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SEPT. 24, 25, 26, 27.
WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 1866.
VOL. VI. No. 55.
OREGON CITY, OKEGON, -THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1913.
Pp-it Week, Ten Cents.
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CITY WATER SOURCE
BRANDED AS FILTHY
Taking direct issue with the stfcte
board of health, which recently re
ported that Oregon City's water sup
ply was pure and one of the Jjest in
the state, County Health Officer W.
r C. Schultze declares that the Willam
.ette river is "a contaminated, a pol
luted, a filthy source of water sup
ply." In a written tsatement issued
regarding the matter, County Health
Officer Schultze says:
"The Oregon Board of Health com
mitted a very grave error in bring
ing in their hasty verdict of last week.
Of course the Oregon City council
had demanded a report, and snap
judgment had to be taken. The writ
er was present and saw no data pre
sented to warrant such categorical
conclusions.
Diverts Suspicion.
"The result is that suspicion has
been entirely diverted from the Will
amette river, the real menace to the
health, lives and progress of the peo
ple of Oregon City; their apprehen
sion again lulled to sleep, and a black
eye given to the campaign for a pure
water supply which was. progressing
so auspiciously and at considerable
eypense.
. Filthy Supply.
,'It goes without saying that a riv
er receiving the discharge from the
toilet rooms of more than one hun
dred thousand persons living on its
banks above this city is contaminated,
a polluted, a filthy source of water
supply, bacteriology to the contrary
notwithstanding. All the filtering or
hypo-chloritic plants cannot alter the.
fact.
City's Needs.
-"What Oregon City needs and de
mands is a source of pure water,
known to be uncontaminated, and ev
en like Caesar's wife 'above suspic
ion.' "The bacteriological phase of the
question, about which the water board
had so much to say, is a somewhat
dry subject; but the following, facts
may be of interest, and ate to the
point'
''The baccil'us coli communis, or
- for short baccillus colon, upon which
so much stress, was placed in the re
port, is found in the intestinal tract
of , normal men and animals.
"Its presence may demonstrate sew
age contamination, but neither its
presence nor absence has any bearing
whatever on the dissemination of ty
phoid fever. Morphologically it re
sembles 'bacillus typhosus, but differs
-from it in many important particu
lars. Family Resemblances.
"Several bacilli, which have been
isolated from cases that were clinical-
ly typhoid fever, but in which' bacil
lus typhosus' could not be demon
strated, have been called 'paracolon
bacilli' that is, near-colon bacilli.
"They closely resemble bacilli coli,
but some of which were found to be
more like bacilli typhosus have been
called 'paratyphoid bacilli' that , is,
near-typhoid bacilli.
"The above facts may serve to show
what an 'elusive little cuss' the bac
illi typhosus really is, and how very
easy it is to make mistakes. The
only certain remedy is to obtain water
of an absolutely uncontaminated
source."
ORDERS ARE GIVEN
Members of the police and health
committee of the Oregon City council
were Wednesday evening empowered
to fleclare the Seventh Street livery
barn a public nuisance, and to order
its vacation within 30 days unless the
place was at once cleaned up and put
in a sanitary condition.
The barn was declared to be a viola
tion of all the provisions of the re
cently enacted barn ordinance, and
to "be a menace to the community. Re
fuse from the structure, it was said
created a p'ague spot and a breeding
place for flies; and its close proxim
it! to a candy factory was declared
to fcdd to the danger to public health,
Minister Complains.
The Rev. E .A. Smith, one of the
citizens who complained against the
building, denounced it as a firetrap,
and said that because of its condition
he was forced to pay a higher rate of
insurance on his house than were peo
ple who lived farther away, from the
structure.
The council, at the meeting where
the above action was taken, also in
structed the Oregon Engineering &
Construction company to raze the
rains of the Elkhorn barn and adjoin
ing buildings, recently destroyed by
fire, to clean out the rubbish left after
the blaze, and to charge the expense
of the work to the property jowner.
BEAVERS LOSE.
, At Oakland Oakland 3, Portland 2
(12 innings.)
At Venice Venice 4, San Francisco
2.
At Sacramento Sacramento 2, Los
Angeles 1.
filew Denver Meat
Market
7th and Railroad Ave.
- We handle first class fresh,
salt, and smoked meats.
WE GIVE S. & H. GREEN
TRADING STAMPS WITH EV
ERY 10c PURCHASE:
Highest market prices for stock
.. and poultry
Phone Pacific 410 Home 4133.
WRIGHT ASKS FOR
EXTENSION OF TIME
Charles Wright, indicted by the
grand jury for assault with intent to
kill, was arraigned yesterday before
Circuit Judge J. U. Campbell, and
through B. H. Hicks, his attorney,
asked for an extension of time of one
week in which to enter his plea. The
extra time was granted.
Wright went to Oak Grove early in
Augulr, and hiding beside the inter
urban tracks, fired two shots from a
38-calibre revolver at Miss Elsie TJt
iker. When arrested he is alleged
to have said: "Damn that woman, I
wish I'd killed her, she ruined my
life."
Wright was intoxicated at the time.
Since his indictment Miss Utiker has
not appeared in Oregon City, and it
is reported that she is much averse
to prosecuting the case. Wright's
counsel will plead insanity as a causa
for leniency on the part of the court.
CITY TURNS DOWN
COMPANY CONTRACT
- A contrct submitted by the Portland
Railway, Light & Power Company to
the city council Wednesday night, in
relation to the placing of power wires
upon the tower of the public elevator,
was summarily sent back to the pow
er concern by the special elevator
committee because it did' not protect
the city from damages.
One clause of the contract agreed
that the power company would hold
hte city "blameless for any accident
or injuries sustained by employes of
the company," but Councilman Mey
ers insisted what was desired was a
clause that would indemnify the city
against accidents to citizens, and not
to company employes.
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ARREST BY PHONE
Constable Jack Frost has made an
arrest over the telephone. Tuesday
he called up C. N. Sievers of Port
land on the telephone and told him
that a complaint had been filed in the
justice court of the county against
him for the killing of the dog of an
Indian woman.
He will appear in court Thursday
when the case will be set for trial or
the matter adjusted. The constable
notified the man that the complaint
had been filed and that a warrant,
under it, was held here.
Seviers is charged by the woman
with running over her and her dog
on the Abernethy bridge Monday. She
can neither speak nor write the Eng
lish language.
For Uniform Laws
MONTREAL, One., Sept. 3. Repre
sentatives of all the states, the Dis
trict of Columbia and the territorial
possessions of the United States as
sembled in Montreal today to devise
ways and means to bring about uni
form laws relating to marriage and
divorce, child labor, pure food and
drugs, partnership and corporation,
rates of interest, workingtnen's com
pensation, and the regulation of the
pracice of medicine. The gathering
is tne twenty-third annual conference
of the Commissioners on Uniform
State Laws. Practically all of the
commissioners are members of the
American Bar Association and, as the
latter organization meets in annual
session here next they will
have an opportunity to participate in
both meetings.
To Attsrd Judsen Csntenr'ss!
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Sept. 3.
A notable party of religious, and mis
sionary workers sailed on the steam
ship Siberia today en route to Burma
to attend the coming celebration of
the famous missionary Judson. Among
the members of the party were Rev.
,J. G. Briggs, of Minnesota, C. E.
Fickes, of South Dakota, Rev. Henry
M. Sanders, of New York, Mrs. H. G.
Stafford, of Boston, Mrs. S. A. Scriber
of Chicago. Miss Mtinnie JVIoody of Mil-
waukie, Miss Louise N. Robinson of
Rochester, and Miss Ada A. Brigham
of Bennington, Vt. The centennial
celebrations are scheduled to begin in
Rangoon the second week of Decem
ber. The liutenant governor of Bur
ma is expected to preside. x
Miss C. Goldsmith has just arrived
home with all the latest novelties in
millinery.
Mrs. Annie Howard and niece Miss
Ann Sally of Portland and nephew
Hugh Mount, J., have returned from
a two weeks' stay at Seaside.
John C. Stubbe, a rancher of the Mo
lalla district, was a town visitor Mon
day. He reports that the recent rains
put a stop to the thaying in .his .sec
tion. ,
Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Mulvey of Seattle,
have been visiting Mr. Mulvey's broth
er County Clerk Mulvey. They are
now visiting at Portland but will re
turn to Oregon City the latter part
of the week
C. W. Van Lee, of Corvallis, was a
visitor on business in Oregon City
Tuesday and reports that the crops in
Benton county are in excellent condi
tion.
Huerta and Carranza, Principals In Mexico's
Turbulent Sea of International Difficulties.
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Provisional President Huerta of Mexico and General Carranza, head of the constitutionalists, watched each other
carefully while President Wilson, through his personal representative. John Lind. was attempting to end the reign
of terror to Americans living in Mexico. These two are the principal figures in Mexico's present .crisis. If the Unit
ed States found it necessary to intervene, sending its army across the border.it was regarded as certain that Huerta
and Carraiina would forget factional differences and fight together against Uncle Sam. On the other hand, if Presi
dent Wilson decided to keep his hands off and follow President Taft's policy of noninterference it was said that
Huerta and Carranza, aided by other rebel leaders, would likely fight each other to the death. '
STORE EMPLOYES
OWNER PAYS FOR ANTITOXIN
TREATMENT FOR ALL OF
HIS FORCE.
BELIEVE TYPHOID SCAEE IS OVER
Do
Not Want To Take Chances and
Are Given Treatment As A
Matter of' Precaution
Against Disease.
Twenty -five employes were, win the
owners of the store, innoculated with
the typhoid anti toxin Tuesday when
L. Adams offered to pay for the pre
caution if the employes would sub
mit to the operation.
Every one of the members of the
(Continued on Page 4.1
FIGHTING PIRE
INOCULATED
r ' .
' Np more reassuring test of a great modern steamship could have bee jq had than was given by a firs that
started in a lower after compartmen t of the world's biggest steamship, th e Imperator, at her dock In Hoboken,
where she had arrived fom Hamburg.
The fire was confined to the com partment where it had originated, an d although it cost the life of the sec
ond officer of the vessel and destroyed provisions worth. $16,000, it did no damage whatever to the ship be
yond blistering tha steel walls of th e compartment. .
This picture, taken on one of th e decks aft of he biggest ship, shows . how the firemen, aided by members .
of the ship's crew, fought the flames in the provision room by running hose down the provision well through
the hatch. 1 ' -'
; Though deeply regreting the los s of Karl Gobrecht, the officer who s o gallantly lost his life, the Hamburg
Line found in a final casting up that i t had much on which to congratulate itself. For one thing the fire strong
ly buttressed the company's claim that the -vessel is as fireproof as human Ingenuity can make her; for an
other it brought for the first time into notice the remarkable equipment with, which she Is . fitted , for , such
emergencies. ;' " :- " , ",.'':'."- '-...;." . '' v
DOGS KILL 50 RATS
IN 20 MINUTES AND
GIVE UP EXHAUSTED
B. F. Oglesby told the city council
Wednesday night that there are so
many rats on the city garbage dump
! that when he visited the place last
,,week accompanied by his two terriers
the dogs killed 50 of the rodents in
20 minutes, and theny only quit be
cause they were exhausted.
After hearing this the council order
ed City Health Officer Norris to make
an investigation, to determine if there
was not some way by which the re
fuse could be destroyed by chemicals
or burning. It was declared that the
rats were propigating so rapidly that
they threatened to, become a plague
and over-run the city, spreading dis
ease with them in their migrations.
Coast Leaque Standings. .
W. L. PC
Portland 81 62 .566
Venice 79 76 .510
Sacramento .'72 72 .500
San Francisco 74 80 .481
Los Angeles ., .'.73 79 .480
Oakland '.72 82 .468
ON I MPERATOR WORLD'S BIGGEST
(Copyright by International New3 Service).
ULTIMATUMS FLY
L
PACIFIC TELEPHONE MUST PUT
IN NEW ALARM OR CITY
PHONES COME OUT
TWENTY FOUR HOUR LIMIT FIXED
City Fathers Have Lively Debate But
Order Company To Take Trans
mitter Box Or Ex
pect Trouble
The Pacific States Telephone- &
Telegraph .company was given 24
hours by the Oregon City council Wed
nesday night to consent to the in
stallation of the transmitter box of
the new city fire alarm system in its
office.
If the company refuses, the council
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STEAMSHIP.
FROM
COUNC
m
BANK ROBBER IS
GIVEN SENTENCE
GETS FROM ONE TO 10 YEARS IN
PENITENTIARY AND LEAVES
AT ONCE.
THINKS WILL SOON BE PARDONED
Believes Received Light Penalty and
Will Be Out Again Before Time
Is Up Deputy Takes Him
To Salem.
Two hours after Virgil Perrine, the
robber of the First State Bank of
Mlilwaukie, was sentenced to from one
to ten yeaTrs in the state penitentiary
Wednesday he was on his way to
Sa'em in custody of Deputy Sheriff
Staats, and Wednesday afternoon the
bars of the state institution, clanged
shut behind him. Judge J. U. Camp
bell pronounced sentence upon th
youth at ten in the morning.
Perrie took the charge without show
ing any feeling, and as he was being
led to the county jail following hia
sentence, he turned to deputy sheriffs
who accompanied him and said:
"Gee, I got it soft, didn't I? I ex
pected to get at least 20 years. Well,
I'll be out soon, I guess."
Perrine entered the bank at Mil
waukie early in the afternoon of July
5 and help up the p!ace, securing $365
and making his escape. The alarm
was given promptly and posses from
Oregon City and Portland reached the
scene and finally surrounded the
youthful highwayman in a swamp near
Milwaukie. Perrine surrendered to
Sheriff Mass when he found resistance
was useless.
The money was on his person and
was recovered. The officers also found
a steel saw and a razor. Since his
arrest he has frequently been inter
viewed with officers from other coun
ties, in an effort to connect' him with
a gang of desperate criminals who
pulled extensive operations in East
ern Oregon, but Perrine has main
tained for the most part a dogged si
lence and has steadfastly declined to
incriminate himself.
BOOSTERS ON WEST
SIDE GET TOGETHER
The annual meeting of the West
Side Improvement Club, comprising
the cities of West Linn and Willam
ette will be held at the Willamette
school house on Thursday evening,
September 4. .
Three new governors will be elected
to serve for three years and a new
set of officers selected, the president
being elected from the board of gov
ernors by the members of the club,
while the ' other officers are elected
by the governors from their own body.
As these cities have recently had a
difference which was settled by the
bal'ot, this meeting is destined to be
a record one, where it is expected all
hands will be joined in a united effort
for one large city or the west side of
the Willamette.
The best of feeling prevails in both
cities for the citizens of the other,
and it only remains at this meeting
for the people to get together in a
love fest to wipe out any ideas of con
flict in the minds of the general pub
lic. "May the entire west side live
long and prosper," is the slogan.
LODGE ELECTS ITS
LIST OF OFFICERS
Oregon City lodge. Knights and
Ladies of Security, held its annual
election this week, and the balloting
resulted in the selection of the fol
lowing officers:
President, I. C. Briggs; first vice
president, Emma McGeahy; second
vice-president, Roy Woodward; pre
late, Maud Longly; financier, Delia
Green; treasurer, M. P .Chapman, and
musician, Maud Kennedy.
COUNTY COURT TALKS
The first regular session of the
county court since the recent recall
election' changed its personel was
held Wednesday, and many pleas were
heard and taken under advisement.
County Judge, H. S. Anderson presid
ed, . and County Commissioner J. W.
Smith was the new commissioner to
sit in his first formal hearing.
Many applications for roads and for
other county improvements were
made, but the county court took no
definite action except in the applica
tion for the construction of a small
wooden bridge over the Salmon river
near the Mclntyre ranch. Bids for
this bridge were ordered advertised.
Much road, work was postponed for
further consideration owing to
changes in the road law, the commis
skmers'being asked in many instances
to approve the - doing of the desired
work under the road district plan, in
steadjf having it paid for out of the
general road fund.
The court will be in session for the
next several days. ...
J. W. Hewitt, division superinten
dent of the Portland Railway, Light &
Power company was a visitor In Ore
gon Cltyn business Tuesday.' ' :";v-
T
TOOZE MIX IT
FORMER CHARGES PLUMBERS
WITH FATHERING NEW
ORDINANCE. -
MEASURE OVERWHELMINGLY KILLED
Committeeman Declares It A Copy of
Regulations In Use In Roseberg
But Says All Plumbers
Approve.
That the plumbers of the city had
fathered the Tooze plumbing ordi
nance and that it was framed and de
signed to benefit them particularly
were some of the charges that Coun
cilman John F. Albright made when it
came up for final passage and was
overwhelmingly killed. - ,
Only Councilman Tooze voted for
the measure when the mayor put the
question for final passage.-
"I want to explain why 1 voted
against the ordinance," Albright start
ed off, "for I think that I know where
it came from. That ordinance was
framed and designed by the plumbers
of the city and it benefits them par
ticularly. Were Aftr Him. ,
, "I believe this because several of
them have been after me for the last
few days to vote for the measure and
I have refused. It is their ordinance,
it benefits them. I believe that they
had a hand in writing it, and that it
is proposed to put it through this coun
cil for their benefit."
Councilman Tooze was on his feet
in an instant and admitted that the
plumbers of the city had passed upon
the ordinance and had made such
changes in it as met their approval.
But he declared that the measure had
been submitted to them in a finished
condition and that it was practically
copied from the ordinance of the city
of Roseberg. .
He denied that the plumbers were
to benefit from the passage of the
measure, that it was primarily de
signed to protect the public health,
and that he had shown it to the
plumbers in order to get their tech
nical opinion of it as he was not a
plumber himself.
Too Many Laws.
Councilman Horton took several '.
shots at the ordinance on the ground
that it was too drastic and that the
city had a habit of making and re
pealing laws until they were so many
on the books that not half of them
were enforced. -
Professor Tooze said that he would
like to see one that was not too dras
tic and asked that the mayor appoint
another committee, leaving him off
the list, to frame a measure that
would suit the tastes of the other
members of the council.
The ' police committee was ordered
to take legal steps, if necessary, to
abate any and all nuisances around
the city that were menaces to the pub
lic health and instructed to take those
steps without delay.;
HURBAND IS CRUEL;
WIFE LEAVES HOME
Declaring that Elmer C. Patton, her
husband, had forced her by his cruel
treatment to leave home on several
occasions, Mrs. Ruth Patton has filed
suit in the circuit court for divorce.
The complaint sets forth that the Pat
tons were married in Seattle, on
March 25, 1911, and that fourteen days
later, on April 8, Patton commenced
his abuse of his wife.
Mrs. Patton complains that her hus
band spoke to her in a disrespectful
manner, used vulgar and profane lan-..
guage, and came home in an intoxi
cated condition two or three times
each month. This behavior forced her
to leave him several times, and con
cluding that such a married life had
but few benefits, she asks her free
dom. Mabel C. Klett and ' Charles W.
Klett were married December 12, 1910,
in Portland according to Mrs. Klett's
complaint for divorce, also filed Wed
nesday, and two years and three
months later Klett deserted her. The
couple had no children, and - Mrs.
Klett asks her freedom.
TO REPLACE FURNACE
B. T. McBain, representing the li
brary board, appeared before the-city
council Wednesday evening and asked
for an appropriation of between $200
and $300 to purchase a new furnace
for the library, to take the place of
the original one, which was blown
up by miscreants .before the library
building had been completed.
He said the library board did not
have funds on hand to meet the ex
pense, and laying emphasis upon the
fact that the library was a benefit to
the city, said that he thought the
council ought to contribute the funds.
After some discussion Councilman
F. J. S .Tooze moved that a special
committee of three be appointed to
take the matter np. Mayor Jones said
that he would rather refer the mat
ter to the finance committee, if there
was no objection. , ,
MV. Tooze said fiat he thought the.
plan of having a special committee
would be better, hut. the mayor over
ruled him, , and the matter went to the
finance committee with orders , to re
port at the council meeting to be held
September 19. ; - i : ' ? ' iJJ .'; -S
ALBRIGH
AND