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About Morning enterprise. (Oregon City, Or.) 1911-1933 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1913)
SSS$.SS?$.$ CLACKAMAS COUNTY S 3 FAIR CAN BY, OR. SEPT. 24, 25, 26, 27. ' - $ THE WEATHER $ S OREGON CITY Showers and S cooler; winds mostly westerly. $ Oregon Showers and thunder S 3 storms; cooler except near the s coast; variable winds, mostly 5 3 westerly. S Washington Showers. r WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 1866. VOL. VI. No. 28. OREGON CITY, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 3, 1913. Per Week, Ten Cents. DECLARE MARTIAL WEST GOVERNOR LAW RANCHER TARGET RIFLESHOT J.N. BESSELLEU HAS NARROW ! E. PFEIFFER BLAMING DEMO ESCAPE FROM DEATH WHEN t CRATS FOR WOES, MAKES L. G. MYERS FIRES OLD FEUD IS SAID TO BE CAUSE Sunnyside Neighbors Are Principals in Episode in Which 30-30 Rifle Plays Prominent Part - Saturday L. G. Myers, a rancher, living eight miles tip the Clackamas valley, near Sunnyside, Saturday afternoon decid ed that the time had come for him to settle difficulties that he had been having with J. N. Besselleti, a neigh boring rancher. Therefor he procured a rule, hid in the blackberry I bushes near the road that runs past I his farm, and when Besselleu drove past on a load of hay, took two shots at him. Both bullets missed the mark they had been aimed at. Besselleu drop- Iped from his wagon and slipped away ttnto tae brush, to await further de velopments. At this juncture W. J. iowerman, still another neighbor, ap- troaehed, and Myers, thinking Bower nan was Besselleu's son, aimed at iim, saying "I might as well get you, too. Bowerman grappled with the gun nan, choked him into submission, and look his rifle away from him. Sheriff 3. T. Mass was notified of the shoot ing, and speeding out to the scene in Iiis automobile took Myers prisoner. le is now locked in the county jail linder $1,000 bonds, charged with as sault with intent to kill. Besselleu, who is a negro, and who Is also a school director in his district. Ind who is highly spoken of by his peigabors, came to the county seat in I he afternoon, and gave his version of he affair. "The trouble started sometime ago," I aid ha, "when I had Myers arrested, nd put under bonds to keep the peace, le has had it in for me a long time, Ind wuen he has been drinking has ireatened to kill me. He was drink- lig Friday, and threatened me again. laturday morning I was getting in lome hay, when I saw him leave his lause with his rifle and go down into blackberry patch near the road. I rent on about m business, and pass- II where he was lying with one load. "Mr. Bowerman's wife had see" him peak into ambush, and telephoned to hy wire not to let me go back to my Ields again, but I said I was going ick, and that if Myers wanted to tart troubls, I would be right there meet It. . But I took my boy along lith me. Myers made no trouble pien we passed out, but when we Iime back with a load he rose up and red. I dropped off the team at the rst shot and crawled off through the Irn. As I was going over a fence he t-ed again. The first time he could ft have been more than 35 feet from so I guess he was a pretty poor kot. "While I was hiding behind a big Iump, thinking maybe he would fol w me, Bowerman came along, mixed Ita ram, ana' overpowered him." LACKIE ILES, RIOT LEADER, IS CAUGHT Sheriff Mass will leave Sunday timing at ten o'clock, for Dallas, xas, to bring back to Oregon lackie" Has, alleged ring-leader of striking linemen who were impli ed in the riot at the Home Tele- one company's plant at Oswego on y 19, when J. C. Ainsberry, the aped convict employed bv the me company, shot and crippled for Fred Keam, of Willamette. lies s , apprehended in the Texas city day night, and Sheriff Mass was ified Saturday morning. Governor West has issued extradi n papers for the rioter and the sher- will leave with these Sunday. It hot believed that there will be any uble in getting the prisoner return- lies was arrested with the rioters 11 was out on bail when he left the nty. His share of a general bond up for all the rioters was forfeited rthe time. At the preliminary hear- of the rioters, all the men under est agreed that lies had been the who started all the trouble, and y blamed upon him all the overt p alleged to have been committed. BEACH VISITORS HOME Irs. Belle Harding of this city, and Steele, of California, who is e m the interest or the Knights Ladies of Security lodge, return Saturday from a delightful outing Seaside. Keep Cool! A nice shady place, where fou can get the cool breezes' rom the river. lice cream and till kinds ef sofe drinks. The Open Air Ice Cream Parlors At West End of Suspen sion Bridge BEATS UP WIFE, SHOOTS HIMSELF THINGS EXCITING SHERIFF TOO LATE TO BLOCK DEED While Deputiesc Hunt Man for Assault Fugitive Locks Self in Shop and Fires Leaves Pa - thetic Note Blaming his inability to get work up on the democratic administration, E. Pfeiffer, proprietor of a small paint shop at Eighth and Main streets, went home Saturday afternoon, knocked his daughter against the side of the wood shed, felled his wife with a rocking chair, kicked his small son in the shins, and then hastened to his shop, where he shot himself in the right temple with a 22-calibre revolver. In the meantime his daughter, Mrs. Alma Trautmiller, had picked herself up, hastened to the sheriff's office, and asked that her father be arrested for assault. Deputy Sheriff Miles went out on the man's trail, and en tering the shop, found him lying bleeding in one corner of the room. Miles reported that the man could not be taken prisoner, as he was dead. Sheriff Mass. doubting this, investigat ed and found Pfeiffer still breathing. Dr. Mount was summoned, and after giving first aid had the man rushed to the Oregon City hospital, where he is hardly expected to live. The bullet penetrated the brain, but did not go through the left side of the skull. Its presence in the brain tis sue has caused the man almost con tinuous convulsions, and it is not be lieved that he can recover. Pfeiffer's daughter, Mrs. Trautmil ler, has been staying with her mother during her husband's absence in North Dakota. After the tragedy she said that her father had been drinking heavily of late, and that he had done but-little to provide for his family. Saturday afternoon she said he came home from his shop, said that a paint er from Los Angeles had applied to him for work, and that he didn't sea how he could employ him, as the dem ocratic administration made it impos siple for him to get jobs enough for himself. He then found fault with his son for noc having split kindling wood,. Mrs. Trautmiller says, and when she interferred a general outburst on his part occurred, in which" h attacked his entire family. Three weeks ago Pfeiffer is said to have threatened to kill his family and then commit suicide. Beside him, ! when he was found in his shop today, "was a letter addressed to his daughter; in which he complained of his unhap piness, said he had meditated suicide for a long time, and in which he asked his family not to come near his grave The family lives at 804 John . Q. Adams street. BOY 1$ DROWNED WHILE BATHING While swimming in the Clackamas river late Saturday evening, Kingsley Brown, the 17-year-old son of Alec Brown, of Clackamas Heights, was seized with cramps and drowned. The young man was enjoying a dip in the river n ear Gladstone with some of his friends, and was swimming in deep water when seized. He sank beneath the surface after 'giving one cry for help, and though his friends dived to his assistance, the body was carried away by the swift current, and up to a late hour bad not been recovered. The young man was swimming op posite the public park at Gladstone. where daily hundreds of people take j a cooling din in the stream. At first ! I he remained in the shallow water near the shore, but later ventured out into the main channel, and called to his companions to follow him. While splanshing around waiting for them he was seen to suddenly disappear be neath the surface, shouting for aid as he sank. Friends dragged the river until late at night in an effort to recover the body, which it is believed has been carried under some snag or sunken brush in the river bed. KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MEET BOSTON, Mass., Aug.- 2. Knights of Columbus are arriving in Boston for the first event of the long program to be-carried out at the national con vention of the order which lasts the entire wes. The preparations for the reception and entertainment of the thousands of visitors ar.e complete and there will be no difficulty in ac comodating the great out-of-town throng. Tomorrow will be devoted, to the reception of the visitors. On Monday the supreme officers and national board of directors will hold their an nual meeting. At 9 o'clock Tuesday morning the religious service that al ways marks the opening of the con vention will be held in the Cathedral of the Holy Cross. When this is con cluded the delegates will embark for Nantasket and the first of the busi ness sessions of the convention will be held aboard the boat The sessions will continue through the week and will be interspersed with a variety of entertainment. The- classified ad columns o? Enterprise satisfy your wants. The Teaching Children to Jake Care of Themselves Amid Perils That Surround Them In a Big City. 1 1 .VvV Photo by American Press Association. ' ," The Safety league of the American Museum of Safety, in which a number of wealthy philanthropists, including Andrew Carnegie, are interested, has widened the scope of the practical work In which the museum is engaged In New York cir- under the direction of William II. Toluinn Heretofore -the activities of the league have been con fined chiflt ti. t.-ilks ;ind pictures. In the accompanying illustration is shown a teaclier demonstrating to chil dren, with 1 f m tin i!el of a street car, the proper way for a person to board and to alight from such ar vehicle. The in ;tni' i i, rv i -Teueln the protection of life and limb is receiving wide commendation. RURAL MAIL MEN TO CONVENE The stale convention of rural mail carriers is to be held in this city Aug ust 31, and September 1, and it is ex pected that there will be several hun dred delegates present T'-ie chief meetings will be held at Gladstone park, r"t there wiil br nany feii'""es of the gathering- held here. F 511k Kraxterger, vice-president of tue or ganisation, has been ia conference wi:h fhe Commercial c'.ub in regard to the en'ertainmon: to be provided, and will return next Wednesday to complete arrangements. Throughout a; least one day of the meetings it is hoped to have the Port land city carriers here to join in the program, and if t-iey come special en tertainment features will be provided for them. The Commercial club will do its share in entertaining the con vention, and probably a number of pleasure and sight-seeing trips will be arranged. HILL LINES SHOW REVIVED INTEREST George W. Yerxa, immigration agent for the Great Northern rail road, was a caller at the exhibition rooms of the Commercial club Satur day, and asked Secretary Fteytag to prepare for his line a display of Clack amas county agricultural products. Mr. Yerxa said that the Hill lines were much interested in Clackamas county, and added that his system had long had its eyes upon this district. Further than that, as to the intentions of the line, he would not commit him self. It is known that the Hill people have been "scouting" through the county for the past yea.r, evidently considering the construction of an in terurban line on the eastern bank of the Willamette. Several surveys have been made, and at one time it was re ported that rightrof-way was being purchased through the lower Clack amas valley for the Hill people. No development ever came of this, how ever. SOME CORN, THIS Much noise was made lately in the metopolitan press meaning Portland about some corn seven and a half feet high grown in Cottage Grove. Maybe this Is corn, but Frank Moore, of Oregon City, doesn t think so. Mr. Moore has some- corn growing in the city limits that is 11 feet high, ai.rt still growing. hit 33 mWfJ mmm S WHAT GOVERNOR WEST DECLARES SALEMl Ore., Aug. 3. Apropos of the proposed circus performance in Oregon City, Sunday, Governor West tonight justified his stand as follows: "My taking a hand in the Oregon City affair is not because I am straightlaced on the question of Sun day amusements, for I am not. I look upon harmless Sunday amusements as a good thing. But when a one4ioss Alkali Ike' show, with noise as the chief attraction, attempts to ride boot ed and spurred into a peaceful com munity, in spite of the protest of the people and the sheriff, it is time for thi3 office to lend a hand. "When the outfit learned the sher iff would likely place them under ar rest, they obtained an injunction to prevent the enforcement of the law. Now that the precedent has been es tablished, I take it that when a man wants to steal a horse or break into a house lie will, if he is up to snuff, ask for an injunction against the peace officers in order that he may perpetrate the crime unmolested. "Upon being advised by th'e sheriff that his hands were Ued by an injunc tion, he was informed that this office would come to his relief. We will be on hand to give the people of Oregon City due protection by placing the grounds occupied by the circus under martial law until such a time as the injunction is dissolved and the sher iff again free to enforce the law." BEAVERS LOSE IN 11TH I.-os Angeles 2, Portland 1 (11 innings) San Francisco 4, Oakland 2. Venice 6, Sacramento 3. Coast League Standings Portland . . .... .550 Los Angeles . 517 Sacramento .500 Venice ; 496 Oakland .. . .473 San Francisco .463 POULTRY FILMS POPULAR Tbo moving picture films showing methods and results of scientific handling of poultry on the farm, made and exhibited by Professor Dryden of the Oregon Agricultural college have achieved a popularity that has lsd to a wide demand. Professor Dryden has just sent these films to the Mis souri station, where they will be made a part of the permanent equipment. Another reel of the same film was sent to Winnipeg, and next month still another will be provided for a month's run in Iowa. The film is about four teen hundred feet in length and has been exhibited in its present form for only a few months. tsll WHITE SLAVERY TRAIL TO START t3AN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug." 2. ' Everything is In readiness for the be j ginning of the trial on Monday of the J the celebrated Diggs-Caminetti" white j slave case, which developed into a I cause celebre when it was made the j medium for an attack on the official j tration in criticism. The fact that I the Republican members of the house I of representatives are expected to bring the case up for debate at the first opportunity will cause the trial to be followed with additional inter est The case had its beginning last march, when Drew Caminetti and Maury Diggs, the defendants, are al leged to have eloped with, - Marsha Warrington and Lola Norris, two high school faternity girls of Sacramento. The elopement led to the arrest and indictment of the two young men on charges of white slavery. Under the names of Fisher and Whitman, it is alleged that Diggs and Caminetti began to court the Norris and Warrington girls last winter. Fin ally, things went so far that when the real identity of the men was discover ed by the girls the relations of the four did not break off. 'it was after this that the plan to leave the city be gan to take shape the journey that, was to land the two couples in the federal net under the white slave law. Once upon the train, the girls gave themselves up to the plans for the elopement and ceased to rebel. The four traveled in one stateroom. On arrival at Reno, Nev., in early morn ing the party went to a hotel. Four days later the two couples were ar rested living tgoether in a bungalow at Reno. Christine Nilsson is . J. I STOCKHOLM, Aug. 2. Christine ! Nilsson, famous a quarter of a century ago as one of the world's greatest lyri-' cal and dramatic artists, will observe her seventieth birthday anniversary tomorrow in quiet retirement at her summer home near the village of Hussaby, where she was born August 3, 1843, the daughter of a poor peas ant. The once-famous singer, who is known in private life as the Countess de llranda, made her operatic debut in this city more than fifty years ago. BOSTON, Mass., Aug 2. Measures for sustaining the Irish parliamentary party and its leader, John Redmond, in the closing stages of the Home Rule struggle, will be discussed by the national executive committee of the United Irish' League of America at an important meeting in this city tomor row. National President Michael J. Ryan of Philadelphia is here to at tend the meeting, together with Pat rick Egan, former United States min ister to Chile. . - . EXECUTIV E SUNDAY GOVERNOR WEST SHORTLY BEFORE MIDNIGHT LAST NIGHT DE CLARED THAT THE OKLAHOMA RANCH "WILD WEST" SHOW WOULD NOT GIVE ANY PERFORMANCES IN OREGON CITY SUNDAY. THE STATE EXECUTIVE ANNOUNCED THAT HE WOULD DECLARE MARTIAL LAW IN THE DISTRICT EMBRACING THE. WESTERN PART OF CLACKAMAS COUNTY, AND THAT HE WOULD CALL OUT SUCH FORCES AS MIGHT BE NECESSARY TO PREVENT THE PERFORM ANCE. THE GOVERNOR'S ACTION FOLLOWED A SERIES OF AP PEALS MADE TO HIM BY MINISTERS OF OREGON CITY AND OTHERS WHO WERE INTERESTED IN PREVENTING THE PERFORMANCE OF A CIRCUS ON SUNDAY, AND WHO HAVE PUBLICLY DECLARED THAT BEFORE THEY STOPPED TH EY WOULD CLOSE EVERY MOVING PICTURE HOUSE, EVERY DANCE HALL, EVERY BAND CONCERT, EV ERY BASBALL GAME, EVERY POOL HALL, OR OTHER FORM OF POP ULAR AMUSEMENT UPON SUNDAY. At a late hour last night William E. Burlock, representing the Oklahoma Ranch Wild West management, mads the following statement: "The Oklahoma Ranch deeply re grets that there has been the slight est feeling of opposition to their pro posed showing here Sunday. It is against all their methods and policy to antagonize anyone if it is possible to avoid so doing, but they feel that they are absolutely and completely within their rights and within the law when they attempt to give their exhibition on Sunday. "They have been sustained in this opinion not only by the opinion of Mr. Joseph E. Hedges, their counsel, who is universally acknowledged to be ons of the foremost attorneys in the state of Oregon, but by the ' fact that so eminent a jurist as Judge Eakin, has granted them an order restraining the Sheriff or any of his deputies from in terfering with the performance. "That Judge Eakin would have granted such an order if it had not been according to the strictest inter pretation of the law no one can for one moment believe. "Nothwithstanding all this, and the fact that I have been told by dozens of the most representative citizens of Oregon City that ninety-five percent cf the people wished us to give our exhibition here as scheduled, I would have changed the date had I known of pny opposition in time to have done tiJs. "At the date when we first heard that certain persons opposed our ap pearance here it was a physical im possibility for us to alter our route, and we do not feel that we should be asked to sacrifice a day or our busi ness to satisfy any one, no -matter whom he or she may be when we had been granted a license to exhibit and our money paid for the same. "We shall pitch our tents outside the city limits, and endeavor in every possible way to avoid any interfer ence with the church congregations. There will be no attempt at a street parade, and I am making every effort to have all our paraphranaHa on tie show grounds long before it is time for services to begin. "Incidentally, I am hurt and grieved to think that . with more than five hundred strangers coming to Oregon City with this exhibition, not one of the churches, or the ministers who have been so active in endeavoring to take away our means of livelihood. We Will SHOW Time GRAND Always There With the Good Pictures See Our Two-Reeler 'The Accusing Hand" TOMORROW M""Mr"' Pathe's Weekly Again Tuesday PROHIBITS PERFORM has invited one of us to attend their services "It is one of the very few times that such a thing has occurred in my years of experience. The general rule is that every church in a community of this size extends a cordial welcome to our people well in advance of the com ing of our' organization. -"It is also the rule rather than the exception that some reverend doctor ' volunteers to conduct services in our big tent, and never has such an offer been otherwise than most gratefully accepted. "Even at this late day, if any min ister of the gospel were to offer to conduct divine services in our tents .we should be most happy to donate their use either before or after our ex hibitions and welcome all who chose to attend. "In this connection the following extracts from a letter written by Mlay or Gaynor of New York to a Rev. Mr. Keevil seems, to me to be very apro pos: " 'It may be,' says tne myar, 'that Las a health measure, irithout mention ing other considerations, the men and boys and girls and women of this great city who have to work indoors all the week days, many of them in hot and uncomfortable places, ought to be encouraged to go out in the parks and fields and play games on Sundays, after church hours. Of course, they should not play games forbidden by law. I fear you misinter pret the law. I am unaware of any j divine law forbidding us to play games on sunaay. it you tninK tnere is such a divine law I shall be glad to have you cite it Jx me and correct me. 'When the great Christian minister John Knox, of Scotland, went to Gen eva in Switzerland to visit that other great Christian minister, John Calvin, and called on him at his home of a Sunday afternoon, he found him out back in the fields playing at bowls with his sons and neighbors. He knew of no divine law prohibiting him from doing so, nor did John Knox know of any. Do you?' "The Mayor tells Mr. Keevil that he and several others are paid wages therefor (enforcing the Sunday law or seeking out violations) by a society 'which you got together for that pur pose and you make your living in hat way.' (Continued on Page 4.)' Positively TODAY