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TriE HOOD RIVER NEWS Advertisers Get Results Highest Grade Job Trinting VOLUME 7, NUMBER 43 HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1911 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR In Size of Bojz Apple Crop All Pacific Coast Districts Affected and Prices Are Ex pected to Show Upward Tendency--Any Surplus Of Apples Is In fliddle West and Eastern States, But Crop Report Shows Less Than 1910. With the apple harvest of the Flit ted State jiImhi t fomplett'd, accurate Information mm to the supply has ma terially changed t lit situation. Thin 1m particularly ho In the liox apple Hcctlonn, where It Im found that the crop Im far short of even the mont ciiiiHervntlve estimates while the fruit wan on the treeH Not only growers are now admitting that the lax apple crop Im exceedingly light, hut buyers also. At Wenatchee, which wim said to have a full crop thlM year. It In now Muted authori tatively that the crop will lie at leant K00 car nhort of hint hi'iikiihV ship ment. N. J. (ill)Mon, one of the largest buyers of Wenatchee apples. Hay m the crop there will lie tint from .r() to W) per cent of that Hhlpped laMt year. Yaklina Im In the name boat, with even 11 tdiorter crop, while the rondltloriM In other apple growing Meet Ion of Washington are about the Maine. The government crop re port for October gives Washington a total shipment of :t,(MMl to 4.IHHI car. 1,000 from Idaho and a drop lathe Hhlpment over hint year In California, while It estimates that there will lie but MM) Hhlpped from Oregon. Of the Oregon shipment. Hood Klver Is now estimated to ship :HH) or ,'i.lO earn at the otltHlde. In fact, estimates of the local crop which were made earlier In the HeiiMoii have liecn very ma terially reduced wince picking com menced, and the figures of .10 and tio per cent of hint year'n crop have dropped to 4(1 per cent and lower. By some It Is estimated at one-third of hiHt HeaMon'M output of !HK) earn. According to the government report, wince Octolier 1 there han been some damn tn the eastern crop by wind, tlilH applying eHpeclally to New York Htate and Michigan. The Iomm In New York Htate on account of the wind wiim HiiHtalued chlelly on Bald wln, lieu Davis, Kussct, and Home (ireenlngM. The damage Im cstlmut- State Apple Show Prizes Are Many and Valuable Oregon Horticultural Show In Portland Nov. iSth to i8th Announces Large List of Premiums--Cash, Pruit Trees, Hedals and Other Inducements Lib erally Offered Exhibitors. The premium lint of the State Hor ticultural Show, which take place In Portland Nov. 1.1th to iMh, Junt Innued, hIiowh a wide and valuable lint of prU"H. The main feature of the lint are an follown: IHHTIttl T I'KIZKM Tin1 firnt two prlzen are open to any commercial club, fruit grower' annoclatton, grower, or any combi nation of grower In any county or dlntrlct. llNI Itox Eotn 'lann WO; total canh, Js.KMl Not lenn than three varletlen I Pili; wrap p: - ifeft ssp NpWS nunstlAic Jme B. McNnmnrn wns plncel on trial In the t.o Angejeg county (Cal.l couKhoune, rhnrged with tb actunl dynnmlting of HcWS JIlIipUOI the Angeles Time ncwpnper bulhllnn, which disaster cont the live of twenty-one men. McNamarn' hrother. John J., Of thfi WCfik ' eciised by Detective William J. Burns, who' trailed hlra aeros fifteen utatn to Ret evidence, with hnvlni: Instigated the deatrnrtlon of the Time building. Clarence Darrow." who won the Moyer TJay wooVl cae, la defending J It. McNamnra. op posed to District Attorney Fredericks. Booth Tarklngton, the anthor, and hla wife aeparated. with divorce proceeding in prospect Cornelius N. Itllss, sec retary of the Interior in 1SV7 and four time treasurer of the Republican national committee, died In New York city. He wni seventy-eight years old Cnl brail b P. Iloders, the tvlntor attempting coast to coast Right In an aeroplane, broke the long distance record of 1,2'3 miles held by llnrry N Atwootl ed at 10 to 1.1 per cent of the crop. Some damage by wind wiim also canned In Ohio, particularly In the northern part of the Htate, along the lake. In Michigan the damage by wind Im CHtlmatcd around 1.1 per cent, ho that now the outlook Im for a much better crop than last year, but not ho good iim two yearn ago. Com pared with lawt year, the yield Im ex pected to be more than double. Collectively, the entire crop of the I'ulted States nhowed an Improve ment October 1 an compared with September 1. Any HurpliiM of apples this year compared with liiMt Im In the eantern and northern apple producing Htaten and In the middle section. Including Colorado and New Mexico. While the box apple crop, much of which Im nent abroad, Im nhort, the apple crop of England and France Im nalil to be In excess of what It han been In many yearn, Kcports from American connuln In France and F.ng lauil bear out thin statement and alno that many new orchard have come Into bearing In thone countrlen thin year. ( On the whole the apple marketing nituatlon lookn encouraging, and no far but little trouble han been experi enced In placing boxed frulr. It Im entlmated that more than half the crop han been moved at Wenatchee, leaving lenn than 400 cam to be Hhlp ped. At Hood Klver the greater part of the crop handled by the union In understood to have been taken care of, with the feeling that any fruit held In ntorage will com mand ntlll better figures lHiyern who believed that there wan a much larger crop of boxed apples and were therefore nlow In getting a nhare of It, are now nald to be anxloun to clone negotlatloun for fruit, and It Im beginning to lie felt that there In an upward tendency In price. In the local Held, picking han been about completed and In neveral or chard grower have already finlhcd packing. Focal fruit thin year In high grade In botli quality and color, and will average high In extra fancy ntock. ami not lenn than '" boxen of each variety miint benhown. ThfHcnhould lie In commercial nf.en from SS to 111'. Flrnt prize, canh $lM0, and gold em hoHNcd medal. Second prize, canh f ll'.l, and nllvcr medal. Third prize, cash $7.1, nnd bronze medal. Fourth prize, canh $.10. .10 Itox Fotn - Clann .HI; total canh, $27.1 Not, lenn than three varletlen and not len than 1.1 boxen of each (ContiniHtl on Vasv 7) EVENTS OF WORLD WIDE INTEREST PICTURED FOR BUSY READERS UNDER THE NEW APPLE TREE By Samuel G. Blythe In The Saturday Evening Post-(Copyrighted) I wan at breakfant In a restaurant at Portland, Oregon. "Walter," I Maid, "bring me a couple of applen." He brought me two on a plate. They were very ordinary upplen; not like the Hood Hlver applen I had bought In the cant. "Thone are not Hood Klver up plen," I Hiild. "(Jet me a couple of thone fine Spltzenburgn." "These are the liest we have," the waiter replied. "We don't get any of thone fancy Hood Klver applen here. They nend them all east and to England." Tretty noon the manager of the ho tel came along. He wan an old friend. "How Im It." I unked, "that I can't get a Hood Hlver apple here, when Hood Klver Im only Hlxty-llve inlleH from Portland'.'" "Youcant't get them becaune we can't get them," he Hald. "All the bent, Hood Klver applen go to the market In the eunt and abroad. They don't Hell them to un." Next morning I took the train out to Hood Klver to look over thin re gion where they held their fruit for the effete eant lnntead of taking ad vantage of the nhort haul and Hell ing It at home. The Hood Klver Valley begin at the village of Hood Klver and rutin twenty nillen, north and nouth, to Mt. Hood. It In nix or neven mile wide, and Im npllt Into two uneven part by the mountain Htream called the Hood river, which elliptic Into the Columbia at the village. Village and valley together have a popula tion of between six and seven thou nund people, of whom twenty-five hundred live In the village; and there are neven thounand acren of It net out to apple treeH. Thone are about all the statistics necennary at thin time, and It In well enough to get them out of the way early. When you go Into a hotel In New York and order an apple, cont Ing from twenty-live centn to half u dollar, and the waiter bring yon a big red Spltzeiilmrg without a blem Inh, regal on a nllver waiver and hav. Ing on It ruddy nlden, In yellow, the name of the rentaurant grown, ap parently, on the nkln that In a Hood Klver Spltzeuburg. If It Im an eHpeclally line one It may cont you neventy-tive centn. A man out In Hood Klver grown thone applen for the hotel. When the autumn nun Ik beginning to turn the applen to that deep and beautiful red, he paste plecen of paper on the nlden of the bent of the lot. Thone pieces of pa per have the rentaurant name on them, with the lettern nolld and the npacen around them cut out. The nun ripen and col ir the applen, but It does not touch thenpotn covered by the paper letter. Thene remain yellow, and when the npple In ripe and red the apparent miracle han been worked and each apple han the name on Itn red nlde. That In but an example of the fanclent kind of fancy apple growing. Plctnren of men are grown on the applen In the name way. It In an old scheme, and In merely cited to nhow that the rain ing of fancy applen in at It height In till Hood Klver country. They have It down to a nclence, and by a nyntein of nupervlnlon and packing and marketing, which will be de ncrlbed, they have entabllHlied a quality, made a brand stick, in all the marketn of the world. Applen have been grown In the Hood Klver Valley for many yearn. The original nettler of that country net out a few apple trees with no particular Jrefereuee to varletlen, to have Home applen for home urn (iradually It wan noticed ttiat cer tain kind of apple came to the hlghent perfection there, under thone peculiar noil and climatic coudtllonn; and In the courHe of yearn the or charding wan specialized. For ln- ntance, the Spltzenburg and the New town Pippin are the better Hood Klver varieties. To be sure, they grow fine Jonathann there, and many other varletlen, but the Spitz entiurg and ttie Newtown are more nought for, and consequently more profitable. Within the past ten yearn the de velopment has been very rapid. Old orchardn have been bought and re. Juvenated. New orchardn have been net out. tiround uned formerly for the famoun Hood Klver strawberries han lieen planted to tr-en, although the strawberries are In greatdemand and the crop In worth about two hundred dollar an acre. Now the valley Im filled with men who, an xloun to get back to the land, have come there and bought or net out orchardn, and are waiting for their cropM or realizing their protitn. Every man who live In a city and who wan born In the country an moHt of the men who live In thecltlen were han, away back In hi head, the baek-to-the-Iand obnennlon. It demonstrates Itself In many ways In the purchne of farm, In the buy Ing of country plaeen, In going Into the chicken and the fruit bunlnennen and generally those who go back to the laud wlnh they hadn't and thone who can't wlnh they could. The Ant dweller readn stories of men who make money with orange groven with prune orchardn. In applen, grapes, plum, pecan and whatnot; and the boosting organizations In the went, where the opportunity Is held to be greater, nee to it that the stories sent out are alluring. The nat-dweller gets tlie lever. He naves hln money and buys a place some where, any w Here. 1 hen lie lonen or wlnn, nccordlng to hi luck and hi own ability; junt an he lonen or wlnn In any other enterprise whatsoever. Now of all the allurement that come to the back-to-the-land yearner none In more fancluatlng than grow ing applen. Here I the proposition, fontered by the booster stories: You buy five or ten acres of land, net them out to apple trees and In five or six yearn the tree begin to bear. Then presto I all you have to do In to pick your applen every fall, live out of door ami make a Tine, big living. It wan with a view to finding out junt what opportunity there are for just such people as are yearning to get back to the land that 1 went to Hood Klver. 1 went into tlie matter thoroughly and herewith Is net down what I found out, based on talks with men who have been In Hood Klver for year and have bear ing orchards; with men who have i "XNOI II o v.' just arrived there and are at the pre uminary worn; with college men who have gone there for a career in fruit growing; with professional men who have gone there to npend the rest of their life out of doors at a profitable employment; with real entate men with orchardn to sell; with the managers of the selling combination; with the Independents and with the buntnenn men of the village nearly fifty In all. After making thin investigation I have no hesitation In saying that any man of good ability, of capacity for work, who han an aptitude for the work and haa five thounand dol lars In canh, and who Is prepared to work hard and long before he begins to get his profits, can make a success of apple growing In Hood Klver and some other districts. It will not be easy. It entails bard work, many discouragements and some setbacks. It Is no Eldorado where all there Is to be done Is to set out the trees and In the full course of time pick the golden apples. There Is another and the most im portant point of all that must be made that Is, the man who Invests In an orchard In Hood Klver must go there himself, take personal super vision, live with and In his orchard, attend to the work himself aud keep watch all the time. There are alluring advertisements of fruit property that can lie bought and planted aud tended for you, you remaining at your usual work until the trees are In liearlng and then quitting aud going out to nit under their umbrageous shade and catch the dollars as they drop. That Is all bosh. If any man wants to get back to the land and make a succens of an apple orchard he must make a suc ohs of It himself. He cannot dele gate the work, for if he does the work will not be done properly. Bringing an apple orchard into full bearing I as exacting an enterprise as raining a child. It must be done by the party of the first part. The absentee landlord will not get the worth of his money. lie cannot be In one part of the country attend ing to his work and have people raise apples for him In another. They won't raise them. When you are bringing an apple orchard or nny other kind of an orchard Into bear ing you must be on the spot right there, nursing the trees and cultiva ting them and spraying them and attending to the pick and pack. Otherwise you lone. The beautiful vision of retiring to the orchard and resting luxuriously on the porch while the trees grow money for you does not work out. It Is a business. not a beneticence of Providence, nnd It takes personal supervision. When I was In the Hood Klver valley I saw two orchard. One wns of twenty acres, on one side of the road with treen live years old; the othel was a hity-acre tract, on the oppos ite side of the road. The twentv-acre tract trees were spindling; some f them were dying, some were rag ged and untrlmmed, and the ground was not cultivated between the rows. I lie other tract was tilled with sturdy trees that seemed a year or two farther along; there wasn't a lump of dirt an big an a quarter In the ground and the trees were beaulful. That tract," said one of the men with me, pointing to the twenty-acre orchard, "belongs to a gentleman who liven In Spokane. He has It workeil for him. The trees are live years old." How old are thone trees?" I asked, pointing to the tract on the other side of the road, "live yearn." "What niaken th difference?" "Why, replied my guide, "the man who own those good treen Is here. He given them hi personal at tention. He In on the ground. The other man Isn't here. That's what makes the difference." Wherefore, rule number one for In tending apple grower In: You must j do the work yourself. Otherwise I you will not win. I When the old farmers who had ! wheat farms In this valley found that certain kind of apples grew to per-1 Siiton tin re, although given no par ticular care, the word went out that ' Hood Klver wan the place to grow ! good fruit. It had long liefore been J discovered that two or maybe three crop of trav berries could be raised, j and small tracts had been taken up by strawberry growers, who mostly utilized the land on the west side of U'mlinul on I'hkp 7) Dedication New School Big Day For Barrett With Pair Weather and Large Attendance handsome New Building Is Formally OpenedProminent Educators Address Assemblage On Important School Questions--Luncheon For All. With the fairest of fair weather, and the county and city school facul ties, teachers, bright faced pupils, the local school tioard and many vlnltom In attendance Barrett's handsome new school house wan ap propriately and officially dedicated Saturday to the purpose of housing the young Idea that wants to shoot. The new building, which is the third built on the same location, Is Indeed a credit to the valley. Built of brick and concrete the structure In three stories high, Its dimensions be ing approximately 70x 40 feet. The first story, which Is partly a base ment, Is equipped with a large Inside play room, modern lavatories, run ning water, a plant that both heats and ventilates the building with a device for controlling the tempera ture In each particular room. The building Is lighted throughout by electricity. The approach from the ground to the class rooms Is made by wide stairways both In front and In the rear. On both sides of the corri dors there are roomy apartments for the wraps of the scholars of each room. In all there are four class rooms fitted up with all the modern school room appliances, and on the second floor there Is also an otlice for the principal and room fortheschqpl library. The Inside of the building Is finished in a light graining In imita tion of natural wood. Everything Is bright and new, even to the na tional flag displayed on a high staff over the center of the building. Not the least Interesting feature of the occasion was a picture of the first school building built In 1S78 In which appear a number of Hood Kiver's well known men and women the boys In homespun and the girls In pig tails nnd dressed In the fashion of the time. With them Is Henry Howe, who was their instructor. As barbers were no doubt scarce in those days Mr. Howe in depicted Two Hflen Are Shot In Quarrel With Officers John Ryan and Frank Robinson In Resisting Arrest Laid Low By City Marshal Levis--Levis Adams Also In flelee, Placed In Jail. Ryan Dangerously Wounded but Robinson will Recover. In a mix up Saturday night 1h- t ween City Marshall Iewls aud Night Otlicer Hlckox and John Kyan, Frank Koblnsou and lew1s Adams over the arrest of Kyan, who it Is claimed was Intoxicated, the latter was shot through the abdomen sustaining nn injury that may prove fatal, and Koblnson received a bullet through his shoulder. Kyan aud Koblnsou were taken to the Cottage hospital and Adams to jail. Koblnson, it Is clalmed, will recover and an opera - tion which was performed on Kyan Sunday afternoon has so far been otlice of the building. Kay Shimmer successful and It 1 now thought horn, another employe of the livery thllt 111. Ill-It PiU'rlVlIF I The shooting occurred near the Fashion stable where Iewin and Hlckox attempted to re arrest K an after he had been renciied from Hick-1 ox by KobtiiHon and Adam. ! According to the ntory of the otli- j cern Hlckox arrested Kyan on the, ntriH't for disorderly conduct and ' was proceeding to the city jail with him. The man was too strong forj the ollieer and he called on Kobinon and Adams, who were standing near by, to alt him. They were friend of the arrest'1'! man and after asking that he be turned over to them, which wa refused, are said bv Hlckox to have aided In hi escape. The night oilier, unabie to cope with the men, telephoned to City Marshall l.ew1. Before the arrival of t he marshal, the men proceeded down Oak street. W hen near the corner of Front, they entered the livery barn of the Fash ion stable, challleiiglng any oiieer that might Interfere with them W hen the marshal and the night ' watchman came to the scene, the men had entered t he hartiess-ro. itn of the livery stable and defied t he otli- cer to touch t hem. l.ewl and Hlckox entered t he I room, but Hlckox wa o erpi ov end j II with chin whiskers and a second glance Is necessary to recognize him. The first Barrett school house was the second to Is.- built In the entire valley and It in recorded that there was considerable opposition to Its erection. A second and lorger build ing was built In lfls which became too limited In Its accommodations, making It necessary to build the nubntantlal and commodious build ing just completed. This was erected under the direction of F. C. Sherrleb, F. H. Miller and (I. H. Kobblns. the prenent school board, the work being done by Stranahan & Slavln. The teachers are Mrs. McLaughlin, prin cipal; Miss Black, 7th and Sth grade; M1s Buchanan, 4th, .1th and Cth grade and Mrs. Steel, primary de partment. Miss Peterson has charge of the East Barrett school. The exercises Saturday were held morning and afternoon under the di rection of County School Superinten dent C. I). Thompson. The morning exercises were opened by the singing of America, followed by a recitation given by a little tot in the primary grade and appropriate remarks by Mr. Thompson. Miss Howard then recited an interesting story of Lin coln's (iettysburg proclamation and Miss Alma Trenton of the state Nor mal school delivered a lecture to the teachers on the subject of introduc ing art study in the primary grades. After a bounteous and appetizing luncheon a picture of the school house with its group of visitors was taken and later Prof. A. B. Cordley of the Oregon Agricultural College gave an Interesting talk on intro ducing the study of agriculture in the schools. As a fitting close to the exercises Kev. E. A. Harris delivered the dedicatory add rep In which he brought out the great lieneflts of education and the Importance of ad equate and efficient educational institutions. and In the hand to-hand tight Marnh al Iewi' club was wrested from him. He called to the men to desist, threatening to shoot, and when they continued to tight he opened fire, emptying four chambers of his re volver. The affray had only one witness, (ieorge Fortune, an employe of the Fashion stables, who wan In the barn at the time. He was called on j by the officers for assistance, but lie- 1 cause of fear of being Injured lo shots, tied and locked himself In the company, wa In the basement of the barn, where he wa attending to the horse, lie did not know of the shooting until he heard the shot tired, lmiiie.ll itely he rushed to the main lloi.r of the building and. hitch ing a team to a wagonette, with the aid of the idlieers. removed the men to t he Cot tage hospital, where their Injarli were at tended. New Kestaurant Opened Harry C.iemati ha opened a re, j t u1 rant In t he basemen t i if tlie I'.ro- sin bulidlpg. which he has h id j neatly lifted up. and Is now erlng me. us -It ail hi e.rs. Having formerly been t'uaged In the biislnes he Is ! , r... ,r.,.l ,., -I.. .. t I,., re, I. lie .-,,,.,1 nil. I I ' '.ii''i -,.. .... ..... eeou euleal serlee. and I alreidv securing eons! d. Table patron ige. Ii, addition to the regular resta ar-iiit business Wi.klv Illeal ticket are Is. sued .'It reduced rates ,M. I:. Church Sertkes Mind.iN school at I 'a m I'renh Ing . T Ices at 1 1 a m and 7 'n p. in I'heines: morning. " 1 he Urcal -t Tiling In t he World," evening I lie iju -tlin of a Frightened Jailer" J uidor I .eagie- a t .: p. in Fpworth I .ague a f ' '' p m. I 'raver meeting on Ihur-I.iy e.i:ig it 7 h'iIik! ll nr. rdUlly lnlc. to attend r 1c W I'.. Young plsli