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W eKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED I 566
VOL. Ill No. 89.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1912.
Per Week, 10 Cents
JUDGE CAMPBELL
PUZZLE PICTURE.
T
1520 LOST: 675 SAV
ABATE NUISANCE
ST SHIP SI
COURT, IN GRAND JURY CHARGE,
PAYS DISTRICT ATTORNEY
COMPLIMENT
COMPANY TO BE INSTRUCTED TO
MOVE CARS FROM
SIDING
RAILWAY
MUS
D
PRIES
TONGUE
AS BIGGE
IS
C. W. RISLEY APPOINTED FOREMAN
Prosecutor Is Called One Of The Ab
lest And Most Conscientious
State Has Ever
Had
In instructing the April grand jury,
composed of C. W. Risley, foreman;
Charis Muralt, Otto Aschoff, Henry
Githens, Bert McArthur, J. V. Harless,
and Thomas Mooney, Judge Campbell
Monday paid District Attorney Tongue
a high compliment. The court said
in part:
''If at any time during your invest
igations you have doubts whether the
facts produced constitute a crime in
District Attorney Tongue, Called By
Judge Campbell, In Charge To
Grand Jury, Ablest Prosecutor In
State.
law, whether if a crime, it has ceased
to be punishable by reason of lapse
of time, or a former acquittal or con
viction, you may make a presentment
of facts to the court without mention
ing the names of individuals and ask
for instructions. I, however, do not
apprehend that you will have any trou
ble along this line as you will have
with you the district attorney, who
has had much experience and is one
of the ablest and most conscientious
prosecutors that this or any other dist
rict in this state has ever had, so far
as I have been able to observe. In
your investigation of any charge you
should only hear competent evidence
that is, you shall receive no other
evidence such as might be given on
the trial of the person charged. If I
you should indict a person on hearsay
or incompetent evidence when we !
should come to trial it would be im- i
possible to convict on that class of i
testimonv, and the county would be
put to a great deal of expense without '
:
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but which may be increased to accommodate a good sized
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We have the latest improved twin table in rich golden
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all hardwood that we are offering for $5.50
Fir tables as cheap. as $3.35
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SHEAHAN OUT FOR
VOTES IN EARNEST
HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE CONFI
DENT HE WILL WIN BIG
TOURING CAR
DECLARES HIS SYSTEM CANNOT FAIL
Contest Manager Offers Suggestions
Which, If Adopted, Should
Be Helpful To
Candidates
$$s$SJ$$$5
STANDING OF CANDIDATES
.. Ruby McCord ....116,200 S
Joseph Sheahan 47,200 .
S Kent Wilson .. .. 28.G0O $'
S John Brown 15,000
$ John Weber 6,800 $
$ John Haleston 6,000 &
S A. G. Kindler 7,200 S
SS$Sx8$SS&8eS$$
"I am not saying much and do not I
'ntend t0 saY much' but.-vou can 1
Ior me mat tne automoDUe ottered by
lIle enterprise win nna it nnai nome
n my garage," declared Joe Sheahan,
the DSn school athlete, who is just
nw perfecting himself in the high
jump. Joe vouchsafed the information
that he inteded to get real busy at
. . . ,
9 . - . 1
lost in a jackpot the money lie had set as
once, and wouldsoon have a flow of
ballots headed for the big ballot box
in the Enterprise office such as never
had been witnessed before. He said
that he had not deviated from the
system which he adopted when he be
came an entrant,-and he felt certain
that it would prove the winning one.
Miss Ruby McCord, "Kent Wilson,
John Brown and the other candidates of
course will have something to say,
and if Sheahan wins he will konw that
he has been in a race. Miss McCord
has a big lead but her opponents are
convinced that she has no strength,
worth mentioning, in reserve, while
the reserve of some of the others, it
is "reported, would bring their total
up to her or surpass it. ' So it can
easily be seen that the fight is far
from won. The race.infact, in the
immortal words of Patrick Henry, "Is
not to the-strong alone; it is to the
vigilant, the active, the brave."
Brains and application will win. The
thinker will know that he has to work
and intelligent, systematic work, will
win where haphazard work will fail.
And in this connection the manager
of the contest wishes to offer a sug
gestion. The candidates should keep
a memoranda book. John Smith may
not want to subscribe for the paper i
today, but he may indicate by some
thing that he might subscribe later.
Put that information into writing and
go to see him again. You may have
to call on him several times, but that
extra effort may be the means of your
winninS Wg touring car. Keep
Keep your eyes open. Keep in touch
with the real estate dealers and find
out if they are selling property to
persons from ', the east. Every new
comer will want to take the only
daily published in the county. Have
you asked Dr. Milliken, the hew past
or of the First Baptist church, to
become a subscriber? Have you ask
ed Mr. Freytag to whom he sold that
house on the hill the other day? Have
you asked Mr. Swafford who bought
f that ranch on the Molalla road through
him a few days ago? Have you thought
about the newcomers the colonist rates
will bring and how to get in touch
with them? Why there is hardly a
day when M. J. Lazelle, secretary of
the Publicity Department of the Com
mercial Club does not hear of a fam
ily settling or intending to settle in
Clackamas County. Ask Mr. Lazelle
about them and he will gladly tell
you their names, and give their ad
dresses. Aa illustration of how opportunities
are being overlooked occurred a few
days ago. A man who has been a res
ident of Oregon City for more than
twenty years visited the office of the
Enterprise, and, after passing the
compliments of the day, said: "I want
"to subscribe for the Morning Enter
prise. I thought I could get along
J without it, but my neighbor is a' sub
scriber, and I have become convinced
I am imposing on him, and so I want
to be a subscriber myself."
Anyone of the candidates could have
obtained that subscription by calling
upon that man, but not one did so.
The contest manager does not want
to scold or even find fault, but he is
sorry that the subscription cannot fig
ure in the contest for the automobile.
CHARLES RIVtRMAN, OF
CENTRAL POINT, DEAD
Charles Riverman died at his home
-at Central Point near New Era Satur
day night, after an illness of twenty
four hours of Bright's disease and par
alyis. The funeral will be held this
morning at 10 o'clock at the Catholic
church, at New Era, Father Mathews
officiating. The pallbearers will be
W. G. Randall, Fred Chinn, August
. Staehly, J. R. Cawthorn, T. Blanchard,
John Bradtl.
Mr. Riverman was born June 24,
1850, in Germany, and on September
9, 1884, he and Miss Otell Stephani,
who survives him, were married. He
came here about three years ago
with his family frqm Canada, and pur
chased the Samuel Brown place. He
is survived besides his wife by the fol
lowing childreen: Carl, Frank, Bern
ard, Albon, Alfred, Mrs. Annie Kuemp
er, Miss - Katherine and Miss Clara
Riverman. - He also leaves a brother,
August, of Cornelius, Oregon.
ide to bail his suffragette wife out of
RELATIONS WITH
WARNING LIKE- THAT SENT TO
CUBA BEFORE SPANISH
AMERICAN WAR
CONDITIONS MUST BE REMEDIED
Administration, However, Believes
That Note Will-Have' Sobering
Effect Upon
Belligerents
WASHINGTON, April 15. The
State Department's forceful not to
the contending factions in Mexico,
warning them against any mistreat
ment of Americans, is believed to have
brought the relations between the Uni
ted States and Mexico to the critical
point. This is a fair deduction from
past experience and tradition of the
State Department, notably and rcent
ly in the case of Cuba.
It is recalled that such warning as
this preceded the Spanish-American
War, culminating in the famous mes
sage of President McKinley which re
ferred to "intolerable conditions exist
ing at our doorway."
It still is hoped and believed by ad
ministration officials, however, that
Saturday's notes will have a sobering
effect on the passions of the factions,
and that it will not be necessary for
the American Government to consider
drastic steps regarding Mexico.
This hope led to renewed assurances
from official headquarters that there
will be no intervention.
In regard to Mexico, the next step
must be taken by Mexicans, either
through the rebel leader, Orozco, or
by President Madero, from whom
some kind of an answer to the State
Department's- representation surely
will be forthcoming.
"Actions speak louder than words,"
wa3 a State Department comment to
day in reference to Orozco, who will
be judged by his deeds rather than by
his promises.
Meanwhile conditions throughout
Mexico have undoubtedly become
worse within the last week, and State
Department advices from various ag
encies, lis made public; show that the
area of turbulence and violence has
grown to formidable proportions. Con
ditions to the states of Michoacan,
Euebla and Morelos, forming a semi-cicle-
closely adjoining the state of
Mexico, are daily, becoming worse.
Similar reports come from the states
of Sonora and Sinaloa, comprising
most of the western boundry of Mexi
co, while disturbance in the state of
Vera Cruz threatens the Atlantic com
munications with the Mexican capi
tal, f
PARDEE TO BE NAMED
TO SETTLE WRANGLE
H. E. Cross," mayor of Gladstone,
said Monday night that he had about
decided to appoint J. K. Pardee treas
urer of- Gladstone. He said that it
was not"the desire of the majority of
the citizens that Mr. Pardee be ap
pointed, but he had been presented
a petition signed by a large number of
residents asking him to make the ap
pointment in order to put an end to
the wrangle. Inasmuch as the treas
urer will have to handle about $25,000
in connection with the building of the
water system the council will be asked
to increase the bond.
The council has accepted the bid
of Koehler & Cummings, of Toledo,
O., of $20,527.50 for the $20,000 water
bond issue, and work on the cement
tanks and pipe lines will be started
in a few weeks. Pipes will be laid
through Arlington, , Dartmouth and
Hereford streets.
MEXICO
CRITICAL
SQUEAKING DISCUSSED BY COUNCIL
Suggestion Of Mr. Tooze That Signs
' Be Taken From Bluff Adopted
Yards To Be
- Cleaned
City Recorder Stipp was instructed
by the City Council Monday night to
inform the Portland Railway. Light &
Power Company to discontinue the
practice of keeping freight cars on
the siding near the Abernethy. The
recorder was further authorized to
inform the company that unless the
order was obeyed it would be prose
cuted to the fullest extent of the law.
Residents of Main street complain
ed that their sleep had been interrupt
ed by the switching of cars at night.
Attention also was called to that oth
er famous, or infamous sleep killer,
to-wit, viz. and as follows: squeak
ing cars. The counc.ilmen, individual
ly and collectively agreed that the nois
es made by the freight cars early in
the morning, were in a class all by
themselves, that automobile sirens,
steamboat whistles, the fire gongs, and
the explosions of the famous Colonel,
were soporific music, dulcet, soothing,
melodious sounds as compared with
those ear-splitting, creepy, cold chill
producing squeakings made- by the
freight cars. -
Mr. Tooze suggested that the City
Treasurer be instructed to furnish the
council a statement of the city's finances.-
A motion that the report
be made at the next meeting was adop
ted, The'grade as sugegsted by City
Engineer Montgomery on Fourth
street between Monroe and John Quin
cy Adams street, was adopted, Coun
cilman Tooze voting in the negative.
Mr. Tooze favored a change in the
proposed grade in front of the home
of O. D. Eby. He said this could be
done without injuring the street, or
any other property.
Upon the suggestion of Councilman
Tooze it was decided to have the signs
recently painted on the rocks on the
bluff removed. The ordinance provid
ing a site for the Carnegie - Library
in Seventh Street Parji was read for
the first time. -
The health committee, through its
chairman, Mr. Tooze, reported that
several yards needed cleaning. The
health officers and the chief of police
were instructed to see that the work
was done. -
FIVE PORTEANDERS
ON ILL-FATED SHIP
At least five Portland people were
on board the ill-fated Titanic when
she went to her doom, while many
others with relatives and acquaintan
ces throughout the northwest were
among the passengers. The Portland
people who may have perished are:
Herman Klaber, 207 Glisan street; F.
M. Warren, 215 St. Clair street; Mrs.
F. M. Warren, Mrs. James R. Watt,
189 Fourteenth street; Bertha Watt,
her daughter.
J. B. Brady, vice-president of the
State fJank of Pomeroy, Wash., and a
brother of Mrs. R. L. Rush, of 755
Everett street, was a passenger.
W. W. Cotton, general attorney for
.the O.-W. R. & N. Company, and Mrs.
Cotton, who have been sojourniilg in
Europe' for the last six months for
the benefit of Mrs. Cotton's health,
had booked passage, only to change
their plans a few days before she cail
ed. 7
WORTH HALF BILLION
' NEW YORK April 15.- Seven men
with fortunes aggregating $500,000,000
are thought to have been !n?t with the
Titanic. The are: Colonel John Jacoo
Astor, J. Bruce Ismay, Colonel Wash
ington, Roebling, Isador Straus, Geo
D. Widener, Benjamin . Guggenheim,
J. B. Thayer. -
COMMITTEE GOES TO
ESTACADA TOMORROW!
President McBain, of the Commer
cial Club has named the following
committee to go to Estacada tomor
row upon invitation of the EStacada
Commercial Club, to discuss the pro
posed division of the county:.
J. E. Hedges, G. L. Hedges, T. P.
Randall, M. J. Brown, E. E Brodie, W.
A. Dimick, G. B. Dimick, O. D. Eby,
R. L. Holman, C .G. Huntley, H. E.
Cross, William" Sheahan, T. J. Gary,
W. L." Mulvey, and B. T. McBain. The
committee will leave Oregon City on
the 12:30 o'clock car and start home
after the meeting which will be held
in the afternoon. -
2 Couples Get Licenses
Licenses to marry were issued Mon
day to Irene Ivy and George Welch
and Alta Z. Roadarmed and Samuel
Jackson Young.
Held Over To Grand Jury "
James Cannon, of Estacada, charged
with threatening to kill A, G. James,
city marshall, has been held over to
the grand jury in $500 bond.
TITANIC CRASHES IP ICEBERG AND
BY WIRELESS ARRIVES MAJORITY OF RESCUED WOMEN
NEW YORK, April 15. More than
1500 persons, it is feared, sank to
death early today when," within four
hours after she crashed into an ice
berg, the mammoth White Star steam
er Titanic from Liverpool to New
York on her maiden voyage, went to
the bottom off the New Founland
banks. Of the 2200 persons on board
some of them of world-wide promi-j
nence, only 675 are known to have j
been saved. The White Star offices j
in New York, while keeping hope to
tke last, freely admitted that there'
had been "horrible loss of life."
Accepting early estimates of the fa
taility list as accurate, the disaster is.
the greatest in marine history.
Nearest approaching it in magnitude
were the 3isasters of the steamer At
lantic in 1873, when 547 lives were
lost, and to La Bourgoyne in 1898, with
a fatality list of 571.
Should it prove that other liners,
notably the Allan liners Parisian and
Virginian, known to have been in the
vicinity of the Titanic .early- today,
had picked up other of her passeng
ers, the extent of the calamity would
be greatly reduced. This hope re
mains. The steamer Olympic reported at
Cape Race that the steamer Carpathia
reached the Titanic's position at day
break' today, but found boats and
wreckage only. She reported that the
Titanic had foundered at about 2 : 20
o'clock A. M. in latitude 41.16 north
and longitude 50.14 west. The mes
sage adds that all the Titanic's boats
were accounted for and "about 675
souls saved, crew and passengers, lat
ter nearly all women and children."
The report from the Olympic says
that the Leyland liner California was
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Those desiring to select articles for gift purposes, combining
the useful with the ornamental, and which will be a constant and
pleasing reminder of the gift, will find selections an easy task
here, yet the price will be found moderate, whatever the choice
probably considerably lower than elsewhere.
Cut Glass
Nappies, Bowls, Vases, Sugars and
Cramers, Trays, Water Sets, Salts
and Peppers, Vinegar Jugs, Spoons,
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Oregon City Jeweler
GOES DOWN BEFORE AID
remaining and searching the vicinity
of the disaster. The Carpathia, It was
said, was returning to New York with
the survivors.
Vice-President Franklin at 8:40
o'clock conceded that there had been
"a horrible loss of life" in the Titanic
disaster. He said that he tad no in
formation to disprove the advices from
Cape Race to the effect that only 675
of the passengers and crew had beea
rescued. He said that the monetary
lose could not be estimated tonight, al
though he intimated that it would
run into the millions.
. "We can replace the money," he
added, "but not the lives. It is hor
rible." Mr. Franklin continued;
"As far as we know it has been ru
mored from Halifax that three steam
ers have passengers on board, namely
the Virginian, the Carpathia, and the
Parisian. Now we have heard from
Captain Haddock that the Titanic sank
at 2:20 o'clock this morning. We have
also learned from him that the Car
pathia had 675 survivors on board. It
is very difficult to learn if the Vir
ginian and the Parisian have any pas
sengers oa board. " We have asked
Captain Haddock and our agent at
Halifax to ascertain if there are any
passengers aboard the two steamships.
"We very much fear, however, that
there has been a great loss of life, but
it is impossible for us to give further
particulars until we have heard from
the Parisian and Virginian. We have
no information that there are any pas
sengers aboard these two steamships.''
Mr. Franklin said there was a suf
ficient number of life boats to take all
(Continued on page 2.)
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