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tMhood river news Ad-dcrtisers Get "Results Highest Grade Job Trinting VOLUME TUMBER HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1911 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR Nearly 13,000 Acres of $35,000 Alienation Suit Orchards in the Valley Filed In Circuit Court NEW YEAR'S PROSPECTS BRIGHT Promises to Be a Banner Season for Hood River City and Valley Bonding of County for Half Million in Order to Construct Permanent Roads Is Advocated as Well as Building of Public DockCity Will Build New Water System and Pave Principal Streets Other Splendid Improvements Are Planned for 1912. From tin' standpoint of both city and county l!12 promises to lie a banner year for Mood Klver. I'iiIphm all signs fall, the long contemplated Improvement of the city water sys tem and the paving of the principal street will have become an aoeom pllshcd fact before another year Ih ushered In, while In the valley an Im provement of greatest moment Ih contemplated lu the proponed bom In of the county for about f.VtO.OOO la order to construct a system of permanent highways. Judging from present Indications, the New Year will spell progress In letters for Mood Klver. County J udge Culliertson Ik enthus Instlc over the probability of the county aeiutrlnK a system of perma nent highways. An there Ih an over whelming sentiment throughout the county In favor of ouch action, the Judge s.iy s, he feels little doubt but what the project can be carried through to a successful concliiHlon lu cane the supreme court sustains the decision of Judge Calkin In the mat ter of the $l,rX),t)00 bond Issus for a similar purpose In Jackson county. Judge ("ullertson has been Informed by Judge Moreland, clerk of the su preme court, that a decision In this Important matter can be expected probably within the next week or ten days. If the decision of the lower Courtis ailirmed. Judge Culbertson says It Is the purpose of the local county court to at once post notices of an elect lou to w held on a similar proposition In this county. This will be done without delay In order that the bonds. If authorized, may lie available for sale at once and the roail work be started this iimmer. In order to place the proposition plainly before the people. In case an election Is called, the county court proposes to place on the ballot the nanss of the roads for the Improve ment of which the money will be used, In case It Is appropriated. These roads will Include the principal trunk lines In the valley, extending both north and south and east and west. Materials to Ik; used In the construction of the roads would dexnd upon the supply most con veniently available. It Is estimated that f.VNl.iNNI would build about 75 miles of road and this would mean iv system which would enable every rancher In the valley to bring his apples and other products to a ship ping point over hard surface roads. In connection with the system of county roads, the county court Is contemplating the building of the SEES MOUNT HOOD HAEANERUPTION After having partaken too freely of plum pudding and brandy sauce, the Journal's correspondent at I.yle witnessed ail eruption of Mt. Hood Inst Thursday evening and Immedi ately wired In the sensational details. They were as follaws: "At sunset, Thursday, there were apparent signs of volcanic activity on Mt. Mood. The mountain showed clearly In the sunlight against a calm and cloudless sky. At Intervals a thin strenk of smoke or steam issued from the peak, apparently too slight In volume and too Irregular In Its appearance for drifting snow. There wan no fog hanging about the moun tain. On DecenilH-r 22, about ID o'clock at night, with a strong west wind blowing and gusts of rain, a glow of light was observed In the direction of Mt. Mood and one vivid Hash of light, like sheet lightning, or an explosion, wns seen." lluys Millinery Store Miss M. II. I.amb of Portland has bought the Misses I la wleys' millinery store. She Is an exMrleneed and ex pert milliner and Is prepared to do high class work. She solicits your patronage. Kegnlar Sunday excursion to Park dale. Pleasant trip for jonrself and frlendn. I public dock on the Col u in I l a river, Just east of the city, and It Is pro- posed to extend the county road to the dock, thus greatly Improving the shipping facilities of the city, and placing it In a position to reap the lienetlts from the shipping through the Panama canal, also giving It a leverage by which lower rates may be obtained from the railroads. The county Judge Is now sending to all taxpayers In the county circulars asking their opinion on the matter of such a public dock. Nor will the city fall behind the county In the matter of public Im provements unless present plans go "aglee." The settlement of the water question will remove the ob stacle which has retarded Improve ments for the past two years. Speaking of Improvements which the present year should see accomplished, President Kroslu of the Council said: "With the water question removed from entangling litigation, the city will at once proceed to sell the $'.K), (HK) water Improvement bonds and go ahead as soon as possible next spring with the Improvement of the distributing system, first within the tire limits and then throughout the city. When this Is done the city can also at once proceed with the paving In the original dfstrlct, which in cluded sixteen blocks. It Is also pro posed to pave Cascade Avenue to the city limits. Oak street to Ninth street. Ninth street to Eugene street and Kugene s'reet to Twelfth street. "Material Improvements will also be made on the east side grade from the bridge to the city limits. The road will le made full two-track width." Probably there Is no better nssur- a nee that prosperity lies ahead for Hood Klver during the coming year than the fact that the depression which has been felt In the real estate business In many ot her sections has apparently had little If any effect on the transfers here or upon local real estate values. One Indication of this Is the fact that when County Clerk Hanson tlulshed his year's business Saturday he found that tie1 total amount received In recording fees last year was $27:12 20 as compared to $:'!M.;j In 11)10. .Mr. Schnieltrer of the Hood Klver Abstract Company also reportetl that the year had been a very active one In real estate busi ness. Kecords In the county clerk's oilier further carry out this asser tion, nearly NK) deeds having been re corded. While It Is yet too early to predict It will take you about a minute to read the New Year's announcement of the Itutler Hanking Company In another column, and It's worth that much time just to get the spirit of It for your own business. News Snapshots Of the Week a nibs sun dor to Knssla, "requested the Russian minister of the Interior to alter the the Island of Join, In the Philippines, defied the disarmament order of General surrounded by American troopa. what kind of an apple year it will be, growers are encouraged by the fact that a great many fruit buds nre In evidence and, judging from prece dents, there should be a bumper crop. The ladles of the city, or at least so many of them as are Interested In the work of the Woman's Club, have their hearts set on getting the dona tion from Carnegie so as to prepare for the erection of the library this year. The new year will also see the completion of Mr. Bell's store and apartment block, which Is one of the largest business blocks lu the city. The handsome new Congregational church Ih also Hearing completion. Everything considered, residents In both city and valley have every rea son to be bot h optimists and boost ers In 1912. LOCAL COUPLE ON STEAMERJOANOKE Col. and .Mrs. S. F. I'.lythe of this city were passengers on the Steamer Hoanoke which was swept by a giant wave and nearly sunk whll crossing the Columbia river bar last Thursday morning. News of the ter rible experience of the passengers was wired from San Francisco tipou the arrival of the steamer there. Col. I'dythe, who Is past commader of the department of Oreg u, Grand Army of the Kep-iMIe, mid Mrs. Itlythe were In their stateroom on the starboard side when the heavy seas were shipped. The door of their stateroom was battered In. They were drenched and thrown violently from their berths. "I served four years during the Civil war," said the veteran. "I was at Hotialdson, Shlloh and Corinth, but I am free to confess that I was never so frightened as I was during that terrible hour aboard the Konu oke." Our life was lost anil several pas sengers and members of the crew were Injured. One passenger, Kobert Stevens, years old, a Canadian electrician, who forced his way from the social hall to the after dirk, against the orders of the ship's olli cers, was washed overboard and drowned. His body was not recov ered. There were live women and six children among the Konnoke's pas sengers, j The great wave which struck the! Koanoke not only stove in wood- won along me ran, carried away doors and Hooded the decks, but It ! broke steam pipes and hissing steam lilted the dining room, galley and oclal hall and added to the terror of the paulc-strlcken passengers, who feared the vessel was about to be swamped. j EVENTS OF WORLD WIDE INTEREST PICTURED FOR BUSY READERS John nigelow. America's "grnnd old mnn," died nt his home In New York, need ninety four He w:is well known ms 11 diplomat, author and Journalist. Alfred (iwynne Vanderhilt nnd Mm. Mnrgnret Knieisoti M. Kim were married In Ib liie. a smnll Kngllsh village near London. The Kev: Clarence V. T. Kleheson, charged with the murder of Ms former sweetheart. Avis IJnnell, nearly ended his life by slashing himself with n niece of tin In the Jail nt Host ui. Curtis UiiiM. .Jr. the American County Assessor Wickham That Total Acreage Last Year Was Five Times I nat 01 ioo4--2,444 1910--Annual Increase That there nre at present 10,:i:,4 acres of land In the county planted to orchards mat are a year or more old, has Just Is-en determined by - planted last year was live times that County Assessor Wickham, who has ! planted In l:m4 and that the amount complied this amount from the as- planted has Increased very substan sessment rolls. The figures show J tlally each year except In l;ni when that 2,444 acres were set out last year and. If the percentage of Increase this year was correspondingly large, the total orchard acreage In the county today Is close to the Kt.lKMJ mark. Mr. Wickham has segregated the orchard acreage according to the age of the trees. There are 2,414 acers of oue-year-old trees, 1,47 acres of two-year-olds, 1,."1 acres of three-year-olds, 1,2515 acres of four-year-olds, Mli (teres of five-year-olds, 7:;7 that havk(x-year-old trees, ,"d4 acres that have eeven-year-old trees, and 4 County Has Remarkably Dense Rural Population Census Statistics Just Announced Show That Only Six Others in the State Have Hore Farmers Per Square Mile Than Hood RiverRanchers Here Have More Than Doubled in Last Decade. Additional census figures, which have just liwn made public by Di rector K. Dana Durand, emphasize the splendid growtn which has lieen made In the Hood Klver valley dur ing the past decade. A new and In teresting feature Introduced Into this report Is the discussion of the rela tive rate of tup growth of urban and rural population In the different counties and the density of popula tion. Hood Klver valley, consider ing that Its development has been almost entirely a matter of the past few years, shows a remarkably dense rural population. The report shows that there are 54:! square miles lu the county and the rural population per square mile last year was 14. s. Com iiared with other and older counties In the state, this Is extraordinary. Twenty-eight counties show a dens ity that Is less than that of Hood Klver county, anil only six exceed It. The latter are: Columbia, Marlon, Multnomah, Polk, Washington and Yamhill. It was Impossible to give the de cennial Increase of Hood Ulver coun ty on account of Its separation from Wasco county lu l!is. Statistics for the two counties combined are given as follows: Total population In mid. 24.:552: In 1:M, 1:1.11''.'; Increase, l'.NHI ll'M, 11.15:'.; per cent of Ill crease, M 5. That the tendency In this section Is "back to the s. ill," Is shown by a shown by a comparison id the In crease of urban and rural popula tion. The urban population of the two counties In ll'M was 4,ss. The same places In l!K had 3, Ml'. The per cent Increase In urban popula tion was therefore :!7 On the other pnssiort regulation as to Jew The John J. Pershing and retreated to the Compiles Figures Show ing Acres Were Set Out During Is Shown. 1 the total uereago of orchards that 1 are eight years old or older Is 1,420. I he tlgures show that the acreage It decreased slightly. The annual percentage of Increase since l!Hi:! has been as follows: In l'.04, .'Hi per cent; l'.H).", 3s per cent; 1'JW, 3.1 per cent; l!l7, .'55 per cent; lli .'12 per cent; llm'.l, 2.'! per cent; l!dH, -i per cent. Arranged so as to show most plainly how rapidly the amount of land set to orchards has Increased each year, the number of acres planted annually, beginning with i:4. follows: .114, 7.17, Ml, 1.25i, 1..V54, 1,47s and 2,444. hand, the rural population In 1910 was l'.i.47J as compared to 0,1557 In the same territi ry in Hum. Thus the percent Increase In rural population In the decade was 101. ti, or nearly three tltn-s that of the urban lu cre a sc. The population of Oregon Is 072. Ti!.". Compared with a population of 4l:!.5::! lu l:n. this represents an Increase during the last decade of 2."!!.22:i, or 112 7 per cent. During the same period the total population of continental I'nlted States Increased 21 per out. The growth of the state was a little more than twice as rapid as daring the preceding decade, 1V.1I l!HKi, when the rate of Increase wns :!o.2 ht cent. ONLY 250 CARLOADS OF APPLES IN WASHINGTON The total available pies In Washington Is supply of ap estlmated at i25' carloads by William Melster. the 1 well known Western avenue com-mlt-slon merchant of Seattle. Mr. Melster says that the supply of ap ples of all grades and varieties in all districts. Including what are held In Seattle, will not, lu his judgment, exceed 250 carloads. He predicts that the apple market will remain steady for about two months, or until the stinks held by dealers and speculators have been cut down. Mr Melster looks for no flirt her re-cl-slon in prices. The Fran Co. 's announcement on page :t should interest every house wlf In Hood Klver." request n.n refused The Moros on peak of Hud I'ajo. whoie thev were F. Howard Isenberg Starts Action Against Dr. M. F. Shaw, Alleging That the Latter Had Been Re sponsible for Mrs. Isenberg Having Left Her Home in This City. Charging that he has been dam aged to the extent of $.'55.uoO through the alleged alienation of his wife's affections, F. Howard Isenberg brought suit In the circuit court the last of the week through his attor ney, S. W. Stark, against Dr. M. F. Shaw. Mr. Isenberg makes allegations as f illows: That he and Zelda F. Iseu berg were united In marriage at Cas cade hocks April 2S, UtOl ; that he Is a resident of Hood Klver county at the present time and has l"en for more than twenty years. He says that from the time of his marriage until the alleged Interference of the defend ant he was deeply attached to his wife and that they II veil happily to gether as husband and wife. He complains that, but for the "wrong ful and malicious acts" of the de fendant, they would have continued so to live together. The plaintiff sets forth that on or about the 10th day of June, 1:hm, Dr. Shaw became acquainted with Mrs. Isenlierg and that shortly afterward, "with Intent to Injure the plaintiff and to deprive him of the affections, comfort, society and assistance of his said wife," the defendant com menced to acquire an Improper and undue influence over her "by wrong fully and wickedly enticing and In ducing her to come dally to the ofllce of the defendant In Hood Klver to balance his books and accounts, and by frequently and at many times be tween the first of September. l'.Kiti, aud the first of J une l'.'lO, Inducing and enticing plaintiff's wife to go out riding with him In his automo bile; all of which was without the knowledge and consent of plaintiff, and for the purpose of alienating the affections of the plaintiff's wife. "That for the further purpose of alienating her affections from the plaintiff t he defendant Influenced, en Funds For Purchasing Water System Assured Local Banks Offer to Advance Necessary Money in Case Bids on Bonds to Be Opened on the Fifteenth Are Not Satisfactory-Pacific Company Grants Extension of Time. Positive assurances that the money with which to buy the water system will be forthcoming were given by the tire and water committee at a meeting of the city council held Thursday evening Chairman Early of the committee, to which the mat ter of financing the deal had been re ferred, reported that the local bauks stood ready to advance the money In case satisfactory bids for the bonds are not received tin t lie l.'th of this month. Mr. Early reported that since the previous mceetlng motntcrs of the committee had taken a trip to Port land and had asked representatives of the Pacific Power and Eight Com pany for an extension of time within which the deal might Ih- consumma ted from January 2i to March 1. This concession was granted. With this extension of time and the as surance that the necessary funds will be forthcoming, no further obstacle remains to prevent the city from ac (Hilrlng the water system. The mat ter of lire escapes on pub lic buildings was brought up and Councilman Early made the motion that the city marshal be Instructed to summon before the city recorder those persons who have failed to erect tire escapes, so that the record er may fully explain the meaning of the ordinance on this subjivt. In order to have a still more specific ordinance and one which would des Ignate exactly what kind of an es- ........ I... .1, I II... .... ..,. v. .v., .... land ordinance was submitted. This f,,r tht. tatement that theO.W. K. passed Its first reading. It was nr- 'A- N. Company, la the very near fu oiniuendcd bv the cltv engineer and i r''- "rl on th con- ... ..." l i . I ii i st rue Hon of a new dep it In that ctt v met the approval of the council. , ... . . . ,,, , It Is stated that th" stitlmi will be An ordinance providing for the ,,Mr,.d opposite IL.t-l I "all.s n the meeting of the council In the county Mill creek "till." It has t n ru courthouse was pissed. : mon-d that Twohy brothers, the , ..... ... 1 1 1 a rrlina ii railroad i'i mt rartMrs, ha ve A communication w as read from i , , . ,, , , . ! Ihi-ii awarded the cnnr u f f irmak- the recorder In w hlch he stated that (,,,, additional till la ihaC.a-e here had been for several mouths a . the deput will be ereeted at i spot alance of about $N' Ih the fund of ill directly opposite tl.e hotel ticed and persuaded her, about the second day of June, l'.'lO, to desert and abandon plaintiff and their home In Hood Klver and to go on a trip to Edgerton, WU.. and other points In the east on a visit, and nf ter staying In the east for thirty or forty days to return to Spokaue. Wash., and there remain and not to return to Mr. Isenberg and their home In this city." Mr. Isenlwrg continues by alleging that soon after his w ife returned to Spokane and on or about August 20. 1110, Dr. Shaw vUlted Mrs. Iseutierg In that city. The complaint further alleges that all of the time Mrs. Isen-Is-rg was visiting In the east and while she has been staying In Spo kaue the defendant has continuously corresponded with her. ISy reason of the alleged alienation of his wife's affections, Mr. Isenls?rg declares that he suffered great dis tress In body and nilud aud that in consequence thereof he has been dam aged In the sum of f :H,000. Dr. Shaw, who has been a resident of Hood Klver for 17 years and Is county health officer, says: "This suit Is Instituted largely by personal enemies to damage my pro fessional reputation. The allega tions In the complaint are for the most part without foundation, an I think will be proven. I have placed my defense In the hands of Attorneys W. H. Wilson and the Clarks of Port land, to whom I refer any further seekers for Information." Mrs. Isenberg has not be-m a resi dent of Hood Klver for more than a year, and Is said to be living at pres ent in Spokane. She Is a bookkeeper and stenographer and for several years was employed here In the offices of the Hood Klver Fruitgrow ers' I'nlon and Better Fruit. Her husband Is a school teacher by pro fession, but retired from active work two years ago, owing to 111 health. vision No. 1. sewer district No. 4 w hich Includes Cascade Avenue. He recommended that It be refunded to the property owners, (lu motion, the matter was referred to the Judi ciary committee with Instructions to make the refund and to make the same disposal of balances on hand In other fuuds. Mr. Langllle requested that, as he Is retiring from the office of recorder, the books be audited. The finance committee was therefore Instructed to get such experts as they may see tit to audit the books. The report of Ir. Uronson, city health otlicer, which Is given In un other column, was read and. placed on file. The recorder read a communica tion from the Security, Savings and Trust Company of Toledo, (, In which they stated that as the form j of bonds submitted them w as un- satisfactory and the council not being willing to have new bonds re I printed at the city's expense, the company had returned the bonds, which are for $:i.:in 40. On tuo'lo'i, this matter was referred to the j finance committee with Instructions to try to correct the present bonds j so as to comply with the company's demands. These bonds were for Im provements In sewer district No. ;. new railroadItation at the dalles expected .... .. , ri,P,, !,.i.. .,,,M,,,if r