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VOL IV. No. 103.
OREGON" CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1912,
Per Week, 10 Cents
VICE-PRESIDENT
DIES PEACEFULLY
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Before Death by Slight . Im
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TJTICA, N. Y.( Oct. 30. After a long
illness, Vice-President Sherman died
at his home in this city at 9:42 o'clock
tonight of uraemic poison, caused by
Bright's disease.
He had been sinking since . early
Bit life
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ii ( James S Sherman
morning, and it was realized that
death was a question pf only a few
hours.
There was a slight relief shortly af
ter i o'clock, caused by an apparent
improvement in the condition of the
kidneys, but it did not prove real or
lasting, and, at best, gave only tem
porary hope.
At 9 o'clock the patient's tempera
ture rose to 106. From that his con
dition rapidly passed from bad fO
worse, until the end. Mr. Sherman
was unconscious when the end came,
and had been in that condition for sev
eral hours.
All the members of the immediate
l'amiiy were witnesses to the final
scene. In addition to Mrs. Sherman
there were in the chamber their three
sons Sherill, Richard U. and Thomas
M. Sherman and their wives; R. M.
and Sanford Sherman, brothers of
Mr. Sherman, and Mrs. L. B. Moore
and Mrs. H. J. Cookinham, sisters of
Mr. Sherman.
Soon after Mr. Sherman died, Dr.
F. H. Peck, the attending physician.
Issued the following statement:
"The Vice-President died at 9:42 P.
M., without regaining consciousness
for a moment. He was perfectly quiet.
He died in the presence of his wife,
her brother and sister, his two broth
ers, and his three sons and their
wives. He had been entirely uncon
sciuos since 7 o'clock, when he had
a period of partial consciousness last
ing for about 15 minutes. He died in
a uraemic coma, as a result of Bright's
disease, heart disease and arterior
sclerosis." COLONEL ADDRESSES
NEW YORK, Oct. 30. Showing no
physical evidence of the shock of BTs
attempted assassination in Milwaukee
October 14, Colonel Roosevelt facea
tonight for an hour and twenty min
utes a Progressive political rally,
which gave many thousands of his
fellow New Yorkers a chance to ac
cord him an uproarious welcome.
For 42 minutes after his entrance
into crowded Madison Square Garden,
Colonel RooseveTT stood at the edge
of the high-perched speaker's platform
unable to make himself heard above
the din of cheers,, songs and band
music. His voice was strong through
out his address.
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SINGLE TAX WORKS WONDERS IN
PLACE IT DOES NOT
EXIST
EELS WOULD ESCAPE UNDER SYSTEM
Opponent of Henry George Theory
Shows How Trusts Would be y
Free of Taxes Un
der Scheme
PORTLANR, Or., Oct. 30., (Special)
Charles H. Shields, anti-singie taxor,
laid several nicely arranged fragments
of dynamite in front of W. S. U'Ren,
single taxer, at the Washington high
school tonight. They went off.
Mr. U'Ren had been telling all about
the wonders of single tax in .Everett,
Wash. In fact Mr. Shields gave him
an extension of time to do so. Then
Shields got up.
"Everett, Wash.,", hie began io read,
"single tax will be voted upon Nov
ember 5. C. C. Giilman, city cTerk."
And d roa." went up that male fur
ther comment from Shields unneces
sary. Another; iick txplodeS when
Shields remarked that Joseph Fels
had not made his $8,000,000 out of the
increase of land values.
"Yet he is one of the men you
would exempt from payTng a cent un
der single tax" rapped Shields, and
to the surprise of all Mr. U'Ren him
self joined in the vociferous apprecia-1
Liuu, iuu single LctAer ciapyiug witu ap
parently as great appreciation as any
of thos3 present.
Shields scored the trusts and point
ed out how they would escape taxa
tion on any of their property under
single tax, their great factories, their
great stocks, all they have that is the
product of labor, would be exempted
from taxation. The! fact that they
usually leased the land for their build
ings would mean that the monopolists
who are rarely land owners, wtmld be
taxation free.
The odd feature of the debate was
there was no chairman and in place
of scoring each other to a frazzle,
Shields and U'Ren had eveident'ly
studied Alphonse and Gaston to good
advantage as they suavely consider
ed each other's feelings. Shields in
troduced U'Ren and U'Ren Shields.
GOVERNOR EXPLAINS
MILLAGE MEASURE
SALEM, Oct. 30. (Editor Morning
Enterprise) Inasmuch as this office
is being repeatedly asked as t5 what
will become of the $500,000 appropria
tion made by the last legislature for
University of Oregon, and now held up
by the referendum, should the propos
ed millage tax bill for the' support of
the University of Oregon and the
Oregon Agricultural College carry, I
wish to make Ce following statement
for the Information of your readers:
If tne proposed millage tax bin
(No. 320 on the ballot) carries it will
kill this! $500,000 appropriation and
the money, already raised through tax
ation and fh the hands of the State
Treasurer, wrfl revert to the "General
Fund and be available for other pur
poses. The millage tax bill abolishes the
two boards of regents and the Board
of Higher Curricula and puts both in
stitutions under one board.
It is a well known fact that at least
one-fourth of the time of the members
of the legislature is taken up wrang
ling over the appropriations for
thesei institutions. The mueage tax
bill will keep them, away from the
legislature and take fEem Cut of pol
itics. "Voure very truly,
OSWALD WEST.
HORSES SAVED AS
BIG STABLE BURNS
A barn belonging to Bert McArthur
near New Era burned Friday
eneving about 6 o'clock with a
loss of about $1000, including most of
the farm implements and grain for
the stock, but the horses were rescued
from the burning building. Blr. and
Mrs. McArthur were in this city Fri
day afternoon and were just return
ing to their home when they saw their
barn in flames. The neighbors assist
ed in saving the horses and a few
farm implements.
WILLAMETTE CLUB
M. D. Latourette, H. E. Draper and
Dr. Clyde Mount, of the Willamette
Club, a club Organized last year for
dancing, have isued invitations to
about 100 men of this city to become
members of the organization. : Last
year the membership was about sixty
five and it was decided that the par
ties given by the club were such de
cided successes that It should be reor
ganized. Many persons have signified
their intention of becoming members.
It Is probable tBat the first party of
the series of seven will be given early
in November. .
If it happened It la In tne Enterprise.
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COPYRIGHT HARRIS AND EWING. WASH
Se ctor Moses E. Clapp, of Minnesota.
Chairman of the Senate Committee
which investigated the 1904 cam
paign contributions.
DERTHECK CLUB TO
MEET THIS AFTERNOON
The Derthick Club will hold a bus
iness meeting at the home of Mrs.
Walter A. Dimick, Eighth and Water
Streets, this afternoon at 2 o'clock,
when important business will be dis
cussed. Mrs. Dimick will be assisted
in enteiinmg the members by Mrs.
Carl Joehnke. The club resumed its
work iast week at the home of Miss
Muriel Stevens, and from the enthus
iasm that was manifested at that
meeting the coming season will be
the most successful one.
HALLOWE'EN OFFENDERS
WILL BE ARRESTED
Nine special policemen, at the in
stance of E. L. Shaw, were sworn in
Wednesday by Mayor Dimick for duty
this evening. They will be located
in- all parts of the city to prevent Hal
lowe'en pranks. Mr. Shaw announced
that 8 11 offenders would be arrested.
COUNCIL PROBES
WORK ON STREETS
SUGGESTED THAT SUB-CONTRACT
OR HAS OVER-CHARGED FOR
EXCAVATING
SULLIVAN MAKES SPECIAL REPORT
Hardsurfacing of Main, Between Moss
and Abernethy Will be
Finished by First
of Year
The City Council at a meeting Wed
nesday 'evening, considered a report
of T. W. Sullivan who has been check
ing the estimates of the Oregon En
gineering & Construction Company
on the excavation of Sixteenth, John
Quincy Adams and Jackson Streets.
It is contended .that the company giv
en a sub-contract by ihe Oregon En
gineering & Construction Company
has failed to live up to the classifica
tions made by the council. Members
of the council have indicated t3at
they would be opposed to paying the
full amount of the bill.
Allegations have been made that
the hard pan and cement gravel on
these streets are not what has been
represented.- Mr. Sullivan's report is
said to reveal that the work should
have been done for several hundred
dollars less than the price agreed up
on. No decision was reached and it
was the consensus of opinion that the
matter should be given further con
sideration before a definite conclusion
was reached.
Announcement was made that a
special meeting of the council for the
consideration of granting the Portland
Railway, Light & Power Company's
franchise to operate freight" cars over
Main and Third streets would be held
in a few days. The public will be in
vited to attend the meeting.
A representative of the Montague
O'Reilley Company, which has" the
contract for hard-surfacing Main
Street, between Moss and the Aber
nethy bridge, reported that the work
of laying concrete on one side of the
street would be started tocTay. It is
probable that the work will be fin
ished by the first of the year.
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M?uric3 Francis Egan, United States
Minister to Denmark. y
ALL GLADSTONE BAR
IN ONE DIVORCE SUIT
The case of Laura Ripley Mack
against F. L. Mack, heard by Circuit
Judge Campbell last Saturday was of
unusual interest in that all the attor
neys who live in Gladstone were em
ployed in the case. The plaintiff was
represented by Cross & Hammond and
the defendant by Sievers, Fisher &
Sievers.
The plaintiff was granted a divorce
on the sixth cause given in Lord's
Oregon Laws "Cruel an inhuman
treatment or personal indignitis ren
dering life burdensome." She was
awarded the care and custody of the
two minor children, both boys, Law
rence Ripley Mack, aged 6 1-2 years
and Charles Arthur Mack, aged five
years. The family came here from
Havre, Montana a little more than a
year ago and have been living on a
forty-acre tract of ground about four
miles from Sandy.
A small classliied aa will rnt that
vacant room. "
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THE
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"Your Money's Worth and Then Some"
proposition is to have that
Town county seat of
-CASCADE
SCHEME HAS ONLY FEW ADVOCATES
Business Men in Proposed County
Adopt Resolutions Urging Voters
of State to Defeat Prop
x osition
Statistical reports from the Secre
tary of State show that only 62 resi
dents of the district embraced In the
proposed county of Cascade, signed
the petition to place the measure
on the ballot at the November
election. The remainder of. the
signers live at Estacada, with
the exception of a few at Oswego
which is not in the territory. This
statement proves the oft repeated as
sertion of the opponents of county di
vision that the movement to split
Clackamas County and create Cascade
County comes from the town of Esta
cada, which has county seat ambi
tions. Of the 14 preceincts in the pro
posed county of Cascade, some are not
represented at all on the original pe
tition on file at Salem. In the district
referred to the following signatures
were obtained outside of Estacada:
Currinsville, 2; Cazadero, 4; Spring
water, 8; Garfield, 2; George, 13; Bar
ton, 8; Boring, 4; Dodge, 1; Viola, 6;
Elwood, 16.
The real fight against' the division
of Clackamas County and the creation
of Cascade County started and is be
ing maintained by residents of the
proposed new county. J. W. Roots, of
.boring, one of the prominent citizens
o Eas'ern Clackamas, is president of
the Clackamas Anti-Division League,
and the following well known men are
vice-presidents: E. F. Bruns, Sandy;
A. D. Burnett, Eagle Creek; J. E. Sie
fer, Damascus;; Louis Funk. Viola;
A. C. Thomas, Bull Run; J. H. Reven
ue, Kelso; D. M. Marshall, Estacada;
Thomas McCabe, Cherryville, and J.
G. DeShazer, Bull Run.
These gentlemen are leading the fight
against county division. They are
spending their own money and are
soliciting funds among the people of
their respective districts, in the firm
belief that the division of Clackamas
County and the creation of a new
county would be most injurious to
them. Twelve ef the leading business
firms of Eastern Clackamas have just
united in an appeal to the business
men of Oregon to defeat the proposed
measure. They are William A. Mor
and, real estate; Boring; W. R.. Tel,
ford, general merchandise, Boring;
J. W. Roots, of Roots & Co., general
merchandise, Boring; E. F. Donahue,
liveryman, Boring; A. L. Deaton,
banker Sandy; Paul F. Meinig, gen
eral merchandise, Sandy; R: E. Esson,
druggist, Sandy; F. E. Beckwith, jew
eler, Sandy; Smith Bros., blacksmiths,
Sandy; L. Ritzer, grocer, Boring; A.
J. Herz & Co., shoes and harness,
Boring; Donahue & Bell, liverman,
Sandy, and their appeal follows:
To the Business men of the state:
We ask your cooperation in helping
us to defeat the proposed Cascade
County amendment for the following
reasons: The busines men and all
but a very few of the taxpayers liv
ing in the boundary of the proposed
Cascade County are not in favor of
county division, with the exception of
a few office seekers and voters of Es
tacada, who wish to make it the
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Mile.
CONGRESSMAN HAWLEY saye it
WILL OPEN TO STATE MAR
KETS OF WORLD
WILLAMETTE VALLEY IS BENEEICIARY
Representative in Lower House Tells
of, Work Planned on River
Federal Building Is
Assured
Declaring that the Panama' Canal
would open to Oregon the markets of
the world, and tnat he probably would
live to see Oregon inhabitated by mil
lions of people. Congressman W. C
Hawley made a forceful and appreciat-
ed address at a mass meeting in the
parlors of the Commercial Club Wed
nesday evening. Although Mr. Haw
ley is making a canvass for re-election
the meeting was in no sense a polit
ical one, and the congressman con
tented himself with "what had been
done by the government for the Wil
lamette valley, and what it would be
urged to do in the future. B. T. Mc
Bain, president of the club presided,
and. at the siiE-ffpstinn nf t w cm .
van, Main Trunk Line of the Efte
Wires, a vote of thanks was extend
ed Mr. Hawley by unanimous vote. W.
A. Dimick, state senator, made a short
address, in which he declared the
residents of Clackamas County ap
preciated the work Mr. HawTey was
doing.
"A new opportunity will "soon be op
ened for the "Pacific coast and Ore
gon," said Mr. Hawley. "For nearly
half a centurv we have hppn a otata
and during all this time we have been
excluded from the markets of the
world. There is no railroad distinc
tive to the state. Those that pass
through it now are known as Wash;ng
ton and California lines. If we had a
railroad crossing the Cascades and
entering this and other valleys par
ticularly this one the people who
come her would see the rich territory.
They would see it before they could
get out of the state and the result
would be a far larger population. As
it is now they have to take side trips
and many will not take them. The
Rocky Mountains have been. such a
great barrier that for the most part
il uoes not pay to snip freight over
them to the great markets. Only the
fancy fruit will stand the cost and
yield a profit."
Mr. Hawley declared that the saw
mills of the Willamette Valley were
destroying enough material, called
"waste matter" to represent all the
profits of eastern mills. . He said that
shipping produce around Cape Horn
was not profitable. Fruits decayed or
became tasteless after the long voy
age. "But these conditions will be re
moved", continued the" 'Speaker,
"October 1 next year when the Pana
ma Canal is thrown open. Tha mar
kets of the world will be thrown open
to Oregon, liie" people of this state
hardly realize what the great canal
will mean to them. Railway charges
are $10 a ton. Water charges are J3
a ton. It is a fact that the eastern peo
ple appreciate the possibilities of the
canal mere Than we of the west."
ConsressmSh Hawlpv nallori atton.
tion to the fact that the timhermen
of the east get twice as much for
rhpir lncre aa thnca nf ia it
o " V. bUV. nDk. lie
said the logs were not nearly so good
as those of th west, hnr thA eastern
ers were fortunate in having a market.
"The eastern owners of western
timber artj putting nearly $1,000,000
of their own money in waterways in '
the west." "They want them improv
ed before the canal is opened bo they
can gfet their product to the markets.
This, of course, is not philanthropic
work. They expect to get this money
back with profit. There are 486,000,
000,000 feet of timber in this state.
That daps not include the hard ood.
That lumber if made into one plank
one foot thick and thirty fee" wide
would reach to the moon 240,000
miles away.
''But in the long run our dairy and
fruit product will exceed timber
products. We are on the era of de
velopment vSch we have always
dreamed would come. Egypt contains
about 8,000,0 acres, the same
as . that of the Willamette Val
ley and contiguous country, and Egypt
without any timber, has supported
millions of people for years."
Mr. Hawley called attention to the
appropriations for the building of the
locks at the falls of the WilTamette
and for providing a depth of six feet
from Oregon City to Portland the year
around. He insisted that the channel
should be opened to Eugene and that
the opening of the river would be of
inestimable advantage to Oregon City.
He suggested collapsible dams as a
means of keeping the channels open,
lessening the current and making the
cost of power less. He declared that
$785,000 had been wasted in an effort
to improve the river above the falls
because of improper methods being
used. Mr. Hawley cited an e3ort of
Congressmen in interior slates to pass
a bill providing for canal tolls, and
told how the men with whom he was
associated finally won the fight to
have the canal free to coastwise ves
sels, but not to ships owned by rail
ways.. "The solution of the transportation
In the Willamette Valley, as it is ev
erywhere", continued the speaker, "is
in the availibility of water routes.
You sannot prove that traffic agree
ments are made, but it Is strange how
the railroads charge about the same.
"Another thing I want to call the
attention of the people of Oregon to
Is that we are not raising 40 per cent
of the hogs we eat. This is a great
hog-raising country and there Is mon
ej in raising hogs. The cattlS herds
also are dying out."
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