2 SCOOP THE CUB REPORTER ' Scoop Is Too Much of a Rooter a OH-VOU-LENIOH-OO CHEESE.-YOU HOLY SMOKE- " " lll ii I . OFF -SOUP FLIESTO FODAY-r WANT YOU To c ' ' ' l MORNING ENTERPRISE OREGON CITY, OREGON E. E. BRODIE, Editor and Publisher. "Entered as ' second-class matter Jan uary 9. 19! 1, at the post office at Oregon City. Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879." TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION One Year, by mail J3.00 Six Months, by mail 1.50 Four Months, by mail 1.00 Per Week, by carrier 10 C I TV OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER 8 THE MORNING ENTERPRISE S Is on sale at the following stores $ 3 every day: 3 Huntley Bros. Drugs $ Main Street. $ I. W. McAnulty. Cigars S Seventh and Main. $ E. B. Anderson S 3 Main, near Sixth. 8 3 M. E. Dunn Confectionery Next door to P. O. S City Drug Store S $ Electric Hotel. 4 ? Schoenborn Confectionery $ Seventh and J. Q. Adams. J 8 $SSSSSSSS?S Aug. 20 In American History. 1745 Francis Ashury. first Methodist Episcopal bishop in the United States, born in England; died at Spottsylvunia. Va.. 1810. 1794 General Anthony Wayne defeat ed the Miamis and other Indians at Maumee Rapids, O. 1833 Benjamin Harrison, twenty-third president of the United States, was born In North Bend. O.; died 1901. 1847 Battle of Contreras. Mexico. The United States forces under General Scott won a brilliant vic tory over the Mexicans In seven teen minutes. 18G0 Official end of the civil war. President Johnson proclaimed a state of peace throughout the Unit ed states. 188G Ann Sophia W. Stephens. Ameri can novelist, died; born 1813. ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS. (From noon today to noon tomorrow.) Sun sets G:fl. rises 5:10. Evening stars: Mercury. Venus. Mars. Jupiter. Morning star: Saturn. A blind man was given a picnic in a fine grove near Oregon City. He is a deserving man. A periodical prais ed the man for being blind but lam basted the picnic. Down with brew eries whether going or coming! East side or Westside we'll fight just the same. Why is rent? In its first plank the Democratic platform declares that a protective tariff is unconstitutional. Then the platform multiplies words on the sub ject, trying to hedge. Only the Dem ocratic party could think to compro mise on a violated constitution. At a meeting of the National Soil Fertility League a speaker said a Do You Want to Be A Millionaire? Then x Follow This Advice Ey THOMAS NEACY. a Milwaukee Man of Millions MAN MUST BE CLEAN TO WIN. HE MUST BE CLEAN IN MORALS AND IN HONESTY AND CLEAN AS REGARDS TEMPERANCE. THE INTEMPERATE MAN DOES NOT STAND A VERY GOOD CHANCE IN THIS WORLD. IT IS ABSO LUTELY ESSENTIAL THAT YOU, SHOULD YOU BE SEEKING YOUR FORTUNE IN THE BUSINESS WORLD, MUST LOOK THE OTHER WAY FROM IMMORALITY AND LOOSENESS OF CHARACTER IF YOU ARE GOING TO AMOUNT TO ANYTHING. BE PUNCTUAL ALWAYS. Manv a time has a great victory been won bv punctuality. If you say you are going to meet n man at 8 o'clock, meet him at that time. You would not go to catch a train half an hour after its departing time, would you ? And now for the time honored advice SAVE YOUR MOTEY. The saving of money is the foundation upon which you must, stand to reach the million mark. If you can show me the man who started with nothing and got anywhere on nothing you'll show me a miracle. A few thousands will get you your start, but YOU MUST HAVE THE MONEY BEFORE YOU CAN DO ANYTHING. - WORK IS THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD, T haven't had a vacation since I landed in this country. And, for goodness' sake, don't get the notion into your head that the world ' too full of men who are-capable of holding the big jobs. On the otner hand, there i3 a scarcity of them. There's plenty of room in this world for you if you can SHOW THE WORLD THAT YOU'RE WORTHY I aBa 1 n AND 15 OUT STEALING spvim. - l yl l-ZL. . . . I i r"L i ... - w- . . Vv'l I A o:.VT...P BALL Lyo-WNA n 'ok. . K "u"D'D "CX iVMliMl famine in the United States is inevit able unless the soil is greatly improv ed. The boys' corn clubs now found in every state are building wiser than they know. As a personally conducted affair the third-term party has left the globe trotters completely in the rear. Cook has been the merest tyro compared with thu ubiquitous colonel invariably and profusely on the spot. Hurrah for McBain! He got the li brary. He doesn't play billiards, but in the game of life he double-discounts the rest of us fellows who sit arqund and watch life's masses. Missouri is able to tell the country that the prospects for another Re publican governor in that state are first class. Pennsylvania calls its third-term organization the Washington party. What Washington would call it is well known. , This beinrj leap year, direct pri maries and direct proposals of all sorts have naturally boomed. Turkey's condition can be inferred from the fact that additional doctors are called in daily. Reverse English. : The panhandler met the prosperous man in the corridor of the office build ing. "1 am down and out," whined the panhandler. "Can't you help me?" "Yes," replied the prosperous man. "Just press that button on the eleva tor there and the operator will take you in and down." Cincinnati En quirer. Something Mower. Though unaccustomed to hard man ual labor, Tuffold Knutt was earning his breakfast by doing some actual work. "Well, ma'am," he said, "I've split de kindlin'. Anything more?" "Yes," answered the woman of the house, "there's the lawn mower." Chicago Tribune. The Explanation. Lottie How dare you ask Mrs. Bul lion to a noncourse luncheon? Hattie She won't know it. She's a Fletcher ite, and by the time she has finished she'll have to move on to some 5 o'clock tea. Harper's Bazar. Unless She Back Out. Griggs Do you believe there is any thing in palmistry? Briggs Well er yes. I believe if a young fellow can get a pretty girl to give him her hand he can tell the name of her future hus band. Boston Transcript. An Element of Success. He that can heroically endure adver sity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soul, for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported with the latter. Fielding. '"B - MJ. M CRIERS-BOWL SM-. LnAk- At- w WOO CHEESE-YOU An Infernal Gift By EUN CE G SUMMERS Miss Martiudale. looking over the morning paper, remarked to Dei moth er: "Dear me. so I am to be married! Listen to this: 'The wedding between Schuyler Van Horn and Helen Martin dale will take place on the Ifith iust. at St. James' church Schuyler VaD Horn: I'm to get a husband with an aristocratic name anyway - "With so many people in the world." said Mrs. Martindale. "to find names for. it's a wondei there are not a doz en Helen Martindales and as many Schuyler Van Horns." Miss Martindale said nothing more, scanning the society columns, thus turning to the advertisement of lin gerie Nevertheless the odd announcement of the forthcoming marriage of one of her own name affected her. A certain Dick Owens and she had been what is in slang called "spumis" for some time, and she thought how would she feel if she saw a matrimonial announcement with the name Owens substituted for Van Horn. There was no indisposition on the part of Mr. Owens to see bis name in print linked with that of Miss Martin dale. nor was Miss Martindale herself so indisposed. Tlwre was. however, a barrier between them in the person, of a certain Martin Wyukoop. who had made a great deal of money out of a patent medicine und whose suit wai favored by Miss Martindale's father It was the old story of wealth and all wealth can accomplish -against, to say the least, the mediocrity of a small in come. But since this Mr. Wynkoop was short, fat. bald and homely and Dick Owens was tall, slender, curly headed and handsome Miss Martindale. who was too young to look far into the fu ture, infinitely preferred the latter. It was her father who. with the usual matler-of-factness of age aud experi ence. stood in the way of love's young dream. It was f o'clock in the afternoon Mr. Martindale had come back home from "business and was sitting in the library looking at the evening paper The doorbell rang and an express package was handed in aud receipted for. It was a square parcel about big enough to hold easily a large sized ap ple, addressed to Miss Martindale The butler carried it lo her room and plac ed it updn m table before her She looked at the address and wondered what the package contained, then took up a pair of scissors to cut the string, when she heard a faint ticking. She .took the thing up and carried it down iuto the library. "Father." she said, "some one. i know not who. has sent me a package, and I can near a ticking'- "Drop it !" The package fell from Miss Martin dale's hands on to the floor, where it lay motionless. Mr Martindale made a dash for the door and. seizing his daughter's arm as he passed, dragged her with ni-n our of the room, not stop ping tili lie had put a wall between them and tile package. "Whai do yon th.nk it is?" asked Helen "An internal machine, of course." "Who-, mil t tMve sent it?" "our utilise on it is ,i blind. It was inieliilcd fin me There are several reasons win certain persons whose de mands I nave ignored micht send uie such n thinj: Are you sure you beard it ticking?" "I'eilt.in "Go anil telephone for the police" At that luoiiiHi.t Uicre was another ring at the d!rin-ii. and who should appear but Mr Dick tineas "Oh. Dick"' called tte,eu "Hurry past the library. There s an infernal machine .in ihere Somebody, t don't k'low why sent It to tue. .;r Owens stood a few moments :'iug at -l-ien and her father, who ive in l he rear end ot the nail, then ..sued it ne might see the thing Without wiitim; for a reply he walk ed into the library, looked at -the pack age lying on the floor. 'picked it up and put it to his ear. He smiled Being something of a mechanic, ne knew that the ticking was too delicate for an Infernal machine. It was probably a watch He carefully opened it and found that it was a watch a lady's watch and with it was a visiting card with the names of Mr and Mrs Joseph B. Ward, persons of whom he had never heard Helen had told him of the wedding announcement, and he infer red at once that It was a wedding gift Intended for the other Miss Mar tindale. ,Ad Idea popped into Mr. Owens' bead. He would make some capital with Mr, Martindale. ' "I'll take the thing home with me," he called, "and disarrange the clock- WHITMAN AND POLICE NEW YORK, Aug. 19. Met by a score of policenianwho demanded that the prisoner be surrendered: to them, District Attorney Charles S. Whitman and his assistant, Robert Rubin, arrived here shortly before noon today with Sam Schepps, who wa3 arrested in Hof Springs, Ark., wanted here in connection with the Rosenthal murder. Whitman held back the police, and rushing Schepps through the Station hurried him to the West Side prison in a taicab. Later in the day the district attorn ey issued a red hot statement, bit terly denouncing the police for "but ting in," and declaring that they on ly manifested interest in the case when men liable to divulge incrimi nating facts against them were arrest ed. With the arrival here of Schepps, Whitman says that he is now ready to go on with the trial of Police Lieu tenant Charles Becker. A confession from Schepps., he says, will make complete his chain of evidence against Becker and other police of ficials. Becker continues to maintain a de fiant attitude and has asked Judge Grain -for permission to inspect the evidenc:'; against him already present ed to the grand jury. Judge Crain will consider Becker's request tomor row. Becker, who is alleged to have giv en money to Schepps to pay the gang sters who murdered Rosenthal, will formally plead to a charge of murder Wednesday. work.' "Don't:" cried Helen, in acony. "You'll he blown sky high:" called Mr. MartindMie Never! belfss Dick went out with the box. und in naif an hour a telephone message caine: "Hav? upened the Iks and removed the contents. 1 congratulate you ou your escape." "By Jove!" exclaimed Mr Martin dale "What a man that Dick Owens Is!" ' And he forthwith withdrew his ob jections to Mr. Owens as a son tn-law. Mr. Owens forwarded the wedding grift to its proper destination. Her Little Joke. Wife John. I wish you'd drop into the hardware store on your way home and get a water cracker. Hub A wa ter cracker in a hardware stoie? Wife Certainly: An icepick, stupid! Boston Transcript Superior. "I suppose he is made of the same stuff as other men." "My. no! He's a tenor"' Baltimore American. Wants, For Sale, Etc Notices under these classified headings will be inserted at one cent a word, first insertion, half a cent additional inser- j tions. One inch card, $2 per month; half! inch card. (4 lines), Jl per month. i Cash must accompany order unless one h.is an open account with the paper. No! financial responsibility for errors: where j errors occur free corrected notice will be printed for patron. Minimum charge 15c. j WANTED WANTED: A, chance to show you how quick a For Rent ad will fill that vacant house or room. MISCELLANEOUS. HOW would you like to talk with 1100 people about that bargain you have in Real Estate. Use the Enter prise. F. B. FINLEY, Taxidermist, Tanner and Furrier. Fur Rugs and Game Heads in stock. Glass Eyes, 249 Columbia St., Portland, Ore. DRESSMAKING, Hairdressing and shampooing. Room 5, Willamette Building. INSURANCE FOR THE BEST INSURANCE always get Oregon Fire Relief Association of McMinnville GEO. W. H. MILLER, Local Agent. Tel. Pacific 1771. Home A64 PATENTS Peter Haberlin, Patent Attorney. Counselor in Patent and Trade Mark Causes. Inventors assisted and pat ents obtained in all countries. Man ufacturers advised and lnfringment litigation conducted. Expert Re ports. Briefs for counsel, Validity searches. Trade marks designed and protected. . Labels, designs and copyrights registered. Prellmin- , ary consultations without charge. 326 Worcester Bldg., Portland, Ore. Send for free booklets.. FOUND FOUND: I cow and 2 heifers. In quire Ed Mitchell, Oak Grove, Ore gon. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. FRUIT AND FARM LAND FOR SALE in all parts of Clackamas County. One acre tracts up. I carry some city property that you can buy at a good figure and on terms. S. O. Diilman, Room 1, Weinhard Building, Telephone Main 3771. ! CHEAP TWO lots 66x105 on improved street, in good location. Price $550 for j both. Owner living away and must i sell. Terms, see S. O. Diilman, i Room 1, Weinhard Building. HOM ESEEKERS TAKE NOTICE Here is your Opportunity A red hot bargain, one acre square, all fenced, and every inch under culti vation. Small house, woodshed, several cords wood, light house keeping outfit, and only 15 minutes walk from Oregon City, must sell or trade. Phone Farmers 19x1. ' FOR SALE: House, two lot n cor ner, house recently built, other im provements, near Winkle's Store, opposite Oregon City, Price $460.00. Harvey Buck, Oregon City. FOR SALE AT A BARGAIN today, one Fumed Oak Roller top desk. Inquire at Jones DiMg .Store. FOR SALE: Sixty gallons of huckle berries. Brown's Fish Market, Fifth and Water streets. One dollar per gallon. FOR SALE: Good Medium farm team, well matched. Harness and wagon. Call 719 Ninth street. FOR SALE: Launch, first class con dition, 4 H. P. Fairbanks-Morse En gine. Address A. C. care Enter prise. - STRAYED. STRAYED from Rock Creek Bridge Friday, 3 year old filly, solid color, has heavy stubby mane, rough shod all around, weight about 1100 lbs.; rangey build, of trotting stock. Fol lowed horse and buggy from Baker's Bridge toward Oregon City. Address G. A. Hobbs, Clackamas, Oregon; Route No. 1. FOR RENT FOR RENT: One 5-room house, modern, close in. Apply to George Randall, 801, Fifth and Jefferson streets. WANTED Female Help. WANTED: Girl for general house work. Address 706 Water street, Oregon City. WOOD AND COAL.. OREGON CITY WOOD AND FUEL CO. F. M. Bluhm. Wood and cori delivered to all parts of the ci SAWING A SPECIALTY. Phont your ordn-s Pacific Hum ri t'l NOTICES Notice of Appointment of Executors. Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned have by order of the county court of Clackamas County, Oregon, been duly - appointed exe cutors of the estate of Ole Benson deceased. All persons are hereby notified to present their claims against said estate, duly verified, to us, at Boring, Oregon, within sij months from the date of this notica A, G. HORBERG, H. LEVEEN, Executor Dated August 20, 1912. Ordinance No. An ordinance appropriating money to pay for the building of retaining walls in Oregon City. Oregon City does ordain as fol lows: Section 1. WJiereas lots one and six on Eleventh street and lots four five and six on Washington street, all in block 67, are high above said streets and rocks and dirt are con tinually falling upon the sidewalk, and the same is dangerous and in convenient to pedestrians walking along said streets; and whereas the owners of said property have each heretofore been notified to build re taining walls along their respective property to prevent the conditions aforesaid, and . in accordance with the provisions of ordinance No. 511 of .Oregon. City; and whereas the time named in said notices and each of them for building such walls has expired, and the said property own - ers and each of them have refused and failed to build such walls; and whereas the city of Oregon City now proposes to build such walls and . assess the cost of the same against each respective lot or part of lot affected ; and whereas the city of Oregon City proposes to build re taining walls around the City Park on Twelfth street where necessary, therefore, There is hereby appropriated the M0RM-YOu- -R-o-b-b-e-r! it i sum of $1200.00 or so much as may be necessary thereof, to pay for the building of any or all of the forego ing retaining walls; and the cost of such walls as built for private own ers shall be assessed against the property affected and docketed in the docket Gf City Liens as a lien against such property. Read first time and ordered pub lished at a special meeting of the Council held on the 16th day of August, 1912. L. STIPP, Recorder. RESOLUTION AND NOTICE ! Sewer Distrit No. 10 Whereas pursuant to an order of the City Council of Oregon City, Oregon heretofore made, the City Engineer of said Oregon City has filed in the office of the City Recorder, plans ' and specifications for an appropri ate sewer located in Oregon City, 'and the boundaries of said4 district are as follows: Description of the Boundary of Proposed' Sewer District No. 10: Beginning at the intersection of a line parallel with and 30 feet dis tant from the Easterly line of Block 170,; Oregon City , Oregon, with center line of the alley through said block 170, produced Easterly. Said point being the N. E. corner of Sewer district No. 3, and the N. W. cor. of Sewer district No. 9, run ning thence in a South-Westerly di rection along the Northerly line of Sewer district No. 3, to a point, said point being the N. W. cor. of Sew er district No. 3, thence in a North erly direction and following the me anders jof the East line ot the Wil lamette River to its intersection with the South line of Abernethy - Creek. Thence in an Easterly di rection following the South line of Abernethy Creek to its intersection with the Center line of Madison St. thence Southerly along the center line of Madison St. to its intersec tion with the center of McLoughlin Ave.; Thence in an Easterly direc tion along the center of McLoughlin Ave. to its intersection with the Easterly line of Blocks 15 and 16, Park Addition; thence northerly along the Easterly line of said Block 15, Park Addition 84.8 ft. to the N. E. Cor. of lot 5, block 15, Park Addition; thence in a South easterly direction parallel with the center line of McLoughlin Ave. and 84.8 ft. distant, 270 feet to a point; thence Southerly and parallel with the Easterly line of Block 15 Park Add., 54.8 feet to a point, on the Northerly line of McLoughlin Ave. along the Northerly line of Mc Loughlin Ave. to a point ;said point being the intersection of the North erly line of McLoughlin Ave. with the Easterly boundry line of Corpo rate Limits of Oregon City; thence in a Southerly and Westerly direc tion along the boundary line of the Corporate Limits of Oregon City, to its intersection with the center line of; block 6, Holmes Add., thence Westerly along the center line of Block 6, Holmes Add. to its inter section with the line 50 ft. distant and parallel with the East margin of Elura St.; thence Southerly along a line parallel with and 50 ft. dis tant from the East Margin of El ura St., to "its intersection with center line of block 15, Holmes Add.; thence Westerly along the center line of Block 15, Holmes Add. and a. prolongation of same to its intersection with the center line of Elura St.; thence Southerly along the center line of Elura St. to its intersection with the center line of Dewey St.; thence Westerly along . the center line of Dewey St. to its intersection with the line between lots 1 and 10, block 3 Darnalls Add. Produced Northerly thence along the line between lots 1 and 10, block 3, Darnells Add. to the S.-E,. cor. of lot 1, block 3, Darnells Add.; Thence Westerly along the line be- - tween lots 1 and 2, block 3, Darnells Add. and prolongation of same to its intersection- with center line of B St., to its intersection with a pro longation of the line between lots 6 and 7, block A, Darnalls Add.; thence Westerly along the line be tween lots 6 and 7 block 2, Dar nails Add., to the N. W. Cor. of lot 6, block 2, Darnalls Add.; thence Southerly parallel with and 340 ft. from the Easterly! line of Molalla Ave. 247 ft.; thence Westerly par allel with the South line of Dar Every Successful Man offers practical testimony to the value of a bank account. If you have one, you know its value better than we can tell you. THE BANK OF OREGON CITY " OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY D. a LATOTJRETTE, President. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK . OF OREGON CITY, OREGON CAPITAL $50,000.00 Transacts a General Banking Business. Open from 9 A. M. to 3 P. M. X FORGrOr 'ALU "A BOOT THE, I PMftNP I nalls Add. and 200 ft. distant from the South line of Darnalls Add. to the center line of Molalla Ave.; thence Southerly along the center line of Molalla Ave. to its intersec tion with a prolongation of the line between lots 6 and 7, block 12, Mountain View Add.; thence East erly along the South line of lot 6, block 12, Mountain Viev Add. to the South East cor. of lot 6, block 12, Mountain View Add.; thence Southerly along the line between lots 8 and 9, block 12, Mountain View Add. to its intersection with th center line of Mount Hood St.; thence Easterly along the cen ter line of Mt. Hood st. to its inter section with the center line of Ir vin St.; thence Southeasterly along the center line of Irvin St. to its intersection with the West line of lots 2 and 17 block 1, C. T. Tooze Add.; thence Southeasterly along the Westerly line of lots 17 and 2, block 1, C. T. Tooze Add. to its intersection with the center line of Hilda . St. thence Southwesterly along the center line of Hilda St. to its intersection with the center line of Molalla Ave.; thence South easterly along the center line of Mo lalla Ave. to its intersection, the prolongation of Southerly line of a tract of land conveyed by Fred A. Ely and Christeana Ely to A. Mautz and Rosa Ann Mautz, rec orded in Book of Deeds 106, Page 184, Clackamas County, Oregon, Records; thence Southwesterly along the Southerly line of said tract to its S. W. cor. which point is on the Easterly line of a tract of land conveyed by Mrs. Ida-W'oods unmarried to John W. Moffatt, de scribed in Book of Deeds 48, Page 143, Clackamas County Records; thence Northerly along East line of said .tract to its N. E. cor.; thence Westerly along! the North line of said tract to its intersection with a prolongation of the Westerly line of Heckarts Add.; thence Northwest erly to the N. W .cor. of a tract of land conveyed by C. W. Friedrich and Christina Friedrich to Marie Schwoch, recorded in Book of Deeds 100, Page 536, Clackamas County Records ; thence Northwesterly to a point, said point being intersection of the center line, of Grant St. with the South line of Pleasant Place;, thence Northeasterly along the cen- ter line of Grant St. to its intersec tion with the center line of 2nd St thence Westerly along the center line of 2nd St., to its intersection with the center line of blocks 2 and 5 Pleasant Place; thence Westerly along the center line of Block 5, Pleasant Place to the N. W. cor.of lot 11, block 5, Pleasant Place; thence Westerly along the Norther ly line of said lot 11 to the S. W. cor. of lot 2, block 5, Pleasant Place; thence Northerly along the line between lots 1 and 2 of block 5. Pleasant Place to its intersection with the center line of 1st. St.; thence Easterly along the center line of 1st St. to its intersection with the Westerly line of Main St.; thence North Easterly along the Westerly line of Main St. to its in tersection with the south line of Darlings Add.; thence Westerly along the Southerly line of Darlings Add to its intersection with the cen ter line of Myrtle St.; thence North erly along the center line of Myr tle St., to its intersection with the center line of Roosevelt St.; thence Easterly along the center line of Roosevelt St. to the S. E. cor. of Sewer District No. 5; thence along the Easterly line of Sewer District No. 5, Sewer District No. 6 and the Northerly line of Sewer District No. 9, to the place of beginning. The plans, specifications and es timates are hereby approved,! and the said sewer shall be constructed with vitrified terra cotta pipe and shall have all the necessary man holes, lampholes, laterals and con nections. It shall be laid and connected ac cording to the plans and specifica tions adopted and approved by this resolution. The probable whole cost of said sewer is $50,000.00. The City Recorder is required to have this resolution and notice pub lished as required by the charter of Oregon City. Dated this 16th day of August, 1912. L.. STIPP, Recorder. F. J. MYER, Cashier.