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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.
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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.
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, 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. Y., Aug. 21 W)
Poisoning from yellowjacket
stings caused the death of Pa
trolman J. Edward Brunner, 38,
it was announced yesterday
after an autopsy.
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