3 The only dally newspaper be- tween Portland and Salem; olrcu- $ les in every section sS Clacka- mas County, with population of 30,000. Are you an advertiser? THE WEATHER. S Oregon City Fair; Northerly $ winds. Oregon Fair; N ortler- ly winds. $ WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 15 66 VOL. Ill No. 99. OREGON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912. Pes Week, 10 Cents BIGGEST TER DAY C IS WELCOMED BY ENTEKPK ROWD OREGON CITY TODAY TRANSPORT SENT MiEUS REFUGEES WHO DESIRE TO LEAVE MEXICO WILL BE PICKED UP. URGENT APPEALS MADE FOR HELP Bandits And Rebels, It Is Feared, Might Harm, Them State Department Will Take No Chances WASHINGTON... April.. 26. The Army transport Buford will leave San Francisco Sunday night for the west coast of Mexico to pick up any Amer ican refugees who may wish to leave the country. The Buford will visit Topolobampo, Altata Mazatlan, in the State of Sinaloa; San Bias, Tepic Manzanillo, in Colima, and Acapulco in Guerrero. The vessel is sent at the request of the State Department, after urgnt ap peals from many Americans stranded in the states bordering the Pacific. Since the rebels began to make headway in their operations along the Pacific Coast, communication has been cut with many interior towns where Americans reside. This has left the State Department without information as to their safety, and this in the face of wanton acts of bandits and organized rebels. Constant appeals came to the State Department to use some methods of assisting the welfare of these people, but the officials tried other means to ward off the necessity of sending a United States vessel to the Coast. Today's reports declare the situation throughout Meixco as generally be coming worse. Marauders are caus ing much uneasiness by their activi ty, i BODIES OF STRAUS 11 a. AND ASTOR ARE FOUND NEW YORK,. April 26. The bodies of Colonel John Jacob Astor and Isa dor Straus, the New York millionairs, who went down with the Titanic, have been recovered and embalmed according to a wirless received at the White Star offices here today from the Mackay-Bennett, the "cof fin" ship. After wirelessing the names of 35 bodies recovered, the message add ed: "Following have been embalmed: C. C. Jones, Reg. Butler, H. Harrison T. W. Newell, John Jacob Astor, Milton Clong, W. C. Dulles, H. J. Alli son, George Graham, Jacob Birnbaum Austin Partner, Pyrol Cavendish, Henrik Zilner." JAPANESE TAKE OVER T SAN FRANCISCO, April 26. Pres ent conditions at Magdalena Bay, Mexico are reported as follows in a special dispatch to the Examiner from an expedition of "three staff corres pondents: "An extensive concession of timber and agricultural lands, accompanied by a grant of fishing rights for 700 miles from Manzanilla to Salina Cruz was obtained through the Japanese Ambassador to Mexico last year. Thirty Japanese scientists are now on the ground, making elaborate sur veys, among them Katsuyo Tago, of ficial representative of the Japanese government. The concession was made by a private company backed by Soichiro Aseno, president of the Oriental Steamship Company, and a weauthy banker." It is explained that an expidition of three men was sent to Magdalena to investigate reported purchases of Mexican lands by Japanese interests, after the matter had been brought up by a resolution in the United States Senate asking President Taft for full information , regarding the supposed purchases. The dispatch is printed as a report of the findings of the ex pedition, and declares that the explor ations of the Mexican coast are being made under the direction of men di rectly connected with the Japanese Government. The account continues: "This scientific survey is under the personal direction of Itpey Yokaya ma, a member of the Japanese Parlia ment, vice-president of the Japanese Mexican Fishery Association, incorp orated in November" to develop the fisheries and colonize the islands of the concession. In the party is Kat suyo Tago, as the official representa tive of the Japanese Government. Soichiro Asano, the Japanese Morgan president of the Oriental Steamship Company, is the financial backer of the colonization and fisheries enter prise. The concession was abtianed through the Japanese Ambassaidor to Mexico, Kumaji Horiguchi. i1 REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES TO MEET HERE TODAY Livy Stipp, chairman of the Repub lican County Central Committee, has called a meeting of the nominess here today. An organization will be effect ed and a plan of campaign decided up on. 2 Couples Get Licenses Marriage licenses were issued Fri day to Agnes Phillips and Leroy R. Firebugh and Parona Workevicut and Adolph Kibart. SUING omn 5 IGNORED LEYLAND LNIER SAID TO HAVE BEEN NEAR WHEN TITANIC WENT DOWN SAILOR DECLARES HE SAW ROCKETS Vessel Few Miles Away, Stopped And Remained Stationery For Three Hours Story Corroborated WASHINGTON, April 26. Sworn testimony going far to show that not a single life need, have been lost when the Titanic went down had not a passing liner ignored the distress signals and rockets of the dying lin er, wa3 given today before the Unit ed States senate investigating com mittee, which is probing the great sea horror. Two seamen, one from the Titanic and one from the Leyland liner California, told the story. They agreed absolutely that a great ship passed the crippled Titanic at a time when moments meant lives and that the rockets sent up by the great ship went absolutely unheeded though the other vessel was a scant score of miles away or less. Ernest Gill, a donkeyman, aboard the Californian swore that from its deck he plainly saw the Titanic's roc kets and declared that the whole crew commented on the fact that the Californian's wireless operator was allawed to sleep when it was plain a vessel in distress was near. Gill's testimony was given strength by evidence given before Senator Fletcher by John Buley, a seaman survivor of the Titanic. Buley de clared: "A ship was near when the Titanic struck and passed by us. We thought it was coming to us. If it had done so we should all have been saved. The vessel, which was only about three miles away, had all her lights burning. It couldn't have helped see ing ou rockets. In fact, the ship was close enough to see the Titanic her self. I saw her from the Titanic's deck. We told the passengers "there is a steamer coming to our assist ance.' 1 think that's what kept them quiet. "The vessel came bow on, then stopped and remained stationary for three hours off our port side. When we got in the boats we started for her but she went by us. Positively it was a boat. It must have been. It was' too low for a star. We thought it was coming to get us." Buley's story was partially corrob orated by George Rowe, quartermast er of the Titanic and Frank Osman, a seaman, who testified before Sena tor Burton. Both of them, however, thought the vessel was a sailing ship. Setbacks for the story came, how ever, in the testimony of Captain Stanley Lord and Wireless Operator Evans of the Californian. Lord de clared that Gill's statement of what he saw from the decks of the Cali fornian was absolutely false. GENERAL GRANT HAS NEW YORK, April 26. Military men and prominent in public and pri vate life gathered here today to pay the last honors to Major-General Frederick Dent Grant, who died here April 11. The funeral exercises were deferred until today to await the arrival of the General's daughter, the Princess Cantocuzenen, from her home in Russia. The services were held in the Chap el of Cornelius the Centurion on Gov ernor's Island. The little chapel was too small to allow the admittance of the general public, but an opportunity was given to all New York to pay its tribute as the long military pro cession made its way, to the tap of muffled drums, over a five-mile line of march from the Battery to the West Shore ferry at Forty-second street. There the Government ord ers provided for a special train to take the body to West Point for in terment. President Taft, Vice-presidetn Sher man and General Leonard Wood were perhaps the most distinguished per sons who came to New York for the funeral. The General's immediate family- was present including . Mrs. Grant, her son, Captain U. S. Grant; her daughter, the Princess Cantacu zene; the General's sister, Mrs. Nel lie Grant Sartoris, and also Mrs. Grant's brother and sister, Judge Lockwood Honore, of Chicago, and Mrs. Potter Palmer. The pall-bearers included Senator Root, Andrew Carnegie, Henry W. Taft, General Tasker, H. Bliss, Gen eral Horace Porter, General William Crozier, General T. H. Barry, Gener al H. G. Sharpe, Hamilton Fish, H. H. Kohlsaat, Dr. Robert Abbe and others.. Honorary pallbearers, representing the military order of the Medal of Honor were General Daniel S. Sick les General Horace C. King. Bishop Samuel Fallows, of Chicago, and Chaplain E. B. Smith, of Gover nor's Island, had charge of the ser vices in the chapeL The honor of serving as guard to the caisson bear ing the coffin on the march through New York City went to an escort composed of General Bliss, temporar ily in command of the Department of the East, an his staff; General C. F. Roe, of the New York National Guard, and his staff, and the U. S. Grant Post of the Grand Army of the Republic. MY SIGNALS The Beef Trust! "Sorry, ma'am, but OF GIRL HE LOVED LOUIS WHITLOCK, FORMERLY OF OREGON CITY, KILLS MRS BELLAIR SLAYER PLEADS- SELF-DEFENSE Uncle, Who Adopted Boy, Was Coun ty Clerk Here About Fifteen Years Ago--Lad Is Defiant Louis Whitlock, eighteen years of age, who shot and killed Mrs. Marg aret Beilair in Portland Friday be cause she objected to his marrying her fifteen-year-old daughter, Harriet, formerly lived in Oregon City. He was adopted when a small boy by his uncle, W. T. Whitlock, ex-county clerk oi Clackamas county. Mr. Whit lock moved to Portland about fifteen years ago. He is a member of a prominent pioneer, family. The youth went, tci thf nnartmATits nrvnnipH hv Mrs. Beilair at 432 Stark Street and fired five shots at her, killing her in- j stantly. j Whitlock then rushed with the smok-1 ing revolver still in his hands into the street, where he ran into the arms of I Julius Knispel and Sam Mandich, who j held him until the arrival of the po-1 lice. I The shots attracted the attention ! of Mrs. L. Gregory, the landlady at the house, and it was her screams of "Muider, he has killed her,' that attracted Mandich and Knispel. Police headquarters were notified. Detectives Swenness and Maloney were rushed to the scene. Whitlock was turned over to Captain Moore and taken to detective headquarters, while Swenness and Maloney took charge of the woman's remains. Although the boy goes under the name of Lew Whitlock, he is the step-brother of Albert Lewis, thehus band of Mrs. Bellair's oldest daughter May. The youngest daughter, Gladys was in the house when the shots were firet and was thefirst to reach heis mother. As soon as possible after the shooting, Harriet, who is em ployed in the auditing department at Meier & Frank's was sumoned to her home where she strongly denounced her suitor. Albert Lewis the wom an's son-in-law, was in jail recently on complaint of his wife for abusing their young baby. Mrs. Beilair owned an interest in the B. & B. Dye Works at 425 Stark Street. Mandich was talking to Knispel, who drives a dye works wagon, about a suit when the slayer, -after firing the fatal shots, fled from the house. Mrs. Beilair was a widow, forty-two years of age, and had lived in Port land for Beveral years. Three daught ers, Mrs. May Lewis, Harriet, fifteen years old, Gladys eleven years old, and one son, Harry, survive her. At the police station Whitlock said that his real name was Lew "Torbit "I am pround of what I have done, not especially " for my sake but on account of the girls," said young Whitlock, at the city jail. "Let the law takes its course, I am willing, " he added, cooly refilling his pipe which he smoked incessantly follow ing his arrest "I was attacked by the woman who had a butcher knife. I feel that my act was justified." Young Whitlock purchased the re volver at a store at First and Madi son streets. He said he bought the weapon before he visited the home, "because she had a temper and I knew would not hesitate to harm me." Whitlock is a teamster and a fruit packer. His real name is Lou Torbit He and hir brother were left orphans Lou was adopted by his uncle, W. T. Whitlock, of Berkeley, near South Portland, when he was two weeks old and took the name" of Whitlock. His brother was adopted by their grand mother, Mrs. Rose Louis, and was MURDERS MOTHER AFTER THE JURY'S VERDICT. prices are up a little. I've been having COPYRIGHT HARRIS ft EWING. WASH. SENATOR HENRY A. DUPONT, Of Deleware, whose election as United States Senator is in question. named Albert Louis. He is a son-in-law of the woman whom Whitlock killed. . BABY ARE DEAD Mrs. Pearlie Stromer, wife of James Stromer, of Marion Avenue, Sellwood, died Thursday evening. The funeral will be held at the Baptist church, Sellwood, tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock. Mrs. Stromer was formerly Miss Pearlie Tamblyn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Tamblyn of Oregon City. She and an infant, which died at birth will be buried in the same grave. Mrs. Stromer was married about two years ago, and was twenty one years of age. She is survived by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Tam blyn of Oregon City, and a brother and siater, also of this city and her husband. HURT TWICE SAME DAY, HE GETS GOOD VERDICT The jury in the damage suit at N. J. Sundergard against the Oregon Electric Friday awarded the plaintiff a verdict of $3,800. He sued for $25, 000". While working for the defend ant November 11, 1910 Sundergard fell from a. trestle near Wilsonville, his right leg being injured. He was placed upon cushions in a car and hurried to Portland for medical treat ment As the carpentered the city it collided head on with another, and the man's injured leg was broken in three places. He was thrown from the cushions against a seat and the sides of the car. Judge Campbell held that only the suit against the company for injuries received in fall ing from the trestle could be tried in this county, and an interesting feature of the case was the effort to show the seriousness of the injuries received in the first accident It is understood that Sundergard will file suit in Multnomah county for dam ages as a result of the injuries re ceived in the . second accident The plaintiff was represented by Dimick & Dimick and H. Daniels. SHOW TO BE HELD JUNE 8 The Rose Show Society announced Friday that the , annual exhibition would be held June 8. It is believed that the roses will be in full bloom by that time and the exhibition will be the finest ever held in this city. The program, classes, and entry rules will be announced in a few days. - How strong are you going ia the support of your candidate in the En terprise automobile contest? some extra heavy expenses lately." ENTERPRISE OPEN TOB00STERCR0WD CANDIDATES IN AUTO RACE URG ED TO MAKE OFFICE THEIR HEADQUARTERS PLANT TO BE IN FULL OPERATION Manager Will Show Contestants And Friends How Dailey Paper Is 'Made Votes Are Doubled Today $"$$?$$$$$ 8 STANDING OF CANDIDATES 8 $ Ruby McCord 119,200 $ S Joseph Sheahan 47,200 S Kent Wilson 28,600 S John Brown 15,000 $ S John Weber 6,800 John Haleston 6,000 & A. G. Kindler 7,200 8 The Enterprise will today throw its office and plant open to the candi dates in the big automobile contest and their friends. The candidates are urged to make the office of the paper their headquarters while in the city. They are further invited to bring their friends with them. The paper's plant will be open for inspection, and the contest manager is desirous of having every visitor of the city see how the only daily between Portland and Salem is published. He believes it will not only aid the paper but will aid the county. ""There is no better medium for advertising a community than in the columns of a daily paper like the. Enterprise. Because you re ceive your copy every day or read neighbor's copy you have come to accept it as a matter of course. But, Honest Injun, wouldn't the county be in a sorry pligth now without a daily? The candidates in the great race, which is attracting attention through out the county, undoubtedly will reap a harvest of votes today. The visit ors will have plenty of money, and most of them will spend it freely. Those who are not subscribers for the Enterprise will want to subscribe for- it today. The contestants will have no trouble in obtaining scores of subscriptions. All they have to do is to mingle with the crowd. And after the votes have been obtained all the entrants will have to do is to bring them to theofnce of the Enter prise and be given credit for twice as many ballots as were polled.. This is double vote day, and the indica tions are that all ballots held in re serve will be brought from their hid ing places. The contest manager de sires to say that it will be to the in terest of all the candidates to poll all reserve votes today, for there is no probability that another double vote day will b decided upon. HUMPS PLAYS HAVOC WITH CANBY BAND The mumps has captured Canby. Prominent business men are the vict ims. The epidemic is singular, hut it has plural aspects, inasmuch as it is no respector of personages. Mem bers of the Canby band with one or two exceptions, are sufferers. It seems that the trombone player bought a new instrument No one knew that he had suffered from the dread disease a few days ago, and all the members of the band "tried" the trombone. Result: most of them con tracted the mumps. Among the vict ims are W. H. Bair, the commission merchant; Chester Wills, merchant; John Hurst, electrician and Ralph Knight J. Alba Sagar, the -leader has quarantined the trombone. He escaped infection, and the reason is he came from Oklahoma. INDUSTRIAL CELEBRATION TO ESTABLISH NEW RECORD $$SSSS8S$ 8 $ S PROGRAM $ $ 9:00 A. M. Oregon City Band $ of Thirty Pieces, 7th and Main streets. $ $ 9:30 A. M. Arrival Oak Grove $ 8 Girls Band 4th and Main streets. S 10:00 A. M. Big Horse Pa $ rade, moves from 3rd and Main-8 streets to 12th and Main and re- turns. $ 10:01 A. M. Arrival of Dem 3 onstration train from the Ore 8 gon Agriculture College. On sid- 3 near S. P. Depot Do not fail to see it 3 S 11:00 A. M. Base Ball Game $ between Fountain Hose Co. No. $ 1 and Green Point Hose Co. No. $ 5, Canemah Park. ' i:uu a. m. Horse judging, S 4th and Main. $ S 11:00 A. M. Concert, Oak S Grove Girl's Band, court, house S lawn. ' $ 11:15 Slide for life by Dare $ Devil Minor from suspension S bridge across ' the Willamette 3 river. 3 12:45 P. M. Wire s walking, $ S Head, Balancing and other per- $ 3 formances by Minor the Wonder $ Q at 5th-and Main Streets. 1: 00 P. M. Address 6y Dr. S S Jas. Withycombe, director Ore- S gon Experiment Station, court $ $ house steps. Dr. Withycombe has -$ addressed more farmers than any man in Oregon, do not fail 3 S to hear him. $ -S 1:15 P. M. Address by Hon. S Grant B. Dimick and other prom- nent speakers, heralding the $ $ 'Coming of the Clackamas South $ em.' " $ 2:00 P.M. The Grand Parade $ s of Automobiles, the first in i Clackamas County, leaving 13th. $ and Main streets and passing to S 3rd-and Main and return. This J 3 parade to' be headed by the first 3 and only Automobile Band in the J state. 8 S 3:00 P. M. Grand Concert, $ Oregon City Concert band, R. V. 8 $ D. Johnston, director, court ? house lawn. - 8 5 3:00 P. M. Hose Cart Races S $ between Oregon City Compan- S $ ies. No. 1 Hub and Hub race. $ $ No. 2 Wet Contest between 8th $ $ and 10th streets. $ Companies competing, Fount- $ ain No. 1, Cataract No. 2, Hill S 5 No. 3, Mountain View No. 4, 3 3 Green Point No. 5. 3:00 P. M.-r-Base Ball game be- S S tween Estacada and Oregon S City High Schools, Canemah $ $ Park. S S 3:30 P. M. Organization of S J Clackamas County Automobile 5 3 Club, Commercial Club rooms, S Masonic building, M. D. Latour- S 3 ette, presiding. $ $ 4:00 P. M. Drill of the Oak Grove Girls Band, court house S s lawn. J Dance afternoon and evening, S $ Busch's Hall. $ " ' SUIT IS ON TRIAL The damage suit of W. F. Schooley, the real estate broker, against the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company is on trail before Judge Campbell and a jury. The plaintiff who is represented by Brownell & Stone, alleges that he was seriously injured October. 27, 1911 when an automobile in which he was riding, was struck by a car belonging to the defendant 'company at Seventeenth an Main street, this city. Schooley alleges that he sustained permanent injuries. He asks for $10,000 amages. J. E. Hedges represents the defend ant BROTHERHOOD TO GIVE BALL THIS EVENING The first annual ball of the Modern Brotherhood of America will be held this evening at Busch's hall. Music will be furnishe by the Philharmonic Band, and refreshments will be serv ed. It is believed that the ball will establish a new recor for attenance. The time to read the Morning En- terprise is at the breakfast table enterprise is at the breakfast table or" a little before. a little before. No. 172. REPORT OF THE BANK OF OREGON GIT Y at Oreaon City in the State of Oregon, at the close of business April 18th, Resources Loans and discounts $150,722.61 Overdrafts, secured ana un secured 2,007.87 Bonds and warrants 386,930.93 Banking house 28,646.40 Furniture and fixtures .... 5,202.62 Other real estate owned.. 8,257.40 Due from ap proved reserve banks .$372,420.60 Check3 and other cash items . . 563.10 489,818.58 Cash on hand . . 116,834.88 Total .$1,071,586.41 STATE OF OREGON, County of Clackamas, ss. I, E. G. Caufield, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief. E. G. CAUFIELD, Cashier. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 26th day of April, 1912. E. H. COOPER, Notary Public. - " - Correct attest: CHARLES H. CAUFIELD, GEO. A. HARDING, fr ?l f"! (Seal) ' . I;. GREAT HORSE PARADE, JUDGING AND'MUSIC, FEATURES OF MORNING PROGRAM FIRE COMPANIES WILL PLAY BALL James Withycombe, Mayor Dimick And Others To Deliver Address es Dance Arranged For Evening Hail Oregon City and Clackamas unty! As pretty a city and as fert- ,e a county as ever the sun shone on will assert themselves today. It is Booster Day a day that has long been looked forward to. Just like in Portland, the Rose Festival is the time of rejoicing, or in New Orleans Mardi Gras is the day of days, or Po lice Day- in New York when thousands of "The Finest" in their blue raiment parade Fifth Avenue, from Washing ton Square to Sherman's statue, this is the annual event hereabouts, and right merrily, as the Elks say. will it be observed. It is fitting that Clackamas County and Oregon City should have such a celebration. With land so fertile that all the effort necessary is to tickle it with a hoe to have it laugh with a harvest, with men and women so energetic and so resourceful that v no matter where they might go they would, be leaders, with a patriotic people modest yet assertive enough to proclaim to the world that they have the besc that Creator of all has giv en to the human family, is there any wonder that once in a twelvemonth, these people assemble in the great capital of the West, for such it once was, and felicitate themselves upon their good fortune in having been drawn to Buch a land? The exercises will start at 9 o'clck and continue until long after dark. One of the features of the program will be the big horse parade given in the morning. The demonstration train of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege will arrive at 10 o'clock and re main in the city until Sunday morn ing. Industrial exhibits will be ar ranged in tents along Main street and music will. be furnished by the Ore gon City Band of 30 pieces and the Oak Grove Girls' Band. There will be a "slide for life" from the suspen sion bridge, wire walking, head bal ancing, addresses by Dr. James With ycombe, director of the Oregon Exper iment station; Mayor Dimick, and in the afternoon an automobile parade. Other features of the celebration will be baseball games, fire drills, and judging of horses. The indications are that the largest crowd in the history of this historic city will be here today, an there is no question that the celebration will be the finest M. J. Lazelle, secre tary of the Promotion Department of the Commercial Club, who has charge of the Booster Day arrangements, in formed the Morning Enterprise late last night that everything was in read iness for the great event. That Main street will be thronged virtually all day is assured. Improvised benches have been arranged all along the thor oughfare and Windows are at a prem- . ium. The weather forecaster gives an encouraging report, and with a clear sky above the beautiful city by the Fails of the Willamette all day, the greatest booster celebration in the history of the county seat is as sured. ' The time to read tfce Morsmg En THE CONDITION OFTHE Capital stock paid in $ 50,000.00 Surplus fund 50,000.00 Undivided profits, less ex- -penses and taxes paid .. 23,023.38 Individual depos- its subject to check $629,146.96 Demand certifi cates oi deposit 112,692.46 Certified check.. 5.00 948,563.03 Time certificates ot deposit 86.308.26 Savings deposits 120,410.35 Total $1,071,586.41 : T. L. CHARMAN, " , , Directors.