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Or-gon IIitiril S..fily City Hull THE HOOD RIVER NEWS Highest Grade Job Vrintlng Advertisers Get 'Results VOLUME 8, NUMBER 25 HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1912 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR SPLENDID PROGRAM IS ARRANGED Rousing Celebration to Be Held on the Fourth Several Hundred Dollars Raised Day's Events to Include Auto Parade, Patriotic Exercises, Athletic Contests, Baseball Game, Hose Races, Aquatic Sports, Gorgeous Display of Fireworks and Grand Ball in the Evening. That the Fourth of July celebra tlon In going to be a splendid success la now assured, provided only that the weather clerk does IiIh pnrt. The committee on Hut-rlpttonH met a prompt and generous response from local inerchnutH and several hundred dollars lrnve been ruined for the eele liratlon. Tho program committee held A meeting Monday and an nounced a mtIcm of events which will Insure that there Is "something do ing" throughout the day. The events of the day will start at 10 o'clock la the morning, when the automobile parade will be held. This will be open not only to local cars, but to visiting autoH a well, and a special cup will be offered for the most nttractlvely decorated vis iting car. Occupants of the earn will be principally children, according to the plans now being made, and It It expected that the attractiveness of the event will lie materially Increased thereby. This will be followed by the patri otic exercises, which will be held In the library park, corner fifth and Oak streets, at 11 o'clock. Patriotic music by the local bund will lie a feature. The declaration of Inde endence will le read. Hon. Fred W. Wilson of The Dalles, one of the best known and most entertaining public speaker In the state, will lie the orat.'r of the day. An attractive musical program will Is? given under the direction of .Mrs Henney. The sports will liegln at one o'clock and will Iks held on Oak street. Sub stantlal prizes will Ik? given for the different event. In the hose races the Dulles' depnrtment has already accepted an Invitation to compete ARE NOW PICKING IN UPPER VALLEY With weather conditions which so far have lieen very favorable, the strawberry crop In the I'pper Valley promises to le of.extrn good ipiallty. Ticking In that section began admit the middle of last week and the first carload lots will be shipped out this week. Id the lower valley the pick ing has lieeu In progress for about three weeks and the crop Is pretty well cleaned up. The lower valley crop was not en tirely as satisfactory as It his been Id some other years. For the first week or ten dnvs the weather was favorable and the lrrles were of good quality. The several hot days, however, which came at the height h of the picking had an unfavorable effect and the berries were not up to their usual standard. In spite o this, however, good prices were ob tained. Ilerrles from other sections have remained In the maket unusually long this year and this fact has nec essarily had Its effect on market con ditions. In the I'pper Valley the conditions have been exceptionally good for the Is-rry crop. The warm days came too early to Injure the fruit nnd the recent rains came nt a favorable time. It Is reported that the quality of the I'pper Valley fruit this year Is very good and the first shipments, which were made last week, were lully up to the Hood Klver standard. The I'pper Valley picking will proda bly continue for about two weeks. First Christian Church. All the members and the public In general an especially Invited to the special services to be held at the Christian Church next Sunday morn ing. The Sunday School will begin at U:4." and preaching follows. Sub Ject for morning sermon will be "The (Ireatest Thing in the World," and you ought to hear It. You will re reive n glad hand by the members and a royal welcome by the church la general. The state convention of the Christ Ian churches In Oregon will In held at Turner next week and a delega tion from Hood Klver will go from the Sunday School and church. Th NEWS tells It all. with the local fire boys. A letter from M. L. Curran, chief of The Dalles lire department, states that he will be here with one nnd possibly two companies. The program of sports and the prizes offered Include the following: ;0.yard foot race f II (HI liMl ynrd " " 5 00 Distance (.".(HI, :J00, LW) 10 (K Fat ineu's race (LIN) Ids and over) "." yards 2 W) Boys under 12, 100 yards 3 00 Ulrls under 12, "" yards 3 00 Boys' potato race 2 00 Girls' " " 2 (HI Boys' obstacle race 2 (HI Sack race 2 00 Three-legged race 2 (HI Null-driving contest for ladles.. 2 00 (ilrls' foot race fur those over 12, 7't yards 3 00 Tng of war for men, Lust Side vs. West Side 10 00 A ball game will be played at Col- utnbla Park nt three o'clock nnd this Is the only one of the day's events GALL AN ELECTION ON S90.0D0 ISSUE At a special meeting of the council last evening an ordinance was passed calling a special election on Tuesday. J illy 1. for the purpose of revotlng the t!Hi,0(H bond Issue for the reconstruc tion of the water system. It Is necessary to revote this Issue of bonds under the provisions of the 'Charles Lee, J.O. Mark, S. B. Car revised charter In order to Insnre I nine, II. A, M jore, William Johnson, their validity and ready sale. At a recent meeting of the council City Surveyor Morse submitted a re port on the cost of laying the new mains In the IiuhIiicss section which Is to be paved. He also submitted n report on the cost of paving. It Is hoped that this work may be started this summer. W. COOPER MORRIS, BANK-WRECKER, IS THE LATEST RECRUIT AT CONVICT CAMP W. Cooper Morris, formerly a well known Portland business man and now a convicted bank-w recker, was sent to Shell Bock Friday by Gover nor West nnd Is now working with the other convicts who are building the road arcuud that point. Morris arrived In company with another honor man from the peni tentiary ami was nt once put to work with pick and shovel. No dis tinction Is shown him above other convicts In the camp, but ns Morris Is a man of considerable intelligence County Surveyor Kay says that the banker may be added to the survey ing crew. There are now about 20 convicts nt work on the road ami good pro gress Is being made. So far only Photos of Hadley and Oimntnnamo News Snapshots r iUfk VVfali meeting m vv was men ready almcpss. Honda. Aviator Hadley wns sworn The fleet luter went to New rift , :k a M f ir F7n w rvT!lII-kkvr Nc--Wat thl Chicago conyejitionLoff fort monrof. f j , . j fjfJk t;r;r,VoVrs-".l lJ MARlrit T6UAnTAfiAM5: r - - :.-LJ 1 ! f w hich will be held nny distance from the center of town. The hose contests will Is? held nt 4:'M p. m. A prize of $.10 Is offered for the wet test and $-5 for the speed test, The aquatic sports, which will Is? one of the most noel and entertaln- Ing features of the day's entertain- incut, wil commence at .":'!( o'clock. They will Include the following events: Diving contest. 5 different dives 3 .Swimming race, ,r0 yards 3 Tub race. ,r0 yards 3 Log rolling contest 3 Canoe boxing contest 3 Climbing greased pole over water.. ..3 j Arrangements are Is-lng made to i hold the fireworks display on a float I on the river, where It will be In plain j sight of nil. The display Is going to j be a gorgeous one and will begin at ulue o'clock In the evening. I The big Fourth of July ball will be ! held at Hellbronner Hall after the j fire works. JURY LIST DRAWN FOR THEjHJLY TERM County Clerk Hanson has drawn the following list of jurors to serve at the July term of the Circuit Court, which will convene July 1: V. T. Bearcgard, J. I,. Blount, Ira L. Juild, W. A. Lock in an, L. L. Lock, A. C. l'arrott, II. C. Lvans, I Walter Waddell, J. I,. Carter, D. Me I Donald, DaveU. Kemp, Ben II. Lage, C. I'. McCan, D. K. Hobliisou, Itol.ert j W. Ordway, T. Beatty, W. B. Dlck erson, Frank (Juitin, T. I). Tweedy, William Davidson, J. I'. Thomson, T. A. Ix-avls, John It. Phillips, J. It. Cash, Charles Rnwson and Frank E. Deem. hand work has been done. Recently Mr. Kny recommended to Governor West that equipment. Including dump cars and. If possible, a steam shovel, lie secured In order to facili tate the work. On Sunday Adam Shortgren, foreman of the camp, ac companied by one of the convicts who Is nn expert steam shovel oper ator, came to Hood Klver and In spected a steam shovel at Dee, owned by the Mt Hood Kallroad Company, It Is possible that this may be secur ed for the work. Mrs. Isaac Ford went to Portland yesterday as a delegate from the I'nlted Brethren church to the state convention. Mrs. J. B. Parsons ac companied her ns a delegate to the Women's Missionary Association. by American Prcn Association. Mnny of the delegates to the Republican nntlonnl convention nrrlvcd In Chicago, of Knnsns; 2, Henry B. Chubb of Florida; 3, Cecil Lyon of Texas: 4. A. M. of the national committee as n proxy, to Intervene In Cuba If necessary. In as a postman to carry mail between York. The Duchess of Coiiuaiight was A DOZEN AUTO SPEEDERS FALL INTO THE TOILS OF THE LAWi ARE FINED "Joy riding," or indeed any kind of auto driving In excess of the very sedate speed of ten miles an hour will hereafter 1 strictly taboo within the city limits. The law Is to be strictly enforced. Eleven unfortun ates discovered this last week to their sorrow when they fell into a ''net" which was spread for the unwary on Tweltth street, whence many com plaints of speeding have come of late. Almost every automobile driver who crossed the dead line and came under the eagle eye of a deputy arm ed with a stop watch fell Into the net. All were taken completely by surprise. Some attempted to voice their Indignation and protestations of Innocence but the officers had tbem "with the goods" and there was nothing for it but to proceed to the city recorder's office and "dig up." That the official timekeepers w ere no respectors of persons was dem onstrated by the fact that a city couiicllmau was among those who fell Into the net and against whom a complaint was filed In the city re corder's office. The penalty for the offense Is a fine SCHOOL ELECTION AROUSESJNTEREST More than twice as much Interest was taken In the school election this year as last, judging from the ntim der of ballots which were cast Mori day. There were 135 ballots, as com pared to 02 last year. Mrs. Alma Howe was elected di rector for three years. She received NO votes as against 52 received by Mrs. J. P. Lucas. Truman Butler was elected direct or for one year. He received H2 votes as compared to 35 cast for Frank A. Bishop. Kev. H. A. McDonald was the only nominee for clerk and received 103 votes. A sprinkling of other votes were cast. A recommendation from the School and Home Association that a teach er of music be employed was laid on the table. The report of the clerk, Mr. Bishop, showed that the enrollment nt the last census was !:!2, Including 454 males and 47S females. It Is expect ed that when the next census Is tak en there will be BH0 children of school nge, putting the city In the first dis trict eluss. The financial report of Mr. Bishop showed a balance on hand of $20,3(14. 77. Of this amount $10,112.50 Is de posited on time certificates nnd con stitutes a sinking fund. The cash on hand June 19, 1011, was 22,274 35. Receipts during the year were as follows: District tax $14,150, county school fund $6,223, state school fund $1,000, tuition $757, nil other sources $133. 'JO. Total receipts w ere $15,207.74. Expensed were as follows: Teach ers' salaries $ll.(34, reut $25 00, fuel and supplies $2707, repairs and im provements fl2il, janitor $1732, In terest on bonds $110, Insurance $570, clerk's salary $200, library books $44. Oil, all other expenses $410. To tal expenditure were $24,002.07. Mr. nnd Mrs. John Uclss and daughter, Miss Winifred, of Adams, Ore., were guests the last of the w eek of Mrs tielss' sister, Mrs. J. R. Nuna maker. They were ou their way home from California. Eight hundred marines were landed at Senator Nixon of Nevada died of toxic New York and Washington. President Taft visited the Herman fleet In ll unpton stricken with appendicitis, nnd grave fears were entertained for her life. of from $10 to $;0 and those who fell Into the clutches i,f the law were fully convinced that automobile drlv lng Is a mighty extravagant luxury. Many complaints have come from residents on Twelfth street recently. That straight, smooth thoroughfare presents a temptation to speed which few drivers can resist. When the city decided to take action two men were posted on the street. The ground was measured off and a man posted at each end, one armed with a signaling (lag, the other with a stop watch. Nobody escaped. One driver, Indeed, hastened to the re corder and Informed him that he had actually turned the tables on the timekeepers. He assured the re corder that he had "spotted" the man with the watch and had Imme diately slowed down to ten miles an hour. It transpired, however, to the autoist's extreme disgust, that he had slowed dow n at the wrong end of the gauntlet and that hlf speed had already deen taken. The timekeeper's watch showed that the speed of none of the victims was less than 14 miles an hour and one was 22 miles. ASSESSMENT WORK NEARLYJJOMPLETED About two more weeks will see the work of assessing the county fin ished, according to County Assessor Jasper Wlckham. J. M. Wishurt was down from the I'pper Valley the last of the week and reported that he was nearly through thtre. He found that there were more people In that growing section than he had counted on nnd was compelled to make the trip to town to get addi tional blanks. (ieorge Lynn has been at work In the lower valley, while Mr. Wlckham Iris been covering the city property. Mr. Wlckham says that the assessed valuation will be kept nt about the same point It was last year, In. creases being made only where lm provements have been made. Incidentally, Mr. Wlshart said while here that the strn wlerrles In the I'pper Valley are looking very good, large, bright and firm. The strawberry acreage In that section Is being Increased considerably this year, he said, several of the ranchers having planted from five to ten acres to plants and many smaller patches having been set out. BOY RUN OVER BY TRAIN JAROLY HURT Edwin A. Melville, young son of a White Salmon rancher, was brought to the local hospital the last of the week suffering from a number of minor Injuries sustained when he fell beneath a North Bank train. Young Melville was amusing himself nt the station by jumping onto and off the cars. The train gained speed ami finally he missed his grip. The cor ner of the car knocked htm Into the middle of the track. He clung to the brake beam for a while, then let go and lay flat on the ground. The train passed over him. He then arose from the track, but Immediate ly Jfalnted. No bones were broken and no limbs were missing, but he was badly bruised and lacerated about the head and doily. Those In the picture are: I, P. W. Mulvnne Stevenson of IVnver, who Is attending the Ouniitanaiim. making a total or l.fxn poisoning following an operation for an Narrowly Escape When Fire Destroys Hotel Lodgers in the Ramona Escape by Windows When Flames Hake Exit by Means of Stairways Impos sibleFierce Blaze Is Quickly Extinguished by Fire Departmeut Loss Heavy. Several lodgers in the Ramona Ho tel, which was almost totally de stroyed by fire early Sunday morn ing, had narrow escapes from death In making their escape from the burn ing building. A couple of young men w ho were on the third floor saw all other means of escape cut off and made their exit by sliding down hastily Improvised rope ladders made of spliced sheets. The fire was discovered shortly be fore two o'clock by the roomers on the third floor. The blaze apparent ly had started either on the second or third floors. Harry Rlchter was one of the first to le awakened by the fire. He was on the third floor and nt once opened the door Into the hall. He says that he looked Into a mass of flames, the stairways and halls being a veritable lurnaee. Re turning to his room, Mr. Rlchter saw that the only means of escape was by the window. He hastily tied to gether the sheets and tying them to the bed post let himself down to the roof of the veranda. Cpon reaching there, he stopped long enough to break a window and waken Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Henderson, who were running the hotel. Mr. Henderson, when awakened, looked Into the hall and, like Rlchter. found It filled with smoke and flames. He assisted Mrs. Henderson, who Is in feeble health, to the roof of the veranda. He then climbed down a tree and ran to the neighbors for a ladder down which he carried his wife. W. M. Kills, V years old, wab in the hotel at the time. However, he occupied a room on the first floor and had no trouble in getting out of the building, nlthough he saved none of his personal effects. When the alarm was given the bells downtown and on the Heights were rung and a large crowd gath ered at the fire. The volunteer fire department responded promptly and HEIGHTS BOYS WIN IN FINAL INNING! For seven Innings last Sunday the downtown team held the lead over the fast Heights aggregation. In the eighth the score was tied and In the ninth the Heights boys brought two men over the plate, winning the game. The downtown boys made their first run In the Initial Inning Shay (iill, the Clever City's Southpaw, Made 14 Strikeouts found Hart fur a two bagger, then P.aker sacrlilcdU passing Shay to third. Coshow then made a hit. scoring Shay. (till, the city's clever southpaw ar tist, pitched otic of the best gam seen here this season. He made 1 1 strikeout ami allowed only six tits Ills hcadwor was good and at two rltlcil points he shut out the Heights swatters after the latter had placed two men on bases. In the fourth, with men on second and third .and two out, Hill fanned his man. The same emergency arose In the seventh and again he secured a strikeout. I'.y a strange coincidence, it was the same situation In tie ninth, but this time errors In the field brought In two runs. Hart, for the Heights, struck out nine nnd allowed seven hits. ( lever baserunnltig was a feature of the game. Another feature wns Rutterlield's st'ck work. His bat ting average In this game was brno. The New s for good printing. did very effective work. There was a heavy pressure of water and two streams were turned onto the build ing. Had there leen any wind It would probably have been Impossible to prevent the fire from spreading to the adjacent building. As It was, the feed store of Kelly IJrothers next door, above which there Is a lodging house, twice caught lire. Firemen and others carried from the feed store several tons of feed, which were thus saved from damage by fire or water. Among the lodgers upstairs) over the feed store were Mrs J. M. Card aud her two little babies. They oc cupied a room within a few feet of the hotel. Mrs. Card sajs she was aw akened by w hat she thought was a strong wind blowing. She arose and threw up the shade. Immedi ately u sheet of flame burst Into the room and swept over the cot beside tho window, which was occupied by the baliies. Mrs. Card snatched the babies and hurried from the build ing. The cot which the babies had occupied was entirely burned before the flames were put out. Nobody knows how the fire start ed. That It bad its origin In the up per portion of the building Is all that can be found out. The hotel was owned by the John Lawrence estate of Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Hender son lost all their furniture, which they valued ut about Si'siU. This was Insured for $110). Mrs. Hender son was much pleased because she succeeded In saving a small trunk which contained recipes which she had spent a lifetime in collecting. Mr. and Mrs. Henderson, as well ns others w ho were In the bulldlug, are loud In their praises of Harry Rlchter for giving the alarm and for risking his own life lu giving the warning to other lodgers, ns well as In assisting them to escape. There were about a doen In the house at the time, most of them transients. IFOURTY-ONEPASS 8TH GRADE EXAMS Forty-one of the sixty pupils who took the eighth grade examinations In this county on the sixth and sev enth of this month successfully pass ed the test and were awarded their diplomas. Those w ho passed In the different districts were as follows: Cascade Locks Oscar P.adder, Ar thur Uranstrom. Merle Yettlck. Frankton Louise Nelson. Clarence Miller. I Hood River Arthur Johnson, Mae I Shay. Fdna Loser, Nell J. Cameron, j Elizabeth Stevens, Pearl Merrill, l Julia Noble, Ruth Howell. I.uni Mer jrlck, Mary Nealelgh, Herliert Struck, Mark Moe, ( harnea Wright, Miner Sosey, Suzanne Kay, Alice Mc''urdy. Mattie Cochran, Harold P. Ingalls. Sarah Xealelgh, Pon.thy J. linker, r.enjamln H. (i. Creed. I'.Illy Allen, Leon Rentley, Clifford McDonald. Paul Harris ami Paul Pakln. Parrctt- Jesse Thomas. Odell- (iladwyn Pa vis, Letha P.iv Is, LcRoy Krohn. Parkdale Jesse Hutson, Jesse Puddy, Walter Meyers. Pine drove Aubrey Pape, Robert Waugli. Valley Crest F.dlth Peeler. Oak drove William Htikarl NEW RESIDENCE AT BARRETT IS BURNED lire totally destroy, the new I se of L. I'. Morris la the Parrel t district Thursday al t noon. Mr Morris w as at Parkdale at the time, but a paper hanger ,is working In the house. The latter put some paste on the stove to cook and soon afterwards stepped out of the lion or a few moments It as a short time afterwards that the lire was dlscoxered. It had already gained considerable head w ay and alt hough the neighbors rendered what a-slst. anee thev could, t le- luiilllng was lest n j ed The house w is valued at from l'"i to l-'"0. lu ad MM ui lo whl. Ii was the furniture Mr .rrls had Insured the house thr ni-h W ( tut hank for 'hi.