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WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 15 6 6
VOL IV. No. 81.
OREGON-CITY,' OREGON, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1912.
Per Week, 10 Cents
NOV
YORK
LEADER
GANG
IS KILLED
'BIG JACK" ZELIG IS ASSASSINA
TED ON OPEN TROLLEY
CAR
REVENGE IS SAID TO BE MOTIVE
SHIELDS TO SCORE.
SINGLE TAX PLAN
LEAGUE SECRETARY WILL MAKE
SPEECH HERE TOMORROW
EVENING
SCHEME MEANS LAND CONFISCATION
Slain Man Was to Have Been Witness I Famous Speaker in Tour, of Large
Against Lieutenant Becker,
Accused in Gambler
Tragedy
NEW YORK, Oct. 5. "Big Jack"
Zelig was shot and killed tonight. The
East Side gang leader and prospect
ive witness in the trial of Police Lieu
tenant Charles Becker for the mud
der of Herman Rosenthal, the gam
bler, which begins Monday, was seat
eded. in a Second avenue car when
Philip Davidson, who says! he is a
fruit dealer, jumped on the running
board and fired the fatal shot.
Davidson leaped from the car and
ran away, but was caught, weapon in
hand. He admitted the shooting and
declared it was for. revenge, the po
lice say. According to the prisoner
Zelig had held him up at the point of
a revolver late today in an East Side
hallway and robbed him of $400.
The police were at a loss whether
to believe Davidson's story and at a
late hour reports that Zelig had been
lured to the scene of the shooting by
a telephone message were being in
vestigated. Patrons' of a Second avenue res
taurant, some distance away, told
that Zelig, who was in that neigh
bodhoodi earlier in the evening, had
received a telephone call from some
one who made an appointment to
meet him at Fourteenth street and
Second avenue. Zelig jumped on a
car, the story ran, and a few moments
later word was flashed back to the
restaurant that he had been shot.
Part of Oregon Has Been
Greeted By Great
Crowds
CONVICTS APPEAL TO
OREGON CITY MAN
Henry Hughes, of this city,, a few
days ago, received a handsomely
made horse bridle from the state pen
itentiary, which is the handiwork of
a young man who is serving "time,"
and who is anxious for Mr. Hughes
to sell the bridle so as to obtain
money to secure books on civil engi
neering. The young man is desirous
of becoming a civil engineer when
his term expires. Mr. Hughes, al
though a stranger to the convict, will
endeavor to sell the bridle.
CATHOLICS TO HAVE
Rev. Father Barrett, of the Re
demptorist Order, will open a mis
sion in the St. John Baptist church
in Milwaukee Sunday, with High
mass at 10:30 a- m. In the order of
the exercises the first mass during
the week, with instructions, will be
gin at 6 and the second at 8 a. m. At
4 p. m., instructions will be for the
children of the parish. Evening ser
vices will consist of prayers, sermon,
and benediction of the sacrament. A
general invitation is exteuded to
Catholics and non-Catholics alike to
attend the services.
REAL ESTATE
ARRESTED AS 'FLIRT'
Intensely interesting promises to
be the lecture of Charles H. Shields
on "Single Tax Exposed" at Willam
ette Hall in Oregon City next Mon
day evening at 8 P. M-
Mr. Shields has nw covered a
large part of the State ofl Oregon in
his speaking tour and has right
along the line been greeted with
very large crowds. The interest that
his discussions of Single Tax have
proved of invaluable assistance to
all taxpayers whether or not they are
believers in! the scheme offered by
the Single Taxers.
"I have found but little Single Tax
sentiment," remarked Mr. Shields
the other day. "What sentiment
there is for Single Tax is entirely
among a class of persons who see in
Single Tax an opportunity to make
the farmer pay all the taxes, quite
forgetting that when the farmer is
ruined, the whole business of ' the
merchant with whom the farmer
deals disappears.
"Single Tax has one aim in view
and one only. That aim is the con
fiscation of private property in land
to the state.
"So that is why I say to those who
favor Single Tax: If you want your
land confiscated, your home and your
lot, why vote for Single Tax ajjd Grad
uated Single Tax."
AT
TON
George C. Brownell will speak at
the Methodist church at 7:30 o'clock
this evening on "Should Women Par
ticipate in Politics." Mr. Brownell is
an advocate of Equal Suffrage and it
is expected that the attendance will
be large- Mr. Brownell was asked by
Dr. Ford, pastor of the church and
several members of the congregation
to deliver the address. It is believ
ed that hundreds of the mill workers
will be present for it is generally con
ceded that the workmen are more
vitally interested in equal i suffrage
than any other class of society. It
has been demonstrated that women
in casting their votes always vote for
equal opportunity for all.
C. A. Baker, a real estate broker of
Portland was arrested here late Fri
day on a charge of being intoxicated
and disorderly. Policemen Frost and
Green, who took the man into cus
tody declared that the prisoner had
insulted a woman. Justice of the
Peace Samson released the broker on
$100 bail, his hearing to be next Fri
day. Frost arrested J. B. Hasbrook,
of this city, Saturday, who he says
was with Baker at the time the wom
an is reported to have been insulted.
He also was released in bonds of
$100 and his hearing was set for Friday.
3 Couples Get Licenses.
Licenses were issued Saturday to
Pearl Edna Hampton and Carl Ed
ward Luke; ' Elizabeth Doss and
Charles I. Clement and Bertha May
Gibson and Milton Armstrong. Jus
tice of the Peace Sampson officiated
at the wedding of Elizabeth Doss and
Charles I. Clement.
BY FISH HATCHERY
The Little White Salmon station
of the United States Bureau of Fish
eries on the upper Columbia River to
date has taken more than 28,000,000
Royal Chinook salmon eggs, a record
for that station, the largest having
been made in 1904, when 19,000,000
eggs were obtained. The Big White
Salmon station, also on the upper
Columbia River, has taken 13,000,000
eggs to date. The eggs taken at Lit
tle White Salmon surpass that of any
other season in the history, of fish
culture in the . Columbia river basin.
The eggs have been secured from fish
which are of fine quality, many of
them weighing more than 60 pounds
after being spawned- Four years ago
the Government fed a lare number of
salmon fry at these two stations, and
this excellent run of fish may possibly
be due to that experimental work.
The collection of eggs is also under
way on the Clackamas River and in
dications are good for a fine season
there. At the present time the Gov
ernment hatcheries at Little White
Salmon and Big White Salmon are
filled to their capacity, and the Bur
eau of Hatcheries has been shipping
eggs as soon as spawned to the Ore
gon State Fish Commission hatchery
located at Bonneville. As high as
2,000,000 eggs have been shipped at
one time during the past week. The
work of the Bureau of Fisheries in
this territory is under the direction of
Superintendent Henry- O'Malley.
MRS. C. H. MEISSNER
BUYS FINE RESIDENCE
Mrs. C. H. Meissner has purchased
from Charles Gottberg the property
on Washingtonj between Ninth and
Tenth streets. Mrs. Meissner in
tends enlarging and improving the
house.
J as. Wilkinson
. Roy Baxter
WILKINSON & BAXTER
FORISTS
FLOWERS FOR DANCING PARTIES A SPECIALTY
Next door to Star Theatre . Phone Main 271
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PERPETRATED
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BY WALT MF D OUGA L L
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Billy
Murray
IN HIS
$250.00
SUIT
All in purple trimmed
in white
Extra Fine Pictures
Who would not care
to witness a great
battle? no one and
of course, no one
will miss seeing the
greatest of all war
dramas
The Siege of
Petersburg
Two Days
Monday & Tuesday
Oct. 7th and 8th
Two big reels of ro
mance, bravery and
excitment. .
Special Music
October
TtH&rStR
si
AY
Amateur
Night
DON'T MISS THE
FUN
Doors will open at 15
minutes to seven.
COME EARLY
I
Has Arranged, -with
y steiotsts Raffles
. ..
And he will appear at this Theatre next Wednesday night.
Watch the Morning Enterprise for other information con
cerning this mythical personage.
BARLOW
VOTERS
ARE FOR TICKET
REPUBLICAN NOMINEES MAKE
FINE IMPRESSION ' AT
MEETING
ECONOMY IN OFFICE, IS SLOGAN
Superintendent of Schools, Gary,
Makes Strong Speech For High
School Fund
Law
There was a large attendance and
enthusiasm was at a hign pitch at
the meeting held at Barlow Saturday
evening, at which the Republican
Candidates for office spoke. E. P.
Dedman, Republican nominee for re
corder, promised the voters, if elect
ed that he would serve with the least
possible expense to the tax payers.
C. Schuebel, nominee for representa
tive was the first to speak.. E. C
Hackett, candidate for sheriff, said
the Democratic administrations were
extravagant and that if elected he
would conduct that office at a less, ex
pense than it had been conducted by
Democratic incumbents.
J. F. Nelson, candidate for assess
or also spoke on the same lines and
promistd strict; economy . if elected.
T. J. Gary, County Superintendent
of schools, spoke for the High School
Fund Law, telling the audience that
this bill would.be carried, as it was
for the benefit of the rural districts.
This law, he said, was not an experi
ment, as it had been tried successful
ly in other counties. His principle
reason for advocating this bill, he
said, was that he did not think it
wise for the parents to send children
during the most critical period in life
to a city, where they only spent six
hours in school, and the remainder
of the time, the parents: would not
know where they spent their time.
DIMICK CAUSTIC
INREPLYTO UREN
SINGLE TAX ROLL IS NOT COR.
RECT, DECLARES MAYOR
OF CITY
GLARING ERRORS ARE REVEALED
Chief Executive of Municipality An
nounces That Alleged Compar
isons In Booklet are
False
CONGREGATION ALISTS TO
MEET AT HOOD RIVER
The annual meeting of the geueral
conference of the Congregational
church will be held at Hood River
October 8 to 10 inclusive, this being
a conference of the Congregational
churches of the state. Among those
of this city who are contemplating to
attend this year are C. H. Dye, L.
Adams, Joseph Cook, Rev. and Mrs.
G. N. Edwards, Mrs. H. C- Stevens,
Miss Muriel Stevens, Mrs. C. H. Cau
field and Miss Agnes Harris.
Grant B. Dimick, who has been
challenged to a joint debate on Single
Tax by W. S. U'Ren Saturday wrote
the following letter to Mr. U'Ren:
I have received two letters from
you within the last few. days request
ing me to meet you in joint discus
sion of the Single Tax Bill, which
will appear on the ballot at the
general election to be held on the
second of November, next, and I wish
to inform you that if you had printed
a true copy of the assessment roll of
Clackamas County for the year 1910,
as you agreed to do, I would gladly
discuss the Single Tax question with
you, using the copy of the roll as the
basis for an argument, and in fact
a true copy of the assessment roll for
1910 and a comparison of the assess
ments therein with the proposed Sin
gle Tax assessments, would be a suf
ficient argument to convince the aver
age tax payer whether he was for or,
against your Single Tax system.
I have just received what purports
o be your copy of the tax roll a Dove
mentioned and find theretrom that
more than three million dollars of
assessed property on the tax roll for
said year has been left out of your
purported copy of the roll, and wheth
er that has been done intentionally
by you and your employes, I am un
able to state, but I am informed by
the County Assessor of Clackamas
County that he called your attention
to the gross errors in your purported
roll before you circulated the same,
and you promised him to make the cor
rections which you failed to do, hut
sent out those purported copies of
tax rolls knowing they were' full of
errors.
You were informed by the Assessor
that the , Willamette . Pulp & Paper
Company had ' paid $7,556.32 taxes
more thn you had given it credit for.
The Crown-Columbia Pulp & Paper
Company had paid $902.50 more tax
than you had given it credit for.
The First National Bank of Oregon
City had paid $406.24 tax more than
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Single
11 ax
pose
d.
Chas. H. Shields
WILL SPEAK IN
Willa'm ette Mall
At 8 P. M. in Oregon City
r
Monday, October 7th
Chairman: Hon. G. B. Dimick
LADIES INVITED
Mr. Shields is Secretary of the Oregon Equal Taxation
League and a' well known author. Admission free.
Hear him! 8 P.M.
Monday, October 7