THE WEATHER
OREGON CITY Fair, not so i
warm; winds mostly northerly. S
Oregon Fair; not so warm S
interior west portion; winds
S mostly northerly.
Washington Fair; easterly $
winds.
CLACKAMAS COUNTY
FAIR
CAN BY, OR.
SEPT. 24, 25, 26, 27.
WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 1866.
VOL. VI. No. 69.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1913.
Vkr Week., Ten Cents.
BOARD BUCKS
COUNCIL GIVES ORDERS
TO CONNECT MAINS
T PLAY IN
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NOTIFICATION TO SUPPI WA
TER STIRS UP HORNET'S
NEST
MAY TRY TO FORCE RESIGNATIONS
Municipal Officers Peeved Over Ac
tion Consider Driving Board
to Wall and Make it
Obey
The Oregon City board of water
commissioners refused to be "bossed."
It has laid down th3 ilaw to the city
council and has told that body thar.
no further orders will be taken. Here
after, the city council may run its own
department, but it must keep its
hands off of the water system.
In a latter ' that was sent to the
council by the commissioners, they re
fused to construct the main to the hy
draulic elevator according to the in
structions from the city fathers and
they told the council in no uncertain
language that they would hereafter
run the water works as best suited
them, and that the council could
"play in its own back yard."
Long But Expressive.
The letter was rather long, but it
left nothing unsaid. The position of
the commissioners was fully and forc
fully explained. It told the council
that the position of the board had
been fully explained when the ques
tion of a hydraulic elevator was first
broached. The ultimatum was then
handed down that the board would re
fuse to supply the water for the main
if the city used the kind of system
that it had adopted and that it seemed
to be determinej to put through. The
board contends 10 different things are
the matter with that elevator.
As far as the board is concerned,
the e'evator is a failure from start to
finish. The water system that it
would be connected with is not what
. the commissioners want. Beside that
one little defect, there are nine other
good, logical reasons why the thing
can't be done but why, primarily, it
won't be done by the board.
Won't Be Bossed.
Furthermore, the board, being an
independent body and clothed with a3
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The most' satisfying and health
giving bread is
ROYAL BREAD
FRESH EVERY DAY AT
HARRIS' GROCERY
Look Around!
Then Come Here
We carry as fine a line
of Furniture, Carpets,
Store and Building Ma
terial, as you will find
anywhere in the Willa
mette Valley. Our stock
is new and clean; our
prices will stand com
parison with all others,
HOGG BROS.
OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE
WE WANT TO SELL
This New House
block from Barclay school on
Mladisoa street
5 rooms, bath, electric lights.
Paid $1750 for one year ago. All
street assessment paid.
Will take $ 1450 part cash, bal
ance monthly.
P. O. BOX 6, 'MOLALLA, ORE.
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New Denver Meat
MarRet
7th and Railroad. We Deliver
We handle first class fresh
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BACK
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Wfc UIVE S. & H. GREEN
TRADING STAMPS WITH EV
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Highest market prices for stock
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Phone Paclftc410 Home A133
WHEN CITY
much dignity as the city council it
self, objects to taking dictation from
anybody. It does not think that the
council has any business trying to
"money" with the water system nor
does propose to supinely submit to
bossims from the council.
On the other hand, the city council
is the city council. It is the boss in
matters municipal. It considers the
board of water as a mother regards an
unruly child who has gone out into
the mud puddle and got his a'othes
dirty when she had him all dressed
up for company. It believes that the
board consists of three very naughty
boys who will simply have to be
spanked. Unless they immediately re
trace their ways and consent to fol
low the direction and the supervision
of the council, it may decide to spank
them by taking away their candy from
them and giving it to somebody else.
Can't Do It.
On the other hand, the commission
ers contend that the only way that
they can be despoiled of their powers,
office, honors and emoluments is by
the filing of direct charges against
each one of them and then providing
the charges as a matter of law. To
face such an undertaking with men of
the kind now in charge of the city
water works would rather stump even
the city council, wrathy as it is over
the board's refusal to follow orders.
For some time the commissioners
have threatened to tell the council to
"get into its own stall," but it has
not done so until the official notifi
cation that the board had been in
structed to connect the main was re
ceived. The commissioners hold that
to supply the elevator with an eight
inch main would cut off all of the wa
ter from the hi'U intermittently and
that it would break every water pipe
in town.
The next move will be made by the
council when it officially receives no
tice of the board's action. That move
will probably be talien at the meeting
Wednesday night.
JEAN GRAY,
Leading woman with the Burrough
Howland Players, at the Bell The
atre. Mr. and Mrs. R. O. Woodward, of
Turner, have come to Oregon City to
live with their son, R. E .Woodward.
I WtTtJA w I!
"Oregon City's Busy Store"
BARGAINS IN ALL
DEPARTMENTS
AS K F O R R ED TRAD I N G S T A M PS
PAVING TRUST
STRANGLES CITY
CHARGE MADE FORCES ARE AT
WORK TO STIR UP TROUBLE
FOR CONTRACTOR
ASSESSMENTS ARE CONSIDERED
Matter Is, However, Postponed for
Action Until Another Session
to Give Time for Study
of Conditions
Charges that a paving trust was
trying to get a strangle hold on the
city as it had upon Portland and oth
er towns of the northwest, flew thiclri
and fast at the meeting of the city
council Saturday night when Council
man Horton started the ball rolling.
The question came up over the re
duction of the assessments made for
the improvement of South Main street.
Mr. Easterly of the Montague-Reilly
construction company declared that
the taxpayers who were protesting
were being used as instruments in the
hands of the trust to make trouble
for his concern and that the whole
affair was a trade fight.
Wiliani , Stone, city attorney, held
that all but two of the objectors had
waived their rights on the grounds
that they had made no protest earlier
in the game. The matter was refer
red to a special meeting of the county
Wednesday night.
B. T. McBain appeared asking for
$250 for a new furnace in the library
to replace the one that exploded some
time ago. The matter wiJI be taken
up and discussed at an early meeting
of the council.
ROBBERS BREAK INTO
HOUSE; GET CASH
At an early hour Saturday morning
robbers entered a house in Canby and
stole some clothes, blankets and $64
in cash.
The case was reported -to Sheriff
Mass early Saturday morning and he
went to the scene of the robbery, but j
was unable to find any e'ue that i
would lead to the capture of the j
thieves.
11 WIRES SOON TO
! HUH WITH NEW LIFE
The Live Wires 'of the Oregon City
Commercial c'ub will meet for the
first time after their summer vaca
tion at a luncheon to be held in the
rooms of the Commercial club, Tues
day. The subject of the meeting will be
to form plans for the coming winter's
work and to discuss important devel
opments planned for the city this win
ter. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon, of Molalla,
have just returned to their home after
and illness of Mrs. Vernon in a Port
land hospital.
CANBY FAIR IS
READY TO OPEN
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; Everything is in readiness for. the
opening of the seventh annual Clack
amas County Fair on Wednesday
September 24, and indications are
that the four days of the exhibit will
prove the most successful in the his
tory of the big display of Willamette
valley resources. The attendance this
year promises to exceed all former
records, and already there hps beev
flood of applications made for sites
in the free camp grounds that are a.i
adjaunct of the fair.
Spend Vacations.
Hundreds -will spend their vacation
days in the beautiful grove near the
fair grounds, and will combine thdh
days of r4st with Hours ci practical
education at the fair booths and dem
onstrations. Camping sites ' w
ter are furnished free, and there is
plenty of fuel to be had merely for
the gathering. Every evening uun ,
the fair there will be a band concert,
and as the nights will be brilliant
with moonlight, those who take ad
vantage of the comping privilege will
be sure to have an ideal time.
Bigger Than Ever. '
The fair itself will be larger and
better than ever. Effort has been
made by President Grant B. Dimick,
and the fair directors, to confine the
displays this year to simply the best
(Continued on jc'age 4.
WEDNESDAY
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y.yiMttf .f, "
TED HCWLAND
Stage director with the Burrough-How land Players at the Bell Theatre.
uthrang
DEPARTMENT
J
UP AT ELECTION
CANDIDATES FOR OFFICES ARE
NAMED ON THE PRINTED
y BALLOTS
TWO MEN FOR EVERY SITUATION
Several Residents Want to be on First
Official Family After Voting
Is Over Adoption of
New Charter
Candidates for the various offices
of the new city of Molalla have an
nounced their ambitions for the places
at the disposal of the voters on Sep
tember 22.
There are, on the printed ballots,
two candidates for each of the city of
fices except that of treasurer and the
names of others may be written in on
the spaces that have been provided.
Following is the list that will be
submitted at the election: For may
or, W. W. Everhart, Oliver Robbins;
for alderman, six to be selected, W.
T. Eeherd, J: V. Hariess, Fred M. Hen
riksen, William Mackre'l, L. W. Rob
bins. A. T. Sbnemakp. T ti Tnlivor T
H. Vernon, W. A. Wood; for recorder,
D. C. Boyles, F. H. Dungan; for mar
shal, Fred R. Coleman, L. C .Hubbard;
STORE
MOLALLA
OBS
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OFFICER PLAYS HERO ANE
SAVES MAN FROM LEAP
INTO WILLAMETTE
for treasurer, Fred G. Havemann.
A short time ago the people of the
city voted for incorporation and the
election of the twenty-second will be
the first that the town has held. The
election on the adoption of the new
charter will be held later. .
SUNDAY SCHOOL
ARRANGES ITS WORK
The opening of the new year of
Bible study is to be signalized at the
Congregational church by several spe
cial features leading up to Rally Day
next Sunday morning.
This evening Dr. J. E. Else, of Port
land, a delegate to the World's Sun
day School convention held in Zurich,
Switzerland, last summer, will give
an account of the convention, and the
world-wide importance of organized
Bible study.
On Thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock
there is to be another special feature.
Ail parents of children in the school
are invited to be present to hear two
addresses on the Sunday school, and
for a social hour following, when they
will have an opportunity to get ac
quainted with the teacher of the
school. Rev. H. N. Smith and Mr. W.
S. Hollis, two Sunday school experts
are to give addresses showing what
the Bible school of the church at
tempts to do and how parents may
co-operate with the teachers and of
ficers. Next Sunday morning will be the
grand rally of all the members of the
school in all departments from ' the
toddlers of ihe cradle roll to the vet
erans of the home d apartment. Mrs.
S. .W. Ormsby, of Portfand, a secre
tary of the state Sunday School as
sociation, is to give one story-talks
on "Loyalty,;" the classes are to be
promoted and rearranged and other
special features will take the place of
the usual exercises. Several new
classes are to be organized including
a class for young women in the adult
department, and a beginners class in
the primary department. The new
year of study begins the first Sunday
in October.
OLD CHICAMAGUA
On the ''fiftieth anniversary of the
battle of Chicamauga,, Maade Post,
No. 2, yesterday listened) to addresses
telling of the thrilling events of the
great conflict when the armies march
ed and fought over the mountains of
the south half a century ago.
Captain Shaw, who had just return
ed from Gettysburg, D .McArthur, and
Adjutant General C. A.. Williams, of
Portland delivered addresses along the
same lines. The post had one of the
biggest meetings in many months and
the soldiers listened to the tales of
the battle with interest as the leaders
told of the events hrough which they
had passed so many years before.
CHURCH INSTALLS A
NEW HEATING PLANT
With the new and complete heating
system installed the Methodist church
has what is considered one of the
niost upto-date buildings of its kind
in the city.
The old hot air system was taken
out and the most modern and com
plete system obtainable was put in.
The work was started some- lo days
ago by a Portland firm and the work
is now finished in every detail. The
cost of the change was $700.
Coast League Standings
- W. L. PC.
Portland 91 71 .562
Venice 91 83 .523
Sacramento ..85 78 .522
San . Francisco 84 89 .486
Los Angeles 81 89 .476
Oakland 76 98 .437
Pell Theatre
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
E BURROUGHS -HOWL AND
Players will present this afternoon and evening the
most talked of play of modern times
A three-act Drama of every-day life
A COMPLETE CHANGE OF PICTURES
Commencing Monday, "THE HOUSE OF JONES,"
and tabloid version of the funniest Swede play
ever written, "OLE OLESON"
PRICES -
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TRIES TO JUMP
WHEN AID COMES
POLICEMAN HOLDS ON FOR DEAR
LIFE TO ROPE THAT
SWUNG NEARBY
RAVES AT COP WHO ARRESTED HIM
Does Not Appreciate Rescue and Calls
Ifficial Many Names For
Work He Did Friend
Tries to Tell Story
Grabbing an apparently insane man
by the arm as he leaped off the 25-.
foot cliff which forms the east bank
of the river, Officer Lee French made
Saturday evening, what is considered
one of the most thrilling and sensa
tional rescues ever seen in this city. .
About 6:15 o'clock Officer French
was told of two drunks who were un
dressing on the edge of the cliff that
forms the river bank just above the
bridge. He hurried to the place but,
as oon as the men saw him, the older
one leaped over the edge which is
about 25 feet above the surface of the
water.
Fortunately the officer was able to
get c'ose to the couple before they
noticed him and as the old man 1umo-
ed, he grabbed him by the arm. The
old fallow was strong, with all the
strength of a wild man, and he strug
gled to free himself, yelling and fight
ing all the time.
French, however, hung on with ail
his strength, one hand on his captive
ana the other on a rope, which hung
over the cliff.
Desperate Struggle.
After a desperate struggle, in
which French nearly fell over into the
river several times, the wild man was
pulled away from the edge and with
the assistance of a nearby stranger
was held until a automobile was
brought from the Hedge's stable at
the foot of Sixth stret and the pair
were taken to jail.
Both men were named Wilson, al
though they both claim they" are not
related. The older man was about 60
while the other was near the thirty-fie-year
mark.
At the jail later in the evening,-the
old man, or "Dad," did nothing but
curse everything and everybody. His
rescurer was the object of more than
usual vemon, the mere sight of French
causing the mad man to rave with
hate. The younger one is said to be
in a normal condition, even trying to
ell his pardner that French had saved
his life. .
FORMER CADDY TAKES
n n 1 c ruAUDinhieuio
BROOKLYN, Mass., Sept. 20.
Francis Ouimet, of Boston, aged 20,
an amateur and former caddy. today
won the American open golf champion
ship by taking the play with Harry
Vardon and Edward Ray, two of Eng
land's best golfers. Ouimet's total -score
was 72. Vardon's law score was
11 and Ray's 78.
Six thousand persons composed the
gallery and they gave Ouimet an ova-'
tion at the finish. The new champion
Timn Vtia HtTa ftvim the hio'Coat fiolrt
ever started in the history of the Am
erican open game. Ouimet is the first,
amateur ever winning this event.
At the end of the first nine holes
Ray Vardon and Ouimet were tied
with 38 each.
Ouimet was born and brought up on
the edge of the Brooklyn links, and
has played here all his life. He re
cently captured the state amateur
championship of Massachusetts.
The remarkable performance of the
young golfer puts the nineteenth an
nual open tournament of the United
States Golf Association in a standard
with international competitions".
DIVORCE GRANTED
Birdie C. Gieschen received a di
vorce from Albert H. Gieschen in the
circuit court Saturday and her maiden
name of Birdie C. McDaniel was re
stored. AND 20 CENTS
MATINEES
1:00 P." M. 2:30 P. MV
NIGHTS
7:00 P. M. 9:00 P. M.
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