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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (March 28, 1915)
10 THE. SUNDAY OliEGOXIATT, " PORTIiAKT), MARCH 28. 19T3. nounced the- complete results of the 'season's debating- .as follows: Castle Rock and Montesana, nine points each. Centralia and Chebalis, eight; -Ridge-field, seven; South 'Bend and Wlnlock, six; Hoquiam, five; Aberdeen, Tenino. Olympia and Vancouver, four each. Six teen schools started the season, but four dropped out. DEPOT GARDENS PLANNED I nni rpj wpnnnjfi is p.ptf.rr ATF.nl ... v Tract at Centralia to Be Beautified if Commercial Club Aids. CENTRALIA, Wash., , March 24. (Special.) If a plan advanced by J- D. Farrell, president of the O.-W. R. & Ml rj vv-j f Birr iP'r ' lltlC Seventh Article. ASHLAND. Or., March 27. Spe ciaL) The Plaza was the center of Ashland In pioneer days. It Ktill holds that distinction, having clunir to its place through all the years of the city's growth and activity. And from all appearances it will be the cen ter of business and g-rowth for all time to come. In the early days, as now, it was the scene of many interesting events. Then It was a meeting place and the favored spot for public gatherings in a small country town. Now it is a beauty spot In the center of a bustling city. The Ashland House, which now tands as a barn on the outskirts of the city, was one of the most prominent structures in the Plaza in the days of yore. Around it a large part of Ash land's early history centers. An old mill which was razed several years ago was another Important institution of the early days. Both of these build ings were erected in the early '50s. In the picture of the original Plaza Is shown the old Presbyterian Church, erected in 1876. It has been remodeled since. The turning point between the old and the new Plaza was in- 1879, when the district was swept by fire. A short time after the fire the district was built up with substantial struc tures. Notable anion; the public gatherings on the Plaza was a demonstration there In September, 1880, when President Hayes and a party visited Ashland. At that time the Plaza was decorated beau tifully. The modern Plaza is a spot of beauty. HUCKLEBERRY FINN, 90, RECALLS LIFE ON RIVER Character, Made Famous by Mark Twain, Says Now He Would Rather Whip Fish From McKenzie Than Endure Hardships on Mississippi. EUGE.VE. Or.. March 27. (Special.) Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain's famous character, is 90 years old And even with 90 years behind him. this robust old man, toughened to the fiber of old hickory, his eyes still bright and with the full vigor of a man of 30 years his Junior, recalls vividly his steamboats days spent with Mark Twain and Tom Sawyer on the Gray Eagle, the fastest steamboat on the Mississippi in Its day. He tells with a thrill of the great boat race as It really occurred, with Samuel L, Clemens, himself, as pilot. For 45 years Huckleberry Finn has been a character of the McKenzie River, In Lane County, Oregon. The entire McKenzie Valley has known him as long as he can remember, and the thou sands of fishermen who annually cast for redside trout in its swift waters know Huckleberry. They have lis tened to his stories, and many have wondered If this character. B. F. Finn, Is the same "Huck Finn" of whom Clemens wrote. To his intimate friends he tells of his boyhood days on the Missouri farm, near that of Clemens, of his rough life on the Mississippi before and during the war. and how he finally crossed the plains and the Rockies to find him self on the McKenzie River, without money and looking for a place to Win ter. He tells how he lived by his rifle, old hides In Eugene and came out at the end of the Winter with money ahead and so pleased with the McKen sie River that he made it his perma nent home. Since then he has erected the largest turpentine factory in the state and sells the turpentine, rosin and a linament of his own preparation all over the Pacific Coast. He also has conducted a hotel for years, catering to the fishermen who come from all parts of the United States. (aptata Hall Once Hla Snprrler. He was first mate under Captain Hall, whose death was noted but a few days ago in St. Louis, on the steam boat Shot well, at that time, he says, supposed to be the fastest boat on the Mississlppi- "Her time up the river was four days and seven hours from New Orleans to St. Louis." he relates. "We could go up the river faster than we could so down, because if we got on the bot tom going up we could back off. but If we got stuck coming down we were there to stay. "Clemens we called him Charley was one of the Shotwell's pilots. We scot m with Tom Sawyer and we bought the Gray Eatrle. She was then on the stocks, building at Carondalette. six tniles below St. Louis, at that time. We fitted her up and ran from New Or leans to St. Paul. She could beat any thing on the river when wo had her ready. We scraped her bottom and sanded It; we made her slippery, and we could outrun anything. -Two years later we bet Captain Hall All roads lead to It and around it Is . the main business portion of the city, Tourists arriving over the Pacific High- 75000 that we could beat him to St. Louis. We won, not because we had the fastest boat, but because Charley Clemens knew the way. We took the cut-offs and came in two hours ahead. 'I was 26 years old at that time. I got th i name of Huckleberry Finn on the Gray Eagl- in a little racket that happened " He didn't go into the details of this fight, but started again. "You see. I was first mate, and if any-tttino- ,4irin't cro rlfrht T was the 'huckle- berry. That's what we called a man I who gets in between a fight. I jumped -1 1 III , -" v s 1 way find here a veritable oasis. It Is , the gateway to the main park system and canyon trails. In the Plaza is the down from the quarter deck and knocked 'em apart." "Here the old man held up two mu tilated hands. Many Flnsrera Lost Sparring. "I've lost many a finger, and all the rest are crooked, sparring on the boat. If a man's going to hold a position as mate on the Mississippi he's got to know how to spar he did in my day. If they got to fighting, you've got to step in and knock 'em out yourself. "We stayed on the river until 1860. We were coming up the river from New Orleans; things ' were getting pretty rough, and we got as far as Cairo, when the Government confis cated her. It cost uss J900q, but the Government gave us J12.000. But that broke up our business. 'Charley' Clemens went to Denver and stopped there to write books, and he didn't do much of anything else. I guess. Tom went up to &l faui ana lived there until he died. X guess he has been dead 12 years. "I don't know where he got those . i. II Carter memorial fountain,'' an artistic work in bronze surmounted by a statue typifying the pioneer. stories about Tom and I." he answered, as his narrative was interrupted. "He used to pick 'em up, I guess just something to write about But he got back to his story. , "In the war I served in the Missis- sIddI sauadron first on the Caron dalette gunboat. It was disabled at the Battle' of Memphis, and then I was transferred to the Great Western, and stayed on this boat as signal quarter master until I was discharged.. After the war I went home to my family at - Kalamazoo, Mich. "I stayed here four years and then traded my place there for a plantation in Missouri. r I buried one of my chil dren there, and then I said I'd skin out and get. I sold it for what I could et the last part of it I sold for a span of mules and a wagon, and S1700. It took that to get here alter I figged up the outfit. f "We came up the Platte to Salt Lake, and came by Boise City over, the.' old Barlow route to Brownsville. We came here in 1870 and reached Eugene with six children, a wife.- two mules, two horses and 84.10. But I had my, old needle gun it was the same gun with which the Germans licked; the French. I was the first on the Mc Kenzie old Oregius Pepiot came the next Spring with packhorses. , . Hunting; Earns Livelihood. . "I hunted all Winter, killed deer and hauled the hides to the valley. I gave all the money to my wife, and at the end of the Winter she had J350, so we concluded we could live on the McKenzie. That wa3 45 years ago, and we're still there. My wife died there, and I'll be there when I die." Mr. Finn has a large turpentine busi ness at the present time, but he has lis own ways of doing business. "I don't ask anyone to pay me until I "get ready," he says. "When, you don't need the money, and can get rid of your stuff, sell it, and get your money when you can." Fcr many years he worked in Eu ger " in the Summertimes, and hunted in the Winters. He says he built a third of the early houses In Eugene. "It's a pretty life to look back on," he concludes. "In the Spring of the year we'd start for Lake Pipin, but many times we'd have to lay over at Prairie du Chien until the Ice would melt so that we could get to St. Paul. The Carondalette was the second mon itor ever built, and she was a dandy. But they punched her there at Mem phis, and it took the whole crew to keep her afloat. We got her plugged, though, and ran her up,. to Mound City, three miles above the junction of the Ohio and the Missouri. There were no docks then, and we hauled her up on ways. "But I'd rather whip fish out of the McKenzie any time." DEBATE TIE TO BE SETTLED Castle Kock and Montesano Teams' to Meet at Centralia. CENTRALIA, Wash.. March 27. (Spe cial.) The Castle Rock and Montesano High School debating teams, which tieC in the Southwest Washington distric with nine points each, will debate off the tie in the Cdntralia High School auditorium April 9. Castle Rock will take the affirmative side of the single tax question. Superintendent Lay hue yesterday an- is carried out the tract owned by the railroad company In! front of the local depot will be beautified. Presi dent Farrell proposes to cut the tract, which comprises three city blocks. Into garden plots to be cared for by the school children - ad unemployed men of the city, the products raised to be given to the former. . Those un able to pay a - small rental will be given ground free, while seeds will also be furnished gratis to those un able to buy them. ' As the planting season already is here, the local Commercial Club is now at work ' so that the railroad company's offer may be taken Immedi ate advantage of. If the plan works out here it will be worked at other places along the O.-W. R. & N. right of way where the company holds ex tenssive realty. SEASIDE WANTS GOOD ROAD County and State Asked to Improve Coast Highway. ; SEASIDE, Or., March 27. (Special.) Because of the trouble the mem bers of the Seaside Commercial Club delegation had in-reaching Flavel to attend the exercises held in connec tion with the arrival of the Great Northern, members of the City Council and members of the Commercial Club, formed a joint committee and called upon the County Commissioners at As toria early In the week to take up the question of having the road from Sea side to Astoria improved. Pictures of the road conditions be tween Seaside, Flavel, Warrenton and Astoria were taken. The photographs and arguments made by the Seasiders so impressed the . County Commis sioners that they promised to take prompt action. An appeal and the pic tures will be sent to Governor Withy combe also with an urgent request for state aid toward making this piece of roadway another of the scenic road ways of Oregon. MUNICIPAL FOOL PLANNED Hood River Proposes to Convert Old Reservoir to Swimming Tank. HOOD RIVER, Or., March 27. (Spe cial.) Citizens here allying themselves with the different clubs and civic or ganizations are planning to build a municipal swimming pool. In the west ern part of the city is an abandoned reservoir, a relic of the early water system which has been outgrown. It is proposed to build a concrete pool just below the reservoir, the waters of which cannot be used, being too cold. The following committee has been appointed to make preparations for the pool: Rev. H. A. MacDonald. Dr. C. H. Jenkins and Mrs. J. O. McLaughlin, rep resenting the Parent-Teacher Associa tion: Mrs. Charles H. Castner, the Woman's Club; Rev. S. A. Donat, the Boy Scouts; L N. Blowers, the business men of the city, and S. A. Mitchell, the Commercial Club. For the last five years a boy has been drowned each year while swimming in the Columbia. WOMEN IN CLEANUP RACE Baker CInb Members Divide City and Will Contest for Beauty. BAKER, Or.,' March 26. (Special.) Competing to see which can have the cleanest district in the city, five mem bers of the Alpha Club, Mrs. O. M. Dodson, Miss Louise Geiser. Mrs. Fred Phillips, Mrs. Frank Ryder and Mrs. J. W. Huff, in charge of the five dis tricts into which Baker has been di vided for Clean-Up day, April 10, will keep constant watch over their districts to have conditions as clean as possible by that time. Each will inspect their sections al most daily and see that every nook and corner -is kept in perfect sanitary condition. The women also will make an effort to beautify their districts by 1 , PRINCIPALS IN HOME WEDDING. t I sj.'mh.-h n.i...t..J.jaiLMJLiu.iJ aan.mi.,u IMW.'.V iljl..utiJiwulJWll"'IVllH'"Wl"lt"l""ll4 A kj, Jj f t --'L. 'AP, 7 J1-i t vwa"" IH . .ri x r M ! ma? j-v ! r -. - v.v V ; s.: 1 ' MR. AND MRS. JAMES F. CARVES, JR, OF HOOD RIVER. A simple home wedding was solemnized at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Lee, 404 Park street. Wednesday at high noon, when their granddaughter. Miss Zana E. Lee, was married to James F. Carnes, Jr., of Hood River, by Rev. Frank D. Findlay, of the First Presby terian Church. The ceremony was witnessed by a few close relatives and friends. The dining-room was decorated artistically in daffodils and evergreens, where an elaborate supper was served. The bride was gowned in white embroidered voile, carrying an arm bouquet of bride rosea and ferns. Miss Annabel Carnes, of Hood River, Or., sis ter of the bridegroom, was bridesmaid and was gowned in pale pink chiffon. F. D. Lab be acted as best man. . Mr- and Mrs. Carnes will reside at, Hood River. JZa re 55 " r' csrvs" y&ctr. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Stevenson cele brated their golden wedding anniver sary Thursday, March 18, in the Wood men of the World Hall. They were married in March. 1865. in Jackson ville, 111., and passed the first year of encouraging the planting of flowers and to see that all streets are well paved and cleaned. SQUARE TO BE BEAUTIFIED Benton Connty Court Adopts Plans to Set Out Greenery. CORVALLIS, Or., March 24. (Spe cial.) The. County Court of Benton County has adopted plans for beautify ing the courthouse square In this city. The plans were prepared by the land- f W hi 1 ' ' ' N - ' V 1 1 ' - Vtv - W their married life in Illinois. For nine years they lived In Kansas City, com ing to Oregon in 1875, passing five years at Fort Clatsop where Lewis and Clark spent their first Winter in Ore gon. In 18S2 Mr. and Mrs. Stevenson came to this city, where they have since made their home. Their living children are Mrs. Lillian York and Mrs. Frank Adams, of Portland; Lytle Stevenson, of Tacoma; Mrs. Mabel Van Cleve, of San Francisco. Mr. Stevenson was a cousin of the late Adlat Steven son, member of Ben Butler Post. Grand Army,-of the Republic, of which or ganization Mrs. Stevenson is a charter member. scape gardener of the Oregon Agricul tural College. The plans provide for planting more than 30 trees and approximately 600 shrubs, vines and liowers. Seventy Boston ivy vines around the county jail and at the sides of the courthouse will be planted this Spring. SCHOOL FAIRS TO BE HELD Northern Lane Districts to Kxhililt Work of Students Next Month. JUNCTION CITY, Or., March 27. (Special.) The northern part of Un County, which Includes 300 square miles with 45 school districts, will hold Us first Industrial school fair in Junction City April 22, 23. 24. Each school will be graded on the work of all of Its exhibits. Useful prizes are to be awarded. Two thousand pupils are ex pected to compete. They will line up on Front street and sing "Oregon" when Governor Wlthycombe arrives. J. A. Churchill. State Superintendent of Fubllo Instruction, will also be pres ent. A series of standardization rallies are being held with speakers present from the extension departments of the Oregon Agricultural College and Uni versity of Oregon. Visit our player music and talklnr machine new exchange department bring your old records, exchanging for latest records and rolls. Srhwan Piano Co., Ill Fourth street. Main 5323. Adv. Household Economy Haw Have tka Beat Crack eaaedy and Save t2 fcr Haklag It at Hms Cough mr.-licines, at a rule contain a large quantity of plain syrup. A pint of granulated sugar with pint of warm water, stirred for 2 minutes, (rivet, you as good syrup as money can buy. Then get from your druggist 2Vt ounces Pinex (60 cents worth), pour into a pint bottle and iill the bottle with sugar srup 1 liia gives you, at a cost of only 64 cents, a full pint of really better couua syrup than you could buy ready made for S2.50 a clear saving of nearly ii Full directions with Pinex, It keep perfectly and tastes rood. It takes hold of the usual cough or chest cold at once and conquers it in "4 hours. Splendid for whooping couth, bronchitis and winter coughs. It's truly astonishing how qnicklT It loosens the dry, hoarse or tight coiy.'h and heals amj soothes the inflamed mem branes in the case of a painful cough. t aleo stops the formation of phlegm in the throat and bronchial tunes, thus end ing the persistent loose cough. Pinex is a highly concentrated com pound of genuine Jsorwav pine extract, combined with guaiacol, and bss ben used for generations to heal inflamed membranes of the throat and chest. To avoid disappointment, aslc your druggist for "2 ounces of Pinex,' and don't accept anything else. A guarantee of absolute satisfaction, or money prompt ly refunded, goes with this preparation. Xbe Pinex Co., it. Wayne, Ind.
