The Sunday Oregonian., November 05, 1916, SECTION TWO, Page 7, Image 31

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER .1, 1916.
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PLANT OF PORTLAND CEMENT CO.
NEAR DALLAS MAKING BIG STRIDES
Crew of 40 to 50 Men Now Employed to Quarry Rock, of Which There Is Unlimited Quantity Product Is Fin
ished at Oswego Plant.
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DALLAS. Or., Nov. 4. (Special.)
The price of cement along the
Pacific Coast may be affected
within a few months by the extensive
production of this building material at
the works of the Portland Cement
Company at Bridgeport, near this city.
While the output of cement from this
plant may not lower the price, it may
prevent any serious rise in prices.
The cement business has been estab
lished here only recently, but is grow
ing steadily. The company has found
the required quality of rock In this
region in an almost unlimited quantity
and a crew of 40 or 50 men are at
work in the quarry.
About 700 pounds of dynamite are
TRIP ACROSS THE PLAINS
IN 1866 IS DESCRIBED
J. C Cooper Relates Battles "With Indians, First Sight of Mount Hood and
Hungry Tramp to Salem.
BY J. C. COOPER.
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MINXVILLE. Or.. Nov. 4. (Spe
cial.) "The splendid ocean
steamer Oriflamme will leave
Ainsworth dock for San Francisco next
Wednesday; cabin passage J15, steerage
9S." These were the first words I ever
heard uttered in Portland. The speaker
stood cn the deck as The Dalles boat
approached the landing on Monday
afternoon, October 15, I860; B0 years
ago last Sunday.. I waa ne&ring th end
of a long journey after three years
of Army life in crushing out the guer
rilla bands in Missouri, Arkansas and
Texas and taking part in most of the
battles that were fought in that region
during the Civil War.
Leaving my best girl and what was
my home before the war, in Lawrence
County, Missouri, March 15, 1866. to
cross the plains, making my way by
all modes of travel in that day, to Fort
Scott, thence to Leavenworth, Kan.,
from which place I started on May 25,
driving a six-mule team in the train of
"60 freight wagons belonging; to Hugh
used in a single blast every week, and
the result of such a biast is the dis
placement of a ledge of rock about
200 feet long and from 15 to 20 feet
high. which is broken into pieces
weighing from .10 to 15 tons each.
These are in turn split up with wedges
and powder and broken by sledges
until they can be loaded on the train
and taken to the bunkers. From the
bunkers they are loaded on Southern
Pacific trains and shipped to Oswego
to be pulverized and baked in the kilns
there. Here it is mixed with a similar
product from Roseburg in two-to-one
proportions. The result is a better
grade of cement than either kind of
material alone would produce, it is
declared.
The bunkers of the plant here are
Kirkendall and bound for Helena,
Mont.
The trip was uneventful until we left
the North Platte at Badger's Ferry, s80
miles above Fort Larimie. Going north
we entered the hostile Indian country
and the teamsters ail struck for extra
pay because they were required to do
extra guard duty. I did not take part
in the strike because my people were
already in Oregon, having been driven
out of Missouri in 1863 by the rebel
bushwhackers that infested that region
at that time and I did not want to
take any cnances of being fired. I
was but 21 years old and was never
afflicted with the wander lust and
wanted to get home.
Teamsters Go on strike.
The other drivers did not take my act
as unfriendly, but Kirkendall (Cussem
all. as the teamsters called him), made
the air lurid with profanity. 'He would
see them all as far in hell as a sledge
hammer would fall in a month before
he would give in. He would run them
all out of camp and turn the whole
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or a substantial construction, as may
be noted from the materials used, in
building them. About 175.000 feet of
lumber. 6000 pounds of spikes and over
6000 pounds of bolts are included In
the items of building material.
The bunkers arc 52 feet high, 88
feet long and 16 feet wide and have
a total capacity of 25 carloads. They
are built with special cement founda
tions and provided with' steel hoppers.
Fossil remains in the strata of rock
In this quarry, prove that it was
once a sea bottom. Although the re
gion is mountainous, many curious sea
shells, fishes. Hah eggs and remains
of vegetable life are found in the solid
rock.
matter over to the Sioux, etc. This
happened at camp one evening, but the
next morning all waa apparently
serene, the teamsters were given back
their guns and all started in to the
unknown region with old Jim Bridger
as pilot.
f or several nunarea miles then we
had fighting with the Indians. The
urst indication mat we naa that we
were in a hostile country was a dead
man we found in the trail, stripped of
every bit of clothing, scalped, under
lip and goatee, cut off, ring finger cut
off and 11 narrows sticking in his
abdomen like the quills of a porcupine.
we rollowed around on the eastern
slope of the-Big Horn and Wind River
Mountains, with an Indian skirmish
every few days. But two of the party
naa ever seen righting before: th
other boy had been in the Confederate
service and we two were looked to to
do the principal fighting and help
wim tne generalship or all campaigns.
We had a severe skirmish near where
Custer had his last fight. We kept it
up nearly all day. but we lost only
one man there. They used bows and
arrows mostly, but it was nothing like
fighting white men. Two were killed
on the Yellowstone. They supposed we
were out of the hostile country and
went too far ahead.
One event impressed me deeply. We
broke 35 wagon wheels, all on the
same side of the wagon, going through
a range of mountains where the slope
was all on one side of the mountain,', the
other being perpendicular and we
drove length way of the canyons,
I was
the chief waironmnkrr for th train!
and I had a very sore thumb all the
time. That thumb was always In the
way.
Hita Trail for Onru.
We g-ot to Helena on September 12.
I bought a cayuae and packed my
grub and blankets on It and hit the
trail for Oregon. We came over the
Mullen road or trail across the Coeur
d'Alene Mountains and down the Coeur
d'Alene River, crossing it 61 times and
twice end ways. 1 did an emergency
Job for aMuror'at Walla Walla, hauled
a six-horse load of lumber from, up in
the Blue Mountains, the first to build
the. water works at that city. X took a
boat -at Wallula for Portland, which
stopped over Sunflay at The Dalles',
where I spent the bluest day In all
my life. It was a lovely day and
Mount Hood fhoneno all its glory. My
people had written me about the
noble mountain which thev could see
rfrom their Willamette Valley home and
mey were no doubt looking at It as I
was. I was this near and helpless to
go on. For an hour 1 looked at the
snowy peak as I walked about in
actual distress, then I started toward
it, walking and running over the rocks,
hills and streams until noon, then with
a deep sigh turned about and reluc
tantly retraced my steps, knowing that
the nearest way was by the river. That
Is why I remember so well that It was
Monday when we reached Portland.
I reached Salem on the morning of
the 17th, walking all the way from
Portland, arrlvmg with my pack on
my back a veritable tramp, wearing
one rubber shoe and one boot on the
other foot, the sole whetted off to the
Instep, pants frayed to the knees, a 25
cent shinplaster in my pocket and
otherwise arrayed. It was fair week
at Salem and I felt like "exhibit A."
My people .were there.
Tes. I went back after my best girl
In 18fi8 via Panama. 'and return, going
out of Portland on the rolling steamer
AJax on February 19. breaking the
ice down the Willamette most of the
way to the Columbia. But that Is
another story.
PENSIONS ARE- SHUT OFF
Confederate Veterans Fall to Receive;
Promised Help In Missouri.
JEFFERSON CITY. Mo., Nov. 2. The
answer of Democratic state officials,
when asked If it Is not true that the
state owes the ex-Confederates a large
sum of money in pensions, is to the ef
fect that the state does not owe them
anything, as all the- fund appropriated
for them was paid out more than a
year ago. '
This is true, so far as the money is
concerned, but it Is not true that the
liability of the state has been fulfilled.
The law expressly fixes the pensions of
these men at 10 a month. This act
was passed in 1913 and approved
Governor Major, who Is one of the offi
cials now claiming the state does not
owe these Civil War veterans anything.
Decause mey nave been paid all the
money the Legislature appropriated for
them.
The laws also fix the salaries due
state officials, and pretty nuch all the
employes of the state government, and
mey are oeing paid every month, save
the janitors of the Capitol building.
The statutory obligations are the same
in rejrard ro the old soldiers that it is
to the officials .and clerks.
The old soldiers are even worse off
than the teachers in the state Institu
tions, for the latter have been able to
borrow money or have money borrowed
for them, while the pensioners have no
property of any kind, are old and
wholly incapacitated from making their
own living, and. accordingly, cannot
hypothecate what the state owes thera
at friendly banks.
The members of the Legislature knew
when the appropriation was made that
there were about 1500 of these pension
ers, and they knew an insufficient sum
was appropriated for their sunnort.
Every state official also knew this.
hile these old men must live udoii
charity until a new Legislature appro
priates the money that is due them, the
officials and the clerks and employes of
the otnees -are all getting their money
with remarkable punctuality.
MOTHER'S MURDER CHARGE
Worst IJoy in America" Is Arrested
in New Orleans for Killing.
NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 1. "The worst
boy in America" is what the police call
Willie Zlmmer. 13. who. they charge,
has crowned a record of thefts and
LOOP TRIP ON COLUMBIA THROUGH "THE DIVIDE"
OF CASCADES HELD MOST WONDERFUL IN AMERICA
Especially Charming Scenes Unfolded From White Salmon's "Hood View Road Both Sides of River, From Port
land, Hood River, White 'Salmon and Vancouver, Provide Incomparable Views.
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BY C. C. HUTCHIXS.
Secretary White Salmon Commercial
Club.
LIKE the setting- of some grand
nature stage is this charming
scene . through "The Divide" of
the Cascade Range, as viewed from
White Salmon's macadamized "Hood
View Road;." On the edge of the bluff
In the foreground Is the Eyrie resort;
the high peak at the extreme left Is
Mount Defiance, on the west line of
the Hood River Valley; Oregon on the
left and Washington on the right; the
Columbia River Highway skirts the
Oregon shore, and the State' Highway
from Vancouver to White Salmon, the
Washington shore; the Oregon-Waan-
$500,000 BEET SUGAR FACTORY AT GRANTS PASS
. TO MAKE INITIAL RUN THIS FALL AND WINTER
.Utah-Idaho Company Establishes Rigid Rules of Cleanliness of Plant and Will Open Operation With an Abundant
Supply of Raw Material on Hand at the Start Farmers Rally to Industry.
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HE new J 500,000 beet sugar factory
constructed at Grants Pass by the
."tah-Idaho Sugar Cpmpany will
make its first season's rfcn this Fall
and Winter. , With a. large quantity
of the raw product available, the sea
son promises to be a successful one for
the opening of the new Industry there,
the factory having the active support
of a large percentage of the farmers
of that section.
It is anticipated that the factoVy
will prove a great asset for the devel
opment of the Grants Pass section and
will in a measure revolutionize farm
ing there by the substitution of a more
Intensive agriculture. The interest
which the fartrtcrs of that section take
In the factory is shown by the fact
that 5000 acres of beets were signed
up. thereby being assured as available
to produce raw material before definite
announcement was .made late in Jan
uary of this year that the plant would
be erected.
A feature of the new plant will be
its cleanliness. No effort will be
spared, according to the announcement
of the management, to make the prod
uct of the factory as clean and pure as
possible.
After the installation the machinery
of the plant was run in water to make
it absolutely clean. Through the use ot
improved machinery the output of the
factory at no stage Is touched by an
employe.
Rules practically as rigid as those
governing in a hospital with reference
to cleanliness have been drawn up for
the government of the factory. This
even applies to employes, who must
meet pretty rigid conditions. Each mar.
who works In the factory must drena
In white, with white cap and canvas
shoes. The use of tobacco In any form
Is prohibited.
Sanitary drinking fountains are In
stalled throughout the factory, the
water being supplied from a well sunk
cruelties with the murder of his moth
er. Mrs. Mary Zlmmer. 35.
Science Is trying to decide whether
Willie is sane or if his criminal tend
encies are caused by clots on his brain.
If alienists and surgeons who have the
boy under observation decide his brain
Is abnormal they will-operate to change
his nature.
Personally, the boy called "the worst
in America" is displaying little interest
in what the authorities are doing about
his case. He maintains sullen silence,
and if he realizes the enormity of the
crime with which he is charged and
which left his two little sisters and
baby brother motherless, he gives no
sign. Lack of parental discipline, the
police charge, resulted In Willie be
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ington Railway and Navigation Rail
way on the Oregon side of the river,
with the North Bank Line on the
Washington side..
This loop trip. Portland to Hood
River, auto ferry. White Salmon to
Vancouver and Columbia River Inter
state Bridge to PortLand, when com
pleted, a comfortable one-day run of
some 150 miles, will rival any sceniC
stretch of its length in the world.
Many are the delightful side trips,
of great scenic interest and over good
roads, diverging from these two high
ways. Several days or weeks may be
passed within this radius of a few
miles by not only our guests and the
tourist, but by our own people, who
themselves have but little conception
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on the premises. The same well has
been fitted to supjTly water for wa.h-
coming unruly. At the age of 8 he
made his first appearance in the Ju
venile Court as "an incorrigible with
out proper parental care."
When 10 years of ace he was
charged with stealing a cow.
Last year he was arrested for run
ning away from home. Now he faces
a charge that he shot and killed his
mother, then turned the gun on Mrs.
Katie Gallagher because she interfered.
A report of the Society for Prevention
of Cruelty to Children charges that at
the age of 7 Willie "cursed" like a
trooper, drowned the neighbors chick
ens, twisted cats' tails, set fire to the
house several times and tried f.o put
his little sister in the stove.
Mary Zlmmer. the boy's mother, sep-
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of the points of interest centered in
the mountains, foothills and valleys so
close at hand.
Surely the time Is ripe to commer
cialize this scenic belt, to let the tour
ists of this country know what Port
land and this Columbia River section
has to offer. in "seeing America first."
The best missionaries we can send
out are those who drink in the atmos
phere and scenery of our beautiful
country, and return home filled with
genuine enthusiasm imparted to their
friends. Each season wil) see added
thousands coming, this way. and a fair
percentage eventuallj- will become resi
dents and taxpayers.- thus sharing In
the bonded coat of these great highways.
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1 lng the sugar, in order to Insure no
contamination from impure water.
arnted from hr husband three days
before phe was kiilfl, eharpinf? ho mis
treated her. Willie says, accord inp to
the police, that the pun with which his
mother was phot exploded accidentally
CO-EDS FAVOR MATRIMONY
Majority of College Women Wed, but
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They Show Caution.
BERKELEY, Cal.. Nov. 1. More col
lege women marry than do others, al
though they are more deliberate about
it, is the conclusion of A. Price, a
university statistician, who has Just
finished catalopuinir graduates of the
University of California.
According to Vv ice's stat istieff, com
piled from the vital statistics of 10.249
ulumni, 5$ per cent of all women over
15 years old are married. Women grad
uates of the university beat that aver
age by six-tenths of 1 per cent.
Price sees a tendency for collepe
women to wed men out of the univer
sity. Three times as many women
srraduate have married men who do not
hold fleprees as have married university
graduates.
The occupations of women praduates
show that teaching is the only activity,
that can compete with matrimony. On1
out of every two women praduaten I
destined for matrimony and one out of
every three for pedaposy.
CAPITAL MAN TAKES BRIDE
! WnUerson Slcalcy, Newspaper Man,
Wins Hand of New York Kofidcnt.
HAIiTFOHP. Conn.. Ort. IS. In t
Fa ill's Lutheran Chinch. tho Rev.
Charles K. Blethcu officiating. Miss
Margaret Louise Haas, of Lancaster.
Pa., was married to Watterson Stealy.
of Vushinsion. t. C. Miss Haas is a
sister of John G. Haas. Jr.. the attor
ney of tho Travelers' I-lie Insurance
Company, of this city, and a dauphter
of the late John (J. Haas, of New York
and Laneasw-r.
Mr. Stealey since l?nn has been en
Rased in newspaper work in Washing
ton, representinc Southern newspapers.
For several years he did financial work
for local and out-of-town newspapers.
Since the advent of the Wilson Admin
istration he has been with the Depart
ment of Commerce and Federal Trade
Commission, reslirninir his Government
connection last month.
Mr. and Mrs. Stealey left for N
York. and after spending several Tays
there will sail for Havana. Cuba. They
will be in Florida and the truif coast
of Mississippi most of the Winter.
ESTATE LEFT TO TWO SONS
Capital Woman's Kiclics Total
$100,000, Act-orcliiipr to Will.
NEW YORK, Oct. IS. Mrs. Julia Do
lores de Vado. who died on September
12 in Washington. I. C. leaving an
estate said to be worth $100,000. left
her property principally to her two
sons by her will, tiled here.
Dr. ignacto de Vado Johnson, son.
of Vera Cruz. Mexico, receives the old
familv place at i-an Juan Battlsta. Ta
basco, Mexico. tjustav Reginald de
Vado. Judicially declared incompetent,
and now in Stamford. Conn., receives
one-half of the income from the resi
due for life.
Other legatees are Mrs. Fannie E. D.
Story, of 322 West One Hundred and
sixth street, and her son. Harold V.
Story, who are named as executors, and
two grandchildren.
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