6 THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1910 THE HOOD RIVER NEWS rtLiaaED wkdnmdat mornings sr MOOD RIVER NEWS COMPANY, Inc. Hood Rivkb. Omook W. H. WALTON Editoi C. P. SONMCHSEN Manages Subscription, $1.30 a Year in Advance Kntarad u Meond-claaa mttr. Feb. 10. at the post office At Hood Rirr. Oracon. vadar tba Act of March S. 1ST. Taking the Census Census taking, lays the Oregon Journal, begins in three weeks. In almost every city and community in Oregon a howl has usually fol lowed announct-oient of the count. In several instances there hai been a recount by local authority with considerable additions to the ag cremate. In all instances the offi cial count has been disappointing The farcical character of the pro. ceed'ire has been a chief influence in contributing to the result. This was due to the incompetency of census officials and the selection of official enumerators for political reasons rather than for census tak ing. Tlie procesa has been so ha bitual that the public looks with lack of confidence on the present numeration and thereby lays be fore the census superintendents unusual opportunity to make a count of demonstrated value. They will be censured if they fail to do so. Continuing the Journal says : Beginning April 13 and continu ing until the count end9 there should be a new order. Census taking ii a serious business. For a hundred reasons every resident of the state should be found and catalogued. Matters of very large importance bang on the result. Every citizan of the state and of every city, town and community it immediately and profoundly concerned, and each should exer cise surveillance, should render every possible assistance to enum erators and should make it a per sonal concern to see that not a soul escapes the count, iuch a course will make the work effec tive, will increase the final aggre gate, will give confidence in the census business and will yield ns surcease from the long time ulu lations that will otherwise follow the announcement of the finding. good authority during the past week. . The project line will con nect with the Grand Trunk, the Hill road now being built up the Deschutes, and with the Oregon Electric in the Willamette Valley, believed to be another Hill prop erty. This will mean a gridiron of new railroads for Oregon during the coming few years that will bring about a defelopment in this state never before approached. All Central Oregon needs is railroads; it has everything else but people and the railroads will bring them Portland will have another great Hour mill soon. Balfour, Guthrie & Co., wheat and Hour ex porters, have completed plans for erecting a big mill at the foot of Tenth street on the Portland water front. It is expected to be ready for operations during the ccming fall and will cost about $250,000. Plans provide for a combined mill, wharf and elevator. The contract for the wharf structure has already been let. The mill will be reach ed by ocean steamers and by rail roads as well. It will be operated by electric motors and will be one of the most modern flour milling plants in the country. Its daily capacity will be about 1000 barrels of flour. i An interurban service that is de signed to meet the needs of the cities of the state has just been announced by the Harriman lines. pounds, live weight, and steers of the best grade brought $6.75 per 100 pounds. Mutton also at tained a record, a lot of good grade lambs going at $12 a 100 pounds, an unusual price for any season. $4,000 In Prizes The larKeet publicity contest ever known In the went In being conducted by Klleru Piano I Inline, largest piano ami talking machine dealers lu the went. It Is a campaign in which a number of the largest eastern piano manufacturer have I Dined with thw ho ne of Filers In order to bring their instruments still more prominently to tne trout in this growing western couutry. All told over $1000 In prizes will be distributed absolutely free, and readers of this paer can find full particulars lu the announcement of tJiers 1'iano House on pages O. A. C. Spring Athletics Actlvltj In spring athletics has commenced In real earnest at the Or egon Agricultural College. Fielder Jones, the famous ex-manager of the worm s cnampion w hite Sox base ball team, who has been secured to coach the college boys, has taken charge of the squad and put his can-! dldates at work. All but two of the I men who played on the team lust! year are available again this season, j With the peer of all basebull coaches as leader and with a splendid sched- j ule of games baseball promises to le a popular line of sport this spring. Northwest Prosperous A. L. Mills, president of Portland's! biggest bank, evidently knows what I he is talking about when he says the Pad He northwest is the most pros-j road building now under way. This work, he says, is showing t he confi dence the leaders In the financial world have lu this section mid it naturally breeds confidence In others. EARLY ROSE Seed Potatoes Blue Stone by the pound or barrel. Lime by the pound, barrel or carload. Lime and Sulphur solution by the gallon or in any quantity. Land Plaster, the stuff that makes your hay crop, and now is the time to use it. A car load of Utah now in. A complete line of Poultry Supplies always on hand. AT WHITEHEAD'S FEED STORE JOHN LELSN0 HENDERSON, frtildtnl: attornai it lea NoUrj Pvkll A. T. ALLEN. Viet PrulStnt EDITH M. ANDREWS. IcrtaryTrayrtr John Leiand Henderson (Incorporated) Law, Real Estate, Loans Conveyancing Surveying Conveyancing and Surveying a Specialty CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED The President of the Company is prepared to do Surveying find Civil Engineering Work of all kinds Home and Pacific Telephones Rooseveltism For ten years Roosevelt haa en joyed a wealth of publicity that has nerer been equalled, and it is to be hoped it never will be. We say enjoyed because we believe Mr. Roosevelt is "de-lighted" by being kept in the public eye as never was mortal man before. We hoped when he arrired in the innermost recesses of darkest Africa there would be some let up to the efful gent limelight, but not so. By wireless, grapevine, jungle-grass cable, pony express, foot runners and whatnot the doings of this most pictured and be-written citi zen oi Lncie nam's domain ap peared daily, weekly, monthly and periodically. Nw, on the eve of his return to his natire soil it looks as if all that had been said and portrayed before would be as a hand bill for a moving picture show to the advent of Barnum's tircus, compared with what is to come. The blare of Caesar's tri umph, the ovation to the hero of Trafalgar or the welcome extended to the destroyer of Cevera's fleet will be as naught to the home coming of T. Roosevelt. And why? Because there seems to be a fixed idea in the minds of n big proportion of the great American public that there is only one man who can run these United States. If this is so we are surely in a bad way. However, if it is so let us elect Roosevelt for a life term and hare done with such an avalanche of printer's ink on a subject that has ceased to be inter esting except to the idolators of the strenuous advocate of the big stick. Instead of too much John son it is a case of too much Roosevelt. ALL ORLOOM HEWS Portland, Or., March 20, (Spei-al)-That James J. Hill will build an eapt and west line of railway across Central Oregon, from On tario to Coos Bay, was stated on WirstJ& Glass 4& Bargains C.6 acres on the east side, all in orchard. No buildings $2,700. CIO acres west side, very best land; 8 acres orchard 2-4 years old, 3 acres straw berries; 10 shares water stock. No buildings $9,000. C.10 acres on the west side, all in 4 and 5 year old trees; 6 acres strawberries be tween the trees. Fruits of all kinds for home use, good buildings, farm implements. $10,000 for quick sale. C.10 acres west side; 8 acres in bearing orchard, good house with running water. Splendid bargain $10,000. C.20 acres on the east side, mostly in 3 year old Spits and Newts. Very best land. Splendid bargain $16,000. C.19 acres on the west side, 16 acres in clover and alfalfa; all first class apple land. Splemdid property and fine building site. Red shot soil $7,500. C.20 acres on the west side, all in orchard; 15 acres 3 and 4 year old trees and 5 acres in bearing. $1 8,000. C.21 acres on the east side; 7 acres in bearing trees, balance from 2 to 6 years old. Buildings and 5 inches irrigating water. $21,000 for short time only. C.40 acres in Mosier; 20 acres in orchard from 3 to 9 years old, all good varieties. Buildings, etc. $1 1,000. C.40 on the west side; 8 acres in full bearing, 14 year old trees. 20 acres 4 and 5 years old. 5 acres 2 years old. Good buildings, splendid property. $50,000. Sec U9 for the Best properties in Rood River District J. H. HEILBRONNER & CO. The Reliable Dealers DAVIDSON BUILDING HOOD RIVER, OREGON Beginning this week, gasoline mo tor cars will be put in service on the main line of the Southern Pa cific between Ashland and Grants Pass and another on the Spring field branch between Albany and Springfield. Another car of the same type will be put on between Pendleton and Umatilla on the O. R. & N. within the coming week. These motor cars are deeigned to handle local business in the terri tory they cover and serve the dif ferent communities much in the same way as interurban electric trains. They have been found very convenient wherever tried and will no doubt aid the develop ment of the districts served to a great extent. The Great Northern Railway plans to run its crack limited train into Portland by June 1, using tne union racinc and Northern Pacific tracks by virtue of the traffic agreement existing between the Hill and Harriman ines in the northwest. This will mean the inaguration of addition al train service between Portland and Puget Sound points, as well as from this city to the East. Cattle and' hogs have made new records in the Portland live stock market during the past) week. Hogs sold at the remark-1 able price of $11.50 per 100 perous ttectlon of the United States. He says capital of the country Ueany and It is coining this way for lnvent ment In large quantities. rroKp.cts for this year are the lrent, he HfiyH, the northwest has ever known. H naturally attributes a very htk part of the activity and hustle litTt. about to the large amount of rnll- Accordlng to a Hood IMver Japan ese employment agent the little brown men will become a scarce ar ticle In the way of help In a year or two. tie says that 2(KK) of them go buck to Japan every year and can't return on account of the exclusion law. The Chinese are In the same boat. It's up to somebody to start eastern white emmlgratloii this way. 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