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VOL. III. No. 63.
NEW CHIEF OF FIRE DEPART
MENT HAS SUGGESTIONS FOR
CITY COUNCIL.
WANTS HILL TO HAVE BETTER SERVICE
Automatic Fire Alarm System Sug
gested Investigation of Water
Supply Asked By Head Of
Department
Charles Hannaford, the newly elect
ed chief of the fire department' will
assume office with some clearly de
fined views, as well as with a pret
ty extensive program of things to sub
mit the City Council, for its approval
and possible adoption. In the first
place the new chief feels that the city
should have an automatic fire alarm
system, which would take care of the
outlaying districts as well as the
downtown section. He would also give
more attention to the resident dis
tricts on top of the hill. In connect
ion with this it appears that while
Main Street has three hose carts, one
hook and ladder, and one chemical
engine; the main residential district
on top of the hill has but one hose
cart. Of course there are one hose
and one chemical engine at Elyville,
but they're .too far away to be con
sidered seriously. Chief Hannaford
will recommend that the center of fire
operations may be transfered from
Main Street to some convenient lo
cation not far from the top of the hill,
for the main reason that most of" the
"boys" live on the hill, and could
the more eagerly respond. Besides
this, the department could easily run
a cart or chemical engine down hill,
far easier in fact than it could pull it
HANNArORDWOuLD
MAKE REFORMS
THREE CANDIDATES FOR
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E. P. CARTER, REPUBLICAN
up supposing the fire were on the hill
and thu3 much valuable time could be
saved.
The water supply is also to be in
vestigated thoroughly, to the end that
the resident districts may get com
plete fire protection. Chief Hanna
ford will insist that the required pres
sure be available at all hydrants, at
all times.
Cataract Hose it is whispered will
celebrate the glorious victory with
one of ther justly celebrated Chick
en dinners, to which all firemen re
gardless of whence they came will
be most heartily welcome. R. V. D.
Johnston has promised to give some
music, and one large time is an as
sured circumstance.
It is doubtful if a more good hum
ored election was. ever held in Oregon
City, or one in which the result gave
such general satisfaction.
FRANKLIN TESTIFIES
LOS ANGELES, March 5. Bert H.
Franklin, confessed briber, testified
before the county grand jury that in
dicted Clarence Darrow that Darrow
gave him the money with which to
bribe Juror Robert F. Bain, and Pros
pective Juror George N. Lockwood in
the McNamara trial, according to
notes taken by attaches of the dis
trict attorney's office, which are to
day in possession of the defense.
The district attorney's office in ac
cordance with instructions from the
court, gave these notes to the defense
to augment the partial transcript of
the evidence that . was taken. The
notes were accompanied by the af
firming affidavits of Assistant Di3t-
rist Attorny Ford and Deputy Keetch.
According to these notes, Franklin
when he appeared before the grand
turv was asked but one question.
"Did you receive a certain sum of
money from Clarence Darrow for the
purpose of bribing Robert F. Bain and
George N. Lockwood?"
Franklin, the affidavits of Ford and
Keetch declare, answered in the af
firmative and then was excused.
C. R. Parker, assistant cashier of a
San Francisco bank, gave additional
testimony and it was stated that he
had testified that Olaf Tveitmoe, in
dicted by two federal grand juries on
the charge of having engaged In a
general conspiracy to transport dyna
mite illegally, maintained an account
known as the "defense fund of the
State Building Trades Council."
The Morning Enterprise Is the best
breakfast food you can have.
REPUBLICANS HOT
JACK'S TRAIL
COUNTY ASSESSOR SURE TO
HAVE TWO FORMIDABLE
OPPONENTS
E. P. CARTER BECOMES CANDIDATE
James F. Nelson, Former Occupant
Of Office, Also Announces M.
. E. Dunn Offers For" Leg-
islature
The. political scalp of Count" As
sessor J . E. Jack is demanded by at
least two Republicans, who have filed
their petitions for the nomination for
that office. These are James P. Nel
son, of Mulino, who announced his
candidacy several weeks ago, and E.
P. Carter, of Gladstone, who filed his
petition Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Car
ter represented Clackamas County in
the House of Representatives at the
last session of the State Legislature,
and was expected to be a candidate
to succeed himself, but he had con
cluded that a chance at a salaried of
fice with a four year term attached
is not to be lightly passed by. Mr.
Jack has had one term of four years
and is a candidate to succeed him
self, having filed his petition for the
Democratic nomination. Mr. Nelson
was Assessor of Clackamas County
for six years having preceeded the
present Assessor in office.
Another surprise was sprung Tues
day when it was reported that M. E.
Dunn, a well known business man of
Oregon City, would become a candi
date for the legislature. F. M. Gill,
of Estacada, and Ed Olds have filed
petitions for the Republican nomina
tion. Mr. Gill was in the House last
year as Joint Representative from
JAMES F. NELSON, REPUBLICAN
Hood River and Wasco Counties. M.
A. Magone, a member of . the last
House, will also be a candidate to suc
ceed himself.
W. H. Mattoon, for County Commis
sioner; J. A. Tufts, for Treasurer; W.
L. Mulvey, for Clerk; T. J. Gary, for
School Superintendent; D. T. Mel
drum, for Surveyor, and W. J. Wilson,
for Coroner, are all candidates to suc
ceed themselves. Mr. Wilson filed
his petition a few days ago. He was
appointed by the County Court to suc
ceed Dr. T. J. Fox, who resigned, and
has made a very efficient officer. E.
C. Hackett has filed his petition for
the nomination for Sheriff on the Re
publican ticket. He will be opposed
by Sheriff E. T. Mass, Democrat, who
has not yet filed his petition. Mr.
Hackett was the Republican nominee
two years ago and was defeated. by
a narrow margin. Lloyd E. Williams
will file his petition to succeed him
self as County Recorder, and he will
be opposed by C. W.. Strucken, who
has already filed his declaration.
The Democrats of Clackamas Coun
ty are slow to file, the only other per
son besides Assessor Jack being F.
H. Dungan, Justice of the Peace at
Molalla, who seeks reelection. Four
Republicans have filed petitions for
nominations for Justice of the Peace,
William Hammond and W. W. H.
Samson in district 4, embracing Ore
gon City and surrounding territory;
Norman O. Say, at Wilsonville, and
E. L- Davidson, at Oswego, H T. Mel
vin, of Barlow, Is the only person to
file a petition for the office of Pre
cinct Committeeman.
WIRES WORK FOR MAIL
DELIVERY T0STAFF0RD
The Live Wires at . the weekly
luncheon Tuesday discussed the pro
posed rural mail delivery to Stafford.
Mail from this city to Stafford is now
sent to Portland and then to Sher
wood, Washington County, to be de
livered. Postmaster Randall has
tried to have a rural route establish
ed from this city to Stafford for some
time and Congressman Hawley is giv
ing his assistance.
The "ancient" subject of hitching
posts was discussed by the Wires,
and the Information was vouchsafed
that there was no objection to hitch
ing posts being erected on Fifth
street between Main and Water. M.
J. Lee, of Canby, who was elected a
member of the Live Wires, said Can
by did not object to the posts. Ern
est P. Rands also was elected a mem
ber. T. W. Sullivan said the side
walks and streets on Tenth street
were la por condition. Marchall La
zelle, who is an enthusiastic ' motor
ist, made a speech favoring hitching
posts.- . -
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WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED IS66
BUILDING BOOM
IS CITY'S PRIDE
JOHN W. LODER COMPLETES TWO
FINE COTTAGES IN WEST
GLADSTONE
ANDREWS TO ERECT BUNGALOW
I. C. Bridges Builds Homes For G.
B. Dimick On Madison Street
Other Buildings
Planned
J. W. Loder has just had completed
two four-room cottages in West Glad
stone, which will be sold or rented.
The contractors for these buildings
were Catto & Nelson. Mr. Loder re
cently sold an up-to-date bungalow
to R. H. Trullinger, general delivery
clerk of the Oregon City postoffice.
This building is on Tenth and Van
Buren Streets.
Frank E. Andrews has been award
ed the contract for the erection of
two bungalows on his property In
South Oregon City, to A. L. Blanchard
and the work will be commenced this
week. Each will have five rooms, In
cluding living room, dinng room, two
bedrooms, kitchen, and pantry. Each
will asa have a veranda.
I. C. Bridges has completed a mod
ern bungalow for G. B. Dimick on a
lot on Madison Street between Thir
teenth and Fourteeneth Streets. The
finishing was done by A. L. Blan
chard. It is probable that this build
ing will be placed on the market On
the north side is one of the sleeping
apartments which opens into a hall
way at the left of the dining room.
The bath room opens into this hall
way and the other bedroom at the
rear also opens into the bathroom.
The kitchen is at the rear of the din-
ASSESSOR
J. E. JACK, DEMOCRAT.
ing room. The living room is 12x15
feet and 6 nches; one sleeping apart
ment being 11x12 feet; while the oth
er is 11x14 feet. The hallway is eight
feets quare and the bathroom 11x14
feet, like the kitchen is finished iil
the white tiling. Stationery wash-
stands and bathtub are also among
the attractive features of this home
besides other conveniences includ
ing electric lights.
The woodwork is In mission style.
W. W. Bradley is also the owner of
a Drettv little home, which was com
pleted this week, and has been rented
by Mr. and Mrs. Bert Goodpasture.
The house is on First and Center
Strets, and is of the bungalow style
having seven rooms with a bath and
pantry. The interior is finished in
Mission and the house has all moa-
ern convences. The building was
erected by Mr. Bradley.
John H. Stewart, who recently
moved to . Gladstone from Portland,
and who purchased property from
John Grahn, has decided to build one
of the finest homes in that thriving
suburb. Mr. Stewart is a builder
and contractor, and intends building
in September. The house will cost
$4500, and will have a reception hail,
living room, fireplace, built-inDooK-cases,
dinine room with built-in buf
fet and china closet. Tne Kitcnen win
be of the Dutch design.
The bathroom will be finished in
white tiling. These rooms will be on
the first floor while the second floor
will have three1 sleeping appartments
with clothes' closets, clothes' chute
and a large billiard room. There will
be a full cement basement with sever
al apartments, one of which will be
for the laundry. Stationery wa3htubs
will be installed. The rooms will be
heated by a furnace.
Watch the automobile' contest.
FISH COMMISSIONERS
TO HOLD MEETING HERE
The Board of Fish Commissioners
of Oregon, will come here within a
few days to meet with the Commer
cial Club and the business men. The
meeting will be presided over by B.
T. McBain, president of the Com
mercial Club.
The object of the meeting is to dis
cuss the fishing season in Oregon
City. The fishermen will be in at
tendance to give their side of. the
question. It is probable that an ad
justment can be made.
The Enterprise automobile contest
Is the most popular thing ever pulled
oft in the Willamette Valley.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1912.
TO RESUME BUILDING
The Directors of the Clackamas
Southern Railway Company held a
meeting Saturday night and formu
lated plans for the early resumption
of work on the line of railway be
tween Oregon City and Molalla.
JJunng the last, year- more than ten
miles of grade was made and a large
amount of other work accomplished
which makes the work for the year
1912 much easier to accomplish.
When the question of building a
railway from Oregon City to Molalla
was first spoken of at the Lave Wire
Luncheon in March 1911 a great many
people were under the impression
that nothing could be accomplished
along that line, but after the Comp
any was organized and started in to
enlist assistance of the people who
lived in the interior and won would
b ebenefitted by the construction of
the line, everything moved along very
satisfactorily until the fall rams shut
down the work.-
This year the Company has some
thing to show for its efforts in the
past, and no one can truthfully say
that the funds were not properly ex
pended. One of the most encouraging fea
tures which the directors have not
iced is that the stockholders are not
discouraged and there is no question
but what all of them are satisfied
with the amount of work that was ac
complished last year' and will take
a deeper interest in the work . this
year on account of having a valua
able asset to start with.
During the winter months the eng
ineer was busily engaged .in tying in
his established line to the section
lines and now that part of the work
has been practically finished, he will
devote most of his time during the
summer months to superintending
actual construction. -
LADIES REST ROOM
LOCATED IN COURTHOUSE
The Ladies Rest Room, which
was established by the Woman's Club
and which was for some time in the
Masonic building, has been moved to
tile Courthouse. The room is well
heated, furnished with three couches
chairs, table and reading matter.
LEON BOURGEOIS.
Minister of Labor In New
ly Formed French Cabinet.
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BETTER CUT IT OFF, JOHN.
COnRELL LEADS IN
SEATTLE ELECTION
SEATTLE, Wash.,- March 5. With
returns in hand from one-third of the
city George F. Cotterill, municipal
ownership and single tax candidate
for Mayor, has a lead of 229 votes
over Hiram C. Gill, open-town candi
date, who was recalled a year ago and
who sought vindication" in the pres
ent campaign. '
In the precincts that-have reported
are many of the Gill strongholds. Gill
held the vote which he obtained In
the primary of February 20, and add
ed something to it, whereas Cotterill
frequently doubled and trebled his
vote.
Cotterill supporters claim a majori
ty of more than 2000 for their candi
date. During the last few days the cam
paign took on an aspect of the battle
for the recall of Gill and the church
people and the women were called
on to vote for thesuppression of vice.
No returns have been received on
the single-tax amendment to the char
ter, or on any of the oher proposi
tions submitted to referendum vote.
Complete returns from 95 out of
281 precincts give Cotterill 10,596;
Gill 10,367.
RUNAWAY ON MAIN
STREET 1ST
Scores of persons were endangered
Tuesday by a ' runaway on Main
street. A team driven by H. A. Kay
lor of Molalla, . was frightened at
Tenth street by an electric car. The
horses dashed madly up the street,
Kavlor holding tightly to the reins
and guiding them. At Eighth street
the horses collided with a team own
ed by Williams Bros., the transfer
men. The animals were piled in a
hean and when they were disentang
led it was found that one of the
horses belonging to the transfer firm
had three fractured ribs.
CITY FATHER IS BACK
FROM LONG J
"The drouth is Southern California
is something terrible," said R. L.
Holman, city councilman, who re
turned from Los Angeles Tuesday.
"Why It has been so dry down there
for several months that the people
are praying for rain. It is a great
country and the people are fine peo
ple, but when it is dry wny, you
know it is dry."
Mr. Holman was gone seventeen
days, and as far as the Enterprise
man can learn, thfe city father nao
a good time. It was rumored that
he settled a big estate satisfactorily
and then proceeded to see the signts
of Los Angeles. According to Mr.
Holman Los Angeles is a great city
He- says there are policemen on ev
ery corner and they have no hesitan
cy in stopping automobiles. Mr. Hoi
man spent three cays in San Fran
cisco. He -liked that town but he
likes Los Angelea better and Oregon
City BES.
SCHMITZ, EX-MAYOR, FREE
: SAN FRANCISCO, March 5 Eu
gene E.- Schmitz, ex-Mayor of San
Francisco, and the most recent of the
persons implicated in the famous
graft expose of 1906 to face a jury,
wan ffaod tnH H V mi the Miarcre of hav
ing bribed Supervisor Wilson In the
so-called gas cases, .
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Bartholomew in Minneapolis Journal.
ENTERPRISE TO BE
The Morning Enterprise will issue
an eight page paper tomorrow. It will
be a fine paper. You should get a
copy of it. The Morning Enterprise
is the only daily paper published be
tween Salem and Portland. It pub
lishes the- news without fear or fav
or. Without trying to throw any bo-
quets at ourselves we know enough
about the business to say that the En
terprise is a good newspaper. The pol
icy of this newspaper is to tell the
news in its news columns and to
comment on it in its editorial col
umn. And the Morning Enterprise
will give everybody a square deal.
Five hundred extra copies will be dis
tributed free tomorrow morning, and
if you happen to be one of an mfin
itesmal part of the population of Ore
gon City and Clackamas County that
s not a patron of the best booster
of Clackamas County do not have any
hesitancy in buying a copy of the pa
per. V - ' .
SUFFRAGETTES MOVE
ON BUCKINGHAM
LONDON, March 5. Open threats
by militant suffragettes to burn Buck
ingham Palace, the home of King
George, and his Queen, today, caused
the municipal authorities to throw a
double line of guards around the
structure. The situation is extreme
ly serious, the police predicting that
the suffragettes .undoubtedly will at
tempt to carry into execution their
threat to destroy the royal palace.
The women renewed their window
smashing campaign early today, but
were successful in only a few cases,
as the merchants have boarded up
all windows, in their stores, and all
banks and public buildings are heav
ily guarded.-
The women openly defied the po
lice. Attempts to disperse a mob of
suffragettes resulted in the women
trying to drag mounted officers from
their horses. : The suffregettes claim
to court arrest, hoping in this way to
fill the jails to overflowing.
"We will be militant," the leaders
declared, "until we gain our rights,
If our present methods are not strong
enough, we have more drastic ones
in reserve."
The suffragettes openly admit that
they are hoping for bloodshed and
say the present campaign will .not
stop until such a state exists. Mrs.
Frederick Lawrence, educated and re
fined, in addressing an audience of
walthy suffragettes, said today:
"We will terrorize the country out
what we get our rights. We will get
them even if we have to burn the
royal palace."
Her remarks Were enthusiastically
received.
The women arrested last night were
arraigned today in Bow street court.
Victoria Simmons and Lillian Ball,
two militant leaders, were sentenced
to two months at hard labor. Scores
of other were similarly punished. The
magistrate announced that hereafter
all sentences would include hard lab
or. The women defied the eourt, as
serting their sentences would only
mean other demonstrations by the
suffragettes. From her cell in Old
Bailey prison, Mr3. Pankhurst urged
the suffragettes to bloodshed.
"It Is bound to come," she said,
and the sooner the better."
London, newspapers today are bit
ter in their denunciation of the tac
tics employed by the suffragettes.
The Times demands that the leaders
be prosecuted on charges of conspir
acy to break the law. This is a fel
ony offense and punishable by from
one to seven years in prison. The
women say they hope such action will
come. .
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FIRST DAY OF SECOND SPECIAL
PRIZE CONTEST SHOWS
NO CHANGE
MISS MABEL MARSH ENTERS RAGE
Young Woman of Molalla Country
Has Many Friends And Should
Win Big Touring Car
With Ease
STANDING OF CANDIDATES. $
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Joseph Sheahan 29,800
Ruby McCord 15,200 $
John Brown 7,000 S
Charles Beatie 6,800 $
John Weber .- 6,000
John Haletson 6,000 $
McColly Dale 1,000 S
Edna Huchinson 1,000
Royce Brown 1,000 $
Barnett Howard 1,000
Delias Armstrong 1,000
Kathryn Towney 1,000 S
Mabel Chase 1,000 8
Ethel Rief : 1,000 4
Harry Miller 1,000
Fred Metzner 1,000 ?
Frank Bruce 1,000
Leo Shaver 1.000
Mabel Albright 1,000
Joe Alldredge 1,000
The first day of the second ten-day
contst which will be held at regular
intervals during the race for the Ford '
brought out no material changes m
the standings of the candidates. It
is evident that each of the entrants
is studying the most effective way
of polling votes as well as getting
the subscriptions. While some of
the candidates have cast all the votes
that hive been issued to them, there
are others in the race who have been
reserving hugh blocks for future use.
The next few days will hardly bring
about any decided change, but from
the first of the week to the fif teen
eth it will be a different story. This
contest now on closes a week from
Friday and the candidate getting the
most votes between yesterday and
the 15th will be awarded the special
prize which this time is a merchan
dise certficate on the J. Lev
itt Store for merchandise to
the value of fl5. Anything in the
entire store to the value of that
amount can be chosen, the winner
not being restricted as to what he
or she must choose.
Miss Mabel March is the newest
candidate to be nominated and she
will start off tomorrow with5 many
votes to her credit. Miss March lives
in the Molalla country and if the
number of friends one can boast of
has any bearing upon the number of ...
votes cast Miss March will indeed
give some of the others in the race
a mighty interesting time. As yet
she is the only entrant from that
part of the county will have
a prosperous country to cover be
fore she will find it necessary to go
far away from home to get votes.
John Brown is another who will
cause some of the others to worry a
bit. Mr. Brown's business takes him
all over the county and he will have
splendid opportunities to take sub
scriptions from the hundreds of farm
ers with whom he has business deal
ings. While entering the race a lit
tle late he will no doubt forge to the
front in short order thus proving that
a little work is all that is required to
get up among the leaders.
In a contest of this kind there are
always a few who will make a big
(Continued on page 4.)
STYLISH
LADIES
GARMENTS
Our Spring Showing of
Ladies Suits and Coats are
creating a feeling of glad
ness never shown before by
a home merchant. Why?
Because our selection of
Ladies Goods are just what
you find in big cities swell
est Ladies Shops.
We invite your Inspection
J. LEVITT
CANDIDATES WARY.