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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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