she left him, Susie Bishop, of Portland, Friday filed suit for divorce against C. H. Bishop. They were mar ried November 3, 1911, in Portland. The plaintiff says her husband cursed her, and otherwise was cruel to her. She asks that net-maiden name, Susie Toole, be restored. The suit was brought by Brownell & Stone. Aldina Howell filed suit for divorce against William L. Howell. They were married in June, 1903. C. D. and D. C. Latourette represent the plaintiff. The plaintiff alleges that her husband deserted her two months after the marriage ceremony. ACKERMANN GIVES PUPILS GOOD ADVICE J. H. Ackerman, President of the State Normal School, at Monmouth, addressed the pupils of the Oregon City High School, Friday morning. Several citizens also were present. Mr. Ackerman spoke on "Success in Life." He said that to be successful one must be attentive, industrious and interested in his chosen work. Hon esty, said Mr. Ackerman, also was a requisite. He explained how several great men had achieved success, and urged the pupils to profit by the ex amples set by them. Mr. Ackerman was introduced by Superintendent of City Schools Tooze. L. R. Alderman, superintendent of the schools of the State, will speak at the High School next Friday. Others who make ad dresses during the term are Governor West, Mayor Dimick, O. D. Eby and J. E. Hedges. PHILHARMONIC BAND IS PRAISED Success of Enterprise Insures Exhi bition Annually Prominent Men From Portland Attend One of the finest poultry shows ever held in Oregon began Friday morning at the armory, and will con tinue until 11 o'clock tonight. Poul try fanciers from five counties were present and there were exhibits from almost all parts of the state. The suc cess of the exhibition, which was ar ranged by the Publicity Department of the Commercial Club, insures the giving of a similar, show annually. More than 600 persons paid admis sions to see the chickens and at least twice that many are expected to attend today. Among the prominent men in at tendance were Marquam Bros., of Marquam, who had entries in almost all the classes; J. P. Hall, Newberg, president Yamhill County Poultry As soociation; B. Lee Paget, Portland banker; C. C. Chapman, secretary Portland Commercial Club; Harvey Beckwith, former president of the Portland P.nmmerrlnl Plnb Aririrocc- es were made in the evening by Messrs. Hall, Chapman and M. J. La zelle, Secretary of the Promotion De partment of the Commercial Club, who suggested that a poultry show be given in this city, and made all ar rangements for the exhibition.. Mr. Hall declared that there was more enthusiasm, more life and a bet ter attendance at the show than at a majority of the others given in the state. Mr. Paget was enthusiastic over the success of the enterprise, and declared exhibitions should be held annually. Mr. Chapman lauded the possibilities of Clackamas County, and condemned the one idea farmer He declared the farmers here should raise chickens, berries, fruits, etc., and by all means should rotate their crops. He advised against depending upon horticulture alone. Mr. Beck with talked in a similar vein. " A trip through Clackamas Coun ty" illustrated with stereoptican views was the subject of an interesting lec ture by Mr. Lazelle. He graphically described the possibilities for dairy ing in the county, showing pictures of dairies he visited, on the trip. Mr. La zelle also showed pictures of various farms and orchards. The lecture will be repeated tonight. Music was furnished by the Phil harmonic band under the leadership of R. V. D. Johnston. The residents of the city, who heard the band for the first time, were amazed at its work, and Mr. Johnston and the play ers were congratulated heartily. A concert was given in the street be fore the program was rendered at the poultry show. Another program will be given at the show this evening. "Dollar," the trained rooster, per- i formed under the direction of Miss ly has his tricks learned to a nicety, and kept the large audience convul sed with laughter while he was on the boards. Another feature of the evening was the cornet solo by Dr. Clyde Mount. "Dr. Mount is the soloist of the Phil harmonic band, and those who heard him were reminded of Liberatti in his palmiest days. Dr. Mount will play again this evening. Miss Rose Justin, cashier and ticket seller, was hard put to attend the large crowd that crowd ed about her office last night. She de clared she would demand a rest to day. . There will be more poultry judg- (Continued on page 3.) FOR SALE One lot in. Gladstone, one block from car line, all im proved, only $100 if taken today.' Call Ben Kuppen bender, Main 80.