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About The Hood River news. (Hood River, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1911)
THE MOOD RIVER NEWS -' ' r.,,, Advertisers Get "Results Highest Grade Job Tr in ting VOLUME 7, NUMBER 30 HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2G, 1911 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR APPLE MEN ASKED FOR SUPPORT C. M. Sproat, Manager of Union, Outlines Its Ben efits and Cives Tacts and Figures to Support Claims. ORCHARDISTS URGED TO TAKE NEW STOCK ISSUE Increased Funds Wanted For Developing Ware house Capacity to Care For This Year's and Fu ture Crops. In an open let tT to II ood Klver ap ple Km with ('. H. Sirojit, manager, announces Hint Hie I'nloii I now ready to receive subscriptions to In crease Its capital Block Votl'll at ItH aniiiiitl meeting. In IiIk cotumuulca tlon Mr. Sprout presents arguments why growers l'11' valley should Niipport tin1 I'nloii ami also give In teresting (net and figures of the growth of tlic valley's apple Industry ami tin1 progress ami achievement of the I nlon. lit' nay: I p to I'.m.'l tlic selling of nppli'H In iIiIm valli-.v wn simply a question of of the several Imllvlilnal growern ac cepting one or two propositions, namely, to accept any nlil price of fered for their fruit ly local buyers, or shipping Maine to Portland to lie hiiIiI on an over Hiipiilleil market. The jfeneral run of prlceH for the bulk of the crop was line for Taney (irav enntclus, 70c for Kings, ami 7.V to $1 for Fancy Spitzcnlicrgs, and other varieties In proportion. " The In'Ht cleareil orcharil land In Hood Klvtr Valley win selling at from $10 tn $75 Hr acre, and Hood Itlvep mm an apple growing section waH not known east of the Cascade M I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ) h . "Some of the grower, realizing that the Industry of growing appleH under such existing conditions wan a failure, the Hood Klver Apple Grow ers I'nloii wan organized ly them In the spring of l'.Hi:l. The capital stock wim established at $1oiki; there were 4 original subscribers to the capital stock, they taking til shares at flO per share, and paying a tirst assess ment of $1'.."i0 per share, making the total cash capital $15:! 50. TIiIh amount of cash wan very hooh cx haiiHted and the newly formed 1'nlon found llHelf without tuoni-y. without credit, without reputation, and prac tically without friends, save Its loyal meiiilierM, and It wan met every where with dark and dismal prophesies that It would lie an Ignominious fail ure, and many there were who would have been mentally delighted and fi nancially Itcuclitcd If hiicIi had been t he case. ''Hut the result are iih folloWM. Mir iiieinlierHhlp today In about i!50 luemberH. We handle about NO per cent of the apple product of the Val ley. Our credit exceed our require ment. From no reputation and no market In r.m:t our high rlnss goods are pointed to by the commercial fruit world as the model for all other producing HirtlouM to pat tern by and our market this last season wa In JH tttateM of the I nlon, In lis different cllli'H, iiud oiiroutput also from mar ket In China and over all of Klirope, and everywhere met with uniualllhil approval at price the highest to 1 realized In the world. "Our net assets are upward of $I5,IHKI.(MI. Our capital stock of $1,ihh, $I5L'.50 paid up In 1'.Ki:i In now $50,IMM), f J5,L'(M( paid up. "Our wari'hoiiMe facilities from nothing have grown to a capacity of upwardH of liO.lHIO boxen. We have a largo cold storage plant, and we are Installing Ice and refrigerating ma chinery capable of caring for neveral time our Hood Itlver facilities. We have large shipping facilities on the Mt. Hood K. It. and are building ad ditional warehouses. We own nev eral thousand dollar worth of real estate In the renter of the city of Hood Klver on which we propone erecting a large cold ntorage plant In the near future. We nlno have a good niirplu of eanh on hand. Astoria and Columbia This Panorama View of the Hood River Boy Scouts Have Successful Outing Youngsters Hake Twenty-eight Mile Hike Like Vet erans and Return healthy and Enthusiastic--Taught Woodcraft and Discipline--Great Incite ment When Bear Track Is Found. The Hoy Scout, In charge of Kev. K. T. SlmpHon, returned home Sat urday, after a two week' outing. The voungntern arrived at Hood Klver lit an a liddle after their long hike and are euthuNtaHlIc over their experience In camp and on the trail. Their objective point wan l.ont Lake, which they reached In good nhape, camping the li rut night near the DevllV Punch Itowl. There they were Joined by lr Kanaga, who gae them valuable tnntruf tloun In first aid to the Injured. The next day they took up their fifteen mile walk to the Lake, where they ar rived In the evening. Ten layn of free life In the open foll owed, with llnhlng, hu limning and other outdoor diversion. Friday morning they broke camp for home and nhortly after le'ivlug the lake found a liear track which they fol lowed for noine time and which cre ated connlderable excitement among the young declplen of ncotltcraft. At MIND UNBALANCED BY ABSENCE FROM HOME According to a dlnpatch to the Journal Homer Kogem of the upper Hood Klver valley, leader of the I'p per Valley Krogrennlve club, ha had a hard problem to deal with In the cane of a young Jimviw w ho wa working at the home. It wan ru mored that nhe would leave the home and tay In the vvoodn without eat ing at long period ami rave when attempt were made to necure her re turn. Hit cane wan reported to the Hood Klver aut horltlen, who had her ni'iit to Portland. Shecame to Hood Kfver from the tenement district of New York. "It 1 nliiiply a cane of homesick tienn," nald Kabbl .lonah Wine, of the Congregational I'eth Israel church. She wa expected In Portland Friday , q . H In alleged IM6WS OD&PSUOIS Hnrve W. Of (he Week nil I road Tii'k nenr Itrldgeport, Conn. AutruMua Vnt and CllfTord It. Harmon & I : I J ; ' ' :: : - ' -tV ---- -J JZS?9 I Ijl'JI ESsBMBTr r? .. i o-Sv cry orFr TO". 1 First City of the Northwest Shows the Here, Too, W ill Camp Overall, which they reached about noon, they were agreeably nurprined by being Invited to par take of a dinner that had been pre pared for them by Mm. 11 P.. Ituncun, Mm. H. T. DeWItt, and neveral ot her ladle who were In camp with their hunbandn and friend. After a nhort ntop they wtarted on the hike again and reached the Punch P.owl In time to make camp for the night. At 10 o'clock Saturday morning they started for Hood Klver arriving here at i! o'clock In the afternoon. They were accompanied on the w uy by A. 1. Crocker and Stuart Kimball, who npent the lant week with the boy at the lake. Tin' youngdtem received valuable trululng and plenty of healthy out door exercine while away, and re turned home with the determination to make thin popular juvenile organ ization ntronger than ever. A branch organization of the coutn ha been organized at Odell. night and wan to be met by a mem ber of the woman' Relief nociety of t he .le wish church. "The young woman cutne out here from t hecrow ded nt reel of New York and It neemn nhe could not stand the unlet of the country, she I a retined, hlgh splrlted woman, amply able to look out for herself. She In not an object of charity or anything of that nort. Our church people w ill care for her. If she w inhe u to, the name an we would any other ntranger among us. "Mr, Kogem brought her from New York, and he In a anxious i any body to have her nettled where nhe will be contented. He made a trip to Portland to connult lien Selling, president of our benevolent society, and mynelf about her and wanted to do all he could for her. If she wishes to return to New York he would be glad to furnish her the men an of go ing, but I don't think nhe will accept nuch aid from anybody." EVENTS OF WORLD WIDE INTEREST PICTURED FOR BUSY READERS Inten'nts, helleved to be pnekiMl by the whisky trust mid Hlllc. :ire trying t. NVIIey. government f'xwl expert, to renlgn. John V. tlntis. who I In Purls, mid were reported to ln on the verge of death during RnnieK. the nlnger. mnrrled Kmlllo de (Jogorrn. The Occident occurred when the Federal express, folnu over ft vlmltirt nt sixty miles nn hour. Jumped the track. wer forced to quit the balloon rnc which started from Kansas city on encountering a thunderstorm. River Bay Where Centennial Is . .- li.grWtMTri,i tmrtLM 11 - nil i t TiS. IjZFll iLi , , .u,,,, LliLli1,.: ' Magnificent Harbor Which Is from Four Be Two Fleets of Battleships During the CONDEMNATION SUIT FOR BOAT LANDING An every effort to Hecure a strip of land from the owuer of the water front at Hood River ha proved fu tile, proceeding will probably be in ntitnteil bo the city at once to con demn a right of way to t he river no n to afford a boat landli.g for the river teamern and the I'liderwood and White Salmon ferrle The Hood Klver merchant figure that mauy thousand of dollar have been lost tills year as tlie result of condition that prevented the bo its from land ing at the high water landing at Hood River. Heights Meet Defeat In Wind-up of Series Leaguers Have On Batting Clothes and Touch Up Hart for 10 Hits, While Meyers Allows But Three Scattered ringles--Announcement That Another Game Hust Be Played The Hood River Height and League baeball tosser met Sunday afternoon for what wa uppoed by the many npectntor present to be the deciding content In the series of five gamen between the two team, but received a rude awaken ing just before the lant Inning, when It wan announced that the game wa only the fourth, a the second game. which wan played on a week day, wa not one of the nerles. A the public had never been Informed to theeontrary, and each game han been advertised a the next of the series, and the game last Sunday as the de ciding contest, the announcement wa received with anything but ap proval by the crowd present , which quickly showed w a nlng Interest. Many of the spectator present said that it looked like a 'bunk" and that they would not attend all ot her game bet ween the two team, under the clri-nnisninee. As a mat ter of fact, no mat ter who won the game, t he act ion taken showed bad faith and will not promote the luter enln or the welf ..re of the national game among local baneball lovers. An far a a great many are con-. the enrly pnrt of the we-k. Kecne's rondltlou I that of n convnleseeiit. Knuun the tenor. In Purls Fourteen dend 'nl more thnn fifty Injured Is the toil of n to Six Miles Wide. It Is in This Harbor That the Big Regatta with $ 12,000 in Cash Prizes Is to Be held. Centennial Pageant from August 10 to September 9 Next. OREGON LUMBER CO SELLS BIG ACREAGE A large raw land ileal wa con nummated nt Hood River F.rlday when the Oregon Lumber company frannferred to C. L. Roger of Hood Hool Klver und hi aocUte ut Portland a tract of ."550 acre that wan Hold for $:!5,ooo. Mr. Roger han lived In Hood Klver for many year. The land will be cleared and planted to apple and pear nreen. The entire tract I under the Irrigating system of the I)ee Irrigation and Power company' canal, and 1 lo cnted only a mile from Pee, Ore, Causes Dissatisfaction. cerned. the erle ended Sunday, no matter what take place In the fu ture, and If the valiant little mem bern of the Heights team, who have demonstrated their prowen on the diamond, want to retain the respect of all fair-minded patron of the game, they will reconsider playing another game and gracefully accept a defeat of which they need not be I ashamed. l'.etween two teams a ! nearly matched as the Height and 1 ex-leaguers, the result 1 on the turn of a hair. The particular day I on which the game hnpencd to lie ! played didn't cut any figure. The merchant who cloned their stores, land other who made a holiday of the week day on which the necond game wan played, did no becaune they believed the content wa one of the scheduled game. If It wa not to be. It should have been announced at the time. The game Sunday resulted In a slaughter for Hart's Inshoots, w hile the Heights were able to do little with thentlck on Meyer' offering. The Leaguer are credited with ten hit off the Heights' slab artist, but (Continued on I'aire 10) font' President Lift le link 1 'r .Innioii R. Kivne, who Is In I'ii.l.m. William Evinger Drowns While Bathing in Popular Young Citizen Believed to Have Been Taken With Cramps--Companions Witness Tragedy, But Are Unable to Save Him--Body Recovered By Sorrowing Friends. While bathing In the Columbia river Sunday nfter noon with a num ber of companion William Kvlnger, non of (). 15. Kvlnger of t bit city, wa drowned. The drowning acenred near the Koberg place a nhort distance from shore and wa witnessed by a nuiu ber of people, among them (ieo. Thompson of the Pari Fair, where young Kvlnger wa employed. Kvlnger had swum out Into deep water some distance and wan return ing to shore when he was observed to lie In distress. One of hlscompan lon went to hi aid but the drown ing man I nald to have shaken hi in off and disappeared. Kfforts were then made by other to reach him, but he failed to appear at the top of the water again and could not be helped. It Is thought that lie tecanie lodged against nomethlng ut the bot tom that prevented his body from rising. Cramp are believed to have been the cause of hi being drowned. PARTY OF WOMEN ASCEND ML ADAMS The Trout Lake correspondent of the White Salmon Knterprlne says: Believing that a party of mountain climber from Portland were lont last week while ancending Mount Adam, a searching party wa about to be formed when the tnouutalneer returned to Trout Lake after Iielng gone lx day. The purty left last Monday morn ing for the snow peak and should have returned not later than Wednes- lay. When they did not return a oon a expected great anxiety wa felt here for their safety, especially when the regular guide, on returning from the mountain Monday with a party whom he had taken to the peak, did not meet them as he re turned Monday. The Portland par ty got on t he wri ng trail w hich led them almost to i ilea wood, und which took them far off the regular trail. They had with them a burro packed with pro isious and camp ac coutrement and all waike.l. I lie party, which was composed of women, with one except Ion, was In harge of Ithv Anderson, of Port ind. The climbers r. port a success ful and enjoyable trip, the air Icing clear. All reached the siiuitnlt In safet v. MOSIER MAN FOUND DEAD IN LOFT OF HIS BARN l Krlc i iranlmiil, an oM and respect ed pioneer resldi lit of Moler. w as found d-ad III t lie ioit of hi baniat his ranch east of town last week.' Peathwa apparently c.i"e. from heart failure. , Mr. lir.itilund ha I gone to the barn la the early morning to feed hi - stock and It w as w hile he as in the hay I mow that he stio uuibed He was found later lying on a pile of train j sack. Uranium! was a native of Sweden. born February 1MI In he, wa married to nna laieks ni who, wit h se eral children. ur l e hi m. i Order v on r bee supplies earU of W V. Pakln, PJiCi Seventh street, to Be Held As soon a possible a dragging party wa organized and after half an hours work the body wa brought to the surface but a short dltance from where It had disappeared. On hearing the circumstance under which he met hi death the coroner decided that an Inquest wa unnece ssary. Kvlnger' family were notified and the body w a placed In charge of the undertaker. The death of the son I the necond In the Kvlnger family, a daughter having lieen drowned everal years ago liefore they moved to Hood Klver. Funeral services were held nt the Baptlt Church yesterday afternoon conducted by Kev. J. K. Hargreave. Purlal wa In Idlewllde Cemeterv. Mr. Kdna I!, .lone and son, of Portland, arrived Friday and will spend the balance of the summer a guest of Mm. Maroln MacKae. at Larkspur. METHODISTS DESIRE LATHROP FOR PASTOR The .Journal state that the itiar terly conference of the Hood Klver Methodist Church held Thursday night was made stormy at time by the faction that are contending for supremacy In the selection of a pan tor for the local church for the en suing year. Karly In the year an effort wa made to secure Or. K. L. House, now pastor the First Congregational Church of Spokane. Thl move was strongly oc posed by another faction and a remonstrance wa sent the district superintendent, expressing the different views of the local church folk. Zeal wa at feverhe.it at Thurs day night's session, but P.lsln p Smith of Portland poured oil on the troubled waters and the final result of the meeting was that an effort should be made to have Pr. A. II. I.athrop, former pastor of this church, now In Iowa, returned to the Hood Klver charge, where he was very successful In a former pas. t orate. I'.ishop Smith nta ted that ho would lie willing to return l'r. I.athrop U satisfactory arrangements could ! made. He stated, however, that the church had more preacher than places to preach and that he was in duty bound to take rare of the preachers under Ills jurisdiction The IM'.cns outside the local church t a ei nl lersh'p are said to great ly fa v or tin- r- turn of lr. I.athrop. THREATENED TO SHOOT FREIGHT CONDUCTOR letor peVVolf, a Ku-s in, armed v It h a big l"i gun w as taken fr mi a freight tr tin here und iv nionilui; f,.r thre I'enliig to shout the eon lu' tor. He w as locked up In t lie 'In Jail until I I W. i: A . V d- ! cl i ve III Wood arrived, when he ,a taken to He Palles. i.-S i, If thn n toned to ho,,f the , oiei. i..r for or derlng hlui off t lie t rain I Jolt re cured I r i w i-rbv. (Continued on l'K Id)