THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1910
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THE SQUARE DEAL STORE
CARRIES IN STOCK A FULL LINE OF
Farm Implements
Extension Harrows
and Orchard Tools
Bicycles and Bicycle Extras
Fishing Tackle
Guns and Ammunition
Gasoline Supply Station
2. McDOJVALD
HOOT) 'RIVE'R, OTtEGOff
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DAVIDSON REPLIES TO
ATTACK IN GLACIER
S. E. BARTMESS
Funeral Director and Practical Embalmer
ESTABLISHED 18 YEARS
MOOD RIVER, OREOON
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We are always pleased to extend courteous as
sistance to new residents of Hood River and the
Hood River Valley by advising them regarding any
local conditions within our knowledge, and we afford
every convenience for the transaction of their finan
cial matters. New accounts are respectfully and
. cordially invited and we guarantee satisfaction. Sav
ings department in connection.
HOOD RIVER BANKING & TRUST CO., HRDtG"o'J."
White :: River :: Flour
Makes Whiter, Lighter Bread
ASK YOUR GROCER
If you want your horses properly
SHOD come to
SH1VELY & McGlLLlVARY
flcjct to Snobo S3L Upson
Don't Leave the Hood River District
WITHOUT INVESTIGATING
Mosier Valley
Natural advantage for fruit rowing
unexcelled. Land price have doubled in
laflt two year but art not half that anked
for aimilar land in other section Buy
now before speculator add their profits.
Commercial Cluh ok Mosikr
MOSIER. ORlKiON
6 Miles East of Mood River, Oregon
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Hood River, Oregon
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To the Editor of the News:
Ah-rtertlonn have ln repeatedly
made In the Glacier that I have atock
In the company which bought the
preHent water BVHtem. I wish to
nay that I have no atock In the com
pany which uwua the water ftyetem
and never expect to have. The only
poHHlhlllty of my having any Is In
caxe the court orders the recent sale
net aMlde, which U very unlikely, at
the company sold the property a
the highest price obtainable and got
the caul). Thine Htatementu have of
courae lieen made to Injure me and
my Interests In Hood Klver In gen
era). A hlMtory of thin continued
warfare upon me, personally, and
my buHlneHH In teres tn, and the source
that It emanates from, In not with
out Interest to the public.
Since the jjurchane of the Tucker
Spring In the early part of -190.J, by
Mayor McDonald and hid party, the
question of building a competitive
municipal water system nas been
prominently and almost constantly
before the public and has been ad
vertlsed abroad very extensively by
the (Jlacler as the city admlulstra
tlon news organ, and more or less
by other papers. Developments lu
the recent bond Injunction proced
Ings before the federal court have
brought prominently to the surface
some very Interesting, not to say
startling. Information. In order to
draw definite and correct conclus
Ions It Is not out of place to consider
that the agitation has emanated
from two sources which are closely
related to each other, both In bus!
liens and politics. The first and
original source of this agltattou was
for the purpose of gratifying two
disgruntled stockholders of the de
funct Hood Klver Klectrlc Light,
! I'ower & Water Co.. vlr: N. C. Evans
laud Mayor 1). McDonald, who had
I previously leen managing the water
and light business. Second, the de
sire of the mayor and his associates
In Jthe bauklng business, who were
(also In control of the city govern-
I incut, to haudle aud distribute the
! large fund arising from the sale
of the bonds. During the time
1 of this controversy there has been a
i verv close resemblance !etween the
I management of the First National
Bank and the city couucll. For In
stance:
D. McDonald, councilman, mayor
and director First National Bank.
A. D. Moe, councilman, city printer
and mouthpiece aud director First
National Bank.
E. O. Blanchar, councilman, city
treasurer and cashier First National
I Bank.
! J. M.. Wright, councilman and con
I tractor for First National Bauk.
' A. J. Derby, city attorney and at
J tomey for First National Bauk,
j (i. I. Slocum, councilman, nephew
j of E. Smith, a heavy stockholder
and a director In the First National
I Bank.
I During all of the time which this
! controversy has been going on a
J majority of the city government has
been made up. of otllcers or attaches
I of this bank, or their relatives, and
I they have been In a position to con
j trol the city funds for several years
back.
1 The (ilncler, published by A. D.
I Moe, has beeu very active In the
j warfare against the water system
j by conducting a "Boll the Water"
campaign and publishing much
abusive and disgusting matter, one
of the objects of which. It Is now ap
parent, was for the purpose of at
tracting the attention of the public
aud taxpayers away from the fren
lied effort of his business partners
acting In the dual capacity of selling
the city bonds at any cost, and get
ting the money Into their own hands.
The deal would have been consum
mated at a loss of over $.V),000 to the
taxpayers of this city but for the In
tervention of the federal court, which
says that the attempt to sell the
bonds without advertising was un
lawful. The old adage that "misery loves
company" Is well Illustrated by an
i editorial In the Ulacler last week, In
which the editor seeks to draw
others Into his class. He knows the
odium he has brought upon himself
In attempting to appropriate to his
own use the sum of f.V) paid him as
chairman of the street committee,
which he disgorged after keeping It
over a year without having turned
It Into the city treasury, ns should
have been done. He also knows the
opprobrium brought upon himself
and associates when the Federal
court decided that the attempt to
sell the city bonds without proper
advertising was unlawful, nnd he
also knows what the attitude of the
public will 1m when It actually learns
that the city was plunged Into debt
more than three times the limitation
of the city charter, by his associates,
which has Iwen done with his ap
proval; so, In order to feel less lone
some, apparently, he undertakes to
put the private water company In
the same class by Insinuating that It
has a "soiuew h i t unsavory past."
While "to err Is human," neither the
private water company nor any of
It members deserve to lie criticised
by the city printer nor any of his
associates whom he proposes to re
turn to office. He evidently hopes
to continue the Improvident, unlaw,
f ul effort of the present administra
tion. It Is gratifying to know, how
ever, that among those who hold
over as councllmeu there are men
who will verve the city lu an honor
able manner If not overpowered.
People, generally, understand that
to spend S'JO.OOO or any other sum to
bring the Tucker Spring water to
the city for a permanent or tempo
rary water supply, would lie money
wasted. This Is not admitted, how
ever, by those Interested lu handling
and distributing the fund nor bv
those who expect to profit by con
tracts and other jobs or by selling
powder and tools to the contractors,
and which the mayor Is In position
to furnish. The contractor would
hardly be In position to buy else
where, as such a breach of business
etiquette might Involve the accept
ance of the work, and unlike the city
sewer system, of which Mayor Mc
Donald was Inspector for the city,
the contractor who took the liberty
to make his purchases elsewhere,
might be required to put the pipes to
the required depth Instead of leaving
them some five feet nearer the sur
face of the ground than he was paid
for, and where, In one Instance, the
ends of the sewer pipe did not meet.
but were counected by burlap.
This brings up the Intense Interest
manifested by (Ity Printer Moe, erst
while city councilman and chairman
of the street committee under a for
mer administration, who wan active
In having several hundred dollars
worth of work done on the street lu
front of Ms-residence, the expense for
which he approved as proper to Is?
paid out of the tax money, but
which class of work Is required by
the charter to be paid by the prop-
erty owner ami lias U-en paid for In
that way In most cases, and who
makes an affidavit to aid the bunch.
In It he tells what he has been told,
as be terms It, which Is In a large
pnrt untrue. He undertook to bring
pressure to bear upon Mr. Van Horn
to drop the Injunction proceedings,
but the pressure, apparently, was
not heavy enough, as the suit still
stands.
The testimony In the suit shows
that the council meeting which au
thorized the making of the disgraceful
Keeler contract was held outside of
the city hall, and that there was no
record of the proceedings of thecouncll
showing this meeting to have been
held until the suit was brought,
when the minutes appenred on the
records of the city the following day,
and that the city recorder evaded
the question on Sept. 17th as to hav
ing made any contract with Keeler
Bros., when he had signed the con
tract himself on August 3th. It
was noted that Mr. Keeler was a
frequent visitor to the First National
Bank upon his visits to Hood Klver,
and It was also the duty of the city
treasurer, E. O. Blanchar, to know
how the city Quances stood, but not
withstanding his Intimacy with Mr,
Keeler and his knowledge of the city
finances, he professes Ignorance of
the Intentions of the city council In
the matter, although his bank,
through his combined act ns city
treasurer and bank cashier, has actu
ally taken up $10,00t, of city war
rants, while over $17,000 In city
warrants have Iteen Issued and
registered as not paid for want
of funds, and the limitation of the
city charter Is but $.,0O0. The mayor
Is a director In this same bank and
had signed the Keeler contract a
month previously. It Is bis duty,
also, to look after the bank's Inter
est, as well as the Interest of thecltv.
Now the sale of these bonds for ;10
ears at 6 per cent means more of a
loss to the tax payers of the city
than the entire proposed cost of the
ater system as offered by the writer
when In charge of the matter. The
mayor and his party would not con
sider the purchase because the price
was too high In their opinion, but It
was perfectly agreeable to make a
private contract, contrary to law,
for the sale of $90,000 worth of city
bonds thereby making a direct loss
f more money than the entire price
ofthewstpr system. Did his bank
need the deposits which would prob
ably lie unused six months to a vear?
Did he need the business In the line of
selling powder, etc., to the contrac
tors, or did he think the dear public.
hose Interests he Is so carefully
guarding, would te delighted to
make somebody a straight present
of over $."0.00(). One percent on $!),.
000, or $:0 rr annum, for IKl rears
would be $ 27.0UO and the Interest on
Interest paid during that time would
make the total more thnn $.'0K. I
am not suggesting who were to t
the Iwnetlclarles under the agreement
but there must have been enough
Inducement In sight to keep the mat
ter quiet until a couietitor In the
bond business learned of the matter
and let the secret out.
It Is reported that the water Is
bad. However, no bad results have
!een shown. Matson threatened to
"get even" aud hus persistently tried
to have the water condemned. It Is
to be hoped by all heavy taxpayers,
like the writer, that the water will
always remain good, but If not It Is
morally certain that any loss sus
tained by the owners, whoever they
may be at the time, will have to be
paid for by the city on account of
the acts of some of tha city officials
above mentioned by refusing to pro
vide protection for this water by or
dering drains and sewers as request
ed about six years ago, and again
suggested by the state board of
health more than a year ago. In
stead this lot of officials has sought
to have this water supply con
demned and enconraged rather than
discouraged leaving filth on the
ground above this spring, accordlug
to their own reports.
If the above scheme had leen car
ried out It might have been consid
ered good banking, but could hardly
be considered good city government,
except by those Interested In hand
ling the funds. H. F. Davidson
Bald Adv.
Water Works on the Farm
Yes, that' juat what wf mean real watrr workl; runoiaf water In the kltrhra, tha
We laundry, the bars la fact, all orer the place. And it a all done bv that Una.
lower left band corner of thia picture the Leailrr Rvatrra. It a va.tiy diflrrrnt
Irora the oid-Iaamoncd elevated tank which worked by gravity, for the
Leader Water Supply By.trm iaoperatrd bytJmxiW air rrliable. safe
ad cleanly. Your windmill pumpa ater Into the tank (which la already
full of air). The air. being eUttic, la comprrued Into upper part of the
lank, aad force the water out through the pipe.
Thi give you a preaaure, o that a powerful at mm of watrr I on
Up at every faucet, do matter where it l lucated. Ami thia mrana o4j
htu frt-fnuaum, for tbc preaaure ia alwayi en aud alwaya ready.
Now, the old style gravity tank vera either put la the- attic or lt
ated oa a high tower out of door.
In Ut former caaa, their weight when full, cracked the plantering; or
tney oversowed or leaked, flooding the rooma below.
In the caaa of the outatde tanka, the water oftea
froze aohd In winter, nrceaaitating expensive plumb
ing bill; or it became but and atagnant during
inc ummer ana unni tor uc The
Japanese JVovelties
Kutane and Tokyo Dishes.
Bamboo Furniture.
M. NIGUMA
Oik Street, Corner 1st Pione 160
HOCKEMBURRY & BARTLETT
ARCHITECTS
Davidson Building
HOOD RIVER. OREGON
Phone 61
ALBERT SUTTON
Hrcbitect
Hall Building
Hood River, Okboon
You'll Never
Get Left
if you buy your groceries
here. If you'll honor us
with a call you will find here
about the finest showing of
high class groceries you can
imagine.
Come, if you so wish, only
to look.
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Barringlon Hall Steel Cut Coffee
and Chase & Sanborn's
Teas and Coffees
rTHE STAR GROCERY-
T'ccd eJftings tc at
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Something Electrical
For All
is just what you willfind in our
superb showing of thinps elec
trical. You would be surpris
ed to view many of the little
articles in every day use, that
can be attached to the current.
Electricity Saves Time
in every one of these specialties,
and decreases the cost. It's
time you considered purchas
ing. Terhaps an iron, heater,
drop lijrht, or chafing dish is
what you need- at any rate,
come to our store and look
around.
DEAN & SHAW
Office Phone 3
Residence 272M
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Leader Water
Supply System
1 all thia, heauae the alr-tlght tank la 2f" Jf ' ?
r in the txisKment or buried undrr- fj, JV JjljZU f;V 1
nd beluw the frot line. Every outfit V J' iiSiSV 'i
mplrte, with full directiona. and ia "TV. ' W r
avrM
eithr
ground
it
eaatly installed. The Leader Svstem nreda
do repairs, ia auited to am all building1 of
targe, ana ia moderate u price.
Tjt ua aend vou Anr fA K&nh !t
I Holved the niur Supply problem." tha
a"rr ot a man mho eucoaafuliv aqulppd
Ma country noma with, modara watar
worka. V -
Write for It today, before you forget
bathrwia.
yoa aea la the
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Apple Land and Orchard Company
Off loo, No. 9 Oak Stroat. Phono 26 Of 2002K. Hood Rtvor
Fancy Apples in Fancy Packages
Our Specialty Fancy Packages, containing
one to 112 Extra Fancy Hood River Apples.
Send a Sample to Eastern Friends
Express prepaid anywhere in United
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Commercial Club Booth Hood River. Oreeron
WHEN YOU WANT
LVlanufacturij and Repair Work
OF ANY AND EVERY DESCRIPTION
We are prepared to do It la our larte and well equipped .Manufactur
ing and Repair Establishment.
We would be pleased to have you call on us.
FINE HORSESHOEING
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Shops 14 1-H3-1 45-147 Fourth St.,0p. Oilbert-Vaujhan, Hood Rlver.Or.
R,IVER ABSTRACT CO.
J. rvt. BCHMCLTZER, Saoretary
Abstracts, listriBK, CfivegaiclBf ul Sortfi Boids
H' have the only complete set of Abstraet Books in Hood
River County and are in position to execute all work with
promptness and a-ccuracy.
W represent some of the best old line Fire Insurance Com.'
panies doing business in Oregon, and can five the fire insurance
obtainable for the money.
Our reputation as conveyancers is knou n to all. .411 of our
work is guaranteed.
Come to us when you want Surety Bond of any description.
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Homo Pboetm HOOD fUVOt, OREGON
SMITH BROS.
Successors to JACKSON cV JACKSON
We have just put on our shelves complete
new stocks of
Canned and Bottled Goods,
Teas and Coffees
and are prepared to give prompt attention to orders.
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Our new line of Christmas Goods can
now be shown to you at our store. It is finer and
larger than-ever before.
Sec It Before You Buy
We have presents for young and old games,
etc., for the children, useful presents for older ones,
beautiful gifts for the beautiful ladies (and also for
the handsome young men), and still nicer gift for
the elderly people. Let us show you.
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ft RELIABLE DRUGGISTS ft
Smith niock, Hood River, Oregon