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About Morning enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1911-1933 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1912)
33S$3$'33'8 - " -THE WEATHER. $ Oregon City Rain, south-' S erly winds. ' S $ , Oregon Occassional- rain to- $ $ day; southerly winds. $483S33$3j$$3Se 53SJSjj3Ss - 8 The only daily newspaper be $ tween Portland and Salem; clr- 8 culates in every section of Clack- S S amas County, with a population S 3 of 30,000. Are you an advertiser? S-$j&$$eSS.j.$$s5S WEEKLY N T RPRISE ESTABLISHE D 15 6 6; OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST" 9, 1912 VOL. IV No. 32 Per Week, 10 Cents ROCKEFELLER AIDS N. Y. CRIME PROBE JOHN D. "JR., OBTAINS IMPORT ANT EVIDENCE IN GOTHAM POLICE GRAFT WORK STARTED BEFORE BIG TRAGEDY Young Suno.-y School Teacher Can it ducts Mock Disorderly House To Obtain Necessary Information , NEW YORK, Aug. 8 John D. Rockefeller's millions and the wealth and personal influence of his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr., today are enlisted in the war against the alliance of the New York police and the underworld of the metropolis, which was exposed by the pistol shots which killed Gam bler Herman Rosenthal in front of the New Metropole hotel. The fact that the Rockefellers are interested in the fight to run down the Rosenthal slayers, and to expose poiiue corruption was admitted here today by District Attorney "Whitman. He declared that young Rockefeller with" the backing of his father, has been operating a pretended disorder ly house in the heart of the tender loin to get evidence against the po lice and the white-slavers they pro tect. The Rockefeller experiment was not conected in its inception with the Rosenthal inquiry, but the evidence gained by the son of the "Oil King" coincides with much of that Whitman has gathered and perhaps it will tie used at the trial of Police Lieutenant Charles Recker, who is accused of planning the murder of Rosenthal by hired gangsters when the gambler threatened to expose the blackmail schemes by which it is alleged Beck er and "higher-ups" in the police de partment levied tribute on the world of vice. Rockefeller's project, Whitman said, was begun in the interest of so cial reform. It is understood young Rockefeller ha3 proof that the com mon disorderly houses pay a $600 monthly graft to the police for pro tection that the more elaborate of the houses pay more, and the lesser "joints" what their tratiic will bear. Rockefeller, the district attorney declares, has discovered that white slaving is a regular trade and that country girls and girls from abroad are taken to the resorts and put up at auction in exactly the same man ner as negroes were sold before the war. Little progress, apparently, has been made in the hunt for Rosen thal's actual slayers. Harry IJor rowitz and Louis Rosenzeweig, two of the men who are alleged to have killed Rosenthal, are still at large, while the two gangsters taken, "Whit ey" Lewis, and "Dago Frank" Ciro fici, still maintain a stubborn silence In the Tombs. The only headway Whitman has made, so far as is known, is in, con firming the story told by "Bald Jack" Rose, wbo declares he was graft col lector for Becker. Whitman admits he has found ten persons who will confirm Rose's confession in detail, and upon tins evidence strong hopes are entertained that Becker will be convicted and forced to weaken, will reveal the whole details.' $823.05 PAID TO RECORDER IN JULY The county recorder's office collect ed in fees in July $823.05, which is the second largest amount ever re ceived by the department in one month. Despite the press of business Mrs. Williams, who has charge of the office, and is attending to the work in a very acceptable manner, did not consider the employment of extra help. The usual office force attended to the business with dispatch to the satis faction of all persons having business with the department. .Legal Ligths in the Steel Trust Case. From Left to right are Henry P. Brown, special master appointed by the U. S. Circuit Court to take testimony in the Government's suit to dissolve the U.S. Steel Cor- poration; Jacob M. Dickinson, ex-Secretary of War, who appears for the Government as a trust-buster, and R. V. Lindabury, chief counsel for the Steel Corporation, WORK ON RAILWAY IS BIG PUSHED BRIDGE BUILDING AND GRADING OF SOUTHERN PROGRESSES - - . RAPIDLY MORE THAN $200,000 SUBSCRIBED Clearing Of Route To Molalla Com pleted And Grading From Mulino Is About Finished Work on the Clackamas Southern Railway is being pushed vigorously, both on grading and building of bridges. The Fifteenth street trestle has been equipped with ties and is ready for the rails. The crossing timbers to make connection with the O. W. P. are nearly all cut and this part will soon be erected, connections put in and steel laid. The trestle No. 2, an overhead crossing, and trestle No. 3 are- com plete except for the ties. Trestle No.4, which crosses the Wehdl Creek Canyon, is being built, by the Interstate Contract Company which sub-contracted the bridges from Archer Mason Company. This trestle is more than 700 feet long and 120 feet high and many per sons thought this part of the work would be too much for local people to accomplish, but any one visiting the scene of the work and watching the busy driving of piles, the unload ing of the piling and the immense sawed timbers, will be convinced that there will be a railroad runing from Oregon City to the Molalla country soon. This trestle will be complet ed within three weeks, and by then all the grading will be finished from Oregon City to Beaver Creek. Ties will then be laid and steel will be on the ground as soon as it can be deliv ered. Clearing of all rights of way to Molalla has been done and nearly all the grading between Mulino and Mo lalla, together with more than one mile of hard grading this side of Mu lino has been finished. The piling" (10,000 "lineal feetffor the Molalla bridge is cut and piled ready for delivery and that for the Milk Creek bridge is cut and ready excepting a few pieces. Four saw mills are rushing the timbers for the bridges and twelve to twenty teams are hauling timber and piling every day. The total of subscribers numbers nearly 360 and the total amount sub scribed is around $200,000 cash val ue. Taking into consideration the many obstacles, thrown in the way of the building of the line by antagonistic interests, the success of the enter prise is little short of phenomenal. With the road assured more sub scriptions are coming in and it will not be surprising" to see this road en tirely built by stock subscriptions and owned and controlled by resi dents of the county. Mount Angel voluntarily and with out personal solicitation brought in a total of subscriptions for $30,100 cash value or $60,200 par value, and among the subscribers are numbered the most prominent men in and arouXd Mount Angel. Scotts Mills came forward with an offer of $20,000 cash and Monitor with a like amount providing the road would touch their sections. Marquam is raising $15,000 and possibly will make it $20,000. With 360 to 450 substantial ranch ers, business and profesional men be hind an enterprise which has the mer it the Clackamas Southern Railway has, it seems that it will be a hope les task to try to prevent it being built. Boost your city by boosting your daily paper. The Enterprise should be in every home. PHOTO UNOERWOOO UNDERWOOD. N V. if HE GFWlf I - PERPETRATED BY WALT AcDOUGALL V 1 THE ONLY THING- THAT STOPS FARMING IS POLITICS ! I , ' AND WKATS MORE.,' v . NONE.WORctlF LOSE) r-1 REPRESE.NTIVE GOVERNMENT BY J I THIS ELECTION I CANT , - - . w ( ThK PeOUT 1 '""'E.RILL.EDAWO f SET THE NOMINATION r-T MASWb "'' , i ' COPYRIOHT HARRIS AND KWINO. WA Senator-John Sharp Williams, United States Senator from Mississippi. POPULAR GERMAN TO BE TRIED SEPT. 3 The case of Gustav Schnoerr, charg ed with libeling Chris Schuebel in an advertisement published in the Morn ing Enterprise, has-been set for trial September 3. Mr. Schnoerr, who is president of the Deutscher Verein in Clackamas County, and vice-president of the German Societies of Ore gon, had the advertisement published when he was a candidate for the Re publican nomination for representa tive. Mr. Schuebel, also was a can didate, both of them being success ful. Mr. Schnoerr is represented by George C. Erownell and J. E. Hedges and Mr. Schuebel by C. D. Latour ette and W. S. U'Ren. POTTERY CLAY FOUND EAR ESTACABA A bank of pottery clay, which may prove to be fire clay, has been discov ered on the farm of P. J. Harkenrid er, three-quarters of a mile northeast of Estacada. Borings for a distance of 500 feet in all directions show a large deposit. The depth is unknown but it has been bored four feet. Tests show it can be used for pottery. The clay is blush-green and of fine quali ty. Tests are to be made at Portland of, samples which Mr. Harkenrider has prepared. ESTACADA GIRL DETAINED ON INTOXICATION CHARGE Mary Oberstaller, of Estacada, will be brougt before County Judge Beatie of the Juvenile Court, to answer to a charge of intoxication at Estacada. The case was remanded to the Juve nile Court by City Recorder Devore, of Estacada. Mary is 16i years of age and will be brought here by Dep uty Sheriff Ames. A small classified ad will rent that vacant room." RAILWAY CONTROL OF CANAL FEARED CANADIAN PACIFIC PLANS CAUSE MUCH DEBATE AT SENATE SESSION FREE REGISTRY TO BE EXTENDED Restriction Is Plated On Vessels Owned By Railroads Final Vote On Canal Bill Ex pected Today WASHINGTON, Aug. i. The ex tent to which the Canadian Pacific Railroad might control traffic through the Panama Canal gave the Senate occasion for much debate when the anti-railroad section of the canal bill was reached late today. Little objection developed to the proposed plan to prohibit railroad owned ships from engaging in Ameri can coastwise trade through the ca nal. The plan adopted by the Senate committee however of attempting to restrict the Operation of foreign-owned railroad ships causes wide differ ence of opinion. Senator Simmons proposed to strike out all reference to foreign railroad ships. : Senator Bristow urged ade quate control of American coastwise traffic, so that the transcontinental roads could not control rates in the canal, but he did not believe tie Ca nadian Pacific ships would prove a menace. If they were permitted to engage in American coastwise trade they would be bound to American law, he said. The Senate practically finished all but the railroad ship sec tion before the recess at the end of the afternoon session. At the ses sion tonight it was believed a final vote would be had on the bill tomor row. The amendment to permit foreign built ships owned wholly by Ameri cans to participate in coastwise priv ileges wj3 offered by -Senator Wil liams. -It provoked an acrimonious passage in which Senator Martin was accused by Williams of making a pro tectionist speech in favor of Virginia shipyards. The amendment was defeated by a vote of 38 to 10. Williams then offer ed another, to admit to American re gistry American-owned ships of for eign make which are engaged exclus ively in foreign trade. The second Williams amendment was adopted, 34 to 24. Many Republi cans voted for it, expressing their be lief that it would enable many foreign built ships to fly the American flag without bringing the cheaper ship building of foreign nations into com petition with American plants. Lower tolls for ships passing through the canal "in ballast" were proposed by Senator Johnston, of Ala bama, and an amendment was adopt ed to authorize such reduction -in rates. Another fight developed against the Senate committee's amendment to ex empt from tolls American vessels in foreign trade whose owners agreed to turn them over to the . Government in time of war. , Maurice H. Thatcher, Governor of the Canal Zone, Panama. Pour, girls, three of them school ma'ma rohimoH Thnrcrfav fmnn an I eight days trip on horse back into I Eastern Oregon. They are Pearl, ! Gertrude, Inez and Blanch Bailey, the first three being well known school ; teachers of this section. Their home i is near Sherwood. They traveled ; about 250 miles over the Cascade Range and inspected their wheat farm at Tygh Valley. On their way over they stopped at Welches and on the return spent a short time at Govern ment Camp at the base of Mount Hood. They climbed the mountain and enjoyed it thoroughly. They re late many interesting experiences of their trip. They took their blankets and roughed it during the entire trip, sleeping out in the open and eating when hunger seized them. The girls are tanned and bronzed from their out-of-door ride across the mountains. COURT PLANS MAKING nil ON GARNER ROAD The county court at its meeting Thursday considered a plan to re move the old bridge on the Garner road between Clackamas and Mil waukie and make a fill using a large culvert. The members of the court made an inspection of the bridge in the afternoon, and, it is probable that the improvement will be ordered. The bridge is one of the . oldest in the county, and probably would not be serviceabe long. County Judge Beatie said that it would take about 3,040 yards of earth to make the fill. CUPiD OPENS COURTHOUSE AND COUPLE SOON WEDS Justice of the Peace Samson officiat ed Thursday evening at the marriage of Fred Seely and "Miss Maggie Barne3, both of Wilsonville. The young people, who are well known In the west end of the county, reached the city after the courthouse closed, but the ever-accomodating County Clerk Mulvey took pity on them and unlocked his office to issue the 11- l cense. : CLACKAMAS BABES TO BE IN SHOW COMMERCIAL CLUB WILL PICK BOY AND GIRL FOR "EU GENICS EXPOSITION" PHYSICAL PERFECTION IS STANDARD Winning Of Prize Would Be Great Advertisement For County- Handsome Prizes Are Offered The Board of Governors, of the Oregon City Commercial Club, has in dorsed the proposition of the state fair board for an "Exposition of Eu genics" at the state fair at Salem be ginning September 2. The board has appropriated $50Q for children's prizes. It is the intention of the Com mercial Club to enter children from this county, and parents are urged to communicate with the Secretary of the Publicity De'partment, O. E. Prey tag. A "Child's Welfare Exhibit," un der the auspices of the Oregon Moth ers' Congress and the Oregon State Grange will be made a part of the ex position of eugenics. Mr. Freytag is confident that the children from this county will take several prizes. The winning of several of the prizes would be a big advertisement for the county. The club has received the following from O. M. Plummer, sup erintendent of the "Exposition of Eu genics.": The State Fair Board has approp riated $500.00 this year to cover prem iums and expenses of a department to be called the "Exposition of Eu genics,' to be held at the State Fair, Salem, week of Sept. 2nd-7th. This will be a showing of children under four years of age, at which physical perfection rather than doll like beauty will be the standard. Certain medical standards of weights and measurements will be used, and every child compared with these standards and approach to perfection will be figured on a percentage basis A corps of well known women physi cians will make the test, at the same time pointing out to the mother the strong and,, weak points in the child's makeup. A "Child's Welfare Exhibit" under the auspices of the Oregon Mothers' Congress and the Oregon State Grange will be made a part of the Exposition of Eugenics, at which all the approved methods of handling ba bies, their food, clothing, and other features will de demonstrated daily by trained nurses. . Children will be shown in the fol lowing classes. . ";. BOY Over 6 months- and under 2 year, 1st, $25 cup; 2nd, $10 cup; 3rd, $5 cup. Over 2 years and 3 years, 1st, $25 cup; 2nd, $10 cup, 3rd $5 cup. Over 3 years and under 4 years, 1st, $25 cup; 2nd, $10 cup; 3rd $5 cup. Grand Champion Boy $50 cup. Grand Champion Girl $50 cup. Your Commercial Club or Grange is requested to interest itself in a pre liminary show along these lines and after selecting the best boy and best girl in its community, the babies and mothers are to be sent to Salem as representatives of your town or sec tion, with their expenses paid by your organization. The sending of a boy or girl to the State Fair who was aft erwards determined by a corps of not ed physicians to be the best in the State of Oregon, would attract more attention to that locality than thous ands of dollars spent in advertising. Many towns in various parts of Ore gon have signified their intention of entering this contest put yours on the map by holding a preliminry show. Any child may be brought to Salem direct without having been en tered in a preliminary show. GOOSEBERRIES BIG AS PLUMS; COME SEE 'EH Gooseberries as big as plums. Did you ever see any that large? Well they grow them in Ketchikan, Alas ka, and if you do not Believe it just take about five minutes off and call at the office of the Morning Enter prise. The berries were grown in the yard of Mrs. P. E. Timmons, formerly Miss Lizzit Pankratz, and the follow ing is an interesting letter Mrs. Tim mons has written to the Morning En terprise: "I am also sending you a little pack age containing some of the largest gooseberries ever grown. They were picked from a garden in Ketchikan 1 hope tbey will be of a little interest to you and your friends. These gooseberries are a curiosity in this town. "We have a nice garden, as nice as any in Oregon City but of course much smaller. There are all kinds of vegetables also, raspberries, straw berries and gooseberries, also salm on berries and huckleberries growing in abundance. "The soil is very rich in this country, what little there is of it, and the climate is great, same as Seattle, it only being 700 miles from there. "I must also speak of the salmon this year, there are more- this year than ever before during my stay here which is about ten years." DOSE VERDICT AFFIRMED The Supreme Court has afllrmed the decision of the Circuit Court of Clackamas County in the case of Fred Dose, administrator of the estate of L. E. Dose, deceased, apellant, versus the Sheriff of Clackamas County, re spondent. The decision carries with it a verdict for $50.60, and interest at 6 per cent from January Ti, 1911 and $43 court costs. . SALE OF ELECTRIC LINE IS REPORTED SOUTHERN PACIFIC SAID TO HAVE BOUGHT WEST SIDE ROAD FROM P. R., L. &. P. EXTENSION IS PLANNED TO SALEM Purchasing Company Has Surveyed Route And Competing Line Was Expected Residences May Be Saved A report was current Thursday that the Southern Pacific Company had purchased the Willamette Falls divi sion of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company. The report was started by a contractor employed by the" Southern Pacific, who said that he had obtained the information f rom an official of the company. It is plan ned, according to the report, for the electric line of the Southern Pacific to be operated over the route survey ed and the line partially built by the the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company from Oswego to Willam ette. ' The Portland Railway, Light & Power Company has constructed the line from West Oregon City to Bolton and expects to have the line to Os wego in operation by October 31. There it will connect with another di vision and enter Portland. More than 100 man are now employed on the extension of the road. Recently the officials of the South ern Pacific Railroad announced that the company would establish a ilou'Dls track line on the West Side from Sa lem to Portland. The route had al ready been surveyed. A rumor that the company intended routing all its fast trains that way crossing the riv vr at New Era, where a big steel bridge will be constructed, caused much uneasiness in Oregon City. However, at a conference with a com mittee of the Oregon City Coianier cial Club, officials of the company an nounced it was not the intention to operate steam trains on ihe west side route. The plan was, they said, to operate- only electric trams to re lieve passenger traffic, and. a'so rive that section the benefit of railway service. . The information that the Southern Pacifi. Company has purchased the right o' way and line of the -Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, if it is verified, will interest many resi dents of the west side through whose property the route survey by that company, and which probably will be abandoned extends. In several in stances the route cuts through resi dences, and in case the road is con structed the company will have td pay heavy indemnities. LIGHTNING KILLS COW AND HITS MILL Lightning played freakish pranks in Oregon City Thursday, killing a cow on Falls View, and smoking out a rat on North Main street. A bolt struck the corner of the main building of the Oregon City Woolen Mills, running over the trolley wire atttached to the building, and a ball of fire went down the wire, breaking it, and striking the pullery building. No serious damage was done. At Thirteenth and Main streets a bolt of lightning struck the top of a telephone pole and ran down a heavy twisted guy wire, melting the strands and breaking the glass insulator that was attached to the wire close to the ground. When the bolt hit the pole every ghtss insulator was shattered into bits, and the bolt after leaving the wire grounded in a rat hole un der the sidewalk. If there was a rat there, it never came out to question the cause of the disturbance. - If it happened it is in the Enter prise. " Entire change of Pic tures today The Lennes Sisters Singing and Dancing Act Pathe's Weekly Tomorrow THE GRAND