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WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 1866.
VOL. V. No. 48.
OREGON OITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1913.
Per Week, 10 Cents
ONE BATTLESHIP
VOTED BY HOUSE
AMENDMENT REQUIRES CRAFT
SHALL BE CONSTRUCTED
BY GOVERNMENT
NAVAL APPROPRIATION. IS REDUCED
Lea" er Underwood Makes Successful
Fight for One Dreadnaught R-'
publican Majority Opposes
Amendment
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. After four
days of debate, accompanied at times
by scenes of disorder seldom witness
ed at the Capitol, the House passed
tonight the naval appropriation bill,
carrying approximately $138,000,000
and authorizing the construction of
one battleship, six torpedo boat de
stroyers and four submarines. An
amendment to provide for one battle
ship, instead of two, as recommended
by the committee, was carried by a
vote cf 174 to 156.
An amendment offered by Repre
sentative Calder, of New York, and
adopted, requires that the battleship
shall be constructed in a Government
Navy-yard.
As reported by the committee the
bill carried appropriations aggregat
ing $146,000,000 and providing for two
battleships, a transport and a supply
ship. Points of order by Representa
tive Sisson, in the committee of the
whole, struck out the transport and
supply ship appropriation, Represen
tative Alexander, of Missouri, the
chairman, holding there is no author
ity for the appropriation because no
vessels of this type ever have been
authorized.
Until today the "big navy" men
headed by Representative Hobson, of
Alabama, and Representative Ayres,
of New York, had been confident that
the two-battleship program would go
through and the result was -by no
means certain until the final rollcall
on the amendment.
Democratic Leader Undervood
spoks for one battleship and when
the vote on the amendment came,
140 Democrats voted for the amend
ment and 54 against it. Of the Re
publicans 102 voted against the
amendment and 28 for it.
ALLEGED FORGER IS
HELD OVER TO JURY
W. M. Allen, of Molalla, accused of
passing a forged check and trying to
pass another, was bound over to the
grand jury at his preliminary hear
ing before Justice of the Peace Sam
son Wednesday. Allen, through coun
sel, denied his guilt. It is charged
that he passed a forged check on C.
I. Stafford and tried to pass one on
Peter Kloostra, the butcher and an
other on the Hub Grocery. Allen's
son-in-law, C. G. Kerr, also of Molalla,
has been bound over to the grand jury
on a charge of trying to pass forged
checks . The men were arrested by
Chief of Police Shaw.
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"BLACK and GOLD"
COMMENCING TODAY
At Time
HIGHWAY MEASURE
TE
COMPROMISE BILL, CARRYING
MILL TAX, HAS LITTLE
, OPPOSITION
STATE COMMISSION IS CREATED
Engineer to be Appointed to Super
intend Work Convicts to be
Used In Road Con
struction SALEM, Feb. 26. (Special.) The
compromise highway commission bill
passed the Senate tnAav , a.
ficulty, carrying provision of a one-
nuaiuei- oi a mm tax.
Yesterday the substitute bill of the
roads and hiehwavs
a proposal of Senator Barrett seem-
eu 10 come in conflict, so that Bar
rett objected to the substitute bill,
although they were nearly identical.
After the Senate roads and high
way ccmmittpo v'ti. .o..,.j...5.i..
lantey and two Representatives from
me House had wrestled with the ques
tion until a late hour last night the
bill came out in the form that it
passed the Senate today.
The bill creates a state highway
commission and also the office of
state highway engineer. The com
mission is not what could be 'termed
a new commission, inasmuch as it
is to consist of the a
tary of state and state treasurer. The
engineer is to be aDnointen hv tho
commission, to be a resident of the
er' at least two years and to
receive a salary of $3000 a year. He
shall act in the advisorv nananitir in
the county courts of the different coun
ties as to road construction or main
tenance when requested to do so and
alSO furnish SDecificfltintlH fni- nionaa
of proposed road construction, to be
iurnisneu tree of cost. The engineer
is also to collect statistics and pre
pare data as to road work. The hill
also provides for the use of convicts,
in tact being largely an extension of
the provision voted by the people. It
restricts the expenditure for- admin
istration of the road fund to no mors
than $10,000 a year. t
EDWARDS SPEAKS
AT THE DALLES
Rev. George Nelson Edwards, pas
tor of the First Congregational
Church, was one of a number of min
isters who went to The Dalles Wed
nesday to welcome the new pastor
there, Rev. James Elvin, formerly of
Seattle, and to hold a fellowship meet
ing with the membere of the Congre
gational Church at that place. The
other members of the party were Rev.
Schroek, of Salem; Mrs. Kantner, of
Portland; Rev. Paddack, of Portland
and Rev. Harris, of Hood River. They
were given a delightful entertainment
by the residents of The Dalles, a
lunchson and a dinner being served.
Rev. Mr. Edwards addressed the High
school and the guests were taken on
a trip through the city. A club of
forty boys attended the dinner.
Oraracl
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Brig. Gen. John J. Pershing, U.' S. A.,
commanding Dept. of Minanao, Phil
ippine Islands.
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WIFE IS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 The long
rumored break in the Bourne family
is said to have occurred. Senator
Bourne's office declines to comment
on the New York story that Mrs.
Bourne closed her apartment in
Stoneleigh Court yesterday and left
for Portland. Senator Bourne is
quoted as saying that "mention of
an employe of the Senate in connec
tion with any act of his was ridcu-
lous.', also that he has no notice of
action for divorce being instituted,
that he has no knowledge where his
wife now is and must decline to dis
cuss his private affairs.
Estrangement between ' Senator
Bourne and his wife has been rumor
ed for a year or more. A prominent
Oregonian recently here, who de
clined, to have his name mentioned,
said divorce proceedings, had already
been brought , in Portland. Mrs.
Bourne was Miss Wyatt of , Harris
burg, Linn County, Or. Her brother,
J. R. Wyatt, was assistant United
States district attorney for Oregon for
a short time.
Wanted!
Girls and Women
To operate sewing machines
In garment factory. Oregon City
Woolen Mills.
TEE WtHIT
PERPETRATED BY WALT McDOUGALL
STRANGE NAME HAN
. CALLEDlllKE DOE"
Justice of the Peace Samson faced
the hardest proposition of his life
Wednesday afternoon when Consta
ble Frost brought a man before him
on a charge of assault and battery.
"What is your name?" asked the
Justice of the 'Peace.
The prisoner mumbled something.
The name was a Russian one of five
syllables, but one one in the court
room could understand what it was.
"Spell it," ordered the court.
"I cannot," was the reply.
A second attempt by the prisoner to
make his name understood was as
futile as the first and the court, real
izing that there was but one alterna
tive, said:
"Well, we will call you Mike Doe."
J. Castadin alleged that the prison
er had struck him on the head with a
club, and produced as evidence a bad
ly battered head. The man was held,
in bail of $215 to appear for hear
ing at 10 o'clock this morning.
"I have met many . persons with
strange names," said . Justice of the
Peace Samson, "but this fellow has
the strangest one of them all. It would
be impossible to learn just what it is
without an interpreter and in that, in
stance the' interpreter would have to
be an expert in the use of the En
glish as well as the Russian lan
gauge." ..
HURRICANE SWEEPS
OVER GOLDEN GATE
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 26. Hurri
cane weather prevails today off the
Golden Gate, a condition- almost un
precedented at this season of the
year. Inside the heads of the bay, it
was bright and calm. The wind had i
reached a velocity of 70 miles and
hour oft Point Reyes at 9 o'clock,
sweeping down from the Northwest
and driving huge seas before it. The
Farrallones reported a 48-mile blow
and in-bound shipping was thrown out
schedule by the fight with wind and
' seas.
The Steamer Lurline, from Honulu,
labored into the harbor this morning
with rails smashed, ventilators car
ried away and lifeboats tumbled about
her decks. The "banana deck" was
flooded and for 24 hours the ship was
awash with the seas that boarded her
at every roll. She encountered the
blow early yesterday and fought her
way into port against heavy odds.
The Steamer Harvard, from the
South, was posted three hours late
this morning, because of the blow
and the City of Sidney, from San Pe
dro, also was behind her schedule.
Captain Henry F. Weeden, of the
Lurline, characterized the storm as
the worst he had encountered in 30
years of seafaring. The wind at times
traveled 100 miles an hour, he said,
and his 30 passengers were in a state
bordering on panic f or hour. Dam
age to the cargo was heavy, as waves
washed the ship from stem to stern
time and again.
Coasters from the North made bet
ter time for the blow. The Saginaw
was hustled down from Willapa Har
bor in 55 hours, her usual. time for
the trip being 66 hours. The Adeline
Smith, from Coos Bay, and the Da
venport, from Port Ludlow, each
made a gain of 10 hours ort their
schedules.
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Atterson W. Rucker, Representative
from Colorado. Probable next U.
S. Minister to Cuba.
FATHER THANKS CHIEF
FOR AIDING WAYWARD SON
Chief of Police Shaw has received
a letter from Maurice P. Cutnel, whose
son was found by the Chief wander
ing about the city several weeks ago.
The father thanked Mr. Shaw for the
interest he took in the hoy and also
sent him a check to cover a telegram
that was sent to the father by the
Chief. The Cissel home is in Mary
land. -
Five Acres
Nothing Down
All in a high state of cultiva
tion, lays level, fine berry land
or a dandy chicken ranch. 60
bearing fruit trees, 1-4 mile of
the Clackamas Southern R. R.
which will be in operation in
8 months, then this land will
double In value. 3 1-4 miles of.
Oregon City on the Beaver
Creek road. I don't ask one
dollar down for one year, but
the purchaser must put up a
small house and barn of some
kind to show that he means
business, or I will take a good
Bankable note as part or first
' payment. Here is your chance
to get a dandy home on the
car line where you can work
in town and live in the Coun
try. Price $1200. I own the
land, see me at once.
M. A. ELLIOTT
At E. P. Elliott & Son Real
Estate Office
BILL FOR
COUNTIES KILLED
MEASURE, WHICH GOVERNOR
PRESENTS, LOSES BY OVER
WHELMING MAJORITY
II SENATORS OUT OF 30 ARE FOR IT
JWalarkey Denounces Act as Blanket
Salary Measure and Urges
That it be Defeat
ed SALEM, Or., Feb. 26. After a de
bate lasting 30 minutes, House bill
184, by Gill, fixing the salaries of all
county officers in the state, was kill
ed by the Senate this morning. Only
11 members voted for the measure.
This bill was prepared by Governor
West, and it has been one of the
measures he has been most eager to
have passed. While the Senate was
a unit on the proposition that such
a measure is most desirable in order
to stop the importunate demands of
county officials for increases in salar
ies at every session of the Legisla
ture, the majority declared that this
bill will be inequible.
Almost every Representative from
Eastern Oregon was opposed to the
bill; and it was said to have been pre
pared on a most scientific basis. Sev
eral Senators opposed it because it
lowered salaries, and others because
it raised them. In answering Kella
her's rb.'ection that it raised the sal
aries of a few officials, Smith of Coos
and Curry accused the Multnomah
man of inconsistency.
"It raises the salaries in Curry
County 50 per cent," he said. "Sen
ator Kellaher refused to accept an
amendment permitting these salaries
to be lowered. He is responsible for
my voting against this bill."
Malarkey, who had yielded the
chair to Miller, of Linn, denounced
the measure as "a blanket salary
bill." He" expressed surprise that it
should come from the Governor. While
it did not affect Multnomah County
he believed, so he asserted, that
"common justice" to other counties,
which were deprived of regulating
salaries by legislative act and also of
invoking the referendum, demanded
its defeat.
The -death . of the blanket county
salary bill means that In all proba
bility the Legislature will pass all
county salary bills vetoed by the Gov
ernor over his veto. .
The lineup on the measure this
(Continued on Page 2.) .
SALARY
Here Ate Some Snaps
75 ACRES OAK LAND 2 MILES FROM COXNESS, ONLY
$65.00 PER ACRE.
100 x 120 CORNER ON MAIN STREET, 1 BLOCK FROM
CORNER, ONLY $600.00
200 x 385, 3 BLOCKS FROM SCHOOL, ONLY $350.00.
W. A. Beck &
EXCLUSIVE AGENTS FOR .
Gregory Add., Kayler Add. and Harless Add.,
to Molalla
SAYS THAW
IS "LOW BROW"
ALBANY, N. Y. Feb. 26 Unqual
ified d3nial of allegations that he had
offered Dr. John Russell, superinten
dent of the Matteawan State Asylum
for the criminal insane, $25,000 to
aid in the release of Harry K. Thaw
from that institution, was voiced to
day by Attorney John Anhut, of New
York before the commission appoint
ed by Governor William Sulzer to
investigate the Thaw - case. Anhut
admitted having an intimate person
al acquaintance with Dr. Russell, but
declared he had offered the latter ho
money. , .
Dr. Russell told me Anhut testi
fied, "that he would be glad to throw
any business he could my way. Later
Thaw retained me as counsel, paying
me a fee of $25,000, which was re
turnable unless I gained his release.
"On December 16, last, I saw. Dr.
Russell and we discussed my efforts
to free Thaw. I told Dr. Russell of
my agreement whereby half of the
retaining fee was returnable January
1, and the remainder July 1, unless
Thaw secured his freedom."
"Dr. Russell then asked me: 'Where
do I come in?' I asked him what he
meant, and he replied, 'Why, I rec
ommend you and you get the job. 1
would not do anything for Thaw un
less I got money for it.' "
Anhut then testified that he told
Dr. Eussell he could not give him any
thing, as he had signed receipts for
all the money, and that it was re
turnable, unless Thaw was released.
"Dr. Russell told me,"Anhut said,
"That Thaw was not insane. He call
ed Harry a 'lowbrow' saying he was
constitutionally inferior."
Andre8en Is Guardian.
William Andresen was Wednesday
appointed guardian of Mabel Preston,
Cora Preston and Maud Preston. The
estate is valued at several thousand
dollars.
WATER PROBE IS "
URGED BY COUNCIL
COMjMITTEE ANNOUNCES THAT
DIECK, NOTED ENGINEER,
IS EMPLOYED
MAIN STREET IMPROVEMENT ASKED
Sale of Mountain View Fire House
Ordered and Bids Will be
Asked in Few
Days
After much discussion and some
dissentinn thA pnnnpil Wadnncfiai,
j night voted to continue its commit-j-tee
to investigate a water supply for
Oregon City. Councilman Tooze, the
! chairman of the committee, stated
that Robert C. Dieck had heen em
; ployed to make an investigation for
the committee and that the work
would now proceed. Councilman Al
bright asked that the committee give
reports to the people telling them
whether the water was fit to be us
ed and Mr. Beard asked that the re
ports be given to the public in lan
guage that the ordinary person might
understand instead of using techni- .
cal words. Mr. Albright said that
there was some misunderstanding as.
to whether the water is pure. Coun
cilman Tooze moved that the commit
tee be discharged, but the motion
was lost.
A delegation of property owners
along upper Main Street was pres
ent and presented the views of the
Tuesday evening meeting of the same
persons to the council. The report
was that the street should be improv
ed with a new surface, but not until
a deeper and larger sewer had been
placed along the street and also water
mains be lowered. H. C. Stevens
said that he was ready to pay his
part to pave the street when the sew
ers were down, but he believed that
the street should be paved with brick
as it had the best wearing qualities.
Frank Jaggar said that he believed
the new surface should have a con
crete base under it so that it would
wear better. Upon suggestion, of the
property owners, Councilman Tooze
j moved that the city engineer make
surveys of the street to learn wheth
j er it would be better to have the new -
sewer or sewers along Main Street
j rnn North and South or East and
j West. He will make a report at the
next meeting of the council.
The acceptance of Monroe Street
(Continued on Page 3.)
AT THE GRAND
CLEVER LITTLE SOUBRETTE
WITH
"Gold&Black"
COMMENCING TODAY
AT THE GRAND
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