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About Morning enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1911-1933 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1912)
THE WEATHER. & Oregon City Showers today; southerly winds. 3 Oregon Showers Wednesday, S $ southerly winds. S VOL. Ill No. 120 OHIO RETURNS GIVE ROOSEVELT LEAD TAFT CARRIES SOUTHERN PART OF STATE, BUT COLONEL SWEEPS NORTH . HARMON HAS APPARENT PLURALITY La Foliette Gets Vote That Astonishes And Bryan And Clark Are , Given Support Count Is Slow I COLUMBUS, O., May 21. On the face of the early returns in Ohio's first Presidential preference primary today. Colonel Roosevelt led the Re publican ticket over President Taft and Governor Harmon, of Ohio, led Governor Wilson of New Jersey, on the Democratic ticket by a fair mar gin. These returns, however were given on a basis of complete figures from rmlv nrprinrts nut. nf a tnta.l nf 5192. These gave Roosevelt dele gates 59,054 and Taft delegates 41, 435, a majority of 17,619 for the Roosevelt men. Only on the Democratic ticket does the count represent a direct Presi dential preference vote. On the Re publican ticket the vote computed is the total outcome of ballots cast in the precincts counted for delegates to the National convention pledged to Colonel Roosevelt or President Taft. President Taft appeared to have carried Cincinnati by a large margin, and also Toledo and Dayton, among the larger cities. This was more than offset by the vote given Colonel Roosevelt in the north and in Colum bus and other cities. The Roosevelt lead in the north end of the state, it seemed, would give ths ex-President an advantage which Mr. Taft could not overcome by his vote in the south end, includ ing Cincinnati and the rural districts. Senator La Foliette received a larger vote than state politicians had pre dicted, getting a considerable fraction of the vote cast in the northern end of the state, including Cleveland. " Governor Wilson, like Roosevelt, received his biggest vote in Cleve land and the surrounding counties. Governor Harmon polled a heavy vote in Columbus, the capital, and al so in his home city, Cincinnati. Har mon's campaigin managers, despite the early figures declared that their candidate had carried the state through the heavy vote for him they expected in the country districts. Governor Harmon's chief strength, they say, had- been in Cleveland, where Mayor Baker had waged a strong fight against Harmon. Mayor Baker, however, in a statement, in sisted that Governor Wilson had cor ried Ohio by a vote of two to one. Both Champ Clark and Mr. Bryan, although their names were not on the preference ballot and they were not represented by a delegate .received several scattering votes, which when final returns are in, may affect the outcome of the Wilson-Harmon race. GEORGE MARLEY'S George Marley, fifty years of age, one of the best known men in Ore gon City, was seriously injured early today at the mills of the Hawley Pulp & Paper Company. Both of his hands were caught in a calender which he was feeding, and his fingers were mangled, several of them being torn from his hand. Henry Henningsen, Night Superintendent, hurried the in jured man to the office of Dr. Strick land. Dr. Strickland was assisted by Dr. Meissner in attending to the in jured man. Mr. Marley has lived in Oregon City many years. His wife died several years ago. He has sev eral children. PEDESTRIAN MINISTER TO TELL OF FUNNY EXPERIENCES Rev. E. A. Smith will canvass Will amette Wednesday afternoon and in the evening he will conduct the ser vices telling of some of his exeprien ces. He has travelled more than a thousand miles since the beginning of the year in his work and has had some amusing experiences. RURAL NAIL CARRIER'S AUTO STUCK IN ID TVnnlr Whitemfln a mirnl mflil fnr. rier, who recently turned his faithful horses, "Pet" and "Peggy," out to pasture for their summer's outing, I and has since that time been making his rounds in an. automobile, had the misfortune of getting "mired" Mon-' day, and it was necessary to contin- j ue his work on foot His family in this city were much concerned over ! his delay, but he made his appearance ' about 10 o'clock foot sore and tired. Tuesday morning he took "Peggy" on ; the trip and brought his machine . back with him, fastening it to the rear of his mail wagon. Whiteman says that a horse is about as good as an automobile, and some times bet ter. He can always depend on his horses even if the' roads are almost impassable in some places. He will "continue to work out his road tax. The section where Whiteman had the accident Monday had not ben reached before by the driver with his shovel and hoe when he started working his road tax a week ago, and he intends to leave every morning from this city on time and care for these bad roadr so that he may use his automolrle the remainder of the summer. DEAD EELS TO BE TAKEN FROM RIVER SANITARY ASSOCIATION AND LIVE WIRES TO ABROGATE NUISANCE COUNCIL WILL BE ASKED TO AID Good Roads Bills Are Discussed At Luncheon, W. S. U'Ren Ex . plaining Attitude Of State Grange The stench of dead eels will be eliminated from Oregon City if the plans proposed at the Tuesday lunch eon of the Live Wires are matured. The Williamette River Sanitary As sociation has been formed with Earl C. Bronaugh, president; John Hamp ton, vice-president and Frank Dayton secretary-treasurer. All of these gen tlemen have estates along the river between Oregon City and Portland and they are endeavoring to raise $200 by subscription -to place in the hands of Master Fish Warden Clan ton. With this fund the Fish and Game Commission will station a pa trol of one or two men at Willamette during the period covered by extreme back water and dead low water, when the eels in great numbers die rapid ly. The Fish and Game Commission expects to secure young live eels as food for salmon and to remove the dead eels before the stench becomes nauseating. The Live Wires appoint ed a committee to aid in procuring $100 or more from this end of the line, where the nostrils of the public are first affected. It is possible that the city council may be induced to make a small appropriation, as well as the Oregon City Lodge, of Elks, in view" of the fact that thousands of visitors will come to visit the city dur-, ing the session of the Elke Grand Lodge. The Willamette Pulp & Pa per Company has headed the list with a generous subscription. The Live Wires devoted no little time Tuesday to a discussion of the merits of the various good roads bills that have been proposed. W. S. U'Ren, who was present at the State Grange meeting, told of the differen ces of opinion between the officers of the Grange and Governor West and said he believed they were too far apart to get together on this ques tion. He said the main difference was that the Grange desired to have the laterals improved first and the main trunk lines afterward, and they re sisted the proposed improvement of the trunk roads ahead of the branch es for the reason that the Grangers are of the opinion that there will be but one bond issue and after the trunk lines are improved the road construction and improvement under the same system may be terminated before the laterals are improved. Mayor Dimick said he had made a close study of the Grange road bills and believes in them. He gave them his hearty indorsement and said there is nothing in them to prohibit county courts from improving trunk lines first whenever it is deemed exped ient. The various road bills were referred to the Live Wires legislative commit tee to study and report upon and they will be taken up at a later meeting. It was expected that the question of Public Baths and Swimming' Pool would be brought before the Live Wires at Tuesdday's meting, but the time was consumed and this matter will come up next week. PHOTO ONOERWOOO UNDUWOOD. N. Y Countess of Warwick, Who Was the leader of English society in King Edward's time, but is now known as the Socialist Countess. She is visiting the United States. HENRICI SCHOOL HAS FINE CLOSING PROGRAM 'I' h e closing exercises of the Hen rici school were held Saturday night at the school house, and was In the form of a basket social, when bask ets containing luncheons were sold, the proceeds amounting to $35. Ice cream and cake were sold during the evening and an excellent program that had been arranged by the tacher, Miss Nellie Miller, and taken part in by the pupils of the school, was given during the evening. The interior of the school wets prettily decorated with evergreens and flowers. There was a large attendance. MRS BROWN HOSTESS - OF FAIRFAX CLUB Mrs. M. J. Brown entertained the Fairfax Club Monday evening. Her home was beautifully decorated and refreshments were served. The fol lowing were present: Mesdames Lena Charman, C. D. Latourette, Rosina Fouts, E. S. Follansbee, E. T. Avison, E. T. Fields, A. B. Wilmot, Brightbill, Evans and Miss Gertrude Thompson. WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 13 6 6 OREGON CITT, v PERPETRATED BY WALT MFDOUCALLv YOUVE BEEN DRINKING- GEORGE W. WILSON IS GRANTED DIVORCE HERE FROM MRS. V. M. WILSON JEALOUSY OF CLIENTS IS ALLEGED Defendant, Who Is Daughter Of Mult nomah County Official ; Gets $1,000 Through Compromise George W Wilson, an attorney ol Portland, and Mrs. Vera Marie Wil son, a daughter of County Clerk Fields, of Multnomah County, were the principals in a divorce suit instituted August 4 in Clackamas County, and in which a decree has just been hand ed down by Circuit Judge Campbell. .They were married November 25, 1907, in New York, and Wilson avers that shortly after their marriage his wife became cross, sulky and crabbed and would not speak to him for days at a time; that she refused to allow him to sleep in the same bed with her and that she declined to caress and love him and professed that she had no love or affection for him. Wilson says she neglected her household duties, refused to sew buttons .on his clothes, clean his clothes and1 mend his stocking. She is said to have re ferred to him as a. dog in the pres ence of his relatives, and he says her nagging made him miserable and he became ill and unable to eat. Wilson declares he is an attorney and as such be had occasion to have female clients in his office, but by reason, of his wife's jealous disposi tion, she refused to allow any women to come to his office. The suit was settled witltut a con test, Mrs. Wilson accepting $1000 in lieu of property rights. The care of their lS-months-old son, George Lind sey Wilson, is divided, being given to Wilson and his divorced wife in al ternate years. Mrs. Wilson is to re ceive from Wilson $25 a month dur- J ing the years that she has the custody ot tneir cnua. John C. Shillock appeared for Wil son, but Mrs. Wilson was not repre sented by an attorney. She came to Oregon City and accepted service soon after the suit was filed. PRESBYTERIAN BAZAAR IS GIVEN THIS EVENING The committees of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Presbyterian church, which will have charge of the bazaar to be given at the church parlors this evening are as follows: Refreshments, Mrs. W. J. Wilson, Mrs. E. L. Shaw, Mrs. George Howell, Sale of Fancy Articles and Aprons Mrs. L. A. Pace, Mrs. George Ely, Mrs. G. J. Howell, Mrs. J. W. Jones and Mrs. George Eb erly. . - REV. EDWARDS TO DELIVER MEMORIAL SERMON SUNDAY The Rev. George Nelson Edwards, pastor of the Congregational church, will deliver the memorial address in the church next Sunday morning. Members of Meade Post, Grand Army of the Republic and the Women's Re lief Corps will be In attendance. PORTLAND LAWYER SAYS WIFE SULKED OREGON, . WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1912. tee twmsip OFC0URSE,THIS NEVER REALLY HAPPENS! H P l - TT -v- a rL . Ji j tmVtgooS A fOTff, Wilk ("ackU r CANDIDATES READY ! RICH MINER'S WIFE FOR FINAL EFFORT! $784 FORD TOURING CAR ANDlMRS. MINNIE TAYLOR ASKS $100 TO. BE AWARDED IN JUSf( TWO WEEKS RACE INTERESTING THROUGHOUT All Ballots Must Be Deposited By 7 O'Clock On Evening Of June 5 When Judges Make v Count STANDING OF'CANDIDATES 3 Ruby McCord 191,200 3 Joseph Sheahan .47.200 3 $ Kent Wilson 33600 $ $ John Brown 15,000 $ John Weber 6,800 S S John Haleston -. 6,000 & 8 A. G. Kindler . . . 7,200 8 sesss3ssssgsssis The biggest contest ever conducted in Clackamas County by a newspaper will close in two weeks. Several months ago the Morning and Weekly Enterprise offered a $784 Ford tour continued on page 2.) A watch is intended BOMS' day. Unless it does this accurately, it is worse than useless, for it is like the man you can not depend upon. Many a man hasjtwenty.five or thirty dol lars tied up in a watch, which is worthless, when, if he would invest a dollar or two for having it repaired, he would get the full value out of it. Often a watch which does not keep proper time needs regulating for which we make no charge. If it needs repairing our charges are more than reasonable. OUR WORK IS GUAR TEED. Burmeister & Andresen Oregon City Jewelers l I SEEKING ALIMONY $2,500 MONTHLY AND $5,000 LAWYER'S FEES MOTION IS TO BE ARGUED FRIDAY Plaintiff Avers That Defendant Is Worth More Than Million Dollars Suit Pending In California Mrs. Minnie Taylor, wife of Char les Davenport Taylor, ' millionaire mine owner, through her attorneys Tuesday made a motion for $2,500 monthly alimony, counsel fees and court costs during the pendency of i the. suit instituted by her husband for the annulment of their marriage. Not I ice was served on Brownell & Stone, I attorneys for the plaintiff, that the j motion would be argued at 10 o'clock ' next Friday morning. The defendant . will further ask that the plaintiff be required to deposit $7,000 with the j county clerk to pay the costs of te (Continued on page 3) to tell you the time of Suspension Bridge Corner SE E ELECTS TEACHERS ALL INSTRUCTORS WHO FILED ' APPLICATIONS ARE AGAIN CHOSEN TWELVE VACANCIES TO BE FILLED Superintendent Tooze And Principals Freel And Bowland To Re- -mairv Applications Are Received Every teacher in the Oregon City schools who filed an application was reelected at a special meeting of the Board of Education Tuesday night. Because of the lateness of the hour, however, the Board did not fill any of the twelve vacancies in the corps, but will take this up as soon as more definite information relative to the qualifications of some of the appli cants is obtained. F. J. Tooze, who has been superin tendent of the city schools for the last three years, was reelected Tues day night, as were A. O. Freel, prin cipal of the Barclay building and N. W. Bowland, principal of the East ham building. In the high school H. F. Pfingsten, Mrs. Pearl C. Cartlidge and Miss Ev elyn Todd were reelected, leaving three vacancies. Three instructors did not apply, Sigurd Anker, princip al;. Miss Lulu Kuns, commercial and science, and Miss Edith Baker, Latin, German and History. The following grade teachers were reelected : Mrs. Estalla Salisbury, Mrs. Gussie L. Hull, Nieta Harding, Ola Mickey, Katherine Montgomery, Queene Ad ams, Marjorie Caufield, Anna T. Smith. Peter D. Forbes was reelected in structor in the manual training de partment and Miss Lulu Porter was chosen instructor in domestic science and art. Miss Effle McDaniell, in structor in drawing, was not an ap plicant, and will give all of her time to the St. Johns schools next year. The percentage of grade teachers not filing applications was greater this year than ever before, and the following grade vacancies have oc curred due to the retirement of these instructors : Barclay Building First, Mrs. Hel en Grisez; Fourth, Ruth Notz; sixth, Viola Peddicord; third and fourth (in high school building,) Miss Mary Scott. Eastham Building First, Chirsta bel Jewett; third, Maude Mason; fifth and sixth;, Ethel Park; fourth, Marcia Romig; sixth and seventh, Roma Stafford. TEACHERS RE-ELECTED BY GLADSTONE BOARD The Gladstone school district Tues day night re-elected its entire corps of teachers. The principal, Brenton Vedder, will receive $100 per month, and the grade teachers will be paid $60. Mrs-Eya S. Henderson was elect ed primary . teacher and Ethel E. Sharpe, Nellie Riebhoff and Laura Purcell grade teachers. M. Johns was elected janitor at a salary of $40 a month. BOYS TO TEST PLANE MADE BY THEM SOON York Hammond, sixteen years of age, and Frank Nelson, seventeen years of age, who have built a biplane similar to the Wright machine, ex pect to fly in it in a few days. Be fore installing the motor the lads will try out the biplane as a glider, starting on the side of a steep hill. The machine is twenty-seven feet wide twenty-four feet long and. six and cne-half feet high. It has pneumatic tire wheels, and all the other devices used on the Wright flyer. The boys are confident they will have no trou ble making flights, and declare they have not the slightest fear. Although they worked on the biplane three months, they kept their plans secret from everyone but William Nelson, in a large room over whose blacksmith shop the craft was built. William Nelson is the father of the Nelson lad. Hammond who is a son of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Hammond, was born in Molalla and has lived in Oregon City four years. Nelson was bof in Oklahoma and came here with his parents six years ago. WOMAN'S CLUB ELECTS OFFICERS TOMORROW A fine program has been prepared for the meeFing of the Woman's Club tomorrow afternoon. The annual elec tion of officers will be held and "TEe Flora and Fauna of Oregon" will be the subject ;to be discussed. Mrs. George A. Harding will be the leader and she will be assisted by Mrs. W. A, White. Mrs. William Gardner will be theh osfcss. Mrs. David Caufield, president, urges all members to atend the meeting. The club is arranging to have a baby show the day of the Rose Festival. The-Enterprtso automoDile contest is the most popular thing ever pulled off in the Willamette Valley. DUCATION BOARD The only daily newspaper .be-S $ tween Portland and Salem; cir- culates in every section of Clack- $ s amas County, with a population 3 s of 30,000. Are you an advertiser? 3 88SS$33333S$S Pee Week, 10 Cento WATER BOARD AND I REPRESENTATIVES OF SEATTLE FIRM LOSE FIGHT TO OBTAIN $50,000 ISSUE : BID IS F Exciting Colloquy Follows In Which Secretary Hedges Speaks Plainly Bank Not After Bonds At an exciting session of the water board Tuesday afternoon all bids" for $50,000 5 per cent bonds, but Morris Bros., of Portland, were rejected. The members of the board declined to say whether the bid of the Portland firm would be accepted, and it is pos sible that other bids will be asked. G. A. Haskell and G. F .Falley, rep resenting Carstens & Earles, of Se attle, made a determined fight for the contract. They asserted that their bid was the highest and under the law they were entitled to the con tract. Carstens & Earles - bid $1183 above par, and Morris Bros, bid $857.50 above par. Both firms agreed to furnish blank bonds and pay ac crued interests. The proposals were opened at a meeting of the board Monday evening, but action was de ferred until Tuesday. J. E. Hedges, secretary of the board, said Messrs. Haskell and Falley circulated a re nnrt nhnnt the c.itv that the issue would be awarded to the bank of Ore gon City, of which C. H. Cauneia, president of the board, is an officer, Mr Pmifielfl denied that the bank de sired the bonds "saying it had made a bid at par to keep the Donas irom selling below par and injuring the rrpilit of the city.' Messrs. Haskell and Falley denied the assertion of Mr. Hedges and a heated colloquy 101 lowed in which the lie was passed several times. In fact it looKea ior a iniTiiitR that there might be a fist icuff. Mayor Dimick and Councilman Holman were present, but did not take part In tne conversation. iuc vote to reject all bids but that of Morris Bros, was unanimous. Mr Wprlefis announced that the bid of Carstens & Earles was rejected be cause of the conditio imposea. n was intimated after the meeting that the board believed the Seattle firm desired to use the bonds for specula te purposes, and if it were found a profit could not be made out of them before they were issued, upon recom mendation of their attorney, accord ing the provisions of the proposal, they could refuse to accept the issue. Messrs Haskell and Falley said that they would file suit for a re straining order enjoining the board from issuing the bonds to any of the bidders but Carstens & Earles. L WILL START MONDAY ' The annual school exhibition of the Oregon City schools will beheld in the Barclay building beginning next Mon day afternoon. Superintendent Tooze announced Tuesday evening that the exhibition would be even superior to the one held last year which attract ed so much favorable comment. Teachers will be in charge every aft ernoon from 1 to 3:30 o'clock and in the evenings from 7:30 until 9 o'clock. Work of the pupil3 in manual train ing, domestic science, art, drawing, etc., will be exhibited. MRS. DOUTHiT DIES irrrn nnrniTiMi Afl Lit UrLnAIIUil Mrs. Dora Douthit, wife of John Douthit, of this city, died at the Ore gon City Hospital Monday evening, at 9:30 o'lock, where she had been taken to lihdergo an operation. Mrs. Douthit underwent &n operation on Saturday and another operation was performed Monday morning. Mrs. Douthit has been ill for several weeks. Mrs. Douthit was born in Butler County, Iowa, April 7, 1874, and at the time of her death was thirty- Cl&uh J x a vrt " ' ' ond daughter of Mr .and Mrs. A. F. Surfus, the former having passed away in this city in 1888. She came to Oregon with her parents 27 years ago, and settled in Oregon City where she has since made her home, five years ago she married John Dou thit, who survives her, and she also is survived by two little children By a former marriage, Ethel Younger and Rennie Younger; two sisters, Mrs. A. J. Ware, of Albion, Wash., and Mrs. Lillian Saunders, of PGrt land; five brothers, William Surfus, Edward Surfus, Charles Surfus, of Oreon Citv: Roy Surfus. of Sell wood and John Surfus, of Kellogg, Idaho1. Mrs. Saiah Margaret Surfus, mother of Mrs. Douthit, also survives and re sides in Oregon City. The interment will be in the Moun tain View cemetery,, where a -brief service will be held by Rev. J. R. Landsborough, this being the request of Mrs. Douthit. The remains are at the home of Mrs. Surfus, and will be taken from there this afternoon at 2 o'clock. TOOZE TO DELIVER BACCALAUREATE ADDRESS Commencment week will open Sun day evening witht he baccalaureate address by Superintendent of City Schools Tooze. The address will be delivered in the Congregational chureh and will start at 7:30 o'clock. BOND MEN A AR