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VOL. Ill No. 90.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1912.
Peb Week, 10 Cents
LIVE WIRES URGE
STREET OILING
MEN GO TO DOOM
TO SAVE WOMEN
ONLY SURVIVORS
ARE ON CARPATHIA
THOMAS CARM0DY.
Attorney General of New York
Interested In the Brandt Case.
COUNCIL ALSO WILL BE ASKED
TO HAVE THOROUGHFARES
SPRINKLED
RICH AND POOR ON ILL-FATED
SHIP GALLANTLY SUR
RENDER LIVES
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SEA KEEPS LAST SECRETS OF
HUNDREDS WHO PERISHED
ON TITANIC
SPRUNG. ' ''
SENATORS WORK FOR POST OFFICE
Lazelie Reports That Booster Day
A"d Horse Show Arrangements
Give Promise Of Fine
Exhibition
Resolutions urging the city coun
cil to have certain streets sprinkled
and others oiled immediately were
adopted by the Live Wires at their
weekly luncheon Tuesday. It -was de
clared that the streets were oiled too
late last year to be of much service,
and that the work this year should
be doon as soon as possible. L. Ad
ams and Frank Busch were appointed
a committee to present the resolution
regarding sprinkling to the council and
F. J. Tooze, who is a councilman, was
urged to call attention to the coun
cil of the necessity of oiling certain
streets.
President McBain, of the Commer
cial Club, reported -that he had been
informed that Senators Bourne and
Chamberlain were doing everything
possible 'ia the interest of obtaining
a federal building for the city. Mr.
McBain said he thought the approp
riation would be made at this session
of Cangress if it were possible to do
so.
M. J. Lazelie, who has charge of
the Booster and Horse Show arrange
ments reported that the exhibition this
year would be far superior to that of
last. He announced that the mer
chants had approved the plan to have
industrial shows instead of the carnival
exhibitions as were given last year. !
Mr. Lazelie thought the horse show
and booster day program would bring
thousand of persons to the city.
Mr. McBain announced that he had ap
pointed a committee of fifteen to go
to Estacada today and confer with
the Commercial Club of that place
in regard to the proposed division of
the county. The committee will leave
this city on the 12:30 o'clock car and
the meeting in Estacada will be con
vened at 3:30 o'clock.
LA F OLLETTE SCORES
BIG COMBINATIONS
PORTLAND, April 16 Pronouncing
large combinations of capital the most
serious menace confronting this coun
try and appealing to the progressives
of Oregon to aid by their votes to erad
icate that danger United States Sena
tor La Follette, Republican candidate
for President, tonight addressed an
audience of 10,000 people at the Gipsy
Smith auditorium.
Many were unable to gain admittance
to the hall, the entrance to which
were closed ten minutes before Senat
or La Follette began his address.
Senator La Follette declared at the
outset that the vast aggregations of
capital in this country was the strong
est peril that had faced this Nation
since the War of the Rebellion. As
an enemy, he said, these organizations
were more to be feared than an armed
force from without or a revolutionary
organization within.
REV. DR. MILLIKEN TO
SPEAK IN WILLAMETTE
Dr. W. F. Milliken the new Baptist
pastor will speak at Willamette Wed
nesday night. He will be assisted by
Rev. E. A. Smith and others. Dr.
Milliken has a charming personality
that is winnng friends to him and
his church.
2 Couples Get Licenses
Licenses to marry were issued
Tuesday to Anna McCubbin and Loon
Hulett and Viola Morgan and Burt
Warner.
FREE
S H 0 W
How moving pictures
arc made
is the feature film. Three
others on the bill
All School
Children
under 12 years of age
admitted free next
Thur. Afternoon Only
The Grand
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CANDIDATES MUST
CONTEST MANAGER ADVISES
LEADERS NOT TO BECOME
CARELESS.
STRATEGY MAY CARRY OFF PRIZES
Confidence of Various Entrants Leads
To Belief Race Will Be
Close Anj Ex
citing
8 STANDING OF CANDIDATES S
.. Ruby McCord 116,200 $
$ Joseph Sheahan 47,200 S
Kent Wilson 28,600 S
S John Brown 15,000
8 John Weber 6,800
S John Haleston 6,000 &
S A. G. Kindler 7,200 $
The contest manager will today be
somewhat presumptuous by indulging
in little heart to heart talks with the
various candidates in the big auto
mobile contest that is the absorbing
topic of conversation in Clackamas
County. While the manager realizes
that only two can win prizes he is de
sirous that each one do his best so
there will be no heart burnings after
the awarding of the touring car and
$100 in gold. It consoles one even
in defeat to know that the fault was
not his.
Miss McCord, the table above giv
ing the standings of the candidates
shows you to be far in the lead. You
have made a good fight, you have
worked hard, you have been mater
ially aided by your loyal friends,. No
doubt you and they believe you are
going to win the Ford car. No doubt
you have been building aircastles,
have in your reveries these bright sun
shiny days pictured yourself riding
along the beautiful Clackamas Coun
ty roads, inhaling the aroma from the
new mown hay, delighted by the
beautiful panorama of undulating land
scapes, and sinuous streams and val
leys that were unfolded as you sped
by. This is all Very beautiful, and
there is something entrancing about
day dreams and aircastles, but do not
be too sure, remember the adage,
"There is many a slip between the cup
and the lip." Think of the disap
pointment, the blasted hopes, possib
ly the heartaches that would be yours
if you failed of the goal. And right
here the contest manager wants to
warn you that there are others in the
race. Neither he nor you knows how
many votes there are in reserve. They
will not tell for that is a part of their
system. They are playing the game
as they think best. . They have un
foded their pans to no one in the
office. But this much the manager can
tell you; they are working everyday
of their lives, they are confident and
their confidence is builded upon some
thing substantial. You have a good
lead, you have worked for it, and it
is probable if you keep up your good
work you will capture the touring car.
But you must work every minute.
Joseph Sheahan, you have a reputa
tion for stick-to-itiveness second to
no young man in Oregon City. You
have a reputation for being a winner
You usually get what you go after.
That has become your stock in trade.
It is yours and It is one of the finest
assets, a young man could possibly
have and only one person can take
it from you. That person is yourself.
You can win the car, if you will,
and you say you are going to win it
There is no gainsaying the fact that
you can if you will. The . contest
manager expects to hear from you in
a few days.
Kent Wilson, you have made the
most remarkable record of any - of
the contestants. Any young man who
WORKHARDTOWIN
could poll 20,000 votes in one day has
ability of the right land. You also
have the friends. Ponder for a min
ute the rapid rise of your father from
one of the workers in the mill to one
of the most successful men inthe
city. What he accomplished washe
fruit of intelligent effort, and by the
way, the automobile, in which he is
now driving about the city and coun
ty cost him more work than it would
take for you to win the Enterprise
car. The manager blieves that you
will soon set a pace that will cause
your rivals to regard you as not on
ly a possibility but a probability.
John Brown you are older and more
worldly wise than the other candi
dates arid the contest manager will
have little to say to you. He would
be a presumptuous man indeed who
would attempt to tell a successful in
surance man how to do things.. You
have made your way in the world, and
you of course know just exactly what
you are doing. Your "contest fences"
evidently are in good shape. But
you are so quiet, so uncommunicative
that there is no wonder there is so.
much curiosity as to what you are do
ing. However, that is your own af
fair. But the next time you come to
town, if you have time, the contest
manager would at least like to pass
the compliments of the day and spin
a yarn or two about the Colonel or
some other live subject.
. We have nothing but" the kindest
words of encouragement for Messrs.
Weber, Haleston and Kindler. What
their plans are they themselves only
know. But the contest manager be
lieves that although far behind, as
shown by the table of the standings
of the' candidates, they are working
hard and have hopes. Who knows,
but that one or more of them have
stacks of ballots held in reserve? The
wise general does not reveal his plans
to the enemy. And it is well to con
sider that as much strategy can Be
displayed in a contest of this kind
as on the battle field. It is one of
the important games on the checker
board of life.
IN FALL, IMPROVES
Mrs. John C. Bradley, who sustain
ed fractures of both arms by falling
at Second and Washington streets,
Portland, several days ago, is much
improved. She is at St Vincent's
Hospital and it will be sometime be
fore she will be able to be brought
home, Mrs. Bradley was in the act
of stepping oft a curb fhen a man ac
cidentally tripped her and she fell
heavily upon her arms. A physician
was summoned at once and she was
taken to the hospital where it was
found that both of her arms had been
broken. The fractures were reduced
but for several days her suffering was
intense.
CASES DOCKETED
FOR APRIL TERM
The followig cases have been set for
trial during the April term of the Cir
cuit Court: '
April 20, Sunergard against the Ore
gon Electric Company; April 26,
Schooley against the Portland Railway
Light & Power Company; April 29,
McKillican against McKillican; April
30, Hick against Boland; May 1, Moy
er against Tebbetts; May 3, Cross
against Oregon Engineering Company
May 6, Timmons against the Portland
Railway, Light & Power Company;
May 8, Lott against Thomas; May 9,
Ambler against Molt and May 10,
Rosencrantz against Wendt.
The time to read -the Morning En
terprise is at the breakfast table or
a little before. - -
WORLD-FAMOUS
MEN LOST ON SHIP
JOHN JACOB ASTOR, W. T. STEAD
AND BENJAMIN GUGGENHEIM
AMONG DEAD
ISIDOR STRAUS ANOTHER VICTIM
Major Archibald Butt, Aide To Presi
dent Taft, Believed To Have
Gone Down With
Liner ' '
NEW YORK, April 16. World fam
ous men were lost in the wreck of
the Titanic. Here are some of them:
Colonel John Jacob Astor, manager
of the Astor estate in New York city,
richest (man aboard the Titanic, the
man who married Miss Madeline
Force last year; lineal descendant of
the great trader of the first part of
the nineteenth century. -
Benjamin Guggenheim, one of the
, noted family of mining and financial
magnates
: G. M. Hayes, president of the Grand
Trunk railway system, and one of the
; great railway men of the continent.
W. T. Stead, famous English auth
or, editor, peace diplomat
Isidor Straus, multimillionaire New
York merchant. -
Colonel Washington Roebling, build
er of the Brooklyn Bridge, and noted
engineer. He was president of the
John A. Roebling Sons company and
many times a millionaire.
Clarence Moore, sportsman, husband
of Mabel Swift, daughter of C. E.
Swift Chicago packer.-
Major Archibald Butt, aide to Pres
ident Taft and former aide to Pres
ident Roosevelt.
F. D.- Millet, the artist of world
fame.
G. D. Widener of the Widener-El-kins
traction syndicate of Philadelphia
reputed worth more than $40,000,000.
John B. Thayer, vice-president of
the Pennsylvania railway.
J. B. Thayer, Jr., associated with
his father in business, formerly a great
Pennsy fullback.
Walter D. Douglas of Minneapolis,
millionaire starch manufacturer.
George Floyd Eitemiller, representa
tive of a Cincinnati automobile com
pany. Henry B. Harris, theatrical manager
of New York.
Colonel John Jacob Astor, wealth
iest of the Titanic's passengers, was
greatgrandson of the original John
Jacob Astor. He has been manager
of the Astor family estates since 1891
and is reputed to be worth more than
$100,000,000. He was born in 1864,
and last year at the age of 47, married
Miss Madeline Force, a young woman
still in her teens. Colonel Astor' in
1897 built the Astoria hotel, adjoin
ing the Waldorf, which had been built
by William Waldorf Astor, his cousin
the two constitiuting the present fam
ous Waldorf-Astoria. He secured his
title of colonel through' holding that
office on the staff of Govenor Levi P.
Morton ,and through being in 1898
commanding lieutenant colonel of the
United State volunteers. He present
ed to the government for use in the
Spanish-American war a mountain war
battery said to have cost more than
$100,000. He served in Cuba during
! the Spanish-American war, and is
credited with two or three mechani
cal inventions. In 1890 he was auth
or of ''A Journey to Other Worlds."
Q. M. Hayes, president of the Grand
Trunk Railway, was born ia 1856 in
Rock Island, 111., and entered railway
service in 1873, as a clerk in the of
fices of the Atlantic Pacific. He;
rose steadily through positions with
the Missouri Pacific, Wabash, Chicago
& Western, Detroit Union Railroad
& Station Co., and other transporta-1
(Continued from page 1.)
COMPANY IS BITTERLY DENOUNCED
White Star Officials Accused Of Pur
posely Witholding Facts And
Issuing False State
ments NEW YORK, April 16. All New
York was stunned to day by the appal
ling loss of life to passengers aboard
the wrecked White Star Liner Titan
ic, which was supposed to have been
virtually unsinkable.
From daylight a long line of hys
terical men, women and children be
sieged the offices of the White Star
line begging for some definite informa
tion. The company officials however,
were unable to hold out hope, explain
ing that they were in the dark con
cerning the fatalities, and that noth
ing will be definitely known until the
arrival here of the Virginian, and the
Carpathia, the two ocean 'liners first
to reach the side of the ill-fated ves
sel. Relatives of the missing passengers
as well as their friends, bitterly de
nounce the company, charging the of
ficials with having deliberately with
held news of the disaster when they
were reasonably certain that the Ti
tanic nad gone down with hundreds
of passengers.
The White Star officials are bitter
ly censured for issuing false reports
and comforting relatives and friends
by assurances that all passengers had
been transferred to other vessels, and
that it was expected that the Titanic
would be towed safely into port. A
detailed explanation for this action
has not been forthcoming, the offi
cials at the same time admitting they
knew the Titanic had foundered sev
eral hours before the public announce
ment was made.
Company officials attempted to de
fend their action by saying they did
not feel justified in alarming the world
until positive confirmation had been
receiving or one of the steamers car
rying the survivors had docked.
Jteports-- received - here today indi
cated that male passengers, mill
ionaire and peasant alike, went to
their doom like men. The publication
of the list of survivors, now steaming
to New York aboard the Carpathia,
shows there nas no class distinction,
the women in the teerage being giv
en the same chances as the wives of
the millionairs in the first cabins. The
women and children that is, all that
could be cared for were transferred
to the ressels Standing by. The men
remained on the Titanic to die.
The ennouncement received here
last night that the Titanic had found
ered and that there "probably would
be loss of life" brought thousands of
persons from the theatres and rest
aurants, where relatives of passeng
ers were celebrating their supposed
escape from death. When the extra
editions were put on the street tell
ing of the catastrophe, the gay parties
in the amusement places immediately
became silent and hurried to the
steamship offices for official informa
tion. The worst fears were there ver
ified. One of the first to arrive at the
White Star offices was Vincent Astor
whose father, Colonel John Jacob As
tor, the New York millionaire, is be
lieved to have met death, He arrived
with A. J. Biddle, the Philadelphia
banker, who is Colonel Astor's busi
ness representative. Astor conferred
for half an hour with Vice-President
Franklin and when he came out of
the office he was weeping. He was as
sisted to an automobile and rushed to
his New York home.
MRS. VICTORIA HILL
TO BE BURIED TODAY
' The funeral of Mrs. Victoria Hill,
who died at the home of her daughter
Mrs. George Batdorf, of Willamette
Sunday will be held at the First Bap
tish church in this city, at 1 o'clock
this afternoon. Mrs. Hill had been
ill only a week and until a few hours
before her death it was thought that
she would recover. She was born in
Jefferson, Linn County, October 12,
1854, her maiden name being Vic
toria Hale. She was married to H.
J. Hill June 20, 1869. She became a(
member of the Baptist church when
she was fifteen years of age, and was
a devout chriet'an the remainder of
her life. She is survived by, besides
her husband, the following children:
Mrs. George Batdorf, Mrs. Otis Cole,
Mrs. A. A. Hickey, and" Bailey Hill, of
Portland and one grandchild, Harvey
Boylan, also of Portland, Mrs. Alice
Martin, of Silver Lake, Oregon, is a
half sister of Mrs. Hill.
CITY SCHOOLS TO
BE CLOSED FRIDAY
George A. Harding, President of the
Board of School directors, announced
Tuesday night that the schools would
be closed Friday on accunt of the pri
mary. While the piipils will be in the
same class as the suffragettes vote
less it is safe to say they wiil have
a better time than the electors, many
of whom will be perplexed somewhat
when they enter the polls as to which
candidate should get their support.
The time to reaa me Morning &n
a little before. . . r
V
GIRL IS
SCALDED TO DEATH
The two-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Clifford Soltus, of Sherwood,
was scalded to death Tuesday morn
ing. The child climbed upon a chair
and fell backwards into a tub of scald
ing water. Physicians wer called, but
they could do nothing but alleviate the
sufferings of flhie child. The little
girl, was a granddaughter of Mr. and
Mrs. S. Weckard, of Sherwood, and of
Mrs. Ford, a pioneer of Portland. The
child had won several first prizes in
county and grange fairs.
The Enterprise automobile contest
is the most popular thing ever pulled
off in the Willamette Valley.
Studebaker-ErM-F "30" Touring Car $1325
WhatiWill Your Car Cost You- After
You
Did you ever think of that?
Service is a big item in modern automobile buying.
What Kind of a guarantee Have You Got?
Some manufacturers guarantee "for life." That's
like a health insurance which expires when you're
sick. It sounds pretty and is worth nothing.
The Studebaker guarantee is full and complete.
It stands for a year. You can understand that;
you can bank on it. Remember, too, that a year
v covers the hardest part of a car's life. By the
second year you know how to treat it. And with
a Studebaker car its life is practically a matter of
the care you give it. Take care of it and no limit
can be named to its endurance.
WhatiWill Parts Cost You?
"We mention this gently because with many of our
, competitors it is a tender point. Their theory
too often is, HOLD UP THE OWNER. So it is
times as much to buy most cars part by part as
it would to buy them all assembled. But every
Studebaker part is listed at its proportionate
cost in a complete car plus but a small percent
age for handling. m
...
Finally How Quickly Can You Get New Parts?
Suppose they had to come a few hundreds or
thousands of miles while your car lay idle. You,
of course, would have to wait. Not so with Stud
ebaker cars. We can furnish any part for an E.
M, F. or Flanders car in two hours. The Portland
branch carries a comple line of parts a $50,000
stock.
That name STUDEBAKER tells the whole story.
It stands for square dealing. Rely on it. Your
-s father did; so can you.
Ask for a demonstration before von hntr
Pacific Hierrtwav Clara or
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WIRELESS GIVES LIST OF RESCUED
Exposure To Cold And Fog Supposed
To Have Killed Scores Who
Tried To Escape On
Wreckage
NEW YORK, April 16. Nothing
niai came iium uie sea louay miu-
gated in any degree the horror of the
Titanic tragedy. There are no known
survivors that are not 'on the Car
pathia. In icy, fog-smothered seas, where
the Titanic sanK, exposure must soon
have destroyed those who were left
to life belts or wreckage when all the
boats were gone and no help had come
and the great ship had foundered. The
receding Olmpic, whose powerful
wireless began on Tuesday morning
to recite the names of the living, con
tinued the work today of relaying the
Carpathia's dispatches, and successive
bulletins posted at the White Star of
fice kept many despairing man and
woman waiting all day and' sent oth
ers away thanking God.
It is practically certain now that
nearly all the men of the Titanic's
company went down with the ship
when she plunged two miles toward
the ocean's floor, or that they per
ished miserably while clinging to
wreckage of life servers in the icy
waste-that betrayed them. They gave
up life within sight of the little rock
ing boats that, held their women and
children.
It cannot be doubted now that
among these were Colonel John Jac
ob Astor, Isador Straus, Major Arch
ibald W. Butt, aide to President Taft;
George D. Widener, of Philadelphia;
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