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3fic flews Ceacls. df you want tfie news, su6scri6e for tfic Hews, df you want printing, fiava us do it THE HOOD RIVER In jtL, WS VOLUME 6, NUMBER 31 HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1910 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR Apple Crop Estimate Shows Good Prospect Northwest Only Section That Has Full Yield Fine Quality Characterizes Oregon Fruit Hood River's Estimate 500 Cars The annual July report on the apple crop of the country, compiled by the Chicago Packer, aud consid ered the moHt reliable published, hat) lust appeared. It Ih stated by the Packer that the bent prospects at this time la any nee t Ion of the coun try, and, In fact, the only part of the country that gives promise of pro ducing a full crop, Is evident In the Pacific coast states ('allfornlu, Ore gon and Washington with prac tically a similar condition In Idaho. Iast year the yield In these fur western states was curtailed moder ately by spring freezes and other un favorable developments, but so far this season nothing has developed to ludlcate any limitations In the out put. While the yield promises to be what Is generally termed a fall crop, It Is not essentially a bumper crop, as the trees at present In learlng are capable of producing much more fruit than Is in sight this season. It Is just a good, healthy yield, good alike 1a quantity and quality. The tnouutaln states further re moved from the Puclllc cean fitred worse this year than those border ing its waters. Colorado, New Mex ico and Montana have reasonably good crops, but the late spring frosts cut down what at the start in the spring suggested bumper yields. The present promise is what might conservatively 1 termed a moderate yield less than last season In most districts In the three states. I'tab will likely produce a moderately good crop. Between the Mississippi river aud the Itw'kj mountains the prospec tive crop Is uneven, but, considered as a whole, Is fair nud perhaps a WANT HOME RULE FOR OREGON CITIES A matter of voters this fall measure which ballot at the unusual Interest to will be an initiative will le placed on the November elections, under the auspices of the Greater, Oregon Home Kule Association. The measure. If carried, will amend Hie constitution of the state, giving Incorporated towns and c(tles the right to decide for themselves, by their vote, whether liquors shall or shall not le sold within the munici pality. The association, which num bers among Its charter memliers such promluent Portland men as A, I Mills, president of the First Na tional Hank, (ieo. W. Hoyt, T. I). Honeymnn, II. W. Scott, E. B. Piper, 1). H. Cohen, Harry F. McKay, W. 15. Olafke and many others, has as Its object the upbuilding of the agricul tural, Industrial and commercial In terests of the state, which It liclleves will lie Injured by a measure enact ing state-wide prohibition. For tills reason the association Is opposing the efforts of the Prohibitionists to Inject this question Into the politics of the state, and favors home rule and a strict enforcement of the laws already In existence, also the enactment of more stringent laws, if necessary, for the proper conduct of the liquor tralllc. The association Is receiving wide spread support throughout the state by those who believe that the liquor question Is a local and not a state or national Issue. The amendment to allow Incorporated towns to govern themselves In this respect Is particu larly attracting support mid It Is lie lleved that It will be carried. The constitution of the association bars from Its membership any per son, II rii or corporation engaged in J he manufacture of sale of Intoxi cating liquors, although It ndmlts ote and Innkeeper whose principal occupation Is the serving of food and lodging to guests. fchepard to Address Apple Shippers ' II. Hhepnrd, editor of Iletter Fruit, Is on his way east to attend tht) annual meeting of the Interna tional Apple ShlpixTs' Association and make an extended tour of the Atlantic coast. Mr. Shepherd was invited by the apple shippers' associ ation to deliver an address licfore It and accepted. He will tel the ship tiers about the Northwest methods little above the crop produced last year. Iowa has almost no apples, the spring frosts being very severe in that state. Nebraska's apples are produced almost entirely In a few southeastern counties. There the yield Is fairly good, but uueveu, jht haps averuglng not quite as good as last season. Kaunas and northern Missouri have more apples than last year, particularly Kansas, where about 50 per cent of the crop Is in sight, compared with only 10 to 15 per cent of a crop last year. In Missouri nud Arkansas the July condition Indicates a crop close to 40 percent. A year ago about 15 to L'O per cent of a crop was expected. The quality of the Mississippi val ley crop promises to be quite satis factory, though not notably so, per haps about an averuge for the sec tion. According to the Packer's esti mate, there will be a full crop of ier fect fruit marketed from Oregon if nothing happens from now on, and It predicts that the state will gain new laurels lu the leading markets. In the estimate of cars to le shipped from various points lu the state, the shipment from the Grande Hondo Valley Is given at HK) to 700 cars. Cove Is expected to ship SO cars. Mosler Is put down for 20. Medford forlfOOaud Hood River for 500, with quality quoted on very tine. Id Washington Wenatchee Is quoted at 2,000 cars. Yakima at 2.100, Walla Walla at 20 cars aud Underwood at 17. The crop at Yakima is estimated at !K per cent of a full crop. The quality at Wenatchee and Yakima Is given as tb best in tnauy years. Waltsburg execta to ship 40 cars and Kenuewluk 25. of packing nud shipping apples and a number of other things In connec tion with the upple business In this part of the country. Before return ing to Hood River he will make an extended tour of the Atlantic count, visiting most of the large eastern cities and will also stop at Chicago and points In the middle west. Change in J. L. Henderson Company . change was made In the man agement aud ownership of the John Jx'laud Hendersou Company Satur day, when F. C. Howell, a Portland attorney, bought an iuterest In the company and will look after the le gal end of It here. Mr. Henderson has opened a brunch oflice of the company with Geo. Shepard, who last year was a candidate for con gress, lu Portland and left for that city Saturday to asxume Its manage ment. By the change Mr. Henderson will be enabled to lie with his family, who moved to the city several weeks ago. The Judge has withdrawn as a candidate for county surveyor, al though he states that be expects to malutatu his voting residence here. Subscribe for the News. Events Of World Wide Interest Pictured for PEARSON I CLAy Co, FU J I I OF,-f J News Snapshots Of the Week Indictments against Governor H. F. Carroll of Iowa for crimlnnl libel. Grand W hich has affected the entire system. " - Dr. Hawley Ballot Is of No Use to Women. By HENRY WATTERSON. JoumalltC. "T 7T AN has no inalienable rights that woman has not. But God and nature have given a woman a FIXED PLACE IN I JL TIIE WORLD a great place, which she cannot change. ' I deplore the agitation for woman suffrage and the other related subjects, because I think it tends to create sex antagonism. Woman is the moral light of the world. Without ing exhausted the excitement of as a fad. Big Exchange to Handle Northwest Fruit Crops An announcement In Saturday's Oregonlan that caused considerable Interest here, told of the organiza tion lu Seattle of the Northwest ern Fruit Exchange. Its purpose Is stated to be the co-ordination of the fruitgrowing Interests of Washing ton, Oregon, Idaho and Montana and the centralizing of the handling and marketing of fruit grown In these states through one channel. The meeting was attended by a numlier of prominent men connected with the fruitgrowing industry, and the following named were elected ofiicers and directors: President, It. II. Parsons, president of the Hill-Crest Orchard Company, Medford, Or.; vicepresldents.'.M. Ho ran, president of the North Central Washington Development League, Wenatchee; W. N. Irish, president of the Yakima County Horticultural I'nlon; secretary, C. K. Dorland; treasurer nnd general manager, W. F. Gwln. Directors It. H. Parsons, M. Horan, W. N. Irish, William Rich ards, vice-president of the Yakima County Hortfcultural Union; H. M. Gilbert, president of Richie & Gilbert Company, Toppenlsh, Wash.; Judge SAYS TAX ASSESSMENTS ARE NOT TOO HIGH Complaints are being received from property owners who claim that as sessments on Hood River county property are being placed too high. Most of these are emenuting from the valley. It Is admitted by the assess ors that the values on property In the valley are being raised, but It Is also stated that they have heretofore been too low. It Is pointed out by Assessor Lucas that county assess ors were last year Instructed by the State Board of Equalization to as sess renl estate at Its full cash value. This he says has never been done here, although It is being done in several of the counties. At a meet ing of the county nssessors field last fall many of them were of the opln Resident Taft Is cruising along the Maine const on the U. 8. S. Mayflower. A deal supervised by Lawyer Samuel Cnterweyer, Ork'ked by the English engineer Sir Weetmnn Pennon, whereby oil land worth millions Is being secured in Oklahoma, may hare for its purpose the fighting of the oil trust Italy has reported the Leaning Tower of rtsa as belug in danger of ool lapslng. New Jersey Democrats have asked Woodrow Wilson, Princeton's president, to become s candidate for goverasr. her influence men would be ravening wolves and there could be no civilization, but the BALLOT WILL NOT HELP MATTERS. WOMAN SUFFRAGE MAY WORK FAIRLY WELL IN 8PAR8ELY SETTLED COMMUNITIES LIKE COLO RADO, BUT IF IT PREVAILED IN THE COUNTRY AT LARGE IT WOULD DEBASE WOMANHOOD. You will find that most of the advocates of wo man suffrage are DISCONTENTED OR CHILD LESS unless they are the society women who, hav other amusements, have taken it up Fremont Wood, president of the Boise Valley Fruitgrowers' I'nlon, Boise, Idaho; A. C. Uandall, presi dent of the Talent Orchard Company, Talent, Or.; John S. Evans, formerly general manager of the Fruit Dis patch Company, New York; W. F. Gwln, secretary-treasurer Kenmar Orchard Company, Eagle Point, Or. It was decided immediately to lo cate general offices In Portland, which would be thoroughly equipped with sales, accounting and trafllc departments, In charge of experi enced men. It was at first supposed here that the new organization was being or ganized on a basis similar to the cen tral association of the citrus fruit growers of California, but later it was discovered that the controlling interest In It will be the big fruit bundling firm of Crutchfleld & Wool- ioik ot 1'ittsuurg, wno win act as distributing agents and take stock in the concern. The Hood River Apple Growers' I'nlon was solicited to take stock in the new association, but declined to do so when it was discovered that It was to lie oper ated from a private rather than a co operative standpoint. Inn that a basis of assessment should lie fixed at 85 per cent of the cash value. This, however, Mr. Lucas ways he considers too high at present and the assessment here has lieen made on a basis of about 7.1 per cent of the cash value, with the values, placed below what most property owners are asking for their proper ties. In assessing real estate the hoard of Equalization clearly defines the basis ot assessment as above stated and leaves the county assess ors little discretion in the matter otherwise than fixing cash values u lilch in most Instances It is claimed are below the owners' estimates. Dr. C. W. Edmunds and family leave Thursday for Eugene where they will be absent several months. Trunk railroad, of which Charles M. Hays is president, I fighting the strike II. Crippen, accused of murdering his nctreas wife. Belle Elmore, lu Loudou. "Hood River Great" Says Secretary Wilson Head of Agricultural Department After Ride Through Valley to Cloud Cap Inn Praises Soil, Climate and Oregon People James Wilson, secretary of agri culture In the cabinet of President Taft, honored Hood River with a visit last week. The veteran head of L'ncle Sam's department for farmers was accompanied by his son, Jasper Wilson, and Ids secretary. The arri val of Secretary Wilson was unex pected and his reception here a quiet one. With the exception of a few lines In Friday's Oregonlan the day of Mr. Wilson's arrival. Hood River was unapprised of bis coming, and many did not know that he was here at all until they saw au account of his trip to Mt. Hood in Sunday's Oregonlan. Secretary Wilson's visit was due to his desire to acquaint himself with the agricultural possibilities of the valley and -to Investigate requests to throw open to settlement some of the land In the Cascade forest reserve. Before leaving for Cloud Cap Inn, where Friday night was spent, the W ilson party, which Included Assist ant District Forester O. H. Cecil and Superintendent T. H. Sherrara of the Cascade forest reserve, lunched In formally with several of Hood River's prominent business men, at the Oregon Hotel. The trip to the Inn was made In the hotel company's machine. On his return to Hood River Saturday afternoon, Mr. Wilson expressed him self as highly pleased with the trip and the Hood River country. Al though covered with dust an Inch thick, the dignified farmer statesman was In a good humor and enthusias tic about the country. He barely had time to catch bl train, but said: "I have seen some of the most wonderful natural soil hi the world In the vicinity of Hood River and along the route of our trip. The soil conditions constitute the most strik ing thing I observed. They are highly mineralized, probably there suit of volcanic action of past ages, and If well farmed and well managed they will outlast those of most other places. "You have a natural condition out here in Oregon that Is not only re markable, but Is something that ad vocates of dry farming In the Middle West have attempted to produce ar tificially. I found that by kicking the dry dust aside and scraping the hard ground underneath there was moisture in plenty for the raising of any fruit crop, or most any other crop. The dust is a natural mulch which preserves moisture In the soli. All It needs Is the slight stirring which your orchardlsts give their plots to make it perfect. The culti vation Is necessary to keep it from packing and cracking, which allows the moisture to escape. Going up toward Mt. Hood we frequently walked to ease the horses, and I fre quently scraped down to the mois ture In the packed road. "I nra satisfied that one of the Busy Readers great elements which enters into the merits of the Hood River and the Or egon apple Is the fact that the min eral qualities of the soil are not washed out through Irrigation. The rainfall of the west slope of the Cas cades Is sufficient to raise the crop, and the fruit receives the benefit of the Ingredients of the soil in which It is planted. "For years to come, the rich peo ple of the world will buy your fruit, and when you raise so much that they are overstocked, the poor peo ple of the same neighborhoods will take it. In Parlsa Hood River apple has been known to sell for 40 cents. That sura of money would represent the entire cost of keeping a peasant family one day. One apple divided among such a family would hardly be sufficient food for a day." In regard to throwing open to set tlement some of the forest reserves of the valley, Mr. Wilson said: "There have been so many settlers allowed to go Into the forest reserve near Hood River and Mount Hood that there are not many good places left, but wherever the soil can be ob tained and the settler Is In good faith, I am going to let him If I can. It may as well be understood that I am not going to countenance specu lation In lands In any form. "I find that many of the applica tions v bleb have been personally ex amined by me are for lands that are rather heavily timbered, and It would appear that the element of speculation may enter Into the mat ter. I am anxious to help the bona fide sottler, but I will not stand for anything else." Mr. Wilson expressed the opinion that apples could be successfully raised In a considerably higher altl tnde than Hood River, and that the district would continue to spread with ssperlment. He thought 3,000 feet altitude a safe limit, but advised proceeding cautiously. In conclusion, Mr. Wilson stated that he had found many nice people at Hood River and was glad that he called on them. UNION MAKES ITS FIRSHPPLE SALE The Apple Growers' Union, which Is preparing for an active apple ship ping season, announces that the first shipment to go out this year will leave about the 15th of August when several cars of Gravenstelns will be shipped to New York. The apples were bought by Stelnhart & Kelley, who It Is stated took them at a good figure, and constitutes the first sale of the season by the union. It Is expected by the union to start an apple packing school as soon as enough fruit can te secured for thla purpose. The big crop it expects to handle this year will necessitates much larger number of packers than ever liefore and It Is believed that It will be necessary to put a force of at least Kk) packers In the field. Many of these will have to te taught and It Is causing the managers of the union todosome thinking In order to get enough esperts to take charge of the recruits. Some of the scarcity of packers is due to the Inroads started last year by other districts by offer ing Hood River experts' big pay to teach out of town packers to com pete with Hood River. It Is esti mated at present that the unton will handle about 7.1 per cent of the crop am that to do so It will have to provide additional space nnd a much larger warehouse force. The direc tors now have this matter under advisement. While no line has lioen obtained as yet by the union on apple prices. Manager Sproat lielleves they should lie good from i conservative stand point nnd looks forward to a suc cessful season. Barrett Votes to Bond lu the Barrett school district Mon day, where an election was held to vote on the question of bonding to build a new brick schoolhouse, the bonds carried. The vote was lit for bonds nad 1.1 against. It tsex;ected to commence work on the building as soon as possible.