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MORNING ENTERPRISE, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1913.
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CHURCH LEAGUE PLAN
NEW BASKET BALL ORGANIZA
TION SUGGESTED
With the. First Baptist church rep
resented by four organized basket ball
teams and several other churches in
the city planning to be in the game
within the next few weeks, a scheme
is suggested to form an Oregon City
Church Basket Ball league which
would have a regular schedule and
play for the championship of the city.
The teams of the Baptist church
have been at work for some time and
are showing up well under the coach
ing of Dr. Milliken. No games have
been arranged yet as those in charge
are waiting for other city fives to
form.
"I have had experience with church
teams in the east," said a prominent
member of the Baptist team Tuesday,
"and I believe that we coujd build up
a league in this city that would play
games as fast as any group of quintets
in the county."
GAMES SCHEDULED
Parkplace, Ore., Dec. 16. (Special)
A double headed basket ball game
will be played December 26 when the
boys' and girls 'teams of Canby and
Parkplace schools will meet here. The
games have been well advertised in
both towns and a large number of
boosters of each team will probably
be present.
WARDEN MAKES RAID
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 16. The
most fruitful raid tliat has been
made by Game Warden W. L. Finley
against offenders of the aigrette law
occurred yesterday, when Lillian Her
lein, an actress at a local vaudeville
theatre, was compeled to surrender a
bandeau adorned with 12 dozen of the
forbidden feathers. The longest was
18 inches and the shortest was louger
than any other that has ever been tak
en by the game warden in Portland.
The outfit is valued at $412. The wo
man is frantic with grief and has
threatened proceedings to recover the
ornaments. The confiscation was
made by Mr. Finley after one of the
game wardens, who had witnessed the
performance, had seen the woman
wearing them on the stage.
VICTORY IS SURPRISE
SMITH ENDS IDEA THAT BLACKS
ARE ALWAYS YOUNG
FIGHTERS REMATCHED
SAN FRANCISCO, Call, Dec. 16.
After hours of haggling and wrangling
over money matters, Willie Ritchie
and Harlem Tommy Murphy are re
matched today to meet in a 20 round
contest on the night of Jannuary 23.
.As was expected, Promoter James W.
Coffroth and Jim Buckley, Murphy's
manager, were forced to concede sev
eral points, while the champion stuck
to his demand for a flat $15,000 guar
antee and won out.
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S SPORTING BREVITIES S
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America will be represented by a
soccer football eleven at the 1910
Olympic games at Berlin.
Cleveland golfers now have an in
door course to practice on.
Buffalo will hold the annual Ameri
can Bowling congress championships
next March. Philadelphia will stage
the eighth annual National tourna
ment in Atlantic City next Eastertide.
It looks certain that the United
States will have along wait before
holding the Olympic games. The
president of the International Olympic
committee, Baron Pierre de Coubertin,
says that for the games of 1920 Am
sterdam, Antwerp and Budapest are
all making preparations. Holland,
Belgium and Austria-Hungary are all
in the field already.
Oxford University of England will
send a team of athletes to the annual
relay games of the University of Penn
sylvania to be held nevt April in Phil
adelphia. It will be the first time an
international character has been giv
en these games which attract the star
athletes of this country.
Toronto will give 14 $400 purses for
its light harness ice racing meet which
opens on Christmas day.
iz nothing lse. Gunboat Smith's vic
tory over San Langford should put an
end to the strange notion that negro
heavyweights are immune to the as
saults of time. The idea has been sin
gularly hard to down. Its existence
has caused the white hope situation to
be completely misunderstood.
One glance at Langford's squat fig
are when he landed here from Austra
lia should have been enough to con
vince any one that he was physically
incapable of putting up a real fight
Vet he was expected to wade through
the white hopes with the same ease as
he did before he left these shores.
There were many rumors to the ef
fect that Langford would not overex
ert himself to win. However, from all
accounts of the bout there was no evi
dence that he was not trying his best
Apparently the bout was a duplicate of
the recent Langford-Jeannette affair,
in which Langford was outpointed be
cause he was too slow to avoid rapid
left hand work.
But until Langford is knocked cold
there are many who will refuse to be
lieve that he can be beaten. Bouts be
tween blacks and whites invariably
stir up rumors of prearrangements,
and that there are many prevalent con
cerning the recent affair is not at all
surprising.
What Langford had to gain by losing
to Jeannette and Smith is not appar
ent. There was not enough betting to
amount to anything. From now on the
Boston negro will cease to be a draw
ing card. In fact, his income will be
seriously curtailed if not cut off alto
gether. Until it can be shown where
Langford profited by his poor work it
is unfair to Smith to place any cre
dence in wild minors.
Daily
Christmas Hint
The Bride Will Think This
Centerpiece Lovely
OPPORTUNITY FOR
ROAD ENGINEERS
Can Improve the Present Con
dition of Highways.
MUCH TO CONTEND WITH.
Must Learn to Make the Best of Local
. Conditions Poor Material and Inex
perienced Workers Hamper Progress.
Good Roads Built For Service
One of the principal reasons for the
poor conditions of the roads in many of
our states is the lack of competent en
gineers to handle the work and the at
tendant lack of an educated public
opinion which will demand first class
work in all cases.
The employment of county engineers
has been relatively as much neglected
as the creating of state highway de
partments. It is the exceptional county
where an engineer is regularly em
ployed from one year's end to the
other. In the larger counties, particu
larly those having large towns or cit
ies, the annual expenditures for road
improvement are seldom less than $50,
000, frequently two or three times that
amount.
The usual rule in such counties is fo
have a county engineer who prepares
plans and supervises all work, though
The bride who has just gone to
housekeeping and is collecting a sup
ply of table linen to add to her trous
seau stock will appreciate the center
piece shown In the cut.
The material used is a grayish tan
crash of a soft pliable quality.
The conventional design, which is not
unlike part of a poinsettla flower, is
CENTERPIECE WITE OXUNT EDGE.
carried out in the present instance
with shaded embroidery silks in delft
blups. but to get the holiday spirit into
the gift Christmas shades of red might
be used with fine effect.
The lace edging of the centerpiece is
of el uny colored to match the linen.
Of the 1793 kinds of advice that are
of no use, that to Christmas buyers
is probably most useless.
Sarcastic
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HEAVY TEAPPIO WEARS DOWN SOUTHERN
ROADS.
actual legal control of the work is still
vested in the county commissioners.
For instance, in the great majority of
counties -in Texas the regular annual
income is less than $50,000, and the
whole matter of road improvement in
each county rests with the county
judge and four commissioners, who
constitute the county commissioners'
court. If a bond issue for road im
provement is authorized by the voters
of a county or a district an engineer is
employed to plan and supervise the
construction of the roads. Payment for
such engineering service is made
either as a percentage fee based on the
cost of the work or by a stipulated
salary.
The general improvement of the
country is pushing the road question
to the front. Counties in large num
bers are issuing bonds for good roads
every mouth. It is very important
that the taxpayers get a dollar's worth
of road for each dollar expended.
Roads must be built so well that they
will give service and at, the same
time not be prohibitive In cost In
many sections the engineer is at once
confronted with the fact that he must
build a road of material that would
be quickly rejected under the standard
specifications. It therefore becomes
necessary to so adapt his materials
and so regulate the character of work
manship and the consequent cost of
the road that its serviceableness will
be commensurate with its cost
Much progress has already been
made toward adapting local material
to road construction, but much more
remains to be done. There is oppor
tunity for every engineering college to
render valuable service to its state
by a. study of these oroblems. There
BROWN KICKS FIRST GOAL
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Supplied by wew rrocess electro corujiauuu ..
When the thousands of spectators had assembled at the Polo Grounds In New York City to witness the
annual conflict between the Army and Navy teams the assemblage included New York's ultra fashionable set,
the president of the United States and many men prominent in public and private life and nearly every . famous
college player. Although each team had its ardent admirers and followers there was an under-current of feeling
that the Navy team was going to carry off the laurels and when Brown of the Annapolis team kicked the goal
from placement, which resulted in the first scoring of the game between the two services, the eyes of almost ev
ery player were glued on the pigskin which is seen sailing between the posts. "A walkover for the Navy" was
the general verdict of the stands at this moment.
CONTAINS
Two Paring Knives-with
steel blades and waterproof handles
One high grade Can Opener, tempered cutter
ilnnnipn" KITCHEN
iflFDFISB set
(3 Pieces)
If you send in a year's subscription to the OREGON CITY ENTERPRISE. It makes no dif
ference whether it is yours or your neighbor's, or whether it is new or old.1 Send in the sub
scription and we will send you the set by return mail. We have only a limited number of
these and the offer will close December 31 unless we run short before that time.
Is still greater opportunity for every
practicing highway engineer to thus
aid in the development of his country
and thereby put his own future success
beyond all serious question.
High Cost of Poor Roads.
The cost of bad roads is strikingly
set forth by William C. Eedfield, secre
tary of commerce in President Wilson's
cabinet, in this manner:
The inefficiency arising from bad
roads ' makes it cost something like
$300,000,000 a year to cart our cotton
crop from the fields to the railway sta
tions. I think few people realize the
immejise tax put on us all by bad roads
and iHefflcient handling.
I have said that if our farmers once
realized the awful tax that bad roads
impose upon them public opinion would
sternly demand the making and main
taining of good roads everywhere. It
now costs the farmer twelve yes.
twenty or more times as much per ton
mile to move his goods to the railway
station as it does to move them on the
railway after they leave the station.
The farmer, indeed, in bad cases and
at certain seaspns may have to pay as
much as $1 a ton mile, while the rail
road carries the freight when it once
gets it at an average of three-quarters
of a cent per ton mile.-
IS
BOON TO FARMERS
(Western Stock Journal.)
The days of the open range for cat
tle in Oregon are past. The great un
fenced ranges in Eastern and Central
Oregon ,are rapidly being cut up am!
fenced into smaller tracks. With this
change comes the necessity of grow
ing feed for the stock and farmers and
stock raisers of Central Oregon are
turning to the production of corn and
are demonstrating to the world that
they can grow it to advantage.
One of the centers of this agricult
ural industry in Malheur County is
Brogan. Quoting from the Sunday
Journal of November 16, we reprint a
letter from H. C. Skinner of that city:
"An item of great importance, great
er perhaps than the fruit shipments,
is the amount and quality of corn
which has been produced in and near
Brogan. It was raised in a corn coun
try and on a farm and I have never
seen any better, larger or better ma
tured, corn than has been produced in
this section.
"Messrs. Lanoir, Addington. Love
less, Breedlove, Woodard, Wagner,
Coleman and Mitchell have produced
a large acreage of splendid corn.
"No better corn can be shown in
Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska or any of the
Middle West states. These states
have become rich through this great
est of all food production and it is sa'ie
to predict that Malheur county will in
the end "derive wonderful prosperity
from corn. It will bring thousands to
the country and will promote the cat
tle fattening industry beyond all pre
cedent. Hogs will be shipped out of
this section in- trainloads as soon as
it becomes generally known what can
be done with corn.
"Brogan is particularly well situ
ated for the production of corn and
fruit. Nestled close to the hills on
slightly elevated benches, with the
Willow river canyon gently drawing
the air through its narrow channel,
keeping a perpetual motion, there arc
no late nor early frosts. Corn can be
planted two weeks ahead of any part
of the Middle States and makes a mag
nificent and unchecked growth, matur
ing at least two weeks ahead of those
states.
"Brogan is also fortunate in having
a class of farmers who are progressive
and willing to make trial of different
plants that they may determine that
which will produce.the best.
.-"Thus they have made a hit with
corn in spite of the pessimistic knock
er who has insisted upon cutting wild
hay and feeding sage brush.
"Malheur County has thousands of
acres of grazing land with will grow
the cattle and sheep, and now Bro
gan has demonstrated that they can
furnish the product that will finish
them for the market, thereby getting
the full value of the steer to help
build up our own country." -
This is a testimonial of what can be
and is being, done in various other
parts of the Northwest. Jtfot only have
Malheur county farms, But also farm
ers of other points in Central Oregon
and the Willamette Valley as well,
demonstrated it is a success. Those
who have vtaken up corn growing havo
proven it can be. made a paying crop.
In a few years it should be one of the
most valuable products of the versa
tile soil of Oregon.
. With the output of a large corn
crop at immediate hand, stockraisers
can grow and fatten thousands of hog3
and instead of the Northwest Import
ing a large per cent of its pork, there
will be sufficient for Its consumption
and a surplus for exporting.
Too much stress cannot be laid up
on the selection of the seed corn.
Farmers intending to give this crop a
trial should spare no care or money
to secure the best seed available as it
will pay them in the increased value
of their crop. And this seed should
be selected as early in the season as
possible for, at best, it is not plenti
ful. Do not be in a hurry to judge wheth
er corn- can be grown to advantage on
your land. One season is not a fair
trial. There are failures in corn crops
as well as other grains and although
you may not get a valuable crop the
first year that is no reason you never
will. Success of any kind is only
gained by "sticking to it" and the
farmer who keeps this motto plainly in
sight will eventually harvest a valu
able corn crop here in the Northwest.
BOY TRAMP IS
KILLED BY CARS
(Continued from page 1)
any clue as to his identity. It is pos
sible that he -was about 25 years of
age and had been in the city , but a
short time. On the same train that
mangled the one hobo who was trying
to make his way to a warmer climate,
were other tramps riding in and on
top of the cars from one division end
to the other. " It is also probable that
there were several underneath on the
rods that this boy was trying to reach
and that the freights were both
heavily loaded with tramps traveling
through the country to the south.
At this season of the year, there are
hundreds of them. The city jail has
been filled with them for weeks. At
one time, there were 44 men picked
up around the yards and lodged in the
prison for the night.
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