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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.