TITE- -MORXiyG OREGOyiAy,- - THTJR SPAY, OCTOBER- 21. 1915.
KELSO IS RAPIDLY
FORGING AHEAD
SCENES AT KELSO, WASH,
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Little Smelt Worth Thou
sands to Town Which
v Has Two Banks.
FOLKS
FARM LANDS ARE BIG ASSET
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J. rospcrous ana Biggest Little CUj
In Cowlitz County, With Paving
tSet-ond to None, Destined to
IMay Important Part.
BY ADDISON' BENXETT.
KELSO, Wash.. Oct. 20. (Special Cor.
respondence.) I do not know of a bet
tfr way to start an article about Kelso
than to give the statements of the two
strong banks they have In this little
Kern of a city. The Kelso State Bank
is the oldest institution. It is one of
ino Buosiantiai concerns of Southwest
rn wasnington. r. M. Carothers is
president. F. L. Stewart cashier. It has
a capital or la.OOO. a surplus of S25.000
and deposits of J251, 036.66. This bank
i large banking-room in its own
building, with the very latest equip
ment in the way of safes, vaults and
everything to insure the safety of funds
deposited therein.
The First National 1 nk has also its
own building, which is well adapted to
Banning purposes. E. S. Collins is the
president, C. C. Basher, cashier. It has
a capital of J2S.000, surplus of J5000 and
undivided profits of 1188. Its deposits
amount to 1198,188.29.
Kelso is in Cowlitz County, being the
largest city in that county. It is sit
uated on the Cowlitz River, and but a
short distance from the Columbia River
Jt always has been a prosperous place
ana nas had a steady -rowth for sev
eral years. It came intd existence. I
think, owing to the smelt that annual
ly come up the Columbia to the Cowlitz
and then turn up that stream to go
noooay Knows. rne smelt, 1 suppose
everyDOdy knows, is a fish not much
larger than a cardine, but mighty good
eating, considered a great delicacy by
some when they are worth, say, two
bits a pound. When the price drops to
15 pounds for a quarter, or perhaps
to two bits a bushel then they are not
bo good!
River Oft Alive With Smelt.
Nobody knows just to a minute when
the smelt will begin to run, as their
yearly advent is called, but Just a few
days before Christmas, varying not
more than a week. Within a few days
after the first ones come, the river
actually is alive with them. They are
caught usually In dip nets holding from
a peck to a half bushel and frequently
the nets will' be hauled in filled to
capacity.
Within two weeks from the time the
run begins there comes a scarcity which
lasts from the 15th to zOth of January,
then the second run begins. This lasts
a few weeks, when they disappear, save
in small schools, enough probably to
eupply the demand from hotels and
restaurants. But meantime there has
been a great scurrying around Kelso,
and its people are richer to the extent
of about $75,000 for each annual "har
vest' of the tiny little smelt.'
I suppose Kelso has somewhere
s round 2250 people. I have heard it
asserted that by taking in the people
living in the suburbs but not within
the city limits the number would run
up close to Z000. It looks like it to me.
It is. In every particular, a fine little
city with a prosperous look. No bet
ter paved city of its size do I know of
and the best job of paving. You
scarcely will find a better built city of
the same size in the West I surely
know of none.-
Slump Comes Slowly.
T think Kelso has suffered some
through hot air. peddled by outsiders
who went there to turn a shoestring
into a pair of boots. For instance, to
show how the boomers boomed and the
ragers raged overtime, there were eight
moving-picture shows in town at one
time and a daily and two weekly news
papers. But to the credit of Kelso be it
raid, when there came a slump, it came
eo slowly and gradually that the new
Krowth about kept up with the depart
ures, until now there 1 scarcely a va
cant store room or dwelling in town.
And not a failure worthy the name
has ever taken place in Kelso. Indeed,
always have the Kelsonians. or the Kel
so.ites. or the "Kelseys" take the word
you like best always have ' the true
residents gone ahead making money.
Consequently, the Kelso of today is bet
ter than the Kelso of any day in the
past but not so good as will bo the
Kelso of tomorrow.
For this little city has a future of
roseate hue. There is a cause for the
existence of the town and that cause
Is getting brighter every day. Orig
inally Kelso was built on the lumber
industry. It has six sawmills and three
shingle mills in the city limits, with
great logging crews in the adjacent
woods, with an annual output of 26.
000.000 feet of lumber and 150,000.000
shingles, not mentioning the timber
operations on the -Columbia River, only
couple of miles away, where the
great cigar-shaped rafts were built and
shipped to the south. These rafts each
contained about 5.000.000 feet of logs.
Agricultural Lands Big Asset.
Gradually Kelso la finding that her
greatest asset is the splendid agricul
tural lands surrounding the town.
Foremost of these are the tidelands
between the Columbia and the Cowlitz.
It is a pretty well-known fact that the
overflow lands along the lower Colum
bia are about as productive as lands
can be, but somehow there has been a
backwardness in reclaiming these lands
that is, in keeping the water off so
that they could be cropped. Just now
about. 9500 acres of these lands are
being reclaimed surrounding Kelso
9500 acres of as fine land as there is
in the Northwest.
The reclamation is being done under
the district diking law. there being
three districts, containing the total
area mentioned. District No. 1 contains
3000 acres, and the diking will cost
$35 an acre: district No. 2 contains 1500
acres.' and the diking will cost $30 an
acre, while district No. 3 contains 5000
acres, and the liking cost will be $25
an acre.
I have included the latter district,
but no work has been done t&ward rec
lamation, and this tract may not be
ready for next year's cropping. As to
the other 4500 acres, the bonds were
sold some time ago through the Lum
bermens' Trust Company, of Portland,
and the work is being pushed with ali
possible dispatch, to the end that every
acre of It may be utilized next year.
Bonds Carry 7 Per Cent.
The bonds carry 7 per cent interest
and are payable in 15 years. During
the first three years nothing is paid on
the principal, simply the Interest.
Kelso has a good semi-weekly news
paper, the Kelsonian. It is owned by
W. p. Ely. but George I'mbaugh Is the
editor and manager. There is a large
creamery doing a big business, but the
railway platforms have a great num
ber of cream cans on them, showing
that a large amount it shipped away.
1 noticed cans marked for Independ
ence, Tacoma, Portland and Astoria.1
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It is said that the dairy cows are mul
tiplying rapidly in the vicinity, and
that as soon as the newlv diked land
is placed in cultivation the present
number wil be more than doubled, as
most of the owners will follow dairy
ing. If they do. there ought to be
more than 2000 cows on the first two
units. As 500 cows will sustain a
creamery with great profit, ft will be
seen tnat there will be room for rrtore
than one.
Kelso has a good commercial club.
Al Usurer is president and J. L.
Sparling secretary. They issue some
good literature, which will be mailed
upon request.
The Kelso people take great nride in
their schools. There are three gram
mar schools-and one high' school, and
all have fine buildings. Professor Lee
f. Jones is the city superintendent, and
he is highly spoken of as an educator
nd a citizen. There is also a fire
men's club, in which the citizens take
great pride. It has 65 active members.
Dr. L. R. Bonerd is chief and Thomas
Garner assistant. The city has its own
executive building, C. O. Taulbert being
the present Mayor. The city is on the
Pacific Highway, the main business
street forming a part of it. There are
two good hotels. I stopped, at the Ho
tel Rockwood, of which the Mayor is
proprietor C. O. Taulbert. The Wash
ington House is also a good stopping
place. I found the Rockwood well kept
in every way and the prices reason-
ble. There are several good res
taurants in the town, and all seem to
be doing a good business.
And there is the whole thing in a
nutshell business is excellent in Kelso.
The town is forging ahead. While
others are crying hard times the Kelso
people are doing a good business; the
people are prosperous, and there is
scarcely a "For Rent" sign in the town.
town.
AGGIES HEAR CAMPBELL
University President tilves Address
on Choosing Vocation.
OREGON AGRICULTURAL. COLLEGE,
Corvallis. Oct. 20. (Special.) P. L.
Campbell, president or the University
of Oregon, lectured here last night un
der the auspices of the Toung Men's
Christian Association, which is offering
weekly course of lectures for young
men on subjects bearing upon the
hoosing of a life vocation.
President Campbell emphasized the
mportance of considering the demands
of society and citizenship, and urired
broad training in general lines for
all students whose future work is un
decided.
PUYflLLUP FARES CUT
ELECTRIC LI'K RGDICES RATES
AXD IMPROVES SERVICE.
KLAMATH COLLISION FATAL
Motorcycle Rider Dies of Injuries
Received in Anto Crash.
KLAMATH FALLS. Or., Oct. 20.
;pecial. Stewart Freeman, an em
ploye of the Klamath Manufacturing
Company, of this city, was fatally in
ured last Sunday evening, and died at
Blackburn Hospital here Monday morn-
ng. He was riding with M. Hirvi. a
ocal baker, on a motorcycle, when thev
collided with an automobile. Freeman's
kull was crushed.
The car lost a whl in the collision
and the occupants were thrown out.
but none was injured. Mr. Hirvi was
badly bruised, but not seriously hurt.
The motorcycle was hardly scratched.
Students Hear of Civic Xeeds.
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY-. Forest Grove.
Or.. Oct. 20. (Special.) The first
number of the Lyceum course for the
inter was given in Marsh Hall Mon
day night by Nelson S. Darling, on the
question of "Civic Improvements." The
three remaining numbers are Herbs
man. In impersonation and dramatic
reading. December 22: Metropolitan
Grand Quartet. February 13. and
Schuman's Orchestra. March 8.
It Is found that 10O male Aogu to mad,
compared with 11 female.
Jitney Bus Competition on Taroma Ran
Causes Company to Meet Demands '
and Ask for Support.
PUTALLUP, Wash., Oct. 20. (Spe
cial.) The transportation question of
Puyallup, rapid transportation to and
from Tacoma at frequent intervals and
at reasonable rates, seems about to be
solved. The question has been an Is
sue for the past six years, since the
Puget Sound Electric Company built
the Short Line into Puyallup. The com
pany raised its rates to what was con
sidered an exorbitant figure after the
general public had been given to un
derstand the rates would be low.
A group of Puyallup Valley citizens,
led by W. H. Paulhamus. took the mat
ter before the State Public Service
Commission and that body ordered the
company to lower its rates to 25 cents
a round trip. A year later the com
pany showed by its books that it was
not making a reasonable profit upon
its investment and its petition to raise
its rates was granted. The rates es
tablished by the company were 40
cents for the round trip, with one and
two-hour service.
Hard-surfaced roads had been la!d
between Tacoma and Puyallup and
when the electric company raised its
rates a competing auto bus line was
organized. This company was a suc
cess from the start, having established
a round-trip rate of 25 cents, with half
hour service.
Last week the electric company filed
notice before the State Public Service
Commission that it would cut its rates
A
CHILD DOESN'T
LAUGH AND PLAY
IF CONSTIPATED
Look, Mother! Is Tongue Coated,
Breath Feverish and
Stomach Sour?
'California Syrup of Figs" Can't
Harm Tender Stomach,
Liver, fiowels.
Mother! Tour child isn't naturally
cross and peevish. See if tongue is
coated: this is a sure sign its little
stomach, liver and bowels need a
cleansing at once.
When listless, pale, feverish, full of
cold, breath bad. throat sore, doesn't
eat, sleep or act naturally, has stomach-ache,
diarrhoea, remember, a gen
tle liver and bowel cleansing should al
ways be the first treatment given.
Nothing equals "California Svrup of
Figs" for children's Ills: give a tea
spoonful, and in a few hours all the
foul waste, sour bile and fermenting
food which is clogged in the bowels
passes out of the system, and you have
a well and playful child again. All
children love this harmless, delicious
"fruit laxative." and it never falls to
effect a good "inside" cleansing. Direc
tions for babies, children of all ages
and grown-ups are plainly on the bot
tle. Keep it handy In your home. A lit
tle given today saves a sick child to
morrow, but get the genuine. Ask your
druggist for a 50-eent bottle of "Cali
fornia Syrup of .Figs." then look arid
see that it is made by the "California
Fig- Syrup Company." Adv.
Hanan Shoes
For Women
Here is a combination
hard to achieve. The
only shoe in which
we have found both
real comfort and cor
rect style is the
Hanan. That is why
we take pride in sell
ing Hanan Shoes.
129 10th bet. Alder and Wash. Sts.
Ezclutlte A gencg
to 25 cents a round trip, with Tacoma
transfer privileges, and give half-hour
service. This rate is to go into effect
tomorrow. The bus companies fol
lowed this lead by cutting their rates
to 20 cents round Jrlp. Many of Puy
allup's citizens work in Tacoma - and
cheap and rapid transportation is a big
factor in the development and pros
perity of this city.
At a meeting of the Commercial Club
yesterday officials of the electric com
pany asked the members of the club to
throw their support on the transporta
tion question to the electric company.
The matter was laid in the hands of a
committee composed of Mr. Paulhamus,
City Attorney Porter and Dr. W. M.
Karshner. The committee will serve
notice on the State Public Service Com
mission that the people of Puvallup
will accept the reduction and patronize
the electric company's line with the
understanding that the rates and serv
ice are to be maintained.
SALMON RUNS ARE LIGHT
Coos Bay Fishermen Are Making,
Only Scanty Living.
MARSH FIELD, Or., Oct. 20. (Spe
cial.) The silve'rside salmon run is not
heavy on Coos Bay. and fishermen are
taking aDout 60 to a boat each night.
The Talent cannery is paying a flat
price of 15 cents for each fish, and
fishermen are making only ordinary
wages. On the ITmpqua River the sea-
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"We have
discovered the
well-known
Fountain of
Youth"'
it " si
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The pictures by Pathe
are splendid in them
selves. But you can add
100 to the charm by
reading Geo. Randolph
Chester's own story of
it in the
Why grow old ? Why become wrinkled and gray?
We are preventing old age, wrinkles and all signs ot
fleeting youthful charms. We remove old age as
well and make the centenarian as spry as the boy.
Granny can outdo grand-daughter."
So announces the WallinorfrvrH nw c
num, subject of this week's motion picture gasp. OREGONIAN
xou nave ngureo that Wallingford brought out
outrageously impossible schemes which were prob
able in his mouth and his way of putting it This
week's motion picture episode is the crowning
achievement of audacity, in
fa
V
Chas. Goddard. author of
"Elaine" The Goddess, is dramatic-
author with Mr. Chester
inthisneweeriea. The stories
put into pictures by the Whar
ton Bros, with a cast incl uding
Burr Mcintosh, Max Figman
and Lolita Robertson have no
equal in the field today. Ex
hibitors obtain their pictures
through the local
THE NCW ADVCNTVtteS OP
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YOU must not miss this enisrvV in
Not only is it entertainment for you full of laughs and thrills, but it
gives you something to talk about for months to come.
PATH EXCHANjiT
son has not been reported average yet.
On Rogue River, the reports indi
cate the season will not be overly
profitable, although some good catches
have been mariA Tha T?ntr-i.
fishermen are yet taking some Chinook,
which bring them good prices. Prac
tically all the canned salmon has been
shipped out of Wedderburn. both from
the Macleav and Sesbor? nlnntn a ii 4
less than S00 cases are left at either
Vlf tliM ntfihli1imnte A 4Ka K1n1.-.o
cannery the crews are mild curing, and
the first casks will he readv for de
livery this week.
Aberdeen Seeks Realty Convention.
ABERDEEN". Wash., Oct. 20. (Spe
cial.) That Aberdeen will.be the next
meeting place of the State Real Eetate
Men's Association is the opinion of J.
K. Calder, of Montesano, who has just
returned from the gathering of that
Ing place or date has not been named
but Mr. Calder did a great deal of
boosting for Aberdeen, he says, and
found that many of the delegates were
favorable to Aberdeen. Mr. Calder was
elected state vice-president for South
western Washington.
Klaniatli Palls Plans fctlo. Event.
KLAMATH- FALLS. Or.. Oct. 20.
(Special.) Klamath Falls is to have a
Dress-L'p week, the same as Portland
and other large cities. The last week
in October has been chosen. The
Klamath Kails Business Men's Associa
tion is behind the movement, and spe
cial prices on merchandise are prom
ised by some of the houses.
Barley Experiment Success.
KLAMATH FALLS, Or.. Oct. 20.
(Special.) Experiments carried on this
year at the Leever farm, near Fort
Klamath, north of this city, in co-operation
with County Agriculturist Glais
yer. developed several new agricultural
possibilities for Klamath. One is Hann
chen barley, a late variety, that aver
aged RO bushels to the acre.
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When You See
THE WHITE
PEARL
Which Is One of the Best Photo-Dramas
Has Ever Released
Not Alone Is the
Story Beautiful, the Production Elaborate
But Stageland's Most Talented Player
MAR IE
DO R O
Is the Star
We Indorse This Photoplay as
Exceptionally Good, and Will
Stand Back of Our Indorsement,
Therefore
Don't Miss It!
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Edison Week
ConcertToday
Come to the special concert
in Mr. Edison's honor today.
The whole country is cele
brating; the master inventor's
achievements this week. Come
and hear one of his greatest
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"Real Music at Last." The lab
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Come to the special concert to
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TONIGHT .IS
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AT THE
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SECOND SHOW A Ford Car will be assembled
on the stage in full view of the audience by Ford
employes working against time, including our
regular BIG VAUDEVILLE SHOW and the
Professional Try out Acts