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FAIR
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SEPT. 24, 25, 26, 27.
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THE WEATHER
OREGON CITY Fair and warm-
er: wes'erly winds. ' -4.
3 Cragcn and Washington Fair,
warmer except near the coast?
w esterly winds. -
Ida! :o Fair and warmer.
EDW. A. BEALS, Forecaster. 3
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WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 1866
VOL. VI. No. 38.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, F RID AY, AUGUST 15, 1913.
Pee Week, Teu" Cents.
RECALLERS FAIL
TO SPOIL MEET
FIREMEN PLAN
CORVALLIS TRIP
STATUTE BROKEN.
Interesting Scenes During Moving Day at Famous
Old Sing Sing Prison, Overcrowded and Insanitary.
WILSON'S STAND
PRESIDENT RAPS
SAYS GRAND JURY
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AMBASSADOR'S STATEMENT
REGARDED AS BREACH OF
FORMAL ETIQUETTE
PAGE CONFIRMS CRUDE UTTERANCES
National Executive Takes Unusual
Steps to Rebuke Former Mexi
can Agent of American
Government
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. President
Wilson tonight publicly reprimanded
Ambassador Wilson for his recent at
tack on the British foreign office,
Ambassador Page was instructed to
express to Sir Edward Grey the regret
of the American government that a
diplomatic official of the United States
"should have ben guilty of such an
impropriety."
The action of the administration
here followed receipt of a cablegram
from Ambassador Page officially con
firming the Associated Press dispatch
quoting a statement from the British
government that it had recognized the
Huerta regime In Mexico along with
France and Germany after '"a congrat
ulatory speech" to President Huerta
by Ambassador Wilson on behalf of
the diplomatic corps in Mexico City.
Close attention and a good recep
tion was accorded County Judge R. B.
Beatie and County Commisioner N.
Blair by the voters of Clackamas
Thursday evening, when the two offi
cials,, together with J. E. Hedges
spoke in Mather's hall to a large -audience.
It had been reported about be
fore the meeting that the Rev. Mr.
Spiess would be present and might
hav a few things to say, and while
this somewhat whetted anticipation,
the minister did not make his pres
ence known.
Judge Beatie spoke long the lines
that he has followed at other meet
ings at which he has replied to the
charges filed against him, and by pro
ducing official figures showed that he
had givsn as good an administration
as possble. The increase of taxation
he showed was due to the mandatory
increase in state and school taxes, and
to such increases in the line of road
assessments as the people in the coun
ty had themselves levied.
Commissioner Blair devoted himself
largely to an account of the county
timber cruise, showing t'ae advantages
that would accrue therefrom.
Mr. Iledees spoke upon the "Ore
gon system," praising it, and pointing
out its advantages when it was exer
cised with fairness and propriety. He
also showed ifs perils and dangars,
and declared that unjust recalls, such
as the present abortive attempt,
would, if persisted in. result in more
harm to the advanced scheme of leg
islation than anything else. In clos
ing Mr.' Hedges paid striking tributes
to tha county officils, praised their
... integrity and business -acumen, and
pleaded for their retention in office.
The World Is
My Spy
and I pay the highest price for
information," said James Keane,
the Wizard of Wall street when
asked why he succeeded where
others met disaster.
ICeene bought, and sold on the
best, information he could get he
won where others-.failed.
A true rule for stocks and bonds
is equally good for every day life
for buying clothing, furnishings,
or for every used.
Information is not high. The
world comes to you through the
advertising columns of the EN
TERPRISE. It tells you where goods can be
had and what they are selling for.
It gives true information for the
merchants know they are judged
by what they say in their adver
tising. Rend the advertising in the EN
, , TERPRISE today. This is the bar
gain month of the year. It is par
ticularly so this year, because
merchants and manufacturers are
anticipating tariff changes by les
sening stocks.
The man or woman who makes
the dollars count is the one who
buys on 'the best obtainable infor
mation. -, There is no better "WHO'S
WHO" or WHAT'S WHAT" than
the advertising columns of the
ENTERPRISE.
The Mothers' Club, of Corral Creek
school held a special meeting last
week, and made arrangements to pur
chase single seats for the school. '
Keep Cool!
A nice shady place,' where
you can get the cool breezes
from the river. Ice cream and
. all kinds of soft drinks.
The Open Air Ice
Cream Parlors
At West End of Suspen
sion Bridge
LOCAL BQYS TO COMPETE IN VAL
LEY TOURNAMENT; EX
PECT TO WIN PRIZE
COURIER BASEMENT FIRE MENACE
Clean-up Order for Weinhard Building
Issued City Health Officer
May Also Make In
spection At a special meeting of the Oregon
City fire department, held Thursday
evening in the Fountain Hose com
pany's rooms, it was decided to send
a team to-the Corvallis tournament to
participate in the various competi
tions. Al Cox, JL. Richard, T. Nobel
and "Babe" Elliott were appointed a
comjmittee of four to perfect arrange
ments. The local firemen will be glad
to receive financial support from lo
cal business men to cover expenses of
the trip. Many merchants have al
ready expressed a desire to be of
such assistance as may be possible,
and believe that the local boys will
surely get one ot the prizes or cups.
A. T. Sherriff, of. Portland, was a
guest at the meeting, and gave a talk
in which he suggested having a series
of fire tournaments in the various val
ley cities.
Following the talk an invitation was
extended to all city firemsnt to meet
Monday evening iff the new hall of
Hose Company No. 4, in Elyville,- to
participate in the dedication of the
new home. A chicken dinner will be
served the gussts, and there will be
other refreshments of a nature that
will be appreciated by all on hand.
In the course of the meeting the
condition of electric wiring in city was
discussed, and Fire Chief M. H. Long
was endorsed for the stand -he has
taken in insisting that the .Portland
Railway, Light & Power 'company
place climbing spikes on the lower
part of all poles, so that in case of
emergency firement can get up to the
power wires to cut them. Tha spikes
on the polls at present do not extend
below the eight-foot level. It was al
so decided to ask the power company
to leave the cut-out boxes in the busi
ness district unlocked, so that current
may be shut off easily in case of fire.
Chief Long made a report on the
conditions in the Weinhard building,
which was examined earlier in the
day by Mayor L. E. Jones, and subse
quently ordered cleared ,up by the
chief. In the basement under The
Courier office a great mass of old pa
pers, oily waste and other inflamable
matter was found, and the pile was
adjudged a menace to the safety of
the building and surrounding struc
tures. The basement will have to be
cleaned out at once, Chief Long says,
as its present condition makes the
place a dangerous firetrap.
Speaking of the basement of this
building, Chief Long said:
"Not only is tha place a firetrap, but
it is a cess-pool. The drains from the
saloon in the rear of The Courier of
fice are cracked, and waste from the
bar gutter, together with dirty water
and oth.er filth, has accumulated in
the place to such an extent that it is a
disgrace. If a fire ever started in the
front end of the place, the firemen
would b,a mjreft in the filth at the
back in trying to reach it. The City
Health Officer ought to inspect the
p'ace, and see that it is cleaned up.
Conditions there are deplorable, and
I brdieve the mayor will back me up
in what I say about it."
CHILDREN ARE TAKEN
FROM GRANDMOTHER
Pearl Rogers, aged 7, and Edward
Rogers, aged 5, have been taksn from
their grandmother, Mrs. Jennie Rob
ertson, on an order of Judge Beatie in
the county court and turned over to
the care of the Boy's and Girls' Aid
society.
Herself an invalid with eight small
children of her own to care and pro
vide for, the grandmother was unable
to keep the little childrsn in her home
any longer, and the county court di
rected that they should be placed in
thp institution until it g,e Mrs.
Parker, the court matron, further in
struc''on as to their care.
Ttitj county judge believed that the
grandmother in her condition had all
of the family that she could care for
and decided that it would be better
for all concerned to have the children
in a ptiblic institution for awhile, at
least.
MOLALLA TO VOTE UPON
INCORPORATION AS CITY
Molalla is to hold it incorporation
election today. It is generally be
lieved that there will be no opposition
to the plan of changing the status ot
the community to that of. a municipal
ity. Elaborate plans for the develop
rrtent of city affairs have been made.
The movement for incorporation has
been fostered by the recently organ
ized Commercial club, which is taking
the lead in advancing the town.
PHONE HEARING POSTPONED
A scheduled hearing by the state
railroad commission of a complaint
against the Pacific Telephone & Tele
graph company, set for today, has
been post pond by consent of both
sides until September 15. The hear
ing was in regard to charges of un
equal rates charged by the company
for four-party line service preferrsd
by local councllmen acting as a com
mittee. Coast League Standings
Portland 553"
Sacramento .512
Los Angeles .500
Venice : .496
Oakland 474
San Francisco 480
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Photos by American Press Association. r.
Old and famous Sin;; Sing prison in New York state was the scene of sevenil utrnnge midsummer moving days re
cently Because of the crowded conditions in the insanitary jail about 150 prisoners were transferred to Auburn
prison. In another part of the state. For some time two prisoners had been occupying a cell in many cases, and the
transfer whs inade.to relieve conditions These pictures show the latest moving day. At top about fifty prisoners
are seen uiuivhiUK from the prison to the railrond station in c-hnrge of guards. At bottom are seen guards moving:
a Iion filled w ith handculTs and other shnckles To show their displeasure of the change some of the unruly prison
era set tire to their cells, and extra preen utions were taken to prevent an outbreak.
WEST LiNN VOTES
ITSELF ON MAP
By an overwhelming voie of 120 for
to eight against i the people of West
Linn Thursday adop.'ed the proposi
tion to incorporate lie nsw cown on
the west bank of the Willamette. Of
the 130 voiis '.at were cast, two were
defective.
Mrs. Bertha Davenport enjoys the
distinction of being the first woman
voter on that side of the- river. At
Thursday's sleclion, she cast tha sec
ond ballot and was the first woman
who entered be po"l3 and voted un
der the new Oregon law that enables
women to exerciso suffrage 'on ques
tions besides those affecting the
schools.
The new town extends a'ong th3
west side of the river from Bolton
to the Willametta ci'.y line and will iu
c'ude the paper milis and power
plants on that ban".:. Wi .hin the noxt
few days, the county court will can
vass this vote. of the .district and will
declare the town incorporated. It will
probably be 30 days before the voters
will decide on their first municipal, of
ficers. TO SURPPORT COURT
Oregon City psople will have op
portunity to hear the defense of the
county court against the charges pre
ferred by the recallers Friday evening,
when there will be held a meeting in
Busch's Hall at which Judge Beatia,
Commissioner Blair, the Hon. George
C. Brownell and J. E. Hedges will
speak. This meeting will be the wind
up of the campaign as far as the coun
ty officials are concerned, and prom
ises, to be one of the most interesting
of the several gatherings at which vot
ers have been addressed by the two
men whose political scalps the Olds-Brown-Hagemann
combination is try
ing to get
A special invitation is etended to all
women in Oregon City to be present,
and particularly to thos-3 women who
are going to the polls on Saturday to
cast their vote upon the recall ques
tion. Judge Beatie and Commissioner
Blair, both of whom are heartily In
favor of universal suffrage, desire ths
opportunity to talk straight from the
shoulder to the "new citizens" of the
county; and those who attend the
meeting will be sure to hear, the real
facts in connection with the recall. .
I The charges of the recallers win be
taken up and disapproved by .county
rscords, and the subsequent allega
tions of the recall clique will be met
with evidence that will show the
animus back of the movement The
meeting opens at 8 o'clock.
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BENNETT C. CLARK
COPYRMHT MAAlUa A SWING. "fAIR
Parliamentarian "of the house of rep
resenta'ives, Buceeeding - Charles C.
Crisp. He is a son of Spaaker Clark.
$$43S S-S-S-8 $ $'$
ELECTION RETURNS
Complete returns of tha recall
election will be furnished by The
Enterprise Saturday evening up
on a screen stretched on tha
Stevens building, at Sixth and
Miain s-.reets. Through the co-operation
of Manager Schram, of
the Grand . theatre, a powerful
steraopticon will be p'aced in
The Enterprise office, and as
soon as the returns are brought
in by the staff of special messen
gers which The Enterprisa has
engaged, they will be flashed on
the screen for the information of
the public. Everybody will be
interested in the result of the
election, and the quickest way
to ascertain the returns will be
to watch for The Enterprise fig
ures. AWARDED BY BOARD
Extensive plumbing contracts for
work in the Barclay and Eastham
buildings were awarded to Pope &
Company of Oregon City by the school
board at a meeting Thursday, night.
The work will include th.e installment
of sanitary toilet appliances in both
of the schools.
The board held a long session
Thursday night and transacted con
siderable routine business. It also
elected Mrs. Estella C. Salisbury of
Gladstone, a teacher in the" city
schools. Mrs. Salisbury has been con
nected with the schools here for a
numHir of years and is experienced in
the worxk of her profession.
BEAVERS 5. OAKS 1.
Portland 5, Oaklkand 1.
Sacramento 4, Los Angeles 1,
San Francisco 5, Venice 2.
CAN YOU AFFORD TO MISS IT?
A Great Photoplay Played by Capa
ble Actors Who Know Theit
Business
TODAY AT THE.
M, J. BROWN CHARGED WITH Via
LATING CORRUPT PRAC-
TICES ACT OF STATE
IS "POLITICAL CRIMINAL LIBEL"
Publication of Anonymous Attack on
Candidates Carries Peniten
tiary Term if Guilt is
Proved
M. J. Brown, editor of The Oregon
City Courier, who was indicted for the
second time by the hold-over grand
jury Wednesday of this week, is spe
cifically charged in the last indict
ment with "issuing an anonymous po
litical publication in violaton of the
statutes." This allegation brings his
case under the corrupt practices act,
particularly that section which refers
to the printing of anonymous comment
upon an election or the candidates
concerned therein, and which reads in
part: .
S.3C 3519 if any
publication shall contain , any false
charges reflecting on any candidate's
character, morality or integrity,
every person printing or as
sisting in the circulation thereof shall
be guilty of political criminal libel, and
upon conviction shall ha punished by
imprisonment in the penitentiary for
not less than one year nor more than
three years."
It was at first announced that
Brown had simply been indicted for
libel. Reference to the statute indi
cates that he was, even though the
specific charge mentioned in the in
dictment is that of "issuing an anony
mous political publication."
Editor Brown was somewhat peeved
at the announcement that he had
again been indicted for libel, and
Thursday morning called at the office
of The Enterprise to request that the
real facts in th,e case be printed. The
Enterprise herewith present them.
Interpretation of the charge in the in
dictment shows that the crime of
which Brown is accused constitutes
"criminal political libel" so The En
terprise does not feel that it has done
Brown any particular injustice.
The grand jury has also-returned a
not true bill in the cases of William
Miaddex and Emma Ely, accused of a
statutory offense. This was the case
in which the Ely woman and Maddex
went to Portland and had Circuit
Judge Gatens perform a marriage cere
mony for them, though the Ely wo
man later told Justice Sievers that she
bad been previously married to a man
in Montana or Idaho, and had not been
divorced from him.
SALOONS GET AN EXTRA
HOUR ON FRIDAY NIGHT
Through a special provision in th,3
liquor laws of the- state, the saloons
of the city will not have to close un
til midnight Friday on account of the
recall election the next day.
The law especially allows the sa
loons of the state to remain open un
til 12 o'clock on nights before elections
or holidays regardles of the closing
hour filed by the ordinances of the
several cities and towns.
Under the section that makes this
especial allowance, the saloons will
remain open in the city th,e extra hour
Friday night.
May Stuart
Adapted from the drama by Frederick Schiller
IN THREE REELS
In all history there is no more pathetic
figure than Mary Stuart, the lovely Queen of
France and Scotland, whom fate seems to have
marked from childhood as a victim of its cru
elty. Her hopeless struggle, in the relentless
power of the great Queen Elizabeth, the. plots
and intrigues of the followers of both queens,
form one of the most romantic and exciting
series of incidents outside of fiction.
Romance itself could not rival this brief
glance into history which has been offered on
ly after the most painstaking study of the cos
tumes, manners and settings of the Elizabethan
period. Accurate in every detail, photograph
ically superb, acted by one of the strongest
casts ever assembled in one photo-play, this
production is worthy to rank with the few
really great films of the year.
EFFORTS OF OLDS FACTION TO
EMBARASS COUNTY OFFI
CIALS FUTILE
SANDY HALL SCENE OF ATTEMPT
Enemies' of 'Judge Beatie Try to
"Stampede" Gathering, But
Are Hooted From Room '
by Large Audicene
Efforts made by Ed Olds, W. H.
Hagemann and their cohorts to break
up a meeting called for County Judge
Beatie and County Commissioner
Blair at Sandy Wednesday evening re
sulted in the general discomfiture of
the recallers to the huge enpoyment of
some "250 voters of that district, many
of whom wer.e women. The arranga
ments for the meeting had been com
pleted by local supporters of the coun
ty court, and a hall and band had been
engaged, when the recall leaders en
deavored to block the proceedings.
As soon as it was ascertained that
Judge Beatie was in the town, a repre
sentative of the recall faction called
upon him and asked him if he wou'd
meet upon the platform, som.9 of the
recall boosters, who were desirous of
debating some of the questions at is
sue with him. Judge Beatie answered
that though he had arranged for the
meeting, he would be glad to meet
either of the recall candidates, even if
one of them was under indictment.
Sometime later further word was
brought, to the judge that Mr. Ander
son, the candidate for county judge,
did not feel that he knew sufficient
about county affairs to debate the
questions, but a reuqest was made
that Judge Beatie meet Ed Olds.
The judge1 replied that he only cared
to meet such people as cpuld conduct
themselves in a gentlemanly and par
liamentary manner, and said he did
not include Olds in that category.
No further advances were made by
the recallers until the meeting open
ied, when recall leaders rose and en
deavored to interrupt the proceedings.
The chairman, who had previously an
nounced to those present the result
of the earlier negotiations, promtly
rapped for order, and declared that
Judge Beatie had the floor and that
he should notbe interrupted.
Upon this ruling the recall leaders
rose noisily to their feet, and one of
them said: "Well, if we can't ave
the people hear both sides of this
question we don't want to hear any of
It." and stamped from the hall.
Some 12 or 15 of their following track
ed behind them, shuffling their way
out, while the majority of the audi
ence hooted and jeered at their too
evidjsnt attempt to "stampede" those
present into leaving tho building.
After this the meeting progressed
well, Judge Beatij riddling the charges
that had been preferred against tee
members of the county court, and
Commissioner Blair pointing out the
gains that th,3 county would receive
from the county timber cruise. Both
speakers were enthusiastically re
ceived, and at the close of the meeting
many of hose present congratulated
the county officials and expressed
strong disapproval of the tactics of
the recallers.
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