THE WEATHER.
$ Oregon City Fair warmer; 3
$ westerly winds. -
Oregon Fair and warmer, $
northwesterly winds.
VOL. Ill No. 104.
RECOUNT WILL BE
BIG AID TO TAFT
MANAGERS THINK IT WILL
CREASE LEAD IN MASSA
CHUSETTS IN-
ROOSflfELT DELEGATES ARE LOYAL
Views Of Voters Are Divided,
President Has Better Of Sit
. uation Petitions
Circulated
But
BOSTON, May 2. There is to be a
recount of the votes cast at the Presi
dential primaries on Tuesday and the
Taft leaders believe that it will show
a much larger vote for President Taft
and his delegates than is apparent
from the figures that have already
been issued. Signatures fof a peti
tion for a recount were being secured
today by the Taft men and these peti
tions will be filed at the Statehouse
tomorrow.
The eight Rooselevelt delegate-at-large,
despite a visit paid to Mr.
Roosevelt today at Oyster Bay by
Matthew Hale, his campaign manager
in thi3 state, Charles Baxter, who
heads the delegates-at-large ticket
and several Roosevelt workers, still
say they will ignore the request of
Mr. Roosevelt that they vote for Mr.
Taft in the Chicago convention.
One of them, Arthur L. Nason, said
tonight: "It is true that Mr. Roose
velt has telegraphed us releasing us,
'out I don't see that has anything to
do with it. We are pledged to the
voters of the state and we are going
to be loyal to the voters."
Opinion is divided as to the attitude
that should be taken by the delegates-at-large.
Senator Stearns, of Chica
go, who is chairman of the committee
on election laws of the present legis
lature, which in his opinion the Roose
velt delegates-at-large ought to resign
their place immediately to the eight
Taft alternates who were elected, in
view of the preference vote for Taft
The latest figures are: President pre
ference, La Follette, 2005; Roosevelt,
81,554; Taft 86,069. Taft's plurality,
4235. Taft's majority, 2230.
Delegates-at-large Baxter (heading
Roosevelt group), 76,854. Baxter's
plurality, 7980.
WILL NOT SELL OUT
Rumors having been circulated that
the Home Telephone Company is go
ing to sell to the Bell Telephone com
pany; that the Farmers' Mutual Tele
phane Companies have gone over to
the Bell company andfurther, that the
rates of the Home Telephone Com
pany are being raised to conform with
the rates now being enforced by the
Bell Telephone company manager, T.
B. Hayhurst of the Home Telephone
compan, said Thursday that the
Home company would not sell and
that the Farmers' Mutual Telephone
companies have not connected with
the Bell company, but on the con
trary have renewed their contracts
with the Home Telephone company
for a term of years. "The rates of
the Home Telephone company are
not being raised," said Mr. Hayhurst,
"and we are here to stay and are
still doing business in the old stand
in Andresen Building, corner of Sev
enth and Main streets."
COUNTY COURT APPROVES
RECENT PRIMARY BILLS
The County Court Thursday ap
proved the pay rolls of the clerks and
judges at the recent primary. The
bills will be paid the first of next
week. Many other bills were approv
ed by the court.
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Of Butter
Given Away
Today
2 Rolls at 1 p. m.
5 Rolls at 8 p. m.
5 Rolls at 9:30 p. m.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS SENT TO OFFICE
INDICATE PREVAILING
CONDITIONS
PATRONS WILLING TO AID ENTRANTS
Many On Verge Of Subscribing Would
Do So If Contestants Would
Call Upon ,
Them
$ STANDING OF CANDIDATES S j
S Ruby McCord 129,200 S 1
$ Joseph Sheahan 47,200 3 '
Kent Wilson 32,600 S
John Brown 15,000
John Weber ... 6,800 $
S John Haleston . . . 6,000 &
$ A. G. Kindler 7,200 S
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That the candidates in the Enter
prise automobile contest have a fer
tile field in which to work was evi
denced by four persons coming to the
office of the paper Thursday and be
coming subscribers. All of them said
they had intended subscribing before,
but had been waiting for candidates
in the contest to solicit their sub
scriptions. While this does not speak
well for the enterprise of the contest
ants, it shows that there are many
persons anxious to receive the paper
and that the entrants can boost their
standings materially by working hard
er. The Morning Enterprise is a live
and up-to-date daily newspaper. While
the majority of the residents of the
city and county subscribe for it, there
are many others who would do so n
they were approached by the contest
ants. They are on the verge of sub
scribing and all that is necessary is
a little encouraging talk, such as any
of the bright young women and men
in the race make. However, there
is no use of saying anything more.
The candidates know that the only
way to make votes is to keep busy.
RURAL MAIL
PLAN
On Saturday evening of this week
there will be a meeting of the rural
mail carrier of Clackamas county in
the Woodmen hall, at which time an
effort will be made to organize the
rural carriers into an association.
There is at the present time an as
sociation of the carriers of Marion
county, and has proved very success
ful, and in this manner the carriers
can get together and form ideas and
plans to assist the mail service in
the delivery of the mail. On Satur
day evening there will be speakers
here, who will give talks on the good
that an association can accomplish.
At the banquet the rural carrier and
their families are to be the guests,
as well as other carriers on the rural
deliveries who have been etxended
an invitation.
LIBRARY PUNS TO
BE SENT MR.
B. T. McBain, President of the
Commercial Club, and a committee or
one appointed sometime ago, to urge
Andrew Carnegie to provide a library
for Oreeon City, will today send to
Mr. Carnegie's secretary, Mr. Bert
ram, two plans selected by the trus-
itees of the uregon uiiy uiumry,
Mrs. W. S. U'Ren, J. E. Hedges,
! Messrs. Caufleld. E. Kenneth Stant-
! on. Alex Lewthwaite, Miss Myrtle
Himhannn. Miss Laura Beatie and
w TrfiHer. The trustees at a
meeting Thursday evening selected
; the plans from those submitted by five
architects. In case Mr. Bertram should
not be pleased with those submitted
"i- vi:r. j i w i 1 l a tie. ii iw ui'jiwHi i lv i
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CANDIDATES
HA
the other plans will be sent to Mm.
WEEKLY ENTERPRIS E ESTA B L
OREGON CITY,
'EVERYBODY'S DOING IT NOW."
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'SUSANS GIVEN
place asinterpreter ;
j Joe Andrews, known as "Susap," j
i left Thursday for White Salmon, :
! Wash where he will act as interpret- j
I er at the Indian Reservation. Joe has !
(been a resident of Oregon City f or j
1 many years. His wife died several
i years ago. He is known by the young I
as well as the old as, Joe, and is a
member of the Clackamas tribe of
Indians. i
MOTHERS' DAY HAY
12 TO BE
Holy Day, observed since 1908, will
be observed May 12. The originator :
of the plan, is Miss Anna Jarvis, 2031
North Twelfth Street, Philadelphia,
who commemorated the anniversary
of her mother's death , by wearing a
white llower. She wrote a letter de
scribing her idea to . a Philadelphia
paper and it was the beginning of
"Mother's Day."
Miss Jarvis suggested the white
carnation for mothers who are dead,
and the bright flower for those who
are alive. The attributes of the car
nation, standing for purity, beauty
and love, appealed to her. She says:
"A small bouquet of flowers placed
near mother's picture would many
times during the day bring to mind
the acts of love so faithfully perform
ed, the comforting world in thetime
of trouble together with a helping
hand extended to all who might come
her way. Let the memory of your
mother live in your heart one day of
the year at least, and lift you from
the petty trials of life as she willing
ly would do if she were here with you,
and if mother still blesses your home
wear a bright flower suggestive of her
life of active love."
The following was written by an
invalid mother, Mrs. Nora Armstrong,
of Portland, which may appeal to
many other mothers:
I saw a crown descending
For some saint or holy one, -
1 thought: for the jewels in that
crown
Shone brighter than the sun.
And I asked the Angels bearing it
Who was so holy and good
As to win such a crown
As they brought down.
And they answered it is "Mother
hood," .
As they meekly bowed before me,
And laid it at my feet,
And said in accents soft and low,
Like silver bells so sweet,
That all through the countless ages
The Angels had worked on this,
To make it shine as brightly
As the love in a mother's kiss;
And now they were loath to bring it,
Feeling they needed more time
To have it reflect the glory of. Moth
erhood divine.
OLD "BUCK" TRAVELS
ABOUT 50,000 MILES
"Buck," the old "buckskin" horse
of J. L. Waldron,- which won second
prize in the horse parade Booster Day
is twelve years old, and has traveled
more than 50,000 miles. The horse
has been driven on the Molalla' stage
route for the past eight years.. It has
never missed a day in making the
trips, and has been in only one run
away.
The Morning Enterprise is the best
breakfast food you can have.
I have 61 acres of fine garden land
in high state of cultivation. Fine lo
cation. Fronts on Macadam road,
Fine bearing orchard. Good 8. room
house, tarn and out buildings. Good
well. Will sell for 4,000. $2,000
cash, balance 7 years at 6 per cent.
This place is one mile from Oregon
City Courthouse, 20 miles from Port
land, one-half mile from Oregon City
car line Can't beat this place in
Clackamas County. Call or address
Cyrus Powell, Oregon City, Oregon,
Stephens Building, Boom 10.
OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY
IF THAT fAN RUNS ACAWNf
WONT CARRY A SINCLE STATE
GOONJflLSmtP
THE COUNTRY
SENATE TO AID
SIX
FOOT DEPTH IS PLANNED
FROM OREGON CITY TO
CORVALLIS
COMMITTEE ORDERS SURVEY MADE
$8,000,000 Additional Appropriations
j Planned To Waterways Bill
i For Northwest Im
provement
WASHINGTON, May 2. Eight mil
lion dollares for. waterway improve
ments which will materially benefit
many Pacific Coast points, was ad
ded today by the senate committee
on rivers and harbors to the approp
riation bill, carrying $24,000,000 as it
passed the house, for waterways im
provements. The different northwest items are
out on the following basis:
Nehalem (Oregon) oar ana narDor
$632,350; estimate for the year ?1U0,-
000; proposed increase, $100,000.
Oreeon slough. Columbia river
Local interests to contribute an equal
amount,. $100,000; proposed increase,
$50,000.
Columbia and lower Willamette riv
ers $3,YU,UUU to complete project.,
$120,000 for the year; increase, $25,
000. -
Columbia river between Celilo aus
and the Dalles rapids $3,bOO,UUU to
complete; $600,000 for the year; in
crease, $200,000.
Columbia river above uemo aiis
$30,000 for the year; increase,
000. ...
Other Oregon items are as touows.
Tillamook Maintenance, $5000;
improvement, $100,000.
Improving Nehalem $iuu,uuu.
Clatskanie river Maintenance, $1,-
000. -
Coos river Maintenance, $auuu.
Siuslaw river Maintenance, $5000.
Maintenance and improvement Yam
hill river and Willamette above Ore
gon City $20,O0D.
Improving Willamette river from
Portland to Oregon City $12,000.
Continuing improvement of Colum
bia and lower Willamette beyow Port
land $180,000. - '
Continuing improvement mouiu w
Columbia and maintenance $i,uuu,
nnn Gauging the waters of the Colum
bia and measuring the tidal and river
volumes $1000. -
Oreeon slough $50,000.
Improving Columbia river rapids to
Celilo falls ISUU.uuu;
Improving the Columbia
tributaries, Celilo falls to
and its
Snake
Snake river to Pittsburg Landing
$25,000. a
r.i,r,M!i between Bridgeport and
Kettle falls $25,000.
Cowlitz and Lewis rivers,
mnintpTiance $5000.
Washing-
Dredge and snag boat for the Cow
litz, Lewis and Clatskanie rivers
$55000. ' . . ,
Preliminary surveys were ordered
for the Coos Bay bar, the Coquille riv
er bar, the Siuslaw river from. Acme
to Florence, and the Willamette, with
a view to providing a six foot channel
hotwon Oreeon City and Corvallis
.t,h hPtween Corvallis and Eugene
by means of locks and dams.
railwaTputting
D01 DOUBLE TRACK
The Portland Railway, Light &
Power Company Thursday began dou
ble tracking Main street from Twelfth
street to Fourteentn street. iwo
members of the council said there was
a question as to whether tne company
had the right to lay another track on
the main thoroughfare. It is not believ
ed, however, that any ODjecuon win
h offered. The ties probably will be
nut down today. The city council re
cently adopted a resolution providing
that the company would be prohibited
from switching cars in the vicinity of
the Abernethy on a side-tracK in ra-
WORK
RIVER
ture.
I S HE D 1366
3, 1912.
CARTOONIST, DEAD
NATIVE OF OREGON, WHO GAIN
ED WORLD WIDE FAME,
VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA
FREQUENT VISITOR TO OREGON CITY
w.
W. H. Samson And Noted Artist
Were Schoolmates And Close
Friends End Is
Sudden
Homer Davenport, world famous
cartoonist, who died Thursday of
pneumonia in New York City, was
well known in Oregon City. W. W. H.
Samson, justice of the peace, was a
schoolmate of Mr. Davenport. Mr.
Samson says that the famous artist
was not unlike other boys, and that
he followed his natural bent. Al
though reared on a farm he abhorred
farming, and early showed an ability
to draw. Mr. Davenport, upon his
frequent visits to Oregon, always
came to Oregon City to see his
schoolmate, Mr. Samson.
Homer Davenport was born at Sil
verton, Or., March 8, 1867. He was
brought up on his father's farm and
as he took much delight in telling in
later days from the lecture platform,
he was utterly worthless as a farm
er's son. Hoeing potatoes and milk
ing the cows never appealed to Hom
er; he. put in his spare time and a
good deal that couldn't be spared, ac
cording to his father's notions of run
ning a farm, in drawing pictures of
animals, pet- roosters, -J;he hired man
and hi3 father on the barn door in
chalk.
Homer's father and everybody else
about Silverton considered him tot
ally lacking in the essentials to any
kind of success. They thought he
had no brains and said so. His first
act that impressed them at all with
his ability was becoming drum solo
ist and drum major of the Silverton
band. McKinley Mitchell, now a
prominent Portland produce merchant
lived in Gervais, near Silverton,' and
managed the Grevais base ball team.
In games with Silverton, Davenport
would turn out . with his band and
sometimes would umpire the game.
Davenport achieved his first proud
success when he visited Portland for
the first time in 1884, when Cleveland
was running for President, and at
the head of the band led a big Cleve
land procession through the streets.
Davenport broke into the newspa
per game as a combination artist and
reporter for the Orgonian about 1890,
his career on that newspaper was
short and crisp. He was "fired" be
cause he could not draw a stove.
.After that he returned to Silver
ton, much disheartened and began to
raise gme chickens. But tnougn dis
heartened he had not lost confidence
in himself and was sure that if he
could get to San Francisco he would
make good." Raising the money to
go on was nis Dig proDiem, ior nis
father and friends would not advance
him a cent. Finally he went to his
closest friend, McKinley Mitchell,
who tells the story, and told him he
must buy some game chickens.
There were exactly 100 of the fowls
and Mitchell gave Davenport a dol
lar apiece for them, most of which
Davenport spent on clothes. At Dav
enport's suggestion, Mitchell raffled
the birds, the best fighters of which
Homer had named "Sullivan," "Heen-
an, Dempsey, ' ana so torin, alter
his favorite prize fighters and got his
money back. For years after the rat-
fle of those birds French Prairie
abounded in cock fights, and to this
day the descendants of those fowls
are undisputed champions.
Davenport went to San Francisco
and managed to get on Hearst's Ex
aminer in 1892. They found he could
draw horses pretty well and sent him
over to the race track. He made
good there, and was sent to New Or
leans to cover the Dempsey-Fitzsim-mons
fight. After that his rise was
rapid.
Davenport's first big hit as a car
toonist in San Francisco was his pic
ture of Sam Rainey, who was one
of the two bigDemocratic bosses or
San Francisco by virtue of his con
trol of the fire department, would nev
er let the newspaper camera men
photograph him.
One dav the Examiner sent Daven
port to the fire house where Rainey
made bis headquarters to sketch him
after several photographers had fail
ed, Davenport calmly got in front of
Rainey, took out his paper and began
to sketch him. This made Rainey so
frantic that he turned in the fire
alarm, and had Davenport forcibly, re
moved by the entire fire department.
"There's another fellow who could
not get my picture," he exulted after
Davenport's exit But the next morn
ing the Examiner had a likeness of
Rninev that made the townfolk gasp.
Rainey was a man who had develop-
ed in breath about twice as iast as
he had developed in heigth. It was all
there is the picture that and every
minute characteristic of Rainey so
true a likeness that it almost spoke
from the page. "
Not long after that, in 1905, Dav
enport had developed so much that
Hearst took , him to New York. His
fame as a cartoonist dates from his
cartoons of Mark Hanna in a dollar
marg suit of clothes. "Dollar-Mark
Hanna" became a by-word throughout
the country in the campaign days of
1896 through Davenport's cartoons.
Davenport told McKinley Mitchell
in later years that after he made his
first dollar-mark cartoon of Hanna,
Hearst told him he had made the mis
take of his life. "I was sq sure of the
idea and that it would take, and so
worked over it, that I could have cried
when Mr. Hearst said that," Daven
port told his friend. A week after
that Hearst had entirely . remodeled
his opinion.
Another famous cartoon of Daven
port's was that of the giant figure of
trusts in 1899. His work caused a
movement to pass an anti-cartoon bill
in New York in 1897. :
HOMER DAVENPORT,
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A' l
COPYRIGHT HARRIS SWING WASH.
Representative William R. Smith, of
Texas, Chairman of the House Com
mittee on Irrigation of Arid Lands.
LARGEST WARRANT
FOR OREGON CITY
SALEM, Or., May 2. The largest
warrant drawn by the Secretary of
State's office in the history of the
state was made out today, when the
Secretary Olcott advanced $200,000 in
a single warrant to the First National
Bank of Portland to pay the first two
installments of the state's 6hare in
the purchase of the canal and locks
at Oregon City.
While the law provides for the pay
ment of $300,000 at "the rate of $100,
000" annually, it may be unnecessary
to expend the other $100,000 if it is
found that it is not needed in the
establishment of the free locks.
The First National Bank of Port
land is a United States depository and
for that reason the money was for
warded there, authority being made
for payment in this manner.
PLATTED FARM WILL
BE BIG MOLALLA AID
George H. Gregory has platted his
twenty-three acre farm adjoining Mo
lalla, into lots 50 by 120 feet each.
The corner lot will be the location
of the new bank and a nice new bank
ing house will be erected. The Meth
odist church adjoins this, property.
The Post Office, Public School and
Grange Hall are immediately across
the road, and north of the tract.
This is the finest property adjoin
ing' Molalla, and Mr. Gregory has
made it possible for the town to grow.
When the Clackamas- Southern Rail
way is completed, which will be be
fore the first of October, Molalla will
be the principal distributing point,
in the interior and within two years
Molalla will have a population of at
least 2,000.
Mr. Gregory has always been pro
gressive, and by platting his land so
that Molalla can grow, shows his
faith in that, progressive community.
HURT, BUGGY
WRECKED BY HORSE
William Duggen was slightly in
jured Thursday afternoon in a pe
culiar accident on Main Street near
Seventh. He and B. F. Mitchell were
riding in a buggy, leading a big horse
when a motorcycle frightened the
horse. It plunged forward, its fore
feet landing in the buggy. One of
the horse's hoofs struck Mr. Duggen
in the back, bruising it severely. The
buggy was wrecked. Fortunately the
horse attached to the buggy did not
try to runaway. The motorcyclist
said he was sorry.
Madame Sarah Bernhardt
AT THE ELECTRIC TODAY
Greatest actress of the world in Dumas'
masterpiece
"CQmille,,
The Greatest Photo Play Picture
At tremendous
agement
Prices Not Raised For This Magnificent
Production
Afternoon 5c and I Oc
Evening 10 c
Beginning at 1 1 o'clock the performan
ces will be continuous until 1 1 o'clock p. m.
The only dally newspaper b
tween Portland and Salem; elreu-
lee in every section of Clacka-
mas County, with population of 3
30,000. Are you an advertiser?
Pxb Week, 10 Cbnts
SCHUEBEL, NOMINATED FOR
REPRESENTATIVE, HEADS
LIST WITH $84
J. L JACK SPENDS FIFTEEN CENTS
w.
W. H. Samson Pays $4 In Race
For Nomination For Justice
Of Peace Dillman
Spends $65.25
Although several of the races were
close and exciting the candidates for
office in this county at the recent
primary spent little money. The larg
est amount was spent by C. Schuebel
Republican nominee for representa
tive. Mr. Schuebel spent $84 and
under the head of "disbursements by
supporters" is $130.
W. W. H. Samson, candidate for the
Republican nomination for Justice of
the Peace spent $4, while his oppon
ent, William Hammond, who was de
feated by a small majority, spent $14.
J. A. Tufts, candidate for the Repub
lican nomination for county treasur
er spent $2. E. D. Olds, one of the
defeated candidates for representative
spent $37.50. George Bingham, can
didate for justice of -the peace, Bpent
$1 in circulating his petitions.
E. T. Mass, candidate for the Dem
ocratic nomination for sheriff, spent
$2.25, and T .J. Gary, who had no op
position for 'the Republican nomina
tion for county school superintendent,
"blew himself" by spending 49 cents.
His itemized statement follows: Post
age, 19 cents; notary's charge, io
cents and blank five cents. However,
Mr. Gary must not think he made a
record for J. E. Jack, who won the
Democratic nomination for assessor,
only spent 15 cents. Mr. Jack spent
10 cents for postage and five cents for
an expense blank. James F. Nelson,
the successful candidate for the .Re
publican nomination for assessor,
spent S8.50. F. M. Gill's expense for
making a successful race for the Re
publican nomination for representa
tive cost him $32.50. S. O. Dillman,
who was defeated for the Republican
nomination for representative, spent
$65.25. W. H. Mattoon who was given
the Republican nomination for county .
commissioner, is out only $5 as a re
sult of his race.
County Clerk Mulvey said Thurs
day that the other candidates would
probably file statements of their ex
penditures in a few days.
LIBRARY TO BE IN
CENTER OF PARK
That the Carnegie Library will be
located in the center of Seventh
Street Park, near the present location
of the band stand, is assured. The
City Council has voted down an ordi
nance providing that the building be
located not more than thirty feet from
Seventh Street between John Adams
and Jefferson streets. The new ordi
nance was introduced Wednesday ev
ening and will be passed at the next
regular meeting. The committee ap
pointed recently to make an investi
gation of hard-surface pavement will
report at a special meeting Monday
night. It is planned to hard-surface
Main Street from Twelfth to the Ab
ernathy. Boy Is Captured
Ledwith Huston, ten years of age,
who escaped from the Boys' Aid So
ciety of Portland, was captured by
Policeman Frost, Thursday. Th& boy
was returned to the society.
The time to read tne Morning En
terprise is at tbe breakfast table or
a little before.
cost to theatre man-
CANDIDATES IN
PRIMARY FRUGAL