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VOL. Y. No. 13
OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JAN. 16, 1913
Per Week, 10 Cents
CALL THE OTHER WITNESSES.
DIMICK RENEWS
8-HOUR FIGHT
DISCUSSES WATER
TITANIC
WIDOWS
PERKINS DECLARES
COUNCIL
AGA
ASK BIG SUMS
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MRS. HENRY B. HARRIS SUES FOR
"7- $1,000,000 FOR LOSS OF j
HUSBAND I
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MRS. FUTRELLE SEEKS $300,000
Claims Against White Star Line,
Owner of Ship that Iceberg
Sank, Aggregate
$10,000,000
NET YORK, Jan. 15. A flood ol
petitions for damages through the
loss of the Steamer Titanic, filed to-
day, includes one from Irene Wellach
Harris, who claims $1,000,000 for the
loss of her husband, Henry B. Har-
ris, theatrical manager. This is the
heaviest of the 279 claims so far.
Mrs. May Futrelle, of Scituate,
Mass., asks $300,000 compensation for .
the loss of her husband, Jasques Fu- '
trelie, author. '
The claim of Mrs. Lilly B. Millet,
widow of Francis D. Millet, artist, is
$100,000.
The total claims amount to more
than $10,000,000. The White Star
line, owner of the ship, contends its
liability is limited under the United
statpa statutes tn less than S10..000. !
the value of recovered wreckage and
passage money.
OFFICERS INSTALLED
BY REBEKAH LODGE
At a meeting of the Willamette
Rebekaii Lodge No. 2 Grace M. Noble,
district deputy, installed the follow
ing ofTicers:
Emma McGahuey, N. G. ; Mattie
Beard, V, G.; J. P. Scott recording j
secretary; Lizzie Finmgan, treasurer;
Maud Longley, financial secretary;
May Waldron, warden; ; Flora Mor
ris, conductor; Martha Hunter, chap
ilin;; Lenora Cooke, R. S. N. G.;
'lira Tick. R. S. V. G.:: Gertrude
; Hamilton, I. G.; T. E. Beard, O. G.; j
Lanora Cooke acted as grand mar-j
shall and was assisted by grand offi- i
cers and special staff. Delicious re
feshments were served and the meet
ing was one of the most enjoyable
ever held by the lodge.
UPHELD BY OREGONIAN
(Morning Oregonian.)
It appears that the law providing :
stands in some danger of repeal at
this session of the Legislature. If
that should be done, it would be un
fortunate for the state. It would be
particularly unfortunate for the rural
population, whose educational inter
ests'have always been neglected. The
county schools need competent sup
ervision at least as vitally as the city
schools, and this act is about the first
attempt on record to provide them
In a sensible and efficient way. It
has been on trial for two years only,
not long enough to demonstrate its
merits fully or bring out its defects,
if it has any. But in those two years
the supervisors appointed under the
law have done wonders for the rural
BChools. If their work is not inter
fered with by the hasty repeal of
the act, they will do a great deal
more.
- We are in a position to mention
definitely some of the good points of
. the supervisor s activity. For in
stance, they have saved money for
the 'country districts by giving ad
vice about the purchase of books and
apparatus.
Persons who are not at all familiar
with rural schools are to be misled
by shrewd salesmen, who. persuade
them to buy all sorts of things which
the schools cannot use. Expensive
books, globes and scientific appara
tus are sometimes foisted upon the
districts, while simple appliances
which it sorely needs are not pro
vided. The rural supervisors have
done a great deal to better this state
of affairs. Under their quiet manage
ment the districts are spending their,
funds for the supplies which are of
' Aily use in their school work. But
that is not all. The supervisors are
helping effectually to introduce those
industrial branches which the rural
schools so badly need. The old-time
cut-and-idried substitute for genuine
education will never give way In the
country schools unless there is some
body at hand to speak constantly for
better things. This the county super
intendent has not time to do. He has
too much other, work. It must be
done by the superivisor or not at all.
Again, the supervisors- have been
busy encouraging the wider use of
the school property in the country
districts for social and civic purpos
es. . This work is so essential that
its abandonment would be nothing
less than a calamity to the state, and
". who is to look after it if the super
visors are thrown out of office?
In proportion to the good they do
officials. Under toe law as it stanas
rural supervision fists 76 cents per
-child in Marion CtAinty, whtle super-
vision in Salem costs $2.50 per child.
-Certainly the country pupil is as well
worth caring for as the city pupil,
particularly when it can be done for
less than one third of the expense. -
PUBLICITY IS CURE
FORMER PARTNER OF MORGAN
REPLIES TO MONEY TRUST
QUESTIONS
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CONCENTRATION IS PERIL, HE SAYS
Millionaire at Washington Probe lrr
sists That Even Brain Power,
if Harmful Should be
- Restrained
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. In a hy-
pothecal quesition to George W. Per-
kins, Samuel Untermy, counsel for
the "money trusf-committee, outlin-
ed today from the records of the
company a "concentration of money
and credit", and asked whether Mr.
Perkins considered it "a menace and-
peril to the prosperity of the country."
The question generally was accepted
as Mr. TJntermyer's conception of the
elusive so-called money trust of which
the committee is in search.
t Mr. Perkins, after declaring the
query reminded him of the conun
drum, "Why is a mouse when it
spins," asserted that he could not
say whether concentration as outlin
ed in the question was a peril. He
said publicity was the cure,
Mr. Untermyer's hypothetical "mon-
ey trust" question was put after Mr.
Perkins had recommended publicity
as a cure for financial evils, the in
corporation of the New York Ex
change under a federal charter, a
closer responsibility among bank di
rectors and the according- of repre
sentation on the directorate to minor
ity stockholders.
Mr. Perkins delivered a long talk
on economics, the gist of which was:
l "Everyone will agree that at a cer-
tain point concentration would be a
! peril, but whether at the point you
i say it has reached it would be a peril,
I cannot say.. I have been out of
I touch with these affairs for two years,
! and I would want to study these ques
tions very carefully. I'm opposed to
tfle concentration of money power)
brain power, or energy where the
concentration is likely to result in
harm."
APPROPRIATIONS ARE
HELD DOWN BY SOLONS
SALEM, Or., Jan. 15. On two
things the members of both senate
and house, without a notable excep
tion, are standing pat. They say that
appropriations must be held down to
a minimum, and that legislation must
proceed at a rate which will avoid
congestion, confusion and errors of
all kinds in the closing days.
By unanimous vote S. R. No. 12, by
I McColloch, which provides tha leg-
islative
compensation other than that agreed
upon at the time of employment or
as fixed by the statute, motion or res
olution, was passed this morning.
This will cut out overtime and pay
for work not done on Sundays and
holidays. McColloch filed memoran
da, showing that $2065 was spent for
overtime and extras at the 1911 ses
sion. While the Dimlck concurrent reso
lution to prohibit the introduction of
any bill in either house after the
first 25 days of the session, which
was amended in committee to read
"over the protest of three members,"
was not adopted by the senate this
morning, the arguments showed clear
ly that the members disagreed only
in the extent of the limitation impos
ed. Both Joseph and Kellaher ber
lieved that the limitation should be
raised, and Thompson agreed, saying
that the introduction of bills should
not be allowed over the protest of
eight members after the first 25 days.
Senator Day said that action should
be postponed for a short time, when
a better idea of the limitations which
should be imposed might be had. Jo
seph moved that the resolution be laid
on tne table for 10 days, but his mo
tion was lost by a vote of 15 to 11.
Thompson thereupon moved that
the resolution be returned to the
committee, and after he held a whis
pered conference with Dimick, who
withdrew his objection, this action
was taken, the committee being left
uninstructed.
LAURELS IN SOUTH
"Scenic America" is the name of
a beautifully illustrated magazine re
ceived here Wednesday, which among
other things tells of the great work
that is being done by Fred K. Mc
Carver, son of George W. McCarver,
of this city. Mr. McCarver is mana
ger of t he amusement park at Ven
ice, which is near Los Angeles, and
has made as big success of the enter
prise as Thompson & Dundee made
of Famous Lunar Park, Coney Island
N. Y. The magazine contains two half
tone cuts of Mr. McCarver, and in
several articles he is referred to as
the "right hand manJ" Mr. McCarver
is president of the chamber of com
merce, member of the board of trus
tees of the Booster's Club, and a mem
ber of the Good Goverment Club of
Venice. s One article in the magazine
referring to Mr. McCarver says, "An
idle minute and- McCarver seldom
have time to get acquainted with each
other.'
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new Governor of
GRAND THEATRE TO B
DOUBLED III SIZE
Charles Schram," proprietor of the
Grand Theatre, has decided to double
the size of his playhouse. He in-i
tends to remodel the building so as
to include the storeroom on the south.
Mr. Schram expects to have a stage
22 by 30 feet and a seating capacity
of between 500 and 700 which will
make the theatre one of the largest
of the- moving picture kind; in the
state. He explained his plans to
the city council Wednesday evening,
asking that he be given permission
to make the alterations. The request
was referred to the committee on
fire and water.
THIEVES ENTER FOUR
OAK GROVE STORES
Thieves had things pretty much
their own way in Oak Grove Tuesday
evening. The first place they enter
ed was the grocery store of W. B.
Stokes. A panel in a front door was
removed. Mr. Stokes said Wednesday
that his loss was small. Later the
robbers entered the postofflce through
a rear window, but obtained only 60
cents. The hardware store of J. G.
Turk was entered, a panel being tak
en from the door. About $5 worth of
hardware was stolen. The prowlers
then entered the butcher shop of Ed
ward Mitchell, rifling the cash draw
er which confined little money, and
making way with twelve pounds- of
beef. Sheriff Mass and his deputies
are looking for the robbers.
MARCIA STRAIGHT DIES
AFTER SHORT
LLNESS
The funeral of Marcia Straight, the
threefyear old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Straight was held at the
residence of . Cy Straight in Green
Point at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday
morning. The little girl had been ill
three weeks at the time of her death,
which was caused by tuberculosis of
the brain. Rev. J. W. Nelson officiat
ed at the funeral. Many beautiful
flowers were received. The interment
was in the Straight Cemetery. .
If it happened It 'Is in tne Enter-
prue. - , .
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George C. Brownell will be the
principal speaker at the. brotherhood
banquet . of the Gladstone " Christian
' Ciiurch tomorrow evening. Mr.
j l'rownell, it is understood, will urge
'; a united effort for the improvement
of the county. Dr. T. B. Ford, pastor
of the First Methodist Church, also
; will be one of the speakers. Music
' will be furnished by Patterson's Or
chestra and the banquet promises to
- be one of the most successful ever
held in Gladstone.
HARMON GREEN, 84,
DIES AT SON'S HOME
Harmon Green, 84 years of age,
died at the home of his son, W. C.
Green, Seventh and Center Streets,
Wednesday evening. Mr. Green had
been failing for several months, and
his physician, Dr. M. C. Striickland,
said that death was caused by the
infirmaties of old age. The funeral
will be held tomorrow afternoon but
the arrangements have not been com
pleted. Mr. . Green came to this
county from Missouri in 1870 and liv
ed on a farm until several years ago
when he came to this city to make his
home with his son. He is survived
by three sons, James R. Green, of
Lebanon, Or.; John Green, of Port
land and W. C. Green, of this city
and Mrs. M. P. Chapman, of this city.
John, S. R. andClay Green were
nephews of the deceased.
3 MENTIONED FOR HEAD
OF COMMERCIAL CLUB
At the annual meeting of the Com
mercial Club Saturday night members
of the board of governors will be
elected to succeed Linn E. Jones, T.
if. Randall and M. D. Latourette,
whose terms will have expired. Har
vey E. Cross, T. W. Sullivantind O.
D. Eby have been mentioned for
president of the" club to succeed B.
T. McBain, whose term expires. The
Commercial Club has had an unusual
ly prosperous year and has a larger
sum in the treasury than ever before
at the beginning of a new fiscal year.
Reports will be made by various offi
cers at the meeting Saturday night.
RED MEN TO dlVE
DANCE AT BUSCH'S HALL
The Improved Order of Red Men at
a pow wow Tuesday evening install
ed the following officers: Willifam
Rail. Sachem; J. F. Tidd, S. S.; G.
Thomas, J. S.; H. Williamson, pro
phet. It was decided to hold the
twentieth annual ball at Busch's Hall
on th.e evening of February 4. The
braves have begun drilling for the
war dance which will be a feature
of the entertainment,.
S. H. BOYER DEAD.
S. H. Boyer, 79 years of age, died
at his home near Clackamas Tues
day of apoplexy. The body was pre
pared, for burial by the Holman Un
dertaking establishment ana shipped
to the former home of Mr. Boyer at
Ambia, Ind.
K&f I
Commander W. H. G. Bullard, the
new chief of the Navy Department's
radio-telegraphy office, which has
charge of ail the wireless stations
, of that department. It is a new
office ;nd Scretry Meyer estab
"lifhed it because of the oroportions
to which the wireless service has
grown. - .
MRS. JOHN GILLETTE
DIES AFTER OPERATION
Mrs. John Gillette died Wednesday
evening at her home, 801 Mojalla
Avenue, after an illness of several
months. Mr. Gillette was operated
upon at the Oregon City Hospital several-
weeks ago, and it was thought
for a time that she would recover.
However, soon after she was taken
home, her condition changed for the
worse, and it became evident that her
illness eventually would prove fatal.
Mrs. Gillette was 53 years of age,
and had been for years an active
member of the First. Presbyterian
Church, the Artisans and Maple Lane
Grange. She came to this county from
Missouri. The funeral will be held
at the Presbyterian Church, but the
time has not been agreed upon. Mrs.
Gillette is survived by her husband
and two children, MisB Lillian Gil
lette, of this city, and Millard Gillette,
of the United tSates Navy, who is
now stationed in the Philippine Is
lands. WIFE SAVS HUSBAND
Alleging -that immediately after
their marriage her husband tried to
force her to drink intoxicating liquors,
Lydia E. Coyle Wednesday filed suit
for divorce against James B. Coyle.
They were married in Salem Novem
ber 14, 1912. The plaintiff alleges
that her husband not only tried to
force- her to drink but wanted to
keep her under the influence of liq
uors. She further avers that he false
ly accused her of associating with
other men and of receiving letters
from other men. She asks that her
maiden name be restored.
. JEWELRY THIEF SENTENCED.
Charles - Bennett, indicted on a
charge of stealing jewelry from fel
low workmen at a camp on the Clackamas-
Southern Railway, pleaded
guilty to larceny before Circuit Judge
Campbell Wednesday and was senten
ced to 'serve one year in jail.
CLACKAMAS COUNTY SENATOR
STARTS WHAT WILL RESULT '
IN BITTER WAR !
ONE BILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE
Schuebel Introduces Measure to Re
peal Law Providing for Pub
lication of Tax Delin
quents SALEM, Jan. 15. (Special.) When
Senator Dimick introduced in the
senate today a replica of the eight
hour bill introduced by him two ses
sions ago, he quietly reopened one
of the bitterest fights ever carried on
in the Oregon legislature. The bill
provides that all employes in the
mills of Oregon City, when the mills
work continuously twenty-two hours
of over, shall work no more than
eight hours a day.
' The result of the introduction of
the bill will be come of the warmest
committee meetings and fights on the
floor of the present session. Twice
Dimick carried the bill through the
senate two years ago only to meet
defeat in the house. Today-he de
clared he will make the fight of his
life on the proposition and other sen
ators and representatives were equal
ly confident they would give him a
hard fight in return.
Representative Schuebel created a
small . furore when, by request, he
introduced in the house a measure
to repeal the law which provides for
publication of delinquent tax lists by
newspapers. This bill will meet with
bitter opposition from" a number of
house members, they state, and will
meet with almost certain defeat in
the senate, according to the present
lineup. v '
Today was one of the quietest days-
in the history of the legislature. How
ever at that, precedent was broken
when the house, on the third day of
session passed one bill. The bill is
of minor importance and repeals an
antiquated law, never in use.
The question of bills vetoed by the
Governor was threshed out in the jud
iciary committee of the senate today.
The committee report will mean the
first bitter arguments of the session
when the vetoes come up before the
senate as a special order at 10 o'clock
tomorrow morning.
Senator Dimick, of Clackamas, will
lead the fight to pass the bills and
will attempt to show by statistics
that, regardless of the Governor's de
claring there are no deficiencies,
there has in reality been $58,000 de
ficiency in expenditures.
Governor West, through McCol
loch lining up his forces to sustain
his veto on these bills while Kay is
making his fight almost in open
against the Governor to have these
vetoes passed over his head. How
ever they go, they may be consider
ed a victory for these two contend
ing factions in the present adminis
tration. $3,000 ASKED FOR
WEST'S SECRETARY
SALEM, Or., Jan. 15. Anticipating
the effect of a bill introduced to con
solidate all of the state institutional
boards into a state board of control
will have on the salary of Ralph Wat
son, private secretary to Governor
West, Representative Hapgood, - of
Multnomah County, today introduced
a bill fixing his salary at $3,000 . a
year.
The last legislature appropriated an
annual salary of $2,400 for him, and
provided that it should operate as
part payment for his services as pri
vate secretary to the Governor and
also as secretary of a number of
boards. For the purpose of raising
his salary to $3,000 a year, an ar
rangement was made whereby he
was made secretary of a number of
additional boards governing state in
stitutions, and from which he draws
$600 a year.
Attorneys who have examined the
law on this subject have given the
opinion that he was never entitled to
this $600 a year as the law forbids
and person holding two lucrative of
fices, and on the ground that the leg
islature, having made an appropria
tion for his salary, intended that he
should have no more.
The bill merging all the institu
tional boards into a- state board of
control and providing for a secre
tary at a salary of $3,000 a year, will
eliminate the private secretary of the
Governor from the boards from which
he has been drawing a salary and
reduce his salary to $1200 a year.
Confident that the board of control
bill will passj the Hapgood bill is
introduced to insure the Governor's
secretary the same salary as he has
drawn for the last two years. Under
this plan his salary remains the same,
while his duties are greatly lessened.
Estate Admitted to Probate.
The estate of F. A. Adams was ad
mitted to probate by County 'Judge
Beatie Wednesday. Mary Adams was
named executrix. The estate is val
ued at $4,500." "
3 Couples Get Licenses. 1
Licenses to marry were issued Wed
nesday to the following: Florence
Louise Bullay and Robert I. Nelson;
Hattie Gopdell and Louie C. Hunter
and Ethel Buchanan and-H. F.-Howard.
. ,
. Boost your cKy by. boosting yenr
daily paper. The Enterprise should
be in every home. ,
HOWELL COMES TO DEFENSE
OF OREGON CITY
SUPPLY
DR. MOUNT CALLS HIM TO ACCOUNT
Letter of Meldrum, Protesting Against
Yale Serving as City Engin-
eer. Is Laid on
Table
The city council at a meeting Wed
nesday evening, again considered the
subject of providing pure water for
the city.
The discussion was started by B.
T. McBain, who urged that the coun
cil use all possible speed in obtaining
a desirable water supply for the city.
Mr. McBain, who has just returned
from a trip to the Sound, said that
the news of the recent typhoid epl :
demic here had spread over the coun- -try
and has undone the work of the
Commercial Club for five years.
Mr. McBain was followed by W. H.
Howell, superintendent of the water
works, who declared that with one
exception, the city water had been
shown to be free of typhoid germs by
the analyses of the State Health Offi
cer and other chemists.
Mn Howell said that up to this -year
not a death had occurred from ,
typhoid in this city that could be prov
ed was caused by the city water. To
this remark Dir. H. S. Mount, the only
member of the physicians' committee
present, took exceptions, and an ani
mated discussion followed between
the two. .
Dr. Mount stated that he believed
the water should be received from an
underground source, such as an artes
ian well, and he believed that this
would insure better water than by get
ting the water from a surface supply.
He also stated that the land around
a well should be protected from pol
ution. Councilman Tooze said that
pure water should be had at anj cost,
but the cheapest pure water mpply
should be installed. The ques ion of
pure water was finally referre 1 back
to the joint committee of tl 3 Live
Wires, the Commercial Club .nd the
council. .
The eftimate to furnish tl i -rooms
of the Columbia Hook and) Ladder
Company was read and it order
ed that an ordinance be prepared and
read at the next regular meeting
Henry Meldrum, in a communica
tion to the rouncil, notified them that
if George C. Yale, the city enginetr,
were allowed to remain in office he
wo"uld start court proceedings to have
Mr. Yale ousted. Mr. Meldrum's
letter was placed upon the table.
The matter of the location Of the
elevator was reported by the com
mittee of the council, which adopted
the report of the committee of the
Live Wires. This report was to the
effect that the elevator be located at
the end of lower Seyenth Street and
from there to extend to the top of
the hill on what is now the Chase
property In return for the right to
Mrs; Chase's property the fraction
of the lots along the bluff to be given
t the city, Mrs. Chase to be given
the alley on which her house now
stands and also a strip 40 feet wide
on High Street, thus - making this
street 40 feet in width along her prop
erty instead of 60 feet. After much
discussion the matter was referred
back to the original committee, with
the city engineer and the city attor
ney added.
Mr. Howell read the following let
ters: State Board of, Health
Portland, January 14, 1913.
Mr. W. H. Howell,
Supt. Oregon City Water Co.,
Oregon City, Oregon.
Dear Sir:
Analysis of the water sent by you
to this laboratory resulted as follows: .
No. 1, Jefferson Street, contained
no organisms and colon bacilli nega
tive. Not present.)
No. 2, Jackson Street, contained
two organisms per C. C, and colon
bacilli negative. (Not present.)
No. 3, Filter, contained 5 organ
isms per C. C. and colon bacilli neg
ative. (Not present.)
No. 4, Filter, contained 4 organ
isms par C. C. and colon bacilli neg
ative. (Not present.)
Yours very truly,
CALVIN S. WHITE,
State Health Officer.
. University of Oregon
Eugene, Jan. 11, 1913.
' Department of Botany
Albert Sweetser
Mr. W. H. Howell,
Oregon City, Oregon.
Dear Sir:
The following is the analysis of
the samples delivered by Mr. Cau
field: , ,
Filter No. 1, Bacteria 3 B., coli absent
Filter No. 2, bacteria 3 B., coli absent
Filter No. 3, bacteria 2 B., coli absent
Filter No. 4, bacteria 2 B., coli absent
Clear water wellt bacteria 51 B.,
coli absent.
Very truly yours,
. ALBERT R. SWEETSER
13 Hoboes are Jailed. .
Thirteen hoboes were placed in the
city jail Tuesday night and Wednes
day. They were ordered to leave the
city. Several told Chief Shaw they
would seek employment on the Canby
road. During the past year Chief
Shaw reports that there has been but
one L W. W. meeting in the city and
that was quickly dispersed.
small classified ad win rni that
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