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VOL. Ill No. 172
BY NEW ARREST
STATEMENT OF HARRY VALLON
' CAUSES OTHER PRISONERS
TO WEAKEN
WIFE OF MURDERED MAN. IS HEARD
Dictagraphs To Be Used In Taking
Testimony And Detective Burns
Will Be Hired To
Probe Case
NEW YORK, July 23. Signs of
weakness on the part of the defense
of the men accused of complicity in
the assassination of Herman Rosen
thal, the gambler, became apparent
this afternoon after Harry Vallon,
who had surrendered during the night
and been held without hail on a
charge of complicity in the Rosenthal
murder, had made a statement to the
police and the District Attorney.
Evidently Vallon's statement was of
great importance, for it stirred the
police and the District Attorney's
force to immediate action. Vallon
admitted that he was in the vicinity
of the Metropole Hotel at the time
of the murder; that he had previous
ly been a passenger in the touring
car which conveyed the assassins to
and from the scene of the crime, and
that he was conversant with phases
of the plot which the police had pre
viously been unable to reach.
The assertions of Vallon were wide
ly at variance with statements that
have been made by "Jack Rose,"
whose real name is Jacob Rosenweig,
the man who, by his own admissions
hired the murder car from Shapiro
and Libby and rode in it from Four
teenth street to Harlem and back to
Forty-second street and Sixth avenue.
The variations in the two state
ments were so important that the Dis
trict Attorney and Deputy Police Com
missioner Dougherty determined to
bring the two prisoners together face
to face and question them on their
respective stories.
James M. Sullivan, counsel for Rose
was notified of the plan of the Dist
rict Attorney. Mr. Sullivan hurried
to Mr. Whitman's office and held an
excited conference with the District
Attorney and Inspector Hughes.
Vallon's statement was shown to
him and it appeared to set him back.
He promptly announced that ' he
would not allow his client to face Val
lon and undergo an examination.
Rose, in his statement to the po
lice, has said that Vallon was not in
the gray assassination car in which
the murderers escaped. Vallon admit
ted today that he was a passenger in
that car during the time when Rose
was running around town gathering
up men who assembled in the vicinity
of the Metropole when Rosenthal was
killed.
In the course of a long examinaftdn
before the grand jury today under
the direction of District Attorney
Whitman and Assistant Moss, Mrs.
Herman Rosenthal, widow of the
murdered gambler, gave in detail all
the knowledge in her possession con
cerning the charge of Rosenthal that
certain police officers were sharifigin
the profits of the tenderlon gambling
houses.
2 KILLED, 5 HIT
AS AUTOJTS TREE
' PORTLAND, July 23. Bertrand E.
Fiske, an optician with offices in the
Macleay building and residing at 568
Spring street, and Miss Elizabeth
Toohig, of Saa Francisco, who is visit
ing the family of John F. D. Martin,
Jr., at 861 Frances avenue, wee in
stantly killed at 10 o'clock tonight
when the touring car owned and" driv
en by Mr. Fiske left the Base Line
road while rounding a curve on the
north side of Mount Tabor at a rate
of probably 4Q miles an hour.
Five other persons were in the car
with them, but none of them was seri
ously hurt. Among them, it is re
ported were P. F. Munsell, brother of
Mrs. Fiske and John F. D. Martin, an
optician employed by A. C. Felden
heimer. Special
Today at the
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THOMAS
WALKER
BENEDICT
MISS ELSIE DOW BECOMES BRIDE
OF OREGON CITY YOUNG
MAN
ROMANCE STARTS IN UNIVERSITY
Mrs. Walker Graduate Of University
Of Oregon And University
of Washington Couple '
To Live Here
The marriage of Miss Elsie' Dow,
only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dow,
of Portland, and Earl Thomas Walk
er, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. John
H. Walker, prominent residents of
Oregon City, was solemnized Tuesday
evening at 7 o'clock at the parson
age of the First Congregational chuch
in Portland, Rev. Luther Dyott, pas
tor, officiating. The marriage was at
tended by only immediate relatives of
the contracting parties, and was a
very quiet one. After the ceremony
Mr. and Mrs. Walker came to Oregon
City, and were tendered a wedding
luncheon at the home of the bride
groom's parents. The young couple
have gone to housekeeping in Oregon
City.
The bride is " an accomplished
young woman. She was graduated
from the University of Washington,
after which she attended the Univer
sity of Oregon, graduating from that
institution two years ago with high
honors. ,
The bridegroom attended the Uni
versity of Oregon for three years,
specializing in mining and civil engi
neering and electrical engineerng. He
would have graduated from the Uni
versity of Oreon had he resumed his
studies the coming year. He was
born in Oregon City, where he has re
sided all of his life except when at
tending college. He was graduated
from the Oregon City High School be
fore entering the University of Ore
gon. He has many friends in Ore
gon City. He is the grandson of Mrs.
Sophia Charman, one of the well
known Oregon pioneers, and of the
late Major Thomas Charman. It was
at the University of Oregon where
Mr. Walker met and won his bride.
HOUSE COMMITTEE
SCORES STEEL TRUST
WASHINGTON, July 23, (Special.)
Characterizing the present labor
system in the mills of the - United
States Steel corporation as "inhuman
and iniquitous," the Democratic ma
jority of the house steel trust investi
gating committee, headed by Chair
man Stanley which inquired into the
operations of the steel trust, com
pleted its report today and has pre
pared three bills which recommend
radical revision of the Sherman anti
trust law. Congressman Gardner an
nounced that one and possibly two
Republican minority reports would be
presented.
Congressman Littleton of New York
will present an individual report, i
which he will oppose the plan to im
pose the "burden of proof upon cor
porations sued as monopolies and re
quiring them to show that their com
bination is not an unreasonable one
in restraint of trade.
OAKLAND GIRL NOT
STOLEN; SHE ELOPED
ASTORIA, Or., July 23. Ethel Met
calf, who disappeared from Oakland,
Or., June 26, in company with a man
by the name of George Gray, was lo
cated last night by Police Officer Bry
ant in a lodging house near the Ham
mond mill. They had been living as
man and wife under the name of St
Clair for nearly a month.
According to a statement made by
Miss Metcalf to local officers, her peo
ple knew of her leaving Oakland with
Gray. She says they left on a freight
train for Roseburg7 intending to go to
Los Angeles, where they intended to
be married. Owing to a landslide the
train was delayed and they hired a
horse and buggy and went to Rose
burg, and thence by train to Portland.
After staying in Portland a couple of
days they were dissuaded from secur
ing a license because of the publicity
given the case, and came on to As
toria, intending to remain until the
thing blew over and then go to Cali
fornia by steamer. She had known
the man with whom she eloped only
about two days.
She 'is rather a pretty girl and be
lieves the man intended to treat her
fairly and marry her. She claims to
be over 18, and blames the woman for
whom she was working, who, she
states, "had been in the habit of ar
ranging for girls in her employ to vis
it the rooms of travelling men and
others in the house. However, she
claims she refused all such requests.
Miss Metcalf's parents reside at
Oakland, Or., and a reward of $150
has been offered for the capture of
the runaways. The sheriff at Rose
burg has been notified and will leave
at once for Astoria to take them back.
CANAL BILL ARGUED
WASHINGTON, July 23 The Pan
ama Canal administration bill held the
floor of the Senate long enough today
for Senator Percy of Mississippi, to
make a speech against remission of
tolls to American shipping. The' meas
ure then gave way to the sundry civil
appropriation bill, which has pushed
it aside for several days.
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OREGON CITY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1912
"GREAT SCOTT, C0RELLA, WHICH NAIL DO YOU WANT ME TO HANG IT ON?"
' " i ' "
MRS. FIELDS' FATHER
DIES IN NEW YORK
A telegram was received by Mrs.
E. T. Fields Tuesday afternoon stat
ing that her father, I. Sinsheimer, of
New City, had died, after an illness of
several months. Mr. Sinsheimer
died in a heepital, where he had been
taken but a few days before his death.
He was seventy-five years of age and
is survived by Mrs. E. T. Fields and
three sons, Adolph, Alexander and
Ben Sinsheimer, of Portland; two
grandchildren, Miss Clara Fields, of
Oregon City and Frantz Sinsheimer.
of Portland.
Mr. Sinsheimer was formerly a well
known merchant of Portland, being in
business m that city for manv years
before going to New York. He made
his home in Oregon City for about a
yar with his daughter, Mrs. Fields,
and has visited in this city on many
occasions, where he made many
friends. Arrangements for the funer
al have not been made.
WELL IS. GIVEN
E
WASHINGTON, July 23. John Mit
chell, vice-president of the American
Federation of Labor, was sentenced
today in the District of Columbia Su
preme Court to nine months' imprison
ment for contempt of court growing
out of the Bucks Stove & Range Com
pany case. An appeal was taken and
$4000 bail furnished to abide by the
decision of the upper court.
In the same case President Samuel
Gompers recently was sentenced to
one year, and Secretary Frank Morri
son to six months.
Mitchell was not in court, hut sent
a written statement waiving his right
to be present. He was to have been
sentenced last week, but Justice
Wright then declined to pass sentence
because he objected to the form of
waiver submitted for Mitchell.
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ENTEK
T
SECESSION FILED
O. E. Freytag, manager of the Pro
motion Department of the Commercial
Club, Monday filed in Salem the pe
tition signed by several hundred vo
ters in the county opposing a divi
sion of the county. The petition -recites
that residents of Estacada are
advocating a division of the county so
as to form a new one in the Eastern
section to be known as Cascade
County. This plan is opposed on the
ground that it would not only he det
rimental to the county as a whble but
would be detrimental 3" the portion
that desires to secede. Mr. Freytag
reached Salem just in time to file the
petition.
I, OF
CANBY, IS DEAD
Mrs. Roy Donegan, who died at the
home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
John Zeek, July 14, was buried July
15 in the Zion cemetery at Canby.
Mrs. Donegan was twenty years of
age. She was born in Canby and was
married to Roy Donegan, the Rev. G.
C Love officiating, September 26,
1909 One child, a son, was born to
the union. Mrs. Donegan was the
youngest of nine children, all of
whom survive her. She was an ac
complished musician, possessed a fine
voice, and was one of the most pop
ular young women of Canby. She is
survived by the following sisters and
brothers: Mrs. Laurie Luelling, Mrs1.
May Robinson, Mrs. Minnie Phelps,
John Zeek, Jr., C. E. Zeek, George
Zeek, Elmer Zeek and Arthur Zeek.
The following friends of Mrs. Done
gan were the pallbearers: Mrs. Laura
Kelland, Mrs. Mattie Engel, Mrs.
Maud Inglis, Mrs. Lula Richter, Miss
Dora Lucas and Mis, E. Zoe "Inglis.
F
E IS
TO BE CONTINUED
SEATTLE, Wash., July 23. That
Attorney General Wickersham should
take up the Hanford investigation
where it was dropped by the congres
sional committee, is the opinion of
many Seattle attorneys today.
Attorney John H. Perry who worked
with the congressional committee
here, declares that men involved with
Hanford should not be allowed to es
cape under the cover of Hanford's res
ignation. "The resignation of Hanford," said
Perry, "naturally closes the case so
far as he is concerned ,but it is most
certainly the duty of the department
of justice to follow up the work' of
the committee with criminal prosecu
tions if it is justified by the facts
which are now obtainable.
Hanford at first issued a statement
say "ill health" was the cause of his
resignation.. In later statements,
however, nothing was said about
this, but various other reasons were
assigned. He declared that he was
satisfied with the outcome of the in
vestigation, proud of his record on the
bench and of the enemies he had
made. ;
Chairman j. M. Graham, of Illinois
and Representative W. L McCoy, of
New Jersey, left at 11 o'clock this
morning for Tacoma where they will
spend the day. They will leave Ta
coma tonight for the east. Repre
sentative E. W. Higgins, of Connecti
cut, left on the Canadian Pacific for
the east, yesterday.
That Judge Hanford was induced to
tender his resignation to shut off con
gressional inquiry that tended to in
volve seriously some of the most inti
mate supporters, is the onfy. tenable
explanation credited here today for
his action.
Just at the time when Hanford and
his defenders were expecting the
probe to be closed the committee
made its most unexpected move. This
move clearly hit upon a trail which
had hitherto been covered. There
was no mistaking the surprise it caus
ed to the Hanford defense and there
was no denial of the report that the
probe in that direction would have in
volved others than Hanford.-
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POST IS
REVISED IN BILL
WASHINGTON, July 23 The post
office appropriation bills, shorn of the
good roads provision proposed by the
House and embracing a revised par
cels' post system,-with charges based
on zones of distance, was reported to
the Senate today by the postoffice
committee. The total opropriations
proposed which carried approximately
$260,000.000. One of the principal in
creases is the pay of railroads for
transporting mails, the Senate com
mittee adding, more than $2,500,000.
In striking out the Shackleford
good roads feature, which provided for
Federal improvement of highways,
the immittee recomends an in
vestigation by a special Congression
al committee and provides for no
highway improvements until this com
mission has reported.
The Barnhardt amendment "in the
house oill for tne regular publication
of the names of stockholders of news
papers and periodicals is changed to
provide for publication once a year.
The parcels' post section Of the
House bill provided a flat rate of pos
tage for all distances. The Senate
provision is that of the Bourne bill,
slightly modified.
Senator Bourne recommends that
third and fourth-class mail matter be
combined for the parcels post service
but the bill makes the parcels post
apply only to fourth-class matter.
MAYOR MARRIES COUPLE
Mayor Dimick officiated Tuesday at
the wedding of Mary E. Kehres and
Herman Riddenbusch. A license to
marry also was issued to Eliza M.
Evans and August Kempen.
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at the
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An act that will send you
home with a smile that won't
come off. - .
Also some pictures that are
hard to beat
TO THE END OF THE TRAIL
A fine Western Play (Vita
graph.) THE HEAT WAVE
A good Comedy (C. G. P. C.)
THE SCHOOL TEACHER AND
THE WAIF. A good one for
the children. (Biograph.)
THE MISSENT LETTER
Another crackerjack comedy.
(Essanay)
HARRY CONFER IN SONG.
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SOU
THERN PACIFIC
CONVINCES CLUB
RAILWAY OFFICIAL SAYS ORE
GON CITY IS TO BE
FAVORED
PROTEST CHANGES TO RATIFICATION
Superintendent . Campbell , Declares
Company Will Spend Millions
' . Of DblTars In
County
General Superintendent Campbell,
of the Southern Pacific Railroad, at a
meeting of the Commercial Club,
Tuesday evening, declared that the
railroad was doing everything in its
power to advance the interests of Ore
gon City. He said that the rumor the
company intended routing its fast
trains over the proposed west side
line was unfounded, at least for the
present. The meeting was held to
protest against rumored change which
it was declared, would be injurious
to the city.
Mr. Campbell said the company in
tended to build an electric road from
Oswego to Barlow to connect with the
Salem line. He said that for the pres
ent the line would he double tracked,
but the rights of way had been ask
ed for four tracks.
"The new electric line will not in
any way affect the O. W. P. system
at present," said the speaker. "We
are trying to upbuild Oregon City.
Give us time. We have more in sight
for Oregon City than you anticipate.
The Southern Pacific has set aside
$8,000,000 for an electric system a
large part of which will be expended
on the line between Oregon City and
Canby. Before Christmas an electric
system will be operated out of Port
land, and in one year the line will be
in operation to Oregon City."
H. L. Moody, Manager of the Moody
Land Company which recently acquir
ed the interest of the Portland Rail
way, Light & Power Company in
property on the West Side, declared
that the proposed improvement of the
Southern Pacific would be the great
est boon Oregon City had ever had.
He said his company would be the
means of establishing great industries
and eventually Portland residents
would have their home on the west
bank of the river at Oregon City. .....
A motion that the meeting bechang
ed from one of protest regarding the
proposed action of the Southern Pa
cific to a ratification was carried.
Votes of" thanks were extended
Campbell and Moody.
O. D. Eby explained that a petition
opposing the division of the county
had been filed in Salem. He declar
ed that the petition was signed by 217
persons living in the section which de
sired to secede. The question of ti
tle for the locks on the west side was
argued, but no definite decision was
reached.
MAN AND WOMAN ARE
SEEKING DIVORCES
Alleging that his wife left him No
vember 15, 1911, J. E. McMurren
Tuesday filed suit for divorce against
Myrtle Zeola McMurren. They were
married December 25, 1906. The
plaintiff alleges that his wife remain
ed away from home for several
months in 1911, before she finally de
serted him. The - plaintiff is repre
sented by Dimick & Dimick. Mab(
Curry, through Brownell & Stone,
seeks a divorce from Arthur E. Cur
ry. They were married July 3, 1907.
The plaintiff alleges that she was de
serted by her husband September 16,
1910. She asks the custody of their
three children. Judge Campbell grant
ed a decree of divorce in the suit of
Theresa Harr against Emil Harr. The
plaintiff was awarded the custody of
their child.
NEIGHBOR THREATENED
HIM, SAYS WITNESS
Justice of the Peace Samson Tues
day took under advisement the case
of Tr. W. Caves, who is accused of
threatening to kill Anto Striker. A
decision will be rendered at 2 o'clock
this afcernoon. Caves and Striker
are neighbors in Clackamas Heighta
and according to the latter the defend
ant several days ago threatened to
kill him. Striker testified at the hear
ing that he had heard the defendant
and his wife talking of the plot. Ac
cording to the witness Caves was
planning to shoot through the house
id the hope of striking his ejiemy.
This Caves denied, and Jie asserted
that he did not even own a gun or
a pistoL
FATHER TELLS COURT
YOUNG MAN IS INSANE
David W. Barton, of Eagle Creek,
will be taken in charge today for a
hearing as to his sanity. The young
man's father reported to the county
court Tuesday that his son was in
sane. He said his son's mind had
been unbalanced for . two years and
that in the last week he had become
violent. Sheriff Mass will have him
brought to the county court today. -
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CANDIDATE AVERS REPUBLICA
TION .OF ADVERTISEMENT
WAS UNNECESSARY
SUPPLEMENTAL COMPLAINT FILED
Newspaper Simply Printed Copies Of
Plaintiff's Own Court Papers
Which Are Public
Documents
Chris Schuebel, .who is suing the
Morning Enterprise and Weekly En
terprise for alleged libel for publish
ing an advertisement of . Gustav
Schnoerr, President of the Deutsche
Verein in Clackamas County, and
Vice-President of the German Socie
ties in Oregon, Tuesday filed the fol
lowing supplemental complaint:
Supplemental Complaint
In the Circuit Court of the State of
Oregon, for the County of Clacka
mas. C. Schuebel, plaintiff, vs. Oregon
"City Enterprise, Defendant.
The plaintiff for his supplemental
complaint herein served under and
pursuant to an order of said Court
made and dated J uly 20, 1912 to which
reference is hereby made, alleges:
The plaintiff re-iterates and avers
the truth of each and every allegation
contained in his amended complaint
on file herein and hereby adopts and
makes thq said several allegations of
said amended complaint part and par
cel of this his supplemental com
plaint: '
Plaintiff furthermore alleges that
since the filing of the original com
plaint in this action the defendant
most wantonly and maliciously and
with intent to injure the good name
and fame of the plaintiff as an at-torney-at-law
and as a candidate for
the election to the legislature of this
state and to humiliate and disgrace
the plaintiff, did on the 9th day of Ju
ly, 1912, and on the 16th day of July,
1912, and on the 21st day of July 1912,
in its said Daily Morning Enterprise
and on the 12th day of July, 1912, and
on the 19th day of July, 1912, in the
Weekly Edition of the Oregon City
Enterprise, print, republish, recircu
late and deliver to and amongst its
many subscribers and the general
reading public of the county and state
aforesaid the libelous matter com
plained of, to-wit;
"Neither can I understand how a
person (meaning plaintiff) can afford
to spend hundreds of dollars for the
(Continued on page 2.)
The
TODAY
MAKING SILK HATS (Indus
trial.) 'PERCY'S FIRST CAMERA
(Comedy.)
THROUGH THE SASKATCHE
WAN (Scenic)
A REDSKIN'S REWARD (In
dian Drama.)
THE VISION BEAUTIFUL
(Drama.)
The
Thayten Duo
In
The man that looks like me.
Another big act will com
mence an engagement here
Thursday afternoon.
The
will make a special effort, al
ways, to give good vaudeville
In connection with good" pictures.
SCHUEBEL NOW
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