Editorial Page-Washington Co. News. J . F. W O ODS, Editor. IT S SIMPLE ENOUGH Published Every Thursday by the Washing- sure at the time that he came so near ton County Publishing Co. Incorporated discovering a great river. Two Amer- at Forest Grove, Oregon ican vessel:” the C olum bia R e d iviva - | Captain John Kendrick, and the Lady Washington, Captain Robert Gray, CITY O PPIC IA L - PAPER sailed from Boston September 30, 1787 with cargoes of goods for the $1.00 a Year in Advance. Indians. They rounded the Horn and sailed up the Pacific coast to Nootka Entered at the post-office at Forest | sound, their object being to engage in Grove, Oregon, as second class the fur trade of the great Northwest. mail matter. The two vessels, however, were sepa Address all communications to Wash rated by a storm soon after passing Cape Horn, and the Lady Washington reach ington County Pub. Co., ed the Oregon coast in August, where, Forest Grove, Ore. near the 46th parrallel, Captain Gray If the NEWS fails to reach its subscrib ran his ship aground in attempting to ers or is late, we request that immedi. enter an arm of the sea which he had ate attention may be called to the same. already explored in small boats for some miles, and which he believed to THURSDAY, JUNE 22, 1905 be the stream then vaguely known as the River of the West— now the Col The ship was attacked by THE editor of the Salem Journal umbia. Indians and one seaman was killed and announces that he is not a candidate the mate was wounded. This attack for any office.— Roseburg Plaindealer. caused the ship to put out to sea again. That’ s the first thing a candidate does. Historians differ as to whether Gray The Salem Journal was one of our in actually visited the mouth of the Col dicted Binger’ s mainstays. umbia on this voyage. Greenhow holds that the fight with the Indians LAST night’ s program closed the took place in the Columbia, but Ban year’ s graduation exercises of Pacific croft is inclined to believe that it was University, and besides turning out Tillamook Bay. The Columbia and nine bright, new scholars, the school the Lady Washington both anchored has maintained its usual high standard in Nootka Sound until the next spring, of excellence. Pacific University has returning to Boston, August 10, 1790. a reputation that might well be envied ADVENTUROUS NAVIGATORS by the majority of institutions of learn It should be remembered that at ing on the coast. Her laurels are this time there were many adventur many fold and far reaching. ous navigators who were eager to dis cover the mouth of the great river of THE Pennsylvania railroad, in run the West. They believed it to be the ning its trains from New York to Chi Pacific end of a mythical “ northwest cago in 18 hours, has set a new record passage” extending across the conti for fast traveling in the United States. nent from Hudson’ s Bay. Many years If such fast time can be made between before, the British government had Chicago and New York it will be b u t! offered a prize of 20,000 pounds to the a shcrt time until Western roads will navigator who would discover this pas put on faster trains, and there is a pos sage, which for a century had been sibility that a trip from New York to | supposed to exist. The Hudson Bay Portland will consume but three days company, which held the Crown’ s instead of five. __________________ charter granting it exclusive right to trade in the whole of interior and West- HlLLSBORO is very much agitated ern North America above the Spanish over the Wm Reid railroad proposals p0ssessj0ns discouraged any attempts which he is now offering that city, j to find this passage from the Hudson The anxiety of the railroad company ^ay and the navigators made which he is said to represent, in hufry- search for it on the Pacific coast. ing to begin work, is very much like Captain James Cook, the most other railroad propositions. As a rule famous British navigator of his time, they can never begin work quick had sailed only 80 days after the decla enough. There is always much slow ration of American Independence, in the ness on the part of the giver of the hope of discovering the imaginary right of way, and it is always his fault passage. On the 18th of January, that there is so much delay. But usu 1778, he discovered the Hawaiian ally railroad companies are not modest Islands, which he named the Sandwich in their demands; this one, however, islands in honor of the first lord of only wants to go to Banks— nine or admirality. Resuming his eastward ten miles in the country. Perhaps course, Captain Cook encountered the that’ s far enough for this road. coast of * New Albion,” otherwise You or anybody else who knows the intrinsic value of goods know at a glance that the prices we are offering are much below what is usually regarded as the standard, but the best possible appreciation of these values can only be obtained by a personal visit to our store— so we expect to see you next week. It’s Really Unnecessary T o Say A n y thing about the prices and values we quote— they speak for themselves. But to make our invitation more emphatic, we want to say just this— there isn't an article that we sell which does not mean a material saving to your pocketbook, so be sure to come— if you don’ t buy we’ll be just as good friends as ever. Your Summer Sui6 Is Ready It fits you too,— if you buy it well long after you bought it, over these suits and drop in like them well enough to buy It’s Easy To Order By Mail But when the goods don’t com e up to expectations you are in trouble, nobody to come back at. W hen you buy goods from us you pay when you get your goods «nd if they are not right we always make it right. You Can’t Buy Such Shoes As These COPYRIGHTED BY U. CAPPA ¿ SONA LTD. hf.TTfR public ownership of “ public utilities,” a euphonious title for street railways, gas and electric plants, and other things, becomes a fact, private ambition to do and dare will be destroyed. Had the govern ment been the owner of our great rail ways in the United States, does any one believe that the comfort which one can have thereon today would have been possible? The government when it becomes the owner, must not recog nize, nor can it recognize, classes or the demands of men whose wants differ from the wants of their fellows. The Pullman car, the high-gTade diner, do not belong to a government owned and operated railway. The govern ment would s;y that the rights of every citizen demanded equal comforts. The fact that one is willing to pay more than the other should not be allowed to enter into the government’ s scheme of management. man. Underwear and Hosiery— J Summer Weights m ÿ The underwear is the extremely light weight— enought to take up the perspiration and to keep you from catching cold— cool enough to keep you comfortable. A ny style and shape and size you want. Hosiery— black, tan, white— plain or fancy— double wearing parts. Prices, well we’re not claiming too much when we say that they’ re the best we’ ve ever sold. 1 owners of his vessel. Men’s Summer Furnishings Best line we’ ve ever shown. More style and H | better material— smaller prices too. N egligee ■ * = 60 Y E A R S ’ 13 years later, shirts, gave the belts, United ties, States bathing Cheap Sunday Rates Between Forest suits— anything E X P E R IE N C E Grove and Portland. its claim upon you the can Oregon country, think of. and by the treaty of 1846 added 307,- 000 square miles of opulent territory to our domain. T Gasoline Wood rade D Forest Grove Saw J. E. PATTON, Proprietor WOOD SAWED ON SHORT NOTICE Dry Fir and Ash Wood for Sale Leave orders at News office Phone 583 -j Many Indians ------------------------------------------------ — surrounded his vessel, rowing out in their big dugout canoes. Gray warned them to keep off, but they advanced, which he named Deception bay,” and he opened fire on them. It is but which undoubtedly was the mouth this incident which George Davidson of the Columbia. Meares, however, has illustrated in his curious drawing, did not discover that it was a river and which gives a most remarkable render Salem States- saiied away. Had he made the dis- ing of the heights and headlands at the R . I N 1X O I N , D e n t i s t Forest Grove, Oregon M arks is io n s C o p y r ig h t s A c . A n vo n e s«n<11ng n sketch nnd description may nulckly itscertiiin onr opinion free whetlier an invention fa probably patentable, Coniniunlcn. tlonastrtctly confidential. HANDBOOK o n Patent sent free. Oldest agency for securing patent*. Patents taken through M unn A Co. reeelv tp rcial n o tic e , w ithou t c harge. In the Scientific American. A hand som ely Illustrated w eekly. Largest cir culation o f any scientific Journal. T e rm *, fit a year , fou r mont hs. |L Sold by all newsdealers. MUNN &Co.36,B"*d~’ New York Branch Office. 026 K Bt., W ash in gton , I>. C. Low round-trip rates have been placed in effect between Portland and Forest Grove, in either direction. Tickets will be sold Saturday after noons and Sundays, limited to re turn on or before the following Mon day. Rate of *1.05 round trip. Call on Southern Pacific’ s agents for par ticulars. Local Time Table Trains on the Southern Pacific arrive and depart on the following schedule: GOING SOUTH No. 2 ____9 A. M. No. 4 ____ 6:21 P. M. GOING NORTH — Highest price paid for wool and No. 3 . . . 6 : 5 9 A . M . No. 1 ____ 4 :1 6 P M Mohair, at J. E. Bailey, Forest Grove. N . L . A T K IN S , A g t . Three door* north of Bailey’* «tore, hours from 9 A. M. to 4 P. M. J. N. Hoffman ATTORNEY AT LAW On the 11th of May, the Columbia safely Office in Front Rooms of Abbott Build ing, Upstairs. j crossed the bar and entered at last the - - OREGON mighty river, upon which Captain FOREST GROVE, Gray bestowed the name of his ship. He cast anchor 10 miles up the river, S E A R S & W A T K IN S and a few days later he proceeded 15 -Proprietor of— claim to what is known as the Oregon pacifjc aKajn on the 28th of September, miles farther up the Columbia, got in , .T h « l a n d i n g l i a r h c r S h o p , country” out of which the states of 1790, this time in command of the to the shoal water by missing the Oregon, Washington and Idaho and ship Columbia Rediviva. Gray reached Up-to-date Hair-cutting and channel and then dropped down to parts of Montana and Wyoming have Vancouver island the next June. Shaving. Laundry agency. anchor again near the mouth. been carved. About the same time Captain George P u rest O ravi Not long afterwards Captain Vancou V I « I n S t r e e t , SAILED IN 1 7 8 7 . Vancouver of the British royal navy, ver also sailed up the river, being con Nearly two years before George began a series of voyages up and vinced by this time that it really was Washington was inaugurated as the first down the Pacific coast, for purposes of the river of the west, of which the In April, 1792, he Indians had told. president of the United States. Captain exploration. LAWYER Robert Gray started upon a voyage on reached “ Deception bay” and made Captain Gray’ s discovery of the Real Estate and Corpo- OFFICE over which he visited the Pacific coast at some observations, falling in a little Columbia, together with the exploration ration_J^waSpecialt£. Hines' Store. the mouth of the river now named the later with the Columbia a few miles of that river and the interior country' - Oregon Columbia, although he did not make south of the straits of Fuca. Captain by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark Forest Grove, covery, Great Britian might now be the possessor of all the rich territory sur Discovery of the Columbia. rounding and including the Lewis and The discovery of the Columbia by Clark exposition site. an American navigator was of high im But Captain Gray remained only six portance. inasmuch as it furnished the weeks in Boston after returning from United States its original basis of his first voyage, starting for the north |g| . / * 11 \ ¡ m || * 23* Main Street, Eorest Grove, Oregon Oregon, near the 44th parallel, far south of the Columbia. Severe storms drove him far out to sea and he did not reach land again until he was 2 Gray freely informed the Briton as to degrees north of the mouth of the his own observation, but Vancouver Columbia. declined to believe in the existance of THE NEW COUNTRY the river of the west. Once more Cook returned to England after four Great Britian sailed away from an im years of voyaging, and the accounts of portant discovery of great importance. his expedition aroused great interest, I SAILED SOUTHWARD Great Britian being eager to annex the new country on the Pacific. England, Leaving Vancouver in the straits of Russia and France each dispatched Fuca, Captain Gray sailed southward expeditions to explore the region more in the good ship Columbia, and on thoroughly and to share in the fur trade May 7, entered a port which he named of Nootka sound. Captain John Meares, Bullfinch harbor, in honor of one of the a British navigator, sailed in a vessel to engage in the fur trade on his own responsibility, and during his voyage he found an opening in the coast COPYRIGHTED j . CAPPA ASOMA CTO. Anywhere but here for such prices. Plenty of styles to select from, quality uniformly good _____ and fit excellent, comfortable and good wearing. --------- j W herever here, It will fit if you buy it here. Just look to examine the goods— you’ll one. mouth of the Columbia river. DRUGS DRUGS All the Standard Patent Medicines. Toilet Articles, Fine Stationery, Cam era Supplies, Columbia raphophones and Supplies, at right prices. W . H. HOLLIS. D r. H ines , D ru gg ist