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About The Hood River news. (Hood River, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (July 6, 1910)
eJfie Hcvos (calls. you vocmt tfie news, su6scri6e for tfie Hcvos. you want printing, have us do it THE HOOD RIVER NEWS VOLUME 6, NUMBER 26 HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2fl 1910 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR Noise, Uproar, Accident Absent Here On Fourth News Fight Reports Attract Plan Afoot to Organize IVIutual Phone Company F. H. Stow, Experienced Telephone flan Takes Initiative Says Good Service Can Be Secured for Seventy-five Cts. a Month Crowds to Witness Result Day Spent Quietly Hundreds Go to The Dalles, Parkdale and Grange Park Stay At-Homes Gather to Hear Fight News The Fourth lit Hood Hlver wa t lie quietest ever known here both In point of nolHt' and nctlvlty about town. The greatest excitement and largest crowd during the day wan In front of the News olliee during the time the returns from the Jeffrle- Johnsou fight were being received. Notices iHHued by Mayor McDonald and posted about town prohibiting the firing of firearms and crackers In the city evidently hud Its effect tia with the exception of an occasional exploding cracker the deafening roar of the old time Fourth was absent. The fireworks display was also Ilm Ited being coflnued to small exhlbl tlons here and there at the homes of those Id the residence section. During a greater part of the day the city was almost depopulated the several attractions out of the city taking hundreds away. At X..'!) several hundred boarded The Dalles City for the Cherry City accompanied by the Hood Hlver band which had charge of the excur sion, and went to Wasco's county seat where they sxnt the day tak ing In the ball game and celebrating. The excursion returned to Hood Ulvernt midnight. A number also went to The Dalles by train. At v:it :'Mt left on the Ml. Hood railroad for I'arkdale, the number being Increased from all the stations along the line. The West Side band accompanied the I'arkdale crowd and enlivened the ride, also furnish ing music on the picnic ground. At I'arkdale the Hood Klver party found an immense crowd gathered from all parts of the upper valley and every effort was made to give the visitors a good time. Hev. W.L. Van.Nuys delivered the oration of the day and made a most eloquent and Impressive address. The I'arkdale iiiartette sang, the hand played and a big picnic dinner and athletic sports combined with other amuse ments gave the visitors aiuiiM'mciit and excitement. Many of tliem took rides ami strolls about the I'arkdale country and were astonii-hcd at the development taking place In that section anil other parts of Hie upper vnlU-y. The biggest crowd of the day con gregated at Park Grange where a celebration was held under the aus. pices of the Grange. It Is estimated t hat nmi to 1,MNI people were on the grounds during the afternoon. The celebration was commenced with an automobile parade that formed Jn town and proceeded to the park. This was followed by the exercise which were opened by n prayer by Itev. H. J. Wood of the llelmont church. A patriotic song followed after which M. I. Isenberg president of the day delivered an ad 1 1 reus of welcome nnd the declaration REPUBLICAN MASS MEETINGJATURDAY Meeting places for the republican precinct muss meetings which will ls held Saturday at 7 p. in. have Is-en designated and Indications are that they will lte well attended. Ac cording to the apportionment of the republican state central committee the number ofdelcgntestothecounty assembly from the various precincts will lie as follows: IWlldwin, 1) delegates, meeting at dribble's hall; Falls, tj. meeting at U-veu's ball; Odell, 7, meeting at school house; South Hood Hlver, 10, meeting at llarrett school lions'; Fast Hood Hlver, M; meeting at Commercial Club rooms; West Hood Hirer, , meeting at court house; Center Hood Hlver, M, meeting at J'ark street school. The chairman of the precincts will call the meetings to order which are oK-n to nil repub licans. The county assembly will lie held Saturday, June JUth, In this city when delegates to the stateassembly which will be held In Portland July "Jit will le elected. The apportion ment, of delegate to the state assem bly from Hood Hlver county Is a total of 1.' distributed as follows: llaldwln. 2; Falls, 1; Odell, 1; K.'.st Hood Hlver, .1; South Hood Hiver, 2; West Hood Hlver, .1; Hood Hlver Center, 3. ' of Independence wus read by Arthur Moses. Hon. A. A. Jayue delivered an eloquent and forceful address suitable to the day followed by At torney K. C. Smith who enthused bis hearers In his references to the patriotism Inspired by the nation's natal day. At noon dinner was served, doens of little parties dotting the grounds In picnic fashion. Iii the ufternoon A, ('. Staten one of the leaders In the grange addressed the assembly on the subject "Why We Celebrate." Part of Mr. Stateu's talk was de voted to the history of Park Grange and the Idea underlying the pur chase of the grounds which he stated was for the purpose of providing the leople of the valley with a public re creation park. The grounds com prise eight acres nicely wooded and when Improved will furnish a line park that Is centrally located. The grange wanted It understood that the grounds were open to the publfc and It wanted the cooperation 3f the people of t he valley In liquidating the Indebtedness and In beautifying the grouuds which would eventually be At.: IS J r;. dedicated to the people. i The afternoon was enlivened by dancing and also by the light returns which were telephoned out from the clt.v. numltcr of Hood Hiver people went to Portland to spend the day while many from the big city came to Hood Hlver. Numerous small picnic parties went out into the val ley to sequestered spots and some also across t lie Columbia to Wash ington. In the evening the moving picture shows were well patronized and a crowd assembled at the depot to get the news of the big fight In the first editions of the evening papers. .No accident Is reported to mar the lav which although quiet wa an enjoyable tine. Wants Thistles Removed Hans I.ago, supervisor of road llsfrlct No. ti on the east side, states that he wishes to notify all property holders to remove the thistle from tlit; roads adjoining their places as they are becoming a menace to the vallev. Mr. I. age calls at tentlnn to the fact that the law gives road sup ervisors authority to remove the thistles and charge the cost to the property owner where they neglect or refuse to do It. Will Consider Telephone Situation A meeting of the Hood Hlver Mer chant's Association will be held Fri day evening in conjunction with resi dents of the valley to consider the telephone situation. The meeting will take place In the ( ommerclal Club rooms at o'clock. All resi dent of the valley Interested In the quest Ion are requested by the associ ation to be present. 2f2i. ; ----- No event In the same space of time has attracted the widespread atten tlon and Interest of the Jeffries-John son fight, which was won Monday In the 1'ith round by the black man, and Hood Hlver was not an excep tion In this respect to other sections of the world. Harrlng the San Francisco earthquake the press asso ciations and telegraph lines handled more business In connection with the fight than for any other huppenlng In the world' events. It Is estimated that 7.V),XI0 words were sent out from Heno, telling of the fistic battle alone, to say nothing of the volume of words written and distributed previous to the fight. One hundred and fifty operators were taken to Heno to report the result of the en counter. The great Interest In the fight at Hood Hlver centered at the New of fice on account of the fact that the News had arranged to get the re turn direct from the ringside and for two hours men In ull walk of life crowded around the bulletin board waiting with breathless Inter est for the bit. of yellow paper ttmt would announce the triumph of the victor. Jeffries was far and away the favorite, although a few wise ones who follow fistic affair closely touted Johnson to win. Business men, lawyers, doctor, logger, -.: .i-.wv, K -s Hood River and Mt. Hood Young Safe Cracker Former Resident Here Residents Recognize Roy Jones as Roy Slack Was Here June 20th and Believed To Have Wrecked Safe in Heights Store Former schoolmates here of the young burglar who gave his name to the Portland police as Hoy Jones, aud who Is charged with three safe cracking Jobs, say J one' real name fs Hoy Slack. Slack's parents at one time lived at Hood Hiver and he nnd his brother attended school here. His father formerly carried the mall between here nnd White Salmon. The young safe cracker was here about the first of June aud It Is now believed that he and his companion were responsible for wrecking the safe In Klnnalrd & Klnsey'a grocery store on the night of May Ittth, or about ten days nfter the roblx-ry nt the White Salmon postotllce. About June 20th youngSlack again showed up In town with a compan ion nnd told a young man working In a livery stable here who knew him that he hnd lieen camping nt Mount Hood and asked the liveryman to send a package that he said con tained a tent, to his father who lived nt Hrook Landing, above Itlngcn on the Columbia river, slack meet a numlKT of his former acquaintances preacher and hoboe elbowed each other and discussed the merit of the two men, while inside the office telephone calls from all parts of the yalley kept the New force busy an swering inquiries. Many of thee were women, some of whom courag eously announced who they were while inquiring for the latest new, while ether said It didn't matter who they were they wanted to know about the big fight. One young lady (presumably young from her voice) when told that the black man had won exclaimed "What!" In a fara way voice that sounded as If she wa going to faint. The bulletin received by the News were supplied by the Oregon Jour nal 6ver leased wires from the ring side and the service was much more complete than any furnished by the evening papers received here. A flash received before the complete new of the fight was put on the wire gave Johnson as the victor, while the de tails came afterwards. The bulletin of the fifteenth round telling In grim detail the story of the big. game white man being knocked down three time before he finally suc cumbed. A careful reading of the rounds showed that Johnson had the fight from the start and that J e dries had gone to the mill once too often his agility, strength and prowess had deserted him. as Seen from White Salmon here that night with whom he talked telling them that liefore coming to Hood Hlver he had lcen working In a hotel In San Francisco. He nnd his companion, who Is thought to have been Hels, left the next day for Portland where they were arrested Tuesday by Detective Snow and Coleman, with four others. Conclusive evidence against the men wa gained when Coleman nnd Snow gained possession nt the Alder street dock of a valise filled with nitroglycerine and burglar tools nnd consigned from White Salmon to Frank Tralton, one of the men In the city Jail. The valise had been sent down ns freight nnd deckhands had knocked and kicked It about In the ordinary way, unconscious of the fact thnt It contained a pint of tilt ro-glyecrlne, enough to blow the dock Into the ntr. Later Slack and Hels confessed to robbing the White Salmon postotllce and Nichols' store nt Mosler. Coleman and Snow had In-en on the trail of the guug ever since the perpctrntlon of a safe-cracking Job in 1. &T ... Vr- .WW. in S vr ' --. Hood Hiver may have a mutual telephone company in the nearfuture If a movement that Is lelng put on foot by F. H. Stowe, an experienced telephone man, continues to get the support It has already leen assured. Mr. Stowe, who Is promoting the company, secured the franchise In Portland for the Home company of that city and recently liecame Inter ested In Hood Hlver by buying a ranch here. He states that his Inter est In organizing the new company is to give the valley a cheaper and better service and that he was In duced to take up the work on ac count of the poor service between bis home In Portland and hi ranch here. To assist him lu the work Mr. Stowe ha secured the service of J. H. Hardlnger, formerly manager of the Home company here, and who has organized and constructed some of the largest systems In the L'ulted States. Mr. Hardlnger entered Into a contract with Mr. Stowe Thursday for his service for three months to organize the new company. The proceedure as outlined Is to ' f ' - at This Time of the Year. Alblna. That occurred on June 6. A safe, which was unlocked and con tained no money, nnd on which a large card was hung announcing those facts, was blown oih'H, the building tieing wrecked. The ollieers had the notion that the thieves were not far away and a careful watch of the vicinity led them to a small shack nt Russell nnd Hortlnvlck streets, where four were taken. Two others were picked up on the street. Among the men arrested were George Waters William Hels, Frank Trafton. Harry Heed and Hoy .Tones. Water Is tW years old and Is said to be the gly cerine expert and Fa gin of the gang, Instructing the younger members In the mysteries of his art. The job at White Salmon, of which the gang Is accused, Is the biggest achievement In this section. The safe was blown open In what Postal In spector Hlches declare to have been a very neat manner nnd flX) lu money was taken. No stamp or other loot which could W Identified was disturbed, W. H. Myers, a drug clerk living at White Salmon, was arrested In Portland a few dayslater and sent back to White Salmon to answer, but has been released. The Job at Mosler was a small af fair, nothing of value being taken. The thieves escaped after a pistol battle In the river, In which no one was hurt. The whereabouts of the thieve was discovered through the trailing of a boy supposed to be a son of Waters. 1 organize the company on the mutual plan, which ha been so successful In the middle west and east. The prop osition is to get 1, (XX) phone at $75 apiece, each phone subscriler to re ceive one share of stock and a vote In the affairs of the company. By cutting out the big salaries and op erating the company on this basis It Is stated by Mr. Stowe that sub scriber can be furnished with first class service for 73 cent a month. Application for a franchise has been made and It 1 said that mem bers of the city council who have been approached on the subject have given It their favorable considera tion. Mr. Stowe is in Portland prepar lng a statement to the people of the valley In the form of a circular letter which It Is expected to mall out In a few days, giving some fact and fig ures. He say he believe that a mu tual system can be operated in the Hood Hlver district under the most favorable conditions and that the service can be a good as any In the L'ulted State at a great reduction In rate. ft $35,000 THEATRE F0RJ00D RIVER It Is now announced definitely that Captain Cha. P. McCnn will tegln Immediately on the construction of a $'V,(KK) theatre for Hood Hlver.whlch will be adapted to many use nnd furnish a place to hold the annual apple fair, ns well a attract the best theatrical attractions. Plan are lie completed in the office of Architect H. H. Uartlett for the building, which will cover half of the block bounded by Third, Columbia and Fourth streets. The new theatre will be named The Melburn, In honor of Mrs. McCan, who was a few years ago prominent on the vaudeville stage. The main floor of the auditorium will Ih? D." by 1U0 feet, nnd will accom modate liHKt persons. The raised seat of the auditorium will lie con vertible, so that the level floor may lie used for exhibition or large social gatherings of any sort. The stage will lie :W by tin feet nnd equipped to proierIy stage any production which may lie brought to the coast. An effort will he made to get the new building under cover by fall. In time for the apple fair, and It Is estimated that by using the stage and corridor space It) carloads of apples may lie exhibited. The theatre will probably he opened during the holidays, and the playhouse, which will have all modern comforts, will cater only to the highest class patronage. Telegram.