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About Morning enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1911-1933 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 11, 1912)
S38$ $$ J j j si S THE WEATHER. S J Oregon City Showers today; S winds mostly westerly. $ $ Oregon Showers and wester S ly winds. $ EKPK1SE The only daily newspaper be- 4 tween Portland and Salem; cir- culates in every section of Clack- 8 S amas County, with a population $ of 30,000. Are you an advertiser? $ $$SSS.jSi33S.SS,$, WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED IS66 VOL. IV No. 34 OREGON CITY, OREGON", SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1912 Pee Week, 10 Cents CANAL BILL FIGHT PRALL QUITS AS SALE OF RAILWAY GLADSTONE .WINS WHERE THE STRIKE HITS. IS NOT IS NOT n END HEAD Or HIGHWAY DENIED FIGHT FOR STATION SHIPBUILDING CONCERNS DE MAND HEARING BEFORE FI NAL ACTION IS TAKEN PRESIDENT WILL SIGN MEASURE Registry Of Foreign-Built Vessels Is Made Issue Taft Opposes Provisions Of Pana ma Bill WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 That the Panama Canal bill will not pass to final enactment without a further fight against the amendment permit- (Continued on page 2) Extra Added At traction The PAUL DIABLO VAUDEVILLE Company Will play a four days engage ment commencing today. Catchy Songs Funny Sayings See and Hear The Boy Comme dian WE ALSO HAVE A FINE PICTURE PROGRAM. , NO. 1. The Greed of Gold A Fine Western Story. NO. 2. The Church Across the Way A beautiful story by the Vita graph Co., Featuring Little Miss Costello. NO. 3. Baby Betty A peach of a War Story NO 4. How the Boys Fought the Indians A crackerjack of a Western Comedy 21 2 R of Entertainment. The biggest and best show for the money in the city. NOTE: The Diablo Co. will make a complete change of program on Tuesday. MAN WHO HAS WORKED FOR BETTER ROADS EMPLOYED BY LAND COMPANY IS AUTHOR Of SEVERAL WORKS Samuel Hill, President of Home Tele - phone Company, Is Mention ed As Successor Of Portland Man The Oregon Association for High way Improvement must seek another president. Carlos T. Prall has re signed. He has become manager of the Eastern Oregon Land Company, a subsidiary corporation of Balfour Guthrie company and will hereafter reside in Ontario, where he will have charge of holdings extending .over some 80 miles. New3 of Mr. Prall's resignation was received with surprise and regret by his associates in ,the highway cam paign. He is now serving his second term as head of the organization that has submitted to the people for vote at the November election the six har mony good roads bills. Much of the work incident to the campaign for better built highways has been done singly by Mr. Prall. During his first year as president of the association he acted as a mem ber of the state-wide good roads com mittee and later on the harmony high way committee. He is the author of important provisions of the bills and by his study of road legislation and construction methods in many states aided greatly in the effort to obtain for Oregon a system based on the best experience of the most expert legislators and road builders. There is no certainty as yet as to Mr. Prall's successor. The asscia tion will call a special meeting to con sider the resignation. During the next four months the campaign to place the merits of the highway bills and their importance before the peo ple will become exceedly strenuous. Members of the association feel that a man who is not only enthusiastic in the highway cause but who has the qualities of generalship must be chos en. In this connection Samuel Hill, president of the Home Telephone company and national known leader of the good roads movement, has been prominently mentioned. Association members would consider it high good fortune should Mr. Hill consent to ac cept the place, it is said, as no other man in the country is credited with greater ability to handle a campaign or more ability in setting forth the great need of systematically built roads to the present future of the state s development. Mr. Prall has been in eastern Ore gTm attending to matters connected with his new position. GIRL OF "PINK MASK" DAZZLES AT THEATER NEW YORK, Aug. 10. Two thius- and persons have ad a chance to see the dainty beauty of mysterious iden tity who has agitated smart set cir cles in this city and Newport in a way that has not happened since Julia Estelle French and Jack Geraghty eloped. For two hours, ' during the entire performance at Hammerstein's, there sat in a box the exclusive "Girl Wit'a the Pink Mask," whom every one talked about and apparently no one knows. She was strikingly gowned all in pink and shimmering silks, with one enormous flashing jewel in th center of her doice. t Above the dazzling crest of softly-rounded shoulders and topping and half concealing an ex quisite Cupid's bow mouth, was the baffling pink mask just a dainty fluffy, frilly pink silken mask but the identical bit of cloth which has been the absorbing' topic of tea-table gossip in New York several days. A single escort, faultlessly attired, but conspicuous merely as an escort, kept quietly within the shaded re cesses of the lower right proscenium bo)i, which was occupied only by the mysterious two. Reporters besieged the draped en trance to the box, when word was whispered aboitt the theatre that the mysterious beauty was present. But her imperturbable escort, with bland disdain, waved all away and refused to answer any questions. When "The Girl With the Pink Mask" left the theater her escort guarded her closely, keeping all inquisitive news paper men at a safe distance. At the box office additional information could not be obtained. The manager of the theater would not throw any light upon the mysterious identity of the elusive beauty. He said: "All that I can tell you is that the lower proscenium box was chartered for the performance several days ago. The box was paid for in advance and no Information as to who would oc cupy it was given or asked." GEORGE H. YOUNG'S GRANDSON DIES SUDDENLY IN IDAHO The 2-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Roland, of Couer d'Alene City. Idaho, died suddenly Saturday. The information was received here in a telegram from Mrs. Roland's father, George H. Young. Only the day -before Mr. Young had received a letter from his daughter, advising him of the good health of all the members of the family. SITES SOUGHT HERE?) FOR COLONIZATION George W. Wagner, representing a big block ot Eastern capital, was in Oregon City Saturday. He has been spending some time in this county locking for a colonization site, and is in search of tracks aggregating 2,000 acres or more. Mr. Wagner found the Ilolal'.a country far superior for the needs of his proposed colony to any place he has seen in the West, not ex cepting the Hood River valley. EW STEAMER WILL BE STARTED SO The new steamer Gramona will be ready for service on the Willamette River in about three weeks. The Gramona is the latest addition to the fleet of the Oregon City Transporta tion Company. The steamer Kellogg will make her first trip of the season to Oregon City Sunday, with a party of excursionists who are affiliated with the Foresters of America. LITTLE GIRL IS SEVERELY SCALDED The two-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Barry, of Gladstone, was seriously scalded Saturday after noon. The little girl was playing in the kitchen while her mother was scrubbing the floor. A pail of scald ing water was accidentally overturn ed on the child. Mr. Barry, who is connected with the bookbinding de partment of the Morning Enterprise, was notified and he summoned Dr. Guy Mount. He found that the little girl was severely scalded on the right hip and right leg. . A. D. Mrs. A .D. Vatcher was painfully burned Friday while packing furni turee, incident to the removal of the family from this city to Long Beach, Cal. She " had washed her hair and was using an alcohol lamp in drying it, when she accidentally overturned the lamp and the alcohol bottle with it. The floor was covered with paper and excelsior that she was using for packing material and the blaze was communicated to the rubbish. Mrs. Vatcher ran outside of the house and called for help, but none heard her, and she reentered the house and beat out the fire with a rug. Her hands were badly burned. After extinguish ing the fire and when the excitement was past, Mrs. Vatcher promptly fainted. TAFT WITHDRAWS SCOH FOR MARSHALL WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. The pres ident has withdrawn from the senate the nomination of Leslie M. Scott as United States marshal for Oregon. The supposition here is that the withdrawal has to do with politics or that Scott grew tired and resigned to go into business. His nomination was made originally about a year ago on the recommendation - of Representa tives Laff erty and Hawley, and though rather unusual, both senators gave their approval to .the . nomination. Neither of them seems to have any idea why Scott's name has been with drawn. Hawley and Lafferty profess to be in the dark. V i wm VC Benjamin Ide Whee'er, Famous edu cator, who has held the presidency cf the University cf California since 1899. HEN, CALLED 'FLIRTS', PROMPTLY JAILED Men who gave their names as H. Krebs and H. A. Ames, were arrested Saturday night by Policemen Green, on a charge of insulting women. Sev eral women complained that the men, who were well dressed, had spoken to them on the street. Finaly Po liceman Green was told of the actions of the men, and he found them stand ing at the approach to the suspen sion bridge. The policeman watched them for sometime, and finally he says he heard them address remarks to two women who passed. Several other persons also heard the remarks. The prisoners denied the charge. They said they lived in Dallas. FARMERS TO HAVE AT 0. A. C. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE, Corvallis, Or., Aug. 10. A ru ral conference, for the discussion of farm problems is to be held at the Oregon Agricultural College this fall, and a big farmers' excursion to the college will be organized, with special rates from different parts of the state to enable progressive farmers from the various communities to attend and take part in the program. All the organizations interested in rural life, including all religious de nominations and those interested in the country schools and the improve ment of the farming communities, are expected to join in threshing out vex ed questions. The discussions will cover the rural church, school, and home, the farm, rural social and eco nomic conditions. y Professor R. D. Hetzel, director of extension, at the college, has been re ceiving letters from all sections of the state commending the plan and offering assistance. The railroads will be asked to run excursion trains to bring the farmers and their fami lies to spend a day or more at the college during the conference. The different departments of the college are preparing a large number of ex hibits and demonstrations of better methods of agricultural practice .and home making, and some of the best speakers and tarm experts in the west will be present to lecture. " The date is not yet set, as the col lege wishes to avoid conflict with oth er important meetings, but announce ment will be made as soon as possi ble. FUNERAL OF YOUNG FARMER TO BE TODAY Aven Johnson, son of J. E. Johnson, who lives near Oswego, died Friday, after a lingering illness. Mr. Johnson was thirty-two years of age. He had suffered from tuberculosis for several years. The funeral will be held at 10 o'clock this morning at the home. a LIVINGSTONE TO HRIED TODAY The funeral of John Livingstone, former slave and playmate of Mark Twain, who died suddenly Friday morning at the home of Frank Welsh, will be held at 10 o'clock this morn ing. The services, will be at theWelsh residence. Livingstone was a promi inent member of the State Grange, and the services at the cemetery in Clarkes will be in charge of members of the grange. Aftei the civil war Livingstone moved from Hannibal, Mo., with his former master, Judge Joseph Ringo, to Oregon City. A few years, later Judge Ringo gave the ne gro a farm near Clarkes and he left an estate of about $15,000. Living stone was one of the most respected men in the "county. TO HAVE BENEFIT TODAY A benefit picnic will be given today at Schnoerr's Park for Willis "Doc" Mosier, the blind fireman. Refresh ments will be served, and there will be speaking, racing and dancing in the afternoon. Oregon City business men have donated prizes for the races. The picnic will be given by the Oregon City Fire Department and the Foresters of America. Men will be charged twenty-five cents and wo men and children will be admitted free of charge. Among the speakers will be Mayor Dimick and Gordon E., Hayes. IS FOUNDIN DESERT PASCO, Wash., Aug. 10. Coroner L. P. Murphy and Undertaker P. E. McDuff returned to Pasco last night from White Bluffs, where they were called by a telephone message an nouncing the fact that a dead man had been found on the desert be tween that place and Beverly. The two men went to the place Wednes day afternoon and searched all of Thursday before the body was found. The body was identified as that of Edwin Hart, 50 years of age, a labor er who had been employed on con struction by the Milwaukee railroad at Beverly. He had been dead a month. The country between the two plaees is 'an alkali desert and no wat er is to be found. It was a plain case of death from thirst. The un fortunate man had torn up great sage brushes by the roots and dug holes in the ground for a considerable space either in a vain endeavor to find water or from the results of an over-tortured mind. It is thought death came during the hot spell in early July. As the body could not be moved, a grave was made in the desert, and the coroner and undertaker buried the man, placing a bottle containing the facts and dates beside the body. KNOX TO ATTEND FUNERAL OF MIKADO WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. Secre tary Knox has been designated by President Taft as special representa tive of the United States, at the fun eral of Mutsuhito, the lafe Cmperor of Japan, and will leave Washingon for San Francisco and the Orient next Thursday. The funeral will be held September 13. Mr. Knox is expected back in this country in October. REV. WOLF TO PREACH AT UNION SERVICES The RevJ Mr. Wolf will preach this evening at the union. services In the park. The services will start at 7 o'clock. Dr Ford, pastor of the Meth odist Church, preached last Sunday, and the attendance was larger than it had been at union services for sev eral years. Rev. W. T. Milliken will preach next Sunday. SOUTHERN PACIFIC OFFICIAL SAYS HE HAS NOTHING TO SAY Otl SUBJECT ANNOUNCEMENT IS EXPECTED SOON Acquisition Of West Side Route By Harriman Line Will Save Valuable Homes Part Of Line Built That the Southern Pacific Railway Company has purchased the Willam ette branch of the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, is the con sensus of opinion in Oregon City. A high official of the Southern Pacific Railway when asked Saturday night if the report was true, declared that he was not in a position to make a statement. "Do you deny that the sale has been made?" asked the questioner. J "I will neither deny nor affirm the j report," was the response. His declination to deny the report is indicative that the deal has been put through, and that the company does not want to make an announce ment of it until all details have been consummated. . ' ; B. T. McBain, President of the- Ore gon City Commercial Club and mill manager of the Willamette Pulp & Paper Company declared that he was confident the deal has been made. "All I know about it is what I have heard in Oregon City," said Mr. Mc Bain, "but that information is con vincing. I shall, however, try to veri fy the reports this week. If the deal has been consummated it means a great deal to the residents of the west side, and they should know as soon as possible what has been done." The property reported to have been bought by th4 Southern Pacific Rail road Company consists of a line opt erating from' West Oregon City and a right of way from Willamette to Oswego. The line is being extended from Bolton to "Oswego and will be finished before Christmas. The Southern Pacific had surveyed a route for a double track electric line on the West Side from Salem to Oswego, but probably will surrender its rights of way if it has purchased the line of the. Portland Railway, Light & Power Company. The route extends through several of the handsomest residences on the West Side. CHIEF BULL. MOOSE WALLOPS W. J. BRYAN OYSTER BAY, N. Y., Aug. 10. Ad mission that many of the planks in the Progressive platform are of Dem ocratic origin, was made here today by Colonel Roosevelt, Progressive nominee for president When Roose velt's attention was called to Wililam J. Bryan's declaration that the Pro gressives stole all their good planks from Democracy, he said: "Of course we have stolen all ideas from the Democrats that were good except those fit for inmates of a lun atic asylum." Colonel Roosevelt proudly exhibit ed today a telegram from the Bremer ton (Washington) navy yard which read: "We join in congratulating you on your nomination. (Signed) "CREW OF THE OREGON." In discussing the negro problem, Colonel Roosevelt said today: "As far as the negro question is concerned, we got it started in the only right way. We came near break ing on it, though, because so many did "not understand and wanted to make it a national instead of a state issue. Lincoln regarded it as a State issue. Ten years hence, the people will see that we have' correctly solv ed the problem. "The white men of the south must aid the negro by pushing ahead the deserving colored man and driving the venal negro out of politics." POSTMASTER HOLDS HP MAIL TO AID MAN WASHINGTON, Aug. 10. Post master John F. Reisacher of Condon, is to be decapitated for pernicious po litical activity. It seems that Reis acher saw an editorial in a local pa per that did not appeal to him. It was just before the primary election and he simply suppressed the entire edition of the paper until after elec tion. Reisacher's case resulted in com plaints bitter and forceful to the de partment and the inspector was de tailed to investigate. He went into the matter with the deliberate thor oughness supposed to characterize such investigations and reported ad versely to Reisacher. That usually means the equivalent of a dismissal. It seems to mean that in this case. At any rate Representative Lafferty has been asked by the department to reccommend a man for Reisacher's place. Lafferty is investigating on his own account and being unfamiliar with of ficial timber there, he has asked the Condon Commercial Club to inform him regarding the matter. He also said he was in favor of giving Reis acher an opportunity to defend him self if he wished to enter a defense. P. R., L & P. COMPANY FINALLY DECIDES TO STOP CARS AT HEREFORD STREET TEST CASE HAD BEEN PLANNED Mayor Cross And Chambers Howell Convince Officials Proposition Is Meritorious City Has Three Sations After opposing the proposition for more than two years, the Portland Railway, Light & Power Company, Saturday acceded to the request of the residents of Gladstone to stop its cars at Hereford street. The man agement in refusing heretofore to grant the request declared that the stop would result in a slower sched ule. However, the Gladstone resi dents were determined to win and Fri- (Continued oa, page 3) 250 Chair Pickers at If you want a seat be sure and PICK EARLY Clyde and Bertie EDWARD, Cammence an engage ment TOO X Y Monday Night Our Big Amateur Night Take advantage of this big bargain night 3 Reels of Pictures One Professional Act Four Amateur Acts And Perhaps Some More Children and Adults 10c Monday Night Only " HI b