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THE HOOD
VOLUME 6, NUMBER 1
Hall Brothers Secure
Control Home Phone
Are Elected Directors at Annual Stock
holder's meeting, After Getting Fifty
one Per Cent of Stock--riay Raise Rates
The iiiintial meeting of the stock
holder of the Hume Telephone Com
pany which was postponed last week
through an error In calling the meet
In ir was held Monday with 32 of the
4V) shares of stock represented.
In the election of directors, an hud
been expected the Hull brothers were
voted Into the control of the com
pany's affairs, they having recently
secured 51 per cent of the Htock. The
new board consists of Chas. Hall, E
(). Hall. J. K. Hall, C. E. Copple and
E. C. Smith. It In stated ty Chns.
Hall that the reaHon he and his
brother acquired the additional
stock In the company wan because
they were already heavily Interested
and considered the purchase neces
sary to protect their Interests.
The meeting was called to order by
President E. L. Smith. After the
reading of the minutes and some dls
CUhhIoii the reports of the secretary
DOLL SOCIETY GIVEN
SWEURECEPTION
A very unique reception was held
at the Mount Hood hotel Friday
afternoon when about U." little girls
gathered there with their dollies at
the Invitation of Mrs. ('. A. Hell. The
occasion was the entrance Into doll
society of the aristocratic young
lady recently won by MIhh Anua
Dart la the contest at Cram's store.
Her debut Is said to have leen the
most elaborate ever given a society
doll at Hood ltlver, and was attend
ed by ST) of the awellest doll set In
the city.
Mrs. Hell was assisted In receiving
by Mrs". T. J. Klunalrd and Miss Mae
Davidson. The costumes were too
elaborate for description. All the
types of American doll Iteauty were
represented and It Is whispered that
veral dolls of royal lineage were
present Incognito. The coming out
of the charming new addition to so
ciety Is said to ha ve been most suc
cessful and It Is Intimated that she
will make a brilliant match, as her
rare beauty and charming manner
won all hearts.
During the afternoon Miss Lillian
Hrock entertained with a song. Miss
Suzanne Kay rendered an Instrumen
tal selection nnd Mlsess Anna Mae
Chipping and Klda Jackson also con
tributed musical number. Refresh
ments were served but owing to the
fact that the doll smart set Is dieting
through the winter season to pre
serve Its complexion the dainty vi
ands were disposed of by their
guardians. The only Incident to
mar the occnslon was the rumor
that one of the most attractive
dolls In attendance had had her
face disfigured by being left too near
a radiator, but the report proved to
lie without foundation. A ripple of
excitement was also created by the
announcement that a doll ts'longlng
to the most exclusive set on the
heights had lost her diamond broach.
On Investigation, however, It was
found that she left It home.
At leave taking the dolls and their
guardians thanked their hostess very
heartily for the most enjoyable social
event ever accorded doll society at
Hood Hlver.
After such a delightful afternoon
doll society was startled and shocked
Saturday morning to hear of the
tragedy which befell the beautiful
and accomplished ward of little Miss
Cram, who sustained a fatal fall on
the way home. Just how the accl
ejent occurred Is not known, except
that there was a dull thud on the
sidewalk and the life sawdust of the
beautiful young dollle ooied out on
the pavement. Friends on hearing
the lamentations of Miss Cram ran
to her assistance, but It was all In
van. The mangled remains were
tenderly carried to the store of the
young latly's father, where funeral
arrangements were completed nnd
the deceased was quietly laid to rest
amid the tears of the sorrowing fam
ily. It Is understood the grief of Miss
Cram was finally assuaged by the
adoption of another haniNotue dollie
who Is exHcled to enter on a bril
liant social career as soon as the per
iod of mourning Is over.
and treasurer were read. The for
nier shows thut the net earnings of
the company during the period of Its
operation are about $12,000. With
the exception of capital enough to
operate the. plant, this amount has
ls-en utilized In making extensions
and Improvements. It was stated
by Mauager Hardinger that the net
earnings of the company for the past
two years would not much more
than cover the depreciation In the
plant.
It Is figured by experts, he said,
that telephone plants had to le en
tirely replaced about every twelve
years. The plant now had more
than twice as many telephones as It
had when It was started, 1.12. being
In use the first of January and sub
serilsTs were now getting service to
twice the number of phones they did
when the present rate was made.
Mr. Hnrdlnger also recommended the
expenditure of a considerable sum In
further Improvements and extensions
which he said were absolutely nec
essary. J. W. Kolerg said that the stock
had never paid anything on the in.
vestment nnd thought the new
board of directors should do some
thing to make a return to the stock
holders In t lie shae of dividends,
even If It was necessary to raise the
rates.
II. J. milliard gave It as his opin
ion that this would have to lie done
very carefully and the financial con
dition of t tie company's affairs mak
ing a raise necessary satisfactorily
explained to the subscribers.
A resolution was then Introduced
by E. C. Smith In the form of a rec
ommendation to the directors, ask
ing them to Investigate the financial
status of the company with the end
In view of putting It on a paying
basis to the stockholders with the
possibility of raising the rates. On
motion of E. O. Blnuch'ir seconded
by J. W. KolM-rg the resolution was
unanimously carried
At a meeting of the directors held
Tuesday the new olllcers of the com
pany elected are: Chas. Hall, presi
dent and manager; E.C.Smith, vice
president; E. O. Hall, secretary; E.
O. Hlanchar, treasurer.
GRAND JURY AND
COURTJN SESSION
The January term of the circuit
court oS'Ued here Monday the grand
jury meeting in connection with It.
The business of the court was taken
up Monday with arguments lu a
iiunilier of civil cases of minor im
portance. The most Important case brought
to the attention of the grand Jury
was that of W. H.Thompson who
the coroner's Jury recently charged
with lielng responsible for the wreck
at Cascade Locks.
In addition to the examination of
the grand Jury In the charges against
Th inipson, the state railroad com
mission conducted an Independent
Investigation, with a view, It Is
stated by commissioner Altcheson,
of securfng better protection for rail
road trainmen nnd patrons.
Testimony In the Commissioner's
hearing was taken from Conductor,
Hlltierry, Hrakeinan (ieorge Hrown,
A. II. Me Keen, signal engineer, and
J. C. Shay, traveling engineer, who
was on the engine with Thompson,
at the time of the accident.
According to Shay, Thompson did
not apply the emergency brakes as
soon as he should have done. His
testimony was also to the effect that
Hrown, who was flagging the rear
end of the freight was only tvocar
lengths back of the caboose, and
that there were no other slgnnls to
warn Thompson that his engine was
so near the danger mark.
McKeen testltld that when engineers
were running close to the expiration
of the time allowed them to work by
law, they somest lines ran by the
block In order to gain time.
The grand Jury Tuesday brought
In a report dismissing the charges
against Thompson.
Three Indictments were returned
by the grand Jury against H. S. Da
vis for passing fraudulent checks.
HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
Japanese Consul Wants
Countrymen To Be Good
Sends Word to Them Through Represen
tative to Drive Undesirable Japanese Out
of Hood River ValleyHass fleeting Held
Determined If possible to have the
natives of Japan who reside lu Ore
gon be good citizens J. Takahashl
came here Sunday as the representa
tive of the Japanese Association of
Oregon and V. Numano, the Japan
ese consul at Portland to Investigate
the ease of Vashlnarl, who was ar
rested for selling whiskey and keep
ing a gambling place.
Mr. Takahashl, In order to have a
full discussion of the matter among
the many Japanese at Hood IUver,
called a public meeting which took
place in the opera house Sunday nnd
at which 00 were present, Mr. Tak
ahasha presided and explained to his
countrymen that Mr. Numano and
other prominent Japanese In Port
land looked with disfavor upon the
misbehavior of Vashlnarl. They
wanted, he said, that all .Japanese
obey the laws of their adopted coun
try and to formulate a plan thut
NEW YORK CITY'S FRUI1
Where It Comes From
And What It Costs : :
$225,000,000 Would Not Cover Orchard Products And
That Means Only a Portion of the Quantity of Fruit Used.
From the New
Pineapples come mostly from Cuba,
but the best are from Florida. To
anyone traveling through that state
there seems a pinkish haze all over
the landscais? which the natives ex
plain as pineapples growing In the
sand. It looks as If Florida had
pineapples enough to deck every table
northward to Maine, but such Is
apparently not the case. "Them
Florida pines ain't a drop In the
bucket," declared a dealer emphatic
ally. In fact. theFlorlda pineapples
go largely to the high grade dealers. 1
while the rest get aloug wit h Cuba 11
products. It was rather a shock to
hear as a reason for the unpopular-J
Ity of Porto Klco pineapples that
they are too sweet. It seems that
sweet pineapples do not keep for ex
port and dealers fight shy of them.
So If you really want a good pineapple
it Is still necessary to go to the West
Indies In person. However, the Por
to Kicaus are coming along and may
produce something satisfactorily
acid some day. It Is darkly hinted
that brotherly love has not followed
the flag on that favored Isle, but en
terprising business met hods have.
s. It doesn't matter. As for Hawaii,
the pine apple trade there Is simply
jumping. Before annexation they
exported 4,000 cases of the fruit, but
that trade has grown to STiO.OOO now.
Oranges come from California at j
the height of the season at the rate j
of 220 cars a week. Each car has :i20
boxes aud each box contains on an
average nealy 200 oranges. So there
you have fourteen million oranges
poured Into New York weekly at the
height of the season. This gives an
Idea of the extent of the orange
trade. Florida, of course, sends a
great many, though not as many as
California, and there the seasons do
not conflict to any appreciable ex
tent. The Florida crop this year Is
of 0,000,000 boxes, which, at $."i or il
a box, brings the money spent b r
Florida oranges alone up to a tidy
sum. California takes In far more
than that, getting half a million dol
llars, more or less, from New York
alone at the height of the season.
Hut of course all this takes a sec
ond place beside the figures for the
apple trade. There Is more money
Invested In wheat nnd cotton, but
npart from these apples form the
most Important crop in the country.
fills Is a bad year, yet the crop In
volves l.'i0,(kK),000. The American
Pomologlcal Society will tell you
that then1 are 2!M! kinds of apples,
but for commercial purposes the
Haldwln and the Greening are far
and away the best. Speaking by
and large, the Haldwln Is the nice
red apple, "two for five," you buy
from pushcarts It gets more aristo
cratic at times, but It Is the good old
apple of childhood Just the same,
New York can point with pride to
alluring character in fiction, is proving popular
RIVER NEWS
V9
would eliiuluate the undesirable Jap
anese element from Hood IUver and
the stute at large.
The best element of the Japanese
residents of the state, said Mr. Taka.
hashl, would not tolerate gambling
and Illegal whiskey selling, and he
wanted the help of those who resided
here In driving such Japanese away
and keeping them away. Hood
IUver, lie said, had the largest Jap
anese community In the state with
the exception of Portl.-.nd nnd they
wanted to make It the best.
At the conclusion of his talk the
meeting was addressed by many of
the Japanese In attendance, who ex
pressed a desire to work along the
lines suggested by Mr. Takahashl.
The result was the appointment of a
committee of ten who will endeavor
to lie responsible for the conduct of
the Japanese population at Hood
Hlver In future.
York Time.
Its npp'.a orchards. It takes four
tc .years for a tree to War fi nit,
bill when it liegins it caii be depend
ed upon for a hundred years. They
say New York is the only state In
'which this statement Is true, though
It would seem to a mind not too
strongly biased by local pride that
the West has not had a fair chance
to demonstrate on the century pro
position. Anyway, even a century
I a conservative estimate for an
apple tree In this state. There nre
apples trees up the state twice that
age, still bearing fruit that is emin-
'ently eatable.
The first apple tree planted in this
country was brought from Holland
by Gov. Stuyvesant lu 104" aud put
where Third Avenue nnd Thirteenth
street now Intersect. It stood there
until 1m;g when a dray backed Into
ir and knocked It down, no patriot
having thought of putting a rail
around it. So Xew York started the
apple business In this country. Un
happily the state Is not keeping nt
the head. Apples, complain the deal
ers, are less and less planted. The
-llrlt of the age Is against waiting
fourteen years for a crop, even if It
i a good crop when It comes and
l ists for a hundred years. America
N very little Interested In the year
J.nOit. Hy that time we may lie Im
porting apples from China or some
other place where an Immediate re
sult does not seem that which. is pre
1 ulnently to be desired in life.
All this has lsen about deciduous
and citrus fruits. Deciduous means
that It has a kernel and a thin skin.
If It has a rind It immediately be
come, citrus, whether it has a kernel
r not. (irapes are deciduous, too.
though why they call the seeds ker
nels Is hard for the layman to under
stand. What Isn't deciduous or
citrus Is "berries." Mention the ber
ry trade to a fruit dealer ami he will
express contempt. If you try feebly
to point out that berries have virtues
of their own, highly considered by
many resiec table citizens, you will
get nothing in reply except that ber
ries are unorganized", and anyway
they don't amount to so ery much.
It is sad that vhls social prejudice
should obtain against the harmless,
necessary hucklclierry. to say noth
ing of the strawberry, but the melan
choly truth Is that there seem to lie
no facts or figures as to the trallle
In small fruits. One thing Is certain,
you can't speculate In strawberries
to any extent. It is risky enough In
f r ill t that keeps tolerably well, but
With strawberries It would Is1 out of
ilcstlon, aud the big dealers take
only a mild Interest iu so uncommer
cial a fruit.
The unorganUed Iwrry, now held
up to the scorn, Is only In the condi
tion common to all fruit as late as
even ten years ago. This whole gi-
1910
Something Stirring In
Auto Road to Portland
Petition Signed By Property Holders Rep
resenting $80,000,000 Presented to Hult
nomah County Court Asking for Highway
Active work by William Wenime,
president of the Portland Automo
bile club makes It look very much as
If the long talked of wagon road be-
tween this city and Portland will
become a reality In the near future.
Some of the most prominent and
wealthiest residents of Portland
have K'tltIoned the Multnomah
county court for the road and It Is
Is-ing considered favorably. The fact
that It will open up the eastern Ore
gon country by wugon road Is a
strong factor In its favor. J. P.
O'Hrien, general manager of the O.
It. & X. Is said to lj heartily iu favor
of the road aud promised the com
mittee that the company would
stand by Its agreement to restore
any part of the original wagon road
that had been destroyed or preempt
ed by the railroad. In an Interview
In the Oregoulan Lewis Russell of
Portland, one of Its strongest sup
porters, remarks:
"The men whose signatures appear
on the petition represent In t lie ag
gregate $so,0tt0,0o0 of taxable proper
ty In the county."
The petition asks that the county
construct the road from Bridal Veil
to Cascade Locks, the dividing line
between Multnomah aud Hood Kiver
counties. The distance Is 17 miles
and the estimate of cost, according
to an estimate prepared by Frank T.
Walsh, of the engineering firm of
Gosset and Walsh, Is approximately
$41,000.
This road, when completed, will
THE DALLES MAY
HAVE GAS PLANT
At Its mid-monthly meeting, Janu
ary IS, the city couucll will be asked
to grant n franchise to J. I). Wilcox,
of Portlaud, who represents capital
ists who desire to erect a gas plant
In this city.
In an Interview with Mr. Wilcox
yesterday the Chronicle wnsluformed
that nothing will lie asked of the
city except a franchise which will
make It possible for the Portland
men to build a $.0,(KH) plant iu The
Dalles for the purpose of selling gas
to local people, both for cooking and
lighting purposes. A city Is some
times asked for a bonus when it Is
planned to build an Institution of
this kind In a municipality but Mr.
Wilcox says that the thing he wants
Is the permit to lay mains aud pipes
along the streets of the city.
The Dalles has long needed gas
facilities and the news that the same
may be acquired will be welcomed by
the citizens, housevlves In particular,
who will be glad to have gas for
cooking purposes during the hot
summer months. Two rival light
ing concerns will have a tendency to
lower the cost of lights In the city.
gantlc business has been revolution
ized since the West began to com
pete with the East and found that In
order to bring the fruit over the con
tinent In good condition there had
to be Improved methods In picking
and packing. Without the greatest
care and the most complete system
the fruit was ruined before it reached
the market. One thing has led to
another. Fruit has lieen graded dif
ferently and a higher standard set
throughout the country. Eastern
men are going west to study the
methods In use out there that can
bring In a revenue of $1,000 an acre.
There Is no doubt that Eastern fruit
Is as good as, or better than that
which comes from the Pacific Coast,
but It Is less skillfully grown and
less carefully marketed. Apple sec
tions up the Hudson can prodme
apples as fine as those that come
from the Hood IUver Valley, in Ore
gon, anil sell at ..1 cents aplive, only
it isn't done. And of course, no
amount of organization and Im
proved methods of transportation
can alter the fact that fruit Is sweeter
if It Is eaten fresh.
Out West they are always on the
ukout for new ideas, and they co
operate. 1 he growers of the Hood
Valley only five years ago got M cents
for a box of apples. Now, by Im
proved methods, they get from Jl 7.'i
ICVmtiuucti im t'atfv tfl
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR
give Portland a highway Into east
ern Oregon. It will start along the
Base Line road, crossing the Sandy
river above Troutdale and continu
ing up the Columbia river. In Hood
River county arrangements already
have been completed for building the
road to the county boundary and
the road to The Dalles Is completed.
If this road Is built it will be the
most picturesque highway In the
world, not excepting roads along
the Hudson in Xew York or th
Rhine In Germany. It has been pro
jetted many months. An additional
feature Is that it will provide an au
tomobile highway to Mount Hood
ty way of Hood IUver.
will dbTe1rack
tojwntington
What Is understood to Is) the first
step In the double tracking of the O.
It. & X. Hue between Portland and
Huntington was taken Thursday,
when authority was given for double
tracking the road between The Dalles
aud eschutes, a distance of 17 miles.
Recently the O. R. & X. let the con
tract for straightening the line be
tween the two points and It Is pre
sumed that the decision having been
reached to double track to Hunting
ton, both the line change and the ad
ditional track laying could be ac
complished at a saving of expense
over construction of the two Im
provement separately. The line
change and double tracking will cost
considerable more than $1,000,000.
A part of the double track system
also will be the St. John-Troutdale
Hue, authority for the construction
of which has also been given. Work
on this line will begin as soon as the
weather conditions will permit.
When completed practically 20 more
miles of the route will have been
double tracked at a cost of 17,000,000.
The new Troutdale Hue is not to ls
double tracked In Itself, but will offer
a second track entrance to Portland.
The dlstnnce between Portland
and I'matlUa Is 400 miles and while
estimates of the cost are not obtain
able it is probable that a sum repre
sented by eight figures will be ex
landed liefore the work Is completed.
The greatest congestion of traffic
on the O. R. & X. lines Is between
Portland and I'matlUa. At the lat
ter point the lines of the Washington
division diverge and the wheat of
the Pn louse country, O.mas Prairie
nnd all the Spokane and Idaho traffic
reach the main line. In addition
from this stretch of the system, the
Condon, Heppner nnd Shanlko
branches diverge, all serving big
wheat producing areas, while the
new Deschutes line will also deliver
Its traffic to the main line between
Portland and I'matlUa.
Five passenger trains dally pass
over the line each way In addition to
one fast mail train each way dally
and the regular and special freights.
It Is understood that the stretch of
road is carrying practically the limit
of t rattle In the operation of trains
on schedule time, while there exists a
certainty of increase as the country
Continues its progress in develop
ment. It Is also hinted that mall con
tracts nre nt stake In a contest now
waging lictwecn the Great Northern
and the llarrlman Northwest sys
tern. The Great Northern Is said to
be asking the government for the
Portland mall. Intending to divert It
from Its fast mail train now In oper
ation nt Spokane and via the North
Hank to Portland.
The Great Northern, according to
reports, has declared that the Puget
Sound mall tonnage alone Is not suf
ficient to warrant the continuation
of the fast mail train. The llarrl
man Hue 1 also operating a fast mall
train, but It is recognized that Im
provements are iitvcssary to keep
pace with the strenuous competition
that Hill Is now giving on mall car
rying and other service.
The double tracking of the O. R. &
N It Is also understood, Mill be car
ried on In conjunction with other
Hue changes, which will eliminate
many curves and grades and shorten
the Hue.