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WEEKLY ENTERPRISE ESTABLISHED 1868. " -
VOL. 'VI. No. 113.
OREGON CITY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1913.
Pfh Week, Ten Cents.
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TOOZE SPRINGS
WATER REP
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TELLS LIVE WIRES THAT HE
WILL HAVE RESUME OF
ALL WORK DONE
WILL RECOMMEND NOTHING TO CITY
Plans Simply to State What His Com
ffH mittee Has Done and Leave
Rest to Council and
the People
The long anticipated report of the
council committee on pure water, of
which F. J. Tooze is chairman, will be
made tonight at a special meeting of
the city council. The committee has
made an exhaustive investigation in
to three sources of supply the Canby
wells, the Englebrecht wells and Bull
Run; and will have a vast array of
figures to present for the considera
tion of the members of the council
and the people of Oregon City. The
committee will make no recommenda
tions, it being within their province
only to make a report on the source of
water and the probable cost of fur
nishing it to the Oregon City consum
ers. Councilman Tooze made the an
nouncement of the fourth coming re
port at the weekly luncheon of thft
Live Wires of the commercial club
Tuesday.
The Live Wires, through several of
the members, called attention to the
dangerous condition of some of the
Southern Pacific crossings and one of
the Portland Railway Light & Power
Co. crossing on Seventeenth street,
where signal lights or bells should be
installed. Particular attention was
called to the S. P. crossing near Park
place. City Recorder Stipp said the
company would install a signal at its
Seventeenth street crossing.
The following menu was served:
Country Beefsteak
Hashed Brown Potatoes
Boston Baked Beans
Hot Rolls
Stalk Celery Bavarian Cream
Cake Coffee
PORTLAND CLUB WILL
KEEP OLD SITE
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 11. The
Portland Rowing club will remain in
its present home at the foot of Ivan
street for .another year, or perhaps
two. This was decided last night at
the annual meeting, which was the
most enthusiastic and most largely
attended one in a number of years.
The Rowing club now owns the
$8000 mortgage on Rock island and
has an option on a piece of ground
above the Sellwood ferry. It is more
than likely that , the club will decide
to build a club house on the Sellwood
property as it is held to be a more
desirable location.
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SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. . 11. Ex
posed before the recent lobby investi
gation committee of congress by Col
onel Martin H. Mulhall as a traitor to
organized labor, Jacob Tazelaar of
Orange, N. J., was denied the right to
sit as a delegate and driven from the
floor of the convention of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor today by
President Samuel Gompers.'
Tazelaar made a spectacular effort
to secure recognition by the chair and
failing, cried in a loud voice:
"All right; I'll take my medicine."
The committee on credentials re
ported in favor of seating Max Hahn
of Chicago, elected to take Tazelaar's
place. Tazelaar was a member of the
Painters' and Decorators' union, and
prior to the Mulhall investigation was
elected a delegate to the present con
vention. MANY DIE IN LAKE
STORMS; SHIP LOST
CHICAGO, 111., Nov. 11 That
scores perished in the storm which
has been sweeping the Great Lakes
since early Sunday was feared here
today.
All on board the unidentified steam
ship on Gull Rock, Manitou island, in
Lake Superior, were believed to be
doomed. Livesavers failed in repeat
ed attempts to reach the stranded
craft. The vessel's decks were awash
when dawn broke today and the mem
bers of the crew could be seen, lashed
in the rigging. It was believed there
were 26 on- board. Several were
thought to be dead already from ex
posure. It is believed the 600 foot freighter
sighted yesterday floating bottom up
ward off Port Huron is the Amos
Clarke of the Livingston fleet. Life
savers said they thought the vessel
carried a crew of about 40, and were
convinced that all were drowned.
BERTHA WHITE DIES
AT
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Bertha White, a 11-yearold girl of
this' city who has been ill for some
time, died Tuesday afternoon at one
o'clock at the home of her mothefon
Water street.
The parents of the girl separated
some time ago and since each has re
married. The girl has been living
with her mother, Mrs. Cecil, in this
city.
Yet there are few er fatalities in
football than in aviation.
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President Wilson arriving at Princeton, N. J., to vote,, was uproariously greeted by 700 Princeton students,
who cheered and sang coUege songs. " - "
Professor Stockton Axson, the president's brother-in-law, was also at the station to meet him. The presi
dent and Professor Axson started to walk to the polling place, a fire engine house, followed by the students,
who sang "Going Back to Nassau," and demanded a speech. Smilingly, the president said:
"I am here to vote for a very good man for governor, but I am not going to talk politics. It is delightful
to get back and renew pleasant associations. I thank you for your reception."
E SITE OF HEW
CITY POSTOFFiCE
Instead of being next to the Wein
hard building on Main street, the new
postoffice will be on., the corner of
Main street and the alley between
Eighth and Ninth streets. The house
now occupied by Sheriff Ernest Mass
will be torn down and the publicity
building of the commercFal club will
be moved back to its former location.
This change was made so that the
new building can face on an alley. It
will be necessary to open up this al
ley through the block.
The house occupied by the sheriff
will be torn down, the work starting
either the latter part of this week or
the first of next. By the time that
this house is out of the way, the pub
licity building will probably have
been moved.
CREAMERIES ARE
IN DEATH EIGHT
PACKERS SEEM TO PLAN TO GAIN
CONTROL OF ALL OF
THE BUSINESS
FORCE SILL DEALERS TO WALL
Big Interests Use Unfair Means to
Gain Holdnigs is Claim and
Raise Price of Butterfat
Beyond All Reason
That the trust is trying to corner
all of the dairy industries of the north
west and is threatening to drive out
the country manufacturers unless
they "come through," is the report
that has come from Portland where
the interests are centered.
All, through the Willamette Valley,
the dairy industries have been ap
proached by representatives of the
trust and have been offered various
prices for their holdings, it is said.
Some of them have declared that they
would refuse to sell unless they re
ceived a fair premium for the inter
est. "
The designs of the trust are worked
it is said, by boosting the price of but
terfat beyond reason at those points
where the offending creameries are
located and where"those operate who
refuse to sell the business that they
have built up. The small creameries
have but limited capital at their dis
posal and they claim that the big
packers and their associates are push
ing the smaller dealers to the wall
and attempting by all sorts of means
to drive the country creameries out of
the field.
The packing interests are said to
be behind the scheme to corner all of
the creamery and dairy business of
the northwest and to get the business
entirely in their own hands. The re
port is current that the creameries
have been" given a chance to sell and
that, when they have refused, they are
crowded tot the wall until all of the
business is taken from them and the
holdings are worthless.
By such schemes as these, it is
claimed, the trust expects to gain a
hold upon the business of the north
west and particularly at this time
thorugh the Willamette Valley where
many of these creameries and dairies
are located.
Now that the voting Is over for a
little while, people can get ready- to
oe duly thankful on the next holiday.
The Tammany tiger is very ill, but
he is a virile beast
LOST
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"G. P. Rummelin & Sons, Portland,
on lining. Phone Main 99; liberal
reward.
iLED BY 700 STUDENTS, CASTS
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IS ON TRIAL
PUBLISHER FACES CHARGES
MADE BY RECENT GRAND
JURY INDICTMENT
CLAIMS TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR MADE
Comment Tm Court's Action Comes
After First Report is Pub
lished Mistake Not
Noticed by Paper
M. J .Brown, editor of the Courier,
was plaeed on trial in the circuit court
of the county Tuesday on a charge of
libel, growing out of statements that
he is said to have made that, in the
judgment of the grand jury, reflected
upon the integrity of the members
of the former county court.
During the trial, the defense pre
sented testimony to show that the
comment upon the act ' of rebating
taxes by the county court had not
been- done with maiice or with any in
tent to injure the members of the
court. The original publication con
tained a mechanical error, the defense
claims, and the comment that appear
ed in the second publication came
about through a reference to the files
of the Courier in which the original
error was made.
Imputes No Crime.
The court also held that indictment
does not impute a crime for it is not
criminal to say that the county court
was rebating its own taxes when that
court has the right, under the law, to
rebate such taxes as it believes have
been charged improperly, even if the
charges have been, made against the
property of members of the court, it
was held. The court also believed
"that the statement of what the coun
ty officials had the right to do does
not constitute a crime, unless that
statement were made in malice and
with into to injure.
M. J. Brown testified on the stand
that at the time that the statements
were made he had no enemity against
Judge R. B. Beatie of the former
court and that he merely made the
comment upon what he believed to be
the true facts of the case. He said
that the comment upon which the in
dictment had been based was formu
lated upon the original publication in
his own paper and that he had not
checked that report with the original
copy that he had received from -the
county clerk.
Beatie Was Friendly. ",
R. B. Beatie, former county judge
also testified that at the time the pub
lication was made he had no feelings
of animosity toward the defendant
editor and that he hardly believed the
comment was based upon malice.
Frank Moore, for 51 years connected
with the Pioneer Press of St. Paul,
was placed on the stand to tell the
possibility of such typrographical er
rors as this is said to have been, and
explained how easy it is for such mis
takes to be made. H. B. Cartlidge, su
perintendent of the mechanical de
partment of the Enterprise, was called
as a witness to testify to the same
feature of the case.
County Clerk Will L. Mulvey said
that he had furnished the copy of
the report to the Courier while Sher
iff Mass said that the original publi
cation was in error and . . sustained,
generally, the contentions of the de
fense. Argument Opens.
Late in the afternoon, argument on
the issues began, Gilbert Hedges,
the new county attorney, held that
the editor should have gone into the
court house and records before making-such
a comment, knowing the pos
sibilities for mistakes that exist in ev
ery print shop and the chance of er
ror that every plant faces. He con
tended that the possibility of error in
creases the necessity for care on the
part of the editors of papers and the
men whose duty it is to review the
acts of others. He believed that com
ment reflecting upon any man should
not be published until such time as
the editor of the paper had had" the
COURIER EDITOR
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. The ad
ministration was more confident to
day than for some time past that
President Huerta of Mexico will retire
shortly. .
No reason was given for this belief
but it was understood that several
other foreign diplomats at Mexico
City have joined American Charge
d'Affaires O'Shaughnessy and Emis
say John Lind in exerting such pres
sure upon him as it was thought im
possible he could not long resist.
Co-operation of the Central American
governments with the United States'
policy was counted on, following a
conference last night between Secre
tary of State Bryan and the Central
American ministers here.
TICK SERVICE
TO BE OPENED
PORTLAND CONCERN PLANS LINE
BETWEEN CITY AND
METROPOLIS
MAKE RUN THREE TIMES DAILY
Five-ton Autos to be Used in New
Freight Road and All Goods to
and From City Would
be Taken
A plan is being formed by several
Portland automobile men to estab
lish a regular three-tlmes-a-day auto
truck freight service between the two
cities. A number of the merchants
of Oregon City have been approached
and the general opinion appears to be
Favorable.
The idea is to have the big five-ton
trucks make regular rounds in Port
land and pijk up the freight from the
various companies shipping to this
city and then deliver direct to the
Oregon City persons or firms receiv
ing the goods.
This would eliminate the added ex
pense of expressage between the ship
per and the docks or freight yards in
Portland and again from the cars or
ioats to the receiver. The same plan
would work in shipping the goods
from Oregon City to Portland.
Three trucks would be used, each
with five tons as capacity loadst and
each of these trucks would make a
round trip each day.
The would not be - the first time
such a plan was worked out in the
neighborhood )f Portland. Already
there is a regular express service be
tween Portland and Linton, and be
tween Portland and St. Johns. Both
of these trips seem to be paying prop
ositions although the rate is the same
as railway and quicker service is
established.
If supreme courts are right, circuit
judges must know very little alw. But
do supreme judges know more?
opportunity to thoroughly check over
every feature of the matters involved
and to fairly determine whether or
nqt that men were at fault. v
Time Elapses. .
Walter Dimick opened the case for
the defense. He pointed out that the
mistake had been committed and that
34 days had elapsed since the original
publication without the attention of
the editor being called to the mistake.
He believed that . the defendant had
the right to assume, after such an in
terval, that his report was correct and
that there had been no error com
mitted. The case will be continued Wednes
day morning and will probably reach
the jury by 10:30 o'clock. Dimick &
Dimick, U'Rren & Schubel, and H. E.
Cross are attorneys for the defense
while Gilbert Hedges represents the
state.
IS'
VISITING IN OREGON
W. A. Bowen, one of the sugar mag
nates of Honolulu is in Oregon with
his wife, visiting their cousins, M. E.
Thompson, of Portland, and W. W.
Thompson, of Cornell. Mr. Bowen
has been before the sugar investigat
ing committee of congress, and feels
that the removal of the tariff seriously
threatens the prosperity of that line of
industry in the islands. He is noted
as a public-spirited citizen and phil
anthropist, giving much of his time
to industrial and aducational nstitu
tions for the benefit of the alien races
of the island. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Dye
were invited to dine with them last
evening at Covell, Mr. Bowen having
been a college acquaintance thirty
years ago at Oberlin college.
Especially were these Honolulu vis
itors delighted with Oregon roses. On
account of the Japanese beetle, roses
are practically destroyed in Hawaii,
or are grown with much difficulty.
Mrs. Bown has a ro;li house construct
ed of fine wire gauze, for the protec
tion of ker bushes. They leave in a
few days for their home voyage.
BROTHERHOOD TO HOLD
ITS MONTHLY MEETING
The Men's Brotherhood of the First
Congregational church will hold its
monthly meeting and supper Tuesday
evening n the parlor of the church.
Attorney Westbrook and William Mc
Kenzie are the speakers. The form
er will speak on "The Laboring Man
and the Church," from the view point
of the labor organization.
Perhaps the administration at
Washington will somehow unseat Hu
erta, but it seems to be no easy job.
WAGON FOR PUPILS
IS PLAN OF BOARD
Hereafter every student attending
the West Linn school and living two
miles or over from that institution
will be hauled to school every morn
ing and home every evening by a wag
on furnished by the school board, ac
cording to a plan adopted by that
bedy at ameeting held in West Linn
school Tuesday evening.
There has been considerable talk
for some time concerning such a plan.
Fourteen of the students live so far
from the school building that in case
of rain or stormy weather it is almoot
impossible for these pupils to get to
school. Various schemes have been
suggested that would relieve the situ
ation, but this appeared to be the
most feasible.
Another improvement was adopted
by the board that will make it easit"
for the pupils to go to school. Ibis
is building steps up the steep hill be
tween. Bolton and the school. t
present these is nothings but a steep
path which, it is said, requires he
combined strength of hands and I'.gs
to climb.
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LAribL UCLlUAUUN Anhmo iMt
Special Train Met at Destination by
Reception Committee and
Escorted to Masonic
Temple
One hundred and fifteen members of
Martha Washington Chapter, No. 14,
came to Oregon Citv bv sDecial train
last evening as the guests of Pioneer
Chapter, No. 28. A number of past
grand matrons and patrons attended,
also .Mrs. Nellie McKinley, grand
secretary, 'und Mrs. Lelah Shields,
grand Ada. The visitors were wel
comed by the worthy matron, Mrs.
Maggie Gardner, and associate mat
ron, Mrs. Elizabeth Matheson. Worthy
Patron Clarence L. Eaton conferred
the impressive ritualistic degree work
upon five candidates, Mr. and Mrs.
O. D. Eby, Percy Caufield, Harold A.
Swafford and Raymond Caufield, in
the presence of two hundred members
of the order.
The reception committe, of which
Mrs. John Clark was chairman, intro
duced the guests and provided : for
their entertainment.
The banquet hall was elaborately
decorated and the long flower-laden
tables formed a fitting background
for the beautiful gowns in evidence."
During the banquet several musical
selections were given, and speeches cf
welcome made the new members, to
which they responded in a happy man
ner. aiinu onnu umro
H1WI OUUil KUILd
ON ITS NEW CHARTER
Sandy will hold a special election
next Friday to vote on its new char
ter. This new charter is merely, the
old one revised with a few changes
added. :
One of the principal provisions in
the charter will give Sandy authority
to issue bonds. It is thought that in
case Uie charter carries, money will
be raised at once by this means for
various improvements about the city.
PIONEER DEACON WILL
LEAD CHURCH SERVICE
James Wilkinson, a deacon of the
: First Congregational church for more
than 40 years, will lead the prayer
i meeting Thursday night, the subject
being, "Lessons from the Life of
Moses."
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