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About The Hood River news. (Hood River, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 10, 1912)
Uregoo IIi'riral Society 1'itv M ill THE HOOD RIVER NEWS Advertisers Get 'Results Highest Grade Job Tr in ting VOLUME 7, NUMBER 2 HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1911.' SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YER COUNTY COURT MAKES TAX LEVY State Tax Is More Than Double That of Last Year, But Total Levy for General County Purposes Is Held Down to Within Half a Mill of Last Year's Figure Tax in County, Exclusive of Special District Levies, Is 10.8 Mills, as Against 10.2 Last Year Total City Tax for All Purposes Is 20.9, as Against 20.3 in 1911 Election Boards Named Report of County Expenses in 1911. Although the state tax which in UN t Ih paid by Hood Kiwi-county this year In more than double that of 11M0, tlu county levy, exclusive of the special roail anil school levies In the different districts. In only half a mill greater than liiMt year and the city levy Ik only six-tenths of a mill larger. The figure an announced liy the county court the lant of the week are an follows: County levy, 10 S, an against 10.3 hint year; city levy. Including school levy and levy made hy the city council, -0 !, an against '.HI. 3 hint year. County Clerk Hanson received n telegram the latter part of the week from the state t reanurer announcing that Mood Klvcr county's portion of the state tax thin year In $.!."i.4 Kl. Last ye'ir It wan f l.'.:rj4. Last year the levy for state purposes wan 1.4 mlllri, while thin year It wan necessary to make a levy of three mllln The as sessed valuation of public service corporatlonn In the county thin year an asnensed by the State Tax Com iiiIhhIoii wan $2,1 1 1.IKITi, an compared to t2,0Vj,lsS In 1U1D. The tax leny thin year for county purposes wan made an follows: State purposes, three mllln; county purponon, 2 4 mllln; schools, 1 4 mllln; roadn. 3. mllln; library, one-tenth of a mill, making the total tor county purposes 10 8 mllln. The city levy In cludes the spit-lnl levy for municipal purposes of eight mllU and the special Hchool levy of six mllln. The 3.0 mils assessed for road purponen In, of courne, not Included In the city levy, ho that the total In 20 ! mllln. I .lint year the special city levy wan nine mllln or one mill larger than thin year, and the school levy wan the name six mllln making the total of 20.3 mllln lant year. The county court wan In noine doubt ant. what levy to make for county road purponen on account of the probability that the county may bond Itnelf for about $.VHI,(KK for building a nyntem of permanent high ways It wan decided that a nmall LETTER IS SENT TO THEJRESIDENT At a meeting of the board of di rectors of the Commercial Club held Wednesday evening. resolutions were panned to the effect that an In justice had loen done Oregon In making the appropriations tor rec lamation purponen In the Northwent. thin state receiving back only a frac tion of the amount for which It has In-eii assessed for this purpose. The President wan petitioned to nee that an appropriation In made from the $1,000,000 for the Went I'liiatllll project. The new board of directors was organized and ollleers were elected as follows: I'renldent. Charles N. Clarke; vice president, W. L. Clark; treasurer. Dr. J. F. Watt; secretary, II. (. Kauffman. In reply to letters sent to rep re tentative In Congrenn linking for a soil survey of the county and for an extension of the Investigation as to frillt-slorllig methods, answers have lieen tecelved from Souutors Bourne mid Chamberlain and from Congrenn men Mawley and Lnfferty. Congress man Lafferty wrote: "With reference to a soil survey of Hood Klver county, I have to say mat I recently took up the matter of extending the work of the Department of Agriculture over the entire state and received anniir nnces that If the appropriation the secretary desire Is received, uch will Is' done. Fndoubtedly a soil survey of the agricultural sections of the state would be one of the thing done. It Is also probable that the packing of fruit will receive early attention." Congressman Mawley said he would gladly cooperate In nny way he could In these matters. Senator ChninlsTlnln wrote to the same effect. From the Department of Ag riculture came the statement that It levy would lie made for thin purpose and It wan placed at 3. It mllln an agalnnt live mllln In 11110. Kxduslve of the levy for state pur ponen, the c.junty levy thin year In 7.S mllln an agalnnt .!) In 1!10. or 1.1 mllln lenn. The total annenned valuation of the county, exclusive of the property of corporatlonn. In f'.),!U4,fc20. Adding to thin the valuation placed on the corporation property of 2,114,0:15, and the total annenned valuation of the county upon which the levlen w 111 lie made In $12.021,!t:W. Special levlen have is-en made for road purponen In four dlntrlctn an follown: IMntrlct Numlx-r One, eight mllln; Number Two, five mllln; Num ber Seven, three mllln, and Number Kleven, four mllln. Special nchool levlen have lieen made nn follown: Dlntrlct Number One, nothing; Number Two, nix mllln; Number Three, nix mllln; Num tier Four, three and one-half mllln; Number Five, two mllln; Number Six, three mllln; Nututtcr Seven, four mllln; Number F.lght, two and one-half mllln; Number Nine, five mllln; Num Ixt Ten, five mllln; NuiiiIkt Kleven, one mill; Numlier Twelve, one mill; Nunitter Thirteen, three mllln; Num ber Fourteen, five mllln; Number Fif teen, nothing; NuiiiIht Sixteen, nix mllln. The current exK-nnen of the county during the year It'll, exclusive of road building and repalrn, wan $44, 223 70, an tihown by a report for the year prepared by County Clerk Man non and niibmltted to the county court the hint of the week The amount expended for road purponen wan $li",.")2.YS making a total for all county expennen of $111, 74s "s. Among the amoiinln drawn from the general fund during the year for varloun department were the fol lowing: County court, i 1,7114.41; cir cuit court 2,1 ION); Justice's court. $3UV; county clerk's ofllce.f 2,100.10; ! nherlffn olllce, $2,071(0; assessor's olllce, $l,:l'!a..r0; current expennen, $1,-1 will not be necessary to keep a man here all the time next season to In vestigate these matters, but the otllce's representative at Portland, B. B. Pratt, will look after the In-sK-ctIon of fruit here and In the ad jacent districts. New memlM-rs have leeii recently admitted to the club as follows: W. Fort Johnson, J. W. McDonald, JAillan P. Syott. II. I). Ktnery, L. A. Henderson and A. P. Keed. The new membeis of the board of directors have Ix-en sworn Into otlice. They are James K. Montgomery, Dr. J. F. Watt, and J. K. Kobortson. The holdover memU-rs are K. .1. Me Isaac, Albert Sutton, Charles N. Clarke and W. L. Clark. K'' V I . tXpRIT MASSc"Wg.feT' &Ct'-sC tl sr NATCH I I YCLAWA nAKTON News Snapshots Of the Week (ti.nl to the feelings of tue people. Miss Clnra Bnrton. the founiU-r of the Ked Cross sin-lety. celebrated the ninetieth nuntxersary of her birth on Christ mas day She was una Me to make much of the occasion owing to a severe illness from which she has suffered for some time War was betun between l.usjln sud PerslH Cossacks attacked the crowds In Tabriz, and great slaunlitT was reiorteU 4!t.j.lM; courthouse expeuses, $S22.44; care of poor, $2,007.61); road super vlnorn', $2,NN!U4; courthoune and ground, $ 12.C22.S2; state tax (second half) f 7.M2 07; Judgments agalnnt county, f2,7s.".M). Warrants on the general road fund were drawn an follows: Supervisors' checks, f23,0770; general road ex penses, 144,418 00, making the total fl7,r)2:..s8. Election boards to serve during the cunning two years ending Janu ary 1, 1014, were appointed un fob flown: Baldwin precinct: Judges, J. K. I'utnam. chairman, V. S. Urlbble ami J. M. lenz; clerks, J. D. Gordon, W. M. Kdlck and W. C. Smuller. Dee precinct: Judges, Allen Ma crum, chairman, K. 11. Ureen and kaymond Mackley; clerks, S. (1. Kml len, Kory Colllnn and I. Wlnann. l'lne '(irove: Judgen. A. 1. Mason, rhairmau, J. 1). McCully and V. S. Newmau; clerks, V. Wluchell, Frank C. Delhmau and M. Dragseth. Fall precinct: Judges, J. F. Hen drlck, chairman, J. M. Duulop and M. VY. Taylor; clerks, O. A. Adams, J. F. Klllott and U. A. Young. Kant Mood Klvcr precinct: Judgen. John Koberg, chairman, J. L. For ter anil W. B. Dlckersou; clerkn, K. H. Wnugh, K. B. Perlgo and J. B. Hunt. Oilell precinct: Judge, L. A. K. Clark, chairman, C. C. Maslker tnd W. A. Lockman; cl"rkn, Harry Cono wny, M. I). Odell ami Ana Cutler. Went Mood Klver precinct : Judgen, ('. Dethman, chairman. L. M. Bent ley and W. J. Baker; clerkn. B. K. Duncan, J M. CullRTtsou and Noah Bone. Mood Klver Center precinct: Judgen, T. A. Keavln, chairman, J, L. llernhnerand (i. K. Cantner; clerks, A. W. Onthank, S. B. Slmontou and A. B. Canh. Sonth Mood Klver precinct: Judges, B. F. Kadelinnu. chairman, F. W. AngiMand F. M. Miller; clerkn, J. W. Mlckn. Marry M. Francis and C. D. Thompni in. LEVY FOR PORTLAND ROAD IS FAVORED AT CORBETT The taxpayers of road dlntrlct No. :C met at the Corl.ett school house and levied a 5 mill tax for road Im provement. It was voted that 7." per cent of the tax should be used on the Hood Klver wagon road, ts-lng built up the Columbia river to Hood Klver, and the balance will le uned on the side roadn. It wait the sense of the meeting that the count ruction of the Hood Klver road should be rushed to completion. Multnomah county Is building the road to the county line and has U-en making great progress. EVENTS OF WORLD WIDE INTEREST PICTURED FOR BUSY READERS LTT p 1 Dr Sun Viit Sen win eleetel first president of the Chinese republic Senator l.n I'ollette opened -:i procre-n e iii nip:ni;ii In .Ohio, President Tuffs own stnte President Tuft refuneil to piirdon Charles W. Morse from the feileral iiis.n In Atlanta on the ground that his life whs not In danger from confinement Ccncral IW-rnarilo Kejes. leader of the latest Mexican n-olu tlon. surrendere-l to the Authorities nntl wns held for trial lie Iarel that he had been misled tvv false statements In re TOT DRINKS FROM BOTTLE OF POISON Prompt measures saved the life of the little, three-year-o id daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William B. Moore the last of the week when the child drank from a bottle of corrosive sublimate Mrs. Moore was engaged In cleaning out an old medicine chest and the bottle containing the deadly polnon was among the others In the client. These bottles Mrs. Moore net out, Dot thinking that the little girl would touch theui. While her back was turned for a moment, however, the child picked up the bottle con taining the poison and swallowed u portion of It contents. She Imme diately becime deathly sick. The parents telephoned to Dr. Dumble, who directed that an emetic be uned at once and then started out on the trip to the Moore home. The child was better when he arrived uud her life was saved. Dr. Dumble himself narrowly es caped serious Injury while answering the call. While getting his home out of the stable he passed In-hind a farm home, which kicked at him with both bind feet. Its hoofs caught the docter lo the left side, tearing a large rent In his overcoat. Fortunately he was so near the animal that he did not receive the full force of the blow. The horse stepped on one of the doctor's toes, however, and crushed It so badly that he wan forced to use crutches for a couple of days. Storm King Holds Sway And Valley Over Four Feet of Snow Falls in Upper Valley, While City Is Covered With Blanket Three Feet Thick fit. Hood Road Suspends Traffic and O. W. R. & N. Trains Are Stalled Orchards Unharmed. Hood Klver received Its share of the storm which iwept over the northwest the last .,. the week and as a result business and social aotlv Itles were pretty much at a stand still and communication with the rest of the world was Interrupted for a time by the blocking of the rail road and damage done to telegraph lines. When the weather temporar ily cleared Sunday morning there were thirty-four Inches of snow on the level lu the city, four feet In Oak (irove dlntrlct and lu the I'pper Valley fifty-one Inches were reported The fall started Friday afternoon and fully a foot had falleu by Satur day mornlug. It continued uninter rupted during the day and all night. At the same time the thermometer lingered down In the neighborhood of the bulb. The coldest weather during the storm was registered Sun day night, when it fell to a couple of degrees below zero. Interruption of tralu service In'gan Saturday night when the train from Portland failed to get through. No train arrived from the west until an early hour Monday morning, nfter nenrly two days had been spent In fighting a path through the snow that had gathered In the Columbia river gorge, where the full fury of the storm made Itnelf felt. Tratlic from the east was also held up. The OreKon-Washington Limited, delayed from Saturday, reached this city late Sunday afternoon. Jbut in pulling VOTERS STRONGLY IN FAVORJF DOCK Sentiment throughout the county In three to idle In favor of Issuing boiiiin fi.r the construction of the proponed publli: dock, judging from replies already received by County Judge Culbertson. More than one hundred answers have already come to the letters of Inquiry which he sent out lant week. A count of these letters shows that sentiment In strongly In favor of the project, which promlnen to mean much for the county when river tratlic receives Its Impetus from the completion of the Panama canal. Not content with simply nnswer Ing "Yes." many of the citizens add ed a word or two of emphasis, de claring that they are In favor of the dock "by all means" or "even If It costs f20,i)n," which In twice the amount which It In proponed to ralne. An 1n noted In the editorlaJ column, indication are that stenmnhlp linen carrylug cargoes from Portland will handle fruit cargoes In refrigerator ships, expecting to draw a consider able portion of their tonnage from Mood Klver. Judge Culbertson sent out the lant of the 1.000 letters the last of the week. Mr. and Mm. A P. Sprague went to Portland Saturday to npeud a few days visiting friends. Is Snowbound Into the station the front engine of the two that were pulling the train was derailed. The wrecking crew replaced It during the night. A broken rail also had to be replaced. Five tralnn from Portltnd, which had been detained, then pulled through for the e.mt, while three trains from the east followed each other In close succennion. The Mount Hood Kailway tried to break out the road Saturday when an engine and crew were nent through ti) the terminal at Parkdale. There the engine wan blocked on the wye and had to le shoveled out. No trains were run either Sunday or Monday. This prevented many jury men from getting In for the circuit court. Judge Bradshaw wan also unable to get here to open court on Monday. On account of the storm there wan an Ice blockade on the White river above the power plant that furnishes the lights and power for The Dalles and that plant wan forced to sus pend. In the emergency the local plant of the Pacific Power & Light Company had to furnish juice for The Dalles Saturday and Sunday nights. Dynamite wan used to break the Ice jam. Continued extreme cold weather caused Ire to form along the nhoren of the Columbia. Navigation wan ad indoned on account of the float ing Ice and the bo-its that left up the (Continued on I'aire 2) !CSWMOHSl-lf Snowbound Passengers Undergo Many Hardships Local People Who Left Portland Saturday Afternoon Are Snowbound at Bridal Veil and Are Not "Res cued" Until Following Afternoon C hurch Ser vices Are Held on Board the Train. Travelers w ho had the temerity to try the railroads during the recent storm experienced some hardships that rivaled those of the pioneers who crossed the plains In ox carts j half a ceutury ago. Local people had their share of the trials and trib ulations. There were a dozen or more from here on the hcal that left Portland Saturday afternoon and arrived In thin city shortly before midnight Sunday evening. The train bucked the drifts valiantly until It struck a small mountain of snow just an It reached Bridal Veil, where upon the engine gave a final ganp and nettled down for the night. The conductor, so the passengers declare, hotfooted It for the hotel and secured the inly-bed In the hostelry. Some of the passengers who had followed closely in his footsteps talked of lynching, it Is said, but the more sober minded dissuaded them. During the night the passengers learned some of the delights of Sleep ing on car seats without pillows or blankets. When the cold, gray light of the morning nfter dawned, most of the passengers were about ready to get out and walk home. After partaking of a breakfast of crackers and snow water, however, they ar ranged to hold an Impromptu church service. Clarence lillliert participated by rendering several old, familiar hymus on a violin which wan loaned for the occasion by Frank Chandler, Paul French, The Dalles banker, led thesinglng of several familiar psalms. Among the local people who were on the snowbound train were the following: A. O. Mershey, C. K. Marshall, Dr. B. E. Wright, Mrs. J. C. Johnson and Mrs. Ida ( rapper. Late Sunday afternoon, after the hungry passengers were flebatlng whether the leather on the car seats would furnish nourishment, the through train from Portland pulled Decision Announced In Power Company's Suit Court Finds Wires of Competing Corporations Are Strung So Close Together As to Threaten Public Safety and Allows Thirty Days in Which Changes Can Be Made in Locationof Power Lines. Finding that N. C. Kvans, presi dent of the Hydro F.loctrlcal Com pany, wan technically guilty of con tempt of court In violating the In junction restraining the company from stringing Its wires, Federal Judge Bean of Portland returned an order In the case Friday morning. As a result of the decision the Hydro company must make a number of changes In the location of Its poles and wires. The Pacific company must straighten out its pole line for a distance of about two miles south of the city In order that the wires may be at a uniform and safe dis tance from those of the Hydro com pany. The cost and expense rf thin removal, however, must be borne by the Hydro company, no the court rules, "So far as the proceeding against Kvans and Hill for contempt Is con-i-erneil," says the judge, "It Is sutti clent to say that after the nervlce of the Injunction upon Kvans, the presi dent of the defendant company, illl. In charge of a number of Its em ployes, proceeded to string wires during the lifh of December, con trary to the letter and spirit of the Injunction. The order, howevtr. wan not nerved upon lilll and It ap pears that he was not made aware thereof until after the w ork dad been completed. Me In therefore entitled to his discharge. Kvans w as nerved on the morning of December It and should have Immediately ordered the work stopped, e en If he was In doubt as to the extent and stgi,!li-eatu-e of the injunction order, until he could appeal to the court for i modification or construction thereof. Me Is therefore technically guilty of contempt, but an this Is a proceeding ' for a civil and not a criminal con-; tempt, the authority of the court to' punish therefor Is limited to a tine, which should ordinarily be of sutli clent amount to compensate the plaintiff for any damages sustained Into Bridal Veil and the snowbound pansengern were taken aboard. Two or three Portland lawyers who left that city Sunday lu order to be here for the opening of the cir cuit court were stalled about a mile west of the city early Monday morn ing. Thinking they were within a short distance of the station, the at torneys got off and started to walk In. It was still dark and they nearly perished Is-fore they succeeded In floundering through the drifts to the city. It took B. K. Duncan, who made a trip to Camas prairie, just two days to make the trip from I'nderwood here which usually consumes only thirty minutes. He left Underwood on the North Bank Saturday morn lug, was snow ed under and did not arrive in Hood Klver until Monday morning. Others had similar ex periences. A hundred or more passengers on the Pendleton Local, who had been delayed at Bonneville for 2i hours, without food or enough fire to keep them comfortable, arrived In Port land Sunday night about 10 o'clock. The Portland Local was stalled at Bonneville late Saturday afternoon, and Instead of arriving In Portland at o'clock Saturday night got In at 10 Sunday night, anxious friends and relatives of the passengers paying freijuent visits to the I'nlon station and keeping telephone wires busy making Inquiries as to the probabil ity of the train's arrival. County's Valuation Grows County Assessor Koy Wertz has closed the assessment rolls fo Klick itat county. The total valuation on which taxes for Ml are levied Is flO,-ftsO.n-jrt, an Increase over 1910 of 000,000. The heaviest tnxpaj-rr In the county Is the S. P. & s. Kailway, whose check to the treasurer will be for $112,610. by It on account of the violation of ithe injunction. No special damages are shown in thin case and Kvans will therefore Is required to pay the costs Incurred by the plaintiff lu t In con tempt proceedings. " The judge ordered that the recom- j Herniations of the two experts sent I here be compiled with. This means that the pole lines of the two com panies outside the city must he nop- arated by placing them seven feet apart, whereever It Is possible to do j so, and that within the city they be placed on op pi .site sides of the s( reel s ; w here they occupy the same hlo k. ' It is also ordered that where the Hydro company's lines cross the Pacific company's wires they must have a vertical clearance of not less than five feet, with a proper guard below them and above the Pacific company's wires. Thirty days are allowed In which to make the necessary changes, if the parties are willing to m ike these changes, then the present re. straining order against the Hydro company will be continued tint?; t'i -changes are made, not. Imvh ver. fr more t ha u t hirty d a s. If the Pacific company dix'S i i t consent to such arrangement, the re. straining order wIM be vacated upon the Hydro company pi. n lug cross arms with proper Insulators upon all of Its poles that are within Iwhc Inches of the I'acllic company's Urns, and granting the Pacific company the right to a t tacli I ts w 'res thereto If it elects to do no. and by placing Its w In s at least t hrvc feet above t he I'acllic company's at all crossings and properly profiting them, ami by separating Its Mies lit the city from those of the 1' icliie company. I n case t he 1 1 s I ro coin pi n v refuses to agrie t.i pay for removing tue Pacific coin p.i n 's p. i. s us ordered. apiellmluar Injunction will I .e Issue. as prayed for, upon the Paelile emu pany tiling i Veid f-r f.'.uo