"THE MORNING OREGONIANV WEDNESDAY, MAT 8, 1907. APPLE Li IS HIGH PRICED Hood River Realty Owners Base Values on Enormous Profits Returned. ONE ACRE WILL NET $400 Portland Business Men Are Aston ished by Facts and Figures Fur nished by the Fruitgrowers. Some Examples Cited. HOOD RIVER, Or., May 7. (Special Correspondence.) This fruit district has made remarkable growth in the last seven years. Its apples have, spread -Its fame over the world and Its strawberries over America. Tne profits of the apple business are so large that they have - raised prices of orchards to phenomal -figures. The Portland excursionists here .yesterday saw orchards that $500 an acre or even $1000 would not buy. This at taches high prices to real estate In the town of Hood River. A corner piece of and On the main street, 25x100 feet re cently sold for $6000. and a bank is to be built on the land. Another corner 50100 old for $6500. Rents for stores of the usuar frontage, say 30 feet, range from $20 to $75 a month. All these facts are tokens of a thrifty, prosperous community. They surprised the Portland men greatly. Not that the viators were Ignorant of conditions here: they had heard many marvels of Hood River and believed a large part of them. But seeing Is believing, and even when a man gives credence to a report, che proof Dften astonishes him. Learn Fact at First Hand. The Portland men learned more about Hood River lands and crops in the three hours of their visit than they ever knew before. They were informed by foremost citizens that strawberries will yield net profits of "between $300 and $400 an acre a season and that apples will yield net profits of $400 or more an acre one year after another. C Stuck Is ' a German farmer, who secured his present orchard, five acres, seven years ago for $100 an acre. The archard was neglected then and con sidered of little value. Stuck had to borrow money to pay for It. Two years later he was making $500 an acre a yeas, and had paid his debts. Two acres of the five he cleared of trees to make room for his house. Last year the apple crop of the remaining three acres he sold to H. F. Davidson, of the Davidson Fruit Company, for a little more than $3000. Three years ago he bought five acres ad joining for $500 an acre. Stuck lives well and has money to give his children an expensive education. Portland Man's Big Profit. Last year F. Bggert. of Portland, sold the apples of a 10-ac're orchard, 4000 boxes, for $8500. Mr. Davidson cited that his 25 acres of itrawberrles last year netted him $4000. He remarked, as showing the phenomenal Increase In price of real estate, that sev eral years ago he sold 50 acres of land for $5000 and recently bought 40 acres, on the opposite side of the road, for $9000. Hood River men declare that the prof its on their crops of fruit Justify these high land prices. A company is in the field to sell rough lnd for $300 an acre, or cultivated and planted In apple trees for $300, or after caring for the trees five years to sell for $400 an ' acre. . Then the trees will come into bearing If they have been prop erly cared for. '. Banker Returns to Farming. One of the leading orchardlsts. citing that E. L. Smith had sold his apple lands snd had gone- Into the banking business, was asked why there should be this drift from apple-growing if the business is so profitable.- He replied that Smith is getting back Into the apple business. This prompted the remark from Senator Ful ton: "The tendency used to be for a suc cessful farmer to turn banker, after he gathered together a lot of money: but here the tendency Is the other way-'' Within two weeks the strawberries are expected to ripen. And because straw berries will be a light crop In the Middle West this year. Hood River growers are looking for high prices. The strawberry business does not grow, however, as does the apple business; hence much land is being turned from strawberries to apples. During the first three or four years of an apple orchard, 1t Is common for farm ers to cultivate strawberries between the rows of trees. In this way, they get a revenue while their apple trees are com ing into bearing. Otherwise they would have to go without returns on their or rhard Investment for five or six years. The capital represented 'in an orchard is considerable for a farmer. Seldom can he wait five years. Strawberries help him out. They produce within a year nd the young vines yield a day or two earlier than old vines, so that they make up in price for what old vines produce in quantity. For these reasons, strawber ries are called "the poor man's crop." Eternal Snows Supply Water. ; A great part of the productivity of this district comes from the watefs of Hood River, which are used extensively for Irrigation. This rapid flowing stream is fed In early Summer and during most of the year by vast numbered springs flow ing from the mountain sides and In late Cummer by glaciers of . Mount Hood, which then turn Its water from crystal to white. At the season when the most water is needed for irrigation, the most water, therefore, flows, this being in August and early September. Hood River farmers lay great store by their river. They say the 100.000 horse power of 10 miles of Its flow -will some day light their houses and run their farm machinery, their plows and cultivators and what, not else. Facts In Vest Pocket. The Portland visitors received from the Hood River Commercial Club the follow data. printed on a Vest-pocket card: Appl crop 1908. 2no carloads. Fancy Sptti nbnri! aold for $3.15 pr bushel f. o. b. Lumber output last four years. 225,000.000 Tet. Vslus. . $2,425,000. PaeMKgtr traffic Increase for laet year -lea-sj '.lmted. 100 per cent. Freight traffic, out bualnasa Increase last rear estimated), 30 -per cent: in business. Increase. 25 per cent over last year. ' Poatofflee receipts for year ending April 1. '190T. fI0.M6.Tl. Thla la double what it was in 1904. - ' Bank deposits April 4. 1005, $10.011.71. Deposits May, lOT. $642,000. Number of acres tillable land in the val ley. 6O.000. Acres In cultivation. -eOOO. Teachers employed In public schools of the city. 14. Pupils enrolled. 675. Population of the city of Hood River, 25O0. Population of valley (estimated). 6000. Engineer's estimate of tbe water power in tha etream of Hood River, 100 horse power per mile for 10 miles. Total, loo.OOO norsa power. City haa electrlo Daht, gravity system IT mater supply from largs apriaaa, first-claus sewer sytem. BAXISH THE HOLDERS' CXIOX Seattle Iron Foundries Unite for the Open hop System. SEATTLE Wash., May 7. The Iron Moulders' Union is no longer recognized In the foundries on Puget Sound and the "open shop" system has been adopted. Every foundry In Seattle affected by the strike of the - union iron moulders has prepared to employ non-union labor In their plants, and representatives of sev eral Seattle firms are now In the East for the purpose of sending skilled me chanics to work In the plants in Seattle. The members of the Iron Moulders' Union realize that the "open shop" poli cy of the foundries on the Sound mean the death knell of their union, and of the 300 moulders originally involved In ths strike more than half are seefetng new fields of employment. The foundrymen of Western Washing ton have united in their fight against the union rule and the open shop policy will be carried out in all the plants In the combine. Between 2000 and 3000 men arc employed by the foundrymen in the combine and the' employers say they will never again submit to union domination of their plants. Hereafter the foundries will be ranked with the machine shops and the union card will not be recog nized. BAKER WAXTS BETTER RATES Business .Mert of Town Anxious to Make It Distributing Point. : SALEM. Or., May 7. (Special.) Baker City Is preparing to make an effort through the Oregon Railroad Commission to secure changes In railroad rates which will make Baker the distributing center for a large section of Eastern Oregon. Definite plans have not been made and the Baker City commercial interests have not determined Just what they want, but W. F. Butcher, a prominent attorney, was In Salem today conferring with the Com mission and ascertaining the procedure it will be necessary to follow. As soon as Baker City gets ready to present Its case it will begin a movement of some kind for favorable retes. CLOSE BRIDGE TO TRAFFIC BIG STRUCTURE AT OREGON' CITY TO BE REPAIRED. Pontoons Will Be Used for Foot Passengers Until Structure Is Made Strong Again. OREGON CITT, Or., May 7. (Spe cial.) The Circuit Court this morning closed the big suspension bridge that spans the Willamette River to Oregon City to teams and wagons, allowing pedestrians to pass over. Bridge ex-' perts of the Southern-Pacific Company made a detailed examination of the structure yesterday, and advised the members of the court to close it at once, stating tuat it might stand the strain for weeks, but on the other hand might do down at any nme. Repairs to the, bridge will be commenced at once and in a few days there will be no traffic of any kind. The paper mills and factories on the west side will construct a pontoon bridge near the falls for the accomodation of their operatives, but residents of Clackamas County west of the Willamette will not frequent Oregon City for several weeks. STATE TO MAKE OWN LIGHT If Bids Are Unsatisfactory, Will Place Plant in Penitentiary. SALEM, Or., May 7. (Special.) The Board of Capitol Building Com missioners today called for proposals for supplying the state institutions at Salem with electric light after March, 1908, when the present contract with the Portland General Electric Com pany will expire. Proposals must be submitted by June 4. In case the state cannot secure satisfactory terms a plant will be Installed at the peni tentiary, and the state will make Its own electricity for the capitol, prison, asylum, blind school, mute school, re form school and sylum farm. The State Board has no complaint to make as to present prices, but It has been Intimated that rates will be raised for a new contract. After June 4 there will be time to Install a state plant if found desirable. Costs Him $15 to Use Club. OREGON CITY, Or.. . May . 7. (Spe cial.) George Stapen yesterday pleaded guilty to the charge of assault and battery on Phillip Steiner, of Beaver Creek, and was fined $15. Steiner al leged that Stapen attaened him and beat him over the head with a club. There was a girl In the case. Post to Observe Decoration Day. OREGON CITY, Or., May 7. (Spe cial.) Meado Post, No. 2, Grand Army of the Republic, " and Meade Relief Corps are planning the observance of Decoration day, and have appointed committees to carry out the details. This committee will hold a meeting In the office of County Assessor James F. Nelson next Thursday evening. Married Just to Win a Home. OREGON CITY.- Or. - May 7. (Spe cial.) W. A. White has commenced suit against Kate A. White for a decree of divorce. They were married October 16. 1899, and have two children, aged 5 and 6 years respectively. The plain tiff charges his wife with running around with other men, and she ad mitted to one of them that she did not love nlm, but married him only to get a home. She falsely accused him of being intoxicated In Estacada in 1905. Assigned to Company K. VANCOUVER, Wash., May 7. (Spe cial.) First Lieutenant C. F. von dem Bussche has reported at the barracks for service with the Fourteenth Infan try and has been assigned to Company "K" of that regiment. Lieutenant von dem Bussche was recently promoted from a Second Lieutenancy in the Eighteenth Infantry, with a station at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. Paving at 20 Cents a Foot. VANCOUVER. Wash.. May 7. (Spe cial.) Neils H. Henrlchsen, of Van couver, was today awarded the contract to construct 17.250 square feet of ce ment sidewalk at the barracks. The price was for the lump sum of $4834, making an average price of 20 cents per square foot. The work must be completed within 90 days. Baker Wins for Inspector. SALEM. Or, May 7. (Special.) Labor Commissioner O. P. Hoff today Appointed Edward TrumbuH. of Salis bury, Baker County, a factory In spector. He Is a foreman, in a planing mill and Is familiar with machinery. Apply Satin skin cream to wet skin, wipe dry. Secures satiny, smooth akin. 25c MOORE IS ELECTED MAYOR OF SPOKANE Republicans Defeat Floyd Dag . gett. Incumbent, by Ma jority of 1874. TOTAL VOTE OVER 10,000 Clashes at the Polls Are Frequent Between Police and Deputy Sher iffs Thousands of Dollars Are Placed on Wagers. SPOKANE. Wash, May 7. (Spe cial.) C. Herbert Moore, Republican, was today elected Mayor of Spokane by a- majority over Floyd Daggett, in cumbent, of 1874. The total'vote was 9698, exclusive of the 400-odd So cialists, which ran the grand total to more than 1Q.000. Harry Eggleston, Democrat, for - treasurer, defeated Lewis Lusk, Republican, and Robert Falrley, Democrat, for comptroller. DEATH OF PIOXEEB WOMAN. Mrs. Anna Catherine Davidson. Mrs. Anna Catherine Davidson, who d-led at her home near St. Paul, Or., April 24, was born In Blackhawk, Iowa, August 8, 1846. When an Infant she crossed the plains witii her pa rents. Mr. and Mrs. James Coleman, reaching- the Willamette Valley is 1847. Her family, first resided In Bell view, ;. Yamhill County, where her childhood was spent. In IPSO, her parents moved to St. Paul, Or. She was educated In St. Mary's Academy, Portland. In 1804 sha was) married to William Franklin Davidson, who, with 11 children, survives her. defeated former Mayor L. Frank Boyd, Republican. Both winning Democrats are re-elected. The Republicans elect seven of the 10 Councllmen, one In the First ward, two each in the Second, Third and Fourth wards. The Democrats elect one Councilman in the First ward and two in the Second ward. All amendments, including a $400,000 bridge bond issue. Initiative and ref erendum for city laws for increase of salaries of Councllmen, Mayor and other officials, and for assessments for new water mains according to benefits derived, were carried. Clash Between Police and Sheriffs. Heavy betting and serious clashes between the Sheriff's deputies and Chief of Police characterized today's election. The polls opened at 9 o'clock and closed at 7 P. M., the sa loons being closed by order of the Chief of Police during the same hours. No sooner had the voting begun than a special deputy sheriff was arrested by a policeman when he attempted to exercise a challenge against a pros pective Democratic voter. A physical encounter was narrowly averted In thla instance, and similar Incidents occurred several times later. In the end Chief Waller threatened personal violence against ' all deputy sheriffs unless they kept away from the polls, and at 4 o'clock In the after noon, after Sheriff Doak had threat ened to arrest every policeman inter fering with his deputies, an injunc tion was obtained by the Chief of Po lice prohibiting deputy sheriffs from making arrests except on warrants. These clashes resulted from the fact that the pplice department' is under Mayor Daggett's direction, while the Sheriff Is Republican, and appointed scores of deputy sheriffs at the re quest of the Moore leaders, the under standing being that the deputies should act as challengers. Several ar rests were made for Illegal voting. Over $57,000 Put Up in Bets. At the time the polls closed, $57,000 In election wagers was on deposit at Frank Smith's cigar store alone. Probably half again as much had been wagered in other places, and between Individuals. At all times betting was even until about 6 P, M., when in a few instances .bets of $500 to $400 were made by Daggett men. Charles Sweeney, the multimillionaire mining man, was the heaviest backer of Dag gett, being said to have wagered $10, 000. Suit to. Adjust Claim of $14,000. VANCOUVER, Wash.. May 7. (Spe cial.) Suit was begun today by the Crane Company, through its Portland branch, against Larney A Klggens. of Vancouver, for debt amounting to $14, 891.74, which sum Is alleged to be a balance due on accounts with the com pany, had within the last year. - Crane Company are represented by Attorneys Cake & Cake, of Portland. Larney 1st' Klggens are a well-to-do firm here, and have also secured many large contracts In Portland, among them the Government building at the Lewis and Clark Fair. They also have done extensive work in this city and the garrison. The suit is the outcome of a dispute over their accounts, and will practically amount to an adjusting of the claim. To Clear Title to Real Estate. VANCOUVER. Wash., May 7. (Spe cial.) A petition has been filed in the Superior Court of this county asking that letters of administration be grant ed upon the estate of Captain Charles B. Western, late of the United States Army. The petition is made by Maud Stanton Western, and asks that Philip T iwsi " jii t Tlndall, of Seattle, Wash., be appointed administrator. Western died In this county in 1890. The proceedings are necessary In order to clear the title to some real estate in this neighborhood. TRAMP TO RUN ENGINE-ROOM Members of Seattle City Council Make a Startling Discovery. . SEATTLE, Wash, May 7. (Special.) The license and revenue- committee Of the City Council discovered today that the Police Department is keeping prisoners at work in the engine-room at the City Hall, keeping up the fires under the boilers that heat the dilapi dated old building in which the jail and municipal offices are located. The job of fireman or engineer has been peddled out to hoboes in the prison as a favor to trusties. When the li cense committee made the discovery Councllmen made a hurried demand to see the City Engineer, who Is supposd to have charge of all City Hall de partents. They Served notice upon the Engineer that a licensed engineer must be employed at once and that the po lice practice must stop. The Council men took the position that they had no concern for the rest, of the occu pants of the City Hall, but they did not want to run chances on a boiler explo sion during Council sessions. STRIPES ONLT FOR BAD ONES Management of Walla Walla Peni tentiary Makes New Ruling. TACOMA, Wash., May 7. (Special.) Stripes will be abolished at the State Penitentiary at Walla Walla for all but the most hardened and desperate con victs. Prisoners will be segregated into three grades and only those of the lowest rank will be required to wear the striped suit. "Preparations for this change have been under way for some time," Baid James H. Davis, of the Board of Con trol, today. "Three different kinds of uniforms will be used, but only the un ruly will be forced to wear stripes. Stripes will be a punishment for a breach of discipline or the Infraction of rules, but by good behavior a convict can work himself out of ' the striped suit class." TOO U5Y TO SEE HER SDN SEATTLE WOMAN REFUSES TO LEAVE HER CARD-TABLE. Officer Calls at Home With Son in Custody and Charged With Theft of Money. SEATTLE!, Wash,, May 7. (Special.) Hardin McLellan, a 17-year-old high school lad, arrested for highway rob bery, was taken today by Truancy Officer Ketchum to the home of his mother, 113 Broadway to subpena her as a witness in the Juvenile Court when the lad's case was brought up. His arrest was. not known to his parents at the time, but young McLellan warned the truancy of ficer that it would do no good to notify his mother, as she was entertaining a card party and would be too busy to pay anv attention to them. That is what Truancy Officer Ketchum savs he found when he visited the house. The woman was on the stairway receiv ing guests when her son and the officer arrived,' while the parlor was tilled with women at the card tables. Mrs. Mc Lellan called to the officer that she had no time to talk to him and directed the girl who opened the door not to admit him. Young McLellan called to his mother that he was In trouble, but the truancy officer declared she retorted that she could not be disturbed while 'I e card partv was n session. Mrs. McLellan ordered the officer to take the ess? to the lad's father, but the truancy officer refused to leave until Mrs. McLellan accepted the serlvce of a suboena to appear as a witness. - Young McLellan in company with two other boys Is said to have robbed Edward Miskl. on the water front. May 1. snatch ing a purse from his hands. He was a freshman at the High School. USES GUN TO KEEP HER CHILD JFor This, Mother Is Arrested on Charge of Kidnaping. CENTRALIA, Wash., May 7. Mrs. Ida Heftron, of Seattle, formerly of Chehalls, has been arrested here on a charge of kidnaping and sent to Che halls in charge of a Constable. Mrs. Ida Heffron and her husband, Gus, separated last September. Mrs. Heffron alleges that she was forced to leave her husband because he could not or would not support her and their children; that hs had frequently beaten her,' and that in California, where they lived for some time, he made his living by prowling around at nights, steal ing vegetables and anything he could lay his hands on. The couple is not divorced. Mrs. Heffron has been work ing at the Overland Hotel, in Seattle. . When the couple separated there were four children. The wife took with her the eldest child, a boy 8 years old; the husband with him two boys and a girl, named Lily, 2 years old. A short time ago Heffron wrote to his wife that she could have the little girl if she would give the boy up to him. Mrs. Heffron consented to this arrangement and sent the boy to Chehalls. Heffron, however, failed to carry out his part of the bargain, and it was with the object of securing possession of the little girl that -Mrs. Heffron went to Che halls on Sunday evening. Heffron was living with his four children with his brother. Will, who has three children of his own. There were no women in the house. Mrs. Heffron demanded the child, and had some conversation with her hus band, but when he refused to give the child to her she picked it up and start ed to leave the house. Her husband followed her and threatened to knock her down, whereupon she drew a re volver from a handbag she was car rying and ordered him back. She came to Centralia this morning- in a buggy, and. on - her arrival was arrested as stated. Mrs. Heffron is well dressed and Is pleasing in appearance. She has the sympathy of the people who have heard her story. Renounce Their Foreign Ties. VANCOUVER, Wash., May 7. (Spe cial.) Otto Anderson, an alien resi dent of Denmark, and John Mangus Stolpe. of Sweden, made their declara tion of Intention before the Superior Court of Clark County yesterday. Also Charles John Johnson, a native of Nor way, was granted his final citizenship papers. Johnson came to this country when but a small child, but had neg lected to take out his. papers. Discuss Methods of Taxation. EUGENE. Or.. May 7. (Special.) Ths East Eugene -Improvement Club met last night and discussed the mat ter of tax reform. A working com mittee was apointed to make a special study of assessment And taxation and give the club the benefit of the re search work. - Professor Schafer of the University of Oregon delivered an address on "The Future of the Will amette Valley." TUTOR IN FORGERY Mrs. English Is Charged With -Teaching Crime. YOUNG GIRL' THE VICTIM Woman Arrested by Deputy Sheriff Alleged to Have Schooled Fellow Prisoners In the Art of Pre paring Fraudulent Checks. Minnie English, a young woman of 30, was arrested yesterday afternoon by Deputy Sheriff Leonard, at 821 Francis avenue, oft a charge of forgery. An indictment was returned against her by Assistant District Attorney Moser, and' the complaint contains seri ous allegations. Mrs. English Is charged by Almeda Piatt, the 18-year-old girl who is held in jail on a similar In dictment, with having schooled her in the crime of forgery, and also with enticing other young girls to do wrong. The warrant for Mrs. English was sworn out on an indictment charging forgery of the name of Claude Chal man to acheck for $15, payable to Miss Mary Nex, and which was cashed by IX H. Brown, a merchant. Three checks, however, really figure in her case, one for $10 with the name of A. C. Brush, made payable to Maggie Brown, and chashed by Rosenthal A Company and the other for a $10 check with the name of Mrs. Homer J. Smith forged to it and made payable to Miss Mary Nex, which was cashed by J, D. Dubach. Both of the women will be arranged In the Circuit Court this morning, on the charges against them. Mr. Moser sat as a grand jury in the English case, and returned the indictment singly. He has worked night and day on the evidence xand his last act before ar resting MrB. English was to secure some of her handwritting, and em ploy two experts on penmanship, J. A. Wesco and William A. Mackenzie, to compare the writing with that on the forged checks. They both pronounced the checks forgeries, and the handwrit ing identical. ACCUSED BY FORMER WIFE Frank White, Ex-Convict, Charged With Being a Lunatic. ' Frank White, a Union veteran of the Civil War. who was shot but did not kill Frederick Ellersman three years ago and served two years In the Walla Walla penitentiary for the crime, was arrested yesterday afternoon on a warrant sworn out by his former wife, Annie White, charging him with insanity. White was brought to the county jail by Deputy Sheriffs Beatty and Sweeney.- - White will be examined by Dr. William son and Judge Webster this morning. White draws a pension from the Government of $72 a month, and made the statement last night that his wife's principal reason for having him ar rested was to get this money, or pre vent him from securing it. SUIT OVER LARGE ESTATE John Clark Asks Son's Removal as . . . . Administrator. A case is pending in court between John Clark and John A. Clark, father and son. over the administration of the estate of Mrs. Elizabeth Clark, valued at $158,000. Mrs. Clark was the moth er of John A. Clark. Both father and son are connected with the Clark Sad dlery Company, 404 Front street. John Clark charges that his son, in 1904, took away unlawfully and sold to R. Sutton, property worth $628. He asks for the removal of his son as ad ministrator and that he be named as successor to that title. Will of Mrs. Hildebrand. 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