MORNING ENTERPRISE. SATURDAY. MAY 4, 1912. MORNING ENTERPRISE OREGON CITY, OREGON BRODIE, Editor and Publisher. THE MORNING ENTERPRISE Is on sale at the following stores eTery day-: Huntley Bros. Drug! Main Street. W. McAnulty Cigars Seventh and Main. E. B. AudjiTson, Main near Sixth. E. Dunn Confectionery M Next door to P. O. City Drag Store Electric Hotel. Sekoenborn Confectionery Seventh and .1. Q. Adams. May 4 In Amerli I'y's, :y. 1796 William HicUliiift rrrs.o:'. !:U torian. born: died 1S."!. Iloni-t Mann, !uthpr and edin-ator. burn died 18.-0. 1861 President linco:n informed for eign powers of Hs inteuiion to maintain Federal authority by force of arms. 1.SG2 Evacuation of Yorktown. Va., by the Confederate force under Gen eral Joseph E. Johnston, who re treated toward Richmond. The Federals under General George B. McClellan, immediately' occupied the abandoned works. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. (From noon today to noon tomorrow.) Sun sets 6:59, rises 4:53. Evening stars: Mars, Saturn. Morning starts: Venus, Jupiter, Mercury. A YEAR OF VAST DISASTERS And now comes the cyclone in Illi nois and Indiana to add to the list of the catastrophes of the year. Eng land, Germany and the United States have had strikes of large proportions in the past few months, those of Eng land being the most destructive which any country ever saw. And so far as regards England and the United States, they are not yet entirely over. A large part of the Mississippi valley has been visited by the greatest floods ever seen, bringing the loss of life and property up to the highest figures ever touched. The greatest steamer , ever built has just gone down, involv ing the biggest catastrophe in mari time annals. In the past few months railroad wrecks have been especially numerous. The tornado which has destroyed several towns in states east of us is among the most destruct ive which the country has witnessed. Wars greet us from many quarters. Italy and Turkey are still fighting, and though neither is making any headway, Italy is evidently getting more tired of the conflict than is Tur key. Mexico is staggering under a rebellion which may transform itself into revolution, for Madero is making no headway against Orozco or Zapata, with intervention by the United States looming up as a possibility. There is . some reason to believe that Madero would welcome intervention as a means of uniting his people, trusting the United States to leave the country intact when it stepped out. Royal ists hover on Portugal's frontier, creating a fear in Lisbon that the re public's days will not be long in the land. China's republic is having trouble with an element of the re publican armies, and the outlook there is not as satisfactory as was prom ised at the beginning of the year. Here are some of the calamitites "Batared aa aecond-claaa matter Jaav- . Vtji intmviiw 1 i-towxusfr om VJ . t VLiTVsA pmb Tu HOT yr?yEO f I1 II VrJ WP I Jgsf' arr , llll, at the pant offioa lit Orison ifeai wmcw.-H6.wii.i Vvvw-wt Ziigr7! A1 " AxZ2 m 1 THt"ftHCMV ' Ss'sL V ' L((V iif l J ' Army of Feeble Minded In America Is Ever Increasing By Dr. HENRY STODDARD. f ROM THE ARMY OF THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND FEEBLE MINDED PERSONS IN THE UNITED STATES COME THE RECRUITS THAT SWELL THE RANKS OF THE DRUNKARDS, CRIMINALS, PAUPERS AND OTHER SOCIAL OUTCASTS. Twenty-five per cent of the girls and boys in our reformatories are lacking in mental fiber and -are UNABLE TO DISCEKN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RIGHT AND WRONG or are too weak in character to do right whenever there is any inducement to do wrong. Sixty-five per cent of the feeble minded children have a mother or a father, or both, who are feeble minded. This country has so far taken no steps to segregate these irresponsible persons, so the number of them is constantly increasing. . . Our government spends hundreds of thousands of dollars examin ing immigrants to see that none who is feeble minded is admitted, but there is a group already in our country which is BREEDING A KACE OF FEEBLE MINDED PEOPLE more dangerous than many barred by the immigration inspectors. We spend thousands of dollars to determine whether Harry Thaw is criminal or crazy that we may know whether to send him to a hospital, but here is an army of lawbreakers as to whom it is a serious question whether the punish ment be sixty days in jail or permanent care where they will be happy and harmless. - Yet little is done to determine their responsibility, and we make mistakes without blushing.' ' FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE NOT SUFFICIENT INTELLIGENCE TO MANAGE THEIR AF FAiRS WiTH ORDINARY PRUDENCE, ARE (JKABS.E TO COMPETE WITH THEIR FELLOWS ON EC5UAL TERMS, AND THEREBY TO EARN LIVELIHOODS. "The Man and The Crowd." jj I Hear it Sunday evening, May 5, at the CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH which have struck the world in 1912. And less than a third of the year has yet told its story. What will the rec ord be when the whole twelve months' chapter is made up? Usually the spring months make the worst record. Floods on land inundate vast tracts of country, destroy property and life, and precipitate railroad wrecks, while on the ocean it is the season which starts the big northern ice fields on their travels. Hurricane and tornado disport themselves with especial free dom between the winter's close and the advent of summer. The French Cassandra who.five or six months ago, predicted that 1912 would bring more physical and social convulsions than any year in recent times, and would see the deaths of a larger number of eminent men may hove deserved something different from the scoffs which the world gave her. A SKIPPER IRESON OF 1912 The charges of neglect or refusal by steamers in the vicinity to respond to the S. O. S. cries from the sinking Titanic are made by so many of the survivors of that vessel, and they seem to be corroborated from so many sources, that the public, even against its will, is beginning to be lieve them. This is a serious accusa tion, and, if true, might subject the culprit to even worse treatment than, as told by Whittier, the women of Marblehead dealt out to the hard hearted Yankee" sailing master of long ago when He sailed away From a leaking ship in Chaleur Bay Sailed away from a sinking wreck, With its own townspeople on her deck. "Lay by! Lay by!" they called to him, Back he answered, "Sink or swim. 1 Brag of your catch of fish again!" And off he sailed through the fog and rain. Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered, and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead. Live Wirelets (By Edgar Bates.) Almos; fly." time to begin to "swat the An ordinary walker takes eighty five steps to cover a block. There are 250 steps to the stairs at the bluff at Seventh street, thus an elevator would save every person about three blocks of uphill climb every time he wanted to go home. If only 1000 per sons took one trip a day on the ele vator about seventeen miles a day would be saved. Collier's certainly gives "Oz West a big boost this week, in the special article on prison reform in Oregon. The Chemawa Y. M. C. A. relay Sociolotfist. of New York Scoop Didn't Know That TeddylWas a First Chinese Girl Voter Registered In ifiim vi v viivjvvw I Photo by American Press Association. T lHE first Chinese woman to register Lee of Los Angeles. It is one of the curious features of the develop ment of woman suffrage that Chinese women born in California have the right to .vote, while their fathers, unless they, too, were born in this country, are barred from any share in the government Miss Lee is the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles, merchant and is an ardent suffragist. She is a graduate of the Polytechnic High school and expects to go to Canton to become a teacher of western ways among the women of her father's coun try. As the new republic is said to have granted the suffrage to women she is likely to find ber mission comparatively easy, especially since she speaks Chi nese fluently. Miss Lee is twenty-two years old. racers will pass through Oregon City about 1 o'clock this afternoon. The white men last year broke a chain of four successive victories won by the Indians who are anxious to prove once more their superiority in dist ance running. The runners will come down the South End road and cross the bridge. Be on hand to- cheer ; your favorite. J A few years ago nearly everyone spurned pennies, but things are dif ferent now. In the next twelve months three cent pieces as well as half cent pieces will undoubtedly be issued by the Treasury Department to satisfy the demand for coins of such denomi nations. Why is it a man can whip a stream for hours without a sign of a "strike" but the same chap thinks he's much abused if he has to wait five minutes for his -dinner. We don't understand the adoption of those new jumper suits now worn by tha O. W. P. motormen. It is possible this is their "summer suit," but they certainly are not becoming to those handsome "juice pluggers." "That fat lady" from Portland wont talk to street car conductors any more. On a trip from Portland Fri day she complained of the slow time made in the run from the metropolis to Oregon City and asked, "why do we go so -slowly" the conductor po litely informed her that the wires on the Oregon City line didn't have much power because the robins ate all the "currents." Do you "Grab" this one, Mabel? Simplicity is a wonderful virtue. Homer Davenport's fame was won by his famous cartoons, but his memory will be perpetuated by reason of his simplicity. Even in the heigth of his succes he was proud of his little home town, Silverton, and never for a mo- - inent did he forget the old friends of his boyhood days. As a result of tne Titanic disaster steamship companies are already in creasing the number of life boats on their steamers and are insisting on more frequent fire drills. Three dollars is not a great sum of money but this amount will save a life in famine stricken China. If we were to go down town this morning and find thirty bodies on Main street between Seventh and Eighth we would in a small measure realize what an awful thing this famine really is. In this great rich state of ours where dire poverty is an unheard of thing we cannot, fully understand the ter rible loss of life now prevalent in certain sections of that vast empire. Three dollars don't mean much to any of us but would save a human life in that country. The location of the library in the center of the park seems to meet with the general approval of the citi zens of this city. It is hoped that no one will make any -move or do any thing which will delay the acutal con sttuet'.on of the building. " London's State Coach. Six horses draw the state coach titf London's lord mayor, snd tta weight is three tons sixtet-u himdrodneishi. The Morning Enterprise is the best breakfast food you can have. ' ' ' ' : - caiiiornia - - ; J I I . as a voter in California is Miss Myra BISHOPS DENOUNCE WALL STREET TRADING MINNEAPOLIS, May 3. "The American people are too far advanced longer to be restricted by church rules as to what their amusements shall be. The rules prohibiting danc ing, card playing, gambling and going to theatres, circuses and horse races therefore should be abolished.' This is the gist of a report present ed todajr to the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church by the board of bishops. In recommending this radical change the 24 active bishops stipu lated that the church, however, should not be indifferent on these sub ejets ; but that the people should be left to judge for themselves what is right or wrong in amusements, hav ing before them only the injunction of John Wesley which forbids 'the taking of such diversions as cannot be taken in the name of the Lord Jesus." The bishops declared the church reiterated its opposition to theatre going and gambling, but the rule in force since 1872 could not fix a point between the "turf and the stock mark et." The bishops' report was delivered by' Bishop Earl Cranston, of Wash ing, D. C, and it formed the second section of the Episcopal address, the first half of which was given the day before. "We would joyfully acclaim the day when every Christian would abstain from the amusements which have been prohibited, but we can repress our conviction that Wesley - dealt more wisely with the danger." "The bishops therefore recommend a return to the consistent treatment of this subject by Wesley and the more earnestly because we are deal ing with the American people and are in the 20th century. ' As a church we cannot approve dancing and theatre-going. They are questionable amusements. To us, as to several of our sister churches, they who justify these amusements as con sistent with the spiritual life seem to manifest a deplorable lack of spir itual perception. "Again we stand unitedly against gambling and we recognize clearly that it is the same sin in Wall street that it is in the lowest resort, but we have never ventured legislatively to fix the point where the racetrack gam bler, passing from the turf to the stock market, becomes a respectable business man eligible to church mem bership and the chairmanship of the board of trustees. "In our absolute helplessness before this question we must continue to al low the world to suspect that the larger the stake and the more reck less of public weal the gain, the less vicious the crime, provided the win ner pays tithes to religion or bene volence." na nay ooy. Ard ycti first in anything at scbooi. Earlle?" "First out when tbe bell rings." New Orleans Tiroes-DeuocrhL The time to read the Morning En terprise is at the breakfast table or a little before. Joy Rider Nowadays I Wants, For Sale, Etc Mtiea aitdor tRM elaaaiflM iiuiulgn will b laaertad at oeitt a wwa. MMt ! tmarUoa. hair a oent additional teaer tiWM. One Inch cmj i. 17 par laoatki: ball laofc t iuhi u par nuwtfc. CaMtt must aoosmiiaay amar aalaaa wc taa aa amn aacooU wttk tka XArmr. M tbuutdal raaponalbHltr for arrora; wharf I arrora occur free oorraota sotiaa wilt 1H I printed (or patron. NUniia elutrce 15a FOR KALE. FOR SALE: Dry wood, hardwood, a specialty. Price reasonable. E. A, Hackett. 317 17th Street. Give us a trial. Phone 2476. S. C. R. I. Reds from greatest prize winning stock on Pacific Coast, fine big laying hens $1.00 each. Eggs $2.00 per 15, Mrs. S. A. Strong, Ore gon City, Route "No. 3. Two colts for sale or will trade for cows or heifers. F. Miller, Box 59, Route No. 1, Oregon City. HERE IS A MESS FOR SALE: One good work horse, weight near 1200 lbs. One set dou ble harness, pretty good. One small wagon, about 2 and "one-half inch fckein, suitable for small ranch $25.00. One old wagon, just $5. One nearly complete working set blacksmith tools, all practically new. Make me an offer on any of this stuff and it is yours. A few seed potatoes. H. E. CROSS. WANTED. WANTED: Steady, experienced girl for housework. No cooking. Must give refernces. Good wages. Ad dress care Enterprise office. WANTED: People that are lovers of curios to call at my store. I have one of the best lines in the valley. - I will buy or sell anything of value . Have a fine line of second hand furniture. Geo. Young. WANTED: Indian relics and old U. S. postage stamps, good price3 paid. Henry Schoenborn, 1015, 7th street WANTED: Bright boy, 14 years or over. Address Oregon City Euter prise WANT: To trade 2 acres land all in cultivation, good house and out buildings for a place in East Ore gon City. Address H. C. care En terprise. FOR RENT. GOOD PASTURE for rent. Well wat ered. H. W. Elliott. West Side. Arrangements can be made at Char man & Co. City Drug Store. FOR RENT: One seven room house, with all latest improvements, up-to-date. Close in, with lawn and gar den. Apply to George Randall, Corn er 5th and Jefferson Streets, Ore gon City. FOR SALE REAL ESTATE. LAND FOR SALE: By Mayneia Bros., will sell in any number ot acres from $25 to $80 per acre. Ad dress "ayfield Bros., Springwater, Ore; .voute No. 1, or phone, Beav er Cioek. BARGAIN! 5 room modern bungalow. Lot 50x100, one block from station. $1200. Easy payments. Thos. E. Gault, Gladstone, Ore. GLADSTONE PROPERTY ! Houses, Vacant lots, acreage. &asy pay ments, Thos. E. Gault, Gladstone, Ore. FOR SALE: 5 room bungalow, bath and modern conveniences, inquire G. B. Dimick, Oregon City. . EIGHT AND ONE HALF ACRES And a six room house furnished sev en and one half under high state of cultivation, rich bottom land, five blocks from station, land sells on either side of this place from six hundred to one thousand dollars per acre if sold within sixty days this place sells for ($4400.) Jennings Lodge Real Estate Co., office at sta tion, Jennings Lodge, Oregon. DYEING AND STEAM CLEANING. OREGON CITY DYE WORKS 215 7th street French dry ana steam cleaning. Repairing, alterations and relining. Ladies' and gent s clothing of all kind cleaned, pressed and dyed. Curtains carpets, blan kets, furs and auto covers. All work called for and delivered. Phone Main 389. Mrs. Frank Silver. LOST. LOST: Between Canemah and O. W. P. depot or on Oregon cuy car, string of blue beads with gold bar pin attached, name Helen, inscrib ed. Finder leave with Mrs. Smith at L. Adams, receive reward. : r n;4. LOST: Sunday, between uresuuww and Beaver Creek store, a year um bay mare, star in forehead, foretop clipped, branded on left shoulder with character resembling "Y."Any person knowing whereabouts of same please notify J. H. Hasbrook, Oregon City, Route No. 1. WOOD AND COAL. OREGON CITY WOOD AND FUEL CO.. F. M. Bluhm. Wood and coal : delivered to all parts of the ci.y. SAWING A SPECIALTY. Phone your orders. Pacific 3502, Home B HP. FOUND. FOUND: Riding bridle and fine umbrella. Owners apply to Police- ' 'man Frost and pay for advertise ment. . ' NOTICES. Notice of Redemption of Improvement Bonds Notice is hereby given that Improve ment Bonds of Oregon City numb ered 76, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, .82, 83, and 84, will be redeemed by the Treasurer of Oregon City at the next interest paying period on said j Bonds, to-wit: May 1, 1912. Interest will cease on said bonds at said date. Bonds must be pre sented for redemption to the Treas urer of Oregon City at the First Na tional Bank in said City., By order of the Council of Ore gon City, Oregon. L. STIPP, Recorder. Summons In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Clackamas County. Harry M. Harrison, Plaintiff vs. Anna May Harrison, Defendant. To Anna May Harrison, Defend ant Above named: In the name of the State of Ore gon, you are hereby required to ap pear and answer the complaint filed against you in the above entitled suit, on or before the 10th day of June 1912, which is the time pre scribed for answering in the order of publication of ths summons, and if you fail so to appear and answer, the plaintiff will apply to the court for the relief demanded in the com plaint on file herin, to-wit: a de cree 6t the court dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between plaintiff and defendant herein, on the ground that jou deserted plaintiff without just or any cause, and against his wish, will and consent, on or about the ?8th day of December, 1907, and that ever since said time you have continuously lived apart from said plaintiff without just or any cause and against his wish, will and consent; And for the care and custody of the minor child, Ruth Harrison. This summons was published by order of the Honorable J. U. Camp bell, Judge of the above entitled court," duly made and filed April 26th, 1912, the date of the first pub lication of this summons being Ap ril 27th, 1912, and the date of the last publication hereof being June 8th, 1912. GEO. H. MILLER, Attorney for Plaintiff. Ordinance No. An ordinance providing for the instal lation of cut-offs or switches for the purpose o? controlling and cutting off electric power on rail roads op erated by electricity in Oregon City. Oregon City does ordain as fol lows: Section 1. It shall be the duty of every person, firm or corporation operating an electric railway with in the corporate limits of Oregon City, to properly provide and install at suitable places on such electric line, switches or cut-offs for the pur pose of cutting off on any part of such electric line the power cur rent, in cases of emergency. Such . switches shall be placed where the same may be easily accessible and used in cases of emergency when it would conduce to the safety of life or property on any part of such electric line to dis-connect the pow er current at any particular place along such electric line within said city. Section 2. Any person, firm or corporation failing or refusing to provide such switches when so ord ered by the Council of Oregon City, and at such places as may be de signated, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof may be fined in any sum, not exceeding fifty dollars, or im- prisoned in the city jail for a term not exceeding twenty-five days. Read first time and ordered pub lished at the regular meeting of the Council held May 1, 1912. L. STIPP, Recorder. MISCELLANEOUS. Mrs. C. A. Davenport, Room 13 over Jack & Albright s store. Making progress. "Beginning to feel . somewhat at home In society?" "Yes. indeed." answered Mr. Nu ritch. "At the dinner last evening I even venturea to emir a sinau epi gramsLouisville Courier-Jourual. "THIS bank cordially invites all persons who receive and pay out money, whether in large or small amounts, to open checking accounts, thereby providing positive safety for money and the great convenience for the handling of funds. THE BANK OF OREGON CITY I OLDEST BANK IN CEMENT, LIME, WALL PLASTER Glass Sash and doors, paints; oils, brushes and building' mater ials Prices the lowest TRY US AND SEE, ANY AMOUNT. De livered, or f. o. b Parklace. We are out for business if you want quick service and low prices. See us. Phone Main 2002. W. A. HOLMES & CO., Parkplace, Ore. D. ti LATOITRHTrm Prlt . r 3. MBTSR. Chl. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK of OREGON CTTV , OREGON . CAPITAL, ISMOftOO. Tran a Urai Banking Bulna. Open front A. M. U 8 P. T DIE ON SCAFFOLD CORVALLIS, May 3. Judge Ham ilton passed the death sentence upon George and Charles Humphrys, con victed of the murder of Mrs. Eliza Griffith, fixing Friday, "June 14, as the date of the excution. . The men received the court's an nouncement of their doom with an air of stolid indifference. At the Judge's command each in turn arose, replied in the negative when asked if he had anything to say before sent ence was pronounced, and sat down when the Judge concluded. Not an expression of their faces, not a move ment ot the eyelids, not a tremble of their bodies betrayed concern or dread. It could be seen that theirs was a real, a bruttish indifference, and not a proud repression of feeling. When Judge Hamilton told George Humphrys that his crime was the most cruel and atrocious that, within his knowledge has ever been com mitted within the state of Oregon, he awakened no expression of inter est As the prisoners were taken back to the jail, which is some distance from the Courthouse, George lighted his pipe and smoked with apparent relish. The men talked with their guards concerning their sentence as though it were an ordinary incident Before sentence was pronounced Attorney J. A. Jeffrey moved for a new trialj but made no argument. The motion was denied and he gave the usual notice of appeal. The prisoners were taken to the state penitentiary on the 11:30 train, this morning by sheriff Gellatly and Deputies Raber and Linnville, and there they will be placed in the death cell for condemned prisoners. Governor West announced after the arrest of the Humphrys that he would not commute their sentence if they were convicted of murder in the first degree, but would grant them a re prieve until after the November elec tion, which it is expected the voters will pass upon the question of abol ishing capital punishment. WOOL MARKET HAS MUCH FIRMER TONE The wool market is nominally firm er. Th-3 average price for good Will amette valley wool here is 18c a pound There is some talk of 20c being paid for extra fine fleeces but this cannot be fully confirmed at the present time. The market for wool is showing an increase in activity east of the Cas cades and quite a number of fair- sized sales have been reported during the past 48 hours around 14c a pound. Mohair continues rather dull with no inclination among buyers to bid any higher. Most of them are quite well stocked with hair and therefore are rather independent in their views Holders are not changing their views to any extent, although some of the smallers ones are letting go around , 34c a pound. This is the extreme limit available at the present time. Hides are just about steady. Some of the leading buyers are not accum ulating any stocks, considering the market in the east rather shaky. While there is stiff fight on between some dealers for calf hides and prices are bing bid far above their market value, trade shows no change. Prevailing Oregon City prices are as follows: DRIED FRUITS (Buying) Prunes on basis of 6 to 8 cents. Fruits, Vegetables. HIDES (Buying) Green hides, 7c to 8c; ealters 6c to 7c; dry hides 12c to 14c; sheep pelts, 25c to 75c each. Hay, Grain, Feed. EGGS Oregon ranch eggs, 18c case count; 20c condeled. SACK VEGETABLES Carrots. HAY (Buying) Timothy, $12 to $15! clover, $8 to $9; oat hay, best, $9 to $10; mixed, $9 to $11; alfalfa, $15 to $16.5U. OATS-(Buying) Grany $35 to $36.50 wheat $20; oil meal, selling $35; Shady Brook dairy feed, $1.30 per 100 pound3. FEED (Selling) Shorts, $28; bran $26; rolling barley, $40.00 to $4,100; process barley, $40. FLOUR $4.60 to $5.40. -POTATOES Best buying $1.00 to $1.40 according to quality per hund red. Butter, Poultry, Eggs. POULTRY (Selling) Hens 13c to 14c; spring, 17c to20c, and roosters 8c. Stags 11c. , Butter (Buy.-g Ordinary coun try butter, 20c to 30c; fancy, dairy. $1.25 to $1.50 per sack; parsnips, J $1.25 to $1.50; turnips, $1.25 to i.t. Dee8' i 0 , . Livestock. Meats BEEF (Live Weight) Steers, 5 and 6c;"cows, 4c; bulls 3c VEAL Calves 10c to 12c dressed, according to grade. ' MOHAIR 33c to 35c. MUTTTON Sheep 3c to 3c. Iambs, 4c aivl 5c. ! The Morning Enterprise is the best breakfast food you can have. CLACKAMAS COUNTY