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-- ' H 1 City 1UU Highest Grade Job Printing THE HOOD RIVER NEWS Advertisers Get Ttesutts VOLUME 8, NUMBER 29 HOOD RIVER, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1912 SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR HOOD RIVER HEIGHTS BALL TEAM, COLUMBIA LEAGUE PENNANT WINNERS KJny Result in Death Susie Agnes Owens and Charles Celestino Have Quar rel at Parkdale Which Culminated in Pistol Play at PortlandCelestino's Refusal to Harry Mrs. Owens Said to Be Cause of Difficulty. After he hud persuaded her to se curt a divorce from her husband tin der promise ( marrying her, and then refusing to keep IiIm pledge, Susie Agnes Owen idiot Charles Celestino, at !U'J Second street, ut noon hint Friday lu the presence of IiIm parents. Celestino wasshot near the heart and 1m reported at the lion pltal to lie dangerously hurt. Following the shot and is-fore the woman could shoot aKalu, I'edro CeleHtlno, the father of the hoy, pounced upon her and is-at her brut ally. Tearing away from the Infuri ated father, the woman ran to an automobile near by, and bleeding and dazed, nuked the driver to hurry her to the police station. She wan taken to the courthouse ami 1h held In the ciiHtody of the Mlicrlff. It wan after an all night iiirnl that the tragedy tame as a climax. Celestluo, who Is X years old and works an a cement contractor, drew a gun on the young woman yester day at Parkdale, near Hood Klver, and threatened to kill her If she did uot cease Inststlug upon marriage. "He made a trump of me:" ex claimed the prisoner, at lie Mat lu the matron's room of the courthouse manacled and with blood trickling from wounds on her eye, ear and head. "lie taught me to smoke and guve nie morphine. He separated me from my husband and has deeply wronged ine." A month ago Susie Agnes Owens secured her divorce from H. K. Sny der of Mc.Mlnnvllle. w hom she mar ried lu Michigan several years ago. While keeping a rooming house she met Celestino, w ho wns calling on a girl In the place. Out of this meet ing came the friendship which caused the divorce and t he subsequent shoot lug of tl.e Italian. ' I have lieen keeping company with him for two years." said .the former Mrs Snyder, who has had her maiden name restored. "He wronged me. He made me leave my husband and then would not marry me. did not want to kill him. One Sun dav two weeks ago he was with me all afternoon and said he would re turn that night, but he ran away to l'arkdale. I learned w here he was and went to find him Wednesday. Yesterday we met and went Into the woods for a talk. While there he pulled a gun on me and I was awful afraid, lielng there all alone Berry Season Closes With 73 Car Shipment Cold Weather in Early Part of Season Causes Shrink age in FruitMiddle West States Consume Many Cars of Fruit-Acreage Next Year to Be Slightly Increased. From left to right, top row Umpire, Smith; Mooney, outfielder; Thompson, Tate, captain and outfielder; Davis, outfielder; Dunn, secretary and treasurer. Front row Hart, pitcher; Hall, catch er; R. Samuels, 2nd. base; Keantz, 1st. base; Gessling, short, stop; B. Samuels, outfielder; Butter- l had talked him out of killing field, 3rd. base; Carson, manager and utility. me. as he threatened to do if I asked him any more about marrying. I Induced him to come to Portland with me and he did. We arrived yesterday evening. All Inst night he was In my room at Jit5 Third street and we quarreled continually. This morning when I went to his home and asked him to marry me again, his father said that If I didn't get out he would fix me. They were all against me. I don't know how 1 came to snoot ine noy. i ouin i want to kill him. I don't remember much what happened after the old man beat me." I'.ert Stranahan caught a black bass In the slough north of the city recently that weighed six pounds. This Is the largest bass that has ever been taken from local waters. The fish was caught with a spoon hook aud an ordinary casting rod. Pert Is one of the local oxcrt anglers and had no dltliculty In landing the linny monster. Sway Congregation Dr. A. M. Lathrop and "Billy" Sunday Preached to Crowded Houses At the Local Methodist Church --Former Pastor Given Hearty Welcome By Hood River Citizens. League Pennant Winners Try For State Honors Heights Baseball Team Wins Silver Cup and Defeats All State Teams--Superior Team Work Wins For Mound DwellersHall and Hart Prove an Invin cible Battery For Visitors. The Hood Klver Heights baseball tfiiiii is the fastest aggregation of bull tossers that has ever worn a Hood Klver uniform. The dally prac the of the team made the Mound Dwellers easy winners of the pennant In the Columbia Klver League, con sisting of a sliver . cup donated through the 1'ranx Hardware Co. The HelirhtM team has played 14 games; winning 1-' and losing two. The two irames lost were lost to WhlteSalmon. The Dalles and Hood Klver teams have never been able to win a single game from the Heights aggregation. Several games have Is-en scheduled with outside teams since the close of the league season and the hill boys have won In every contest. The hardest fought game lielng that played with the Portland Weonas where the Heights pulled out with only one to the good. The Heights team has a game scheduled with the Weonas on the CITY NOW FACES DAMAGE SUIT It has Just been discovered that the Hood Klver baud has ls-en awardeil the second prlz as second best comic display in the Fourth of .Inly parade as they rode along the streets In the nuto truck decorated with stars and stripes. A lot of the boys have had their pictures taken to see If they really were lu the plug ugly class, and In view of the fact that every member of the baud had his nice white pants freshly washed and Ironed, It Is hard to catch the point that forms the basis i f the award. Some of the sweethearts of the single tooters turn up their noses at the lieautlful vllver cup awn riled their lover every time they pass the dis play window of Art. Clarke's Jewelry store, where the loving cup stands on a beautiful mahogany pedestal. It couldn't have been the boys. It must have been the music. L'Mth of July and the bovs feel colili- dent that If they can win this game that they will stand a good show of winning the state championship. Special mention should be made of Hall and Hart who have uccoin pllshed so much as the Height's bat tery through the entire season. When the boys are right It takes pro. fesslonal skill to score against them. Manager Carson has been there with the goods In the management of the team. Well, here's hoping that Von may cop the state championship. PRINTEllSCUED FROM DROWNING Idiii Cil well, who has been In the employ of the Hood Klver (llacler of- llce. Is reported to have attempted suicide Sunday by drowning him self In the Columbia river just west of the city. It Is stated that tin; crew of a passenger train dis covered the man's effort and n soiled him, bringing him to the city where he was placed In the Cottage Hon pltal. Several gashes had lieen cut In the mail's arm but no arteries had been opened. This has led to the be- net mar an attempt at suicide was thus made. No renxon Is assigned for t lie net and It is expected the man will be up and around again In a few days. CAMPERS RUSH INTO HOOD RIVER VALLEY Hundreds of campers are arriving In Hood Kiver from outside cities ami going to host Lake, Mt. Hood, Devil's Punch Howl and other valley fishing and huntfug grounds to I spend the summer months Hood Klver has licconio famous to the tour ists as one of the llnest lishltig sec- Hons of the state and hundreds of anglers come annually to this valley to enjo.v the sport of whipping the oidd mountain streams for t he gamev trout that abound In Its waters. Two record breaking congrega tions were present at the Methodist church Sunday to listen to ser mons preached by two eminent di vines who are visitors in the city. Dr. A. II. Lathrop, formerly pas tor of the Methodist congregation lu this city and now of Preston, Iown, occupied the pulpit In the morning and preached to a large congrega tion. He took for his subject the per sonality of Christ aud his relation to the Christian church rind system of Christianity In Its entirety, aud con trasted this relationship with that existing between heathen deities and the several systems of pagan religion. The sermon was a most eloquent and masterly effort. When the speaker incidentally announced that his time was up, he was urged by many voices to continue the sermon. '15illy" Sunday the world renowu- ed baseball evangelist Allied the pul pit In the evening and preached to a crowd that occupied all the standing room In the building. "Hilly" has a way of doing things that are pecu liarly his own, and for the period of an hour or more he opened up his rapid lire, triple-trigger, self-loading, automatie-rejirting, universal-focus ed, slxtecn-lneh guttling gun on the congregation. At times the air was blue with the fumes of the regions In fernal, after the speaker had dipped down after a bucketful of the San Francisco, Chicago, Cincinnati, St. Louis, New Orleans molasses from the putrid sections of the cities and poured It out with a hot spoon of oratory, It kept people In the congre gation Jumping sideways to catch their breath. "Hilly" pulled off a double-header on the congregation that was plain ly seen by the baseball fans present. Ills first text was "Thou art weighed In the H.ilancesnnd Found Wanting." In the second lap he used the Ten Commandments. The evangelist scored a home run every time at bat and the crowd was delighted to see the ball swatted out of the lot. NEW INDUSTRY TO BE DEVELOPED HERE John Kolierg, Ohrln Dethruan and Wm. Khrck, wen-knowu local caul- tallsts, have Incorporated a stock company known as the Olbrulter De velopment company and will under takethe development of a rock quar ry east of the city for the purpose of manufacturing Helglau blocks and cut stones for general building pur poses. The newly organized company has p urc based 10 acres of the John Ko berg place which will be the field of operation for the stone cutters. The demand for Helglau blocks for paving purposes has been far In ex cess of the supply. Several kinds of paving material have been experi mented with for the past number of years but experts are of the opinion that there Is nothing quite as sub stantial as the solid stone. Especial ly Is this true since the thoroughfares are subject to the heavy drafts of the large aud heavy luden motor trucks. A stone quarry similar to the one to be opened by the Hood Klver com pany has been In operation at Klick itat on the Washington side and has been under the management of Jas. McHaln, formerly of Hood Klver, who died recently. The Washington In dustry was proving a profitable en terprise to the owners. In an Interview with Mr. Koberg It was learned that the Hood Klver company will make arrangements to transport the cut stone from the quarry to market on huge soows that will readily carry the load to the seaboard without motive power. LEADING CITIZENS FAVOR J1HAUTAUQUA A large number of the leading cltl 7.eus of Hood Kiver and valley gath ered at the Commercial Club rooms Saturday afternoon to consider the matter of holding an annual Horti cultural thautuuqua In the Hood Klver valley. Leslie Kutler was elected tempo rary chairman of the meeting and Geo. I. Sargent was elected set rotary. The Idea of an annual gathering to promote horticultural, Industrial, lit erary and social Interest amoug the citizens of Hood Klver valley grew out of the meetings that are now b ' lug held by the West Side Improve ment club at stated periods and at n hlch prominent speakers are pres ent from ut home und ubroad to pre sent subjects of Interest to the farm ers and fruit grswers of the valley. It was suggested at the meeting Saturday that the tirst annual meet ing be held during the latter part of August and probably In the upper valley section. A three or four duvs' gathering Is planned and every one desiring cnu bring tents and camp throughout the session. The fore noons could be given to fishing and hunting with public speaking in the afternoon and a general good time around the camp tire at night. Plans proposed provide for a rep resentative from each of the following organizations who are to constitute nu executive board to have general supervision over the details that ore to be worked out later. Commercial Club, odell Development league, West Side Improvement Club, 1'pper Valley Progressive Association, Pine (irove (irange. This committee will soon tie appointed and definite an nouncement will be made later of plans that have matured. It Is expected to make this gather ing of Interest to the entire north west and the very best talent that can be secured will be had at these meetings. Larly Apples in Market F.nrly apples for cooking purposes are arriving In the Hood Klver mar ket and meeting with good demand. Prices range from 75 cents to 1 per box. F.arly apples arriving In Chi cago this week were selling for .".0 to 7.") cents per basket. The strawberry shipping season has come to a close for the year of 1!12 with a record of un even 73 cars of berries shipped which Is about 10 cars less than last vear. The de crease In output Is wholly due to the cold weather In the early part of the season that put a crimp In the Iier rles at a time when they should have been making size. ' The fruit (this year was not up to standard la color. The lorries presented a dull appear ance and the seeds were prominent on the surface of the lerry Instead of being burled deep In the rich red cov ering of the fruit. While the Missouri berries came In to active competition with the Hood Klver fruit In several markets of the middle west and the matter of mar keting the local crop reduced Itself to science, It Is understood that good prices will be realized by thegrowers. The local state markets and the markets la Washington and Idaho were somewhat parallzed by the shipments of berries from near Port land that were disposed of by grow ers from 75 cents to f 1.00 per crate f. o. b. These conditions made It prac tically Impossible to sell Hood Rivers In these markets at prices that would be much In advance of the competitive fruit. The strawberry acreage for next year will be somewhat Increased over that of this season. While many of the growers have plowed their patches up on account of the age of the plants, many others are setting new fields that will more than compensate for the less occa sioned by the patches that have been turned under. It can not be learned as yet what the average price per crate will be for this season's crop. However, on account of the quality of the fruit It Is expected that the price will b a little lower than that of last year. SEIG SPEAKS TO FRUIT GROWERS The I'pper Valley Progressive Asso ciation has planned a big time for to night at H o'clock at the Parkdale hall. Wllrner Selg, manager of the Hood Klver Apple Growers' Union, will be preeent to address the apple growers on the subject of the Union's policy for the future. A formal reception will be tendered Manager Selg by the Upper Valley people that will be con cluded with the "eats" furnished by the ladles. Manager Selg requests that all those who have beartug orchards In the L'pper Valley to come prepared to give him an estimate of the crop and designate the number of each variety. Secretary Scott of the Hood River Commercial Club, and ex-Secretary Skinner will be present to address the meeting on the advisability and value of establishing an experiment station In Hood River valley. A large attendance Is requested at this meeting. N. H. Hutchinson, who baa, been visiting with his brother, F. G. Hutchinson of the Barrett district, returned home Friday by way of Portland and Seattle, where he will visit friends enroute. Mr. Hutch lnsou Is much Impressed with the Hood River valley. Admiring Throng Cheer Hood River Ellis Local Elks Join With Dalles Hembers in Mammoth Parade and Are Recipients of Special CheerFair Ladies Are Drawn Into Highway and are Sur rounded by Elks in War Paint. The Hood River Antlered herd that Joined with The Dalles aggregation In the big parade In Portland, Thurs day, surely made some hit as they walked away with third prize, $100, after competing with lodges from all sections of the United States In the parade that was five miles In length. The Hood Klver aud Dalles boys were clad In long purple blankets with a picture of an elk's head woven In the cloth and the number of the lodge underneath In snow white colors. The trousers were of regula tion khaki shade, while the feet were shod with Indian sandals adorned with bead work of brilliant colors. The head gear consisted of a brilliant crown of long feathers of a bright purple and white combination that rested on proud heads fully painted In rich shades to resemble the patrl- ltfe PMff JJk ;r5',;ia TjrfM xWs 1 gL, , ,:dLlL-i lttMThmm&k fe (CONGRATUt AtlNG"60V. W!L'S0l JiGOV ANDJ1RS. MARSHALL otic "Injun" In war attire. The fun came when the boys were on the march and would be Interupt ed by the pleasant smiles and twink ling eyes of the admiring lassies who were smitten with the thought of their superior beauty. Wherever such would make themselves promi nent along the line of march they would be seized Immediately around the waist and drawn Into the circle while the boys fell from the ranks long enough to complete a circle about the bundle of feminine beauty and do the war dance to a queen's taste. This Informal ceremony gave the Hood Klver boys a boost with the boosters that put them clear to the good. News Snapshots Of (he Week Governor Wilson of New Jersey nml Governor Marshall of Indian:!, the Democratic nominees for president aud vies president, received congratulations from thousands of friends and admirers. More than forty persons wore killed and sixty were Injured near Coming N. Y., when nil express train traveling at n rate of a mile n minute crashed Into n passenger train tilled with ex ourslonlsts. A. Piatt Andrew, nssistant secretary of the treasury, ivslgiiod and made crave charges against Secretary Franklin MaeVeagh Miss Harriet Qulinhy, the foremost woman aviator, fell 1,500 feet with a passenger Into Dorchester hay. near Roston. Roth were Instantly killed. The nlrshlp Akron, In which Melvln Vanluiaa expected to tly across the Atlantic ocean, exploded at a uelgM of 2.000 feet over Atlantic City, and Vaaiiuuu and his crew of four were killed. PAVING NOTICES ARE SENT OUT The city council has Instructed the recorder to notify property owners In the proposed paving district In the business section of the city rela tive to the contemplated Improve ments so that any objections to the work may be filed w ith the cltyjorllo lals for their consideration, and to this end circular letters containing an outline of the proposed work has lieen mailed to each property holder In the district. It Is proposed to hard surface the following streets: State from Kront to Fourth; (lak frniu I'ront to Fifth; Cascade avenue from First to Sixth; Front from (lak to state; First from Oak to State, s.vond from Cascade to State; Third from Columbia to State; Fourth from Columbia to State; Fifth from t aseade to l ak. The city engineer has Is-en ordered to prepare fur the laying of the wr minent water mains In the streets that will Is- effected by the pavlnic ordinance In order that the streets will not need to Is- torn up Inter fur the laying of the pip. Mr. and Mrs. Saturday from Fred Diet returned a visit to Portland