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VOL. V. No. 17
ROOT SCORES JrREE
TOLLS AT PANAMA
SENATOR DECLARES PLEDGE TO
WORLD WOULD BE VIO
LATED f
ARBITRATION IS FAVORED BY HIM
New York Statesman Declares that
Isthmus Is Held jn Trust
By United
States
WASHINGTON, Jan.' 21. "Shall
we inform the world that the United
States is false to its agreements,
false to its pledged word? Shall we
have it made known the world over
that you must look out for the United
States or it,, will get advantage of
you? That the United States is as
tute, cunning, slippery?"
With this vigorous denunciation of
the attitude of this country in the
, Panama Canal controversy with Great
Britain, Senator Root closed a two
hour speech in the senate today with
an appeal for the submission of the
Panama question to arbitration, or
the repeal of that section of the can
al law that would give free passage
to American coastwise ships
Speaking from the experience of a
member of President Roosevelt's Cab
inet, when the Panama Canal zone
was purchased, and when more than
25 arbitration treaties were made
with foreign nations, Senator Root
delivered a vigorous attack on the
present attitude of the United States
It became known, following the
Senator's address, that Senator Bran
degee, chairman of the interoceanic
canals committee, would call a meet
ing within a few days to take up
Senator Root's amendment for the re
peal of the free-toll provision.
A determined effort by those who
opposed the original passage of this
provision will be made at this session
of Congress to change the law before
it goes into effect at the canal, so
the cause of dispute with Great Brit
ain will be removed.
Senator Root declared the United
States would violate all its pledges
and promises to the world; would be
guilty of "false pretenses," in its ad
vocacy of general arbitration and
would proclaim itself indifferent to
national honor and integrity, if it re
fused to submit to arbitration, or to
retreat from the unjust position 'it
had taken, i
He declared free coastwise tolls to
American ships were illegal unless
equal concessions were made to for
eign ships. The contentions that the
.'United States had domestic rights
over the canal, because it owned the
Canal zone, constituted a violation of
the express guarantee of the United
States to Great Britain, he said
"It is not our territory except in
trust," he said. "Treaty or no treaty
we have long asserted that the na
tions of Central America had no right
to debar the world from its right of
passage across the isthmus. Upon
that we based the justice of our en
tire action which resulted in our hav
ing the Canal zone."
RECORDS OF P. R: L & P.
DESTROYED BY FIRE
Fire, presumably caused by cross
ed wires during the heavy snow storm
consumed the office of the Portland
Railway, Light & Power Company's
engineers at the upper dam, two
" miles above Cazadero, destroying rec
ords worth several thousand dollars.
The building itself wasbf little value.
Among tne records burned were
the water guages of the Clackamas
River during the past two years, the
surveys and plats of the proposed ex
tension of the line above the present
terminus and plats of the power plant
near Cazadero . It is said there no
duplicates in existence, thus making
it necessary to resurvey the country
toward the mountains as -well as to
secure additional records of the rise
and fall oftfhe river.
The fire was discovered about
o'clock by John Brooks, an employe,
who lives near the office. By the time
he reached the building the interior
was ablaze and he was unable to save
any of the contents. "
This is the third fire that the Port,
land Railway, Light & Power Com
pany has suffered within the last six
months.
If you saw It In the Enterprise it's
-BO.
PROFESSOR ANDERSON TO
ADDRESS TEACHERS' MEETING
An educational conference will be
held for parents and teachers at the
West Side school house, Oregon City,
tomorrow night at 8 o'clock. C. F.
Anderson will ' speak upon "What
Teacher Thinks." Informal discus
sion of school interests will occupy
the evening.
If It happened It Is In tne Enter
prise. DR. MILLIKEN SPEAKS.
Dr. W. T. Milliken preached' lastF?r that Purpose, or at a regular elec-
night at Willamette to an apprecia
tive audience. Miss Ehchol Arms
strong sang a solo, "Loved by Grace."
Tonight Dr. M. L. Rugg will preach.
There will be special music. . Song
service begins at 6:30 sharp.
A small classified ad win rant that
-racant room.
SENATOR DIM CO
BILLS ARE VITAL
ONE PROVIDES FOR SHORTENING
HOURS OF WORK AT
MILLS
OREGON CITY ONLY PLACE AFFECTED
Another Measure Would, if Passed,
Enable Municipality to Annex
West Side Without Town's
Permission
SALEM, Or-, Jan. 21. (Special.)
Four bills of vital interest to Ore
gon City and Clackamas County have
been introduced in the legislature by
State Senator W. A. Dimick. These
measures were presented to the Sen
ate on Wednesday and Thursday of
last week and have been referred to
committees. Their ultimate fate is
problmatieal. Two of them were con
sidered at the 1911 session of the leg
islature, and one was passed by the
Senate after a hard fight and was fin
ally killed in the house. This bill is
the measure to restrict the hours of
labor to mills in plants that operate
22 hours or more per day, and is
aimed at the paper mills of Oregon
City. The measure is known as Sen
ate Bill No. 45 and follows:
A bill for an act to define and lim
it the number of hours of labor con
stituting a day's work for certain la-1
borers and mechanics and other work-!
men employed in certain manufactur
ing establishments or factories, and
fixing a penalty for its violation.
Be it enacted by the people of the
state of Oregon: Be it enacted by
the Legislative Assembly of the state
of Oregon;
Section 1. Eight hours shall con
stitute a day's work for all workmen,
laborers, mechanics and other per
sons now employed, or who may here
after be employed, in or about any
manufacturing establishment or fac
tory employing labor, except in cases
of extraordinary emergency, involv
ing tne protection of property or hu
man life.
Section 2. Any employer who shall
require, permit or suffer any person
employed in any manufacturing es
tablishment or factory, where labor
ers are employe to work in any such
place mentioned in this act, more
than eight hours in a day of twenty
four hours, except as in this act pro
vided, and any overseer, superinten
dent, foreman or agent of such em
ployer, who shall violate any of the
provisions of this act, shall be deem
ed guilty olj a misdemeanor, and up
on conviction thereof, shall be punish
ed by a fine of not less than fifty dol
dollars nor more than five hundred
Idollars, or by imprisonment in the
county jail not less than ten days nor
re than one hundred days, or both
"Tuch flue and imprisonment.
Section 3. This act shall apply on
ly to such manufacturing establish
ments or factories as actively con
tinue in the business in which they
are engaged during twenty-two hours
or more of any calendar day, and
provided that it shall only apply in
such institutions to such emplojes as
are engaged during their hours of
labor in and about machinery oper
ating twenty-two nours or more on
each or any calendar day.
section 4. Justices ot the peace
shall have concurrent jurisdiction
over any of the offenses mentioned in
this act
Another bill that will affect the
paper mills and the property of the
Portland Railway, Light & Power
Co. in West Oregon City is the meas
ure permitting cities to annex terri
tory. Under the provisions of this
bill Oregon City could bring into its
limits any portion of West Oregon
City without the consent of the prop
erty annexed. The bill is designat
ed as Senate Bill No. 65 and follows:
A bill for an act granting to incor
porated cities and towns power to
change their boundaries and annex
adjoining territory under certain con
ditions, and prescribing the method
for making such changes of boundary
and annexing such territory
Be it enacted by the people of the
state of Oregon: Be it enacted by the
Legislative Assembly of the state of
Oregon:
Section 1. In addition to the meth
ods now provided by law for change
of boundaries and annexation of ad
joining territory by incorporated cit
ies and towns, every such incorporat
ed city and town is hereby granted
power to change its boundaries and
annex and include within the said
city or town lilnits, as a part thereof.
any adjoining territory not exceed
ing two hundred acres at one time,
and said adjoining terriotry and the
property therein contained shall be
shown by the assessment rolls of the
county to have been of an average
assessed value of nbt less than three
thousand dollars per acre for the
three years preceding the proposed
annexation. The m proceedings for
such change of boundary and annexa
tion of territory under this act shall
be as follows:
The common cpjjncil or other leg
islative body oi such corporation
shall, upon receivingX petition there
for, signed by not less than one-fifth
of the qualified voters pf such corpor
ation, as shown by the vote cast at
the last municipal election held there
in, for the office of mayor, submit the
question to the electors of such cor
poration. Such question shall be sub
mitted at a special election to be held
tion, as may be demanded by said pe
tition . Such council or. 1 legislative
body shall give notice thereof, by pub
lication in a newspaper of general cir
culation in such corporation, and in
the county in which the same is sit
uated, for the period of four weeks
prior to such election, also by posting
notices thereof in four public places
within such corporation, and four pub
WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 1866.
OREGON CITY,
William Corcoran Eustis, Chairman
of the Inaugural Committee He is
a Washington banker and a son of
a former United States Senator.
lic places in such territory for a like
period. Such notice shall distinctly
state the proposition to be so submit
ted, and shall designate especially
the boundaries of the territory so
proposed to be annexed, and the elec
tors shall be invited thereby to vote
upon .such proposition by placing up
on their ballots the words "for an
nexation," or "against annexation" or
words equivelent thereto Such coun
cil or legislative body shall also des
ignate the place or places at which
the polls will be open, which shall be
those usually used for that purpose
within such corporation. "Such coun
cil or legislative body shall also ap
point and designate in such notice
the names of the judges and clerks
of election. Such council or legisla
tive body shall meet on Monday next
succeeding the day of such election
at 1 o'clock P. M. and- proceed to
canvass the votes cast thereat. If
it shall appear upon such canvass
that the majority of the votes cast
are in favor the annexation, then
such council, or legislative body shall,
by an order entered upon their rec
ords, declare such annexation, and
cause their clerk or other officer per
forming the duties of clerk, to make
and transmit to the Secretary of State
a certified description of such annex
ed territory, and the new boundaries
of said city or town, and an abstract
of such vote which shall show the
whole number of electors vvoting in
such corporation, the number of votes
cast for annexation, and the number
of votes cast against annexation
From and after the date of filing if
said abstract, such annexation shall
le deemed complete, and thereafter
such territory shall be and remain a
part of such corporation. The judges
and clerks, before entering upon the
discharge of their duties at such elec
tion, shall .each take and . subscribe,
before an officer authorized to admin
ister the same, an oath, that he will
honestly and faithfully discharge his
duties as such judge or clerk Incase
of the absence, or inability of any
judge, or clerk, so appointed, to act
at such election, then the qualified
electors present at the polls, before
proceeding to vote, may chjose an
elector to act in his place from among
their number, who shall duly qualify
as aforesaid before entering upon the
discharge of his duties as judge, or
clerk, at such election.
(Continued on page 3)
UNCLE HANK SEES THE NEW WALLOPER GOWNS !
-f a. . doyooS (GEE GOSH!
OUT STATE'S NEED
' EDITOR OF LIVE STOCK JOURNAL S'
- J ARE WASTED '.
f4 ' BILL FflR A,DING FAIRS IS i
I ' iff '
I j Sullivan Suggests that Members of ik- ,
1 Wires Aid in Fostering Fac- '-,
I 1 tories and Live Stock mmmmamMmmlmamm
Ji " 1 Raising . -
OREGON, WEDNESDAY,
Dairy products valued at $12,000,-
000 and swine on the hoof valued at
$6,000,000 were brought into Oregon !
last year from the East for con-!
sumption in this state. This state-1
ment was made with electrifying ef-1
feet Tuesday at the weekly luncheon ;
of the Live Wires of the Oregon City I
Commeicial Club by W. A. Shewman,
editor of the Western Stock Journal,
who has made a close study of the
livestock industry in the Northwest.
He ,said the total value of livestock
products and of products of an agri
cultural character Shipped into Ore
gon in 1912 omounted to ' $25,000,000,
and into Washington the value was
$30,000,000. He told of conditions in
Washington towns, notably Pullman,
and explained how money could be
made by the farmers in producing
pure bred swine. Mr. Shewman was
followed by 'f. W. Sullivan, O. D. Eby,
H. E. Cross, J. E. Hedges, A. A. Price,
C. H. Dye and L. L. Pickens, who
talked in the need of an Armory,
which cculd be used for holding Dairy
ana siock snows, as wen as for oth
er purposes.
O. D. Eby and T. W. Sullivan pro
posed a resolution opposing the bill
to repeal the law of 1911, under which
county courts are authorized to spend
$50 per annum to assist Fairs and
Shows, in cases where sites have been
secured and buildings are maintained.
The resolution obtained the unani-
thous endorsement of the Live Wires.
M. D. Latourette announced it is
the purpose of the Promotion Depart
ment of the Commercial Club to hold
a Booster Day in Oregon City during
April or May and that the celebration
migh work hand in hand with a Live
stock Show.
A. A. Price, who heads the commit
tee to secure cluster lights along
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onriiHBii nnitiTO I ..
Main Street, reported progress. It
is the purpose of this committee to in
duce property owners and business
men in the retail district on Main
Street to install cluster lights, keep
ing pace with other Willamette Val
leyvtowns. Declaring that the business .inter
ests of Oregon City could do a great
deal toward cooperating with the
farmer in producing more stock, T.
W. Sullivan said every thing possible
should be done to foster manufacti
uring concerns and stock raising. He
said the various manufacturing con
cerns of the city are well able to
look after their own interests without
assistance, unless hampered by in
sane and destructive legislation. This
was a pointed reference to the Dim
ick and Schuebel labor bills pending
In the legislature. -
(Continued on page 2)
JAN. 22, 1913.
Senator R- M. Johnston, who succeed
ed Eenator Joseph W. Bailey, of
Texas, when he resigned early in
January.
SHAW FILES ANSWER
TO DICK'S SUIT
William Stone, City Attorney, rep
resenting E. L. Shaw, present chief
of police, Tuesday filed an answer to
the complaint of Grant B. Dimick
asking that the city treasurer be re
strained from paying the warrants of
Shaw as chief of police and keeper
of the jail. Circuit Judge Eakin is
sued a restraining order against the
treasurer paying the warrants, an
nouncing that the case must be tried
upon its merits. Mr. Stone in an in
genious answer contends that Shaw
having served as jailer and peace of
ficer, and having been appointed by
the city council is entitled to the sal
ary nrovided for such service. The
answer concludes:
"That the said warrants are not
held or owned by said E. L. Shaw,
but are assigned, and if the injunc
tion were to lie and restrain defend
ants from paying said warrants, the
said innocent purchaser, the First
National Bank, and it would work a
great hardship upon said First Na
tional Bank, as the same purchased
the said warrants from the said E. L.
Shaw in good faith, believing that the
city was actually indebted to saiii E
L. Shaw for his services, rendered in
said municipality. And further that
the said warrants were not due when
issued to the said E. L. Shaw, and
that E. L. Shaw needed the money
for the ordinary expenses of living,
and the Fjst National Bank thought
it was conferring a favor upon the
said E L. Shaw and assisting him in
procuring his money, when they pur
chased the said warrants from him.
MRS EGGERT WILL
ADDRESS WOMAN'S CLUB
Mrs. Frederick Eggert, of Portland,
chairman of the Scholarship Loan
Fund, will be the principal speaker
at the meeting of the Woman's Club
in the Commercial Club parlors at
2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. A fine
musical program, under the direction
of Mrs. A. A. Price, has been arrang
LAW
TO BE SUSTAINED
COMMITTEE REPORTS AGAINST!
DIMICK'S BILL URGING '
ABROGATION !
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CLACKAMAS REPRESENTATIVES BUSY
Giil Presents Measure Relating to
Road Districts, Corporations
and Salaries of Offi
- cials -
SALEM, Jan. 21., (Special.) Sev
eral bills were introduced by Clack
amas County representatives today.
Schuebel strenuously objested to
steam rollertactics, said to have been
exercised In the house in passing a
veto over the Governor' s head. Dim
ick has the losing side in his senate
bill to repeal the present rural school
supervisory law. The Clackamas
County delegation was in the lime
light in the legislative session today.
Representative Gill introduced bills
requiring that a director be a stock
holder in a corporation;- 4 providing
for the creation of county road dis
tricts; fixing salary of all county offi
cers in state and repealing sections
of the code repating to the poll tax
Representative Schnoerr introduc
ed bills providing for county election
precincts and to require county offi
cials to publish semi-annual reports
of the financial conditions of counties.
Representative Schuebel presented
a bill providing for lending money
from the school fund for investment
of surplus in bonds.
A test fight was waged in the house
this afternoon in house bill introduc
ed by Thompson in the 1911 session,
providing for the disposition of cer
tain lands in Oregon which the Gov
ernor vetoed. Today's fight resulted
in passing the bill over the Govern
or's head.
The charges of steam roller tactics
were fruitless when Hagood attempt
ed to speak and was turned down on
motion of previous question.
Schuebel, explaining vote, arraign
ed dictatorial tactics which throttled
the chance for members voicing sen
timents in regard to bills.
Dimick's proposal to repeal the sup
ervisory law was reported adversely
from the committee.. He made a fight
against the adoption of the report
and consumed most of the morning
session in the senate There were
sharp clashes between Dimick and
Joseph.
An adverse report also was made
on Dimick's bill to repeal the naval
militia act He asked re-reference to
the committee, declaring he had heard
members of the militia were "coming
to attack the senate with drawn sa
bers and flashing gold braid". He
said a big delegation was coming to
fight for the bill. Re-reference was
secured.
STOCK LAW LEGALITY
William Dyer, of Oswego, having
allowed his stock to run at large to
test the stock law, the state, through
Assistant District Attorney Stipp, has
filed suit against Dyer asking that the
penalty provided be imposed. The
defendant, through his attorneys,
Brownell & Stone, has pleaded that
there has been no violation of any
stock law. He avers that the law ap
proved by the people at the last elec
tion is not constitutional. The cap
tion of the bill on the ballot was "for
and against stock running at large."
Dyer says the caption should ha,ve
been, "A bill to prohibit stock run
ning at large" He avers that as a re
sult 'of the faulty caption many per
sons are confused.
GILL INTRODUCES
BILL FIXING SALARIES
SALEM, Or., Jan. 21., ( Special.)
Representative GUI of Clackamas in
troduced a bill in the legislature em
boding a plan for unifying- the salar
ies of county officials, according to
the population, assessed valuation
and area of each county. It was .er
roneously reported that Representa
tive Schuebel introduced the bill.
To moet the objection that the sal
aries in some of the sparseley settled
counties in Eastern and Central Ore
gon would be too large in proportion
to the salaries in some of the small
er but more populous, counties if the
area was included in fixing the sal
aries, the bill fixes a minimum of
3,000,000 acres to be used in the es
timates for the counties that have a
greater area- : ,
The bill, as introduced does not
state the salaries for the various
classes of counties, of which - there
will be six, but leaves that to be fill
ed in by the committee that will con
sider, the measure.
The deputies are . classified into
first, second, third, fourth, and fifth
classes. The deputies of the first
class shall receive a salary equal to
60 per cent of the salary of his em
ployer, while the second deputy
will receive 90 per cent of the salary
of the first deputy and the salary of
each subsequent class of deputies
drops 10 per cent.
It provides that all fees collected
by any county official shall be paid
into the county treasury.
SUPERVISOR
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SALOON OWNER IS
STRANGELY GONE
CARL HODES HAD $1,400 WHEN
HE DISAPPEARED LAST
SATURDAY'
FOUL PLAY IS THEORY ADVANCED
Chief of Police Telephones to Nearby
Cities Without Learning
Anything of Missing
Man
Carl Hodes, interested in two sa
loons, and one of the best known men
in the city is mysteriously missing
and it is feared he has been the vic
tim of foul play. Hodes disappeared
at 4 o'clock last Sautrday afternoon,
and, according to one report he Lad
$1,400 and another he had almost
$100. At the request of his wife and
children the polioe began a search
for the missing man the following
morning but so far have not obtained
the slighest .clue as to what became
of him.
It is not believed- that the missing
man purposely left the city, for he
has a large family and was devoted to
his wife and children. When not at
tending to business he was always at
home, and enjoyed home life above
all other pleasures. His youngest
child is only two months of
age and the father was especially
fond of it. Mrs. Hodes is verging
upon nervous prostration as the re
sult of her husband's disappearance.
Chief of Police Shaw said Tuesday
night that he had telephoned to all
nearby cities and would continue the
search until he obtained definite in
formation regarding the missing man.
E
A runaway express team caused
much excitement on the suspension .
bridge Tuesday evening. The team
started to run near the Southern Pa
cific Station and crossing the bridge
ran toward Bolton. There was a large
crowd of mill workers on the bridge
when the runaway appeared, and they
saved their lives by- clinging to the
railings. One woman crawled "be
tween the railing and suspended
way dashed by. The team belonged
to Henry Elliott and is believed to
have gone to .Portland. .
Hotel Bill, Paid.
Frang Mantess, an Italian who ifft
the Portland Hotel in this city last
Sunday without paying his board and
room bill was captured Tuesday morn
ing by Chief of Police Shaw at the
instigation of Mrs. Beck, manager of
the hotel. Mantess was taken before
Recorder Stipp and paid $10 which
was due on his account.
Boost your city by boosting your
daily paper. The Enterprise should
be In every home.
A fine sugar shell will be giv
en to every third lady attend
ing THE GRAND Theatre this
afternoon and evening, v
Prizes or Souvenirs
Every Wednesday
On our picture program will
be found a railroad story en-,
titled
l DONOVAN'S
DIVISION
(By W. Hanson Durham.)
A railroad story with thrill
after thrill. The fast freight,
with the air brakes broken,
tearing madly down grade al
most seems to mean the loss
of hundreds of lives. But
through the wit and heroism of
a man and a woman the awful
accident is averted.
A California Snipe Hunt
Something Wrong With Bessie
Mrs. Liuper's Legacy
"From Dickens"
THE GRAND
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