THE
OREGON MIST
VOL. XXXI.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 6, 1012
NO- 47
Scappoose Celebrates
A p-L-hrntion of the Fourth of
Ju! it SOW""' wa B dw,',w,
Lee. Kvrylhin wa- currl,,!
out without a !if'. Tho vsvrcii
un.menc! with the arrival of the
oj from St. Hfl-na on tho 9
0clot.k train and from that time on
Bntil lto at niKl't Ky "
thwiwlic crowd .njoyt-.l tho wca
lon. A kautiful placo for the ix
crci. usually ha.l on tl.t-iw ocoaa
ioiu. M -h-ctel in the Hurt Went
ii..r. a rranu aiunu wan
jru'c " -
.n,l u'utji for the crowd aeat
QUI"
through th Ire'. 1'atroi
,i. ..tiLT.t wt're aurnt: patriotic
muile i'U dinrourwd by the 18 piece
hmd from St. Ilel.-rm: Mia Myera
K t, l),.cliirutioii of Indt'iM-ndfixt
an4W.B-':lar,l .h-livi-retl very lin'
arstiun. He reviewed the wonder
ful chaw that have taken pluce
ik ftiunlrv dince 177(1 anl the
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freat i"Kr, !U mailo in civilization
and improvcmwit n the SeapjuKwe
.untry during tho pmt thirty
year. addrcw wei onu euleu
lited t inspire the yoan lit'iuru
.u with null -Milium ami honor for
noon everyhojy brought forth
Ihfir well la l n lunch tuaketa and
rtjtular old faahioni'd picnic dinner
uM in the irrovr. After dinm r
earn the sport; aeverid trd home
raw: mtiic f"l rawH, IhjUi yuunjc
andoM, ft and lean, mulo and
fwua!e: catnliinir the mr little
gretnod pi; bihI bicycle rncvu. Then
the crowd went hack to town and
after lumft-r a Krand liull waa nad
In the A. at v. Hail ir vm uy me
M M'-n.
The whole celebration waa a auc
cr frmii the firnt tune by the band
to the hut tunc by the orchentra
the next uiorninir.
veterans. On Suntlav af t
when the weather is kw,1 and no
otlgrr attraction in on hand, the
boys will (five concertn in the City
Park. I'ractices are hold one or
two evoninjts each week in the
City Hall.
High Tide Reached
Sliinn-Wyss
Georo II. Shinn and .fiss Ida
Wy were married at the home
of the hrido's parent in Portland
on Jane Kth l'Jli Hev. A. Kd
Wyas, brother of the bride, per
forming the ceremony. Only
immediate relative were present.
A?Ur the ceremony the happy
couple l.tft for a short trip
through the Willamette Valley
and returned to St. I U-U-ns yes
terday. Mr. Shinn i the Presi
dent and attorney of the Colum
bia County Abatract Co., of St.
Helena and one of the leading
business men of St. Helens. The
bride i the Treasurer and part
owner of the same compuny and
has been actively engaged in the
work of the company at St. Hel
ens for several years. I'oth the
panic have the very best wishes
of the entire community for a
happy and pro4erouH married
life.
The New Mill
The new n.ill being built by
the Columbia County LumUr
Co., to replace the one recently
destroyed by fire, will have a
"Paeity of 100,000 feet ler day.
The machinery to be installed
'ill be duplicate of that in the
big mill at St. Helens. Kvery
thing modern and up-to-date. It
Will employ about 100 men. Sit
uated on deep water where the
largest vessels enn load and "at
the end of tho logging road, and
adjoining the Creosoting plant,
it has an idea! location. Work is
fo'ing pushed rapidly forward
nci It is tho intention of the
owner to have the mill in oper
ation in about fivo or six weeks.
St. Helens Band
St. Helens can now Iionst of u
nrat class brass band. For the
Past three monthn the boys have
wen under the careful instruct
tonfflW. J. M. Coomer. of
Portland, nnd have improved very
raNly in proficiency as wt'H a
numbers. There ure now twenty
Pieces in the band and every one
Wel1 Playo-I. Tin re aro a num
rf smad boys from 10 yean
0lu tnd up who aro playing lik-;
Waalungton, Juno 30. That the
high ti.le in the U-rrilile death raU
In A ! I . !
nuii'i n un eoni minea lias lieen
reached and paaw-d ia the confident
belief of the ollieiula of the United
Statea Dureau of Minea.
rigurea liwueij today liy the
Bureau hIiow that 2,M7 men were
killed In the mines last year as
against 2, K.il for 1110. Thia ahowa
a reduction in tl e duiiiImt of livi
loMt of .11 ( In onr year a time. The
death rate in l'Jlo was :t.'Jl men in
every l.ooo employed. The rate in
1911 waa 3.71.
Compared with l'JU7, the darkest
year in me niHiory American min
ing, when 3,1'J7 men IokI their
liven, l'Jll ahowaadecreu.se of (ISO
in tho number of men killed. It
Was following the ncird of this
year that t'onjfre nuthorized the
government to fx'n investiatiena
looking toward a reluction in the
death rate ami thii wua auplement
ed in l'Jlo by the creation of the
Bureau of Mine.
'tiseUH-siiiif the death atatistica of
the coal mines, I If. Joaeph A. Hol
mes, Director of the liureau e'
Mines aaid: "While thes- lathl
mortality aUti.tth.M in then ..i mines
of the country alinw alight improve
ment over the oievioui, years, the
1,'nited Slates has still no record to
lie proud of. In spite f tin pro
gress we have made, vo are still far
liclow the standard of nifety that
we ought to have reached.
'Tl is of course comforting to
know that for each year since l'.:o7
tiiere has U--n a decreasing t "'liber
if men killed for eve:, mil i i .. tors
of conl mined, and thai for every
Joseph Hayburn
On July 4 th in St. Helena occurred
the death of Joseph Jlayburn. an old
settler of this community, at the age
of W years. Ik-has lieen in poor
health for several months and during
the past few weeks has kept to his
In-'d. Joseph Hayburn was born in
Kentucky and while a young man of
18 years of age, enlisted in the Union
army in W, for two years. At the
expiration of his enlistment he re
enlisted for three years more and
served his full timeout, making five
years continuous service in the army
luring the Civil War. At one battle.
Stone Kiver, his company was en-
iraxed anil when the smoke of battle
leared away, only three men were
alive and 'j:i of loo horses were kill-
en. He came to St. HeVnsin I KM
and in lWwaa amiotatod thi
Keeper of Warrior Rock Ligh
I louse which position he held until a
few months age.
Kuncrd services are being held
this afternoon and burial w ill take
place in the I. O. O. F. cemetery
near Warren.
Only one child survives him, Mrs.
1". W. Harrison, of St Helens.
ife loat we have eaeli year taken
out of the earth more tons of coal.
This is an improvement In tho r.ght
direction. 1 hole that wlthm the
nextyiar or t.vo we will se as
great an improvement in the re-
Juction of the number of men killed
. i i
per I .ooo men empioyen.
The Bureau is cooperating with
the State Mine Inspectors, the mine
Workers and with the mine oier
ators in an endeavor to solve many
of the dillicult problems connected
with the coal mining industry in
this country. In this effort all the
above forces are cooperating in
good spirit in the determination to
H ing about better conditions. In
this coo'icrative effort there is also
serious need of the statesmen. No
irancc of industry in this country is
i
mi so bad an economic basis loiiay
a? is the coal mining industry, and
this industry can never be placed on
a satisfactory basis until, through
Local Mention
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Smith of
Yankton were business visitors
in St. Helens last Friday.
Walter Hunter and Frank Bis
hop, business men from Coble,
were attending to business mat
ters in St. Helens thi week.
A. W. Mueller, of thi city, re
ceived word Mcnduy that his
brother in Minneapolis, Minn.,
had suddenly died on that day,
Mrs. V, F. Slaughter, of Port
land, is visiting with relatives
and friends in St. Helens, this
week.
m
The Skating Iiink is still run
nii :,r and you are invited to come
out and enjoy yourselves.
Tl e Ladies' Aid Society of the
M. K. Church, St. Helens, will
meet with Mrs. Akin, St. Helens
Quarry, Wednesday July 10th.
Francis M.' Miles, of LaPlata,
Missouri, will arrive in Portland
and St. Helens this week to
spend some time visiting with his
brother, S. A. Miles.
Misses Lulu, Anne and Ada
George, accompanied by Miss
Cohn and two young ladies from
Portland, are on a camping trip
to the Dr. Ross place above
Yankton. They will spend a
week or more rusticating in the
mountains.
City Recorder Cage had a busy
hour this morning in his capacity
as Police Judge. Several fighters
were before his Honor for vio
lating the peace and quiet of the
city and were given small fine3.
Some of them paid, others
important legislative change, im-i wj gcrve tjme in the city jail.
Last Saturday night lhe First
Annual P.all of the St. Helens
Fireman was held at the City
Hall and was one of the social
successes of the season. A large
crowd was present and a real
good time was had. The prize
offered for the best -Aaltzers was
won by A: F. Parnette and Miss
Pauline Paulsen.
Everybody's Doin It. Hoin'
What? Skating at the St. Hel
ens Uink.
Nn count v in the State can pro-
i a .t.i .ntf miniiri'ti nun -
r.Mi;, i on y " -
aixty-eight killed, or 1 In every
aI !. ..... k. I.HUtU ttl
provement in mis m "i- "-
made possible.
It was early in 1 '08 that the Fed-
ral government began its investi
gation of tho causis of mine disas
ter following the climax of accidents
in ll'7. The record lor i:' un.i
the following years is as follows:
l'Jii?; thirty-one hundred and
. l III., I .r i SS in
ninety-seven men iwo"'., v
every l.noo employed;
p0S twenty-four hundred ana
forty-nine killed, or 3.t4 in every 1.-
000 employed;
hundred and
iweniy.ui. , . ui ihnn cnn
1 .UlUCe ocuei ciii-int-a ... ...
' I The Royal Ann. Black Republi-
numberof friends jo with the
happy couple.
Mr. and Mrs. S. E.; Lynch left
last Monday for a visit to their old
home at Liberty, Nebraska. They
will be gone for several weeks.
Work on grading Casenau
Street is under way and some of
the old shade , trees that have
stood for so many years along the
street have been cut down.
Among the St. Helens people
who spent the Fourth at Seaside
were Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Harrison,
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred George and
Mrs. Rebecca Craig and Charles
Bealer.
A bucket full of Royal Ann
Cherries from the Dahlgren or
chard at Warren, formerly the
Noon place, was the offering at
the Mist office the past week.
These cherries are just as fine
for flavor and size as any of
Cherry Cities of Oregon can pro
duce. Mr. Dahlgren was taking
orders for them in this city and
found ready sale.
Mr. L. C. Halstead. and family
of Stanton, Michigan, arrived in
St. Helens this week to make
this their home in the future.
Mr. Halstead has been a deputy
sheriff in his homo town for a
number of year, and is a barber
by trade. He is well pleased
with St. Helens and thinks it will
be a good place to locate. Mrs.
Peter Felton, is a daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Halstead.
BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON
mnrTa- nt & rmrnro nrtmnnr rrrt n ttb b a i g bti rtvrrm o
The Fourth of July at St. Hel
ens was very quiet, safe and sane.
Those people who 6tayed at home
did not even hear, a fire cracker
explosion. A large number of
people from here visited at Rai
nier and Scappoose, while others
went to Portland." The mill and
ship building plants were shut
down so the men had ample op
portunity to celebrate as they
w anted to. Those people who vis
ited out of town places report
pleasant times,
Work of installing the fire
alarm system i3 well under way
and will be completed within a
few days. The alarm wiil con
nect directly with the engine
room at the Mill and when the
alarm is sounded the whistle of
mill will give a certain number of
blasts for a certain portion of the
city. This will enable persons to
know just where the fire is locat
ed as soon as the alarm is sound
ed. The code of whistles w ill be
given out, probably in our next
issue.
The two year old child of Dan
Burns, of Columbia City, was
seriously injured last Thursday
by being run over byn caron the
logging road at that place. The
child was playing near the track
when a train was passing and it
appeared that an air brake hose
struck him and threw him down
so close to the track that the car
ran over his arm, badly crushing
it and tearing tho flesh away
from it. The little fellow was
taken to the hospital atPortland
where it is receiving treatment
and will probably recover.
The "Win One" class met with
Mrs. Charles Dark Tuesday after
noon. After the usual transaction
of business, was rest of the after
noon was devoted to the reading
and discussion of two para.
Mrs, Wm. Kctel gave a paper on
Oregon School Laws. Mrs. L.
Lang gave a paper on Woman's
Education. After being served to
refreshments, the class left for their
homes.
000 employed; d m especially fine
1910. twenty-eight hundred and can ana i k
i Lilll or 1 '11 in'arounu inm on"";- ,v v
thirty-four mm kiiu II. ... orchards of several people sam- Fvcry or.e present declared they
every 1.00') en pled, ,! ,,ies have been brought to our ;ppnl an cnjoyable afternoon. The
1911, twenty-.. m ollieo nnd for flavor and size, we n?xt meeting will be with Mrs. D,
seventeen men Mlliiu: or -'.it ....... ...
seventeen m
every 1,000 employed.
I will put them against tho world, jj
We acknowledge samples the last
River League
.i i i t
advertised letters "aTZjiiXowcr Columbia
o. n.,1 'Charles Popejoy of St. Helens.
Utters uncuumcd m i.e t. ... j
r, ore. ''l,wkrt,d!19ant YatVkt, by Rev. Mr.
ng j,,,, BKh. i'.'i : , ; WillUm Karlh of Yank.
M,ss Ida IWg. I letter Mchaf.
Thc Columbia C . Packing Co.. 1; ton ma
'"T Mii; l letter loneof the prosperous farmers of
Standing of the Clubs.
Won Iaist
1 1 i valued at $:6,909,3 !9. Portland led alt
"50 j the cltlei cf the country with 6,829,943
Kreewater'a annual peach day will
be held thla year on Auguat 15.
Work haa begun on tha erection of
the Oregon Electric vaaaenger depot
In Albany.
The annual Oregon convention of
the National Aasoclatlon of Letter
Carriera waa held at CorvalUa laat
week.
The Swedish Methodlata of Salem
bave organized a cburch and bought
a church building, which waa dedicat
ed Sunday.
After almoal four yeara of construe
tlon, Mt. Angel a handsome new Cath
olic church waa dedicated Sunday by
Archbishop Cbriatie.
ine .nterpriae tiectrlc company.
that furnlahea light and power to sev
eral eastern Oregon towns, haa In
creased Ita capital atock from JoO.000
to $300,000.
Several Marshfleld men have squat
ted on valuable land in Cooa county,
which they claim la open to entry.
The land la north of Cooa Bay and ln-
cludea tome valuable timber.
The newly organized Falla City Po
tato Growers' Association la the first
and only organization of the kind In
Polk county, and promises to become
an Important factor In finding a cash
market for potatoes.
S. A. D. I'uter of Portland haa estab
lished his Innocence of the charge of
forgery made against him by M. A.
Flfleld, an attorney of Minneapolis,
and haa Instituted auit against Klfield
for $50,000 damages.
Thla year the Salem cherry fair,
which will be held July 11, 12 and 13,
promises to be the biggest event of
the kind ever held in Salem. The first
day of the fair will be "Made in Ore
gon," or manufacturers' day.
Jacob William Karkl, the 9 year-old
son of Jacob Karkl and w'ife of Astor
ia, was accidentally drowned while
playing with a younger lad on the net
racks of the Union Flfhermen'a Co
operative Packing company In Union
town. From the Columbia river district
during the month Just passed there
waa shipped to foreign ports nearly
28.0OO.00O feet of lumber, an amount
unequaled during a similar period
from thia or any othrr single port In
the world.
On the ground that he is not a fugi
tive from justice and cannot be return
ed for trial, California's executive has
refuted to 'honor a requisition from
Governor West for the return of Har
old Reea, wanted in Oregon on-" a
charge of wife abandonment.
y means of a suit filed in the cir
cuit court at Stflem by the Oregon
Electric railway company, It became
known that the ultimate destination
of the extension being built from Sa
lem to KuKene, wh'ch is practically
completed aa far as Albany, la Rose
burg. As tho result of an explosion of gas
In an automobile gaa lamp, George
Stoddard, a prominent lumberman and
timber owner of 1 Grand?, Is lying
in a critical condition in the Grande
Ronde hospital with his eyes rilled
with small particles of g'asa and his
face badly cut.
Efforts to form another Port of Cooa
Day are being put forth. Petitions
aro being circulated end quite freely
aigned by the citizens. The matter
will bo presented to the county court
la July and will probably be submitted
lo the vote of the people at the No
vember election.
So assured are fruit growers of a
record crop In tho Rogue fiver valley
thia year that the cry of the growers
for more thinners la frequent. Old
timers declare the treee never have
been more heavily laden, and now that
the danger of frost Is practically past.
It seems almost certain n bumper crop
will be harvested.
The Jury at' Albany la the case of
the Oregon Electric Railway company
vs. l'rum is Marion Hyde, et al, haa
awarded the defendants $4250 dam
ngea for the appropriation of land
owned by thorn for railway purposes.
The Oregon Electric took about 15
acres of land lying la the edgo of the
town of llnrrlsburg for trackage and
a alte for depot grounds.
8alem ia to make Its second attempt
to secure pure water by purchasing
the plant of the Salem Water company,
the council at a special meeting hav
ing dccldad to endeavor to obtain the
plant through arbitration na to Ha
price rather than through condemna
tion, and as soon as the price Is
agreed upon by the arbitrators, the
people will vote upon it.
Secretary Olcott, within whose
I hands lies now exclusively the fate of
the university of Oregon referendum
Uses, haa decreed that the casea ahall
Jgo to their final disposition before the
I supremo court nud that no agreement
wir, bo reached between the parties to
! the suits to w ithdraw the casea. It
has been the desire of Governor West
that the cases be withdrawn.
Paring the 11 months ending with
May there were flopped from the Uni
ted Statea 28.519.935 bushels of wheat.
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St. Helens
Cathlamet
Clatskanie
Kelso
Rainier
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4
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3
3
5
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During the
.571 1 anie period Portland shipped 689,766
barrels of flour, while frum the whole
country 10.328,588 barrels were acut
oU oat, ot a total valua of $47,763,983.
.C23 I busheU, vorOi $5,8i5,993.
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The initial cost of installing a culvert
is about the same regardless of the
material used, hence the material that
will last the longest is the most ecco
nomical in the longjrun.
Reinforced Concrete Cnherts Will Last Always
Do You See the Id vantage?
Don't fail to call the attention cf of 3-our Supervisor
to the superiority of
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