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TITE 3IORNIXG OREGONIAN. FRIDAY, SEPTEaiBETt 17, 1915, BUSY, SCENES AT AND NEAR MONTESANO, HUSTLING WASHINGTON I 7 . I . il . I I I I ll rlll I I m jiiih n i .hi I sin . I i.l. I l in ii. in TOWN. rn imsii int-ntr - 1i i i l n FLOURISHING GIH 'Great Future Seen for Dairy Industry in County Seat , T of Grays Harbor. VAST RESOURCES AT HAND 6 mONTESANO Coiirtlmuse, Krected at Cost of $350,000, Stands as Monument. Three Railroads Tap Area ;' of 2 6 0O Square utiles. BY ADDISON BENNETT. MONTESANO, Wash., Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) Montesano is the county seat of Gray's Harbor County, oui jci w reader remember that this name was given the county by the last state leg islature. Before that it was called Chehalis County. That name was con fusing for the reason that the City of Chehalis is situated in iwis ouinj. which corners with this county on the o.mrVionst. Hence the name was changed. The town was named long ago when iipvo were manv foreigners here. The lh.st settlement was at the foot of a hill, the town being on the Chehalis River. In Spanish the name means healthy mountain. At least that is the best information I could obtain. It Is a flourishing city of something loss than 3000 inhabitants. If it does not at some not far-distant day become a huge city then it will be because resources and location, backed by energy and brains, count for nothing. When I say resources let it be under stood that I do not confine myself to its reat tributary wealth of lumber. even though it has in its tributary area enough standing to roor and iioor me Atlantic Ocean. That is not a literal statement, but a figure of speech signifying that the timber wealth near here is beyond the most careful calcu lation. County Contains 20OO Square Miles. That leads me to say a few words about the county as a whole. It is not an overly large county as western counties go. It contains 2600 square niiU;s, being a little more than one quarter the size of Harney County, oieron. And yet with the exception of King, Pierce and Spokane counties. In which are the populous cities of Seat tle. Tacoma and Spokane, it is the wealthiest county in Washington. From its area, however, must be de ducted 684 square miles not subject to taxation, there being ten townships in the Olympic Forest Reserve and nine townships in the Quiniault Indian res ervation. Were those 19 townships, with their wealth of timber, included in the assessment its wealth would closely approach that of Pierce County. "" The first thing that attracts the eye of the newcomer in Montesano is the sightly location of the town. Surely there could be no finer townsite. It lies well above the tidelands of the Chehalis River, which flows through it from east to west, and the residence districts slope gradually up to the low lying hills to the north. The streets are splendidly paved, the fine concrete pavements lead to all parts of the city. Courthouse Monument, to City. Standing on what might be called the second bench is the beautiful court house, a monument of which any city mijht well be proud. I am told it cost in excess of $350,000 and is the finest county building in the state. It is surely a splendid structure and its interior finish and equipments are in advance of its architectural beauty, lor it contains paintings and decorations that are real works of art and cost a good many thousands of dollars. NeiCt to the courthouse comes the great school building that cost $85,000, and then the City Hall which was given to the municipality by or through the volunteer fire department members and their friends, at a cost of nearly .;o,ooo. It has a good water system, is well ligrhted, has many fine churches, splen did business houses with large stocks of goods, two weekly newspapers, two banks, a creamery, a milk condensary, , two sawmills, two shingle mills, nu merous hotels, a good, fire department in all ways it is a bustling and pros perous little city. Hank Has Capital of 350,000. The Montesano State Bank has a capital of $50,000, surplus and profits of 556,230.69 and deposits of $454,850.97. A. D. Davenport is the president, W. H. France cashier. The First National Bank has a capital and surplus of $30,258.15 and deposits of $100,718.16. F. L. Carr is the president, Rodman M." Price cashier. The Washington Call is issued on Tuesdays and the Vidette on Fridays. These are both good and newsy papers and both offices are well equipped, each having a good Merganthaler machine and other modern machinery, all run hy electricity. The Vidette is in its 33d year; the Call in its fourth. A. R. Rankin is responsible for the former and A. K. Veatch for the latter. Three railroads has this growing metropolis, the O.-W. R. & N. and the Milwaukee coming in over the same track and the Northern Pacific on its own line. It is 12 miles from here to Aberdeen, almost due west, by boat, highway or railway. This is practi cally at the head v of navigation on the Chehalis, but the tide extends up much further. The Satsop River flows Into the Chehalis a couple of miles east of town and the Wynooche River a few miles to the west. Both to the east and west, as well as to the north of town, lie fine farming districts, and finer still up the two rivers mentioned. Then to the south, the eastern portion of the North River Valley Is naturally' tributary to Mon tesano. Great Dairy Industry Foreseen. 1 was taken in a machine by mem bers of the Montesano Chamber of Commerce and had a good view of adjacent agricultural sections, particu larly of the Satsop Valley. If there is any place where the farmer can make money then this is one of the most favored. Some day Montesano is sure to be the center of a great dairy industry. Nature does nothing in vain and this section must have been in tended by her as the home of the dairy cow and her follower the hog. With all-Winter pasture, the mild climate, the succulent grasses and the great prrowth of corn, clover, vetch. (kale and other necessities for the silo and in door feeding with all of these ad vantages it only takes a little brain and a modest start for the dairyman here to reap wonderful success. And it is cheering news to say that the best informed people of the town are turning their chief attention to enlarging the farming operations here abouts and lending every possible aid to those wishing to embark in the dairy business. Land values are low when one considers the producing qualities of the land. Stories of 20 tons of vetch to the acre sound like fiction: yet they are truth. I saw today corn seven feet high rather corn stalks, and well eared. Why the ensilage producer Is in bis heaven here, both he and his cows. AH that is needed for this section to be one yZK 5TS ''f" vf "ryTfrni. CTrv'r'''T,!a' 9"-"v if -v A , jit .jtJ br SfZ Z. r K - " -s - - w r ?f;' ? r 'iZ. . jjs-f ter-jZ71.iv& ajWhAv x jJi&.i,Tif'mifai TW & ! j S'3 - il J Top, Strawberry Field and LoKged-Off Laniln; Center, Residence of C. Clemmons; Below, Chehalis County Courthouse. of the greatest dairy sections in the country in the next decade or so is for men of brains and brawn to come in and take up land and go to it. Failure for such is practically an im possibility. Vast Ranch Being Equipped. Mr. Aleck Poison, one of Washing ton's foremost citizens, is equipping a 400-acre dairy ranch Just east of town. He has many thousands of dollars in vested in buildings and land for the keeping of from 100 to 200 dairy cows and several hundred hogs. He will stock it as soon as possible with fine dairy stock and it will be a show place and an advertisement for thi3 section almost beyond compare. Getting back again from city to county let me repeat what I said when writing from the cities to the west. That is that Gray's Harbor County has the best roads of any county in the state when taken as a whole. I have been driven in machines over a good many miles of them and have been greatly surprised at their excellence. And the county is going rght ahead with the good work. The county budget for 'next year will provide for $675,000 for the roads. This will be more than $1000 a mile for the present mileage, some 600 miles. Hard-surfacing is going on rapidly on many of the principal highways. Some innovations have been made. For in stance, leading to the east from here there is a fine road which has- a concrete strip 7'& feet wide and ma cadam 10 feet wide. It seems to me that that style of road is worth con sidering. They say it costs about $4000 mile, complete. It reduces speeding proclivities and is certainly a road plenty good enough where the travel is not congested. Two-Year Trial Satisfactory. I traveled several miles over such rojid today. It has been down for two years and has proved satisfactory. I was particularly attracted by the guideposts put in each mile. On the top of a nice post, about ten feet high. is a 30-inch shingle saw and on it the distances, etc; These saws cost nothing, the mills being glad to get rid of them. They in a way indicate the chief industry of the section and look mighty neat, being well painted and the lettering artistically done. Montesano has a good, active Cham ber of Commerce. R. H. Fleet is the president and A. R. Rankin the sec retary. While it is on my mind, I wish to make a correction of a statement in my letter from Aberdeen. I announced that the dairy cows being shinned from Ohio were being brought in by the Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce. Such is not the case, the importation being a private speculation by W. C. Mumaw. My excuse for the error is that Mr. Mumaw is the active president of the Chamber of Commerce. The difference is that . Mr. Mumaw assumes the entire burden instead of asking any as sistance from anybody. GRAPE CARNIVAL ATTRACTS Pasco and Prosser Day at Kcnne- wick Full of Merriment. KENNEWICK, Wash., Sept. 16. (Special.) Festivities at the Columbia River Valley Grape Carnival reached the climax yesterday. This being Pasco and Prosser day a large number of peo ple attended "from those places. A Mardi Gras parade and masque was participated in by most of the attend ants. Last night confetti, horns, cowbells and ticklers were used, while within the little western town of "Badger Canyon" characters ranging from Buf falo Bill to the Katzenjammer twins performed high jinks and pranks galore. Queen Concord I and her at tendants headed the parade. ' Dayton Holds Astor Show. DAYTON, Wash., Sepf. 16. (Special.) Dayton's third annual Astor Show was held at the Congregational Church Tuesday, and despite the unusually dry Summer, there -were as many beauti ful exhibits as ever. Awards were given for asters, roses and dahlias, and many other decorative flowers were in evidence. Golden-glow, native asters, and wild .clematis were used to trim the rooms. Luncheon was served and the affair was successful financially. fit tl U'b II. GRAPES GO TO HOGS Thousands of Tons Dried for Feed in California. WINE CROP STILL UNSOLD Uncertainty Over Internal Kevenne Tax, Complicated With Uncer tain Prohibition Situation, Affects Ixcal Market. FRESNO, Cal., Sept. 16. Grapes by tens of thousands of tons are being dried by growers in the vicinity of Fresno this season to be used as hog feed. This method of utilizing the wine grapes was determined on by many growers after an announcement last week by the California Wine As sociation that no grapes would be pur chased this year. The grapes are dried in the field the same as raisins. The growers plan to store part of the output, hoping that better prices may be obtained later in the season. As to the outcome of the experiment there is much uncertainty. The grapegrowers who also raise hogs and are to feed their own dried grapes to their own hogs believe that In the end they will fare better than the men who will be compelled to sell their cured grapes on the market. . SAN FRANCISCa Sept. 16. An official of the California Wine Asso ciation today explained the de cision not to take up thi? year's out put of California grapes was due to their uncertainty whether the war tax on the, fortified and unfortified wines expiring on January 1, 1916, will be re-enacted. Generally unsettled finan cial condit'Tns and the prohibition question in California were more neb ulous, but contributing causes. It would be impossible, it was said, to clarify tho wine situation in California until next July, and at present the as sociation has on hand thousands of gallons yet unsold. RAILROADS PLAN TO SUE Six Washington Lines Will Try to HaTe Taxes Rcdnccd. OLTMPIA, Wash., Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) In the event that the Washing ton State Board of Equalization, now in session, declines to adopt substan tially the proposal of the large rail roads to reduce county ratios, suits by the six largest lines Northern Pacific, Great Northern, O.-W. R. & N., Mil waukee, Spokane, Portland & Seattle and Spokane & Inland contesting their 1915 taxes are probable. Such suits were instituted to contest 1913 taxes by the Northern Pacific and Great Northern, causi g serious tem porary inconvenience to several coun ties which depend largely upon rail road taxes. These suits were lost by the railroads. W. C. T. U. WILL CONVENE Oregon City Meeting Planned by Clackamas Organization. OREGON CITY. Or.. Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) The annual convention of th4 Clackamas County W. C. T. U. will be held in the Baptist Church in Oregon City Saturday, September IS, with delegates present from all the unions In the county. The occasion promises to be. an interesting one, largely at tended. A basket lunch is to be held Saturday noon, at which time all the visitors will be entertained. Arrangements have been made for holding W. C. T. u. services In the Baptist and Presbyterian churches on nrjRm.ijiigsii Mil"-! Sunday evening, September 19, at which time Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh, fgrmer state president, will speak in the former church, and Mrs. Jennie Kemp, state president, in the latter. The public la invited to these services. JACKSON PIONEERS GATHER Memorial Services Feature of Re union of C50 at Ashland. ASHLAND, Or., Sept. 16. (Special.) The 39th annual reunion of the Pioneer Association of Jackson County was held here today with an overflowing attend ance. The literary and. musical pro gramme was given in the Vining The ater, the main address being by Pro fessor Irving Vining, of this city, a direct pioneer descendant. The ban quet was served in the Elks Temple, covers being -laid for more than 250 guests. Memorial addresses were delivered as tributes to Robert C. Beall, Central Point; Cornelius C. Beekman, Jackson ville; George A. Jackson, Medford; Al bert G. Rockfellow and Mrs. Elizabeth Thornton. Ashland, and James R. Wil son, Jacksonville, who have died since the last annual gathering. A resolu tion was adopted providing for the erection of a monument to the pioneers in the parks of this city. The oldest pioneers present at the reunion were: Mrs. Mary Miller, of Jacksonville, aged 80. and James Thornton, of Ashland. 90. Emll Britt, of Jacksonville, was elected president, and W. H. Gore, of Medford. vice-president. The next annual gathering will be at Jacksonville in September, 1916. NIGHT-RIDER CASE SHIFTS Washington Judge Transfers Trials to Icwis County. CHEHALIS. Wash.. Sept. 16. (Spe cial.) The night-rider cases, which at tracted considerable attention in Pa cific County, have been transferred by E. II. Wright, Judge or that county, to Lewis County for trial. It is under stood that about 50 defendants are yet to be tried in these cases. Some months ago attorneys for the defense asked for a change of Judges. Judge Wright called an outside judge to hear two cases, and his answer to the motion for a change is the transfer of all the remaining cases to Lewis County. It is claimed the attorneys for the defense will use the action of Judge Wright as a 'basis of appeal to the Superior Court, on the ground that their clients, by law. have the right to be tried in their own county. Y. M. C. A. PLANS BONDS $15,000 Wanted to Meet Debt on 'ew Building at Baker. BAKER, Or., Sept. 16. (Special.) Tentative plans for the floating of a $15,000 bond issue were made at a meeting of the Y. M. C. A. board of directors today, and W. A. Halllday, George H. Foster and Dr. J. W. Huff, members of the board, will at once out lino the movement. The Institution now has a debt of $15,000 on which it is paying's per cent. and it believes that it can float bonds in small amounts bearing 6 per cent to meet this debt. The Y. M. C. A. built a handsome building two years ago and has been carrying the heavy debt since. laibor Opposes Student Driil. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept 15. A resolu tion opposing compulsory military drill at the University of Washington was adopted by the Seattle Central Labor Council after Dudley woodbnage. a student at the' university, addressed the council declaring that compulsory drill was an imposition upon the stu dents. A committee was directed to confer with the board of regents and explain the labor body's objections to the military drill. In Henry VIII's reign, the British navy consisted of the Great Harry, 12UO tons: two shlpi of S00 tons, and six or seven smallsr ships. "" v s7 ill k?'tM i ? ; i! Csiiup'.wV fx -'fin... wfjwi.;,iii-H;jiJwwiiii,.wsi) mL'si 'Msx VJH'-m1-"" '', ' ' ; ,? 7v,i'-i; c -'.,-' ., i . I I ..iwi ISSI ilsyilie S!Mier Etoiirki'Mill Pacific International Ijkpctfiiioii. FEES DISTURB STUDENTS WASHINGTON" ATTKXDAXTS HOLD MASS MEKTIXG OF PROTEST. "Anti-Militarists" Oppose Compulsory Drill and Increase In Cost of Military Suits. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, Sept. 16. (Special.) Whether tho University of Washington can con tinue to collect the $10 matriculation fee for all entering freshmen and the $10 tuition fee for all students of the university, as provided by the last ses sion of the Legislature, is to be de cided next Monday in Judge Gilliam's department of the Superior Court, fol lowing the action brought by a num ber of students who. declare that the fees imposed violate that section of the state constitution which reads that education in the higher institutions of learning shall be "free and open." Dr. Henry M. Suzzalle, Herbert T. Condon, Bursar and the board of regents are named as defendants. Meanwhile the fees are being collected. Anti-milltarlsts- this year raise a voice of protest that completely drowns out the undergraduates who do not want to pay the matriculation and tui tion fees. Propaganda and literature have been spread over the campus de nouncing the compulsion of military drill for all male students and the fur ther fact that tho cost of drill suits that the student-soldier must purchase has been raised from $13 to $18 is the cause of much dissatisfaction and com plaint. One of the new departures in the university is the adviser to men. an office filled by Arthur It. Priest, for merly dean in the liberal arts school. Miss Ethel Huntley Coldwcll. named dean of women to succeed the late Isa bella Austin, arrived yesterday. EASTERN OREGON FAIR AIM Baker to Launch Movement at I'en dleton Ttoundup. BAKER. Or.. Sept. 16 (Special.) Boosting the new Idea of an Eastern Oregon fair to bo held in Baker next Fall, more than 100 Baker men will go In Observance of Jewish Holiday " Our Shop Will Be Closed Saturday. We Will Reopen From 6 to 10 P. M. Saturday Night. Clothes of Culture Washington St. at Sixth awarded.ar9'old;iedal is orine 1 1H I'l. , 1. 1 ,tmuii .miw n, - In special cars to the Pendleton Round up next week. A big annual co-operative display of all counties east of the Cascades is proposed. The boosters will wear distinctive white hats and each carry a horse headed cane, with a pennant bearing the words: "Our Hobby, an Eastern Oregon Fair for Baker." T. G. Mont gomery, an ex-Pendletonian, has charge of the trip. The fair plan Is the result of the successful co-operative county fair hera this year. NEW PASTOR IS INSTALLED Hymn Siin at Xcwhorj Ceremony Composed by Initiate's Father. NEWBERG, Or.. Sept. 16. (Special.) Rev. George H. Lee was installed pastor of the Presbyterian Church here last night. He came to Newbcrg sev eral months ago from Seattle, where he had been located for a number of years. An unusual Incident in these serv ices was the singing of a hj'mn written by Rev. William B. Lee. father of the candidate, for his own installation in Brooklyn in I860 and which has been used since in tho installation of his sons, the late Rev. Trumbull Lee. of Pittsburg: Itev. William Wallace Lee, of Albany, Or.; Rev. Lewis Harlo Lee, of Cincinnati, and Rev. George H. Loe. Prairie Chicken Season Vet .Closed. GOLDKXPALK, Wash., Sept. 16. (Special.) The contention of Klickitat sportsmen that tho season opened on prairie chickens in 1915 is not uphold by State Game Warden Wales, of Spo kane, who has announced that thcionly game birds that can be lawfully killed BUY IN SEPTEMBER FROM NORTHERN PACIFIC RY. At a Considerable Reduction EXCURSION TICKETS EAST To all points in Middle "West, the Eastern States and Canada. 50 I?. . Chicago Those are low rates, and relatively low rates to all other Eastern points. Call and inquire. QUICK THROUGH SERVICE TO MINNE APOLIS, ST. PAUL, CHICAGO, ST. LOUIS Famous Northern Pacific Dining Service on All Trains TICKETS and All Information and Assistance Given at 255 Morrison St. Phones Main 244, A 1244 A. D. Charlton, A. G. P. A. Portland, Or. ttii' Manama iimmi! lit., i t in Klickitat County are blue grouse and native pheasants, for which the open period runs from September 1 to N.wonihor 15. OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS Members Portland Osteopathia Aps'n. Bnkrr. Dr. I.il'lnn. !20 Corbett Bids. l'liones Main oil-' 7. A S . '.. Ilnrrrlt, Dr. II. I.cntrr. 419 Morgan iildg. Phone -Main A2V. Bronnr, Dr. Attnri M.. :!3t Tittock Rlk. Phones iiroaiiway Marshall ljH. Farrlor. Ir. JckIo 11.. SJO Selling Bldg. l'liones .Main 4;tS, A 5,".1C. Flnck. Or. William .. SIT Broadway Bldg. Main 3 :: i 1 . Main a-K.S. Gotca. Ir. ;crtriide I.- 3-2 Corbett illitg. .Main ly.!. A 4706. GHrn, lr. Mnry F... 609 Morgan Bids. Phones Main 6rii, A 19iti. Ilovilnnri. Ir. I.. Iv.. 915 Selling Bldg. Main --lo. A Krller. Dr. llllnm 50S Taylor St. Phones Alain 644, A S444. LnfT, Dr. II. suite H01 Morgan Bldg. Phones Marshall 1SSS, Tabor 47S. I.eonnr.l Dr. II. V 757 Morgan Bldg. l'liones -Main 70S. A 1709. l.onoans. Dr. Vlrslnla v.. 612 Morgan lihlg. Phones Main 1497, Mar. 3344. Moore, l)n. F. K. and II. C. I. 908 Sell ing Itld. Maui 6101, A 2 4 1". Myrr. Dr. Kathminr S., ?or-7 Journal Kid'. -Marshall 175. A 3"31. orl!irii. Dr. It. 11.. 30K Morgan Bldg. I'himcs Main 349. Kast 1028. I'riiBm, Dr. C. T.. 709-710 Felling Bldg. l'hurics, .Main 3440. Main 3445. Shrphrrd. Dr. II. !., K08-fi09 Morgan Bldg.. Main 6566. Kast 24S. A 1966. Stylrs. Dr. John 11., Jr., 744 Clackamas St. Kast 7235. Wnlhrr, Dr. F.vn S., 124 Kast 24th St. N. Phono Kast r.::32. To St. Louis $712