SUNDAY MORNING. "MARCH 21, 915 TRIPLETS BORN TO A CLATSKANIE'S CURRY COUNTY, NATURAL RESOURCES, PWELjLS IN ISOLATIO RICH N SCENERY AND SQUAWFSNOWBOUND PAYS A NTAI TO HIGHWAY ENGINEER Says Personal Inspection of Columbia Highway Con " vinced Work Well" Done. ONLY FEW MAKE NOISE Three Youngsters Arrive on Crest of'Storm That Keeps Mother a Prisoner. TWO OF THE THREE LIVE Tr.ppr ArrlTea la Tim to Save tha Xlttl Family rrom Prob able Starvation. In x,ttr to Olcott He Urges Stat Control .of Big- Artery of Travel. ?' THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. MAYOR COMPLIMENT MOUNTAIN CABIN f. : ' "-I-1- hi ' ' -r! Js-Jpl :- : : r 1 . M- - ft i' i ' 5 : :! (S?al-m Bureau of Tin Journal.) Salem, Or., March 2ft. W. A. Hall, mayor of Clatskanie ad former rep- " resentative, in the legislature, pays Major Howlbv, state highway engineer, and the state highway commission a fltie' compliment in u. letter to Seere- t'taty of State Olcott in which he com mend the work donej In Columbia . county highly, tie nays that he has been over the highway in .Columbia county and found it beyond his expec- F Slainr Hnwlbt. he declares. n,..-!. 11 a v Picturesque Section of State Abounds in Fish and ; Game, Too. R. ' bug doner a. good piece I of ;V Th following la the letter received j hlyy Secretary of State Olcott: , "ISeing personally acquainted with yon, 1 am taking tlie lSherty to write ;' you u line to kIiow our appreciation of ,: your work, the highway commission's, ' in onr runnly. Ah liiavor of the town ' of Clntskanie the business men and j other citizens have asked me to write i you mid the other-members of the com 1 mission.; Few Make Noise. f - "There has been so much noise by a .few in the upper 'end of the county that style themselves the Taxpayers' 'league, also ' a recalled county Judge), .. and the Consolidated Contract com- j: pany, that we want to inform you that - we have taken the trouble to so over , the Columbia highway lat-di yea 11$ 'prior tb five years ago. past) th "W Mr, to drui couri at yet. and state, is a lonmer been the N - I I j' i t X' 1- j- s ' r t 't'l 'JA s' h i-.-.'-.sr t -. J I for several I I S rfA4' iJtWS' ""l,- -i ' i-v. , V1' r5 Ill - " M i m t 1 i - 1 i i n t i i 1 By Fred Lockley. E. KNOFIR bf Gold Beach Is In rortlanlj. on! business. Mr. Kworr resident of Portland, I proprietor of Port- H eights Pharmacy Uwo yeairs it". Ktiorr has been, in trug IxiMuessi in lold Beach. to Jlarshfield, said iked around a. bit and found there was no the whole of Curry ty; so I) decided to establish one hen T ent norr, "j. looj titiy surprise ire in ijiioneera Curry cbupty Although 4tils one of the richest most bjeautlful counties In the on account ; of Its isolation, we have a populitionj of probably not more than 3000 people. : Tlhere are jthree ways In whlca peo ple jijsually o to Curry county. You can! go by tlie steamer Breakwater to , , , i MarNhfield, fiiira tliere bv rail and boat and found it , , , . . : . , , M lieyond our expectations. Major Bowl by has . done a good t'U-ce of work. "The. people that are making the noise have never een a foot of tlie work." Harris, of course, has, but he -thinks if he can get Major Bowlby's Tscaip he will vindicate: himself in the j'(;s of the people. Building 38 miles of road, through ,a moamtainous coun try, practically a new road all tlie way .i. ..r,.i h'ov. tin n..n ... .r JWe4t Fork alnd ... ,... ,.'.., k .. : .I, . i tainj itrail on niul iiic tuiiiiiiinntuii ij oitiiu uiiii mc nicy will see their way clear to add enough -to finish it. This will always be one of the great highways of the state ; and should be under state control. Wo neeu me roau openea inrougn neiore ;i : hard surfacing will be of any advan- i . tage to us. ! Court la Excited. j . . "Otir new cpunty court has been "a little excited lately but we sat on them .and they are back to normal again, j . They are very anxious ; to get the road . ocned this Hummer and we have con fidence in the commission that they w.ijl open it. Major Bowlhy considers it'-75 per cent done, aiid we consider the work was done verjy resasonably. It was a little larger Job than we antlci--pated. When we think, that Multnomah (pent $60d,Q00 on 20 rpiles and ours Is "lmot twice as long we feel like con gratulating ourselves, i "Beliij? a sparsely se)ltled county and, , liavlng exerted ourselves to (about the limit ,wo feel that we are entitled to consideration by the highway commis sion. ' I wish the commission could come down and take a jaunt over the 'road. Whenever the road is opened so :lt can be-traveled you; will not be able "'.to fitid a knocker. You well know that a knocker can make more show than -100 satisfied meft. "We have been trying out county courts for 20 years and have had . enough of their roa"a e building. Of . course, th-e ' courts alii think they can build roads and like to handle the money and are insulted if we say they ; cannot." ' i to lindon anft from Bandon you can go : southward 61 iniles by r.tage to Gold Reach, passing through Langlois and 'PoriiOrfnrd i Between Port Orfo.-d and Wedderburn you top for dinner at the ! Arisona inn. it is run oy f . e . ijruini, an old railroad main. It is almost worth goirjj to Curry cpunty to get one of bin iTheals. ; "you can also jget to Gold Beach by trajin to ing over the tnoun- back. Tlie western ALFRED JOHNSON HAD: VARIED CAREER Pound White Gopher. Dallas, Or.. March 30. Merle Meyer arid Lisle Rice, both young men re siding ' in Dallas, who took the civil service examination about a year ago. Iiave received orders to duty. Meyer will gs to Alfred Scenes '-. i'sa Gmd Beach; Tljie schooner Rustler, which visits Gold merchandise y for the goods to be unloaded from the schooner to a flatboat school at Fort Peck, Mont., to vyork hoihe of hirf 5as a mechanical engineer, while Kice j le" lllarshfieldL body of Alfred coarity lumberman, will be brought to report for ( -ouaiiie, nia name town, ror puriaa. the Indian I !Vlr-l ! Johnson died March 13 at the oiaughter, Mrs. J. dtan- t Sap Rafael, Cal., where he iwent on a vifciit. Two months ago he ! Suffered a Stroke of paralys4S. Jtr. Johnsbn was one of the best known lumbjermeh on the coast. : H was 70 years old and was born ia Stockholm, Sweden. He came to this boy and settled with jChicago. When 13 jaway from home and (seen any of his rel atives. Hd worked in the wooda in Michigan anil was employed at a mill and finally worked his! way up to the position of superin tenklent, which He held for five years Kedmoi d Will Advertise. iiei was sent to the Pacific coast as a Redmond. Or.. March 20 The vt. representative o w. i. Kemmgion. ;.mund Commercial club has raised ono i"J!"s "l if 'Jf , , ralli hnnHrnd .inllars tn hv. th pmnn I vn i o. v uuuenj a-iiu uiners ana district renresentf-.l hv w-rite-ii.-o Dr,ri f was. in cuarge on uie piant. jiigmeen v views in the auto, guide book soon to ef l 8 J. Vame.,10' v-,3 county ana be Issued by the Portland Auto club uuu"- tt iiran fuiu which was aiter- to .Influence tourists om their wnv to "ttf a me umisoii mm. me piaui . ... . . I K.l .goes to Washington, D. C, to take a clerkship in the quartermaster gen-v-ral's department. ' The first white gopher ever seen in 1 this locality has been on exhibition in the window of the Fuller, pharmacy. It " was captured on tb9 Illihee tracts, country wheti a '.west of Dallas.- - his j parents In The City of Dallas plans considera- yetlrs old he rart ble ' street- improvement the comin? i ha4 never since '- spring and summer. Parts of 13 streets li will be Included in the district that ! will be maeadamtzed., No' hard paving at IManistee, Micjh will be put in this year. the exposition to travel via central j Oregon. Construction work has been dajN but 11 f as enlarged and modern- Deguil o.n a moaern ure-proor garage on , Sixth street. The building is to be 60x100, and will be completed in ample time to care for the heavy expo sition travel Which will pass through here during the summer months. The new building Is being built by Fred Atkinson, a local .capitalists, and will be Redmond's third garage. Ponce de Leon failed; His Prize Is Found Dollar, had! a capaq ,. 'Ponca de Leon, the Uaring explorer, searched among the i swamps of Flor ida for the Fountain of .Youth, which th Indians said' would restore' power and make .people young.. He did not find it. i ' Thousands . : of chronic intestinal,! bowel and stomach" sufferers havei written to Geo. 11. Mayt, 154 Whiting street, Chicago, In They haare found It. ; His remedy, com-i posed of healing vegetable oils from: France, has Indeed given them back the health of youth Vhy suffer from Indigestion, gases on the stomach,' fainting spells, tor' pid liver, constipation and all the ' evils of a disordered- stomach -when ' there Is permanent relief here? Mayr's I -0s Wonderful Remedy is sold by leading druggists everywhere with the pos itive understanding ttTat your money 'will be refunded without question or . quibble If ONEt bottle fails to give you - absolute satisfaction- - ,, (Adv.) pariy was put quest of health. ! Cabtain Robert cisico oeing iirusiaee, "Mr. Johnson's wife MCiClintock and Manistee, Mich, Johnson Sr. Or.. March 20. Tha Johnson Sr., Coos ity jof only 45,000 feet a izeL It wals lociated two miles from I Coiuille, the county seat of' Coos I county, and theff was quite a pettle 1 fuent surro4ndiilig it where the em- ', plolyles lived, The plant was1 i burned down A.ugust a, J910. Fr4m the time he bought the I mill until it was burned Mr. Johnson operated steadily, orten at times when thej lumber market was bad and when it ilwas to his (disadvantage, but - he took pride lh always furnishing work for his menJ Tliie burning of the mill was a seveire business blow to Mr Joljnson, as It ;Was not insured and was entirely destroyed. Later, Mr. Johnson bought an Interest in the Randolph mill on the lower Coquille river and this was consolidated with the. Lyons flb Johnson mill, In which hial ?son was! Interested. The comnanv under the consolidation was called the Alfred Johnson Lumber company. On account of tjhe bla.d lumber market, fol lowing the lossj H occasioned by the DUfhing of (ho liandoph mill, the com- under a trusteeship. Dollar of San Fran- was- Georgiana he was married at Mrs. Johnson died in I9J0, only a month after the Johnson mill burned. Seven children survive. Thfey are 3.1 fs. IX L. Albert of Oakland, Cal.; sheriff Alfred Johnson Jr.. of county; E. , E. Johnson, owner of I the COQhille i Hill & Mercantile company plant: C. McC. Johnson, own- er jor tije siingie mill at Bandon; Mrs. Thomas Men I and Mrs. Cal Slagle, both; of Bandon,: and Mrs. J. Stanley l Dollar of San Rafael, Cal. terminlus of the mule bacik trip is at Jake Pry's at lllahe. Krofn Illahe you go to jlgness postoffice, wilch supplies that wjhole hiountain section with mail. At Agrhess you take Captain Lowrey's launchj Ma for a S2-mie trip down the riyer t Gold BeaeJi or VV edijterDurn. "If a Portland man wants toj bet into Curry county with his auto, he drives down j thrbngh the WUlaiiiittj and ITmpqua valleys to Granti Pafet). From there he strikes southwepkerljt ! for 105 miles to Crescent City iti California. You cross Ithe mountains at ! an alti tude (if aUtiut 3500 feet, knd Ithe road is fairty gpod in summer. Frpm: there you go nojrth for 72 miles to Harbor, passing through the Smith's ; rlvr country", whiit'h is a. great lairy district. You cross jthe Oregon line at Wind chuck j rivtf. At Harbor there ;ls an unique slopping place called the "Ant ler's Inn. It is fitted u i in hunting lodge" styl ?! built of peeled ljops, and located on (the edge of the bluff, from which you (fan see a vast i tretch of the Pacific ocan and also a ?ooJ jview of the Chetc river. From Harbor, it is 42 miles to Gold BeachJ You cross the Cjietcb river on a ferry; but a bridge: is! being built by thi j county, whichfwil be completed I y. September. "Gold Bjeiach is largel-y Idependent on Captajn Tleter Olsen ajid his two gas oline schooners Rustler and IRoamer for all of Its freight and supplies. I believe th it Captain Olsen supplies a larger! territory than any other one man. He ltiot only bring! i In i our gro ceries,! fuitniture and similar j supplies. but he brings in the cannery Supplies and takes bbt out, output cjf canned sal mon, mild pured salmon, ind ;our wooi crop. iWijlji the wool he makes direct traps' froni Gold Beach to San Fran cisco, j Hej also makes direct trips to Astoria with the salmon output. : We pay ai freight, rate of $7 a ton from either -Sanj Francisco or Fortland. We pay arat4 of $5 a ton from Cbos; Bay to Gojd ijj'jach. Captain Olen picks up mst tof his cargo ait Mdrfchfield during th,J winter. One r;asonJ for the higheis ratfc is the 'rough w jath'ek during the winter! and the greater risk. Olsen is conSidek-td one of the est bar cap tains ion i-pe coast, and he can Cross the tar when it would be.dangerous for less experienced men to t 'y lt.j Ziumber land Wool Chief Industries. "Wei hae a cannery at Wedderburn. It is jthe I bid Hume cannery that Is now owned by the Macles.y estate. It is runj undir the name of the) Wedder burn Tra tliing company. 'Ve also have a cheese Caictory at Wedd ;rburn and a creamery at Eucher Creel:. Brookings Mill will fcoon be in operition, and at Port Orfojrd we have a shingle mill. Our pflncral exports at present, how ever, are pjur wool and tips. t We ship about 200 jons of wool annually from the Roguej -iver district. "I uppose there is n t a. district in theiUniked States todaj where game and fish ire as plentiful as in Curry county; peer, bear, cougirs land wild cat are abundant, and, the Rogue river furnishes possibly the best iishing anywhere on the coast. To Ithe rnau wlio ebjoys trout fishing. Curry county is a revelation. North ol Port Orford the Sixes river and Coqulle river are both fine' trout streams. Brush's creek, at jthe foot of Mo jnt Humbug, toussei creek and Euchre reek are also fine. trou streams. Soath o' Gold Beach! there are several other splen did .streams, the principal ones of Which! are Meyer's creek, Pistol river, Chetci$ ar)d Windchuck, Tjjie tribu- "77" i i Grip, Influenza, Coughs, Sore Throat ! I hi . : I ' ' Sta are tartes,of the Rogue river and j the illli nois river are also full of trout. "One of the gainful occupations prac ticed in Curry county that Is rither un usual is the catching of seal j and sea iions oil th Rogue river reef, !Pcrt; Or ford reef and Cape Blanco reef. Louis Forty,- an unique character, makes his living by hunting sea lion's. He gets a $3 bounty for killing them. Frlom their carcass- he gets from $15 to $20. j Us ually a fat sea lion will . produce 1 two barrels, of oil, ar.d its hide will bring a few dollars. Pocketbooks and other novelties are made from sea ljon hide. Certain other parts of the slea - lion's carcass are shipped to China and bring a high price. They are considered of great medical value by the Chinese. "In1 time to come Curry county wni be considered one of the trjips that tourists cannot afford to mips. The scenery near Arch Rock and between that point and Cape Sebastian Is par ticularly impressive. From port Or ford to Mount Humbug the coast scen ery is rugged and picturesque. Arch Rock is a mile and three-quarters off Beach frequently; and Gold thence to a wagon Boitoniji The Rogue river as seen from the Gbld Beach hills. Beach merchants i from The Roamer. .j In the absence of docking facilities it is shone, jt Is a solidary pinnacUp that 8tankJs uf with deep;! water all around it. It ".i'ill tak- 300 feet of line for fibd bottom anywheres around Arch Rojck. The arch Is) large enpi gh ior a tsmall steamer to go through -jyhen tie sea is smooth; bit whei a tirinter alejls ori, the arch lis a se ;thir g cauldron, and the sea. lashe-l to furyi by the sou tbwtestern wind, throws tpe spray clear over .the jjock. Places of Historic Interest I "Lobster Rockj, at jthe rnouth ojC Lob ster cree 'it, where it I empties into the Rogue Hver, ii another picturesque point. It is also an historic point, for here .th settlers waylaid the Rogue River Iridians vtho were coming down the rive to attack tiem, and flreld Into thei- oinoee, killing and wovnding mos L of jtjhem. Tjiosei who tried to swim asht re wre killed, and only one jsquaw escaDed. Lobstier mountain, riearby. riset to 4 height of 1 1 400 feet. pn top of trie mbuntainj is the ranch ofi B. R. Milltr. A winding trail takes you up to the suimmit, ifroml whijeh you get a driven into the shallow -jvateifs of the" stf earn ;i Curry county courtbduse at wonderful view of canyon. "Our mineral wealth Js practically undeveloped. We have topper, i goli. and platinum, but until we get betted transportation very little wilr beldonei alonsr the development of our mineral resources. Sixty years ago they werj working- the black sands of C-urryi countyfor the fine gold land platinunl they contain. We have extensive forests of fii. spruce and cedar alonjg the Rogue river. One thing that is holding- us back ljs our poor mail service). Portland news papers are four or fve days old wheti they reach Gold Beach or';WedJerbun. Last year we had a fairlyj satisfactory mail service. The mail came into :West Fork by Southern pacific train.! over! the mountains by pack horses! andj canoes, and thence ,32j miles by pasollrie launch to Gold Beafch. j By this seif-j vice, we got a Monday paper on fWed4 nesday; but the government abolished the whole route recjentlyj The route has been reestablished, however, as far as Agness, leaving a 32 j pile gap bei the DRogue rive t ween i Agness .and Gold Beach unpro vided for. ';I suppose it is an bver- sisht, .but it is certainly a most an noying one. I The settlers in the Pistol old Beach Some of miles way Gold harf. i Ancient CostomeJ . From the Kansas City Journal. - "Aj-e you golna; to the fancy dress Dall7"j-: i : . ; "Oh, yes. i "In i what garb ? "I shall -wear one of the Quaint old costumes of 1905." river section have, to go to G or Brookings foV their mail. them have to go more "than 20 to.getithelr'imaii. ,That is a poor tc encourage settlers. - "Another thing that Is huiting Beach is the fact we have ho w The schooner runs as close to the shore as it can, unloads on a scoW. and the teams, have to pull out into Ithe Water to the side of the scow to be loaded. Some day I Curry county will have transportation, and then one ofj .the richest and most picturesque sections of the! state will be opened up. (Rrell to ,Th Ji.urniil.l Silver Kake. Or.. March 2.0.--Alone and snowbound in a cabin in the wood ed foothills to.. the' - west of Kyoan marsh, Mary, a Klamath squaw, be came the mother of triplets lust Jan uary. The story of this motherhood in th-e .wilderness has just been brought to the settled country by Fred I.a Roche, a trapper, who punned the win ter in the wilds of the Sycan country, and who assisted the squaw and her two surviving youriKsters to return to the Klamath reservation. Oneif the babies, a girl, , died soon after birth, and was burled beside the cabin . in which she- was born.' Th other papooses, a boy and girl, are tiealtby, thriving youngsters. Mary was one of a party 'of Klamath Indians who Journeyed' last De.-eniher to the Sycan. marsh tin a hunting ex pedition. Following the atu lent cus tom of Indian wives. Just before the expected arrival of an heir, j she de serted the other hunters, carried a store of food end wood' to a -Merted cabin in the pine forest, and there awaited the visit of the stork. Mean while, a storm had driven Mary's com panions back to the reservation. Then came a season of snow, "'which lasted for more than a week and , almoat burled the cabin in which the squaw awaited the big event. When Mr. lv Roche - and - another trapper found , the-, maternity cabin Mary's cupboard was bare. The squaw had been hungry for two da vs.- The trappers supplied provisions, and, after the snow rrusted they conveyed Mary and her two surviving Infants on it, sled back to the Klamath reservation. I.uiie Is New Lake " , Hecmlston. Or., March 20. Tlio lake formed In the I'matllla river by the construction of the 'diversion dam to store water for the Went Umatilla project has been named . l-ake Lane, in honor of Secretary of InrVrior Franklin K. Lane. The newly organ iled, Hermlston Outing club ha leased three, or four acres adjoining the lake arid has planted trees and made other Improvement with the idea of having a resort for the pleas ure of the club members and ; their friends. Bath houses will be erected lp -the near future and many boats hnvn al ready been launched on the new lake. The Hermlston Commercial i-1u1l Is also planning' on leasing spvernl acre with the purpose of making a public swimming pool. MBITIOUS kept neat arid dressed art in our homes are cook, wash, iron, dust, mend and te and aimed The Federal, the the Municipal Laws, to protect the people against Narcotics and habit forming drugs ".-. Most I Cough and tures depend upon Niarcptics for their soothing effects , Dr. Humphrey's seven" for Colds and exception and only doesj good not harm, i Pleasant to take, carry, fits jthe vest pocket. 25e ind 1.00. at alf druggfsU or' mailed eventy- Grip! is the handy to Humphreys' Hum. (Street, J Romeo. MedidSe Co., I50 WU- i lN'ew York. , i' ' 'I"! -Is - ' ' 1 ... .... .. : :. ' i ' ' ' I ' ,j i . that their ihohiei shall be Tfrr- VT .UW II attractive, children well TW. -V'. 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