ZHE HOOD RIVER NEWS ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME ALL READY FOR THE APPLE FAIR VOLUME 6, NUMBER 46 HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1910 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR Temporary Ruling In City Water Bond Suit Court Decides It Has No Jurisdiction But Allows Complaint to Be AmendedSays Pri vate Bond Sale Is Illegal According to Charter New Interest nml h new turn to the water bond Injunction Mult which lit being lieurd by Judge itolit. It. Mean lit the rutted State court lu Port land, wiih added to It during the punt week by a temporary decision In the cntm aud also by the with drawal of Mr. Pearl Morton (rum the milt. In withdrawing Mr. Mor ton allege that Hhe wan Induced to enter the cane hy undue Influence; that she knew nothing about It merit except what she was told ami Itecame a pa'ty to the Milt on re pre Hentutlou made ty C. I. Nlckelsen, Ielle Hutler, C. M. Wolfard and J. W. Morion. Her withdrawal doe not affect the statu of the Hiilt ma terially. Id giving a temporary decision Judge I lean rlten that while It I hIiowii that the first and second pro poHnl to well the bond were adver tlel no advertisement wi made precettdlng the secret contract which' wan entered Into by the city with Keeler liros. to Hell the bond at 6 per cent and the additional Induce ment of a bonu. tie. further add that a sale without such advertise ment I unauthorized and void and la defining the reaon for thl de clxlon says: "The object of the provision re quiring bond to te sold after public advertisement and to the highest bidder I to prevent favorltlm, cor ruption, extravagance or Improvi dence and 1 generally held to tie mandatory. The fact that thede. fendantn were untthlc after public ad vertisement to dispone of twenty or twenty-live year 5 per cent bonds would not authorize them to sell wlthont puhllclt.v or comtelttoi laind bearing a different rate of In teret and payable at a different time, contrary to tne requirements of the charter. "Hut upon the record as It now stauri the Jurisdiction of this court U not milflclently shown ti authorize It Interference In the matter, in a suit brought by a taxpayer to enjoin the Issuance of bunds by a muiiicl pallty the Jurisdiction of the f.- I. r.-i I court In determined by the amount of taxes the complainant would be compelled to pay lu discharge of the promised inrielieterines and the amount of the bonds A prellmiiinrv Injunction shoiihl not, therefore. Is. sue but I will allow the complainant ten days for the purpose of amend ing his complaint. In the meantime t he restraining order already 1sueri will continue." An aftldavlt In the case of more than passing Interest Is one made by '. K Williams, manager of the linn of Morris Itros., the largest bond buying house la Oregon. Morrl Pro, now hold the hitch school and other loca' bonds. Mr. Williams re cite that the city' action In con tracting to sell the water bond at 0 per cent and a bonua of f 1,000 In ab solutely unnecessary and unfair to the taxpayer and nay that Morrl Pros, bought the Hood Hlver school bond In the spring of 1SKW when the money market had not yet recovered from the financial panic of VM)7, tak ing them at Ti per cent and paying a premium of $4Tk. He says that the experience of hi Arm ts that bond buyer are less willing to buy water bond where there I a competing private water plant and add that If the competition of the private water plant could be eliminated he I of the opinion that the bond could tie marketed at fi per cent and could have Iieen so marketed In the month of August 1910. Continuing he avers In the aftldavlt that even with the competition of the private water company he 1 of the opinion that the bond could lie sold at par If they bore per cent Interest and that he Is satisfied that the Issue fit $00,000 In fl per ceut bond conld have been readily sold at a substantial premium If they had Iieen advertised; he say that hi firm ha Iieen anx ious to bid on the city water bond and did bid on them when offered at less than 6 per cent and the bid was not accepted. The bid referred to by Mr. William I the one made by Morrl liro. Fel. ruary 1.1th, and If accepted would have effected a saving of f 15.000 over the contract entered Into with Keeler II rim. Mr. William goes on to say that during the month of Septcinls-r or late lu August he heard a report that a contract bad Iieen entered Into, In one of the loca! barrooms in Port land, between a tuemlier of the city council of Hood Klver and a memla-r of Keeler itros. fur the suld issue of !0,0O0 lii water bond at (5 per cent, and that he wrote to Mayor McDon ald asking for Information and re ceived no reply. That he then wrote to the city treasurer and city re corder, but received no definite In formation from either of them, ex cept that the latter stated that the city was considering re-ad verttslng the bonds, This was on Sept. 17th, when the contract had already U-en signed on August rah, accordldg to a notation In the city recorder'e books. Mr. Williams, lu concluding his af fidavit, says that In his opinion the profit of Keeler liros, on Hie contract will lie $10.(HH to $12.uuu. That he still believe that the water bonds of the city of Hood Klver, bearing the Interest ami containing the term called for by the contract of Keeler liros., Iwo'ild readily sell at a sub stantial premium, and that Morris Bros, are still willing to bid on the bond If they are offered for sale In accordance with the 'term of the Hood Hlver municipal charter. Ten day are allowed the com- (Continued on Fwi it GROSSED IN LOVE GIRLTAKES LIFE Fully dressed, Ruth Southworth. a domestic employed In the home of Councilman (Jeorge I. Slocum, was found dead In her Ix-d Wednesday morning by Mr. Slocum, when the latter went to awaken her. Al though the cause of the girl' death has been Investigated by physicians, It ha not a yet Iieen determined. It Is believed, however, that she com mitted suicide, a a note was found by Coroner Kriglngton which read: "Mr. Slocum, phone to my aunt, Mrs. S. M. Cozad, and tell her my predicament." The aunt referred to lives In Hood Hlver, but says she I unable to throw any light on the suddeii uud mysterious death of her ulece. A bottle of chloroform was found hid deu In a bureau In the room, but the physicians say that It would not have been possible for Miss South worth to have killed herself with It without lis presence lielllg detected on her body. She Is U-lleved by the coroner to have taken an opiate. The Sunt h worth girl had heeu In Mrs. siocum's employ but two days. Tuesday night Mrs. Slocum eutered her room to give her some instruc tion and found her taking a bath. She afterwards carefully dressed her self and is believed to have taken morphine. The girl wa 17 year old and attractive. Later Investigation Into the mo tive that caused the young girl to take her life Is said to have developed a love affair In which she hud met disappointment. She I said to have had despondent moods on this ac count and to have frequently said THE KIND OF COMPETITION HOOD RIVER HAS AT NATIONAL APPLE SHOW, SPOKANE, THIS WEEK 6. r ,. . f r r f.H.T- 'A VMM! - V ' V"''. II . 2. -, ,V i itslli il iii ma'lj.i. a-i--it i A WENATCHEE EXHIBIT LAST YEAR that she wished she were dead. Her home ttefore coming to Hood Hlver wa In Oklahoma. The body, after lo-lng held for Investigation, wae burled Friday afternoon, service be ing held at Iiarttuess chapel. PPT- jy x - i V v - ... W$ ; ANOTHER WASHINGTON EXHIBIT AT THE LAST APPLE SHOW national Apple Show Opens For Big Event Carload Exhibits From Yakima, Wenatchee and Ashland Compete With Hood River Fruit --Visitors Award Valley Apples First Honors Word.trom Spokane 1 to t he effect i of the Yakima valley. that Hood Hlver s apple display at the National Apple Show, which oeued at Spokane Monday, is in a class bv itself and should capture added honors for the valley. The osning of the how was made man ifest by the toi.tiaif of factory nud eiiuiue whistles, ringing of church Is-II-iiihI other noisy demonstrations. ('. II. spnuit. manager of the itood Hiver Aptle (IroMers' I'tdon, who re turned from Spokane Monday morn Inu:, says that about s-vcuteeti cars of apples are on display lu competi tion with Hood Klver. Seven of these are from Toppenlsh. in the Yakima valley, and are Is bit dis played by Hie hey Gilbert, the large fruit shippers. Several other cars are alo exhibited from othersivtlous HOOD RIVER PRODUCT TAKESJIRST PRIZE Hood Hlver scored a victory on the only exhibit It had at the Cana dian Apple Show by winning first prize on both cider aud vinegar. The product wn manufactured by the Hood Hlver Apple Vinegar Company and wa entered by Walter Don nelly a agent for the company. On the prestige gained nt the show by the Hood Hlver product, Mr. Don nelly sold a carload of cider to a Vancouver firm. The Apple Vinegar Company will put out the greatest amount of Its product lu It history this year, and I shipping It to Cortland and other cl tie by the carload. It ha opened branches at Portland. San Francisco and Vancouver, and It reputation for tine quality I fast spreading over the Pacific const. For the first time since the factory oMncd, It Is lieing suppled thl year with n sufllclent numlierof apple to Insure this big output. SALE OF WATER PLANT MEANS ELECTRIC LINE A. Welch, representing Hie capital behind the company which recently bought the procrty of the Hood Hlver Kiev trie Light. Power and Water Company, ha placed In the hand of the city authorities a communication offering to sell the city wnter system. A yet no action has been taken on the offer other than to place It on file. Mr. Welch, as the representa tive of trig electric light and power (road projects In the state. He also Interest on the coast, Is the man ' projected and built the electric roads who built an electric line running out ' nt Yakima and Wenatchee, which of ancotiver. Wash., Into the coun- w-ere afterward sold to the Pacific try districts, recently, and a line run ning out of Corvnllis, and other rail- Light and Power Company, which secured 'i franchise nt The 1'alles. It Is understood that his desire to turn over the water system to the city Is for the purpose of freeing the company here so It can go ahead with a projected line in the valley, which has already teen mapped out and a preliminary survey mnrie. 1 he Interests represented by Mr. Welch are said not to have any use for the water system, which at the same time they refuse to let go at a sacrifice. It Is stated that the rail way company desires an early settle ment of the affair In order to take up their electric power and railway project as soon as possible. Events of XVorld Wide Interest Ticttired For 'Busy Headers ... WILLIAM S.TAYLORiik President 'faffs inspection t the Panama canal will be oue of the most Important moves of his udiuiuistmliou. The iiietloii of the annexation nf Paniimn and the fortitlcntlon of the canal are two of the xnta he will consider while on his tour of Iiishv. tlon. Three aeroplanes flew around the statue of Liberty and back to Heltmmt park, John H. Moissnt. Ainertcau, Um i nit Jio, UtaJ prixe in 34 minute 38 seconds; (iraliame White, Kulish aviator, second. The next day lUlph Joliustoue arose to the record altitude of 0,714 feet. The revolutionary feeling In Spain Is In danger of bursting the Isuids of the klujf'a routrul. After uiany year Lu esile ei-UeveriMV Taylor of Keutucky, who left the state when (Joe be I was assaaslnateii, has returned, t Indicated. News Snapshots Of (he Week Wenatchee 1 exhibiting a fine car of Spit from the Cashmere district and Ashland a car of extra flue New towns. Mr. Sprout says that un official judge are sayingtbat the car of Spitx from Wenatchee, the Ash land car of New towns and Hood Hiver' car of Spin and Newtown are. the only cars In the display In which there Is any competition and the Hood Hiver apple should take the sweepstakes and carload prises. The Ashluud and Cashmere applet, the I'nloii tuauager declure. are as fine fruit a anyone could wish to see, and dispel the Idea that Hood Hlver is the only place that can grow tine apples. The display, taken as a whole. Mr. sprout says, is not quite a large aa the one but jear, but In addition to the carload exhibit there are a very large numlH-r of small exhibits of ex ceedingly fine pack ami quality. He says he heard people going about sayint;: "Well, there Is no mistake about Hood Hiver being here thl year with both feet." The decoration for Hood River ' exhibit is said to lie the finest ever made at Spokane, the electrical dla plaj being a very attractive feature. In addition to row of Incandescent lamp around the exhibit and the name In light over both earn, they are trimmed aud festooued with Or egon grape. A car load of Hood Hlver people will leave here Thursday night at the suggestion of Chiis. Hall, presi dent of the Commercial Club, to be at the show Friday when the prliea will lie awarded nml It Is urired that everyone who is going to the show lie there on that day and make It the Hood Hlver day. A special car baa Is-en engaged to take the Hood River people to Spokane nud It will leave here Thursday night, giving visitor from here Friday at the show and returning so a to bring the party home Saturday morning. Among those who have signified their Intention of going are A. T. Allen, Frank A. Cram. W. W. Palmer, Truman l'-utler, F. It. Moller, Craw ford Iemmon. Joseph Hall, M. F. Shaw, Shellev Jfc Shellev, H. K. Young V. Wlnchell. C. A. Plath.C. I Wheel, er, 10. t) Itlanchar, .1. K. Montgom ery, H K. Hartleft. Cha. Hall, P. H. Davidson, H. K. Iiraway, ( K. Marshall. H. K. Duncan, C. H. Vaughau. To Observe Holidays In accordance with a resolution of the Hood KKiT Merchant' Associa tion nil business house will lel)ed and observe the following holidays: Thanksgiving day, Christmas, New Year's Day. Jan. 1st., Washington' Ittrthday, Feb. J2. Memorial Day, May itii, July 4th. Notice Stores will Is clotted all day on Thanksgiving Day, Thurs day, Nov. 2ith. It V order of the Association.