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"The Lure o S'V' ;"VVur " " a story of the most alluring character in fiction, is proving popular THE HOOD RIVER NEWS VOLUME 5, NUMBER 51 HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1909 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR "News" Arouses Ire A Hood River Winter City Conncil Fixes WW Tax Levy at 7 1-2 111 ills Five Mills for General Purposes, Two for Streets, and One-half to Be Donated to County for Use On Highways Near City Grove Grange In Pioneer Days of '62 Organization Condemns Editor for Up holding Right to Hold Assemblies Says Me is Mouthpiece of Bosses and Liquorites The editor of the New I- nut pop ular with the mcmtter of l'ine Grove grange, lie Im not only not popular with a few iiiimiiImth, lint unani mously, en miiKHe, altogether and In H hunch. The cause of hi decayed popularity I In the fact that ho lunt week wrote an article upholding the right of any mid all political particH to hold assemblies for tlie purpose of recommending candidates which could he elected or rejected. With the energy for which thin pro gressive organization Is noted, It took up thin matter for discussion at It tirst meeting lifter the article wan published am) unanluiuuHly Instruct ed u committee to reply. It Ih evident that the committee liiHt no time In getting to work and did not lack for vigorous language a it sets forth the liereHlcH of the editor from It point of view an follow: Pine drove Grange, Dec. 1 RXM). Editor Sewn: By unanimous vote of fine (Jrove grange we were in structed to reply to your Issue of the 1.1th liiHt., which criticise t lie action of Home of our granger who have rightly condemned the attempt of Home of our politician in trying to over-ride and den troy lioth the In tent and the spirit of our law giving lis direct nouiiuation and direct legis lutlon. We grangers are law abid ing citizens and lo not propone to nit Idly I'.V and permit these privileges to lie in Ih HiHt riled and destroyed through such false statements and luethodM mm now are attempted to 1 Used ly the assembly Ites those self constituted guardians of the people. You assert that the large part of our grange work Ih devoted to poll ticH. Had you Maid political economy or the Hclence of good government, you would have tohl the truth. While our order In composed of mem bers who In-long to all political pur lieu, yet we do not falter when It comcrt to defending Hitch grand prln cIpieH ax direct nomination and di rect legislation. You try to leave the ImprcHHioii that we are doing the very name thing In our order that we deny assemblies the right to do. How ignorant you are of grange work. We have long nlnee stopped discussing men and parties, hut de vote our efforts to principle and re sult. My dear sir, In our order we tunny tltneM vote our choice without UNIVERSITY CLUB DANCEJELIGHTS The mid-winter social season wan made highly enjoy ahle liy the annual dance of the Hood River University cluli which took place at Odd Fel low hall Monday evening. The af fair waM the moHt miccesnful tu the hlntory of the organization, 100 mem ber anl " guent living prcHent.wlio danced to the delightful mimic of StlleH orchestra of Portland, until the small hour of the morning. The unique and beautiful decora tion consisted of evergreen fes tooned wit h colored light and col lege color. In the center of the dancing Ihior a large Christina tret wan arranged, covered with the twinkling Illumination of colored lights Which were also suspended from the corner of the hall on wire covered with evergreen Tlie orche. tra wn placed In n hower of green, and In the opposite end of the hall punch wn nerved throughout the evening In a booth of greenery anil dispensed by a smiling and obliging Jap. The supper room wa tnste fully decorated with the green and tight and an appetizing and dainty lunch wa nerved. During the dance the light were made dim and bright alternately, producing a pretty effect. The dance wa more largely at tended thanprevlou affair given by tlie club and the guent warmly con gratulated the committee In charge on It uniualllled ueees. ' Among the out of town guest were Mr. and Mr. I'IImoii of Wash Ington, l. ('., Ml" M tilde Batehum and A. I. Itateham of Monler, Ml Lucille Smlthe, Ml Ethyl llarrl and Jack Lntourctte of l'ortland, Ml Anna Flint of Albany and Mr. J. M. Wescott of Chicago. even a nomination and we never del egate our franchise to anyone. Some of we granger have not forgotten many of the (Ungraceful scene re corded In Oregon' political history that were the direct renult of nomin ating our public ollicer through the old convention system, and your as. Mcuihly ncheme In but a repetition of the old convention. Do we want an army of deputy sheriff on one nlde of the Mtreet, with an army of police on tlie other, each repreHentlng different faction of the aiue politi cal party at a Mate convention. while J iik t Inniile the convention hall one faction in pulling a United State Henator off the stage by hi gray whlnkern? Do we want Home of the prime promoter of thin annembly Hclieme tOHtand on the Htreet corner or jiint outHide the convention or an Hembly hall and buy vote, a they have in tlie pant? No, Mr. Kditor! We grangem, whom you nay are not doing the right thing in fighting thl aMHcmhly ncheme, do not want re enacted Hitch (Ungraceful ncenen a thene, and many more of which we are all convemaut, You nay we have not Informed outnelven, from an nu bianed Htalnlpoint, about the calling of t bene anemblie. Bosh! Do you denlre to nay in the language of I'uck "What fooln thene mortal be." If you would nay no we would think In-tter of you. Now, Mr. Kditor, (MTliapn you need to be Informed junt a little. Section 11 of our primary law nay "every mich political party nhall nominate all it candidate for pub lic otlice under the provinlon of till la w and not in any other manner." Ii n t you ay you favor the primary law. Why not ail mi t the truth, that you are opponed to It, and that the annembly ncheme I the tirnt Htep toward It destruction. Thl you and the other nupporter of thl Hchetne would do. liut you fear the wrath of the people. To an uublaed mind it in plain that you and your kind are tlie mouthpiece of the three following nellinh force: the political l.onn with III ward healer. the liquor element and their allien and the (le aguing corporation which are ever ready to control our ntate and na tional leginlatlon. If you denlre to hold nnHemhllc to eonnlder principle ItiHtead of men; If you denlre to con wider any progrennlve reform in order to enlighten un granger or the gen eral public, or If you can show to u that your annembly ncheme willnelect candidate free from the control of the corrupt political bon or col por. atlon Influence, then you will have gone a long way toward dinabuning our mind of tlie opinion that tlie annembly I a maliclou attempt on tlie part of a few to over-ride and dentroy the will of the people. J. M. Tavi.oii, W. M. J. H. Moim, W. Sec. HOOD RIVER MAY GETNEW DEPOT Announcement In made, nay the I'ortlam "elegram, that tlie O. R. & N. wc..i build a new paenger depot for Hood River during the coming year to cost in the neighbor hood of $J(I,(HM). The Improvement ha liecn contemplated for Home time, but the definite new that an appro priation for the new station wa In cluded In the $2,000,000 of Improve nient planned by the O. R. & N. for 11)10 ha calmed much rejoicing here. The new depot will be a brick and tone t met tire, of fireproof con Htructioti, erected on the prenent site. The denlgtl of the building will Ik' a typical Harrlman line t met tire, slin ilar to one now being built In Maker City and I'endletoti. The building I to have steam heat, tile or cement floor and white roof. Conntructlon will be ntarted early In the Spring, a the Raker City depot I Hearing completion. After an extended nbnence In the eat J. II. Fredrlcy, O. R. & N. agent here, I again dinpatchlng the work of Hood River' bnny panenger nml freight Htatlon. Willie away Mr. Fredrlcy vlnlted many of the large cltle of the cant and middle went, in cluding I'lttnburg, l'a., hi former home. The heavy snowfall In December, with the pro iect of more, ha canned many residents of Hood River to believe that weather condition here are unprecedented, but Captain II. C. Coe, one of the oldest living pioneer In thin nee t Ion of the Colnm bla river bantu, nay "no." Captain Coe hu been In the Hood River country since '54. With hi brother, Kugene Coe, he formerly owned the towunite of Hood River and wt ill ha large property interet here. He wa one of the pioneer nteamboat men on both the upper and lower Columbia river, and took an active part In the Indian war of the "On. "Tlie way the prenent winter ntart ed," ald Captain (Joe to tlie New man, "remli.d me very much of the winter of "G1-'G2. the inont severe In my exierieiice. In the long and glor lou nu miner we enjoy many people are apt to forget the cold and deep nuowfall of Home of our winter. There I no ue, however. In dwelling on other winter a compared to 'Bl-'(iS. "What hu happened In tlie pant may happen again. One la Hood River never know what kind of a winter they are going to have, until it I pant, and iny advice 1 to alway prepare for and expect the worst, and le glad if you are disappointed. There wa a legend that the Indian were very fond of repeating to u by j Red Cross Christmas Stamps There is nothing that is more indicative of the true Christmas spirit than the Red Cross Christmas stamp and the American people as a whole are taking an in terest in it this year never before approached. Its mes sage is reaching around the world and no letter or Christmas package is looked upon as complete without this little harbinger of peace, good will and relief to the suffering, nestling on it. The Woman's Club which is conducting the sale of the stamps here announces that it is disposing of hun dreds of them and that Hood River residents are re sponding generously and nobly to aid them in provid ing funds to fight the inroads of tuberculosis among the needy. Saturday a table for their sale presided over by members of the club was placed in the postoffice where Christmas packages were labeled for out of town friends by the score and a lively business was done in disposing of them at many other places. The ladies are making a last appeal for the use of the stamp by all in the days of the Christmas rush this week and ask that everybody remember the little red and green stamp that costs so little, but means so much to the needy sufferer. way of consolation, of a winter tunny year previoun to 't!2, when no j much show fell that It did not melt off the ensuing summer. Their horses died, and many of the Indians alno, and had It not been for a very plenti ful run of salmon In tlie nprlng all would have perished for want of food. "Our first winter In Hood River (1&54) then known a Dog River, wan a delightful one; a little miow and freezing went her In Decemb"r. Karly iu February we made garden, and not a front after that to do any damage. The year IVS was the rec ord breaker for deep snows, five feet and one inch on the level, and not drifted. Our record for that winter Is tnlnning. Hovever, It was chletly notable for the quantity of nnow on tlie ground at one time, rather than for its cold or duration, for by the middle of February the ground wa j bare. Rut 't2 wa a record nnianlier of note. Snow fell on the l!th day of NovemlsT '01. and from that time until the 22nd day of April thegroiind wa never entirely clear of nnow. NovetnlH-r wa a month of dinanter. Fifteen daj of rain and three of snow I the record. From the fourth until the tenth, five day, the rain came down In torrent. Hood river wa full from bank to bank, four or five feet higher than it ha ever been since. The Willamette valley above Oregon City wa transformed Into a great lake. Steamboat navigated the country roads, mtten a way from the main channel, rencultig farmer who had taken refuge on hotmc-top and barn, llullding of all dencrip- tlon came down the river, over the Oregon City fall Intact and ondown pat Portland to the Columbia river, The entire Hat on the East Portland side of the river up to what I now known a L'jIou avenue wa covered with wreckage and drift many feet deep. Some eighteen Incite of suow fell during the mouth. In December we had ten day of rain and three of now, nineteen Inches of snow during the month. (Ju the 1'Jth the mercury went down to degree and never got above the freezing point but once until February 15th. On January 10th the thermometer registered 24 degrees below xero, and the general mean wa only 10.45 degree for the month. Seven feet of nnow fell and there wa four feet two Inches on the level at one time. The river cloneil January 1st and navigation was not renu med until the 12th day of March. This was the year of min ing excitement In the ISolne and Northern Idaho countrlen, and the caualtle were manr. Some wis or eight person were frozen to death between John Day' river and The Dalle, among them I. K. Jagger, a son ln law of R. R. Thompson of l'ortland. Several people lost their lives between The Dalies and Port land, and report had It that every houne lietween thene point had from one to two more or lens badly frozen. Butthecrazo wa on. Miner had made their way up from California, and were not to be deterred by a nnow storm and a little cold weather. Men but illy prepared to withstand the rigors of an ordinary winter, some without money and but a single pair of blankets, rushed head long Into the awful gorge of the Co lumbia, without a ventage of a road or even a trail to guide them, facing tlie fierce gales that drove the blind ing snow In cloud Into their faces. It wa my fortune, or mlnfortune to have to make a trip to Portland at the very commencement of winter. The steamer Idaho went down to tlie Cascade on New Year' day, her last trip; the lower river wa cloed, so Well Fargo's messenger, Jones, and myself took a small boat at the Cascades and made our way through tlie drift Ice to the mouth of 'he Sandy river and then went on foot to Portland, reaching that place about S o'clock that night. On the sixth 1 was ready to return, and In company with Ia'W Day, a well known express manager, noted for his pluck and endurance, left Port land In a two horse hack for tlie Sandy river, to which point there wn a fair wagon road. We drove across the Willamette on the Ice, and reached Jk I.atourelle' In good ea son. On our way to Sandy we met (ieo. II. Knaggs, a ivelt known mid dle river steamboat man, and several others, on their way to Portland. They were badly used up and tried to dlsuaile us from attempting the trip, lint we were not built that way, so continued on our trip. At Katourelle we found i."t miner on ll'milinuwl tm l'iur t ) At the meeting of the Common Council Monduy evening the city tax levy for the coming year wa fixed at 7j mill. The amount of tax to be levied wu arrived at after a good deal of diHCunslon an J neveral mo tion In connection with It had been voted down. The caune of the division wa due to Councilman Rrolus' desire to have 1 of the 2 mill roud tax which the charter limit the city to, segre gated and turned over to the county for use on the highway leading to the city. Councilman Rronlu eaid hi Idea in unking the council to ap propriate thl amount wa to estab lish a friendly feeling between the country and city resident iu regard to the road question and to show them that tlie city was willing to meet them half way. Councilman Hall stated that the Idea was a good one but that the city needed all the money It could reasonably ank this year to take care of its affairs properly, In addi tion to the f vet that a couniderable expenditure would have to made from the road fund on the Kant Side grade. For this reason, he said, the donation should be postponed until next year. ' On being put the motion to give the county half of the road tax fund LOCAL COMMANDERY VISITS JHE DALLES Columbia Cotnmandery, No. 13. Kulght Templars, wa constituted yesterday, says The Dulles Chronicle, It being the (X-casslon of the presen tation of the charter to tlie Com manilery In thl city by tlie Grand Cotnmandery. The following officers were Installed for the ensuing year: Kmlnent commander, Thomas C. Hauford; (Jenerallslmo, R. H. Welier; Captain general, Glenn S. Brown; Prelate, Owen T. Shepard; Senior warden, W. A. Wilkinson; Junior warden. Levi Chrlnman; Sword ts-ar-Vincent Circle; Standard bearer, J. C. Kgbert; Sentinel. Dietrich Wolff. The following Grand Commatidery otlicial were present: W. A. Cleland, G. S. W.;.l. F. Robinon. (1. R ; J. Taylor Pendleton, K. G. C; K. K. Kiddle, G. W. Columbia Commnndery wan alno liont at a magnificent banquet hint evening at the Shepard hotel. The Knight had an their guests the visit ing members of the Grand Cotnmand ery, member of the Hood River Commatidery. the Blue Lodge and the ladies of the Kastern Star. About 200 were seated In tlie baii(pitt liall. which wa elegantly decorated In honor of the occasion. Kmlnent Commander Thoma C. Hatiforl wa the toast master and presided In till capacity In a tuot pleasing Car Dumas Apples Broke Record for Low Prices A car of Newton pippins from the J. L. Duma orchard at Dayton, Wash, says the Produce Bulletin in this week's Innue, wan nold here at auction (luring the the week, and the renult was a smashing of all previous records for low prices for thl variety. There was nothing unusual in tlie market. It was not dlnturU'd by anything and It Is therefore obvious that there was something wrong with tlie fruit. Good apples, of the same variety, sold at the time for :lt)0 and :l .0 per box. but till Dinnas lot averaged only about 11 2.-.. Tlie car was a shipment of a part of the contract with Stelnhardt Kelly, made early in tlie season. The sizes of the apple ran from lvls to 200, but in every tiling else they were evidently far below standard and absolutely dlpappoliitlng Experts and buyer let them go at the price, though the demand In New York for anything that will clans a good I notoriously strong. It was recalled. In connection with tlie sale, that in previous year New York dealers have had considerable trouble with Duma shipment. J. L. Dumas, the shipper, I presi was lot. An amendment wa offer, ed by Broslu to make the tax levy H mill which wa also vated down. Not yet satisfied that the county should not receive a donation Coun cilman ItroHlus moved to levy a tax of 2 mills for road purpose one bait to go to the county and 5 mill for general purpose. Thl wa an nounced by the Mayor to be uncon stitutional according to the clt statoots." Councilman Siocum called for tha original motion of 7 mills, but Coun cilman Hroslus happened to be on hi feet and moved another amend ment to the effect that the levy be made two mill for road purposes 5 for general, the half to go to the county for the use stated. Tbl panned and the levy was fixed at 7 mill. The tax will raise about $12,000. Other matter that came before the council was canvassing the rote cast at the city election and bearing a report from Councilman Hall a chairman of the finance committee who stated that the indebtedness of the city Decemlier 1st wa about $'1,600 having leen reduced from $7,000 since January 1st. Before ad journing the council voted to meet again this year on Monday De cern ler 27. manner. All of the representative of the Grand Cotnmandery present responded to toast. Mr. A. E. Crosby, worthy matron of the East- j em Star, responded on In-half of the organization. Dr. O. D. Doane re sponded tor the Blue Lodge and Emi nent Commander Hasbrouck of Hood River responded for Hood River No. 12. Sir Kulght Wilkinson of Colum bia Commaudery No. responded on liehalf of "The Frvlng Pau Club." I l he number l."J played rather a conspicuous part In the ceremonie last evening. Columbia Commaudery was ttiHtltuted on the thirteenth day of the month, being number thirteen, the charter memler were 13 In num ber, tlie lodge was constituted on ; December Rl, there were 13 seated at the head table, Hood River Com i inandery wa represented by 13 knight and there were 13 line upon the menu card. The out of town guests present were Truman Butler, R. W. Pratt, C. K. Marshall. W. E. Sherman, W. J. Baker. II. L. Hasbrouck, Mr. ai.d Mrs. O. C. Dean. W. F. McCormlck. Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Castner, W. C. ( Gilmore, E. P. Mlchell. all of Hood I River; Mr. and Mrs. J. K. McGregor, : Muster; W. A. Cleland. Portland; J. I F. Robinson, J. Taylor Pendleton, Pendleton; Ed E. Kiddle, Island City; W. S. Ferguson. Pendleton; U. W. Ingram. Pendleton; Mr. and Mr. Bert Eddlngs, Captain Sherman, Portland; Rev. and Mr. J. J. Mc Allister, Walla Walhi. dent of the State Horticultural Sucl lety of Washington, ami tt 1 a puzz ling a part of ttie trade to under stand just how a shipment of this kind can U made to square with the prominent position he holds In the I apple growing world. I "M ASCOT" PLEASES HOOD RIVERITES The tirnt number f the Mascot, which was Issued last week ha re ceived inauv compliment from the j business men and sub-crUier. The eoiioriai ami ininifsi- iiinimk'-riiriM which 1 ill charge of Sherman Buck ami Wyeth Allen and the other as sociated In the work ire ts lug con gratulated on their ability and enter prise in publishing this bright at tractive school magazine. Among the oilier feature the Mas cot give the student a tne Hum for developing latent literary taleut and bring school matter more closely to the attention of parents and other w ho are interested. Editori ally and typographically the Mancot compare 'more than favorably with publication of a like d- w rlpt Ion In the state ami It I cf much higher -tamlnrd than many lued from communities many time larger than Hood Klvcr.