MORNING ENTERPBISE, THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1912.
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Made of best of steel
Sanitary Davenports with' Mattress
Regular J2.50 Yum Yum woven wire Bed Spring.
Iron Beds Good Quality
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Elegant tables that are a credit to your dining room. Lat
est Robbins and Twin pattern tables also some solid
constructed square hardwood ones from $8.50 up.
Fir tables from $4.50 up
Mattress made up like shown in cut $10.00
Imt Sealy Mattress : $18.00
We have serviceable ones as cheap as $2.50
VERY SPECIALS
6 Dining Room Chairs, hardwood,
cobbler seat, regular dC
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Fancy Screen Doors 2-8x6-8 .-. 1.75
Common Screen Doors, 2-10x6-10 . $.85
Window Screens, adjustable $.25
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Art Squares Latest
patterns to select from. -warranted Money Back
9x12 strong fibre fab- Lawn Mower $5.00
nc $12.00
Hoes and Rakes
25c each
Phoenix paint made on this coast
and tested lasts longer than any oth
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Oregon City, Oregon
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Fat nitu r e and Hardwae
A Robbery
By EDUARD L. PARDIE
"Mr. Murdock." said the president of
the Second National bank of East Ber
wick. "$30,000 in currency are neces
eary to make us good at the People's
Savings bank of Attruria. I wish you
to take it to them by train. My opin
ion is that the safest way to carry it is
in an ordinary suit case. Its bulk
doesn't show a in the pocket, and if
you proceed as any ordinary traveler
would, not appearing watchful of your
baggage, though watching it every in
stant, you should get it through safely."
"I have a great regard for your opin
Jons, Mr. Cleverly, and If 1 am not
guided by them 1 shall at least endeav
or to use them to my advantage."
Mr. Murdock took the bills, varying
from $100 to $1,000 in denomination,
and left the bank for his home, where
he made a package of them in brown
paper and, throwing some clothes in
his suit case, called a carriage aud left
for the station. He had noticed a man
standing on the street corner as he left
the bauk in a checkerboard suit and
his beard cut go.itee style. The person
had not noticed him. but he had no
ticed the person. MunJock had little
fear of any one knowing that he car
ried a large amount of money unless he
discovered the fact of it before he left
the bank. Many robberies occur from
some rogue seeing a man draw money.
The latter is followed -and when a con-
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Clogs the pores of the scalp, prevents the
hair from obtaining proper nourishment
causes it to fade and eventually to fall
out. And besides, it's irritating and
annoying to have your scalp itching and
burning all the time.
If you want to get rid of the Dandruff
germ to stop the annoying itching and
burning to have a really clean and
healthy scalp, get a bottle of HAY'S
HAIR HEALTH to-day prove to your
self what a satisfaction it is to have hair
health.
Your money back if not satisfactory.
$1.00 and 50o t Drug" Stores or direct upon
receipt of price end dealer nine. Send 10c for
trial bottle. Philo Hey Spec. Co.. Newark. N. J.
Huntley Bros. Co.
Oregon City
venieut opportunity occurs is robbed.
Murdock remembered the man in the
checkerboard suit, and when he saw
him at the station buying a ticket be
came profoundly interested in him. His
seeing the fellow when he left the
bank lounging on a street corner aud
soon after as a traveler might be a co
incidence, but he didn't believe it was.
At any rate the gentleman would need
watching.
When the bank messenger boarded
the train he sat waiting for the- man
with the goatee. He was not disap
pointed. A few minutes before the
train left he sauntered into the car,
tossed a satchel on to a seat, sat down,
pulled a newspaper out of his pocket
and seemingly became deeply interest
ed in the news. Murdock glanced up
at him as he passed to his seat and
made up his mind that before his jour
ney's end he would hear from. him.
At the first stop a man with a red
necktie got into the same car with
Murdock and, taking a seat by himself,
pulled his hat down over his eyes and
apparently went to sleep. Something
told Murdock that this man was bent
on the same errand as the other. What
was that something? The same facul
ty that enables us to discriminate be
tween faces, to recognize one we have
not seen in thirty years with his back
turned to- us. Besides, Slurdock's fac
ulties were concentrated on the sub
ject of being robbed. Convinced that
one man was aboard the train with
that intent, his faculties were acute in
detecting others. He reasoned that the
robbery would likely be committed by
several rather than one. and he was
ready to pick out those involved.
Murdock began to fidget in his seat.
He turned and looked about him. aud
a suspicious glance at the last comer
escaped him. He took his suit case
on his knees, opened it and felt of a
brown paper parcel. Then he put the
satchel down again. The man with
the red necktie yawned, stretched him
self and caught the eye of the one with
the goatee. Murdock's back was to
ward them at the time, and he did not
see this glance between them. Pres
ently he got up, went to the water
cooler and took a drink. While doing
so he left his suit case on his seat,
but kept his eye on his baggage. The
man in the checkerboard suit stole a
glance at the man with the red neck
tie. Then Murdock took up the suit case
again, opened it and took out a cigar,
setting the case.,down beside him as
carefully ''as though it contained glass,
first on the outside of the seat, then,
as if that position , were not safe
enough to suit him, he moved it to the
Inside. The man with the goatee and
the one with the red necktie looked at
each other with two pairs of cunning
eyes, and a look of satisfaction ap
peared in the faces of both.
When the trainman called "Water
ford!" the two observant men sat up
In their seats. The next station was
West Waterford, half a mile distant
There was a look of intensity in both
the men, as If they were about to do
something. When West Waterford
was called they fidgeted in their seats.
As the tralD moved qffafter thestop
the man with the goatee dashed by
Murdock. snatched his suit case and,
followed by the red necktie man,
jumped off the train, and both men,
climbing into an automobile, were
whisked away more rapidly than the
railway cars.
"Stop thief!" yelled Murdock.
Too late! The fugitives were gone
and the suit case with them. Great
excitement prevailed among the pas
sengers, but Murdock. coolly drawing
a cigar from his vest pocket, .proceed
ed to light it. Then the others, think
ing no great loss had beeu sustained,
relapsed into the humdrum of travel.
When Murdock returned to his bank
the president asked if the money bad
beeu delivered. Mnrdock told him
that it had.
"Did you carry it in the suit case,
as I tolcT you to do?"
"No; I carried it in my pocket. 1
foiled twc. robbers -with the suit case."
A GAMBLING
DEVICE
By JAMES B. BRICE
Spaniards are natural gamblers. In
Mexico the little boys constantly play
for coppers on the streets, and from
them up to the wealthiest there is one
continued chain of hazard. During the
railroad building that started in that
republic some years ago I was employ
ed as an engineer on one of them and
had an opportunity to witness this and
other Mexican characteristics.
There were railroad followers who
preyed upon the workmen, taking espe
cial care to be on hand when pay day
same round. On an evening of one of
these pay days I went into a tent
where I had seen one of my men go, a
young Mexican whom 1 employed for
an axman. i was interested in him,
for I knew that he had a wife and
lome babies who kept pace with him
as he passed from one end of the line
to the other, for in" Mexico there are
persons who have no homes, sleeping
In the open air, father, mother, children
and dog huddled together to keep one
another warm.
Manuel that was my axman's name
was in the tent seated before a table
shaking dice with jthe man who owned
the outfit. There were several other
workmen in the place who had within
a few minutes been cleaned out of the
pay they had that day received. I
stood looking on. Quite likely had I
not been there the proprietor would
have made short work of Manuel; but,
seeing me, he put off the denouement,
permitting the axman to get a little
ahead.
But I soon noticed that whenever it
was for the rascal's interest that the
dice should fall with large numbers up
they invariably did so. In short it
looked to me that he had some power
over the dice to make them fall as he
wished. Manuel's pay was very small,
and he had not much to lose While
he was playing, a little woman, rather
pretty, came in with a baby in her
arms and stood over him. He looked
up at her, and I felt sure she was his
wife. She had not come there to get
him away. She was as infatuated as
he.
Doubtless she had been living with
her little one for weeks in this way,
he losing his weekly wages every
Saturday night, both expecting that
the day would come when they would
have a run of luck and win enough
money to go to a bullfight.
After she came in the proprietor let
Manuel win a little. The gambler was
afraid that I might exert influence to
have him sent away, so he did every
thing temporarily Xo favor his victim.
I confess I was more interested in the
dice than the victim. If they were
simply "loaded" he could not manipu
late them as he did; they would al--ways
roll high. At least it was my
opinion that no skill in throwing would
avert this. It occurred to me that the
gambler had some way of controlling
the dice that was not visible.
Living in scientific times, I was not
long in forming a theory. There must
be some electric connection between
him and the dice. Then I bethought
myself of a pocket compass which I al
ways carried and which I continually
needed in my out of door work. Tak
ing position back of the gambler,
where he would not see me, I took
out my compass and looked at it
The needle vibrated violently.
My theory was confirmed. There
must be a magnet somewhere near.
Stooping, I looked under the table. It
had four legs, and in its center was a
box attached to the underside. So far
so good. That box contained the mag
net. That I felt sure of. I knew very
well that by attaching a metal plate
to one side of a die and rolling the
die above the magnet while the cur
rent was on the metal face would be
held to the table, leaving its opposite
face up. If there was no current on,
the dice would roll by chance. Some
times the current was on; sometimes
It was not
I now brought my watchfulness to
bear upon the gambler's movements.
I noticed that every time he threw
high there was a slight movement of
his right leg. The leg was not readily
seen, being under the table, but I was
Interested and did my best to see. 1
was convinced that attached to the
leg of the table was an electric key
and that when be pressed his leg
against the key the current was turn
ed on.
So absorbed was 1 is my puzzle that
I failed to notice that Manuehbad but
a few coppers left when 1 had reached
my conclusion. 1 whispered to him to
go to the chief engineer's office and
ask htm to send me a few men. While
be was gone 1 sat down at the table
to play till he came back. On bis re
turn witb the men 1 lifted the top oft
the table and exposed a magnet and a
dry battery Just where 1 expected
Attached to the table leg was the key.
I ordered the gambler to return the
money be bad won from Manuel and
the others and to get away from onr
proximity as soon as possible or .1
would, have him locked - ng, He re
turned the funds, and I saw him no
more.
But. alas! When the next pay day
rame around I saw Manuel, accompa
nied by bis wife, she carrying the
baby, making straight for a similar
tent, where he soon got rid of his
week's earnings.
But 1 concluded to waste no more
time on a family In whom the gam
bling spirit bad taken so strong a bold
that it could not be eradicated
MOUNTAIN VIEW
J. Barts and family, who have been
living out near the Latourette bridge
have moved into the house on Warn
er street, lately vacated by Charles
Robison and wife.
Cliff Oppy and family, from West
Oklahoma, are in Mrs. Quinn's house
on Warner Street.
Frank Selby was hurt in the pulp
mill Monday.
D. L. Torrence has bought a fine
large team. It is very gentle and the
children of this burg take turns in
going riding.
Mrs. Will Grubbs and two children
of Arleta were visiting here over Sun
day, the guests of Mrs. Geo. Roberts.
Fishing seems to be the main ord
er of the day. William Beard was not
one of the successful anglers.
Mrs. J. B. Edwards and family have
rented Mrs. Brook's house. They ar
rived here from Oklahoma Saturday.
Berry Buckner, Nof Beaver Creek,
is the guest of his sister, Mrs. J.
M. Parish, this week.
George Everhart spent Thursday
of last week at Rockwood, visiting
his parents.
Mrs. Retta Seabolt and son, of Mt.
Tabor, .were the guests of Miss El
la Darling last week. .
Grandma Norris is on the sick list
this week at the home of her daught
er, Mrs. Burd.
Mrs. Ida West made a business
trip to- Portland last week and was
the guest of Mrs. Merrill while there.
Mrs. Cromer and daughter, of
Springwater, were visiting J. Lewel
len and family over Sunday.
Miss Winnie Jackson arrived from
Gooseberry last week and started for
Fort Casey early Wednesday morn
ing, where she will go to the hos
pital to have an operation.
The Primitive Baptists will hold ser
vices at the Mountain View church
Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock and
Sunday morning 10:30. Rev. E. B.
Moffatt of Newberg, pastor.
Mrs. Swan, of Portland, and her sis
ter, Mrs. Elizabeth Dougherty of Ren
nsalieur, Indiana, were visiting Mrs.
R. M. C. Brown last week.
Mrs. A. L. Hickman and Warda
spent last Friday in Sellwood, the
guets of Mrs. J. R. Duvall.
The bible study class of the Moun
tain View Sunday school will meet
netx Thursday afternoon at the home
of Mrs... A. Schoth.
Mrs. S. L. Derrick and children who
have been living in Mrs. S. E. Haun's
house on Roosevelt street, during the
winter, have moved out to Maple Lane
again.
C. Montgomery and family of Ok
lahoma, have rented Mr. Cameo's
house.
CLACKAMAS.
At the home of Mrs. A. M. Spur
geon, April 17, in the presence of
thei respective families, Miss Aljta
Roadarmel and S. J. Young were unit
ed in marriage. Rev. Speiss was the
officiating clergyman. The bride was
gowned In tan silk pongee and wore
carnations.' : John Young and his
bride attended as best man and
matron of honor. After the ceremony
light refreshments were served. The
young couple took the 5 p. m. train
for Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. Irving Wilson and
family came from Southern Oregon to
be present at the wedding of their
neice, Miss Alta Roadarmel.
, John Young and wife have come to
spend the summer with his parents.
Mr. Young is slowly recovering from
the severe accident which befell him
in Eastern Oregon about a year ago,
when both limbs were crushed by a
falling telephone pole. He is able to
get around the house without crutch
es and expects to recover the full use
of his limbs in time.
The Amateur Dramatic Club has
been urgently reuqested to repeat the
pretty little play, "In Old New Eng
land" not "Way Down East" as be
fore stated so on next Friday even
ing it will be put on the stage at the
Grange hall. The club will present
the play at Logan Saturday evening.
Your correspondent was mistaken as
to the object for which the proceeds
are to be used, as per item of last
week. The money will be in the hands
of a committee and placed to the
benefit of the Grange and other good
matters.
We are pleased to note that Mr.
Krause, the barber, who has located
here, has a good run of customers.
He and his family are well satisfied
with their new home among Us.
A school meeting was held last Sat
urday evening, at which it was voted
that the district should buy a strip of
land adjoining the school grounds on
the south.
B. S. Reilly has finally bought prop
erty in Parkrose, a suburb of Port
land. W. W. Smith is cutting piling from
eight acres of timber on the old Chap
man place. After getting out the pil
ing and wood the piece will be slashed
and burned.
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for them by laying aside funds for an emergency
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