MOKNINii ENTERPRISE FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1913.
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MORNING ENTERPRISE
OREGON CITY, OREGON
E. E. BRODIE, Editor and PuMlaher.
"Entered as second-class matter Jan
uary 9, 1911, at the post office at Oregon
City, Oregon, under the Act of March
I 1879."
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
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Blx Months by mall 1.60
Four Months, by mall 100
Per Week, by carrier 10
CITY OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER
BARGAINS
Two houses on one lot lo
cated in the Central part of
Oregon City near the bluff.
Both houses are substantially
built, have electric lights and
modern conveniences. One
house rents for $16.00 per mo.
net, the other for $10.00 per
mo. net. Can be bought by
paying part down and the bal
ance on time, 6 per cent inter
est. Here is a chance to make,
your rent pay you out of debt.
Price is very reasonable. See
DILLMAN & HOWLAND
MILLIONAIRE LOSES
SUIT FOR DIVORCE
Feb. 7 In Arerican History.
1KIKI Hirih Hi Sniliinerville. . . T
Milliird -"lllli.;MV. Ill ill wilt II pivs
Klelil l thr i liitt-tl St.-itfs: died
IS74
1U The I'liitwl States hunk suspend
ed payment !i serond time, musing
a paim- mid tiimiH iai depression.
1S7I- Admiral Silas Morton Smug
ham. I' S N . distinguished in all
; the wars troin is 12 to ISiil. died:
horn 17N!i.
1304-The most destructive Bre In the
history of Baltimore laid in ruins
140 Mores in the heart of the city;
loss $50,000,000.
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
(F'rom noon today to noon tomorrow.)
Sun sets 5:25. rises 7:04 Evening
stars: Venus, Saturn. Morning stars:
Saturn, Jupiter, Mars.
A LAST Provincials of the West and
STRAW South, the Southwest and
Northwest, the Northeast
and Southeast, have a. common griev
ance against New York. Provincial
politeness nas long restrainea ex
pression of their feeling, but a point
has been reached where forbearance
ceases to be a virtue or accomplish
ment. Since the development of the
fast ocean liners, and following the
great reduction in time schedules be
tween New York and European ports
it has become a vogue among Euro
peans of the leisure class to run ov
er, stay in New York a week or two,
taking notes, as they assure us off
customs and manners. With few ex
ceptions, after their return to the
other side of the water they criticize,
either in newspaper interviews or ar
ticles, or in books, what they are
pleased to term "Americanisms."
New York, though an island, is
still a part of us; We couldn't get rid
of her if we would, and we wouldn't
if we could. No European, titled or
untitled, can ever say the word mov
ing us to open shame of any of our i
own. But the last straw seems to be j
laid uDon when another Castellane.
cousin of that count known every-j
where in the Mississippi Valley as
"Bonney" comes to New York and,
Cyen before leaving, expresses a fine
contempt B for what she call
"American mjanners." His contempt
of the manners he describes does him
no discredit. If it is true, as he says
it is that fashionably dressed men in
the cafes of the great New York ho
tels comb their locks and pick their
teeth at table, and if he has seen oth
er fashionably dressed men cleaning
their finger nails in New Yor.k hotel
parlors and corridors, he is right to
cry aloud and spare not, If these
accusations are true, the provinces
demand, in one voice and in thunder
tones, that New York improve her
manners or cease to pose as the flow
er of our civilization. If : they are
false, we demand that this insolent
Castellane be challenged to a duel
with tin swords.
Candidly, we don't believe him, but
they will believe him in Europe,
where, from some cause, they have
received the impression that all
Americans are boors, - with more
money, and more clothes, than breed
ing or deportment. Whether this im
pression results from impressions
said to have been received by foreign
ers visiting New York and then going
back to write books on "American
manners, ' or whether it is an effect
of which our swarm of summer tour
ists is the cause, it is needless to. in
quire. What we feel in the provinces
is that is is time to call a halt. We
will give New York that initiative to
which she is entitled. If her man
ners are really as bad as the foreign
ers say, she must improve them. . It
she is being traduced, as we believe
she is, she must take measures to
end it. If she .will do neither of
these things, the provinces must find
a way of compelling foreign observ
ers and commentators to cease call
ing their observations of New York
their observations of "American manners."
JUDGE BEATIE' WOULD Inasmuch
MAKE GOOD MARSHAL as the Dem
ocratic party
will soon have an inning in national
affairs the Enterprise believes that
Judge R. B. Beatie should be appoint
ed United States Marshal. Judge
Beatie is devoted to this county, and,
if appointed marshal, while not fair
ing to look after the interests of all
sections of the state, he would cer
tainly look after the interests of
this county. To Judge Beatie is large
ly due the success of Democrats in
this county for the past ten years.
He was elected sheriff twice and is
now the county judge. He has done
his work well, and if named United
States Marshal there is no question
that he will attend to the duties of
the office with credit to himself and
advantage to the state. But for
Judge Beatie, it is possible that the
Democrats would not have as many
representatives in various county of
fices as they have today.
While this paper would like vto see
a Republican named United States
Marshal, that being impossible, it
heartily indorses Judge Beatie for the
office. And, frankly, if Oregon were
searched from one end to the other
a better man than he could not be
found for the office. His services as
sheriff would aid him in his work as.
marshal. He has been indorsed by the
Live Wires. Let all Clackamas Coun
ty indorse him. We certainly would
rather have one of our townsmen mar
shal than a man from another - part
of the state.
SEATTLE, Wash Feb. 6. Harry
A. Jones, millionaire of Vancouver, is
loser of his suit for divorce, the de
cree having, been granted by Judge
Humphries to his wife.
The court cut a million dollars in
twain. It severed the marriage tie.
It gave the "daughter, Ruth, to the
mother; the son, Harold, to the fath
er. There was nothing else to divide.
There had been love, but money kill
ed it.
It was a love match originally. They
were married in Columbus, Ohio, 23
years ago. He was obscure in the
world of finance and his name was
Jones. She was very young and very
beautiful and she had great faith in
Jones.
Jones had just enough money to
whet his appetite for more a paltry
,$50,000. He brought his bride west
where opportunity beckoned. They
settled in British Columbia. They
worked hard, both of them, and econ
omized. She did her own -housework.
"Later," they said, "when we have
enough, we will rest and enjoy our
selves." In the light of subsequent events,
this was a ghastly joke. The original
$50,000 grew to a million but for the
past 12 years he has lived in one
room, she in another.
Perhaps she could not follow him
along the road to prosperity. Dish
washing is not good for pink nails
and tapering fingers. Sweeping, scrub
bing and baking are not good for slim,
straight backs.
Though graying 'at the temples,
Jones is handsome and youthful look
ing still well groomed and sleek and
having that precise Canadian manner
which he has acquired.
He formed "curious friendships"
(that is whaj the court termed them)
with other women. ' Perhaps they
were younger, more dashing, more
beautiful, more piquant than, the once
beautiful but now fading Mrs. Jones.
y There were trips about the country
stops at expensive hotels. The wife,
who had helped by her pinching econ
omy to make such extravagance pos
sible, stayed at home. - .
The Jones met one day about two
years ago as strangers, - but by ap
pointment, on a matter of business.
Jones is a good business man and he
drove a hard bargain now. His wife
signed a contract for separation in
consideration for which she received
property worth $ 130,000 but non-income
bearing.
, Jones came to Seattle and sued for
a divorce. Mrs. Jones filed a counter
petition. For days they have been
rattling bones, in open court. High
priced lawyers cross questioned, ob
jected, cited precedents and argued.
Yesterday Judge Humphries award
ed the wife a decree and in addition
to the non-income bearing property
he awarded Mrs. Jones what is known
as the "Hastings Street property," in
Vancouver, B. C, carrying an annual
income of $10,000. He denounced
contracts for separation.
To the man he said: "Drop your
habit of running around with strange
women and settle down ad marry a
good woman."
It' is stated by counsel that Jones
will appeal to the Supreme Court.
OREGON CITY PLANS
ENTERING BIG MEETS
The Oregon City High School track
men held a meeting in the High school
Thursday! and elected Charles: Beatie
manager, and Kent Wilson captain of
the 1915 track team. The team has
good tttkf material and should' win
several "contests, The -'School'1 ' will
enter ajteam in the Columbia Univer
sity meet in April and in theOregon
Interscholastic track meets in Eugene
and Cory,aJlis in May. An invitation
to compete in the Pacific Coast Inter
scholastic. meet at Berkley, Cal., has
been received and it is probable that
it will be accepted.
WAR ADVENTURER
LOSES RICH GIRL
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. Adven
turer in war and finance, Polo play
ing champion of British aristocrats
and hero of many a dashing exploit;
Captain James Campbell Besley is
said to be a failure in one cherished
plan that of wedding Miss Elizabeth
Wood, rich in her own name, and
daughter of Modini Wood, a social
lion of Los Angeles.
Besley, if Pinketon detectives .who
hunted down his record, are to be be
lieved, had one small obstacle to his
marriage to Miss Wood that he has
today a wife living in San Francisco.
This wife, who was Marjorie Bennett,
he married on August 31, 1901, ' in
Nome. Deserted by Besley, she says,
his wife obtained an interlocutory de
cree of divorce from him in June,
1903, but has never had the decree
made permanent, and today is just as
much Bessley1 s wife as on the day
they were wed.
Besley, who was playing polo at Cor
onado, first met Miss Wood there.
Acquaintance soon ripened into
friendship and then into love. All ar
rangements were made for the mar
riage and all went swimmingly well
until E. Pern Johnson Jr., uncle of
Ihe bride-to-be, had a hunch. He
consulted Pinkt:rton detectives. They
digged and delved into Besley's rec
ord anl the showdown came last
week in Wood's office in Los Angeles,
vhere I'esley, driven to the wall, is
alleged to have admitted the whole
story. Today in Los Angeles, is was
reported that Miss Wood and her
mother . left two days ago for New
York. Wood, the father, had gone
duck hunting and the others in the
case on the Wood side vera mum.-
Captain J. Campbell Besley is per
haps better known on the ".'Pacific
Coast than any other soldier of for
tune, aiid has been prominent socially
in every city from San Diego and Cor
onado Beach to . the . gold , strewn
beaches of Nome. His most recent
activities have been confined to polo
playing here, and mining in Mexico.
At San Mateo he, with Lord Tweed-)
111 w 11 1, 11, uuiu ixiuucit auu 1AI1U uctc
son-Gower, made up a British polo
team which defeated all comers.
ROGUE RIVER TO BE
IMMIGRATION BILL
IS UP TO PRESIDENT
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Man Has Not Improved
By Dr. ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE, English Scientist
ECENTL7? I have been meditating upon the condition of hu
man progress and have taken a general survey of all history
from those wonderful new discoveries in Egypt going back
seven thousand years to the present day.
I HAVE COME : TO - THE GENERAL CONCLUSION THAT THERE
HAS BEEN NO ADVANCE EITHER . IN INTELLECT OR MORALS
FROM THE DAYS OF THE EARLIEST EGYPTIANS AND SYRIANS
DOWN TO THE KEEL LAYING OF THE LATEST DREADNOUGHT.
Through all those thousands of year? MORALS AND- INTEL
LECT HAVE BEEtf STATIONARY. There has been, of course,
a great accumulation of human knowledge but for all that we are
NO CLEVERER THAN THE ANCIENTS.
If Newton and Darwin had been born in the times of the Egyp
tians they could not have done more than the Egyptians did. The
builders of the pyramids were EVERY WHIT AS GOOD
MATHEMATICIANS AS NEWTON.
MOYER
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. When
President Taft gave a hearing today
upon the new immigration bill, he al
so had before him protests from Ger
many, Italy and The Netherlands
against the provision which author
izes the Secretary of Commerce and
uauur id yiaee inspectors, matrons
and public health service surgeons
aboard immigration ships and report
to American immigration authorities
upon the treatment and condition of
immigrants en route.
. Another protest from Austria is
said to be on the way and intimations
have been received that France and
England will join in the protest. All
the protesting nations are said to re
gard the provisions as an infringe
ment of their sovereignty over their
ships on the high seas and impugning
the faith of their officials in the exe
cution of the immigration laws.
Many prominent Jews arrived here
today to protest to the President
against certain features of the bill.
President Taft heard the protests
in the East room of the White House,
where he sat at a large table stacked
with books and papers. He told those
appearing that he was virtually sit
ting as a judge. Senators O'Gorman
and Root, Secetary Nagel, Represen
tatives. Roberts, Thayer, Khn, Sab
bat hand Curley and Julius Rosen
wald, of Chicago, and Louis Marshall
of New York, were among a hundred
or more of those seated about the
President, who began the hearing
with an announcement.
"The burden is upon those who op
pose this bill," said the President. "It
requires a very strong showing .to
induce the executive to override the
action of both houses of Congress."
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HARRIHAN'S SON IS
RAILROAD MAGNATE
! NEW YORK, Feb. 6. William Av-
j erill Harriman today made his en-
i trancet into the directorates of the
I vast system of railroads built up by
his father, E. H. Harriman. Young
Harriman, who is a senior at Yale,
was elected a director of the Union
Pacific at a meeting called to consid
er plans for the divorce of that road
and the Southern Pacific demanded
by the Supreme Court,
Harriman succeeds. H. W. Defor-
rest. Frank Trumbull, chairman of
the board of directors of the Chese
peake & Ohio, was chosen a director
in place of Julius Kruttschnitt.
The directors of the Union Pacific
and the Southern Pacific met simul
taneously and officers of both roads
held out promises of an early adjust
ment of the proposed dissolution.
Both boards received the report of
the special committee appointed by
the Union Pacific directors -to dis
solve the Harriman system. The plan
was approved by the Union Pacific
board and held by the directors of
the other road for further considera
tion. The presence at the Union Pacific
meeting of representatives of some of
the Southwestern roads gave the im
pression that persons connected with
these systems also might become
identified with the divorced Harri
man lines.- -
Corrected.
Teacher What are parallel lines?
Micky Mulberry, what are you grin
ning at? Micky Mulberry 'Scuse me.
Miss Sharpe. but any loidy.. might
make de same mistake. . Yer mean
parallel bars, don't yer? Ruck.
SALEM, Or., Feb. 6. Unable to
reach an agreement as to the Reames
bill, which had for its object the op
ening oLthe Rogue River to commer
cial fishing from the sea to the mouth
of the Illinois River, the committee
on fisheries today decided upon a sub
stitute bill which will open the river
to fishing for the same distance, and
at the same time give the people of
Grants Pass a fishing season of one
month.
Representative Pierce, of Coos
County, insisted on abolishing sein
ing on all portions of the stream dur
ing the spring season and won in his
fight. During the spring, therefore,
only gilnet fishing will be allowed.
The fishing seasons on the upper
river will be from April '15 to May
15, and on the lower river from April
15 to August 10, and from September
1 to November 20. Provision is made
that the gill-nets having a smaller
mesh than eight and one-half inches
must not be used. -
Ever since the people passed an in
iative measure two years ago this
stream has been closed to commercial
fishing. Representative Belland be
lieves no seining should be allowed
on the stream at any tinjg and will
submit a minority report. .
MISS WHITE HOSTESS
OF SATURDAY CLUB
The Saturday CI ib of the Congre
gational Church met at H13 aome-ff
Miss Jean White Wednesday evening.
The evening was spent ' with needle
work and the transaction of business.
It was decided to obtain talent from
Portland who will give" an "Olde
time Concert". There will be about
forty persons who will take part and
it promises to be one of. the most in
teresting and entertaining programs
given in the city this winter. It will
be give under the auspices of the ciub
and will be given in the near future.
. It was also decided to hold the ex
hibition and sale of Copley prints
during the first part of March. Mrs.
J. N. Edwards has charge of the ex
hibit and it has been arranged to give
it in the Public Library on Seventh
Street. These pictures are carbon
prints and have been carefully select
ed by the committee in charge. Those
who are anticipating the purchase of
standard pictures will certainly ,be
pleased with the Copley prints.
After the transaction of ' business
Miss White, assisted by the Misses
Florence White and Agnes Harris,
served aeiictous retresnments. ine
next meeting of the Saturday Club
will be at the home of Miss Belle
Mattley on Seventh and Monroe
Streets.
Sues to Quiet Title.
The Canby Canal Company has fil
ed suit against J. i' Oesema and wife
to quiet title to lots 1. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6,
7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, l5 and 17
and part of lot 5 of Walnu: Grove
Acres. It is contended that the de
fendants are wrongfuliy holding the
property. .
DONT HURRY. ,
Do nothing in a hurry.. Nature
never does. "More haste, worse
speed," says the old proverb. If
you are in doubt, sleep over it.
But, above all, never quarrel in a
hurry. Think k over well. Take
time. However vexed you may
be overnight, things will often look
different in the morning. . If you
have written a clever and conclu
sive but scathing -letter, keep it
back till the next day and it will
very often never go at all. Lord
Avebury.
GIVING CHECKS
is the simplest and most convenient way of paying bills.
Likewise the safest It's a receipt for the debt it pays.
THE BANK OF OREGON CITY
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
D. C. LATOURETTE, President."
F. J. MEYER, Cashier.
THE FIRST . NATIONAL BANK
OF' OREGON CITY, OREGON
CAPITAL $50,000.00