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VOL. VI. No. 5.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1913.
Per Week. Ten Cents.
BARCLAY SCHOOL BULL RON PLAN
Cities of the Great Lakes Ready to Celebrate
One Hundredth Anniversary of Perry's Victory.
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BAI ROBBER S?AL .
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That Virgil Perrine had an accom
plice in his robbery of the Milwaultie
bank, and that tills accomplice has al
ready made one effort to get into com
munication with him, is the belief of
Clackamas county officers following
Monday's developments in the case of
the daring young criminal. Monday
:. afternoon there appeared at the jan
' a dapper young man, who without
giving his name, asked permission to
go through the jail and talk to the
prisoners. Sheriff Mass was out at
the time, and deputies refused to a
low the visitor access to the cell
rooms, but asked him why he wan! ad
' to go through the jail. .
The young man replied that it was
his custom, when visiting a- city, to
go through the jails and "see if the
boys want a minister, same tobacco 01
some fruit." Deputies sugges:ed thai
the stranger wait until the sheriff re
turned from a short trip out into the
-eountry, and the young visitor saia
he would, but a few minutes later he
hurried from the court house . ana
boarded a car for Portland. Deputies
then recalled that he had entered the
sheriffs' office just after the arrive I
of an interurban car from Portland;
and when they later reported the mas
ter to Sheriff E. T. Mass, that official
at once came to the conclusion that
the stranger had come out from Port-
" laud for the express purpose of see
ing young Perrine, and that after his
request had been refused, he thought
it bes to leave town at the first op
portunity, lest his motives were ques
tioned. Perrine Monday weakened some
what in the story that he has tried to
stick to aince his incarceration. Wh.n
first arrested he protested that ie
had never been in trouble before. Sun
day he admitted that he had been ar
rested in Portland. This morning,
when questioned further by Sheriff
Mass, he admitted that he had also
been arrested in Tacoma, having been
picked up in the Puget Sound city by
Detectives Geary and Milone along
with one William C'ark, alias P. O.
AVhitey, a notorious "box man." Per
rine said he was held in Tacoma un
der the name of Tom Raid, -an alias
he frequently used, that he was de
tained in the city prison there for
eight days, was photographed and Btr
tillioned, and finally released on his
promise- to leave town at once.
From Tacoma. he said, he came to
Portland wir.h Clark, arriving in the
Oregon metropolis about Christmas
last year. He admitted going up the
Columbia with Clark and members of
his gang; but persisted that all ire
time he was with them he did not
know they were safe-blowers. He.
said Clark always furnished the mon
ey for the gang, and that when the
quartet was arrested later in Port
land, it was Clark who hired an attor--ney
to defend them.
While Perrine denies that he had
an accomplice in the Milwaukee job,
inquiry here has demonstrated that he
came to Oregon City a week before
the robbery with two other men, wno
registered at a local lodging hoube
under the names of R. Thomas and
R. Pierce. One of these men was
stout of build, and may be, local of
ficers think, the notorious "Chi Fat "
who was a member of the Clark gang.
The three left together. Perrine was
also seen wi..ii two other men in Mil
waukie some days before the robbery,
and the morning of the bank hold up
was loafing about town with another
man.
Perrine persistently denies that he
was "coached" to the job by any older
and m?re experienced crimminal. He
said Monday, however, that he had
. planned his get-away from the bank.
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but had been blocked in his scheme
by the sudden pursuit.
"I was going to beat it over to the
track,' he said, "and hop a train for
Portland. Then I was going to hop
right off and go the other way. I
wanted them to think I was going to
Portland, so I could get clear to the
south. Hut they got to me too quick."
Sheriff Mass believes that Perrine
will "come through" 'with a true story
of the affair, and will implicate an ac
complice, in a few days; as each time
the boy is questioned he changes 'e
tai'.s of his story.
Perrine was arraigned before jus
tice Sievers Monday afternoon, bi.t
waived preliminary examination, and
was bound over to the grand jury,
which will not meet again until late
in the summer. In the court room the
youth had but little to sjy.
According to Portland detectives,
who have become interested in lit
case since it has become known that
Perrine was arrested last March in
ihe metropolis on suspicion of having
been implicated in a safe-blowing job
n a Morrison street saloon, the youth
is the junior member of the nortoiious
"P. O. Whitey" gang of safe-blowers,
three of the members of which ary
now in jail at The Dalles to answer to
a safe-blowing job at Mosier. Perrine
admits knowing the members, of t.iis
outfit, but says he was never associat
ed with them in any of their crimes,
and only traveled with them on the
road as hoboes.
In the meantime the young robber
is doing the best that h? can to matie
friends with Sheriff Mass. Sunda.'
night he asked to see that official, and
said to him:
"Sheriff, if there is any reward in
this, I want you to have it. I came
out of the hole when I heard you c;'.il,
and I surrendered to you because yoi'
were about the only one that wasn't
poking a gun at me."
The reward he refers to ?s the usua'
one offered by the Bankers' Protective
association for the apprehension of
bank robbers. Sheriff Mfiss says that
if such a reward is paid to him he will i
divide it with his deputies.
JULY 15 IS DATE
Of PHONE HEARING
SALEM, Ore., July 7. The com
plaint of William Beard, F. J. Toozc
and W. A, Long of Oregon City against
the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph
company on account of alleged dis
crimination among patrons of the com
pany in tiiac city iias been set for
hearing on Tuesday, July 15, before
the railroad commission. The hear
ing will be called at the Oregon. City
courthouse at 9:30 a. m.
This complaint involves an increase
of rates from $1.25 per month to $1.50
for subscribers on four-party lines,
which has been charged all new sub
scribers since December 1, 1911, serv
ice to old subscribers beiag continued
at the $1.25 rate. Tee company as
serts this increase is necessary and
reasonable, and it appears that the
general practice of the company has
been, when rates are increased, to
make the increase apply to new sub
scribers one continuing o'.d subscrib
ers at former ra-ts.
OMAHA, Neb., Jul;' 'i. A large at
tendance marked the opening here c
day of the annual convention of the
National Association of Dyers and
Cleaners.
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.iiliuiial interest was H roused ill the ceieOiauon tliia Kiiuiuier ut lUe one liundredtU anmvel'Siiry of Peiiy s ta
mous buttle of Lake Eria All the lake cities from Buffalo to Chicago are preparing for the celebration." It will last
from July 4 till October, various cities celebrating at different times. A feature will be the unveiling of the Perry
memorial monument at Put-in-Ha. v. Perry's old flagship has been raised from the bottom of the lake, and the wa
ter soaked hulk vill be on exhibition. The r.pper picture shows how the hull appeared when partly out of water.
Tlx othr view is of th monument a it viM tippenr a-hen erected -
HOURS FOR LABOR
PUZZLE TO BOARD
Water commissioners of Ores' 'n
City met Monday night and dalibdr
ated for several hours over the prob
lem presented to them by the ntw
eight-hour law, an:l its application 10
ths city filtration plant. At tha close
of the meeting it vas thought that a
way out of the difficulty had been
found that will not prove over-burdensome
to the water consumers, and
which probably will not require aiv
adanvca in races.
TUo scheme now tentatively enter
tained is to employ four suifts of mill
working six hours each, which in :.a
S3ven days of the waek, constant la
bor, being a necessity, will give each
man 42 hours work a week. A man
engaged on other work, mostly out
side, will be employed to relisve these
men, each one for a certain time each
day, and will thus put in a full day'3
work a week. Whr.e this will necet.
sitats the hiring of one -extra man a!.
the filtration plant, and the use of a
pare of tho ether man's time at the
plant, it will not conflict with any of
the provisions of the law, and will
give the steady halp required at tas
plant.
Member of the commission are
now busy working out a schedule un
der this arrangement, and will poba .
ly complete the plan at tha next niept
ing. 0 nil
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CALIFORNIA CITY
LOS ANGELES, Cal., July 7. Ever7
train arriving in Los Angeles today
brought delegations to the interna
tional Christian Endeavor convention,
which is to be formally opened in this
city Wednesday. It is expected that
by tomorrow night twenty thousand
visitors from all parts of the United
States and Canada will be hsre to at
tend the proceedings of the conven
tion. White-capped members of tha local
recaption committee are stationed at
each of the railway stations to wel
come tha arrivals and escort them to
their quarters. To accomodate this
multitude the capacity of the hotels
will be tested to the utmost, while ev
ary a vailable boarding house has been
calkd into requisition. Many weil
Vnown clergymen and other persons of
prominence among the visitors are to
be entertained in private homes dur
ing thair stay in the city.
The general sessions of the conven
tion are to be held in two mamn-otU
tants which have been raised in Fiesta
Park. The tents have a capacity of
20,000. A large number of praise and
song meetings, conferences and cele
brations have been arranged for in the
various protestant churches, which
will include addresses on a variety of
Christian Endeavor topics.
Motor Boat Trial Races
NEW YORK, July - 7. The . trial
races for the selection of three Ainer
lean motor boats to compete for the
Harmsworth international trophy be-1
gan today over the Huntington I Say
course and wll contine over tomorrow
and Wednesday. The three boats
making the bast showing "in the elim
ination contests will be sent to Eng
land to take part in the trophy racer
which will be held off the Isle of
Wight early in August.
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CHAUTAUQUA
PRESENT
-With people coming in by every
train and car, and with over 200 tents
already erected in Gladstone paik,
the outlook for the opening today of
the Willamette Chautauqua is mosi
auspicious. Bright skit-s give prou
is a of continued clear weather, ai.-i
the campers are looking forward to a
most enjoyable and instructive tiin?.
Everything at the park is in readinoo-.
for the Hoig assembly, and Secratary
H. E. Cross, of the assembly, feels
that there will be no disappointments
of any kind.
Throughout Monday people wera pil
ing into the park and getting settled
Through the northern ga;.e went a
steady stream of teams and wagon?
carrying baggaga anu supplies; while
heaviar material and the baggaga ot
out-of-town folk was put off tha trains
at Chautauqua station on the South
ern Pacific, where all trains but t-ie
Shasta Limited now make a regular
stop. The Portland Railway, Light &
Power company has installed its service-directly
into tha grounds, and a
half-hourly schedule is maintained.
The opening day will be mainly Ore
gon City day, and practically every
one here is planning to go over to the
formal opening in the afternoon.
Throtig'aout the morning the Ladies'
Concert Band, of Portland, will plav ,
providing musical accompaniment to
tha last touches of the campars in set
tling down for the fortnight of pleas
ure. In the afternoon the first game
of the Chautauqua baseball series will
be played the Oragon Cit Commercial
club Whiie .Sox, crossing bats with
CARVER SEEKING
FRANCHISE NORTH
Application has been made to Com
missioner W. H. Daly, of Portland,
for a franchise for an interurban line
-from Oregon City to tae metropolis.
The rights have been asked by Sta
ph an Carver, a heavy stock-holder iu
the Clackamas Southern rilway, uid
were sought in the name of that road,
thougu Mr. Carvar has recently incor
porated the Portland & Oregon City
railroad to operate a similiar line.
In his application Mr. Carver's road
seeks entrance to Portland on East
Seventeenth street. Ic is understood
that the road is to have a'freight de
pot at East Third and East Madisou
streets, and is to have its passenger
terminals Broadway (Seventh 'street)
and Washington street, on the west
side. Speaking for the company Mr.
Carver said thai if the franchise were
granted consruction work would ua
started within 30 days, and the lin
completed within 18 months. Excej.
tionally iiberal terms are promised
the city.. .
ELKS REACH DESTINATION
Henry O'Malley, exalted ruler of
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Oregon City. lodge of Elks, and T. C
Daniels, . of Medford, district deputy
of the order, registered at the Con
gress hotel, Chicago, Sunday, accord
ing to advices received in this city.
Both Elks ware en route to Rochester,
N. Y., to attend the grand lodge, and
reached their destinations Monday ar
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GROUNDS
LIVELY SCENE
Price Bros." team.
Dr. Fletcher Roman, president of
Willamette University, and also presi
dent of the Chautauqua association,
will deliver the address of welcome to
the campers, following the invocation
by the Rev. T. B. Ford, of Oregon
City. Dr. Ford is one of the most ar
dent boosters of the Chautauqua, aa l
on Monday so'd fifty season tickets
alone. The complete program for fhe
opening day is as follows:
10:30 Grand Concert, Ladies Concert
.band, Portland.
Organization of summer school
and announcements by instruct
ors. -Afternoon
2:00 Prelude number, Sierra Quar
tette. Invocation, Dr. T. B. Ford.
Address, Dr. Fletcher Horn in,
president of the Chaulauqua.
Response, Hon. C. B. Mooras.
Further announcements by ir.
structors in summer school.
3:39 Baseball, Oregon City Commer
cial club vs. Price Bros.
Evening.
7:15 Grand Concert Portland Ladies
Band.
8:00 Reading, Mrs. Frances Carter,
of New York. -8:00
Sierra Quartette; Silpha Ruj;-gles-jenkins,
sopranoj Carl Ed
' win Anderson, tenor; Mlabel Hill
Radfield, pianist and accompau
ist; Ruth Waterman Anderson,
-contralto; Lowell Moore Redfield
baritone. .
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COMING HERE?
R. Crawford, of Belfast, Ireland,
said to be ona of the world's flax ex
per's, visited Oregon City Monday tc
look over this territory in ths inter
ests of the linen industry. At the sx
hibition rooms of the Commercial
club Mr. Crawford saw soma samples
of Clackamas county flax, and pro
nounced it the tallest he had eer
seen. Lengh of stalk is a great item
in flax, a3 it assures long fibres,
w-hich make for better weaving in iai-;
manufacture of linen.
Mr. Crawford would not commit
himself as to the extent of his invpp
tigations, and would not say whether
or not those in whose behalf he ao
making a tour of tha coast country
were planning to erect "a linen mill.
Ha did say, however, that he was at
present in the employ of a syndicate,
of which Sir Thomas Lipton, the taa
magnate and prominent yacht sports
man was heavily interested.
Aside from looking over tha dis
p'ay in .the Commercial club rooms,
Mr. Crawford made-' a trip into the
surrounding country, and also viewed
a number of. factory sites along the
river. i -; :; . .
Miss Mhude Cooke, accompanied by
her cousin, Miss Vera Chalk, of Seat
tle, left Saturday for Salt Lake C!ty.
to attend the convention "of the Na
tional Teachers' association. They
will return by way of the Yellowstone
National park, Butte, Sokane and Se
attla, maVing their trip a well-rounded
vacation. : :.
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WORKS
SCHOOL DIRECTORS ORDER ADD!-
TION BUILT THIS SUMMER
TO CARE FOR PUPILS -
GENERAL TAX IS ALSO REDUCED
Sinking Fund Levy Reduced Owing to
Payment of $6,000 Bond Issue
Report for Year
- Shows Progress
Following the recommendations of
the board of directors as embodied in
their report submitted Monday at a
special meeting of the taxpayers of
the Oragon City school district, there
was levied a special tax of eight and
three-tenths mills. - Of this levy one
and one-half mills -will go toward tha
construction and equipment of th
new addition to the Barclay building.
This addi'.ion will be constructed this
summer, so as to be ready for tha
opening of the fall tarm, September
22, and the old gymnasium building
will be abandoned for use as a school
room, a use for which it was never
adapted. -
The special lavy for a sinking fund
to pay outstanding bonds at maturity
was reduced Monday night to thre
tenths of a mill. For the last four
years this levy has been one mill, but
the payment of a bend issue of $6,009
this month brought about its reduc
tion. A further reduction was made m
the special lavy for general school
purposes of one-half mill, the levy
being six and one-half mills, which is
one-half mill lass than last year an i
one and one-half mills less than in
1912.
The report of the board of directors
to the taxpayers follows:
For a number of years we have
baen utilizing a portion of the gym
nasium building on the Brclay school
grounds for a school room. The gym
nasium is not adapted to the purpose
for which it has been used and the
condition of the building is such that
if we continue to use it for a school
room, considerable money will have
to spent on it this year, but at best
itiwill be nothing but a make-shift.
The distribution of the school popula
tion is such that it is advisable to
have more room at the Barclay buld
ing, rather than at the Eastham build
ing, which now has two mors rooms
than has the Barclay. The board of
direcors has therefore determined to
recommend to the taxpayers that thej
immediately authorize at this meeting
the construction of an addition to the
Barclay building, at the estimated
cost of about $4,000, and that they
make a special tax levy of one and
one-half mills to cover the cost ot
construction and equipment.
The board also recommends a spe
cial tax levy of six and one-half mills
for general school purposes for ill?
calendar year of 1914, based upon th
following estimates of receipts and
disbursements:
Receipts
County school fund $12,331.00
State school fund 3,134,00
Tuition 1,500.00
Services cf drawing teacher 132.0')
District special tax, 6 mill
levy on $2,762,961 17,759.25
Total . . ... ...... .$34,856.25
Disbursements.
Teachers' salaries ..... $22,106.00
Clerk's salary - 240.1"-
Janitors' 'salaries 1,800.00
Repairs and improvements
to buildings and grounds. . 2,009.00
Supplies and fuel 3,000.00
Water rent and electric light
and power oOO.O
Apparatus and furniture .... - 800.0:'
Printing and advertising ... 250.00
Interest on bonds , 2,575.00
Interest on loans 200.00
Insurance - 187.00
Miscellaneous expanse 1,100.00
$34,758.00
LONDON, July 7. The king and
queen departed from London today
for Knowsley, the Lancashire seat of
tha Earl of Derby, and will remain i i
Lancashire an entire weak.
Santiary Couches and davenports are everyday in de
mand. A sanitary couch, no matter how cheap will
insure the camper a good night's rest during the day
it will make a comfortable couch in your sitting room. -The
prices are reasonable. ' : We sell couches from
v j $2.75 up. ' . v" --
FVairalk' BtliscjItl
PORTLAND COMMISSIONER FAV
ORABLY DISPOSED TO SALE
OF WATER TO CITY
COUNCILMAN ALBRIGHT OPPOSES
Believes. Oregon City Should Be-in'
Control of Entire System, and
Ought Not to Agree to;
Prepetual Rental
Commissioner Will Daly, who has
'charge of Portland's water department
has received a communication from
the Oregon. City Commercial club in
regard to furnishing Bull Run water
to this municipality. That the piac
appeals to Mr. Daly may be judged
from his declaration a day or so ago
that unless the Portland water depart
ment's revenue could be increased, it
might be necessary to raise Portland
rates to pay for water meters, "which
are to ba installed throughout the m
tropo'is. Mr. Daly is quoted as say
ing that possibly the revenue from
furnishing water to Oregon City would
be sufficient to care for the cost f
meters, and so Portland taxpayers
would ba saved any advances in rates
While this is very nice for Portland,
and is also interesting to Oregon City,
in showing a willingness on the pa' t
of the Portland commissioners to
grant this city Bull Run water, it does
not please everyone here. Among
those who find objections to Bull Rue
as a source of supply for Oregon City,
is Councilmen Joan Albright, whr
while he likes Bull Run water and hi
lieves in its purity, doas not approve
of it for Oregon City for financial rea
sons. Speaking of tins he says:
"While there is no question in my
mind that Bull Run water is pure, am
while I realize that tha citizens of Oie-
gon City want the best water they can;
get, still I think this municipals
would be foolish to enter into a. con
tract with Portland to buy its water.
If we are going to build a pipe-Uno
eight miles long to tap the Bull Run.
line at Grays Crossing, why not go
just a bit further, and build our own
pipe-lina to the south fork of the
Clackamas, and there get water juft
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L. G. ICE, DENTIST
Beaver Building
Phones: Main 1221 or A193
FOR AUTO HiRE PHONE A-8 OR
MAIN 3192 Prices Reasonable ..
E. P. ELLIOTT & SON J
Seventh and Main -
Lots $10 Down
and $10 a month located two
blocks of the Eastham school.
Price $135 to $250 apiece. Why .
pay rent when you can own your
own home?
E. P. ELLIOTT & SON
Oregon City, Ore-
Wanted!
Girls and Wonien
To operate sewing machine! :
In garment factory.
OREGON CITY WOOLEN MILL
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