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VOL. IV No. 33
OREGON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1912
Per Week, 10 Cents
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JUDGE BORDWELL DENIES THAT
HE MADE AGREEMENT WITH
WRITER
TESTIMONY ENDS IN NOTED CASE
Bordwell Testifies that Magazine Man
Made An Effort To Discuss
Case But Was
Rebuked
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9. The feat
ure of the closing day of the taking of
testimony in the trial of Clarence S.
Darrow today was the sharp contra
diction by Judge Bordwell, who pre
sided in the McNamara trial, of Lin
coln Steffens' testimony that the writ
er had discussed with him in advance
the proposal to settle the McNamara
case "without loss, of life." StefEens
had taken credit to himself f or the
ending of the famous case. He to
ned that he had taken the subject up
with the judge himself. Judge Bord
owell made as plain as possible his as
sertion that he had not permitted
Steffens to discuss this phase of the
subject with him.
Steffens testified he had won Bord
well over to leniency. Bordwell said
that while talking with Steffens on
one occasion Steffens began to tell
him of conversations with Gibbon
and Lissner in regard to settling the
MeNamara case without loss of life.
"Then,' said Judge Bordwell, "I
stopped him and told him that wasn't
a proper question."
This, Judge Bordwell asserted, was
all that was said. Judge Bordwell
persisted in this statement under
cross-questioning by Earl Rogers, of
the defense.
Taking of testimony ended in the
Darrow case today. Mrs. Bert Frank
lin, wife of the former McNamara de
fense detective, who confessed to brib
ing two jurors, was the last witness
called by the state in rebuttal and at
the end of her direct examination the
defense announced that there would
be no sur-rebuttal.
"The people rest," said District At
torney Fredericks.
"The defendant rests,' said Chief
Counsel Earl Rogers,' of the defense.
It was agreed that arguments should
be begun Monday and it was decided
to allow each side two and a half
days, for argument. This agreement
assures submission of the case to the
jury not later than next Friday night.
Judge Bordwell made it plain that
his rebuke of the writer ended the ef
fort to introduce the subject of the Mc
Namara pleas into the conversation
betwen them.
ROOSEVELT PLANS
RESTOFONEWEEK
FIGHTING COLONEL THEN WILL
START ON SPEAKING TOUR
OF UNITED STATES
VISITORS WARNED TO KEEP AWAY
Ex-President, Delighted With Recep
tion In New York, Announces
That Metropolis Has
"Waked Up"
MRS. E. B. ANDREWS
IS TEMPERANCE HEAD
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union held its annual meeting Tues
day afternoon, and the following offi
cers were chosen for the coming year:
Mrs. E.B. Andrews, president; Mrs. L.
H. Olmstead, vice-president; Mrs. Eb
erly, secretary; Mrs. Frank Welsh,
treasurer. Plans for the future work
of the organization were discussed . .
OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Aug. 9 For
one week Theodore Roosevelt is go
ing to forget politics if he can and
take a rest. When that week is ov
er he will take up the fight again to
carry it on until election day.
The Colonel returned here today
from the Progressive convention in
Chicago and announced his plan for
a week's rest, saying he had told his
secretary he wished to see no one at
Sagamore Hill. He expects to spend
the morning with his' riding horse and
the afternoon at bowling and tennis,
occasionally helping the farmhands in
the field.
Colonel Roosevelt was pleased, he
said, at the reception today given him
swhen he reached New York. There
was a crowd at the station and on
his way to his office, where he spent
most of the day, he was cheered by
those on the streets who saw him.
"New York is waking up," he com
mented. With most of the progressive lead
ers out of town, Colonel Roosevelt
gave little time to politics today, ex
cept to talk with a few local workers.
He said he had found a great number
of letters and telegrams congratulat
ing him upon his nomination for Pres
ident and the way in which the Pro
gressive party had begun its career.
Most of them, he added, ended with
an invitation to speak at the place
wherever it was, in which the writer
lived. He had enough invitations to
keep him busy making speeches for
several years, and said he would have
to refuse almost everybody to adhere
to his determination to make only one
speech in a state.
WHAT FUNNY IDEAS WE HAVE ABOUT OUR VACATIONS.
WIFE, SUING, CALLS
Couple Gets License
A license to marry was issued Fri
day to Mary M. Oberstaller and Grov
er Krigbaum.
Declaring that her husband is miser
ly and that she had to support her
self and her children, Ina L. Kings
bury Friday filed suit for a divorce
against James Kinsbury. They were
married December 24, 1886, in Borts
ford, Wash. The plaintiff alleges that
the defendant has on many occasions
left their five children at home with
out anyone to watch them. She asks
for the custody of the two younger
children and that the father be given
the custody of the three older ones.
Circuit Judge Campbell Friday grant
ed decrees of divorce in the follow
ing cases: Gertrude Robin against
Ferdinand Robin and Marie Pederson
against Anders Pederson.
A small classified ad will rent that I If it happened it is In the Enter
vacant room. prise.
AND
Fine Pictures
Pathe's Weekly
With ten important happenings
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PRES
AGAIN
IDENT
VETOES WOOL BILL
TAFT DECLARES THAT ONLY
RECOMMENDATIONS OF BOARD
ARE RIGHT
JOHN
LIVINGSTONE
CUT WOULD HURT INDUSTRY, HE SAYS
Possibility That Measure May Be
Passed By. House Over Veto
Of President Senate
Against It
...
E TO HAVE
BIG FAIR DISPLAY
Henry W. Furniss, United States Min
ister to- Haiti.
Warner Grange is working diligent
ly making preparations for the com
ing County Fair. The committee in
charge has made application for booth
space and expects to occupy a much
larger space than in former years. All
the members of the Grange are work
ing together to make a showing that
will surpass other years and enable it
to win first prize. Warner Grange
has taken first prize a number of
times. -
The County Fair is a great benefit
to the County and all Grangers are
urged to have displays. The County
Fair is one of the best advertising
mediums Clackamas County has ever
had.
LIGHTNING KILLS
VALUABLE BROOD SOW
Lightning killed a valuable brood
sow belonging to James Hylton, of
Mount Pleasant, during the electrical
storm Wednesday night. The sow was
lying under an apple tree, and a bolt
of lightning struck the wire fence,
searing the poVs and' killing the ani
mal, which Hylton had recently pur
I chased and which he valued very
highly.
If you saw it in the Enterprise it's
so.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. For the
second time within a year President
Taft today vetoed a bill to revise the
wool tariff schedule "K" of the Payne
Aldrich law.
The President returned to Congress
the bill evolved as a compromise be
tween the House and Senate holding
that its low rates would bring disas
ter to home industry. He appealed to
Congress, however, not to adjourn un
til it had enacted a measure to sub
stantially reduce unnecessary exist
ing duties, without destroying protec
tion for the wool industry in the Unit
ed States. x
The President's disapproval of the
wool bill is to be followed with ve
toes of the steel bill and the cotton
bill. The sugar bill will probably be
vetoed and so will the excise tax bill,
the latter on the ground that the Pres,
ident believes it unconstitutional.
"I stand by my pledges to maintain
a degree of protection to offset the
difference in cost of production here
and ' abroad, and will heartily ap
prove any bill reducing duties to this
level," wrote Mr. Taft.
While the present bill and the one
disapproved last year were identical
in terms, the President's reason dif
fered. He vetoed the former because
it had been framed befor the Tariff
Board's report the latter because he
said it had been framed with disre
gard for the Board's findings.
"Most of the rates in the submitted
bill," wrote the President, "are so low
in themselves that if enacted into
law the inevitable result would be ir
retrievable injury to the wool-growing
industry the enforced idleness of
much of our wool-combing and spin
ning machinery, and of thousands of
rooms and the consequent throwing
DIES
SUDDENLY
FORMER SLAVE, WHO CAME HERE
IN 1864, WAS SOUL OF ,
HONOR
MASTER REWARDED HIM LIBERALLY
Negro, Fearing Soldiers Might Force
Him To Quit Home, Rode
Many Miles in Box on
Way To Oregon
(Continued on page 2)
John Livingstone, who was a play
mate of Mark Twain, was found dead
in bed Friday. Livingstone, who was
a negro, was one of the best known
men in Clackamas County, and his
life's story is romantic throughout. '
He had lived in this county since 1864
and leaves an estate valued at ?15,
000. No man in the county was more
respected, and no man had a better
reputation for honesty.
Livingstone was born in 1836 in
Northeastern Missouri, being a son of
slaves. When about twelve years of
age he was sold to Joseph Daugherty
of Hannibal, Mo., who was an uncle
of F. A. Mile's, a deputy Sheriff of
Clackamas County. His boyhood was
spent in that quaint river town, and
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain,) who
was just one year his senior, and
he became fast friends: When Mr.
Daugherty died Livingstone, or just
John, as he was known then, was sold
to Judge Joseph Ringo, of LaPlata for
?850. Judge Ringo was a southern
sympathizer and John remained with
him until the year before the war
closed. He was a faithful slave and
declared he would never be separated
from his master. However, it soon
became rumored that union soldiers
would compel Judge Ringo's slaves to
leave him and John and Joseph Rin
go, a son of the judge decided to come
to Oregon.
They went to Nebraska in a wagon,
John riding most of the time in a big
wooden box for fear the soldiers
might discover him. They remained
in Nebraska a few months and in
1864 started for Oregon. Ringo and
his negro companion encountered all
kinds of hardships, but they finally
reached Oregon City. The next year
Judge Ringo, having virtually lost ev-
(Continued on page 3)
GLADSTONE 10 VOTE
MM SCHOOL
An election to determine whether
Gladstone is to have a high school has
beer; called for August 31. There is
a movement on foot to establsh a un
ion higi school for Gladstone, Park-
At a recent election the majority of
the voters favored the establishment
of a high school in Gladstone, but a
preliminary question regarding the
city's furnishing high school instruc
tion to eligible pupils either in Glad
stone or Oregon City was lost. The
directors held that inasmuch as this
proposition failed to carry the vote on
the other question could not be con
sidered.
SHE TRIES TO DIE
& ATOST everybody takes some
lVli sort of vacation nowadays
-and no matter whether you spend yours in the
city or country, there are a great many little things
W Villi IlCCU lv VllJVJ JVwOVi j- I'll
We have fresh, dainty, pretty, light and comfortable things that wiU make your vacahon truly .deal no
matter where you are going. .
Change of Vaudeville
Keep in mind the Elk's Parade, Aug. 22nd.
and 23rd. at this theater
Comedy Act coming Sunday. See photos in
lobby.
Mrs. Anna Tompkins, of Willam
ette, attempted suicide Thursday night
at her home by drinking carbolic acid.
She will recover, but it is feared she
will make another attempt to end her
life. Mahlon Snidow, a neighbor, was
visiting at the Tompkins house about
9 o'clock, and Mrs. Tompkins went in
to a pantry and took the poison. Snidow-
hurried to the telephone station
and gave the alarm and a physician
from Oregon City administered relief
The woman told Snidow she was tired
of life and wanted to put an end to it.
Her husband, H. H. Tompkins, lives
at Shaw, Or. They have not been
living together for some. time. Mrs.
Tompkins has three children living
with her, two daughters, aged ten
and fifteen years respectively, and a
son, aged twenty years.
Mexican Harvest Hats 5C
A vacation day special that will attract; 30 doz. WIDE BRIM
MED Harvest Hats; for men, women or children, they are flexible,
light and unbreakable. '
Provide cool comfort for sunny August day. No more than L t
2 to a customer, at this price UtA.
50C
riaranrp Sale of Children's Wesh
Dresses. Best $1.00 Kind
This sale has never seen its equal in this vicinity in qunati
ty, variety or value giving.
All discontinued odds, and ends, and mussed dresses from our
mammoth stock of the past season.
Every mother in Oregon City knows of the splendid values we
qive in wash dresses. Tomorrrow will witness fast and furious
r"
selling, when we say any dress from 4 to 14 years, on the Kill
uuv
bargain table at
L. & N. SHUTS OUT
TELEGRAPH COMPANY
LOUISVILLE, Ky., Aug. 9. The
Louisville & Nashville Railroad has
served notice on the Western Union
Telegraph Company that all the lat
ter's poles and wires along the road's
right of way must be removed by No-,
vember 1. This action follows a de
cision reached by the Louisville &
Nashville some time ago to operate its
own telegraph system.
The contract made between' the rail
road company and the Western Un
ion 25 years ago expires August 17.
It is estimated the Western Union has
25,000 miles of poles and wires along
the Louisville & Nashville . right of
way. ,
Wash Petticoats
29C
15 doz. best 59 and 65c
gingham wash petti
coats made with large
flounces. Come in plain
Chamhray, Ginghams,
or stripes and checks.
A cool, practical gar
.ment at less than cost
of material
each .....
f Middy Blouses 01 AX
Best $2.25 Val.vJH .
The latest styles in
Middy blouses, made
of best quality galat
ea, deep blue or scar
let trimmings, button
ed cuffs or short sleeve
styles, the best $2.25
blouse shown in every
A Shirt Bargain rfiO
for Men Folks aUjUU
Recreation shirts made
of plain soisettes, but
ton down military col
lars. Perfect fitting
shirts, a great variety
of colors, priced regu-
larlv at $1. all
. 1 1 .
sizes today LlUtA,
(New Fall Wom-0050
I en'sout'gShoes)Z.
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Shoes for vacation
days, that are built for
comfort and wear, but
ton or lace styles in
kid or gunmetal leath
ers, a big variety of
styles and ev
ery size her
today at
The Popular MacRi
naws Our display is the larg
est hereabouts, Nob
by Mannish Model
Mackinaw coats for
Misses and Women, in
full box and strapped
Norfolk effects. Ideal
garments for outing
wear, a full range of
plaid and plain colors.
These coats are all the
rage in the East and
will be worn exten
sively this Fall.
ALL VERY REASON
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