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,0 HOOD RIVER NEWS Advertisers Get Results Highest Grade Job Tr in ting JL A2j VOLUME 7, NUMBER 33 HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1911 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR Hood River Will Hold a Fruit Fair This Year; Help to Make It a Big Success COAST HIGHWAYS CREEPING NEARER Overland Gateways to Portland Being Op ened in Multnomah County-Columbia River Road Extended to Bridal Veil and Eighty Men Cutting Trail Through For est to Upper Hood River ValleyBoth Important to State Development. Work on tin Portland-Mood Hlver highway, ntarted In Multnomah county, lian not lieen allowed to lan gulnh and a. goodly stretch of the road hax already been placed In use near Portland. Autolnt of Portland are enthusi astic over the prospect of having one of the fluent scenic roads to he found In America when the Portland Hood Hlver road In completed. Three mile have been added to thin road tli! HcaMon, the Multnomah county court having built two-third of the road bet ween ' Bridal Veil and Mult nomah thin Hummer. The other third of the road lie t ween these polntH will In finlHhed within thirty dayH. After passing P.rldal Veil on the trip out from Portland, one passes Minnie Falls. Angels' Best, Mint Falls, Cordon Falls and Multnomah Falls. On the other Hide of the Co luinhla river. In plain view, In Cape Morn. Three tulles hack from Bridal Veil Is Larch mountain, from which An torbi may lie seen on a clear dav. From Larch mountain may also he seen six miow-enpped peaks, when the weather In clear. From Angels' Best Portland'n Htreet light nre plainly visible at night. Thorn w ho have vlnlted New Vork state, and traveled up the Hudson river, declare that the Hcenery along the new road up the Columbia will surpass that of the IIiiiIhoii. F.lghty men are engaged In cutting a trail six feet wldearound the north base of Mount Hood, from the Sandy river to a connection with Hood Hlver Valley, on a live per cent (crude, for t he line of the I'nlted State forcHt raiiKerH. Later thl trail may become a mail for automobiles and vehicles. It Ih the policy of the Forestry le partment. In the Cascade depart ment, to cut thcNc trailH around and aliotit Mount Hood, ho that tireH may he reached promptly on IicIiik discovered. Trull have heen cut on Hackle herry mountain from Welch' hotel, and other trail have heen opened MADE MOTOR GAR RECORD TO DALLES W. A. Morgan, a very enthusiastic owner of a Michigan, decided last Saturday with the owner of other car, to try for the record run be tween The Dalle anil Hood River, a illntance of L"..s miles, according to the Hpeedotneter. The machine cheeked out from the drug tore of Chan. N Clark, each currying a letter to lc signed at The Dalle by one of the lending Jeweler. The Michigan checked out at p. in., and ntarted over the hill reaching Mimler In '!" minute. In checking In at Mosier It wa found that the Michigan wan four minute behind the first car which left Hood Hlver II minute ahead of the Michi gan. .Mint four mile the other Hide of Mosier the Michigan panned It ri val and came Into The Dalle at S:0 making the dlt mice over t he moun tain In 1 hour and -U minute, pre violin record, - hour, and ahead of ItM nearent rival Pi minute. l ined f or dun Play Charle Thonipon, who wan ar rested for drawing a (cun on an O-W. H. v N. passenger conductor, by Marnlial Lewis, wan given ft hearing Wednenday morning and fined $ and coHtn on a charge of being drunk anc disorderly. An effort wa made by liewln to have the conductor pre fer ft more Hcrloun charge against Thompnon, but he rcfimcd to do no. The weapon Thompnon wan curry ing wan conllncated. through the denne undergrowch at Mount Hood, butthln trail, on which thlM large force of men 1 now at work. In one of the most Important and extensive ntarted from the went nldu of Mount Hood. On the nouth nlde of Zlgy.ng mountain and the toll Kate In the regularly traveled road, but on the north Hide of Ztg.ng mountain the road on Sandy river extend for a distance of about ten milen to the Truman home. Hereto fore the country toward the east and around the north bane of Mount Hood han been almost Inaccessible. Hegnrding tke ultimate object of GOVERNMENT EXPERTS TO STUDY LOCAL APPLES 15. P. Pratt and H. .1. Hnmsey. ex pertn In the pomologlcnl otllce of the I'nlted State Department of Agri cultural, were at Hood Hlver hint week for the purpone of making a close study of the local situation re garding fruit storage and transpor tation probleiiln. The expertn are visiting all of the different horticul tural nectlon of the North went to make a ntudy of climatic condltlonn and noli condltlonn. When the picking season arrive they expect to necure samples of ap ple from each dltrict for the pur pone of conduct lug experiment In re frigeration and ntorage with fruit. They Ktnte that the (iovemment will establish an experiment station at nome central city In the Northwest, where experienced In rt leu It urlntn and ntorag.i expertn will carry on the work. ,.tws Snapshots Of the Week i ri l , , - t i t.riur i. v wih ni i - r i ; It wns iiliiioiinced Madeleine Talmage guest of tho nation. An uprising has started In Cuba which has for Its purpose the unseating f President Comer. distlngiiHhtHl painter, whoso fame was worldwlik, died In London. It has been reported that o'tnplole diplomatic Ambassador to Italy John (3. A. Irishman will go to Berlin and Thomas J. O'Brien, now at Tokyo, will succeed him LOCAL APPLES SHOW GREAT KEEPING QUALITIES While walking over the old Bruce orchard about a mile and a half south f Parkdale a few day ago, F. V. Brown and P.. L. Mcl.aln noticed a heap of cull apple, piled In one cor ner of the orchard at picking time hint year To natlsfy t heir cutiosltv they secured some sticks and prying nway the top layers of decayed fruit discovered a great number of apples lis sound an they were when picked Inst Fall. The apples showing such remarkable keeping ipialltles were Askansa Blacks. Mr. Brown states t hat t he orchard, t he owner of which In In Florida, and han never given It any care, lienm an abundant harvest each year. the road, one of the forestry officers sayn: "Thin trail will extend Into Hood Hlver Valley through a wild country north of Mount Hood, on a grade of five per cent, and I wan Informed that It can eanily be changed Into an automobile road. I have been In formed that till will be done In the near future. It would then he possi ble to leave l-ortland In the morning In an automobile and suing around over thi new road and land In Hood Hlver Valley In the course of six or eight hour after leaving Portland." YELLOWJACKETS CAUSE TERROR IN WEST END Vellowjncket In a crevice beneath the board walk at the west end of Cascade avenue were aroused by small boy Friday morning and took complete possession of the north side of the Htreet. Pedestrian were forced to take the opposite sidewalk, and even then wandering yellow jackets found neveral victims. Marshal Lewi wan stung on the nose by a vindictive hornet. The marshal returned to town, obtained a beetnan'n mank, glove and other safeguards, and, armed with a large bunch of pine shaving, matches and sulphur, prepared for battle. The lire wan applied and most of the yellow-jackets were killed. However, a few escaped, and were so violent In their attacks that the crowd that had collected wa unable to get cloe enough to extinguish the lire that was burning the sidewalk. EVENTS OF WORLD WIDE INTEREST PICTURED FOR BUSY READERS TURKtY j tli.it Colonel John Force, n young nople have It that the sultan of Turkey Is seriously ill owing to the recent trouble with Montenegro. Admiral 'loco, the hero of the KHsso-Japnnese war. nrrlved In New York for nn extendtnl visit to this country, during which time he will le i tie GUS MILLER RECEIVES BIG RETURN STRAWBERRIES (inn Miller, of Hood Hlver, shown a big record for strawlieray return for the neason Junt cloned. He planted acre from which he took ."47 crate. lie Hold 410 of thene through tin Pavldnon Fruit com pany that netted him f J m) per crate or a total of $ I He sold the bal ance of the crop, amounting to InT crates elsewhere and receh lug there for $l'tv.-.s. If the entire crop had been shipped through the Pavldnon Fruit com pany he would have received over $ I. V Ml therefore or approximately $."iilO per acre Mr. Miller's placets on the I'lelmoiit road junt south of Mrs. Al um Howe's. ROUNTREE 40 SOLD TO VANCOUVER, B.CMEN The most Important land sale during the week took place Friday when the40-acre tract belonging to .1. (. Hountree, of Portland, wan Mold to (J. L. and C. A Schetky and Scott Alt ken, of Vum-oiiver, p. C. The purchasers will proceed at once to build nice homen on thin tx'autlful tract, and will further Im prove the property by planting I'O acre of commercial apple next spring. C. A. Schetky, who ha for many year served In the British navy, han rented the Har-iy Beeves bungalow at the corner of Thirteenth and Co lumbia HtrectH, and will npend the winter In town and the summer on the ranch, hi part of which will be operated by his son-in-law, Mr. Scott Altken. He retired from the navy with the rank of captain, i. L. Schetky han for some time past heen connected with one of the largest real estate firms ut Vancou ver, making a specialty of Canadian fruit lands, and expresses hi belief that Hood Hlver offers greater pon slblllttes for the home builder and fruit raiser than any other section of the Northwest. The location of these parties and their families w ill add fourteen peo ple to the population of the east side. Mesnr. Schetky and Altken will Immediately take possession of their new home and will move their families herefrom Vuncouver within the next two weeks. Kdwards & Co. stale that they ex pect to locate several other families from Prltlsh Columbia In Hood Hlver Valley this fall. Change In Real Estate Firm W. M. McConnell, who ha been su perintendent of Agent for the Con tinental Life lnsurai.ee Company, has resigned his po!tKn and pur chased the Interest of Coorge W. Dimmlck In the firm of Dimmlck Hadlock. Mr. McConnell purchased the five acre tract of Harlev (ilass last spring hx'ated on the Itelmont road, and Is now living there. Messrs. Hadlock and McConnell have been closely connected for the past hIx year In u business. They will do a general real estate and insurance business and we wish them success. Sunday afternoon at .'! p. m. Hev. J. P. Parsons will preach at the Co lumbia school house ii.E.I5HMAN Jacob Astor. owner of the AM New York debutante, who Is c t millions, who uly eighteen, late HOOD RIVER DELEGATES LEAVE FOR ENCAMPMENT Today the Orei: 'ii delegation to the National Knci inptnetit of t he i. A. H. will start fi . in Portland to Hochenter, N. V. A Pullman coach han Invn chartered, which will go through to KochttiT. The party w ill be joined at 1 1 m1 Hlver by IV partment Conimanilcr Newton Clark and wife and Fred l'i'tr.. It w as In tended that Mrs. 1 ici should accom pany her husband 1 1 this trip, but her late severe Illness left her In a condition unlit for tin long journey. Hochenter Is the old home of both Mr. and Mr. Pleti and they had long ; cotit Miiplated thin 1 1 ip, antlclpa ting ! Hit' most enjoyable time of their lives, Mr. PleU! 111 meet hln four OAK GROVE CHURCH DEDICATION SUNDAY A coming event of widespread In terest on the went Hide Is the dedica tion of the new Oak Orove church. The dedication service will be held next Sunday at 11 a. m. The com mittee han been fortunate In securing as the principal speaker for the occa sion the Hev. H. F.dgar (ireenlng, pastor of Wesley Memorial church, Spokane. Mr. (ireenlng 1 a man of to, I V -V 1!KV. II. KIKi.Wt I.KKKMMi commanding appearance, magnetic personality, and enthusiastic and eloipjent address. That he Is nlo a man accustomed to bring things to pass, In seen from the fact that while he ha been less than two yearn In the Northwest he already hin hln second church edllice In the city of Spokane Hearing completion. The new ICpworth organ ha ar rived and the music committee has an attractive program in preparation. The auditorium of the new church In 2x4.''i feet In size, and with the aid of extra chairs will seat abont two hundred people without crowding. It In plainly, but neatly, finished, one feature being that t lie pulpit, altar rail and communion table are all being built In mission style and given the name finish an the pews and woodwork of the room. Grace U. B. Church News Sunday School at 10 a. m. Ser mon at 11 o. clock. "The Attitude of the I'nlted Brethren Church Toward i Church I'nlon." I'nlon service at s j p. m., Hev. McOmher speaker. Hev. .1. It. Parson will preach at the (ireenwood schoolhouse at M osier Th,irday evening at o'clock. 'RtSIDEN'l is forty seven c;il-s oltl. ill eil Jliss in the fall. lieports from Conitantl Kdwin A. Ahbey. America's most shift will take place soon. In which at Home. FIRST CAR LOCAL APPLES SHIPPED TO ALASKA The tlrst shipment of apple to go forward thi season from Hood Hiv er left Friday for the Interior of Alas ka, and were shipped by the Pat Id son Fruit Company. The fruit will go forward by rail to Seattle, where it will be loaded aboard the steamer St. Helens and transported Into Inland. The apples were of the tiravensteln variety. The company han order now for neveral cars to be shipped Into this territory. All of the boxed apples shipped to Alaska are re -luforced with Iron band to prevent damage t , t he package and Insure safi llverv. brut hers at Hochenter, all ex soldiers of t he ( l 11 war. t i1 ; :: ' - AVJ Tom Lawson Still Boosts Northwest Arriving in Boston" Financier Tells of Ore gon Opportunities and Exhorts Young Hen to Come Here Without Delay "Chances Ev erywhere Crying to Be Snatched" He Says. Having reached Ponton after a tour of the Northwest, Tom Lawson 1 just an enthusiastic about the country as he wan when at Hood Hlver. In hln unique and nolny style the financier given expression to his views as follows: "Young man," shouted Mr. Law son at a reporter on his arrival In Huston, "If you don't buy yourself a ticket for the west within the next week you ought to he dragged before the nearest Judge and be given 30 days at hard labor. Opportunities lay along the railroad tracks, on the mountain sides, In the gutters, cry ing to be snatched. Opportunities are as plentiful 'as the leaves upon the trees, as the fish within the houudlng brooks, a the grass upon the earth, (lowest. Ue west now. "Great as are the opportunities which now exist," said he, "they will grow even greater when reci procity 1 a fact. As a sporting proposition reciprocity Is a good five to one lH't, but there would be no takers. "Western Canada Is also alive with opportunities. The people will own western Canada, all of the people Instead of one or two rich men. "Iet nie give you an example of Pacific opportunities. In nine days I was the recipient of ftVS proposi tions and every one of them A-l, gilt edged, Bged-ln-the-wood propo BELIEVES KLICKITAT An enthusiastic Husum resident, who was at Hood Hlver Saturday, tielleves that Klickitat county prom ises to become one of the greatest In the state of Washington on account of Its natural resources. In speaking of it he said: "There Is no county In the state of Washington that shows as much di versity In farming as Klickitat coun ty. With a length of SO miles east and west, and nn average width of 2'i miles north end south, bordering on the western slope of the Cascade range, with the Columbia river as Its southern bounday line. It Is not strange that such are the condition. "The first settlers in the county lo cated along the Columbia river and in the central section In the early six ties. Wheat and stock raising were the principal Industrlts In the ttol dendale section, extending later on to the Blckleton country In northeas tern Klickitat county. The central section finally developed Into one of the fruit districts of the state. "I'ntil not so many years ago the country adjacent to the White Sal mon river was known only for Its rendezvous for bear. deer, cougars, and other wild animals. The Klicki tat Indian made this valley his hunt ing grounds, and his log cabin and small clearing can be found in many places today by prospective land buyers In search of a home. BALTIMORE ORCHARD CO OFFICIAL VISITS VALLEY C. Ford Seeley. treasurer of the Bal timore Orchard Company, the cor poration which owns one of the fin est orchard tract In the valley, and also controls the Standard Nursery' Company, arrived here Monday and Is making Hood Hiver a visit. Mr. Seeley was recently appointed State Uepresontntive to the Panama Pa : cilif l'xposltloti by the Coventor of Maryland, and before ret timing east 1 will make a tour of lue-tlg atl-ui ah uig t he coast. The Standard Nursery Company.1 which has some of the finest stock in the valley, has just sold 7..""i trees for fall planting. A. N. Swallow.. who hus been Identified with .th- I company for some time, has been ap pointed sales manager for the nur sery. The corporation which has strong backing In Baltimore and .New i ork. will bring It holding to a high stage of de elopment. j I o i Walter ', inland. ( ' 1 In ha returned sitionsaggregating $1),000,000. The northwest get you coming and going. I have met everyone. News paper men, railroad men, city olfi clals oh, I met 'era all greatest hustlers you ever saw grasp the whole situation out there. "Thi annexation of Canada talk nothing to It. The manufacturers started that. They don't want reci procity. "There Is so much of everything In the Northwest you don't know where to start. Try to see all the scenery and you'd wring your own neck. Start fishing and you'd blis ter your hands. Millions of fish! (Jarae so plentiful that yon'd kick your shoulder off If you tried to shoot all you see. "To tell you the truth my head Is so full of the west that Isn't room for much of anything else. "To my mind the far western part of the I'nlted States and Canada Is the most wonderful section of the world." A huge electric sign spelling "Wel come" blazed over the entrance to Lawson estate, "Dreamwold," when Mr. Lawson and his daughter. Miss Bunny, reached home. A big crowd of townspeople was waiting at the gate. Red fire torches were scattered throughout the ground and the entire throng chreered anil waved their hats. COUNTY A WINNER "Some 25 years ago a colony of sturdy pioneers found their way to the upper valley, now known as the Trout Lake region. There the lands along the river are comparatively Hat, some of them being natural meadows. The lands were enlarged by clearing the timber around them, and now a picture of prosperity Is presented, while with irrigation the country Is noted for its dairy and hay Industries. "Karly settlers In this part of the valley planted a few apple trees a an experiment. As the fruit Industry gradually became an Important f;ic tor on the coast, men of experience noted the adaptability of the soli here for the growing of apple tree and small fruit, and Investments In orchard lands were forthcoming. When It was learned that the hardy varieties of apples reached perfect maturity here, expert orchardlsts In--came Interested lu this section. One or two Investments were made, and what was considered a high price was paid for orchard tract. This was only four year ago. Today de sirable orchard tracts tire being pur chased on every hand, prices never dreamed of being paid for lands that five years ago could have been bought for on" tenth of the present value. But credit should be given the early settler who experimented with his small orchard." ALDRED COMPANY MAKES FROGRESS WITH GRADING ii,. se( t! plete, reet grail In, of the city It Is pr, ; lit the business Is almost coin baMe that the ill Htroci will now be oiled. An effort Wlil be made to have tin municipal water tu ivs l.il l no that the pavlu, can be done before winter sets In, but It is ibeii'tful If fit , an ee-'m : plislie.l tlin year, 'I he grid.l'g which ha- , vn -lone by the Aldn-d 'Company, I.e-'U m cmn ilsle-l with remark iM-' rapidity. It I e 1 pecte I that by Saturday the work wtil It' coi:.p,.-t, d Many i if t lie property owner and , litisim s men have nlgnllied th -lr il' Mlgtie- t i a H e t he nt reel oiled. ' st it ill g that 1 1 ley a re ready to stand I t he a-l Ii t ! ma I expense rather than have the p t hem a I ng thick with mud i: '.e I, ild Mil fall itiiii 't l; -1 m I Ire . -I I 1 1 1 1 g r.-.n e Is III a t ten , t I he i t lag of t II.' ! ; T 1 1' I t I ,ea gle, W III- I ' this W 111 I 11 1 e 'ig In I I Is l I'll grea ei sul jeet it -,oiPi. Mr II ir W III addle-. I he V.lg'le, III being ' -o. l il - ii! I irity "