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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