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WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 1866
VOL. VI. No. 107.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1913.
Pee Week, Ten Cents.
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ELECTRIC CAR MANGLES FORMER HIGH SCHOOL BOY
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OREGON
GITY
DRY
STRONGHOLD
PEOPLE AT LAST AWAKE TO
,'" VOTE OUT SALOONS AND
I GIVE BIG MAJORITY
HiLL dttllUn iUMtS UUI S
Women Play Important Part in . De
termination of Issue and Resi
dent Portions Are
Against Traffic
WET AND DRY VOTE
For Prohibition 947
Against Prohibition 759
Majority 188
J Q 3 $$ SSe$JSS3
Oregon City has gone dry and with
a vote that has exceeded the fondest
expectations of the staunchest "pro
hie" Whorl tho emnUo nf th haH
had cleared away at twelve o'clock
last night, the total Oregon City re
turns shows a healthy majority of 188
votes.
Seldom has a more exciting political
race been held in Oregon City. The
wets took the lead from the jump in
practically all four of the city pre
cincts and in Ward No. 1, this lead
was maintained throughout the count,
the wets pollings a majority of 57
-.when-the final count was reached m
that precinct. .But in the other three
wards theA"drys" held' the lead when
the final ballots were checked up.
Hill Votes Dry.
The strongest of the drys, as "was
predicted, was on the hill section in
Ward No. 3. Here the women landed
a most telling solar plexus in the
cause of temperance, and out of a
total of 501 votes cast, but 159 were
for the wet3. Three hundred and
thirty-four, and a large part of them
women,-were against the saloons.
Indications at Ward No. 1 are that
a large number of the mill men voted
wet, for the lead of practically 50 was
maintained "throughout the errant.
The drys, however, had conceded this
ward to go by about 75, expecting a
reaction on the hill section. Another
one of the surprises of the election
was the vote in Ward No. 2. 502
votes were cast here, 211 wet and 27S
dry, leaving a clean majority of 67 for
the prohis. Pre-election dopsters had
figured that the down town ward
would be strong for the drys, and had
based their hopes for victory on
Wards 1 and 2. Out at Green Point
the race was neck and neck and when
Major Noble sounded the final call
the drys were leading by the scrimpy
majority of three votes 190 dry and
187 wet.'
The tabulated result by wards, with
the majorities in each follow:
Result.
Ward No. I
Votes cast ... 355
For prohibition 145
Against prohibition . ; ....... .202
Majority . wet 57
Ward No. 2 .
Votes cast 502
For prohibition . . 278
Against prohibition ...211
Majority dry 57
Ward No. 3 .
Votes cast ' 501
For prohibition . .334
Against prohibition -.159
Majority dry 175
Ward No. 4
Votes cast t 380
For prohibition . ..190
Against prohibition 18? j
Majority dry 3
Not a Surprise.
The result on the liquor question in
Oregon City was not 'a surprise at all.
The drys have maintained an excell-.
ent campaign and the feeling has been
j-rvalent on the streets that Oregon
City would go dry by a fair vote. The
saloons, however, will not close until
January 1, 1914, the law providing
almost two months for them to wind
up their affairs. It is said that al-
most of the saloon buildings, so it is
" evident that the structures -will not
stand yawning for a very long per
iod, as predicted by the wets in their
weak arguments tor the saloon.
Too much credit cannot be given
the committee of 100 well-known busi
ness and church people who engi
neered the victory, and who have giv
en their time for the last week to
make, a personal canvass on behalf of
prohibition. Indications point to a
great number of Willamette Valley
towns going dry in tonight's election,
among which Salem stands out with
a clean-cut majority.
Money would last a good deal long
er if it was as difficult to spend as
it is to acquire.
Yet grape juice diplomacy may be
better than whiskey diplomacy.
WANTED!
Women and Girls
Over 18 Year Old
To operate sewing match nee in
' garment factory
Oregon City Woolen
Mills
LOSES
NEW YORK STATE
NEW YORK,, Nov. 4. Tammany
was beaten in New York by the big
gest majority that has been polled in
that state in recent years.
Sulzer was elected to the assembly;
Massachusetts and Maryland elected
democratic governors while other im
portant changes were made by yes
terday's election.
Following are some of the import
ant results:
New York City. John Purroy Mit
chel, fusionist, elected mayor by 75,
000 plurality over McCall, Tammany
democrat.
Ex-governor Sulzer elected to as
sembly by large plurality.
New York state Republican victory
for assembly and state judiciary indi
cated. Massachusetts David I. Walsh,
democrat, elected governor by prob
ably 50,000. Gardner, republican, and
Bird, progressive, close for second
place. Governor Foss, independent,
, fourth.
j Maryland Blair Lee, democrat,
elected to United States senate
j Virginia Henry C. Stuart, demo
crat, elected governor; unopposed.
Congressional Third Massachu
settsCalvin D. Paige, republican;
succeeds a republican, the late Wil
liam P. Wilder.
Thirteenth New. York George W.
Loft, democrat; succeeds a democrat,
the late "Big Tim" Sullivan.
Twentieth New York Jacob A.
Cantor, democrat; succeeds a demo
crat, Rrancis Burton Harrison, now
governor-general of Philippines.
Third Maryland Charles R. Coady,
democrat; succeeds a democrat, the
late George Konig.
TWO MEASURES
ARE BEATEN
MAJORITY OE PRECINCTS AGAINSf
PEOPLE REFUSE TO ALLOW
CREASE IN SALARY OF
SUPERINTENDENT
General Sentiment Shown Through
Several Districts Library
Tax Fails to Carry in
Most Sections
Both the salary increase for County
Superintendent Gary and the library
tax measures were defeated by the
people at the polls Tuesday. The fig
urges are based on returns from 22
out of 44 precincts.
Through the county, the apposition
to both of these propositions was gen
eral and the people in a majority of
the precincts turned the tide against
them when they were submitted. The
question of the increase in the salary
of the superintendent did not meet
with general favor in spite of the ef
forts of his friends to show that the
official head of the education institu
tions of the county was receiving less
than many of his teachers.
Though the county districts of the
state would have received the greatest
share of the benefit, under the plan
of the tax, the pople througout the
county refused to tolerate an increase
and the measure was voted down.
The plan of the tax enabled the
authorities of the city library to send
the books all over the county and to
establish branches of the library in all
of the county districts under the su
pervision of the county court. The
commissioners - would have been
authorized, had the measure carried,
to levy, a special tax for this purpose.
The vote is as follows:
School superintendent measure
For 1463
Against 1772
Library tax -
For ..1524
Against .... 1623
BARLOW ADDS FIVE
FAMILIES TO CITY
Five families, one of them with nine
children, have come from Oklahoma
to Barlow in the past few days be
cause of ardent letters written after
the Barlow exhibit was shown at the
Salem state fair.
Letters from Mr. Melvin, of Barlow,
told his former friends in Oklahoma
of the climate of the country but not
until he saw the exhibit of the com
munity in which he had settled were
J they descriptive enough to induce
'those friends to leave their state and
; come to Oregon.
j As a result, five of his friends have
j brought their families and have set
i tied in Barlow in the past few days.
I The new houses are in the course of
; construction in the city. The infor
' mation was contained in a letter to
Secretary O. E. Freytag of the Oregon
City Commercial club.
"Charlie" Gates had the short and
merry life that we have heard about.
STATE BILLS
ARE
CARRIED
ENACTMENTS OF LEGISLATURE
MEET WITH . APPROVAL
OF VOTERS
STERILIZATION ACT IS DOWNED HARD
Overwhelming Majority Buries Bill
Under Mass of Votes Many
Precincts Are Yet Un
reported Throughout the state, all but one
of the measures that had been sub
mitted to the people by referendum
carried by decided majorities.
Within the next few days, Governor
Oswald West will issue the proclama
tion that will make them law. Only
the sterilization act brought down the
condemnation of the entire state and
the measure was overwhelmingly '
killed.
The University of Oregon sailed
through with flying colors in its ap
propriations for the support and im
provement of the institution. The
authorities had asked the legislature
for the appropriation of $175,000 for
the erection of several new buildings
and the improvements of those that
were already on the institution
grounds.
The referendum was slapped on to
these measures by Portland persons
who believed that . the institution
should be combined with the agricul
tural college at Corvallis, and whose
ambitions lie in the direction of such
a consolidation. They even propose
to latter bring measures before the
legislature asking for the consolida
tion and they contend that such ap
propriations in the meantime would
be extravagant and wasteful. The peo
ple of the state, however, voted for
the support of the university and for
such improvements as it needs as
long as it is located where it now is
and decided to determine the other is
sues later.
The county attorney act became law
by the wish of the people at the. polls.
The measure contains considerable in
terest for Clackamas county because
of the fact that the governor has ap
pointed Gilbert L. Hedges as attorney
for this county under the provisions
of that law. The measure will take
away the position of district attorney
and will create a county attorney for
each county.
The workmen's compensation act
was heartily approved throughout the
state in spite of the fact some of the
precincts have not yet sent in their
returns and others have only reported
partial statements of the votes.
Enough have been reported, however,
to make certain that the measure has
carried.
The sterilization act went down to
an ignominious death at the polls and
was buried in the mass of votes that
were .piled up against it. The people
showed conclusively that they did not
approve of such a measure and they
they would not permit its being en
acted into law. The act provided for
the unsexing of habitual criminals
both in the state penitentiary and the
insane asylum.
In addition, Clatsop county voted
$400,000 for the construction of roads
through that county which will mean
the improvement of the Columbia
highway. Salem went dry by a vote
of 491 to 46. Joseph, Oregon, went
wet while Sherwood, after being in
the wet column 20 years, went dry by
four votes.
Hood River recalled its entire coun
ty court by a heavy majority after an
exciting campaign.
The Dalles is wet by 74 votes.
TIGER TRAPPED IN
HIS OWN HOME LAIR
NEW YORK, Nov. 4. The vote for
mayor, with 240 out of 1780 district
missing, follows:
McCall, 204,599; Mitchel, 297,102;
Russell, 26,838.
For president of the board of alder
men, 1170 out of 1780 district give:
Glouden, 158,535; McAneny, 183,939.
NEW YORK, Nov. 4 Fusion car
ried New York City today, electing
John Purroy Mitchel mayor by ap
proximately 75,000 plurality and re
taining control of the important board
of estimate by a safe margin.
-Tammany Hall saw its nominee for
mayoralty, Edward E. McCall, go
down to defeat by one of the biggest
pluralities ever given against a candi
date of the organization, and at mid
night it looked as if it mighe not save
even the New York county offices
out of the wreckage.
The big vote for Mitchel pulled
through the fusion candiates for pres
ident of the board of aldermen and
controller George McAneny and Wil
liam A. Prendergast against whom
the Independence league and the
democratic organization candidates
were running.
NEW YORK, Nov. 4. Fifteen steers
escaped from a slaughterhouse yard
on the banks of the North river today
and for about an hour held undisputed
possession of Fifth avenue. They
trotted up the avenue ' for about 17
blocks and then trotted back again.
"GETS"
If a game warden had met Frank
Talbert, one of the substantial farm
ers of Clackamas county Friday morn
ing, he would surely have "caught
him with the goods on," for Frank
came trudging out of the woods with a
China pheasant and he did not have
a sign of a hunter's license on him,
says the Portland Telegram. And to
make it sound like a fairy tale, Frank
would have told the plausible story
that as he was hurrying along to
work on the new Portland & Oregon
City railroad via an unfrequented
road through the woods, the afore
mentioned bird fell from the blue
above and hit him squarely on the
head.
That is what really happened The
bird weighted about three pounds and
it nearly felled Talbert. Just an in
stant before he heard a shot near the
main road, 75 yards to the left and,
when the bird tumbled upon him with
out warning he thought he was shot
and according to his own tale he
jumped three feet high and seven feet
to one side.
The bird it is said, had been potted
by Nils Lundin, another farmer, who
is putting in his winter on the rail
road. He was almost as much sur
prised as Talbert to learn he had hit
the bird, because it disappeared into
the woods -when he shot and he
thought he had missed it. . They set
tled ownership of the bird by giving
it to R. L. Ringer for his Sunday din
ner. The pen may be mightier than the
sword, but the sword-swallower earns
more money than the poet. .
OWNERS WANT
LOWEST
OBJECT TO ACTION OF THE COUN
CIL IN MAKING STREET
AWARDS
BELIEVE CONTRACTOR INCOMPETENT
Circulate Petition in Which They Pro
test Against Decision on High
Street Improvement at
Last Session
Property owners along High street
are up in arms over the action of the
city council in awarding the bid to
the Shea Construction company for
the improvement of that street.
They have started an investigation
and propose to take the matter be
fore the council at its meeting Wed
nesday night. They cannot see why
the council awarded the work on the
street to the bidder whose estimates
were $700 higher than that of the Ore
gon Engineering & Construction com
pany for the same improvement and
they propose to flatly ask the council
why it was done.
A petitions was started through the
district Tuesday in which -the proper
ty owners asked for the hearing of the
objections to the bid and declared that
they did not propose to pay the extra
$700 on the assessment without a bet
ter reason than had been given. They
will a.sk the reasons for the award of
the bid and believe that an improve
ment entailing an outlay of $30,000
should have been given to the lowest
bidder and to one. whom they be
lieve is responsible. They contend
that the present bidder is not capable
of handling the work and that he can
not get the bonds to cover the possi
ble damage to the city that are re
quired by the provisions of his con
tract. These statements are made in
the petition and several of the prop
erty owners have been in to see May
or Linn E. Jones about the rescinding
of such an action of the city council.
IMCOMPLETE RETURNS
SHOW COUNTY VOTE
The folowing are the incomplete re
turns on the state-wide measures
from Clackamas county, received up
to Enterprise pressime this, morning.
The report is from 21 precincts com
plete and 1 precinct incomplete:
State university building repair
fund
For .v .1048
Against .. 1771
Sterilization act
For 943
Against 1847
County attorney act
For 1485
Against .- 1193
Workman's compensation act
For 2000
Against 891
LOST .
Mink collar, satin lined ,with name
"G. P.JRummelin & Sons, Portland,
on lining. Phone Main 98; liberal
reward.
BD
COUNTY JAIL
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OLD GRAND JURY WANTS IM
PROVEMENTS MADE IN
PRISON
SHERIFF HAS MANY NEW IDEAS
Believes That Statements Are True
"and Says Present Hold Can be
Bettered at a Slight
Expense
"Unsanitary and unsafe" is the
characterization of the grand jury of
the county after an inspection of the
county jail.
The jury went through the county j
prison and examined the conditon of
the place during its term. After it had
seen some of the dark cells and the
ventilation of the room, it recom
mended that the county court make
such changes in the place as should be
suggested by Sheriff E. T. Mass.
The sheriff has for sometime
argued that the county jail is not in
the condition' that is best for the
health of the prisoners who are await
ing trial or are held pending an ex
amination by the grand jury. After
considering the situation, the sheriff
believes that he needs a new stell cell
the entire length of the room on one
side and built large enough to hold
eight or 10 men.
He also thinks that he ' needs a
padded cell for the insane whom he
sometimes has to keep in the county
jail for a few days until they can be
sent to the state asylum. As it is
now, he has no such place and the in
sane have to be quartered in the same
cells that the other prisoners are
held. '
lee Our
AD
HA
Of MEN'S G
opened at
Adams Department Store
Let us show you the Yale Shoe, the Har
vard Shoe and the Princeton Shoe for men.
The Dougherty, the Queen Quality, and
the Utz & Dunn's Selz Shoe for Women.
ADAMS DEPARTMENT STORE
1ZER SLAPS HIS
POLITICAL ENEMIES
NEW YORK, Nov. 4. William Sul
zer, ousted from the governorship of
New York last month by a verdict of
a high court of impeachment, was
elected to the state assembly today
from the Sixth district by a sweeping
plurality estimated at an early hour
at 2000 or more. He ran on the pro
gressive ticket and apparently polled
more votes than his republican and
democratic opponents combined. Old
neighbors on the east side - rallied
strongly to his support.
There was jubliation unbounded in
the ex-governor's headquarters as the
count recorded his victory. Sulzer
himself was all smiles. He regarded
his triumph as a personal vindication,
he said, and issued a statement thank
ing his supporters -and denouncing
Charles F. Murphy, leader of Tam
many hall.
BOY HIT BY WAGON;
IS
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Alexander Hein, the ten-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Gustav Hein, of
Clackamas Heights, was knocked off
his bicycle on Main street at 12:30
p. m. o'clock Tuesday by the express
wagon of John Montgomery and is
suffering from a badly injured wrist
and leg and probably from slight in
ternal injuries.
The Hein boy with a friend, named
Forsythe, was riding down Main
street near Eighth street when the
wheel of his. bicycle caught in the car
tract so that it was impossible for the
boys to steer away from the middle
of the street. The express wagon
was coming down the street and the
boy called at the driver, but, it is said,
that the latter paid no attention to
their cries.
The exact extent of the injuries of
the boy is not definitely known.
Big Window Display
500 pairs of Men's
heavy waterproof shoes
is a Big Shipment, but
that is only a small part
of the tremendous ship
ments of shoes recently
BODY CRUSHED
BENEATH WHEELS
MEMBER OF HIGH SCHOOL CLASS
KILLED ON HIS WAY
HOME -
TRAIN SUDDENLY BUS IIP TRACK
Alights From Platform When Power
Is Reversed and Three Cars
Pass Over His Body
Before Shut Off i
Shelby Shaver, a young man of th'is
city, was struck and instantly killed
by a south bound Oregon City car
about 5:40 p. m. o'clock Tuesday near
Jennings Lodge.
It appears that the car stopped
about 50 yards past the station and
Shaver alighted from the car and had
started toward the station when the
car also startedback and struck him.
Three cars passed over the body and
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