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Thursday, August 21, 1930
THE TIMES, WILLAMINA.
PaQe 2
Lovers
OREGON STATE NEWS
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Milk producers Of Corvallis hav«
perfected an organisation to be kn«>wn
as the Corvallis Wholesale Dairy asso
ciation with Walter Locke, president,
and Charles Wil*«, vice president.
Principal Events of the Week
Assembled for Information
of Our Readers.
From two acre« on the Clarence
Badger farm In the Grand Island vi
cinity UH tons of Royal Anne cher
ries were marketed this season. Flv«
cents a pound was received for them.
A new population record wm es
Ubllahed at the state penitentiary
when the official register showed a
total of 916 convicts at Salem.
Flamee swept two adjacent one-
story frame structures al Albany, and
caused a loss of approximately 8300«
to buildings and contents. Occupying
the buildings were a barber shop, a
beauty parlor and hemstitching shop.
From SH acres In the George Chris
tenson farm in the Pleasantdal« vi
cinity near Dayton, more thun 46 2 3
bushels of Holland wheat an acre was
produced.
Columbia county Pomona grange,
with appropriate ceremonies, dedicat
ed Its beautiful seven-acre park at Big
Eddy on the Nehalem river to the use
of the public.
Playfully placing a small caliber
rifle to his forehead and pulling the
trigger, evidently thinking the gun un
loaded. cost Allen Hartley. 21, of Co
quille, his life.
The recent hot weather has proved
beneficial to the hop crop in Marlon
county, according to growers. Pick
ing of fuggles will begin August 25 In
moat of the larger yards.
Ninety miles of county roads have
been built in Deschutes county dur-
Ing the past two years, al un aver
age cost of 8203 per mile, according
to County Judge De Armond.
By ELMO SCOTT WATSON
HAVE you a “Lovers’ Leap” tn
your locality?
If you haven't, then it’s
unique, and you might well
capitalize upon that fact and.
In advertising to tourists the
a
attractions of your region,
▼
assure them that “this is the
a
only place In the United
”
States which does not have
----------- among its scenic beauties a
single Lovers’ Leap."
Just how many of these places there
are is unknown. But start anywhere
In the East and drive West and you’ll
find plenty of them. There’s one be
tween Little Falls and Danube, N. Y„
a rocky bill overlooking the Erie canal
and the Mohawk river. Visit Starved
Rock park between Ottawa and La
Salle, Bl., and you will be shown a
rocky projection “from which an B-
llnl warrior and nls sweatheart leaped
to death in the river, rather than de
liver themselves into the hands of
their enemies.’’ Visit Independence,
Iowa, and they will tell you that Ce
dar rock, near Quasqueton, is also
called "Lovers’ Leap” where “the In
dian lovers, Wapsle and Pinicon, from
whom the Wapslpinicon got its name,
are supposed to have plunged to their
deaths in the swirling waters of the
river.” And out in Oakdale, Calif.,
they will sell you a post card picture
of "Lover’s Leap on the road between
Oakdale end Knights Ferry where a
mythical Indian maiden committed sui
cide by leaping into the river.”
While nearly every township or
county can boast of at least one Lov
ers’ Leap, Mackinac Island In northern
Michigan has the distinction of having
two places where love's young dream
found a tragic ending. The guide books
will tell you of “Lover’s I>enp—This
lone pinnacle rises to a height of 145
feet above the waters of Lake Michi
gan about a mile west of the main part
of the city. The legend which gives it
its name is that In the long ago the
beautiful Lotnh, an Indian maiden of
the Olbway tribe and only daughter of
a famous chief named Wawanosh.
watched from this height the depart
ure of her lover, named Genlwegwon.
with a war expedition across the wa
ter; and to the rock she came day
after day to await his coming. At
last, the party returning without him.
brought word of his death and the
distracted maiden not caring for life
any longer leaped from this diff; the
Ufeless body was found by her father
at the foot of the precipice the eve
ning after.”
Then there is Robertson’s Folly,
where “ ’Tia told that a young and
beautiful Indian girl was wooed and
won by this dashing young Lieutenant
Robertson, but the poor maiden soon
learned that be was to depart for the
East at an early date to marry a white
girl. He granted her a last farewell
meeting at this their trystlng place.
A Buff Orphlngton hen belonging to
Mrs. 8. P. Robertson, Jefferson coun
ty, Is proving a champion In produo-
Ing large eggs. The hen recently
laid an egg which measured 7H Inches
by 9 Inches and weighed 6’< ounces.
Favorable action on the applhatlon
of the state of Oregon to establish a
park on the summit of Camas moun
tain, west of Roseburg, has been
taken by the federal government. The
government will lease the 160acre
tract to the stale for 8127 50 per year.
The Ashland Bro department was
called to Belleview district, south of
Ashland, to combat a fierce blase at
the Moon Lumber company's dryklln.
In which approximately 150,000 feet
of |umb«r and much machinery were
burned. The cause has not been as
certained.
The final shipments of loganberries
for the season were made from Esta
cada last week. Notwithstanding the
Sales of pears were made at Salem greatly increased acreage this year,
at prices ranging from 325 to |3U a the receipts will only amount to about
ton, according to announcement made 175 tons, slightly lower than those ot
by growers. Some of the pears were last year, an«l only about half of what
wa« anticipated.
contracted earlier in the season.
The state board of control asked
The plant at Gold Hill, and quarries
at Marble Mountain of the Beaver ' tor blds for repainting all automobiles
i Portland Cement company, closed | and motorcyclua used by the state
down the last three months, resumed traffic department. The bodies ot the
OAKDALE,
cars will be white, while the tops will
operations tor an extended run.
CAJJFORWA^
The pear crop in both the Hood be black. The insignia ot the traffic
department will be pointed on both
“Courtship of this pair lasted during River and the Yakima district is un
the summer, and every means of win usually good this year, and the Hood the automobiles and motorcycles.
ning the father's consent proved un River apple crop gives promise also
Thirty-five per cent, dividend checks
availing. Laughing Water was urged of being above normal, according to were mailed to depositors of the de
to flee the tribal domain and become
funct Astoria savings bank. The total
( reports.
one of the Osage people. But her
amount of the dividend is 8499.350, ac
Evans
Brothers
are
to
resume
their
Shawnee blood would not permit, so
cording to A. H. Olson, deputy super
the young couple decided since they ‘ greenery business at Florence very
could not live together they would die soon. This will mean work for 10 to intendent of banks. In charge ot liqui
together. Thus united In the land of 15 pickers to harvest the ferns and dation. This Is the first dividend to
the great silence their love would be huckleberry shrubbery so abundant be paid from the bank, which failed
unhluder^d by the wishes of a medi
a year ago.
there.
cine chief
Lane county looks forward definite
The Train lumber mill on the Rogue
“Face to face and hand to hand the
ly to a 82,752.000 roa«l program to l>e
Indian lovers plighted their everlast river near McLeod was destroyed by
ing troth, sought a high bluff on the fire, it has been learned. Ail ma carried out in tbe immediate future
river beneath which the waters formed chinery was lost and in addition sev and to bring to completion all tbe ma
a great swirling eddy, cast themselves eral thousand feet of lumber was jor projects In this county. Relief of
unemployment conditions is anticipat
and In a desperate struggle she Suc far into the channel and no trace of : burned.
them was evei discovered."
ed as one of the results of this work,
ceeded In precipitating him and her-
Thousands of tons of rocks, ice and
A similar detailed account of an
long hoped for by the county court and
self over the clltf."
snow crashed down the upper slope
other
Lover
’
s
Leap,
which
bears
the
But If you want the story of a Lov-
road enthusiasts.
ers’ Leap with a wealth of detail, go more prosaic name of Jump mountain, of Mount Hood in a gigantic slide that
An ungraded room will be the new
to Linn Creek, Mo_ where there has was told in a recent issue of the fairly shook the mountain when the
est
educational plan to be tried out
been handed down from pioneer days Lexington (Va.) Gazette, prefaced hanging glacier, a part of the Cove
in
the
Theodore Roosevelt Junior high
with
this
editor's
note:
“
The
follow
this tale of Lovers' l^ap above the
glacier, let go.
school at Eugene. In the ungraded
clear waters of the Niangua river be- ing article has been contributed by a
The Fir Lumber company of Leban
friend who Is satisfied that the ac
room will be grouped pupils who have
fore it flows into the murky Osage:
on, which has the contract to furnish
count
is
historical
:"
not graduated from tbe elementary
“A century ago the mighty Usage
"At a distance of about three miles ties for the Oregon Electric extension schools but who are approximately 13
and Shawnee tribes dwelt along these
streams. They were fighting enemies, from the Baths, and easy of access. Is between Lebanon and Waterloo, has years old, and junior high pupils who
and bones of big-framed giants, war the Jump, ne of the mountains that begun the delivery of 15,000 ties along are irregularly graded.
clubs of stone, rusted arrow-heads of form the Coshen pass, gradually rising the new grade.
Farmers surrounding Heppner are
in height until at the distance of a
crudely fashioned metal and other
Harvesting the 1930 wheat crop In
mile
and
a
half
from
the
rher
It
ter
said
to be having difficulty in obtain
signs of st, -ggle have been found for
minates abruptly, making a depth to the Athena uietrict is verging on the ing enough farm hand^ to do their
years by plowboys as they turned over
the rich alluvial soil along the river the bottom below of two thousand close of a perfect cutting season. harvesting. This situation, coming at
feet Near here once took place a des Weather conditions have been ideal
bottoms.
a time when most places are suffer
"Grey Eagle was then a medicine perate battle betwpen the Cherokees and not an hour was lost on account ing from unemployment, is Imputed to
and Shawnees, during which a wild of wind or rain.
man of the Shawnee«; his daughter
the fact that Heppner is not on the
was Laughing Water. A young war shriek was heard, and an appar
Plans for a new <3500 church build main line ot the railroad and is rather
ition,
with
streaming
hair
and
out
rior of the Osage tribe came up the
ing to be erected at Malin are mater out of the way of traveling laborers.
racing waters of the Niangua in his stretched anna, was seen flying
ialising.
The ground has been cleared
through
the
air
from
the
mountain
canoe on a pleasant day, and stopped
Heads ot 11 state and national
before the birch bark tepee of Grey summit, only to dlsapitear mysterious In readiness for the construction. The banks in Yamhill county held a meet
Eagle. The head of the young war ly at its base. This strange and super church is to be of bungalow type and ing at Newberg to consider the prob
rior flaunted his eagle feathers; a deer natural dghf was witnessed by the modern in every respect
lem ot duplicate borrowers. It was
They were awe
skin shirt and leggings, and buckskin warriors below.
said that this problem has caused tbe
Their
superstition
moccasins encased the form of this struck,
THE MARKETS
bankers considerable worry during the
young giant. Tails ot wild animals aroused, The fight ceased. A coitn-
Portland
last few years, and an effort will be
hung from a wampum Keif and a bow ell was calle«!
The calumet was
Wheat—Big Bend bluestem, 8LO4H;
and arrow swung across his broad smoked. The tomahawk was burled,
made to determine the extent to which
soft white, western white, 89 He; hard
shoulders. These intimate details have A peace was concluded Roth parties
duplicate borrowing has been carried
been carefully preserve«! In connection believing that the Great Spirit was winter, northern spring, western red, on.
with the world-old story of 'love at angry, and bad hid his face under a 86 ftc.
The California Public Service com
Hay—-Alfalfa, new crop, 817.50; val
first sight.'
cloud.
From enemies they became
pany
Is burying a lighting cable In
''Laughing Water rose gracefully to friends, and as a pledge ot future ley timothy, new crop, 818; eastern
the
streets
of Lakeview at a cost of
welcome him, but she reckoned with reconciliation, collected and burfed Oregon timothy, 822.50®23; clover,
out her haughty father, to whom the their braves in one common mound. new crop, 814; oat hay, new crop, 814; several thousand dollars, assuming
that within a few years the city can
sight of an Osage was poison ’vy. But
“The Incident which had caused a oats and vetch, new crop, 813.50.
none the ’ess. Laughing Water had a cessation of hostilities «as as tragic
afford to have street lights Installed.
Butterfat—36c.
mind of her own, as daughters of a as singular. The Cherokees, aware
The cable Is being laid now so it will
Eggs—Ranch, 17@26c.
tribal chieftain should have, and she that the fight would he a severe one.
not
be necessary to tear up the paving
Cattle—Steers, good, 87.7508.25.
encourage«! «he shots from the love had sent all their squaws and pap
now being laid when the city can af
Hogs
—
Good
to
choice,
810011.
arrow ot the Osage warrior.
poose some distance to the rear, ex
ford to install the lights.
"Day by day the young couple cept a pretty Indian maiden, whose In
Lambs—Good to choice, 8607.
The Nebergall Packing company,
roamed the forest or floated on the terest In a young chief had Induced
Seattle
whose
slaughtering plant at Eugen«
silvery waters of the Niangua, Laugh her to climb a mountain acclivity
Wheat—Soft white, western white,
ing Water sang like birds In tree tops, nearby, from which site could witness 91c; hard winter, northern spring, was dstroyed by fire a short time ago,
or laughed till tiie forest rang with the stirring scenes below In the hot
90c; western red, 89c; bluestem, 81.07. has started to rebuild. The plant will
melody as her lover related his sto test of «he fight, beholding her chief,
be larger than the old one, and will
Eggs—Ranch, 27@>34c.
ries of wonderful adventure.
whose warwhoop was as well known
be
located several hundred feet from
Butterfat—38c.
"The Osage warrior came to friendly to her as his warlock, fall by the hand
the old site.
Cattle
—
Choice
steers,
8708.
terms with the Shawnee braves, as o. a fierce Shawnee, In a moment ol
Stlen brothers, Eugene, won the con
their bitter Jealousies vanished before despairing love, with one wild shriek
Hogs—Prime light, 811QU.1S.
tract
for Installing boundary light«,
evidences of his skill as a fisherman
Lambs—Choice, 86@7.
leaped from the mountain top into the
obstruction
lights and flood lights,
and hunter and prowess ns a warrior. abyss below, following her favorite
Spokane
They took him Into their council, hut chief to better hunting grounds. From
grading and graveling a diagonal run
Cattle—Steers, good, 86@6.50.
old Grey Eagle would not mix medi this Incident the mountain obtained
day, and providing drainage at th«
Hogs—Good to choice, 811.
cine potions that would enable blm the name of Jump."
Lambs—Medium to good, 85-5006. Kugene municipal airport at a mesk
to become a son-in-law.
(ft by w„i»rs N«W<MW Union.,
Ing of the city council.