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MORNING ENTERPBISE, SUNDAY, AUGUST 11, 1912
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SAYS SINGLE TAX
WOULD AID WEALTHY
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DL S. WILL PROTECT
TEXAS AGAINST REBELS
At the Portland Theatres
KILLING OLD FRIEND
BEAT SAN FRANCISCO
LAST CAR LEAVES FOR OREGON CITY AT MIDSIGHI
ST HELENS, Or., Aug. 10. George
Weber, the old fisherman, who was
suspected of the killing of James Cur
rin, wa3 called before the coroner
this morning and made a full confes
sion of the killing of Corrin. He
claims that Corrin attacked him and
in the fight he was thrown over
board by Corrin. In defending him
self he used a knife made of a steel
file and stabbed Corrin.
Weber was examined last night by
Sheriff Thompson, Deputy Lake, Cor
oner Sherwood and Deputy District
Attorney M. E. Miller and after tell
ing so many unreasonable tales and
seeing his position he requested to
be allowed to make a written state
ment, which he did, making a full
confession of the crime.
The testimony before the coroner
was similar in many respects to the
statement last night but differed to
such an extent that tne officers are
following up the leads suggested by
the evidence. A complaint has been
filed with the justice of the peace
charging Weber with murder anI he
may have a hearing Monday.
THORPE WONDERFUL ATHLETE
His Record In Pentathlon and Decath
lon Stamps Him as Greatest.
"You, sir, are the most wonderful
athlete in the world," were the words
with which King Gustave of Sweden
expressed himself to James Thorpe
when the Americnn Indian stepped for
ward to receive his trophies at Stock
holm as winner of the pentathlon and
decathlon, the two all around competi
tions. The two handsome trophies,
one the gift of the king of Sweden and
the other the gift of the czar of Rus
sia, were well deserved, and truly the
words of King Gustave were fitting
and in no sense exaggerated.
Thorpe earned the highest honors of
the Olympic games, and this issaid
with full consideration for the remark
able performances of Ralph Craig, who
won both sprints; of Ted Meredith,
who established a world's record of 1
minute 51.9 seconds for 800 meters and
also set a new mark for the half mile,
which he ran out; of Hannes Kohle
mainen, the wonderful runner from
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Photos by American Press Association.
t THREE VIEWS OP JIM THORPE.
Finland, who won the 5,000 and 10,000
meter runs and carried off the individ
ual honors in the cross country race;
of A. N. S. Jackson of England, who
defeated John Paul Jones, Abel Kiviat
and other stars in the classic 1,500
meter run, and even of K. K. McAr
thur of South Africa, who raced to vic
tory in tbe Marathon run.
To win a decathlon an athlete must
have speed for the dashes and a combi
nation of speed and stamina for the
1,500 meter run; be must have the
strength necessary to scale tbe discus
and to put the shot; he must have the
skill, ability and power to jump both
high and far, and be must have a com
bination of speed and suppleness to
skim the hurdles.
Jim Thorpe, a direct descendant of
those people who roamed the woods
and fields when this country was a
boundless forest, has all these quali
ties and added to them the necessary
heart and courage. It is hardly pos
sible to use words of praise that are
broad enough to commend his per
formance in scoring 8,412 out of a
possible 10,000 points.
It was a brilliant showing, in com
petition with the best of all other na
tions, and Americans far and wide
have reason to be proud of the real
native son. It may be recalled that
Thorpe Is a natural athlete, who shines
on the football gridiron and the la
crosse field in tbe same way he does
on the track.
GANDIL NOT COSTLY.
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CATHERINE COUNTISS AT HEILIG THEATER.
The favorite actress, Cathrine Countiss and her splendid supporting com
pany, headed by the ever popular actor, Sydney Ayres, will present the
delightful Clyde Fitch comedy, "The Girl with the Green Eyes," at the
Heilig Theater, 7th and Taylor streets) for seven Jiigtits, beginning Sun
day, August 11th. Bargain Matinee Wednesday. Special matinee Sat
urday. Popular prices prevail in the evenings.-
Cathrine Countiss, continuing her
summer season at the refreshingly
cool Heilig Theater, Seventh and
Taylor streets, begins her fifth
Sunday, August 11th, in the snappy,
sparkling society comedy, "The Girl
with the Green Eyes." It is the most
smartly written of all Clyde Fitch's
witty, human nature comedies. There
is a steady gale of fun blowing from
the moment the curtain goes up till
it develops into a brief cyclone of
emotion in the last act.
Miss Countiss has a splendid part
just suited to her skill, as commed
ienne and emotional actress, as the
foolish young bride whose absurd
jealousy is amusing until it causes
an almost tragic catastrophy. She
is fresh from the altar, surrounded
by her bridesmaids, when she begins
her tantrums, and she keeps them up
until she turns on the gas in a delir
ium of jealous hysteria, and is res
cued just in the nick of time to find
that she has no excuse. There is a
big cast of over twenty speaking
parts, including Sidney Ayres and
all the favorites.
In the prepartion to follow, is "the
very funny divorce comedy, "Divor-
cons," the play that made Grace.
George famous, adopted by Margar
et Mayo, author of "Polly of the Cir
cus" and "Baby Mine."
paid a small" fortune, has proved him
self a cheap man for the very good
reason that he has proved himself to
be one of the best first basemen in the
American league. Of course buying
players from minor leagues is a gam
ble, for they do not all make good, but
when a club is fortunate enough to
pick up a star it is repaid for years of
experimenting and the spending of
much money.
After watching Gandil play in fast
company for a couple or months one
really wonders that he was allowed to
stay in a minor league so long. He is a
player who has yet to show a weak
ness. There appears to be nothing
that he cannot do, and do it well,
CORRESPONDENCE
Decidedly
unusual.
eta. u..pat. o'fic
Washington's Crack First Sacker Has
Proved He Is Worth $10,000.
A ball player who can make good for
a major league club is cheap at any
price. It sounds like an outlay of a
small fortune to pay $10,000 for a
player, and yet the price amounts to
nothing if the player makes good.
Chick Gandil, for whom Washington
the improved
standard.
It takes more than a
guarantee to equal
Wunderhose it takes
a pretty high standard
cf quality and a know
ledge that the quality
will outwear the guar
antee. The obligation
the manufacturer as
sumes when he tells you
that you are entitled,
and do receive without
question, new Wunder
hose free for any that
wear into holes within
four months after pur
chase, is ample proof of
value.
No child however hard on
. hosier has any terrors for
Wunderhose. Menandwomen
who are annoyed by punching
toes through the foot of a
stoekin rr need have no further
annoyance from that source.
One Dollar per box
cf fourpairs.
L. ADAMS
Oregon City's Big Department
Store
EAGLE CREEK.
Mrs. Viola Douglass and Mrs. Kate
Douglass called on Mrs. Howlett last
Friday afternoon.
Mrs. Cora Robertson and children,
of Fairview, spent a few days in the
neighborhood last week calling on old
friends and acquaintances.
Mrs. Robertson is camping down on
Eagle Creek in company with her
brother, Wm. Freeman and family.
H. S. Gibson made a brief business
visit to Portland Saturday. .
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Voorhees,
son and daughter, and a friend, of
Vancouver, Washington, were the
week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Ed.
Douglass. Mr. Voorhees and Mrs.
Douglass are cousins.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Douglass spent
Sunday in Logan.
Mr. and Mrs. Howlett and Mrs. R.
B. Gobson visited with Mrs. Viola
Douglass Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Woodle spent
Sunday up at their Dover home.
Eli Suter brought a load of house
hold furniture to Eagle Creek the oth
er day for Mr. and Mrs. Sawtell,who
are moving to Molalla.
Dick Gibson sold his pony and trad
ed one horse for another the first of
the week.
Mrs. Ed Douglass has gone to Mo
lalla to visit with her mother, Mrs.
Clester, for a few days.
There will be a preaching service
at the school house, Sunday, August
11 at 11 A. M. Wm. A. Baker, of Port
land ,111 conduct the services.
Mr. and Mrs. K. G. Chapman and
son, Harold, of Lester, Washington,
and Miss Edith Cnapman, of Portland
made a brief social visit on Mr. and
Mrs. R. B. Gibson the fore part of the
week.
The assessor, M. E. Gaffney, was
through this neighborhood recently.
PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 10, (Edi
tor Enterprise.) When a new thing
in human government is attempted,
it is impossible to foresee what will
happen if it is adopted. This is emi
nently true of the proposed Single
Tax Law and is also in a larger de
gree of the Graduated Single Tax
Law. It would be a complete revolu
tion in the important governmental
function TIT taxation and no one can
tell what would be the result. That
it would be disastrous is certain, but
just how it would be so and to what
extent is scarcely realized.
The professed object of its advo
cates is to discourage the holding of
lands not actually occupied by the
owners, which would materially re
duce the value of all land and final
ly destroy it altogether. To illus
trate: A few Sundays ago, the writer
sat on a bench on Council Crest ov
erlooking the magnificent "panorama
of the Tualatin plains and the moun
tains beyond. Near him sat two men,
one, as he afterwards found, was
rich brewer, made, like many others
of his occupation, immensely wealthy
by such men as the 466, buying at
$0.05 per glass what cost $0.01 and
one-eight (344 per cent profit) and
the other a well to do friend. The
brewer said ie would like to have a
large estate with forests, game pre
serves, etc., within their view. The
friends suggested the Single Tax
would prevent. The brewer thought
not. That now he could not buy a
large tract because the numerous
owners were too independent and
would not sell at prices he was will
ing to pay, but if the Single Tax were
thrown on them and the value of
their uoldings correspondingly reduc
ed, they would have to sell or let the
land go for taxes, and many of them
would become his tenants. That he
could afford to pay the extra high tax
for the salsfe of becoming the owner
or so large an estate, and when other
wealthy men would also acquire large
estates as they would do in that
beautiful country, the burden would
not be so heavy as to offset the val
ue of the opportunity, and that, with
the number of rich men who would
take up such estates in Clackamas
County, as he was confident there
would be, the taxes of that County
would not bother them much to pay.
Especially since the taxes taken off
from their immense plants and other
personal property would probably be
equal to the tax on the land. The
higher the taxes on the land, the eas
ier it would be to take it in. And
men when the values of land were
materially reduced, immigration to
the state would practically cease, be
cause new comers would not buy land
which was falling in value, and hence,
these men would have little or no
competition in their purchases.
The opinion was also expressed
that when the people had discovered
what a curse the law was to them,
they would repeal it and adopt the old
and tried system of equal and uni
form axation again, but that he and
the other wealthy men would have al
ready acquired their coveted estates.
It may be the above reasons, which
appear to be sound, are the grounds
ef indifference and perhaps real sup
port of certain wealthy men.
Certain it is that every farmer both
large and -small, aad every farmer's
friend should actively oppose both
the single tax and the, graduated sin
gle tax: for there was probably never
a !xw lioposed that woild be more
disastrous to him.
E. V. RILft.Y.
PORTLA5TO, Aug. 10, (Special.)
Two members of the June grand jury
participated in a raid on the Country
Club, formerly the Twelve-Mile House
on the Base Line road last night.
While Deputy Sheriff Bulger, District
Attorney Cameron and Deputy Miche
let waited in an automobile outside,
the jurymen entered the place, were
admitted to the "club" by the pay
ment of ?1, and were served freely
with liquor by 'Proprietor Frank Lov
eridge. Later the officials closed the
place and arrested the proprietor.
Loveridge was indicted by the grand
jury a month ago for operating in
identically the same manner as he
was last night. He has been denied
a general retail license by the Coun
ty Court, but holds a club license. Un
der pretense of running a club, he
sells membership cards to all visitors
at $1 each and then claims the right
to serve them with liquor. The auth
orities believe Loveridge is acting in
direct violation of the law and will
keep his place closed until the stand
ing of the "club" is determined by the
courts. A second visit was made by
the grand jurymen to the Rod and
Gun Club, formerly the Seven-Mile
House, which is just being fitted up
by Fred Brady. The jurymen failed
to secure membership in this club.
but Brady was warned not to open his
bar until the courts had passed on the
validity of the membership card
scheme. 1
A new 1 o'clock closing order, pro
mulgated by Sheriff Stevens, was put
into effect last night. Deputies Har
ry Bulger and Perry Hunter made a
late trip to the Lake View, the Hut,
tne Cliff Inn and the Claremont on
the Linnton road and notified the pro
prietors of the order. In each case
the officers turned out a number of
belated guests and ordered the lights
extinguished.
"There is nothing new or sensation
al about the present order,' said Sher
iff Stevens today.. "We have simply
been driven to it our efforts to curb
the roadhouses and are now. determin
ed to strike at the root of the evil by
shutting them at a reasonable hour.
The riot m which two parties of
chauffeurs engaged near the Hut Fri
day morning, decided me in the pres
ent course.v We have found that the
trouble is largely due to the fact that
the roadhouses have been permitted
to operate all night. If the roadhouse
is closed at 1 o'clock, a great amount
of this late joy riding, which is very
dangerous to life and morals will
cease."
Sheriff Stevens admits that the
statutes do not uphold him in his po
sition with regard to early closing.
The law permits the sale of liquor at
all times, day or night, except Sun
day, and the Sunday law, is very gen
erally observed by the roadhouses
proprietors. However, he expects to
make good his position by threatening
the proprietors with prosecution un
der the general nuisance statute if
they refuse compliance with his or
ders.
To insure the success of the early
closing the roadhouse evil will be at
tacked in another quarter. Joy rid
ers, who dash back into the city aft
er 1 o'clock in the morning will be
taken up as vagrants and prosecuted
under the state statute. Chief of Po
lice Slover will issue orders to his
second night relief to arrest all joy
riders and hale them into court for
punishment. The law provides that
any person shall be deemed a vag
rant who wanders' the streets and
highways at laTe or unusual hours of
the night, or who engages, in riotius
or disorderly conduct.
AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 10. The Sec
retary of War today sent an answer
to the message of Governor Colquitt,
of Texas, which described raiding by
Mexicans along the Mexican border.
The Governor had declared that if the
United States did not offer aid to pro
tect the people of the state of Texas,
then state troops would be ordered
out to meet the marauders and
drive them back across the border.
Sheriff Edwards, of El Paso County,
who headed a posse to Sierra Blanca,
wired the Governor that several
bands of Mexicans had crossed the
border and that mounted men would
be required to control them.
Four troops of state cavalry are at
New Braunfels waiting the Governor's
orders.
Advices last night from the border
are that the Mexican "invaders" who
crossed the Rio Grande and who were
reported raiding American ranches,
left Texas a quickly as they came.
These dispatches seem to indicate
that the rebels did not remain on Am
erican soil long enough to do much
damage.
Colquitt lost no time in asking the
War Department for protection when
he learned the Mexicans had come in
to Texas.
'Please advise me if the United
States Government will give protec
tion and repel this invasion," tele
graphed the governor. "If-it does not
do so promptly I shall reDel it with
state troops."
Colonel E. Z. Steever ,in charge of
the Federal troops at El Paso, has
telegraphed the Governor he had de
tailed troops to the scene and that
they reported the situation quiet, with
no rebels in sight.
Troop L, of the Third United
States Cavalry, was sent from Fort
Sam Houston today to Sierre Blanca,
and a squad of cevalry was ordered
from Fort Clark to Del Rio to protect
American interests there. Troop Lis
equipped for field service.
" Killed All Hi Relatives.
Artaxerxes III. when he became king
of Persia in 359 B. C. killed all hi relatives.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 10, (Spec
ial.) The Beavers finally turned ta
bles on Sah FraUcIsco today, winning
3 to 1. Gregg was in fine form al
lowing only 6 hits. Baker allowed 8.
The results Saturday follow:
Pacific Coast League Standings
W. L. P.C.
Vernon 73 49 .599
Los Angeles 70 51 .578
Oakland ...70 53 .569
Portland 49 62 .441
San Francisco 50 72 .410
Sacramento 46 71 .394
At San Francisco Pordand t, San
Francisco 1.
At Lo;i AiiieWs I os Aucclcs 3.
Vernon l
At Sacramento Oakland 5, Sacra
mento 4.
National League
Philadelphia 10-5, Cincinnati
Brooklyn 7, Pittsburg 5.
New Tork 6, St. Louis 2.
Chicago 11, Boston 10.
!-t.
Comparative Happiness.
If one only wished to be happy this
could be easily accomplished, but we
wish to be happier than other people,
and this is always difficult, for we" be
lieve others to be happier than they
are. Montesquieu.
American League
Cleveland 5, New York 1.
Philadelphia 8, Chicago 0.
Boston 4, Detroit 0.
St. Louis 3-, Washington
1-1.
T OF
The Young Men's Class of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church tendered Mar
shall Vatcher, president of the class,
a farewell party at the home of S.
MacDonald Friday evening. The time
was pleasantly spent in various "kinds
of games, after which refrehments
were served. At the close of the eve
ning the members of the class pre
sented their guest of honor with a
beautiful watch fob, in this manner
expressing the high esteem in which
they hold him and showing their re
gret over his departure.
If you saw it in the Enterprise it's
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"Do they suit each other well?" .
"Rather. She can even wear
shoes." Fliegende Blatter.
his
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;on
English Slang.
Police magistrates are, as a rule, fa
miliar with slang terms for money.
The late Montagu Williams of London,
says an English writer, once asked a
diminutive prisoner before him how
he had spent some money, which he
admitted he had stolen. "Well, yer
worship," said the boy, "I 'ad a pint
o' mahogany, two doorsteps and a
stinker, that was a steever, and then
a London mystery and a slice of spot
ted plain, and that's 'ow I spent the
sprat" "I see," said Monty, to whom
thieves' slang was an open book, and
added, "Seven days." Breakfast table
problem: How much did the boy
spend altogether, and what was the
price of each item?
. A Substitute.
T cannot live without you!" he de
clared. "Don't say that!" she replied. "1
shall not marry you. but I will ask
father to give you a job." Judge's
Library.
Superstitious Fishers,
In France there is an idea that if a
fisherman counts the fish he has caught
he will catch no more during that day.
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