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VOL. Ill No. 159
OREGON OITY, OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 7, 1912.
Per Week, 10 Cents
20 DIE IN TORRID
HEAT OF CHICAGO
50 OTHERS ARE PROSTRATED
AND 18 ARE BITTEN BY
RABID DOGS
CROPS AIDED BY BLAZING SUNSHINE
Shifting Winds Bring Slight Relief
For Brief Period Men And
Horses Drop In Oven
Like Thoroughfares
CHICAGO, July 6. Twenty deaths
in the two days of torridity Chicago
has experienced was the record to
night when the statistics were footed
up. In addition there were half a
hundred serious prostrations and 18
persons were bitten by rabid dogs.
Meanwhile the heat wave has "flat
tened out," to use a technical expres
sion of the weather forecasters. Ove
the grain fields of the West and
Southfest the blazing sunshine was
making millions in agricultural wealth
The suffering in the cities meant the
fortune of the farmers.
The temperature today did not reach
yesterday's extreme height and the
humidity was 71, or four degrees be
low that of yesterday, but men and
horses continued to drop in the
streets, which were like hot tunnels.
Some relief came in -the afternoon,
when shifting winds1 brought a light
breeze off the lake. It was confined
to that portion of the city within a
half-mile of the lake front, however,
as the breeze was so light it lost its
coolness after traveling over belch
ing chimneys.
By way of comparison, it may be
noted that San Francisco, with a max
imum of 60 and a minimum of 50, was
the coolest spot in the country. Port
land had 62-52. Los Angeles, with
78-58,, comes next, more than 20 de
grees' cooler than Montreal and Tor
onto. Phoenix, Ariz., claims the heat
record, with 104. Boston reported 90
New York 82 and Washington 90. Var
ious Texas points had an average of
96, Cincinnati was comparatively cool
at 80, or eight degrees cooler than
St. Louis, which had precisely the
same temperature as St. Paul, 88, and
was four degrees cooler than Madison
Wis., Saulte-Ste-Marie, usually tne
abiding place of the chilly wave, swel
tered at 92, 10 degrees hotter than
Memphis, Tenn. Green Bay, Wis., al
soone of the "cold spots" on the tour
ist circulars, reported 94, or 10 de
grees warmer than Denver.
In addition to 20 deaths in Chicago,
five deaths were reported from Phila
delphia, one from La Crosse, Wis.,
and five others from various points.
In Michigan there were disastrous
forest fires, and two cloudbursts in
North Dakota did great damage to
property.
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. OF HEART FAILURE
William Carey Johnson a pioneer of
Oregon, died Friday night of heart di
sease at his home in Portland. He
was seventy-eight years old. For hall
a century he was prominent in the le
gal profession, with offices in Oregon
City. ' Later he moved to Portland
and was associated for. some time
with C.JM. Idleman, attorney of that
city. Several years ago he retired
from active business affairs, but had
always taken a lively interest in the
work of the courts and was a familiar
figure about the corridors and court
rooms of the Multnomah Courthouse",
almost to the day of this death.
The deceased was of English par
entage and came to Oregon from Ohio
In 1849. In his early years he engag
ed in journalism and was connected
with several newspapers. He then
turned his attention to the law and
was engaged in much of the important
litigation of his time. He also was
one of the prominent figures in the
Legislature in the early days. He is
survived by his widow and four sons
as follows: R. D. Johnson, manager of
the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany in San Francisco; Nello John
son, manager of a cannery at Astoria;
Merle Johnson, cartoonist for the New
York Journal, and Ronald Johnson,
First Lieutenant of TJ. S. Cavalry, at
present stationed in Texas. -
Rev. S. P. Davis, of this city, for
many, years a friend of Mr. Johnson,
will conduct the funeral services
which will be held Monday at Fin
ley's Undertaking establishment In
Portland.
CITY MADE 'SPOTLESS
TOWN' FOR ANTLERS
-. The downtown streets, intersecting
Main street were thoroughly cleaned
last week by four prisoners sentenced
to serve terms In the city jail. E .L.
Shaw has put the men to work daily
on the streets. As a result Oregon
City wijl be spick and span when the
thousands of visitors brought hereby
the big Elks' convention begin arriv
ing today. Main street also has been
tnorougmy cleaned and will be kept
in fine condition during the conven
tion. In fact with its clean streets
and beautiful decorations Oregon
City will be a "City Beautiful" during
the great reunion of the antlered herd.
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GREATEST MEETING PLANNED
BY ASSEMBLY STARTS
TUESDAY
PARK PHI IN PERFECT CONDITION
Program Arranged By Secretary
Cross Best In History of His
x toric Willamette
Assembly
When the gates of old Gladstone
Park swing open Tuesday morning,
the Nineteenth annual session of the
Willamette Valley Chautauqua will be
gin. Most auspiciously, too, for the
directors, realizing that they have se
lected the greatest program in ChauH
tauqua history, are confident that
within the next thirteen days thevat
tendance will pass the 40,000 mark.
Oregon City can well be proud of
the Willamette Valley Chautauqua. It
is a time-tried flourishing institution
and yet not in any sense a dividend
payer. The reason is simple: The
Chautauqua graveyard is overflowing
with the remains of chautauquas that
started out under kindly stars, but the
commercial side the desire of the
promoters to get rich soon snuffed out
the careers of many promising insti
tutions. But not so with the Gladstone
Chautauqua. Directors and stock
holders are all broad-minded men and
women of Oregon City and Portland
who realize, first of all the great field
of Chautauqua work and who are per
fectly content in the social, religious
and educational uplift of their fellow
men, when no other reward for then
efforts is in sight. The best in music,
lectures .education, recreation and
dignified entertainment is brought to
Gladstone's famous auditorium and
prices are fixed on a basis of abso
lute cost. This is the mission of the
directors, and for eighteen years they
and their predecessors hirve labored
hard to bring the est within reach of
all and they have succeeded most ad
mirably. Picturesque Gladstone Park as
thousands of Chautauqua lovers will
testify is one of Oregon's beauty spots
Originally old Chief Jake and his
Clackamas tribesmen held their own
chautauquas and pow-wows on the
focky mound in the northern corner oi
the present park. Of course in those
days the hundreds of beautiful firs
which now rise to enormous height
were in their infancy and as old In
dian George one of Gladstone's land
marks used to say: "Little trees bue
in those days I see many, many deer."
But the park has retained all its nat
ural beauty, the "pow-wow" mound is
still there and even the old lake,
which has not apparent inlet or out
let and in places no bottom some
folks say is a rock-walled mystery
which has kept its motionless surface
throughout the many decades since
the days when the red men gathered
on its banks. It has always been the
desire of the directors to retain the
natural scenery of the park.
In 1894 Harvey E. Cross, owner or
the land, leased the site to the Chau
tauqua Association for fifty years, the
only consideration being that the
Chautauqua should convene annually
during that period. Mr. Cross, the
"Father of Gladstone" has been one of
the most energetic and earnest work
ers of the Chautauqua from the be
ginning, and is the present secretary
of the association.
One of the earliest accomplishments
of the baby Chautauqua was the erec
tion of the large andltonum. This
building is in present use and; is re
garded as one of the finest open air
auditoriums of the state. It is an im
mense 'hemispherical roof, covered by
180,000 shingles. The architecture Is
peculiar but the acoustics are almost
perfect . Besides the auditorium, a
large restaurant, ; pavilion for drill
work, numerous bungalows and build
ings, and a large grandstand are on
the grounds. This year two or three
additional structures have been built
EST CHAUTAUQUA
THE KINDERGARTEN COMMENCEMENT
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COPYRIGHT HARRIS AND EWINO. WASH
Erig.-Gen. George R. Smith, U. S. A.,
Recently Appointed Paymaster Gen
eral of the Army
MAN ACCUSED OF
FORGERY IS JAILED
W. F. Mills, who says he has lived
in Oregon City several months, was
arrested Saturday afternoon on a
charge of forgery. He is accused of
passing forged chacks for $30 each oi
J. E. Seeley and F. B. Schoenborn. E.
L. Shaw was told that the man was
operating in the city early in the aft
ernoon. The checks were written on
the First Rational Bank. After the
man had tried without success to cash
checks at the establishments of
J.- Levitt, ITolpolar, The Oregon City
Shoe Store, and the Gardiner Jewelry
Store, Shaw traced him to a saloon
near the Southern Pacific, station. The
suspect went to Main street with tht
chief close behind him. Shaw was
not sure of his identification, , and
asked Policeman Frost to watch the
man until he (Shaw) went to Seeley's
store to get one of the clerks to make
the identification. Meanwhile Frost
made the arrest, and the victims of
the forger identified the prisoner as
the man who had defrauded them.
notably a tasty bungalow for the do
mestic science classes, Secretary
Cross probably feeling that the home
for the cooking classes should most
certainly be "tasty" above allelse. The
athetic field has an excellent quarter
mile track which encloses the base
ball diamond on which daily contents
will be waged by five of the fastest
teams in the Willamette Valley.
Most important in the park improve
ments for the 1912 session is the in
stallation of a complete sewerage sys
tem, modern sanitary convenience
and an immense septic tank with dou
ble exhausts, a most modern idea for
park comfort With a water system
direct from the Clackamas river run
ning on the grounds but little remains
for an ideal condition for the many
campers. ;
Speaking of the Clactamas river,
Gladstonians feel it is "their very
own" in a sense, and are extremely
proud of this picturesque trout stream
Not many years ago Rudyard Kipling
fished in its swirling eddies for -the
gamey trout and later he voiced his
sentiments concerning the quaint old
river in one of his well, known literary
efforts The Clackamas dashes along
by the Chautauqua grounds and its
cool .secluded banks" are filling up
with Clackamas campers who prefer
to live outside the tent city.
From 8:00 a. m. until 10:30 p. m.
each day the Chautauqua will hum
along for its thirteen-day session. Be
tween p'rograms in the main auditor
ium baseball will hold forth on the
athletic field and open air concerts,
with leading Portland soloists will be
rendered by Prof. Chapman's Chautau
qua orchestra.
Boost your city by boosting your
daily paper. The Enterprise should
be in every home. -
SPEECH.
CHARTER ELECTION
HELD TOMORROW
CITIZENS WILL VOTE ON AMEND
MENTS PROPOSED BY COM- -MITTEE
PUBLIC: DOCK IS ALSO AT STAKE
Electorate To Determine Whether
City Is To Have Play Ground
And Modern Fire Alarm
System
An election will be held in Oregon
City tomorrow for the purpose of sub
mitting to the voters a proposition to
revise the city charter, an ordinance
providing for the issuance and sale of
thirty-two general city coupons for
building an elevator from the lawer
part of the city to the top of the
bluff, constructing and providing a
public dock, providing public grounds
for the city and providing a fire alarm
system. The revised charter which
was prepared by a committee appoint
ed by ex-Mayor BrowneH and the city
council of last year, provides for a
council of five members, one to be
elected from each ward and two to be
elected at large. It provides for the
election of a : mayor by the council
from one of its number, and the em
ployment of a business manager of
the city at a salary not to exceed $2,-
500 a year.
The ordinances providing for the
elevator .public grounds, fire alarm
system and public dock carry with
them an appropriation of about $17,
000. The polls will open at 9 o'clock
in the morning and close at 7 o'clock
E. L. Shaw has notified the owners of
saloons to close during those hours.
The voting places will be as fol
lows: Ward No. 1 at the Cataract
Hose House. Ward No. 2, at the
Fountain Hose House, and Ward No.
3, at the Fire House No. 3.
The Judges and Clerks of election
will be as follows: Ward No. 1, judges
W. W. Myer, J. C. Bradley, W. H.
Trembath, Clerks, R. E. Woodward
and F. Buzbee.
Ward No. 2, Judges: W .A. White,
501 Walker, and S." F. Scripture.
Clerks, Chas. Kelly and Roy Cox.
Word No. 3, Judges: S. F. Francis,
C. K. Quinh and C. F. Gottberg.
Clerks: F. M. Darling and E. W. Scott
WIFE SEEKS DECREE,
ALLEGING CRUELTY
Alleging that her husband has been
cross to her and has frequently struck
her, Myrtle M. Elliott Saturday filed
suit for a divorce from Jesse A. El
liott They were married in Oregon
City May 7, 1905 and have two child
ren. The plaintiff avers that her hus
band kicked her in June 19H. She
asks $15 a month alimony and the cus
tody of their youngest child. ' Daniel
S. Ayres seeks a divorce from Cecelia
Frances Ayres. They were married
in New York City, January 8, 1902.
The plaintiff says his wife deserted
him. -
The decree of divorce granted Mag
gie L.-Rust from Ranzo Rust January
5, 1912 was set aside by Circuit Judge
Campbell Saturday. It was charged
that the decree was obtained through
fraudulent representations.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR
MEETS THIS EVENING
The Oregon City Christian Endeav
or Union will hold a union meeting
at the Congregational church this eve
ning at 6:15. The subject will be
"Honesty." The meeting will be Ted
by Miss Mulkey of Gladstone. There
will be special music.
ELK HOST GUEST
OF CITY TODAY
BANDS OF ANTLERS TO BE ROY
v ALLY ENTERTAINED BY
LOCAL LODGE
PROGRAM FOR WEEK IS ARRANGED
Klamath Falls And Medford Delega
tions To Spend Part of Day
In Oregon
- City
Sunday will be "Brother Bill" day in
Oregon City, and from early morning
until late at night bands of Elks will
be scurrying about bent on extending
the glad hand of fellowship to sever
al hundred of the antlered herd; from
Klamath Falls and Medford who will
spend a portion of the day here as the
guests of Oregon City. Lodge No. 1189.
A .L. Beatie, with the assistance or
a score or more of his fellow Elks,
will take care of the visitors today
and the basement of the new Elks
home on Water street has been fitted
up as a place where food and drink
will he offered to the visitors. The
wives, daughter and sweethearts of
the members of Oregon City Lodge
will be expected to help, for there will
be a large number of women in the
visiting delegations, and every Elk
who is fortunate enough to possess an
automobile is expected to have his
car in readiness to show the Southern
Oregon people the beauties of Oregon
City and the surrounding territory.
The Klamath Falls special train is
due at Oregon City at noon Sunday
and will stay here about one hour.
The Medford contigent is expected
about 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon,
with that bunch of fruit growers will
come their famous Kazoo band of 25
pieces. Dr. Beatie and his aides have
their hands out for hundreds (f sand
wiches which the members of Oregon
City lodge are expected to provide and
the eatables may be left at the home
of brother Charles U. Wilson at any
time Sunday morning.
The Oregon City Lodge of Elks met
Friday night and completed its ar
rangements for the entertainment of
its guests, who will come in thous
ands during the week of the Grand
Lodge session. On Monday the recep
tion and entertainment committee is
E .E. JSrodie, William Sheahan, O. D.
Eby, E. J. Daulton, M. D. Latourette,
R. C. Parker, W. A. Huntley and W.
H. Bair. The personnel of the com
mittee will be changed each day.
All the business houses in Oregon
City are urged to put up attractive de
corations of the national colors or the
colors of the Elks, and some of the
merchants who have had no time to
decorate their places of business will
do this work Sunday and Monday.
One hundred members of Oregon
City Lodge will participate in the
monster parade in Portand next
Thursday. The Elks have engaged two
special cars that will leave Oregon
City Thursday morning at 8 o'clock
sharp, arriving at Second and Madi
son street, Portland, about 8:45 a. m.,
and leaving the car there to march to
Fourteenth and Columbia streets,
where the parade will form. Most of
the Elk3 who will march in the parade
have obtained their uniforms and the
Oregon City delegation will make a
fine appearance. Brother H. E. Wil
liams, of Gladstone, has been ap
pointed a division commander and has
appointed his aides Exalted Ruler
Henry O'Malley, Esteemed Leading
Knight Theodore Osmund and Es
teemed Loyal Knight Fred W. Hum
phrys. MAN RECENTLY HERE
Chief of Police Shaw is endeavor
ing to learn the identity of a man
whose body was found in a river at
South Bend, Washington, Friday. The
man had been in this city recently.
Edward H. Wright, Prosecuting at
torney at South Bend, wired Shaw of
the finding of the body, and said that
"cash slip No. 45, Bannon & Co." had
been found in one of the man's pock
ets. Shaw learned at the store that
the man had purchased a suit of und
erwear there several weeks ago, but
could find no one who knew his name.
Prosecuting Attorney Wright wired
that the man had evidently commit
ted suicide as there were slugs of lead
in his pockets. He weighed about
155 pounds and was about forty years
of age.
GLADSTONE CHURCH TO
BE DEDICATED TODAY
The dedicatory services of the
Chrisian church of Gladstone will take
place at 3 o'clock today when the fol
lowing program will be rendered:
Song No. 163; -Song No. 151; Scrip
ture reading; prayer, anthem; address
W. F. Reager; song, Male Chorus; re
port of committees; song, Pastime
Quartete; dedication by congregation
in union;, dedicatory prayer. Rev. A.
H. Mulkey; song, No. 200; benediction.
TWO MEN ARE JAILED "
FOR INSULTING WOMEN
Policeman Frost Saturday night ar
rested David" Kenville and Young
Talk pn a charge of Insulting '-omen.
Both were said to have been intoxi
cated. 'The women were approached
while walking along Main street
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Copyright oy Olneainst.
EX-SENATOR FRED T. DUBOIS.
MAKES FINE ADDRESS
Howard M. Brownell, of Astoria,
who delivered an eloquent and forcl
ful address at the Fourth of July cele
bration at Molalla, recited the causes
of the revolutionary war the stamp
act, writs of assistance', suppression of
manufactories, placing of soldiers in
America in times of peace, which the
inhabitants were required to sugport
and the denial to the people oi- the
new country of the right of trial by
jury.
Mr. Brownell said the successful re
sult of the revolutionary war had giv
en to the. people of the United States
many sacred rights, among them be
ing the following: Right of suffrage,
religious toleration, higher respect for
womanhood than formerly existed,
free education to poor boys and girls
and right of trial by jury.
He enumerated the causes of the
Revolutionary war, describing the
Stamp Act, Writs of Assistance,
suppression of manufactories, the
placing of soldiers on our territory
during the times of peace and requii
ing our people to maintain them, and
the denial to our countrymen of the
right of trial by jury.
He said this nation had a mission
to perform besides acquirii wealth
which was to help lead other nations
and peoples from their darkness and
superstitition into the light and that
such, in his opinion, was the highest
mission a nation could fulfill. He
said that Americans as individuals
had a mission to perform in life, to
make other lives brighter by kind
ness and thoughtfulnessv
He closed by lauding the pioneers,
giving them the first place In import
ance among the upbuilding influences
w'hich made this West a great com
mercial section.
SPECIAL STREET CAR
E ARRANGED
The Portland Railway Light & Pow
er Company will provide special
street car service for Oregon City,
Portland and intermediate points dur
ing the Elks' convention. Beginning
tomorrow and continuing until next
Saturday there will be a thirty min
ute service from . First and Alder
streets, Portland, until midnight each
day, and after that there will be a
special train leave the Portland sta
tion at 1 -o'clock in the morning and
another at 2 o'clock. During the same
period the trains that leave First and
Alder streets at 10 o'clock at night
and 11:33 o'clock at night will run
through to Cazadero instead of cut
ting off at Gresham, making such
stops as are necessarv. These also
will have connections with Troutdale
from Linnemann.
P. R, UP. CO.
ERECT CANEMAH WALL
A resolution directing the Portland
Railway, Light & Power Company to
erect' a wall of sufficient height and
strength to protect the city during
floods, between this city and Canemah
was adopted at a meeting of the city
council Saturday afternoon. The
company submitted plans for a wall
which would be satisfactory to the
city council, but it insisted that Ore-
gon City should pay half the cost. A
committee, composed of Messrs.
Tooze, Horton and Holman, reported
adversely on the- proposition that tbe
city pay half the cost the report being
approved by the council.
An ordinance providing for the
hardsurfacing of Main street between
Moss and the Abernethy Bridge was
passed. The street committee report
ed upon the proposition to hardsur
face Seventh street and the-City Eng
ineer was instructed to make a state
ment showing the difference between
the cost of hardusurfacing and macad
am. The engineer was instructed to
report at" the next meeting. It was
announced at the meeting that the
Oregon Road Oiling Company would
begin oiling the macadam streets to
morrow, "The street committee reported fav
orably upon a petition to improve Di
vision street. '
A small classified ad will rent that
vacant room.
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CRIME IN CITY
COUNCIL, HEARING VARIOUS RE!
PORTS, HAS INVESTIGATION
MADE
POKER GAME AT SALOON SCENTED
Sleuth Declares Policemen Informed
Him They Were "On Job"
Because Council Was
Active V
After repeated representations over
alleged unsavory conditions in Oregon
City had been reported to various
councilmen and the committee on
health and police of the city council,
they went quietly to work about a
month ago and obtained the services
of a Portland detective, agency which
has made a report to the committee.
The sole purpose of the health and po
lice committee was to arrive at the
truth of the reports, and the members
of the committee believed more could
be accomplished by a stranger than
by a member of the local force. The
committee let no one Into the secret
of the investigation, not even Chief of
Police Shaw, and they feel that the re
sult has justified their course.
Recent reports to the effect that
this was done for the sole purpose of
nlaciner a watch on the night police
force are emphatically denied by a
majority of the members of the city
council, and as proof that this is true
the following report to a member of
the committee is sufficient:
I have called to see you personally
and at both times you were out and to
day I was informed that you were in
Portland, therefore I am communicat
ing with you by mail.
In regard to the investigation you
are having carried on tnrough this ag-
ency, I wish to say that I have- taken
the matter up with Mr. McDonald and
others who have been interested in
the case and we have decided that ii
would be unfair to you for us to go
farther in the case without making
you acquainted with the situation of
affairs at his time. We have been
unable to get anything on the parties
in question ,as yet and don't think we
can at this particular time, they are
playing a very safe game out there
and we have it straight from Green
that they are afraid to get lax inany
way as tney know you folks are after
their scalp. Green says that owing to
the present condition of political af
fairs out there, they must be very cau-
tious tnererore we arc anvising you
to drop the investigation for the pres
ent at least, later when things .looson
up a little we woul-.l be nleased to
take it up again, liowovdr, this is only
a suggestion and it ycu desire the in
vestigation to go on we will do so, but
owing to the fact Unit the case can;e
to us through the parties that it. did
I want to see that you get the very
best service and. that you don't throw
any money away.
There is a little ii' kor game playea
over the saloon on Koir.th and Main
streets Dut it is seiaom operaiea oniy
on Saturday nights and then it is im
possible for a stranger to get in, this
place can be cinched by raiding the
rooms, but that does not give the de
sired information in that case, in re
gard to the sporting women, we can't
find any in the city. The night men
are staying on their beats the usual
time.
In case you wish this investigation
drdpped for the present kindly favor
us with a draft covering the enclosed
bill, should you want us to go ahead
let us know at once.
We very respectfully solicit any fu
ture business you may have in this
line. ,
Very truly yours, '
INTERNATIONAL DETECTIVE
AGENCY.
2 Couples Get Licenses
Licenses to marry were issued Sat
uraay 10 Jessie nocner ana unanes
J. Morey.
Dr. T. B. Ford
Pastor of the First Methodist Epis
copal church, who is to speak this
evening, at 7:45 o'clock in the Op
en Forum Pulpit on,
"The Passing of the Old Po
licical System, and the New
Order."
DETECTIVE PROB
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