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aSlAataajMaaii Nearby Spas Popular in Horse and Buggy Days Top, left: G. M. Geisendorfer's 31-room hotel built at Cascadia in 1898 and razed by the highway department when they ac quired this 360-acre mineral spring site about a decade ago. Left: Improvements now near completion that will make the celebrated mineral springs at Cascadia sanitary and at tractive for public usage. Lower, left: Entrance to Wilhoit springs 30 miles from Salem, a popular spa in horse and buggy times when folks of 50 years ago came to camp for the sum mer and drink to their health. Right: Quaint cottages near 60 years old were built at Wilhoit by the McClerans who ran the resort for nearly 50 years. Wilhoit and Cascadia Still Pleasant Places for Vacation By BEN MAXWELL Wilhoit and Cascadia, local spas within easy driving distance of Salem and well attended by a horse and buggy patronage 40 years ago, have, perhaps, suffered a desline in popularity But the sparkling mineral water abundant there is just as salubrious now as it was in 1910 when Salem folks brought their tents and stayed all summer. Wilhoit, 30 miles from Salem nd between Molalla and Scott's Mills, is in . Clackamas county located on a land claim estab lished by John Wilhoit in 1866. Wilhoit clearly recognized the medicinal qualities of his mineral spring and opened a health re sort with limited accomodations. G. W. Kennedy, pioneer preach er who visited the locality in the late 1860s, mentions that there was a small log cabin near the spring with a rock chimney at one end and a pole bed within pile with brush for sleeping. Game came to the spring to lick the saline deposits. Popularity of Wilhoit is at ' tested by establishment of a post office there in 1882 and a roster of guests patronizing McCleran Brothers' hotel in the middle 1880s reads like a blue book of Salem. A. Bush was there, Til Ford, John G. Wright, the- pion eer merchant; J. D. McCully, T. McF. Patton and many other civic affairs of 65 years ago. August 13, 1895, a highwayman, hoping for ample booty, held up the Salem Wilhoit stage. Paul Hauser recalls that Sa lem cyclists used to ride their bicycles up to Wilhoit and back to Salem in one day and over a road that was neither paved nor pleasant. If the rider took the county road 'to Silverton he pumped through dust inches deep. From Scott's Mills to Wil hoit the rider dismounted and pushed his bike uphill most of the way. Returning he risked his neck coasting down hill on a bike without a brake. On July 15, 1909, F. W. Mt Cleran, who was still running Wilhoit springs hotel, advertised that his soda springs produced the mineral water that cured, Wilhoit water, he asserted, was a positive cure for rheumatism, typhoid fever, dyspepsia, liver kidney and bladder troubles, bil iousness, nervous prostration, ca tarrah, jaundice and female dis turbances. Those who came to stay all summer paid 50 cents week for camping privileges. Cottages rented for $1.50, $2 and $3 a week. Well-to-do folks put up at the hotel where week ly rates were $10 to $12. McCleran, proprietor of Wil hoit springs for about 50 years, died a decade or so ago. Al bert and Mae Schoeborn, pres ent owners of the resort, now comprising 22 Y. acres and two springs, are less emphatic about the therapeutic value of the spring water than McCleran, whose style was not hampered by federal restrictions pertaining to medical advertising. . The Schoeborns say Wilhoit water relieves the appetite for drink and aids most of the afflictions mention by McCleran. In ad dition, Wilhoit mineral salts are represented as a boon to suffer ing women. Medicinal value of Wilhoit waters, says a Schoeborn leaf let, was announced in a German paper between 1884 and 1885. Rev. T. Edward Herman visited the spring, hopeful of relief for rheumatism. Analysis by a Ger man doctor established that Wil hoit water was comparable in composition to the famous Ra- goozi and Tandar springs in Kis-sengen. a Cascadia, about 80 miles from Salem on the south Santiam highway in Linn county, was discovered by "Nigger" Tom Davis, servant of G. W. Gray or Judge B. Waldo (there is some difference of opinion here) in the late 1870s or early 1880s. Tom and a companion were out hunting and chased a deer down Soda creek until the animal took refuge beneath a canopy of fal len logs that covered the site of Cascadia mineral springs. G. M. Geisenuorfer purchased Cascadia in 1895 and the next year some 200 persons who knew about the springs came to set up their tents and camp for the summer. On May 12, 1898, a post office was established there and Geisendorfer in that year built his famous hotel that ulti mately became a, rambling hostel of 31 rooms. In horse and buggy times, four and five decades ago, dozens of balem families went to Cascadia to spend a few weeks or the en tire summer. They camped In the shady grove, drank mineral water with and between meals, fished in the turbulent Santiam and gathered at night to enjoy the hospitality of a community bonfire. Just before the last war Cas cadia was acquired by the state highway department- and incor porated into the state system of highway parks. Geisendorf er's hotel was razed, other de crepit buildings dismantled and a program for development' started. Hostilies prevented im mediate accomplishment. Now Cascadia is being reno vated in a most attractive man ner as a highway park develop ment. Jesse M. Jones is caretak er in charge and he and his as sistants have constructed 63 pic nic tables, five fireplaces and a NeunerWill Oppose Any Move fo Parole Attorney General George Neu ner will oppose any move to pa role Hugh DeAutremont, he said today. Hugh is the youngest of three DeAutremont brothers serving life terms in the state prison for the slaying of three Southern Pa cific trainmen In a mail robbery in Jackson county in 1923. Neuner was prominent in the prosecution of the case against the trio. Last week it was re ported that Hugh had applied for a parole and that the state pa role board had agreed to hear his application. "I will oppose' any applica tion for parole of these broth ers as long as I live," Neuner de clared. "I consider the crime in which these brothers were in volved among the most serious in the criminal annals of the state." urday and Sunday, immediately after the Red Cross outing be ing conducted there is closed. The approximately 120 boys and girls, leaders and members of the camp operating staff will move out shortly after noon Sat urday. The facilities will then be taken over by various com mittee and YMCA staff mem bers and their families for i Planning Conference Set for Next Week-End The Salem YMCA will con duct its annual planning confer ence at Camp Silver Creek Sat- fire ring for collective cooking. Popularity has returned with im provement. On an average Sun day not less than 250 persons visit this state-owned resort of 360 acres. They come as they always did: to drink mineral water, explore new trails and enjoy a pleasant picnic in the spacious and immaculate grove dedicated to this usage. Os West, former governor of Oregon, writing for the Capital Journal of February 18, 1948, points out that by the act of Ore gon's admission to statehood the commonwealth was entitled to all mineral springs within the state not exceeding 12 in num ber with six sections of adjoin ing land upon application for patent. No such an application was made and the delayed ac- quistion and attending costs, West remarks, "offers a sad com mentary on the stupidity, indif ference and lack of vision of certain of our early state of ficials." Acquisition of Cascadia by the state is a belated step in the right direction. Pin-ball Device Main Victim in Inn Burglary Unknown burglars Friday night broke into the Eola Inn, about three miles south of Salem on the Salem-Dallas highway, Sheriff Thomas Hooker reported today. The thieves made off with a 12 gauge shotgun, a rifle, and about $20 in nickels taken from a pinball machine which was considerably damaged in the process of extraction. Deputy Tony Neufeldt is in charge of the case and is report ed - endeavoring to learn the identity of three young men who were reported loitring around the inn earlier Friday evening. They were driving a light-colored sedan. Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Monday, August 21, 1950 15 'Burma Surgeon' Held in Rangoon; No Charges Filed Ragoon, Burma, Aug. 21 W) Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, famed American doctor who has spent a lifetime caring for Burmese sick, is being held on suspision of aiding the Karen rebels, the Burma government has disclosed. Officials said no charges have been placed against Seagrave, Officials said no charges have Bound for Beach This group of Capital Journal carriers prepares to board a chartered bus for an all-day outing at the beach Sunday. Each carrier earned the right to make the trip by selling a prescribed number of subscriptions. conference that will continue through Sunday. The conference will be devot ed to discussing plans for the fall and winter. Accident Victim Dies Oregon City, Aug. 21 W Joe Nathan Pipkins, 40, pedestrian struck by an automobile here a week ago, died yesterday of his injuries. Gladstone police arrested Rufus O. Baker, 32, West Linn, on a charge of failing to stop at the scene of an accident on Mc Laughlin boulevard. jp' , Home It's Terrific" Iced tea, lots of it, six glasses at once in fact, was the first request of Pfc. Don Tilton (above), 18, of El Monte, Calif., a smooth-faced evacuee from the Korean front lines. Tilton, a medical aid man, attached to 35th in fantry, 24th Division, who has been cited for a Silver Star, said that he saw some of his buddies tied to jeeps and burned alive by the Reds. He made the trip from battlefield to a state-side hospital in just 10 days after he was wounded. (Acme Telcphoto) been placed against Seagrave, whose book "Burma Surgeon" made him known to millions. They said he will appear shortly before a Burmese court. He is being held in an undisclosed jail in Rangoon. A Burmese government spokesman said Seagrave is sus pected of aiding the Karen tribesmen, who have been fight ing for two years to set up an independent state. U.S. embassy officials said the 53-year-old surgeon's arrest was serious matter." An embassy spokesman said American offi cials had been permitted to visit the doctor in jail and found him in good health and receiving good treatment." Seagrave will be defended by former Burmese Supreme Court Judge Kyaw Myint. He is i brother of former Foreign Min ister Tin Tut, who was slain in 1948. Kyaw Myint, who was engag ed at Seagrave's request, is ex pected to meet the American doctor today. Seagrave was arrested Friday at his mission hospital at Namk ham, near the China-Burma bor der. He was flown to Rangoon the next day. The doctor accompanied the late Gen. Joseph Stilwell on his famous 1942 jungle retreat through Burma to India. He served as a lieutenant colonel in the medical corps of the U.S, army during the war. His best- selling book told of the heroic trek. The Burmese spokesman said the government suspected Sea grave of aiding Kachin rebel chief, Naw Seng, to flee across the Chinese border, after an al leged attempt by Naw Seng to overthrow the Kachin state gov ernment. Naw Seng's Kachin rebels and the Karens seized the central Burma city of Toungoo last year. Later they were over whelmed by government forces. Naw Seng reportedly is now with the Chinese communists. Aurora Borealis Visible in Eugene Eugene, Aug. 21 (if) The Aurora Borealis, commonly known as "northern lights," were visible in the Lane county area Saturday night according to J. Hugh Pruett, astronomer, extension division of the state higher education system. Pruett said he had seven calls Saturday night and early Sun day morning when the brilliant display had been seen. He indi cated that this is the first time that he had seen the display since January, 1949. Yellowjacket Causes Death Greenburgh, N. 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