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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.
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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