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r The Lure c lJask' a story of the most alluring character in fiction, is proving popular THE HOOD RIVER NEWS VOLUME 5, NUMBER 48 HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1909 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR Chicago Takes Off Hat Assembly Movement Meets With Favor Boat Lines Are Hot Foot After Business To Hood River Apples Display at Land and Irrigation Exposi tion Viewed By Thousands Who Stand In Awe and Admiration In Front of Display Word from the big expedition be ing held In Chicago 1m to the effect thut the Hood Hirer apple exhibit In creating a Herniation and that thouuauds who dally throng the bulldlngstnnd In front of It In aweand admiration. "No applet like these were ever Heen In Chicago before" was the verdict of hundred of the visitors. Joe Wilson and Sum Camp Itell who are looking after the dls play are kept busy for many hour a day handing out litera ture and telling enquiring strangers about the apples and the Hood Hlver country and grower from other sec tions are taking off their hats to the Hood ICIver fruit an the acme of all apple diHpIayH at the exposition. The Chicago Tribune lu It story about the exposition and which print a carton of Joe Wilson as the exponent of the famous Hood Itlver Valley says: "Former Congressman John F. Lacey of Iowa, for sixteen years chairman of the public lands commit tee In congress, Hpent yesterday af teruoou at the Land and Irrigation show In the Coliseum, and then gave expression to some emphatic conclu sions with reference to the big dis play of offerings from the western states." Standing In front of the Hood Itlver exhibit he said: "This Is the greatest exposition of the second most lcautiful tiling in the world that I have ever seen. "That needs a little explanation," lie added. "I've concluded and a lot of other men feel as I do that the most beautiful thing the Lord ever created was woman. Hut after you have set tleil woman's place it's a contentious problem to pick the runner up. 1 did It years ago. "The second most beautiful thing In the world Is a ripe apple. That's Iteen my belief since the first day that I climbed a tree- lu my father's orchard, pulled a luscious morsel of goodness from a stem and ate even the wed. "If you'll agree with me that the apple Is the second most leautiful thing you know that most beauti ful woman Eve must have had that Hort of a fancy, too, Iwcause she looked around for something pretty: she evidently didn't have a mirror In which to picture herself, and picked out an apple if, as I say, you'll agree with me, then I'll declare that this Is the most remarkable exhibi tion of apples ever collected. "The exposition as a whole Is mag lillU'ent, and during sixteen years In congress, when I was closely assmd ated with the government's Interests In such things, I do not remember having attended such a show where things were so completely and so beautifully arranged. "Hut I do not feel that people of this country pay the attention to or show the gratitude that they should for this (iod given fruit, the apple. It Is the greatest fruit on earth. I 1 say that advisedly. "Do you know that If a man or a woman will eat an apple a day, and particularly such apples as these, they will be as strong and hearty at ESCAPED DEATH BY NARROW MARGIN John Kelsay, an . H. & N. pas senger flagman, escaped death Sat urday night by a narrow margin when ho fell from the rear of east bound train No. (I Into Eagle Creek and was washed out out Into the Columbia Klver. Kelsay wnn getting off the train, which had stopped with the rear car on the Eagle Creek bridge, a short distance below Honnevllle, ami missed his footing. He fell 110 feet Into thv rushing current, which car ried him out Into the river, but being a good swimmer, he managed to get ashore. The engineer whistled for the flag man to come In, and he did not ap pear. An Investigation was made and he watt found crawling up the enbankment. His leg and arm were Injured, anil lie was put to bed In a sleeper, and taken on to his home In IViidlcton. SO yearn of uge as they are at 50? It Is true. No man who uses apples as a part of his regular diet ever Is bothered with rheumatism. No man ever has trouble with his digestive system If he eats an apple a day.' The big apple of the exposition, continues the Tribune, arrived to day. It came from Hood'HIver, packed In tissue paper and cotton. A pedestal has leen erected for this ap ple king In the Hood Itlver exhibit on the second floor of the Coliseum building, and there It will be on ex hibition during the remainder of the exposition. The apple Ih of the Wolf Hlver varl ety. It weighs thirty-seven and one- half ounces anil Is eighteen Inches In circumference. The Hood Hlver exhibit has leen decorated with the Oregon grapevine the state flower. "We feel at home now, for we were a bit lonely without It," nald Joseph A. Wilson. "I'm here about eighteen hours every day, and I don't feel that I am so far away from home with that grapevine." Some Local Pulpit Utterances It Is in the perversion of the truth that we have the most dangerous errors. It Is in the misconceptions of the Christian life that we have the gross est perversions of that life. It Is lu the misapplication of the precepts of Jesus Christ that we have the worst abuses of the Christian life, and of lire Itself. The life of Christ In his human re lations, associations, obligations and respon- Mlltles unci works Is the licst Interpretation of the truths he taught. Christ announced no truth higher and greater than the life he lived, and his life among men In claim and ser vice Is the best and truest Illustra tion of the Christian life. The Christian life is not simply a creed, or confession, though faith and confession are necessary; It Is not an enthusiastic profession al though It Is a profession which should be characterized by enthusi asm. The Christian life Is not an efferves cent manifestation of cxnlicrancy of the soul, but an abiding principle within, the real life of Christ, work ing out along the lines of our activ ity; It Is the life of Christ lived over again by men. RED CROSS STAMPS ARE NOW READY The sale of Hed Cross stamps for Christmas packages has been taken np this year at Hood Hlver by the Woman's Club ami It Is excctcd that they will prove even more pop ular than they did last year, when Hood Hlver had the distinction of selling more stumps than any place In the state except Portland. As was the case last year the mon ey from the stamps will be contrib uted to the fund for the fight against the great white plague. To create Interest anil place the stamps on sale throughout the city and valley Mrs, J. F. Katchcldcr, president of the Woman's Club has appointed eoni uiittces. They are on sale at the drug and other stores, and Host master Yates has kindly allowed the ladles to place a table In the lobby of the post ollice for their sale. Mrs. A. J. (iraham has been appointed chair man of the central committee, Mrs. Wm. Kerr chairman of the east side committtee, Mrs. W. J. I ngalls chair man of the west side committee and Mrs. ( has. Castner will act In this capacity on the heights. These ladles will distribute the stamps and look after the collections of sales. Death of Charles (inbrlet Charles Gabriel, a well known resi dent of Hood Itlver, died Thursday morning at the residence of his son In Portland. Death was caused by paralysis from which Mr. (iabrlel had been a sufferer for some time. The body wns brought here for burial, the funeral living held Satur day afternoon from the Haptlst church, Itev. C. A. Nut ley conducting the services. Interment was In Idle wlhle cemetery. At an Informal meeting held under the auspices of the Union Republican Club In Portland last Wednesday evening to consider the Republican assembly movement a resolution was adopted the purport of which Is to have the voters In every precinct elect delegates to the county assem blies and the county assemblies select delegates to the state convention. This Is the solution to a difficult question which has been debated by politicians for the past six months. In addition to making this sugges tion, the meeting also passed resolu tions upholding the direct primary law. The principal speaker of the evening was former Senator C. W. Fulton, who made an Impromptu address on the need of an assembly. Judge Henry E. McGinn was Invited to speak, and the Judge strongly op posed the assembly plan. Other speakers who favored the calling of assemblies were Prof. John Gregg of Portland, J. H. Wlthycomb and J. H. Ackerman. Mr. Fulton explained that there was no foundation for the charge that the men who are advocating an assembly are attempting to un dermine the primary law. He de clared that conventions were neces sary and that Instead of depriving the people of power, they enable the voters to exercise this power. The charge has Iteeu made that the as sembly would le controlled by a few men. To this the senator asserted j Fruit Land! Again Are If Outsiders Get Cold Feet Local Men Beat Them To ItTr.t All Over Valley Qo at Rising Prices Despite Bad Weather Not withstanding the bad weather during the past month land sales have gone a humming. The demand for Hood Hlver fruit land shows no let np and prill's on the average are soaring. Ten acres more of the ake & ltolton tract In young trees was sold yesterday by C. A. Cass to Norm Young for $10,000 after a pros pective Iowa purchaser to whom it had been offered for $ 1,54K1 got cold feet. This Is the second sale at $1,000 an acre from the Lake & Holton tract, C. A. Mosely having recently paid $10,000 for ten acres. Another Instance that local men know a good thing when they see It, when outsiders get weak In the knees, wns the purchase of ten ncres of the Hadford place by L. W. Hills for $17,000 after It had tteen turned down by a Chicago man who had made a payment on it. One of the Important sales dining the month was the purchase by J. H. j Shelton for a friend, of the fine twen ty acre place of O. C. Kinsman, for which he paid $21,000. This Is Mr. j Shelton's second purchase. The sale was made by J. H. Ilellbronner & Co. Another sale by the Ilellbronner Company was the purchase by (1. J. Watson, the young attorney who re cently came here from New York, of a ten acre on-hard of young trees liK-ated near Hood Hlver at $10,000 or $1000 an acre. Among the lands which were transferred last week was 100 acres DESCHUTES RIVER CLEANSJUT CAMPS The Deschutes river broke away from its traditional eveness of tetn-M-r and became a raging torrent last week netting out of Its embank ment and making things Interesting In general for the contractors of the Deschutes Hallway and the Oregon Trunk Line. The stream rose 10 feet In 24 hours. Two camps Itelonglng to Twohy Brothers were swept nway with tents, bunk houses, supplies, In fact, the camps were cleaned out. One of the Porter P.rot hers' ramps which Is situated upon a higher piece of ground was entirely surrounded by wnter and deserted owing to the Inability to get supplies to the men. At one of Tony ScnrM'IH's camps, near the government dam site, the river was out of Its banks and a rushing torrent. that If the assembly did not recom mend good men for the nominations the people have the privilege of nom inating others and that, in any event the men recommended by the assem bly have to file individual petitions the same as other candidates. That all Important achievement can only bo brought about through organiza tion was the assertion of Mr. Fultou, and he Illustrated this point. Pres ervation of the party was urged by the speaker and this preservation was recommended through the as sembly system. He advocated the boliling ol elections in precincts so that the voters could elect the dele gates to the assemblies and all have a free voice. If three or four men can meet on a street corner and agree to support a number of candidates, Ful ton declared that 5"MJ or lotto men can meet and agree to support a list of nominees. The former seuator de clared that it was only through or ganization that the labor people bad been able to accomplish anything and that since their organization their progress had been rapid. Judge McGinn outlined the old po litical conditions under the conven tion system and expressed himself as fearful that they would be repeated. Concerning the assembly, he de clared he was opposed to It, for he believed It would fall Into the hands of one man. The meeting was an enthusiastic one and attended by a number of prominent men from Portland and throughout the state. Sales Humming of raw land located at Hood Hlver which brought $10,000 or $lu0 an acre. This land was bought by Charles and J. E. Hall from W. H. Marshall of IK. A tract of undevel oped land In the Upper Valley of sim ilar size was sold by G. D. Wood worth last week to C. A. Stone for $15,010 and several other sales of smaller magnitude are reported from that section. Through Devlin & Flrebaugh Hen ry L. Colvln, a capitalist of Portland has purchased the L. J. Uoodnough trnct of 22.4:1 acres for $10,000. The place Is all under cultivation and five acres are In bearing orchard. The same firm also reports the sale of the Frank Jones s-ncre place lo cated 24 miles out on the Belmont road, to W. G. Banks, formerly one of the leading citizens of Hed wood Falls, Minnesota, After having spent several months Investigating all the leading fruit producing districts of the northwest Mr. Banks chose the Hood Hlver valley. rainfalTTeavy, bui1till shy Although the rainfall at Hood Itlv er during November was the heaviest In 20 years, figures for the year given out by H. L. Hasbrouck, the local weather man, show that we are shy about Inches according to the averuge of previous years. During the past month 11.00 Inches of rain fell, five of which was precipitin! dur ing the past week. I'p to Saturday we ha'e had 2.V10 Inches. The aver age for Hood Hlver Is about .'10 Inches G. A. R. TO HOLD " BIG INDOOR PICNIC An all day picnic will be held In the K. of P. hall by the G. A. It. and W. It. C. Saturday, Div. 4, at 10 a. in. All Canby posf and Corps inetnlicrs and every soldier of the Civil War re siding In Hood Itlver are Invited to eat with us. Canby Corps ladles are Invited to bring lunch baskets with a view of having a hot dinner at 12 o'clock. A program will lie rendered spiced with stories by the Grand Ar my veterans. Comrade Bu.k will make out the pension vouchers and the fourth day of the months of IV ceinlicr. March. June and September, It 1 hoH'd will be known as Pension Day In the future. Establish New Landing and VVharfboat, and Inaugurate Quick Service--Perma-nent Road and Plank Walk Will Be Feature After several weeks of persistent effort with the help of the Business men's Association Commodore Dean announces that Hood Hlver will have an adequate landing and better boat shipping service than It has ever be fore enjoyed. The new service commenced Mon day when the big wharfboat, 100x40 feet, that has lieeu doing service at Lyle was brought to Hood Itiver and placed at a landing back of the old mill, a quarter of a mile nearer town. The new wharfboat Is amply large enough to take care of thous ands of tons of freight where It will Ite taken care of under cover and goods of a perishable naturu will be properly boused In all kinds of weather. It Is the Intention of the boat lines to make a specialty of handling apple, other fruit and vege table shipments by a quick service. Goods from Portland will be glveu a 24 hour service and the cartage rate has been reduced to the same figure that is charged from the rail way freight station. It Is the ex pectation that the new wharf will be used by all the boats In the near future.glvlng business men und other patrons a quick, convenient and cheap freight and passenger rate to allpolnts reached by the boats. As soon as possible the plank walk which has been built to within a Mm FRUITLAND SELLING HIGHER Mosler frultlands are moving along In the procession to higher prices, and this district bids fair to soon get loto the $1iX)0 an acre class. Through B. E. Duncan & Co. ten acres of two year old trees were sold last week to Edward M. Strauss, a wealthy cloth ier of Itlpon, Wis., for $X0 er acre. Mr. Strauss also bought another tract at Mosler and will commence to develop his holdings Immediately. Another tract of 20 acres In the same locality was bought by O. L. Craton, of Hood River, from the Davenport heirs for $2uK). This Is raw fruit land and will be developed at once, The sale was made through the agency of Devlin & Flrebaugh. Through the same agency Homer L. Muniford purchased a ten acre tract of developed fruit land located three quarters of a mile southwest of Mos ler In what Is known as the Mosler orchard licit. This land Is nil set out with standard varieties of com mercial apples. The sale price of $400, or $400 an acre. Indicates the great difference lu the price of raw lands In this vicinity and young developed orchard lands. 54,000 "SUBSCRIBED FOR AUTO ROAD In a twenty minute canvass of Hood Hlver Monday A .1. Eppltig one of the committee on the Portland-Hood Hlver automobile road secured subscriptions to the amount of $4,000. He reports that the propo sition met with the greatest enthusi asm and expects to secure $10,000 In I Portland for which place he took train Monday afternoon. PICTURE LECTURE HERE UNDER DIRECTION 0, R, & N. J. H. O'Nell traveling passenger agent of the Hnrrlmnn lines in Ore- gon. was In Hood Hlver Saturday i and extended an Invitation to the Commercial Club to be the guests i of the advertising department of the Harrlinan lines In attending aj stereoptleon and moving picture lee- ture. Several thousand feet of west- em scenery will Ih shown In addi tion to a large number of slides re presenting the resources of the west. The lecture w 111 I e given Friday eve-1 nlng. The Commercial club has se-; cured the opera house and extended an Invitation to the members to at tend. It Is the purpose of the rail road east company to send the lec turer east shortly where the re sources of the west will le seen In moving pictures.. short distance of the new landing will be extended and the money sub scribed to put In a permanent road Is expected to put It In such good condition that heavy loads can be hauled to town with little difficulty. The managers of the boat lines say that they will do everything In their power to give Hood Itlver a flrt class service if they are encouraged by receiving sufficient traffic. BOILER EXPLODES ENGINEER UNHURT The boiler of a big O. R. & N. freight engine exploded Friday morn ing, hurling the lnglneer, George Curl, over the railroad embankment, demolishing the firebox and causing other damnge. The fireman, who stood on the ground lieslde the en gine, escaped unhurt. The explosion took place In the railroad yard and many were awak eued by the terrific noise. Curl was getting ready to dismount from the engine and was bctxveen the cab and the tender. To this Is probably due the fact that he wasn't killed or bad ly Injured as the force of the explo sion blew out the boiler Into the fire box, smashing the latter Into frag ments and driving bricks, metal, hot coals and steam Into the cab. The concussion struck the engineer In the back lifted him 20 feet over a side track and dropied him down a 10 foot embankment. With the ex ception of a few bruises he was un hurt. The damaged engine which was part of a double header was left here for temporary repairs and (he train taken on by the other hx-oinottve. HIGH SCHOOL SELECTSDEBATERS At a class election of the High School students held Friday debat ing tennis were chosen to represent Hood Itlver In the Inter-Scholastic debates to lie held this mouth at Astoria and The Dalle. The de baters are Chester Hugglns, Herlert Philips, Eva I. rock. Helen Orr. Earl Spaulding and Lelia Hadford. Bert Jay tie and Elsie McLucas were chosen alernates. Three of the de baters will go to Astoria and the other three to The Dalles. As yet the selection of the teams who will go to the respective cities has not been made. HORTICULTURISTS LOOK FOR LIVELY MEETING An Interesting program has been prepared for the annual meeting of the State Horticultural Society which will be held lu Portland from the iltli to the !Uh of DecemUT. The prizes for the fruit display this year are the most attractive that the so ciety has ever offered and comprise over $louO In cash and many hand some cups and medals. Among the speakers Hood Itiver will lie repre sented by A. 1. Mason, whose subject Is "Improvement of Itural Condi tions." and .1. I.. Carter who will talk on "The Apple of the West.,' Included In tin- list of speakers are many of the old timers and a good meeting Is expected. Card of Thanks We wish to extend our heartfelt thanks to our tnanv friends who ex- tended their aid and sympathy in tin slckness and death of our loving hus band and father. Mils. II UIKIKT li VIIUIKI AM F.VMII.V. Mr. and Mrs. A. I.. Da vies wish to express their appreciation of the kind their their the d. assistance and sympathy of friends and neighbors during recent bereavement caused .y nth i f their son Deforest. Mil. Am Mi:". A, I. IHuks lax Meeting The spivlal sclu o meeting of th' si hool district for voting the scnool district tax for this year will be held at the High School building on next Tuesday at :i.'U m II