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About Morning enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1911-1933 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1912)
ENTERPRISE THE WEATHER. . & 3 Oregon City Showers today; 3 $ southerly winds. 3 Oregon Showers today and & S southerly winds. $ ; The only daily newspaper be- tween Portland and Salem; clr- $ culates in every section of Clack- j $ amas County, with a population of 30,000. Are you an advertiser? WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 136 6 OREGON CITY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1912 Per Week, 10 Cents VOL'. IV No. 38 SHOOTS HEN KILLS HIMSELF CHARLES GEHRIG, GATEKEEPER AT OAKS, WREAKS DEAD LY VENGEANCE WIFE'S FORMER HUSBAND WOUNDED Suicide And Spouse Separated Week Ago Enraged Man Lurks On Street For Third In tended Victim One man is dead, another may die and two women are wounded as the result of two murderous attacks made last night by Charles Gehrig, a gate keeper at the Oaks, on his wife, her sister, his wife's former husband and his stepson. Mrs. Carrie Gehrig, who is seriously wounded, and Mrs. Nel lie Oliver, her sister, slightly hurt, were shot at 408 Fourth street, Port land. Winfield Scott Holmes, a hackdriver, and former husand, of Ge hrig's wife, was shot down and, it is thought, fatally hurt, at Third and Mill streets. Gehrig took his own life. The dead: Charles Gehrig, aged 45 years; a gatekeeper. Wounded: Winfield Scott Holmes, 47 year old, a hackdriver, shot in the- abdomen; believeTT fatally hurt. Mrs. Carrie G. Gehrig, aged 45 years, shot in the hand and right side of abdomen; is given a chance for life. Mrs. Nellie Oliver, aged 37 years; shot in the right knee. Gehrig, who separted from Mrs. Gehrig about a week ago, was the sec ond husband of the woman, her first being W. S. Holmes, from whom she got a divorce 16 years ago. After be ing separated from her for 15 years Holmes went to board with Mrs. Ge hrig a week ago, when Gehrig, after a quarrel with her, left her. In the household were Mrs. Gehrig, Jimmie Holmes, her son by W. S. Holmes, Mrs. Oliver and James O'Rouke, a hostler in a livery stable. Mrs. Gehrig and Mrs. Oliver were sitting about a table on which was an oil lamp in their rooms at 408 Fourth street about 9 o'clock, and O'Rouke was sitting at the stove across the room when Gehrig entered silently with the gun in his hand. The first intimation they had of his presence was when he shouted: "Now I have you," and fired three times. The first shot put out the light, says O'Rouke, who turned when he heard Gehrig speak, and who saw the face of the man with the gun. The second and third shots, fired in the dark, struck home, one in Mrs. Gehrig and one in Mrs. Oliver. They fell to the floor together, and Gehrig ran out of the door. O'Rouke ran to a neighbor's home and telephoned for a doctor. Fifteen minutes later, as Jimmie Holmes and his father approached Third and Mill street, on Mill, on their way home, Gehrig stepped out of the shade of a tree with the revol ver in his hand. He fired twice, says Jimmie Holmes, the first shot striking the elder Holmes in the abdomen. Then Gehrig ran down Mill stret to Second. Jimmie Holmes ran to Patrol man Mallon, who was attracted by the shooting, and together they ran down Second street. A block toward town they stumbled over the body of Gehrig, who had taken his own life. WILLIAM BUILDI rai walolii FINE HOME One of the most beautiful homes in this city is that being erected by Wil liam Andresen on his property on Jef ferson street, between Sixth and Sev enth streets. Mr. and Mrs. Andresen designed the home. The house is to have a handsome stone ve randa, the pillars on each side being of large stone blocks. The veranda will have a cement floor. The recep tion hall opens from this and at the rear is a smaller hall. The large liv ing room on the north side of the hall way will have a fireplace of tiling, and the large circular window will be an attraction. At the rear is the li brary, while on the opposite side of the living room is the dining room and back of that will be a large and commodious pantry and kitchen. .A breakfast room is between the library and the kitchen. On the second floor are four large rooms and a sleeping porch at the rear. Each room is well ventilated by large windows, and all have good sized clothes closets. The linen clos et, bathroom and sewing room are al so on this floor. All of the rooms on the second floor as those of the first open into a hallway. There are four dormer windows on the third floor. The residence has a full cement basement in which will be the laundry and fuel room. The house will be heated by steam, and already the heating apparatus has beta installed. Pipes have been installed in the building, for a vacum cleaner to be operated by electricity, and so arrang ed that when each room is cleaned the dust will pass through these pipes into the basement, a receptacle hav ing been installed there for that pur pose. The floors of the Andresen home will be of hardwood. C. W. Vonderahe is the contractor. Mr. Andresen and family expect to move into their new home before Christmas. DARROW CORED BY FREDERICKS PROSECUTOR ADMITS PLEA OF DEFENDANT WAS MOST ABLE ONE LABOR LAWYER DENOUNCES FOES Speaker Calls Attention To Agree ment To Prove That There Could Be No Reason For Bribery LOS ANGELES, Aug. 15. Still un der the spell of the defendan'ts el oquence, hundreds thronged the court room at the afternoon session to hear District Attorney Fredericks make the closing argument for the prosecu tion in the trial, which began its fourth month today. "You have listened," said Freder icks, "to one of the most marvelous addresses or orations ever delivered in any courtroom when you heard Mr. Darrow. But that only reflects upon the ability of the man and has mighty little to do with his guilt or inno cence. History teaches us that the most brainy men have gone wrong. This defendant's unfortunate predica ment is the result of those peculiar philosophical views which go to make up his nature. His insidious band en tered into bribery from the very be gining of the the McNamara case; bribery in his very nature. He had the idea that there was no integrity that could not be bought." Fredericks is expected to speak most of tomorrow . With almost the entire courtroom in tears, Clarence S. Darrow brought to a close, in a powerfully pathetic plea, the final argument for the de fense in his trial for alleged jury brib ing, shortly before noon today. It was a thrilling closing of a plea that was unique in the history of American jurisprudence, and as an unschedul ed finale the bells of a nearby cathe dral tolled forth the Angelus as one of the Nation's greatest legal defend ers consigned his own fate to the hands of the jury. With tears streaming down his cheeks, the Chicago lawyer made his last appeal, and when the final word was spoken, men as well as women, jurors and court officials, had hand kerchiefs to their eyes. There was no attempt at a demonstration, and the bailiffs had no difficulty in clearing the courtroom. Friends of the accus ed moved slowly forward and shook his hands, but few words were spok en, as the lawyer was visibly over come with emotion and apparently on the verge of exhaustion. After announcing that he would confine himself strictly to the charge upon which he is on trial the brib ery of George N. Lockwood Darrow entered into a comprehensive analysis of the evidence for and against him in. that issue. Placing the testimony of the prose cution's witnesses and that of his own on the scales, one against the other, he sought by logic and reason to show the improbability of the state's allega tion that he had given the bribe mon ey or induced the corruption of the juror. Hardly a detail of the testimony oi Bert H. Franklin, the eonfessedjury briber, was overlooked in the attack upon him, nor a point made in his favor by the many witnesses who con tradicted Franklin: The speaker, time after time, called upon the jury to choose the man whom they would be lieve Bert Franklin, briber and ad mitted falsifier, testifying for his own liberty, or Job Harriman, Frank E. Wolfe and himself, who had testified against Franklin. "If you convict me, you must say that Harriman, Wolfe and myself are perjurers, and Bert Franklin is an honest, saintly man," he declared. Although more moderate than yes terday in his thrusts at those who had brought about his branding as a crim inal, Mr. Darrow took frequent occa sion to denounce his enemies, particu larly in charging the prosecuting at torneys with trickery, and malice' in the production of evidence an in ar guing to the jury. He protested that he would infinitely prefer to go to the penitentiary himself than be one of the jury to sentence him on such evi dence. I hope," he said, "that the District Attorney's office got its maney's worth when they bribed Franklin with his liberty to testify against me." Turning from Franklin and the al leged bribery transaction, Darrow launched an attack upon John R. Har rington that surpassed all his prev ious denunciatory assaults. Flaying his former friend and em ploye with bitter invective, he declar ed that Harrington's act in- "coming 2000 miles to lure him into the dicta graph trap at the behest of the Na tional Erectors' Association, was the most infamous thing in the criminal annals of the world." Picturing Harrington as a man who had eaten at his table and slept In his bed while betraying him, he declared: "So long as he lives the mark of infamy will be upon Harrington's brow and will even pass to his de scendants." Rising to heights of vituperative el oquence yet unattained in his long ad dress, Darrow consigned his betrayer to the i"horde of rogues, informers, crooks, vagabonds and immunity hunters who have testified against me." "Show me an honest man," he chal lenged in stentorian tones, "who has (Continued on page 2.) NOTHING Emil Seidel, Candidate for Vice-President on the Socialist Ticket. JAGGAR FINDS WHEAT CROP BELOW AVERAGE Frank Jaggar, of Carus, who has been threshing wheat and oats throughout the county, said Thursday that there was hot more than two third's of an average wheat crop and about an average crop of oats. He said that much of the wheat had shriveled as a result of the wet weath er and ravages of the Hessian Fly and the apis. Mr. Jaggor has thresh ed about 9,000 bushels of wheat and oats. There is considerable smut in the oats. Mr. Jaggar expects to de vote several weeks to threshing. He announced that the rains if they con tinued would do much harm to the hop crop. JACK ROBERTS HAY BE GIVEN NEW TRIAL r t PORTLAND, Aug. 15, (Special.) A new trial for Jack Roberts, shotgun highwayman and slayer of Donald Stewart and George Hastings, will in all likelihood be granted by Circuit Judge Morrow upon presentation of the formal request by the condemned man's attorneys. Today the Judge made an order authorizing the court stenographer to furnish Roberts .with a transcript of the evidence at the trial, at the expense of the county, on which the attorneys will base their demand for a new trial. The formal motion will be made in a few days. That Judge Morrow is inclined to view the request for a new trlai with favor, has been well understood by the District Attorney and the attorn eys for Roberts for some time past Today the Judge returned to regular work at the Courthouse to prepare himself for taking up his duties as presiding judge during the coming j-ear. When approached on the sub ject of the Roberts case he partially confirmed the report of his favorable attitude toward the convicted man. - ; v I : r But ( Ok I N6WACCDENT To LISTEN IVE I ? tgffi MM; !,..M JT3 1 insurance POUCV. GOT TO CATCH J UlCSW -1 fLOOK! ) ' ifeTl r Impute. 1 C LOOlT) ' ifclfJ v I -, S PUSH THA.T JL m. i i-,. f ARE J, I BARREL AUOMG- ) J W , teyi ";? 'yv-y- $y PERPETRATED BY WALT Ac SUCCEEDS LIKE PERSISTENCE ! 18. SCHNEIDER'S BLINDNESS INCURABLE Mrs. Anna L. Schneider, who re cently underwent an operation of her left eye returned from the St. iVn cent's Hospital in Portland Wednes day evening. Mrs. Schneider, who has been totally blind for four years, was persuaded by friends to undergo an operation who, thought she might re cover her sight. After remaining in the hospital two weeks, it was decid ed by the attending physician that Mrs. Schneider had prolonged the op eration too long to be of benefit. Mrs. Schneider, when informed that she would be blind the rest of her life, decided to take a course in a school for the blind. Mrs. Schneider is the mother of two beautiful little girls, who live with her in a little cottage on Polk street, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. Ehe is grateful to her friends who have given her assist ance. SOCIALIST CANDIDATES TO SPEAK AUGUST 31 W. W. Myers, the prominent Clack amas County Socialist, announced Thursday that B. F. Ramp, Socialist candidate for United States Senator, and W. S. Richards, Socialist candi date for Congress in this district, would speak in this city on the even ing of August 31. They will come here in an automobile and will make their speeches on a street corner. The candidates will start at Albany, the home of Mr. Richards, and will speak at various towns and villages between that city and this. Mr. Myers says the party will poll a larger vote this year than ever before. He is the par ty's nominee for county commission er. E ESTATE - GOES TO CHILDREN The estate of Ida M. Mundhenke, who died March 12, 1912, was filed for probate in the county court Thurs day. The estate is valued at $7,000. Alma M. Finn was named executrix. The testatrix willed the following $5 each: George Mundhenke, Harrison Mundhenke, Jacob F. Mundhenke and Walter F. Mundhenke. She willed the rest of her estate to Alma M. Finn a daughter, and a son, Albert C. Sen ker. Most of the property is in Clackamas County. FIRST NATIONAL IS MAKING IMPROVEMENTS Extensive improvements are being made in the First National Bank building, among them being the con struction of a cement vault, in the rear of the building. J. D. Renner has charge of the construction. DOUGA L L iSlliftillpifilll fMmwmm -; -.1:1 Prince Albert, Ruler of Principality of Monaco. ALLEGED COW THIEF IS HELD TO ANSWER Carl Johnson, charged with . steal ing a ccw from Christian Fischer, of Gladstone, was held to answer to the grand jury by Justice of the Peace Samson Thursday. The evidence was not conclusive but Justice Samson de cided it would be best to have a thor ough investigation by the grand jury. Johnson was released on bond. Jus tice Samson also heard the evidence on a complaint charging Johnson with stealing six ducks from E. D. Sievers, of Gladstone. He will rend er his decision at 10 o'clock this morn ing. IDGE WORKER MAY BE FATALLY INJURED Charles Hopkins, an employe of the Southern Pacific Company, who was injured in a fall from the trestle at Twelfth street in this city is still in a serious condition, and it is doubtful if he can recover. Hopkins' skull was fractured, and he has not regain ed consciousness. He was taken to the Good Samaritan Hospital in Port land where an operation was perform ed. Hopkins is twenty-eight years of age and has a wife and one child. He fell only twenty-eight feet, but struck on his head. WILLIAM WEISMANDEL SELLS BLACKSMITH SHOP - G. F. Hodge, who recently sold his livery stable and H. Hughes have pur chased the blacksmith shop of Wil liam Weismandel on Main street be tween Eleventh and Twelfth streets. Mr. Hodge took possession immediate ly. Mr. Weismandel came to Oregon City about four years ago from Macks burg. He and his wife will remain in this city for the present . " WEST SIDE TO HAVE OWN WATER PLANT ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEAD OF LAND COMPANY ELATES MANY SUBURBANITES UNION HIGH SCHOOL IS PLANNED Power Cost Too High For Oregon City To Furnish Water To Out siders Many Here With out Service Residents of the west side are elat ed over the announcement in the Morning Enterprise Thursday that Manager Moody, of the Moody Land Company, which controls a tract of almost 700 acres, had arranged to drill wells with the intention of estab lishing a water system. The residents of the 'west side have fought for sev eral years for this convenience, but Oregon City, for obvious reasons, has been unable to furnish it. Now the land company proposes furnishing the water, and the work of drilling the wells will be started at "once. The announcement was made at a meet ing of prominent citizens of Willam ette, Bolton and West Oregon City in the rooms of the Oregon City Com mercial Club Wednesday night. The object of the meeting was to take the preliminary steps toward the organ ization of a booster club. It also is planned to establish a high school on the west side. It prob ably will be located in Willamette althoug'a Bolton and West Oregon City will make a fight for it. The school would be a union one, and all pupils on the west side who desired to attend and had passed the required examinations would be allowed to at tend. The Oregon City Water Board would like to furnish water to residents of the west side, but is unable to do so because of the great cost of power. J. E. Hedges, secretary of the board, has explained that the power might cost more than the business received. In addition to this explanation it is a well known fact that many residents of this city are not supplied with wa ter and when they are the additional demand will tax the resources of the plant. Superintendent Howell says the plant was constructed for the people of this city and it would be an injustice to the taxpayers to weaken it by supplying water to communities outside of the city. RELIC OF ANCIENT TRIBE UNEARTHED While excavating for the basement of the home of Professor J. W. Gray, at Gladstone, a few days ago, work men unearthed a remarkable stone. The stone was beneath several larger ones, some of which weighed several tons, and a blast was necessary to re move it. The stone had been used as a corn crusher probably by a race that antedated the Indians. The rock is in the forni of an arc and the ra dius is about two feet, while the cir cumference is four feet. It is beaut ifully carved. Mr .Gray has had this relic placed in the basement of his house, and will sell it. , MRS. C. C. WILLIAMS IS Mrs. C. C. Williams, one of the promient Oregon pioneers, who has lived at Mount Pleasant for many years, underwent a serious operation at the St. Vincent's Hospital, Thurs day morning. The operation was per formed by Dr. McKenzie, of Portland, assisted by Dr. M. C. Strickland, of this city. Although Mrs. Williams is more than sixty-five years of age, her condition is somewhat improved. Wal lace B. Williams, of North Yakima, Wash., and M,iss Ella Williams, of this city, were at their mother's bed side. RAILWAY CREWS GO TO TILLAMOOK The bridge and pile driving crew of the Southern Pacific, which has been erecting the trestle at Twelfth street in this city, will leave today for Tilla mook to construct a trestle over the Salmonsberry River. The bridge crew is in charge of Vance Chestney and the pile driving crew is in charge of M. Otterbeck. H. E. Edwards, the cigar dealer, and Robert Austin will accompany the crews to Tillamook and spend two days -there. Other crews will be sent here today to com plete the building of the Twelfth street trestle. The crews that leave today are composed of the following: T. Armstrong, R. A. Taylor, M. Otter beck, Frank Pickett, Ben Emerson, Ed Whitchett, Louis Kling, Andrew Smith, Minor Allen, Cheney Chestney Hance Kling, Rosco Andrews, Wm. Felkins, George Curtis, Fred Zouk, Roy Andrews, Vick Daniels, J. Stew art, George Bennett Carl Beals An drew Jacobson and "Sandy" Chowing. CITY TO FILL 7TH STREET QUAGMIRES COUNCIL COMMITTEE HOPEFUL THAT HARDSURFACE MAY BE LAID NEXT YEAR UNIFORM SIDEWALKS ARE URGED Retaining Walls To Be Erected By Municipality And Charged To Property Of Non Residents The reconstruction of Seventh street will be the most important question considered at the meeting of the city council this evening. It is understood that the committee on streets will mak.e a report urging the repairing of the street. That will mean, if the report is adopted, that the holes in the thoroughfare will be filled with crushed rock at the ex pense of the city. The committee, however, it is reported, will go furth er. It will recommend the repairing of the street in the hope that the pro perty owners, who have made a re monstrance against hard surface pave ment " being laid will change thefr minds soon and that hardsurface may be authorized next year. It is gener ally agreed among business men that the street must be hardsurfaced with in a year or two.. Councilman Tooze will urge at the meeting this evening uniformity of sidewalk construction. The cement sidewalks now being constructed vary in many respects. Some of them have a smooth surface and some a rough surface. Some are colored with lamp black and some are the original color of cement. The street committee has decided that all sidewalks should be alike and will make such a report. It also will recommend that all side walks be of the same width. The committee has decided not to recommend the appointment of an other man in the city engineer's de partment to inspect sidewalks. The contractors who build sidewalks for. the city will be compelled to give bond, and if the work is not satisfact ory the sureties will be forced to re new them. or forfeit the bond. All sidewalks whether built by the city or property owners must conform to the grades established by City Engineer Montgomery. Mr. Tooze, of the street committee, said Thursday evening that the coun cil would be urged to enforce the law providing the placing of liens on pro perty of non-residents for the build ing of retaining walls. The city will build the walls in such cases and the property will be sold, if necessary to pay for them. This action is absolutely necessary to keep the streets in good condition. OREGON CITY PACER WINNER Of BIG PRIZE Local lovers of thoroughbred horse-" fiesh are congratulating Ed Reckner on the recent success of his thorough bred pacer "Cap Apperson" at Van couver, B. C, where out of a big field of crack horses he won second money in a $3,000 purse. Mr. Reckner has entered his horse throughout the Oregon, California and Arizona cir cuits, with Sim Lindsey, as trainer and driver. "Cap Apperson" was sired by Zombro, dam by Altamoht, and was bred by Captain Apperson of Parkplace. Another local horseman James Petty broke and trained the animal, "Cap" has been in good hands throughout. Steve Bailey, a well known Seattle horseman being his first owner, succeeded by William Vaughan, of Oregon City, owner of Haltamont, who in turn sold him to Mr. Reckner. He is nine years old. Captain Apperson, after whom the horse is named was one of the first horseman in the state to bring in pedi greed stock, both horses and cattle, and for several years was the moving spirit as well as president of the Ore gon State Fair Association. Probably iio citizen has exercised a greater or more intelligent interest in the breed ing of the thoroughbred. Great things are confidently expected of "Cap" this year. O. A. Stillman, Prohibition Candidate for Congress from First District. . v" 5 - ' -I S - - - - ' ' rZ - t - "V- " : , i .vv ". w.;'' ! ' - . ' :