THE WEATHER 3
OREGON CITY Fair, westerly
8 winds. 3
S Oregon Fair, warmer extreme S
3 east portion, westerly winds.
: 4 Washington Fair, cooler east G
3 portion; westerly winds.
Idaho Fair, warmer. $
CLACKAMAS COUNTY
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8EPT. 24, 25, 26, 27.
WEEKLY; ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 1866.
VOL. VI. No. 21.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 26, 1913.
Per Week, Ten Cents.
LOCAL RAILWAYP
PLANS SERVICE
VOTERS MOVE TO
DISPUTED LANDS
NEW ECONOMY
PROPOSED HERE
How Would You Like to Be a Kid Again and Enjoy
Bathing In the Surf 'When the Weather Is Hot?
SIMPLE INDEED
FARM
BANKING
CLACKAMAS SOUTHERN FREIGHT
TARIFFS TO BE FILED IN
SALEM NEXT WEEK
C0RDW00D WILL BE BROUGHT IN
Operation cf Line to Begin In Short
Time, and Construction to be
Hastened Hill Not In
terested Preparatory to operation of the
line in the immediate future, the
Clackamas Southern railroad will file
freight tariffs with the state railroad
commission for all points between
Oregon City and Beaver Creek the
first of the week. Upon the accept
ance of these tariffs the line will
commence hauling freight into Ore
gon City while construction work is
being completed. No passenger traf
fic will be carried at present.
The roadbed is now practically com
pleted to within a few miles of Bea-v-er
Creek, and grading is completed
well beyond this point Work will be
rushed ahead so that as much con
struction can be finished during the
summer as is possible. The move
ment of freight over the line will help
in settling the track, and after this
service has been carried on for some
time tamping crews will be sent out
to level up the rails, correct grades,
and generally prepare the-road for
passenger traffic.
There are thousands of cords of
wood stacked along the line that will
be the first freight carried in to Ore
gon City. Cutters of this wood, have
been waiting patiently for the advent
of the new road, so that they can ship
their supplies out economically, and
save t'aa heavy expense of hauling
wood to market by tsam. Use of the
railroad for this puroose wil also
make possible the repair of highways
which have been badly worn and rut
ted by haulage heretofore. As much
wood can be hauled down to Oregon
City in half an hour on a single train
as formerly required a week of the
hardest kind of work with teams.
Rumors that the Hill Lines in Ore
gon are planning to take over the
Clackamas Southern are scouted by
officials of that road. While it is not
at all unlikely that tne Hill roads will
tind an entry into Oregon City, and
that they will have a physical connec
tion with the Clackamas Southern,
there is no liklihood of the manage
ment of the local line passing from its
present hands.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS'
Charlotte and H. S. Clyde to C. J
Bentley and wife, lots 9 to 14 inclu
sive, block 28 K, Clackamas Heights;
$3,000.,.
E. T. Mbss, sheriff, to William Holl,
N. E. , Sec. 14, T. N S., R. 4 E.;
,t61.35.
Oregon Iron & Steel company to
Homer Fisher, lot 37, block 5, Oswe
go cemetery; ipn.
E. O. Wicklund and wife to C. A. In
galls and wife, approximately 34 acres
in northwest part of P. Welch D. L.
C, in T. 2 S., R. 2 E.; $10.
M. C. Donahue and wife to E. F.
Donahue, south half of N. W. Sec.
2, T. 2 S, R. 4 E.; $6,009.
Next Wednesday
The MORNING ENTERPRISE ' will
issue 6,000 copies for distribution in
every section of Clackamas County.
Advertisers should havg their copy
ready SATURDAY, The rates will
not be advanced. EIGHT PAGES
will be issued.
This is
"COLONIZATION" IN TENTS IS
LATEST SCHEME TO DE
FEAT ANNEXATION
WILLAMETTE'S STRATEGY MKED
Increase of Territory to be Included
in Vote Followed by Influx of
"Residents" Opposed to
Extension Idea
Tammany, New York's famous po
litical outfit, known throughout the
world as the one machine that lasts
and does the business, has nothing on
the gentle politicians of Willamette,
Oregon. In fact Willamette's "wise
men" may be said to be just a shade
ahead of the Easterners, who not only
control the Empire State and all that
is in it, but ,who also have a finger in
the national pie. --
Willamette is desirous of annexing
some . territory. Willamette's ambi
toins are said to be along the line of
self defense, designed to keep the
soon,-to-be-incorpo rated Westlinn from
getting too much that rightfully be
longs to the older city. Be that as
it may, Willamette is showing some
skill in its methods, and so are those
who oppose its schemes. Last month
Willamette held an annexation elec
tion, and its object was defeated by
three votes.
Promptly Willamette called another
election, and knowing where its
friends lived, included in its territory
to be annexed all that it first sought,
and enough more to make it , likely
that annexation would carry from the
outside. That was some foxy move,
for along with territory that apparent
ly didn't want annexation was doubled
some that was out and out for the
plan. Things lorked good for Willam
ette. .
However, the best laid plans some
times develop balks. And now it ap
pears that Willamette's strategy is in
peril of defeat again. Certain voters,
who normally live in territory that
does not want to be annexed to Wil
lamette, have moved into territory
that is said to desire to become a
part of the city. These voters have
"camped out" in what was regarded
as perfectly safe tlerri'-ory from the
Willamette point of view, and they
declare that they are going to vote
when the time comes which is Aug
ust 6.
The law provides that voters in this
election must have resided in the
state for a year, and must have liv
ed in the precinct 30 days, and in .the
district to be annexed ten days. The
"campers" declare that they have
done all this, and insist that they
have a perfect right to vote. When
Willamette first discovered that "the
enemy" had invaded its strategic ter
ritory, and was going to try and vote
down the annexation, scores of Wil
lamette citizens offered to go camp
ing in the territory opposed to annex
ation. Those in charge of the elec
tion, however, sought legal advice,
and advised against such doings.
Indications are now that there will
be a pretty muddle when election day
rolls around. It is rumored that the
"campers" will be callenged at the
polls?, and from the serenity of the
annexationists of Willamette, it ap-
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There are advantages even about hot weather if one is in a position to grab them. For instance, what youngster
would find fault with the heat if the day could be spent at the seashore, where cool breezes blow, there Is a tantaliz
ing surf in which to wade and clean sand in which to play? Here are pictures of little ones enjoying such frolics.
Where were they made? At Coney Island, Atlantic City, Cape May, Old Point Comfort take your choice. Tbey
show young America enjoyfnjr life in spite of the heat or because of it.
pears that some plan has been devis
ed to offset the "colonization" plan
framed with the evident purpose of de
feating the enlargement of the city.
What this plan ii! has not been reveal
ed, but it is said that there will be
startling developments when the time
comes. But even Willamette admits
that moving voters luto a district in
tents, so as to "establish residence,"
is going some in the line of political
cunning.
Opportunity
A Word
To the Wives
Is Sufficient
After everything has been said
that can be said on the subject of
women's rights, all true -women
feel, no matter what their political
ideas may be, that their first and
most important duty is the thrifty
and business-like management of
their households.
The question of pure foods is
very much before the public at
the present time, and every house
keeper is desirous of having on
her table food stuffs that are as
nutritious and as little adulterated
as it is possible to procure.
There has been a campaign of
public education on this subject,
and the woman who has kept up
with the times knows what to
avoid in buying her provisions.
A good housekeeper can not
spend her time more wisely than
by infonnaing herself on "these
points by reading the advertise
ments in THE ENTERPRISE and
other newspapers of equal standing.
T
AT DEATH'S DOOR
MI.ONDON, July 24. Mrs. Emmal
line Pankhurst, militant suffragette
leader, is near death tonight as a re
sult of her repeated "hunger and
jthirst strikes." So critical is her
condition that physicians today or
dered an immediatie transfusion of
blood as a last resort, to save the pa
tient. Mrs. Pankhurst was released from
Holloway. jail Monday after serving
only two days. Yesterday her con
dition became so critical that three
consulting .physicians were called by
the regular physician in charge of
the case. She was found to be much
weakened from her long periods of
fasting. v
IN
LLADFR
Keep Cool!
A nice- shady place, where
you can get the cool breezes
from the river. Ice cream and
ai'l kinds of soft drinks.
The Open Air Ice
. Cream Parlors .
At West End of Suspen
. sion Bridge
Physicians tonight issued no bulle
tins from the sickroom, but attend
ants said that the doctors had said
Mrs. Hanktmrst "could be no worse."
ONLY SIX DAYS LEFT
FOR REGISTRATION!
Registration books will be open for
the recall election until five o'clock
on the afternoon of Augusc first, both
at County Clerk :M)olvey's office and
at the registration offices presided
over by various precinct registrars.
After that hour there will be no oppor
tunity for voters to get upon the rolls
so that they may cast a ballot at the
reca'.l election.
That the importance of registering
is generally appreciated is shown by
the pressure of business at the coun
ty clerk's office. So heavy have be
come the demands that Mr. Mulvey
will put on an extra deputy next week
to. assist in handling this work. Wom
en are prominent among these regis
tering, in fact throughout Friday the
ratio of "new citizens" signing the
books to men was 16 to 10. Women
throughout the countyare showing a
deep interest in the recall, and ap
parently are determined to have . a
voice in the decision of the question.
Registrars in the different outlying
precincts have been appointed for ths
convenience of voters, and registra
tion made with them before August 1
will be just as efficient as if dons at
the courthouse. The registrars now
acting, and their precincts, as as fol
lows: Barlow, W. W. Jesse; Beaver Creek
Wil'-iam Grisssnthwaite; Boring, Wil
liam A. Morand; Canyon Creek, ' Al
fred Danielson; Canby, William
Knight; Clackamas, Miss Mather;
Canema, Ted Aldrich; Cascade, W. V.
Rogers; -Damacus, John C. Elliott;
Dover, C. A. Keith; Estacada, W. A.
Heylman; George, Julius Paulsen;
Gladstone, Percy Cross; Harmony, M.
E. Gaffney; Highland, M. E. Kandle;
Kil' in,-John S. O wings; Macksburg, J.
W. Smith; Miolalla, F. H. Dungan;
Milwaukia, O. Wissinger; Marquam,
J. C. Marquam; Maple Lane, Jon Gaf
ney; Milk Creek, E. J. Maple, of Mi
lino; Needy, Solon Kinzer; New Era,
John Kaiser; Oak "Grove, C. W. War
ren; Oswego, E. 1i. Davidson; Peas
ant Hill, Charles Thompson, of Wil
hoit; Springwaber, 'F. Spurlin; Sunny
side, C. W., Thorpe; Tualatin, Chas.
Thompson;' Union, Chas. Thompson;
Vio.a, George Armstrong; West Ore
gon City, Chas. Thompson; Willam
ette. H. Leisman. . '
Don't lelay DO IT NOW.
BEAVERS ARE BLANKED
Sacramento 3, Portland 0.
San Francisco 4, Los Angsles 0.
... Venice 5, Oakland 4.
AMERICAN INVESTIGATORS RE
PORT ON OPERATION OF
RURAL BANKS
GERMAN AGRICULTURISTS DO WELL
But Little Money Kept in Till,
-Short-Term Loans Care For
Greater Part of Deposits
Interest High
An interesting description of a rur
al bank is furnished m a report from
the American Commission on Agri
cultural Co-operation, now studying
rural credits in Europe, u The propos
ed establishment of such banks in the
United States, and the interest in cur
rency reform and altered credit meth
ods so that the farmer may have a
more ready access to funds in harvest
times, adds timeliness to this report.
Under date of Dosseuheim, Germany,
the commission writes as follows:
Records of the Dossenheim bank
show it to be a society of 295 mem
bers, about half of whom wers labor
ers in a nearby quarry but who main
tained small parcels of land they
worked, with the aid of their families,
and about half of whom were small
farmers owning or renting on an aver
age 2y2 acres each. The- cultivation
of these farms was extremely inten
sive truck farming it would have
been called in the United States.
One of thesa members entered and
counted out ten marks from a bag
which he deposited in the bank. Evi
dently the visit to the bank was to
the depositors' mind something of a
social event. He started conversa
tion with' the cashier and was appar
ently a bit nettled when the cashier
explained that the presence of visit
ors made it impossible for him to in
dulge his friend in the usual amount
of village gossip. Tese conversations
as the bank typify the intimate re
lations that exist between the man
agers of the institutions and the mem
bers. It is upon such edposits as the one
made during the visit of the Ameri
cans that the Dossenheim institution
depends chiefly for its funds where
with to make loans to its members. It
may also borrow -from the Central Co
operative bank with which it is af
filiated. At the present time the de
mands for loads are heavy and it has
a debit at the Central institution. The
institution commands about $28,000 to
finance its 295 members.
For their deposits the members of
the bank receive 4 per cent interest.
Deposits are also accepted from non
members, but only 354 per cent 'is
paid them. Only about $200 in cash
is kept at the bank. It is the object
of tue local bank to lend out all of the
money which it receives to its mem
bers. If, .however, the demands for
loans are insufficient to keep all of
the funds at home, the surplus is de
posited with the central bank which
pays the local bank.?. per cent in
terest. When the funds of the local
"bank are insufficient to meet de
mands for loans, it borrows from the
central bank and pays 4 per cent in
terest on such loans. The loans are
made to farmers either on their own
note.
The institution is conducted by a
board of manager. The cashier re
ceives $200 a year as salary.
The classified ac columns of The
Enterprise satisfy- your wants.
New Era Comp
Saturday Evening at 7:30
Humorous Lecture by
DR. B. S. AUSTIN
of Rochester, New York
"Wit and Humor"
SUNDAY
At 10:30 A. M. Dr. Austin will lec
ture on "The Bible and Spiritual
ism." At 2:30 P. M., "How and
Why I Became a Spiritualist."
MUNICIPAL ROCK-CRUSHER AND
STOCKADE WOULD YIELD
25-CENT MATERIAL
CHIEF SHAW FAVORS NEW SCHEME
Tremendous Saving Possible if City
Combines Street Plant and
Justice Department With
Hobo Labor
With the general expectation that
at Monday morning's council meeting
favorable action will be taken upon
the ordinance providing for the pur
chase of the Jones rock-crusher as a
municipal institution, much interest
in the proposed civic venture is be
ing expressed. A report on a test
500-yard rock excavation has already
demonstrated that with the municipal
rock-crusher the city can save from
40 to 65 cents a yard on street mater
ial; and as the council street commit
tee has already reported favorably on
the purchase, it is believed that the
deal will go through.
Among those who have been giving
the matter consideration from one
viewpoint or another, is Chief of Po
lice Ed Shaw, who thinks that stiU
further economies cau be had if the
city purchases the plant. Speaking
of the matter, the chief said:
"If the city buys the rock-crusher
I beleive it can get its street material
out for practically the bare cost of
haulage, provided the plant is used as
an adjunct to the city police depart
ment. The construction of a small
stockade at the rock ledge on which
the crusher is located would make it
possible for the city to employ vag
rants at the plant, and get the rock
out at no greater cost than that
which would provide for feeding the
prisoners and supplying them with
tools. ';
"If vagrants were employed at the
crusher, the city would be getting
good value for the meals which it
gives them, and the knowledge that
Oregon City had a rock-pile would al
so keep mpny undesirables from this
locality. While the city is pretty well
cleared of hoboes and bums just at
present, that is to be accounted for
solely by the summer weathef, and as
soon as summer is over we will get
our usual quota of these people. I
have seen the times when the city has
given beds and meals to 30 men here
night after night, and has got no re
turn for it. If we had the rock-crusher,
these floaters could be put to work
and would notonly earn their board,
but would save the city much money.
As the city owns the rock ledge up
on which the crushing plant is locat
ed, there would be no difficulty about
the construction of a stockade, and
as there are ample bins for the stor
age of rock, the supply of labor would
not have to be steady. The street
material gotten out by hoboes when
ever there was a "police roundup"
would be sufficient to last until the
next "roundup," and in this way much
expense could be saved the ctiy. As
25 cents a yard is a liberal estimate
for the longest haul in the city for
street material, the combination of
stockade and municipal rock-crusher
would make it possible for the city
to deliver surfacing material at a to
tal cost of but approximately two
bits at all times. The cheapest fig
ure ever offered by a contracting firm
was $1.60 a yard.
Sanitary Floor Covering
Matting to cover the floors in
your tent, sleeping porch, bed
rooms, etc
10 CENTS PER YD.
FVarik Buoch
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Cost League Standings
Portland ... .538
Sacramento . , 514
Los Angeles '. .509
Venice .. .496
San Francisco .478
Oakland 469