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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1889)
' '. t'i r: . . u , . . - HOOD RIVER, OR", "JULY 6, 1889. SELF-PROTECTION. v ' The dispatches yesterday announced the burning of fourteen business blocks , . in Ellensburg, and placed the losses at $1,000,000.. ..The fire : started, in J. . S Anthony's grocery store on main street, .- and wafl soon beyond control. : Tlie water supply proved to be inadequate ' ' and the fire burned itself out. The burn' v : ing 6f whole towns seems to be the latest turn that affairs Lave taken, and during the past week unfortunate Johnston had ' afire which destroyed what little prop " . ' erty the flood left. Hailey, Idaho was destroyed and Durango, Colorado nearly so. The destruction going on around us should warn us to protect ourselves as much as possible from fire. At pres ent the buildings here' are'pretty well V, scattered, and the danger of an extended , conflagration is - not imminent, . but every building that is put up enhances '; -the danger to all because it provides th means for carrvimr the flames to its ad joining buildings. To protect ourselves we must have a good supply of water. and as this can ; be- procured 'at very little expense we should pro--. ceed - at once to perfect ' a water ays- tem. No one likes to put up a building where there is no 'good protection ' against fire, and the building of water . works here would not only protect the i . present buildings,' bjit will go a long 1 -' ways in deciding others to build ; ;Tbd saving in insurance alone is quite an vi item, and the feeling of security, the i knowledge that we are protected from i'j'fire gives, is worth a whole lot more, "v. Besides all this the water supply would make' every door yard a patch of bios; , torn and verdure, and would add ten -' i times the cost of the waterworks to the v' value of town property. .We can have . W' a toagnificient supply bf water for a Very small outlay and we hope to cbron ' icle in our next issue - that a com : ! pany of some kind has been formed to, .... bring it in. '' .. " sendYour papers away:':: Our subscription . list ' climbs 1 right along and we hope ere the end of this month to see it reach 500. There is' an evidence of energy and' prosperity in this community in the hearty support given the Glacier and it will endeavor , to set the merits and advantages of this section before the public , as : to repay . many times the money: it costs. Even t in The Dalles we have old residents ask .! .,08, VHow big is Hood river valley?" . and express astonifehmjnt when we told them. To induce immigration , the, re - : - sources of the country must be , made known, and this is best done, as we are trying to dp it, not:, by, booming asser tions of, what can be, doue, but by, record ing what has. been doue,, ( ; The yield .per - : t i l. .. . Ai. i ,1 and the big berries sent, to the markets ju more convincing than any-, mere as sertions. When yovi get through, with your paper wrap it up and send it to your friends and, Jet: them- know- some thing ol your surroundings. CONSTITUTIONAL' CONVENTION '' ' r" -"'- ' , . i The 'constitutional' convention met at ,i01vmpia,; W,, T.on the,4th and perfected i. a temporary organization., , The Repub licans met in .caucus and; decided upon jf:, Judge ; Hoyt as, permanent .chairman. There are in the convention twenty-four V lawyers, fourteen farmers, six engaged in merchandising,, five doctors, ; five bankers, four stockmen,, two real estate .... dealers, two mill men, two, editors, two teachers, two hop growers, two miners, a, preacher, - mining engineer, logger, auditor, fisherman and lumberman. , -, . Our articln last week on beautifying the town seems to have struck a, eympa ' . thetic chord, as our citizens are unani . mously in favor of it." The proper thing now is for some understanding about the matter, as to whether those having the . water rights will allow it to be used by the town until such time as the owners . vant it. The right of the owners would , bo acknowledged by the payment of a - small rent and we can see no reasonable . . objection that could be made. The use of the water will add to the value of all Jhe. property of Hood River and for that matter to all the property in the valley, because it would aid in procuring the rapid settlement of the, valley. Let , some of our leading men take hold of the . matter and in a month the work will be completed. - : ' , Meteorological. The following meteorological record, for the month of June, 1889, was taken by V. Hodge at Dr. Barrett's residence in this city : . : June came in warm and drv. - Mean temperature, C7.13, which is some seven degrees above the average tor the five years previous, and about five inches less of rainfall. -Highest temperature, .93. ' r Lowest temperature, .46. - ; Y ; ; , Rainfall on three days, .25 inch.' :" Warmest day, mean,. 77. . .,-..' Coldest day,' mean, .57. " ' ': r Clear days, 17. - - V ; ..' ';. 1 A Fatal Mistake. Last evening the baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Morrow was ailing, and the mother gave it what she thought was some-simple powder but which proved to be a dose of morphine in tended for a grown person. The condi tion of the little one became alarming at once, and Dr. Swinburne was called who did all in his power to' relieve it, but to no purpose.' This morning it fiassed away to the Being who gave it ife. Bevpner Gazette. ...... The Republican press was enraged be cause Mr. Cleveland during 'the first three months of office made about 3000 removals from office, but though Mr. Harrison from the-4th of March to June 15th has turned out over 11,000 fourth class postmasters the Republican press has nothing to say. In one department of the civil service plone Mr. Harrison has in less than three months turned out more than three times as many offi cials as the whole number removed in three months by Mr. Cleveland. This contempt for his solemn pledges to the people to carry out civil nervice reform, is emphasized by the following quotation from a speech delivered in the U. S. senate oh March 26, 1886, by Benjamin Harrison, senator from Indiana: "I do lift up a hearty ' "prayer that we may never have a president who will not either pursue, and compel his cabinet advisers to pursue, . the civil service policy pure and simple and upon a just basis, allowing men accused to be heard, and deciding against them only upon competent proof and fairly either have ' that kind of a civil service, or, for Uod 8 sake, let us have that other frank and bold, if brutal, method' of turning men ana women out vimpiy tor political opinion: Let us have one or the other.'; Oregon Courier. -. We have iust comnleted arrange ments with the publishers of the new series of school books, to have tho ex clusive sale of them here.' As soon as they , arrive we will ba prepared to ex change new books for the old ones, thus Saving people the extra expense of buy ing new wnen tneir children aie already supplied. Blowers & Son. THE BOWSERS. Mr. Bowser Comes Home and Finds That the Cook Has Left. He Eways to , . ' -.J Fill the Vacant Place. Mr. Bowser came home the other afternoon just in time to meet the cook going away with her bundle and he . i i i .. : "I suppose you've gone and done it again ?,r 1 "What?" ''Abused and maltreated the girl un til her sense oi justice lias compelled, her to leaveP'V , , "I hadn't anything to do with her leaving." -'-" " "f '-:' ;' V . "Then who had? She looked heart broken as I passed her just now." .Did8he? Poor thing? . She got a letter this morning from her aunt in Canada, telling her that she had been left $5,000 incash, and advising her tooome home and marry a man who owns three farms. - She must feel yerysorrowful!" j . !' "Humph! And you didn't put too much work on her?" ' - ''Nor make her feel her position?" " , VNo. , Her position was in the parlor about half the time." , ,, . '. "Well, it seems very queer to me that' so many of our girls leave. Everything will be upset now for ' a week, I suppose." , , ,, ;Oh, no. : You can cook, you know, and you are such a sympathetic soul that you ought to be willing to go into the kitchen tor a day or two. I shall depend on you, Mr. Bowser. " "Oh, you will? Not satisfied with driving a dozen poor souls to destruc tion, you want a rub at me. , I wouldn't have your spirit for all the money in the world!" :' . ' v .: ; ,, He went away with that,, but he was home an hour earlier than usual, and when I inquired the cause he said:' "What for? Why, the child and I have got to have -something ; to1 eat haven t we, and who's to cook it if I don't take hold? ',. , , - "I can cook." 1 ' ; - - ' "Mrs. Bowser, I've long felt it my duty to give you a few lessons in the culinary art. I have held off, hoping vour pride would force you to take hold, but the limit has been reached. The time has come when I must sacri fice my business to enter my kitchen and prevent my child from feeling the pangs of hunger.". , ,. ; "Please ttou't." . , .' : . "But I. will! I'm driven to it. I've got a wife who can't cook the north west ena ot a last year s turnip, ana who can't keep a cook over a week at a time. I've put up with it top long much too lor1 Mrs. Bowser. I must sacrilice my gnity to preserve the life of my child. - . ' v "Shau't I help you get supper?" - "Not a holp. You'd only bo in tho way. Just sit down iu the rocker, Mrs. Bowser, put your feet on the lounge, get a cud of gum in your mouth, and sit and chow and chew, and think what mean . things you are going to say to the next girl to drive her away. .When supper is ready I will call your. royal highness. , , -v He disappeared with that. . When he reached the kitchen he took off his cuffs and coat, , pushed up his sleeves, 'and kindled a fire. -His con fidence began td desert him . at this point, and he seemed to be studying deeply as he filled 'the teakettle even full and set it to boil. I bad some fresh beefsteak in .the ice-box, and he got it out, scratched his head in a thoughtful way and laid it on , the kitchen table. Then he, went down cellar after the hatchet,, wiped the head of it on 'his right leg, and pounded away until' a good share of the steak' had gone into the board. , ' - -. . : ' ' Mr. Bowser's next move was to hunt behind the pantry door for a spider which we had never used.' He carried it to the kitchen towel, gave it a wipe, and then placed it on the stove. He had hearcf that grease was necessary, and he put in some buttei, dropped in his steak, and soon had it sizzing. Then he statrted in for the biscuit lie got down the dish-pan, tilled it almost full, and then reflected for a . moment. I took advantage of the occasion to "Mr. Bowser, you needn't figure on ah elaborate supper, under the circumstances.- Just make a cup of tea and we'll get along." "lira. Bpwser, you ought to know by this time that there is no half-way work with me;'- he replied with great frigidity. . '"You can afford to neglect the comfort of this family, but I can not . , Please return to your gum and your novel.-. ; . , ,. . ' Then he went ahead just as any other husband would. : : 'v-1 i : He had heard about soda and short ening in biscuit, and he mixed the Hour with cold water,, put in pepper and salt, slashed off half a pound of butter and stirred it in( and then re membered the baking-powder. There was pearly a quarter of a pound in the box and the whole of it went in. . - How Mr. Bowser managed to get a grease spot between his shoulderblades, flour in his t .ar-vngtppjyder in his hind pothSptl "do noTTknow, butTlt was probably while he was rolling that mass out ; He didn't trifle - with the mixing-board, but used the spot where he had pounded the beef. I beard the mass of dough fall on the floor three different times with a dull thud, but he wasn't a bit discouraged. He got it rolled out at last, cut some biscuits with a teacup, and presently the oven door shut on his tins. He had just forty biscuit . : By this time the steak had burned black on both sides and he set it down behind the stove and prepared the tea. To two quarts of water he used one tea8poonful. , Ten minutes later he summoned me to the banquet. He had the tablecloth on crisscross, " the butter on a pie-plate, the cake in the cheese-dish, and his beafsteak was placed in the center of the table on a pie-tiu. . :v ."Anything wrong?" he asked as I sat down.. ' . ;';-' ;'''.-.; "Oh, no.; You have done spendidly." "I am aware of it This table- has never looked so homelike before.": ' His biscuits were raw in the middle, while top and bottom were so wonder fully and fearfully made that I had to laugh. ":l V;V'- ' '- f--.'i -, i The biscuit; you can't ; beat ' them. Wait till you taste one.' tV r --; s.-.cn 1 , I didn't taste, but he did. I was watching him, and a look of . horror came over his face at the first mouth ful. He wouldn't give in, however, but crowded a whole biscuit down and pre tended to enjoy it ,'. & ' " i ' y . '', "I wouldn't eat any. of , that steak, Mr., Bowser," I said, as he eyed it sus piciously.' ".- V' ' ''.' ,' " "-" "Wouldn't you? Perhaps you want it all yourself.'1, i ; ! : ! . "I don't think it is properly cooked." "Well, I do. If that isn't a nice steak then we have never had one in this house." :. W.nwu; -.'v , , f - He ate at least a quarter of a pound, though every morsel, -choked him. I offered to wash up the dishes, but he put me out of, the 'kitchen and went ahead. He washed ! everything to gether in the flour-pan, wiped them on whatever he could' find loose, and it was a week before we got the pantry in order again, ,.. That' night, after bragging of what a breakfast he was going to get, Mr,f Bowser was taken with chills and colic, and when the doctor came and I showed, him the beef and the biscuit he said: ,- ' . . "Mr. Bowser, if you hadn't the stomach of a shark you'd have been dead an hour ago. . You'd better quit this sort of nonsense if you want to live the year out" And as soon as we were alone Mr. Bowser turned on me with: i -"Don't expect me to shield you again! Your jealousy prompted you to put poison into that flour while . I was down cellar!. If this thing occurs again I will send you to the gallows!" Detroit Free Press. , J, II. ID DEALER IN' Groceries, Boots and Shi Stoves and MoutH and Feed. A General Assortment of such; as I is usually found in a , country store. HOOD RIVER, OREGOF pS-'il'.'-i Bp T( r ! Sir i 1 -:m