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MORNING ENTERPRISE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1912
BIG PUGILISTS
ARE MOFtEY MAD
Leading Fighters Demand For
tunes to Put on Mitts.-
AD WOLGAST ASKS PILE.
Lightweight Champion Wants $56,500
For Three Ten Round Battles John-
son a Money Grabber Palzer Coin
; Hungry, and So Is Ritchie.
By TOMMY CLARK.
' 'Ad Wolgast, the lightweight cham
pion, demands $56,500 for three fights.
Johnson, heavyweight champion, talks
of nothing but $30,000 purses. Palzer
cannot think In figures less than $10,
000. Willie Ritchie asks a guarantee
of $1,000 and 35 per cent to go twelve
rounds. The demand for fabulous
sums for fighting has become a ver
itable mania with the stars of the
roped arena. They talk of thousands
Mth much more grace and the care
less air of having always been sur
rounded by money than could John D.
Rockefeller or J. Pierpont Morgan. At
no time since the fighting game was
commercialized have fighters wanted
more for their services than they do
now. And not more than a score of
years ago the leading mitters were
forced to pass the hat around on the
barges.
Boxing Now Lucrative Profession.
Today boxing is a most lucrative
profession for the successful pugilist
Any number of promoters will risk a
goodly roll of greenbacks to stage
ibouts for him, paying all expenses,
light, heating, rent, advertising. All
the boxer has to do is to train two
weeks, fight six, ten or twenty rounds
and send his manager around to the
ibox oflice to count up the tickets and
draw a big percentage of the re
ceipts or a healthy guarantee. The
svhole thing looks easy, and it is. Any
prominent master of the mitts can go
through this same program ten times
a year at least and twenty If luck
breaks right
Under existing conditions such as
these Ad Wolgast, who is lightweight
champion, asks $22,500 for a ten
round contest with Packey McFarland
at New Tork city. More than Nelson
got for forty-two rounds of fighting
with Gans at Goldfield! Almost as
much as Jeffries got for beating Tom
Sharkey In twenty-five rounds at Coney
Island! More than Corbett and Jef
fries divided for their ten round fight
at Frisco:
Nelson never got half Chat sum for
ten rounds of battling. McAuliffe nev
er got a sixteenth of.it. Lavigne didn't
get a third of it for any of his fights,
regardless of the number of rounds.
Neither did Erne nor Griffo. Britt's
longest fight didn't net him $20,000 in
purse payment alone.
One thing's sure, this fellow Wolgast
Is not lacking in nerve. Another sure
thing is that he'll never get $22,500 for
ten rounds.
Old Timers Received Small Purses.
Tt: Is intm-tstim. In mitp Hia nfrmnnf
the old time stars received for their
services. Here are a few:
Jim Corbett in 1S!)1 got $2,500 for
boxing Peter Jackson sixty-one rounds.
In 1S91 a purse of $11,000 was hung
up for the world's championship mid
dleweight contest between Bob Fitz
simmons and Jack Denipsey. It was
the largest purse offered for a fight up
to that time.
In 1S03 Fitzsimnions and Jem Hall
fought at New Orleans for a $40,000
purse, winner take nil. Fitz knocked
out Hall in four rounds and was given
a cheek for $41.()0n. $1,000 being for
training expenses. The check proved
worthless, and neither Fitz nor Hall
got a cent for the battle.
For a world's championship fight in
1890 between Kid Lavigne and Dick
Burge a purse of 1,000 was guaran
teed the meu by the National Sporting
club of London.
These are a few instances of the re
muneration famous fighters, all great
er than Wolgast. got for their services
a couple of decades ago. It must be
pleasant to the old timers to be able to
recall the days when if champion was
willing to take a chance for a reason
able amount of money. You can't get
them to do it now.
Johnson has been censured several
times by critics for turning down $20,
000 purses. The negro in talking about
money matters recently said:
"Why have I insisted on $30,000 for
my end, win, lose or draw, before I
would enter the ring to defend my
title? Why. the answer Is easy. I
had a hard time to win the champion
ship. The climb to the top was more
difficult for me than it had been for
the other champions. And there's a
further reason. As champion I am en
titled to a champion's purse.
"I remember back In the old days
when the matchmakers talked to me
regarding a battle they would say,
'How much will you fight for. Jack
$65?
"I would shake my head.
" We will make it $70.' they would
say.
"I have never forgotten those days,
and I don't think I can be blamed for
trying to get as good offers as I can
while I hold the championship.
Wagner Long In Harness.
Hans Wagner of the Pittsburgh team
has been playing major league base
ball fifteen years.
Largest Gold Nugget.
Men have found a mass of native
copper weighing 420 tons, and they
have discovered a chunk of pure sil
ver weighing one and one-half tons,
but the largest nugget of gold that has
yet. been seen weighed only 190
pounds. And gold seekers are Inform
ed that larger finds In the future are
unlikely.
A Vacancy Filled.
Gerald I have a cold in my head
Geraldlne Well. I suppose that Is bet
ter than nothing. Exchange.
A SINGULAR
CASE
"By 1 RED L YOUNG
A detective. 1 was sent to investigate
a case where a young married man had
received a bottle of wine by express.
The sender's name was not on the
box containing it. i;nd naturally the re
cipieut was suspicious of it. He was
accustomed to drink wine with his
dinner and kept a bottle on his side
board. The bottle he received he put
In the same place, intending to look
into the matter. One evening he got
hold of it by mistake and took a few
swallows before be noticed that it had
a peculiar flavor. He was made vio
lently ill, -but recovered. An exami
nation of the "contents of the bottle
from which he had drunk was made
and showed poison.
The first thing I did was to sit down
with him and In a long- interview drew
out all the information he gave me
that might furnish me with a clew.
But unfortunately no clew was to be
extracted from anything he said. He
had no enemies, man or woman. He
was happily married, and his wife had
recently presented him with their first
child, a fine boy. I questioned him
closely as to whether he had jilted any
girl to marry his wife, and he said
there were no such complications, even
remote, in his case.
My next move was an examination
of the handwriting of the address on
the box in which the wine had been
received. I was told that it was not
the writing of any one he had ever
known, though some one of his ac
quaintances might have written It, dis
guising the hand. There was no use
giving It to an expert In chirograpny
until I could furnish a specimen of the
writing of some person or persons who
might have committed the crime.
We detectives in cases where we
have no clew usually begin at home,
so to speak, and work outward. But
in this case there seemed nothing for
me to Investigate within the household.
It consisted of Mr. Gordon, the man
upon whom the attempt at murder had
been made; his wife, who loved him
dearly, and one servant, a woman who
had lived with them a short time and
could have no possible motive what
ever for taking his life.
Desiring to leave no stone unturned
in eliciting information, I asked for an
interview with Mrs. Gordon. I went
over a ground with her supplementa
ry to that I had gone over with her
husband, but could not elicit a word as
(;o relations Mr. Gordon had had with
any one that could possibly lead to a
motive for murder. But a day or two
later I received a note from the lady
mentioning a fact she had forgotten.
Goon after their marriage her husband
had mentioned discharging a man from
his employment who had acted very
disagreeably, saying that he would
some day get even with Gordon.
Where bad I seen the handwriting
with which the note had been written?
I had not seen it, but something like
it Nevertheless I could come to no
conclusion in the matter and thought
no more about It at the time, but later,
when studying the address on the box
containing the poisoned wine, it struck
me that there was something In it that
reminded me of the writing of Mrs.
Gordon.
Was she the criminal?
We detectives follow any clew, no
matter how repugnant. I took Mrs.
Gordon's note and the address of the
poisoned wine to an expert In chirog
raphy, and he pronounced the latter to
be an attempt to disguise the hand
writing of the former.
It is only of late years that insanity
has begun to be carefully studied with
reference to crime. We first heard of
their relationship In criminal cases of
so called emotional Insanity. We now
hear of it in cases where the symptoms
are very subtle.
Not for the world would I betray the
secret on which I had stumbled until 1
had gained an insight into whether
Mrs. Gordon had really attempted the
crime and if she had whether she did
so in her right mind. I knew that
since the birth of her child the physi
cian who had attended her on that oc
casion had made her other visits.
There are two confidants In families
the doctor and the pastor. I concluded
to confide my secret to the doctor.
I called on him in his house and
asked him if he had ever noticed any
evidence of insanity in Mrs. Gordon.
He looked at me with a very singular
expression and asked me why I wished
to know. I replied that I desired a
reply . to my question, whereupon he
claimed that the secrets of his profes
sion were sacred property. Then I told
him that Mrs. Gordon had committed a
crime; that she had attempted to poi
son her husband.
Not till I had told him the whole
story did he confess that he had sus
pected her ever since the birth of her
child of puerperal insanity. It had
shown itself in a feeling of hatred for
her husband, which had been noticed
only by the doctor. He had been look
ing for confirmatory symptoms, but
had thus far not detected any. He
was very much shocked and suggested
that I say nothing about the matter for
the present since the news might affect
the patient's husband.
I was glad enough to throw the re
sponsibility all upon his shoulders. He
told Gordon that he suspected his wife
was suffering from puerperal insanity
and that she must be carefully watch
ed. I learned from the doctorlater
that she had entirely recovered and
that her husband did not know that
she had tried to kill him.
j A Curious Custom.
I In Scandinavia the wedding shirt is
an important part of the husband's
marriage outfit It is usual for the
j groom, among other gifts, to bestow
; upon his bride a prayer book. In re
' ciprocatlon she gives him a neatlyem
. broidered shirt, and this he Invariably
! wears on his wedding day. Afterward
he puts it away and does not wear it
l again while alive, but he wears it In
his grave. The Scandinavian widower
must' destroy, on the eve of his second
marriage, the wedding shirt which his
first wife gave him.
A small classified ad will rent that
vacant room. - .
Woman'sWorld
Helen Keller Sings at
Harvard Medical School.
HISS HELEN KELLER,
Miss Helen Keller, born deaf, dumb
and blind, showed the assembled otolo
gists at their congress iu the Harvard
Medical school recently that she had
added still another to her phenomenal
list of accomplishments when she sang
to them.
During the formal addresses, which
were mostly in foreign tongues. Miss
Keller sat on the platform listening
through the fingers of her teacher. Pro
fessor White of the New England Con
servatory of Music, and now and then
applauding when a speaker made a
particularly pleasing reference to the
new education of the blind.
When it came Professor White's turn
he demonstrated the extent of control
that Miss Keller had gained over her
vocal chords, tongue and lips. His il
lustrations were conveyed from his lips
to Miss Keller's finger tips, placed
tightly over his mouth. All the vowels
and consonant sounds uttered by Miss
Keller came out clearly and precisely,
and the audience spontaneously broke
Into the heartiest applause.
Then came the crowning achieve
ment, the singing of an octa,ve on sol
and fa and re, some of the tones being
very sweet This performance not only
amazedTsut delighted the savants.
Miss Keller. Professor White says,
has the rare faculty of absolute pitch.
Previous to giving this exhibition
Miss Keller made an address in Eng
lish, in which she said:
"This is a new day in the education
of the deaf, the day when the physi
cian is no longer content to fight the
hostile silences with medicine and sur
gical instruments alone, but helps the
teacher to pour the blessed waters or
speech into the desert of dumbness."
WORK GOOD FOR WOMEN.
Professor Scherger Says Toil Made
Primitive Wife Man's Equal. .
In primitive times when the male
half of the household went out to his
wars, his hunting and his pleasures
and left the other half behind to do
the dirty work man and woman were
more on an equality than at the pres
ent time.
This is what George L. Scherger,
professor of political economy and
history in Armour institute, said re
cently. It was the work the women did
which put them on a par with men.
When they commenced to take It easy
they degenerated. He said they should
receive at least equal recognition with
men because
They were the first farmers.
They were the first carpenters or
builders of homes.
They were the first to tackle art by
making pottery.
They were the first writers.
They were the tamers of all domes
tic animals, except the dog.
"It seemed to be the business of the
primitive man to go out and get the
food," said Professor Scherger. "The
women were left at home to develop
art and industry. Women degenerated
as soon as they were deprived of the
opportunity to work. As soon as they
were shut up In the household they
became parasites So long as they
were able to work they maintained an
equality with men."
Professor Scherger cited Mrs. Ella
Flagg Young and Miss Jane Addams
as women who were at least equal
with any men in the same line of
work.
Sewing Room Closet.
Many women in a sewing room con
stantly jump up and down to get some
piece of lace or material to finish a gar
ment. If the hundred and one things
a woman needs nt her work were all
In some convenient place all this trou
ble would be avoided.
If there is a large closet in the sew
ing room or In the room where most of
the family sewing is done get three or
four shelves and divide these at con
venient heights inside of the closet.
On each shelf arrange four or five
boxes and then place the various kinds
of laces, velvets, silks, buttons, etc., in
one box. marking clearly just what
such box contains.
A closet arranged ii this way will
be found a great convenience and time
saver to the home dressmaker.
The Size of Bolivia.
The area of Bolivia is not accurately
known, yet it Is probable that its pres
ent area is not far from 600,000 square
miles, which Is the equivalent of the
area of Germany, France and Spain
combined. From the lowlands on the
east and southeast the land rises,
sometimes by easy slope and some
times by abrupt uplift to the snow
capped peak of Sorata, with its alti
tude of near 25.000 feet and to the
pyramid of Illimani, which is given as
21,300 feet In'height. La Paz" lies at
an elevation of 11.000 feet above sea
level and Potosi at nearly 14,000 feet.
A few miles west of La Paz lies the
Inland sea of Titicaca, at an elevation
of 13,000 feet
No. 172
Report of the
BANK OF OREGON CITY
at Oregon City, in the State of Oregon at the close of business Septem
ber 4th, 1912. -
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts "v- $159,667.95
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured ........ .S- 3,013.92
Bonds and warrants 402,029.96
Banking House 28,612.65
Furniture and fixtures 5,0001.75
Other real estate owned 8,259.90
Due from approved reserve banks .- $364,874.83
Checks and other cash items 647.97
468,504.53
Cash on hand , 102,981.73
Total
LIABILITIES
Capital Stock Paid In $ 50,000.00
Surplus Fund $ 50,000.00
Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid v . . 25,858.84
Dividends Unpaid '. .". . . 337.50
Individutl deposits subject to check ,. . . ..$640,762.23
Demand certificates of deposit ! 82',038.09
Certified Checks 575.00 948,094.32
Time certificates of deposit 84,557.31
Saving deposits 140,161.69
Reserved for taxes 800.00
Total ' $1,075,090.66
State of Oregon, County of Clackamas, ss
I. E. G. Caufield, Cashier of the above named bank do solemnly swer
that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
E. G. CAUFIELD, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of September 1912,
E. C. COOPER, Notary Public.
Correct - Attest: CHARLES H. CAUFIELD,
GEO. A. HARDING,
P. A. CHARMAN,
Directors.
(Seal)
No. 25
Report of the Condition of the
FARMERS BANK
at Wilsonville, in the State of Oregon, at the close of business September
4th 1912.
RESOURCES
Loans and discounts $35,302.44
Bonds and warrants '. 9,109.25
Banking house 988.54
Furniture and fixtures 2,046.21
Due from approved reserve banks . . . 33,259.00
Cash on hands " 3,865.84
Other resourcesi interest paid 24.59
Total ... $84,818.87
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in ..$15 000.00
Surplus fund 3,000.00
Undivided profits, less expenses andtaxes paid . ... : 1,860.95
Individual deposits subject to check 52,430.25
Demand certificates of deposit 1,403.00
.Time certificates of deposit '. 11,122.67
Total $84,816.87
State of Oregon, County of Clackamas, ss.
We, J. W. Thornton and Joe J. Thornton, owners of the above-named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true to the best of
our knowledge and belief.
J. W. THORNTON,
JOE J. THORNTON,
Owners.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of September, 1912.
KATE WOLBERT, Notary Public for Oregon. .
, (Seal.)
The Boss Abroad.
"You didn't go abroad this year?"
"No; it 'was the cook's turn this
time." St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Condition of the
, $1,075,090.66
A Short Denial.
The Heroine-rYou are a wolf in
sheep's clothing!
The Villain Bah! Lippincott's.
Unqualifiedly the Best
LEDGE
The De Luxe Steel Back
New improved CURVED HINGE
allows the covers to drop back on the desk
without throwing the leaves into a curved
position.
Sizes 8 1-4 to 20 inches
OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE
Headquarters for
Loose Leaf .Systems
Oregon Agricultural
College
great institution opens its doors
for the fall semester on September
,20th. Nourses of instruction Include:
General Agriculture, Agronomy, Ani
mal husbandry, Dairy Husbandry,
Bacteriology, Botany and Plant Path
ology, Poultry Husbandry, Horticul
ture, Entomology, Veterinary Science,
Civil Engineering Electrical Engineer
ing, Mechanical Engineering, Mining
Engineering, Domestic Science, Do
mestic Art, Commerce, Forestry, Phar
macy, Zoology, Chemistry, Physics,
Mathematics, English Language, and
Literature, Public Speaking, Modern
Language, History, Art, Architecture,
Industrial Pedagogy, Phyiscal Educa
tion, Military Science . and Tactics,
and Music. ,
Catalogue and illustrated literature
mailed free on application. Address:
Registrar, Oregon Agricultural Col
lege, Corvallis, Oregon.
School Year Opens September 20th.
International Motorboat Races.
Eliminating trials to select three de
fenders for the British international
trophy are to be held at Huntington
bay, New York, on Aug. 26, 27 and 28,
and the International races will be run
off on Aug. 31 and Sept. 2. Ten boats
are expected to enter in the trial races.
No. 8556 ' .
Report of the condition of the -
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
4thi9l2n St-e f 0regon' at the close of business, September
RESOURCES
Loans' and discounts .iq nan m
Overdrafts, secured and unsecured 777777777 '519 40
U. S. bonds to secure circulation . : 777 12 500 00
U. S. Bonds, to secure postal savings 7.7. 24 500 00
Bonds securities etc 5l'873 28
Banking house, furniture and fixtures 15 00.0 00
Due from National Banks (not reserve agents ....... 2' 424 97
Due from State and private banks and bankers, Trust Compan
ies, and Savings Banks 6 556 49
Due from approved reserve agents .77777777 129 057 17
Checks and other cash items 7.77.77"" 1600 02
Notes of other National Banks 1 195 00
Fractional paper currency. Nickels and cents ................ . '353 38
Lawful money reserve in bank, viz specie '. '. . 7 029,175.35
Legal tender notes 10 00 29 185 35
Redemtion fund with U. S. Treasurer (5 per 'cent of circulation '625.00
Total 377,489.69
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in $50 ooo 00
Surplus fund ; 4)451 '74
Undivided profits, less expenses and taxes paid 7. '223 31
National Bank notes outstanding 780.00
Individual deposits subject to check 7 7. 7 7. 291,997.32
Demand certificates of deposit 1593o!93
Certified checks 7!!!! ' 9010
Postal savings deposits 777777 14,016.29
Total ' - 377,489.69
State of Oregon, County of Clackamas, ss: I, F. J. Meyer, Cashier of
the above named bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement is true
to the best of my knowledge and belief
F. M. MEYER, Cashier
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 9th day of September, 1912.
" J. F. CLARK, Notary Public.
Correct-Attest:
D. C. LATOURETTE,
C. D. LATOURETTE,
M. D. LATOURETTE,
Directors.
Mixed.
Mrs. Toungwedd (to caterer's boy)
Oh. this Is the chicken salad my hus
band ordered. Here's the money for
it, and now you must tell me bow you
make It Boy (puzzled) I can't tell
you bow it's made, mum. Mrs. Young
wedd But you must: my husband told
me when I paid for it to be sure to
get the receipt Boston Transcript
The Golden Fleece.
The Order of the Golden Fleece orig
inated with Philip the Good in 1429.
It is said that the order was founded
at the time of Philip's wedding and
named on account of the large profits
that the duke was making out of wooL
The original number of knights was
thirty-one. They wore a scarlet cloak
lined with ermine, with an open collar
bearing the duke's cipher, "B," to sig
nify Burgundy. At the end of the col
lar hung a golden fleece. The order
later became common to all the princes
of the house of Austria. The order is
still In existence, and among the mem
bers are most of the royal princes and
other "noble" individuals of the conti
nentNew York American.
Give Up.
When a burglar asks the conundrum,
"Where's your money?" it is generally
the wisest plan to give It up.
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