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THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21. 1911
Would Have Uncle Sam
Own Express Business
flaryland flan Wants Government to Condemn and
Purchase Companies--Claims That Companies
Charge Exorbitant Rates and Make Fifty Per
Cent Profit--Service Fails for Farmers.
AHwrtliig that exprvin coin(iaiilci
nre a lilnilniiu-e tn tln way of the
rountrj' IniMiiieH. Ueprvrie ntatlve
1wU, democrat, of Maryland, np
laivd U'fort the boute conuulttee
no ttt office and jxif t roadu, ojhti
Injj the hearing on several inenfiirea
demanding a parcel pout.
He appaivd In support of hi own
Mil providing tor rondi'iiuiatlon and
purcham' o( the exprvnn companies
ly the Kovernnit'Ut. Me annerti'd
that the expren wrvlce does not
reach the farmer, and that the com
panies charge exorbitant ratec. al
lowing them to make ," per cent
profit.
LOGGER STOLE CLOTHES
GETS 30 DAYS IN JAIL
Night Officer Henry Hlckox arrest
ed Charlie Grey at the UerdeH lodg
ing houne Monday night for having
In bin poewonlon a milt of clothes
which It was claimed was stolen
from L. Kay.
irey had In-en working at (Jreen
point, where liay was also employed,
and Monday afternoon he came to
lloud IUver, bringing Itay's clothes
with him. The latter mlnsed the
clot lies and coining to Hood Ulver
got Hickox to hunt up (Srey, who
was found In led. with the clothi s
wrapped up tn his bundle. Grey was
locked up and Tuesday morning was
taken before Judge lSnck, who gave
him .'50 days In jail on a charge of
petit larceny.
Married At Baptist Parsonage
M. Uurgaman, of Iee, and Miss T.
Nelson, of I. le, Wash., were married
at the Baptist parsonage Thursday,
June l."th. by Kev. Mr. Hargreaves.
Mr. and Mrs. liurgnman will make
their home at lee.
POLE
EXDT
A preparation for
immediate releif of either
internal or external
Tiles
Releivcs pain instantly
ASK US ABOUT IT
KEIR & CASS
The Reliable Druggists - Mood River
FLUNG AWAY LAND
Amazing Grants of Territory to
Royal Favorites.
ALL OF CANADA ONCE A GIFT
S. EI. BARTMESS
Funeral Director and Practical Embalmer
ESTABLISHED 18 YEARS
MOOD RIVER, OREGON
Office, 121 J B Street
Hood River
I wish to announce
that I have the agency
for the
BRUSH
AUTOMOBILE
The Every Man's Car
J. F. VOLSTORFF
4th & State St.
Phone 248K
0. P. DABNEY & SONS
FURNITURE, FURNITURE, FURNITURE, STOVES
AND RANGES
We buy, sell and exchange everything
in Mouse Furnishings, Campers
Supplies, etc.
Don't forget the place-Cor. 4th & State
Plumbing Supplies
C.VVe sell to all at wholesale prices,
CHelp us fight the Trust.
CWe also carry a large and complete stock of
Second Hand Pipe for irrigating pur
poses. CWe can fill your bill no matter how large or
small, at prices that will positively save you money.
C Write us for prices before buying elsewhere.
J. Simon & Brothers
r MONT A f.MANT SIKKKTS
PORTLAND, :: OREGON
It Wat Handed Over Bodily by Jam.s
I. to Lord Stirling, Who Didn't Know
Enough to Keep It Tha Hudson Bay
Company's Famoua Present.
America has been freely parceled out
In gifts since Columbus first set eyes
upon the new world. Most of the Unit
ed States territory has been at some
time or other hnnded over to public
and private companies. New York, for
example, fifty years after it had been
sold for something like $23 was pre
sented with other lands to the Puke of
York by his brother, the king, and the
name of the city Is a witness this day
to that transaction. The duke granted
New Jersey to somebody else, and a
few years before the king bad carved
out Maryland for Lord Baltimore.
Tennsylvanla was given to William
Penn, the Quaker who founded the
state, In payment, It is said, of a debt
that Charles II. owed Tenn's father,
and the same monarch gave both North
and South Carolina to eight London
gentlemen who stayed at home, called
themselves the lords proprietors and
lived on the rents until the people re
fused to pay any more and George II.
took over the colonies.
The story of Colonel Talbot at the be
ginning of the last century Is one of
the romances of Canadian history.
The colonel went out in 1703 as an ald-de-camp
to the governor, and the
founding of a colony became the ruling
passion of his life. He was given 100,
000 acres, which grew later to CoO.000.
on condition that he place a settler on
every 200 acres. Today this territory
Is occupied by some of the most flour
ishing towns tn the Dominion, and at
the beginning of Queen Victoria's reign
Colonel Talbot, who was then still liv
ing, was the recognized chief of twenty-eight
towns, all of which bad been
given to him years before as unoccu
pied land.
Trince Edward Island, covering 3,000
square miles and embracing such
flourishing towns as Georgetown, Cbar
lottetown and Trlncetown, was given
away In 1707 to absentee proprietors
and was bought back again on the or
ganization of the Dominion of Cana
da for 100,000. The Canadian com
pany, founded in 1S20, received a grant
of 1,000,000 acres, and bought 2,300,000
more at the rate of half a crown an
acre.
The mention of the Hudson's Bay
company recalls what Is probably the
most famous gift of territory in his
tory. In 1670 Charles II. gave Trince
Rupert by royal charter territory 200
or 300 miles wide around the eastern
and southern shores of Hudson's bay.
In addition to a vast empire of forest
and prairie. "Rupert's Land," as the
territory was called, ultimately stretch
ed across Canada, from the Atlantic
end of Hudson's strait to the shores
of the Paclflc. As rent for this ter
ritory, covering 2,900,000 square miles,
the company paid to the king each
year "two elks and two black bea
vers." Something over forty years ago the
Canndinn confederation took over the
company's monopoly for 300,000, but
the company retained a twentieth part
of its lands. The original capital of
the company was 10,500, and in two
centuries its Income from furs was
20,000,000.
But the most amazing gift ever made
since the world began was surely that
made by James I. to Lord Stirling, the
poet, who was then his favorite. On
Sept. 21,' 1G21, King James, who must
have been extraordinarily deficient in
geography, made Lord Stirling, then
Sir William Alexander, a present of
the whole of Canada. The gift, which
included Nova Scotia and Newfound
land, was confirmed by Charles I., and
the poet was so moved by the blgh
honor that be received that be pub
lished "An Encouragement to Colo
nies," a work that attained three edi
tions. The gift became the subject of
Interesting legal proceedings, and Can
ada once more became the property of
the crown.
The city of Liverpool was given
away by William the Conqueror and
again by Henry II., who bestowed it
on "the keeper of the castle and pris
on of Lancaster." King John bought
the site from this keeper and founded
the city. Henry III. leased all the
crown revenues and royal customs of
Liverpool to the Earl of Chester for
10 a year, and the town changed
hands several times between the reigns
of Henry III. and Charles Stuart
That unhappy monarch, being In a
state of Impecunloslty, offered the town
for sale, and it was purchased by some
London merchants, who In 1032 sold
the crown rights for 4.V). Forty years
afterward the rights were purebnsed
.y the corporation.
Itntnbny. the earliest settlement of
the British in India, was no lightly re
garded by Charles II. that Immediate
ly after Its cession to England he sold
It to the East India company for 10
year.
What It Wat.
."I thought I could get along without
glnsnee. awhile longer, but I find I
can't."
"Yps? It wa an optical illusion."
Pmnrt Ret.
The shortest life Is long enough If It
lend to a better, and the longest lift la
too short If It do not Colton.
SKIN OF A BADGER.
So Loose tha Animal Can Almost Turn
Somersaults In It.
The pelt of an adult badger U ex
tremely thick and difficult for a biting
adversary to penetrate, writes a trap
per In Fur News, and so loosely does
the skin cover the body that the ani
mal is able to turn almost around In
Its hide.
Should a dog acquire a hold on the
throat the badger turns himself so that
the dog's grip Is on the back of the
badger's neck without having loosened
his first hold. Then the badger se
cures a viselike grip upon some vul
nerable portion of his enemy, and
while his long tusks penetrate to the
limit be digs and scratches with his
front feet that are furnished with
claws almost as formidable and deadly
as might be expected from an anteater
of the dark continent.
He who has removed the pelt of a
badger and Is at all observing does not
wonder at this animal being sharp bit
ten and that he Is able to hang with
bulldog tenacity when the formation
and adjustment of Its Jaws are noted.
Neither Is it so much of a mystery how
be manages to bore through the soil
so rapidly that half a dozen men with
shovels cannot overtake him. for be is
a mass of cords and muscles, particu
larly in the neck, chest and shoulders,
very similar In physical construction to
the ground mole.
The badger toes Inward sharply when
traveling and always on the walk,
twisting about here and there very
much like the movement of a skunk,
while if it be in winter he makes a
business of hunting buried dormant
woodchucks.
lie is a fur bearer of rnther coarse
quality, and there Is a great range of
value in the pelts taken, depending
upon the length of the coat. A badger
Is chiefly valuable wbeu it has a long
coat, so thnt the guard hairs can be
plucked and used to make shaving
brushes.
Uakes Home Baking Easy
Orchard Sales
W. S. Nlcliol reports the wile lust
week of JO nereis beloiiK'liitf to Shruin
Bros, to Frank Feu wick for $7,.'H.
The I nee Is situated In Pukes Val
ley, und Is all lu trees except one acre
which is In hay. The trees are one
and two years old.
Whitehead's
Utah Land Plaster
Arsenate of Lead
Vitrol
Lime and Sulphur Solution
Lime
Seed Oats
Vetch
Whitehead's
A Basket of Goodness
i Welt I ,Prx
is a basket of our Fine Groceries.
We guarantee the perfect purity
of every article we sell, and
pride ourselves upon the rep
utation we have made for fair
and honest dealing. We keep
only the freshest and finest of
Tea, Coflfee, Cocoa, Hutter,
Eggs, Flour, etc., and challenge
comparison of qualities at equal
prices. If you are not already
dealing here, you are robbing
yourself of many sources of satisfaction.
Free delivery
J. M. Wood
91
Absolutely Pure
The only baking powder
made from Royal Crape
Cream of Tartar
NO alum.no lime phosphate
Live Local Topics
The Hood Klvcr Orchard Land
Company reports the sale of a 10-ucre
tract in .Willow Flat to S. F. F.by,
for $:i,7."0.
A danctf will lie n'ven In the llell-
bronner ball on Fourth of July even
ing. The music, will lie furnished by
Newman and everybody Is Invited.
The primary department of the
I'.aptlHt Sunday-school Invite the
parents and friends to their social on
Wednesday evening;. They lire en
deavoring to raise a little money for
the decoration of their class room.
At the Baptist 'church next Sunday
the Children's day txerelses will take
the place of the morning service at 11
o'clock. in the evening Mr. Ilttr
tfreaves will preach the last of his
series of sermons on "The Mat) of
Sorrows" ills theme will lie "The
Man who Was Sympathetic."
A Wenaerful Bore.
The must wonderful boring apparatus
In the world Is possessed by the grent
Ichneumon Hy. It Is composed of three
black (iliiineiiis. all extremely fragile,
no larger or stIITer th:in a horsehair
and about live Inches long. These fit
together with grooves mid glide easily
along their entire length. The three
when fitted together nre no h-rger In
diameter than a small needle and so
flexible that a slight breath of nlr will
bend them. Yet with this remarkable
Instrument Its owner can bore three
or four Inches Into the hardest wood.
This tool Is possessed only by the fe
male and Is her ovipositor, or egg lay
ing apparatus. Horlng which takes
hours to accomplish Is for the purpose
of laying one egg.
DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE
MAN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE
A. Adams, a resident of White Sal
mon valley. Is In the Cottage Hospi
tal, as the result itf an attempt at
suicide, due It Is said, to disappoint
ment lu love, Adams, It Is reported,
was to be married, but on the day
appointed theyoiing. lady failed to
put In an appearance, and he re
sorted to strychnine. It Is expected
that he will recover.
steamersUsing
high water landing
The first steamboat to laud at the
Hood liiver high water landing; was
the Taboma, which came Into the
channel Saturday morning and un
loaded a cargo of freight and several
passengers. The water Is now at as
high a stag;e as It usually gets and
all the steamers are making; the land
ing. Lminent Medical Man Will Lecture
A lecture of unusual interest to
Hood Klvcr Is scheduled to take
place at the Commercial Club Friday
evening, when lr F.rnest Hall, an
eminent surgeon of Victoria, II. ('.,
will deliver au address for men only.
lr. Hall Is looked upon as one of the
foremost medical men In Canada.
ltlisters on the hands, burns, scalds,
old sores, lame back ami rhematlsm
are all subject to the great healing
and penetrating powor of Mallard's
Snow Liniment. It Is u marvelous
pain relief, l'rlce l!."ic, &0c and fl.00
per bottle. Sold by ( has. N. Clarke.
A grand Fourth of . I uly celebration
Is announced by the (iood Times
Club of the I'pper Valley. It Is to
take place at the old toll bridge.
Ivy 1 h n i r swellings
of tho Uiuli, bites anU
sting of insects, stiff
neck and lame back
nouM bo treated with
Ballard's
SNOW
LINIMENT
It neutralize polson.t, ub
dues inIlamiii:iiion, r iuxes con
tracted imi:M'U3 and restores
healthy conditions. For heal
ing tuts, woundj. burnt or
Bcalil.s. tUcro U nothing like it
In tho wholo list of curative
agents. It turn by a mild
power that 13 mora effective
than tho stron.7. harsh lini
ments. When rubbed l:i for
rheumatic pains, neuralgia or
sciatica. Its wonderful nenctrat
Ine and relieving Influence Is
very gratifying. It a an all
around household liniment that
Is useful In a thousand ways
and Its application Is always
followed bv licncllclol results.
ITIe li.-.e, 50o oad fl.CO.
JamejF.Dallatd.Pro?. Ct.Lou.i.Mo.
Use Stephens Cye Sslve for
It Cures.
Sore Eyes.
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DIAMOND
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J.mr lrarM for CHt-CHES-TKR'S A
IJIAMUKD li K AND PILLS in Rid ndj
Cold metallic boies, seeled wub BlurCO)
Ribbon. Jaks mo otbii. Bar mt j.mr
llnnli) aad f.,p lll.t UKIt-Tf u a V
DIAMOND BI1AMI PILLS, for twrntr fln)
jreers regnrdrd lk-t.8.ifet. Always Reliable.
SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS
Z&l EVERYWHERE S
COME TO PORTLAND AND BE CURED IN FIVE DAY8
VARICOSE VEINS, HERNIA, BLOOD POISON
Wo MrtreuiHrutiont, niaiiy taw-a prm.uifniiy cumd In one
treatment. Mmt tnue lug, tuunl natural, most aafo. A
raiheai ami pt-rmani-nt rum. I gire my wurti and will eiU
?'ttu loit hi-r ni'du W authorities that this la a fact. X aui cr
ii niy prfpun-d to cur by pi imm ure aud Miuipmeot. which
ar the ki'VMtomn to im t'on. I have thn unt equipped
RHMlical otn e on tho (ut. 1 will give $Vio to any charity aa
giiarantte that every atutvment in thmamiuiiiM-f nn nt la trua.
1 invite you to rume to my otlic-o. 1 will t-ipUin to you my
treatment for V art cone Vm. Hernia. Nervoue lability,
it h n ni Poison, IMU'i, Kiatula. Jiladiler, Kidney, 1'mttatio and
all M i'n a Ailments mid t1Vrt y'U fc'KKK a physical riamiua
tioii; if urcvHAttry a nnrniM-opiral and ehruiital analysis of
evivtions, to determine pathological and bai'teriologit al con
d i lions. Kvery m.m should takn advantage of this oppor
tunity to learn tunr true condition. A wrmnnl Our is
tih'it von want. A frrnan?nt f W is vhat I gv.
WRITTEN GUARANTEE -M y i ittn guarantee means a cure or
no ;"'y. I guar ante to cure rertaiu ailmtutaor refund evrry
dollar you Tiave paid. My services coat you not tunc unless I
cure your Varico Veins, Hernia, 1'ilea. Kintuta, iTlood Pni
sou, or any ai'mi nt I gn;rantwilocurv Terms nre maaonable
and no inure than you are able and willing to pay for betie tita.
OffV hoart- t A M to f M anT1 1 A M t T. at.
A.fi. Htnlth M. I.
I are the only ipilil in Portland who
dora not advcrti a acmiuua ntni or
prtotog raph.
I publuh mr trut phofi-ertpb. correct
nunc and pfMnillr conduct my offc-
104" FOR tlDOO POISON I utc pmfrttor I hrlicb wornlrrfvl new 4i-
ci'y. "fioft'' in cstri of ftpmfic Blmwl Pol.on. It currt in ODt treat
mrnt sna it the rrrstrtt marvel of mrdiral acienare. 1 hn new remrdv
h O.rrn iiuTi-af'ily u rd in rhmia-di of rtr I t rr nplai n It ynu
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j: M0SI0N ST., COS HECOSD
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