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Miss Minnie had reached town and mailed her letter and started back again when the storm broke. Before It came she thought she could make out a human figure on the road ahead Woodland, Wash.— Seven men o f a of her, but wasn't sure. The very first gust picked her up log-driving crew o f 13 went to their and turned her around and deposited deaths Friday afternoon in the rain- her under a roadside tree. She re swollen waters o f the North Fork of mained there until the gale began to whip the branches off, and then let go the Lewis river, near the mouth o f Speilei creek, 22 miles above this her hold and ran for It. She hadn't gone a quarter of a mile city, when their skiff was borne by when, as she crouched and covered the turbulent current into an eddy and her face, she was struck by a falling capsized. limb and knew no more. Tumbled into the chill mountain It was the dim sight of the girl and the scream she uttered when hit, that stream, even the few expert swim sent the man who was clinging to the mers among them had little chance. roadside fence back into the highway. Their heavy caulked boots and thick He bent over the unconscious form and picked it up and staggered back to the clothing pulled them down and most o f fence and followed It until he saw a them sank after a few struggles. light and found the gate of a farm O f the six who escaped, two were house. swept by the whirlpool against the His lusty calls for help soon brought sides o f their overturned boat. They out a man, and the senseless burden managed to cling there until the bob was carried into the house and re bing craft was cast against the bank. ceived by a woman. Two others, keeping themselves above “ I don’t know wbo she Is, but I the current, were carried a quarter o f found her in the road.” explained her a mile down stream before they could rescuer. "There is blood on her hair, crawl on the saving gravel. and I think she was struck down.” Two others, unable to swim, by the "W e ’ll do all we can,” replied the merest chance arose near the bank and man and woman together, "but you managed to clutch the branches o f mustn’t look for much. We are mighty overhanging trees, by which they pul poor folks. We hain't got no cam led themselves to land. phor nor whisky, and as for getting a Those who escaped were Gilbert doctor out from town—it can’t be Murk, Justus Murk, Frank Reid and Riley McCarty, foreman o f the crew, done tonight.” The girl was carried into the only all of Woodland, and two others who bedroom and laid on the only bed, and had been working only a few days and when her wet clothing had been re whose names were not contained in moved and she was between the the meager long-distance telephone re sheets, the woman got a cloth and a port o f the disaster. The three Murk boys were brothers. basin of water and washed away the When Gilbert and Justus reached blood and whispered to the stranger; "I don’t think she’s bad hurt. She’s shore, after a fierce struggle in the just fainted away with the scare of It, I freezing waters, it was to find that When she opens her eyes I ’ll tell her Arnold had gone down almost at the to go to sleep, and she'll be all right ■ moment when he might have dragged himself to safety. * in the morning.” "Do you think it’s some young lady P U M P IN G U N I T S P R O P O S E D . from the village?” asked the stranger of the farmer as they talked in whis Extension of Okanogan Irrigation pers in the outer room. Project is Contemplated. “ No, I don’t reckon so. I reckon It’s that new girl that arrived at Turner’s Washington, D. C.— The reclama SEVEN MEN DROWNED BY CAPSIZING OF SMALL BOAT " F o r the sunshine and the rain. F o r the dew and f o r the show er, F o r the y e llo w , ripened g ra in , A n d the g old en harvest h ou r. W e bless Thee, oh, o u r G o d t ' F o r the h eat and the shade. F o r the gladness and the g rie f, fo r the tender, s p ro u tin g blade, A n d f o r the nodding sheaf, I W e bless Thee, oh, o u r G o d ! T o r the hope and f o r the fea r. F o r the s to rm a vd f o r the peace, F o r the tre m b lin g and the cheer, A n d f o r the g la d increase. W e bless Thee, oh, o u r G o d ! "O u r hands have tille d the sod. A n d the torp id seed have sow n; B ut the quickening was o f G od, A n d the pra is e be H is alone. W e bless Thee, oh, o u r G o d ! ” Minnie's tCimniisgtoing; *2 gonald ,MIeu F I was a girl, I wouldn’t go walking too far," said old Uncle Robert, as a girl of twenty passed him on her way down to the gate of the farm house. "And why not?” she asked, as she almost came to a pause. “ Well, according to my idea, it’s go ing to rain and snow and blow and hall, and when the storm does break, she’s going to be a buster.” " I wanted to go to the postoffice to mail a letter.” ‘‘It’B three miles there and back, and if I was you I ’d put It off. Mebbe somebody’ll be passing that you can send by. Tomorrow's Thanksgiving, you know, and we are going to have the awfulest, biggest, nicest dinner anybody ever sat down to. It’s In your honor, you know. There’ll be a turkey, a duck and a chicken; there’ll be cranberry sass, pumpkin pies, cur rant jell, sweet cider and apple dump- lins; there’ll be— ” “ I think I ’ll just walk a little ways, anyhow,” said the girl, as she opened the gate and passed down the high way toward the village and the rail road depot. "And If you come home as wet as a hen don’t say I didn’t warn ye. It’s going to come, and it’s going to be a buster.” H alf an hour later a middle-aged woman with a motherly face and voice came out on the steps and asked; "Pa, do you reckon It’s goin’ to storm?” "Sure as ducks.” "W h ere’s Minnie?” "O, she’s gone for a santer. I give her warning. W hat’s she wantin’ to mail a letter for? I hain’t mailed a letter nor got one In twenty years, and I guess I'm about as well off as must folks. I was going to ask her but forgot It.” "Don’t you ask her a word about it,” cautioned the wife as she came down to him. " I guess Minnie's got something on her mind, but It hain't none o’ your business.” "Something on her mind, eh? That’s funny. Didn't know that girls ever had anything on their minds except new clothes. Is that why she come visiting us all of a sudden?” "None o’ your business! I guess my own sister’s daughter can come and see me any time she takes a no tion, and that without writing ahead. What's on her mind, as nigh as I can make out. Is about a young man. They are engaged, and they've had a falling out, and she's sorter run away from him to find out if he really cares for her." “ And she’s got scared about It and has written him a letter to tell where she Is?” queried the husband. "Go on! It’s probably a letter to her ma, though I didn't see it nor ask. I hope she didn’t start for town. It’s going to storm for sure, and there h&lnY but one house on the road where she could find shelter. Look down the road and see If you can see her.” "Can’t see hide nor hair of any girl," reported tTncle Robert after going out to the highway and taking a long look An hour later, with both uncle and aunt fidgeting about their girl visitor, the gray afternoon had become twi light. In 15 minutes there was cold rain and lively hall, and Unde Rob- art was blown Into the kitchen. P tion service is making an investiga tion o f the feasibility of extending the Okanogan project in Washington by the addition o f two units. Both will be irrigated by pumping. One unit includes 1,100 acres in the present project limits, known as the Robinson flat, and requires a lift o f 180 feet. The other w ill take in lands in the Colville Indian reservation. To perfect this it w ill be necessary to construct a power plant on Salmon R iver and transmit power to the vari ous points from which water will be pumped into canals from the Okano gan river. The feasibility o f the scheme de pends upon the cost and in some meas ure upon the ability o f the service to dispose o f the surplus power which can be developed from its plant. Up and down the Okanogan R iver are nu merous fine benches which might be irrigated from pumps operated by this power. GRANGE SHOWS G RO W TH. Washington and Oregon Branches Organizing Busily. Columbus, O.— Wide and prosperous growth o f the National Grange was “ I don’t believe they’d eat a single show in the report o f Secretary Free man. There were organized, among mouthful.” others, 51 new granges in Washington a few days ago. I saw her going to and 46 in Oregon in the past year. wards the village two hours ago.” C. B. Kegley, master o f Washing "Arrived at Turner’s! Say, man, are you sure? Is It a strange girl to the ton State Grange, demanded that the neighborhood ?" charges preferred against him by S. J. "1’ve heard say It was Uncle Bob’s H ill, o f Washington, be heard at once. niece, and that she come from the He objected to the referring o f the city. What ails you. stranger? Does charges to a committee which quashed this storm upset you?” them. The matter o f reopening the It wasn’t the storm. Percy Kincaid charges was referred to the commit had quarreled with the girl he loved tee on grievances. and had asked to be his wife. It was The insurgents declared that the e f about nothing, almost, as most lovers’ j fo rt to quash the charges was inspired quarrels are, but pride on either side by fear that complications would arise held off a reconciliation until the lov-1 because Kegley is master o f the er finally learned that Miss Minnie1 Washington Grange, although a resi had gone on a journey and left no dent o f Idaho, and because National word for him. . Master Batchelder placed Idaho under She was going to spend Thanksgiv the Washington Grange’s jurisdiction. ing week In the country. Within two The regulars say K egley’s desire to days she had relented; within three press the reading o f the charges is he was making every effort to locate inspired by the belief that irregular her, that he might patch up a peace. | organiaztion methods may be exposed. He had succeeded. He was going to throw himself on her mercy and ask Admiral Suicide at 82. Uncle Robert for a place at his Washington, D. C.— Rear-Admiral Thanksgiving table. John Yeatman Taylor, U. S. N ., re The storm grew fiercer as the night tired, shot himself in his residence advanced. When another day came here Saturday, dying within a half even the cattle could not face th e ; hour. He was 82 years old. Des storm nor man move from his door. I t 1 pondency over failin g health is be was Thanksgiving day. At Uncle Rob lieved to have prompted the suicide. ert’s there was a feast to be spread; Admiral Taylor was one o f the most at Bradley’s there was hardly better distinguished naval surgeons o f the than poorhouse fare. country. Before the Civil war he saw But the victim of the accident was service as an Indian fighter in what no longer In bed, and the rescuer no J was then the Territory o f Washington. longer cared about the weather, and the farmer folks looked at each other Dozen Lathe* it Penalty. and smiled and whispered: Vancouver. B. C.— F ive year*’ im "Even If we had turkey and cran prisonment and 12 lashes was the sen berry sauce I don’t believe they’d eat tence imposed on Clarence Thompson, a single mouthful. They’ve Just sorter who robbed an elderly man during a found each other and are tickled to walk home after they bad made ac death.' quaintance on the street. j j INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE APPLE SH O W O PENS. CARE O F P A T IE N T S FREE. State Tuberculosis Sanatorium Will Hundreds of Fanciers Represented in Great Display. Start Publicity Campaign. Salem— That physicians and people throughout the state generally are not informed as to the scope o f usefulness and purposes o f the State sanatorium fo r tuberculosis, was one o f the conclu sions o f the board having that institu tion in charge at a meeting held there, and as a result a campaign o f public ity w ill be inaugurated, that informa tion along these general lines may be disseminated. The sanatorium is an institution for the tubercular poor, and the cost of caring for this class o f patients there is nothing. Members o f the board are convinced that lack o f knowledge has resulted in many poor families keep ing cases o f tuberculosis on their hands because they believe that they can illy affored to place the invalid in a sanatorium. The entrance requirements for a pa tient into the state home are few and simple. The attending physicain vis its the county judge, and a certificate is issued that the patient is suffering from tuberculosis. The patient is then admitted to the sanatorium w ith out cost and is cared for there until a cure is effected. “ Oregon’s sanatorium for tubercu losis, although comparatively new, stands high among the sanatoria o f the various states in the number o f its cures and in its efficiency as an insti tution o f this class,” said George F. Rodgers, a member o f the board. “ W e are satisfied that a lack of knowledge o f the uses o f the institu tion has resulted in numerous cases being neglected, and possibly in deaths, because people without means have thought that the cost o f caring for the patients at a sanatorium o f this nature would be too great for slender purses to bear. The cost is absolutely nothing, the aim and object o f this sanatorium being for the tu bercular poor and to blot out as far as possible this disease among that class.” The board found a large force o f convicts at work completing the laun dry building, heating plant and roads and drives about the town. O R E G O N H E N IS C H A M P I O N . Agricultural College Chicken 259 Eggs in Year. Lays Portland— Hundreds o f people paid tribute Wednesday to the Oregon ap ple as it appears enthroned in attrac tive settings in the basement o f the Yeon building, at the Tw enty-sixth Annual Apple Show o f the Oregon State Horticultural society. From the time the doors opened at 10 o ’clock in the morning until the closing hour, there was a continual stream o f spectators coming and go ing, and the aisles between the ex hibit tables and racks were thronged. The West and South walls o f the room would have been a glory to the eye o f the impressionistic painter, fo r they were blocked off in huge masses of billiant color; squares o f deep red where the Spitzenbergs, Arkansas Blacks and other dark-hued apples were grouped, interspersed with the bright yellows and pink-tinted masses o f the White W inter Bananas and Ortleys. The full West wall and a long stretch o f the South wall belonged to Hood River. N ext to the Hood R iver display are grouped the apples from Mosier. The displays from other sec tions, exhibits of dried fruits and ag ricultural college displays, occupy the center o f the exhibit hall, and the con cessions to different land companies, farm implement companies etc., are placed along the North and East walls. One o f the prettiest exhibits dis played is a five-box pack o f Y ellow Newtowns, Ortleys, Red Cheek Pip pins and Spitzenbergs, entered by Ann Shepard, the 9-year-old daughter o f E. H. Shepard, o f Hood River. Situ ated in the corner, where the long lines o f apples, entered by the other Hood R iver exhibitors, converge to ward it, this display has attracted' more attention than any other individ ual exhibit in the show. C. C. Carpenter and Lawrence & Smith, o f Hood River, are the heavi est exhibitors in the show, their dis play covering a big section in the west wall. They have entered 98 boxes. The prettiest exhibit they have prepared is their display o f 18» boxes o f Yellofo Newtowns, all per fectly colored and packed exactly 96 apples to a box. Their entry consists chiefly o f Spitzenbergs, however. Scars & Porter, o f Hood River, and the Apple Land & Orchard company, o f Hood River, have each entered about 60 boxes. The community ex hibit from The Dalles is also one o f the larger groups in the show. Other fine displays are entered from Mosier, White Salmon, Lyle and Wenatchee. Salem has come to the front with a display of dried fruit, covering a table that runs the full length o f the hall, and containing several hundred boxes. These are entered by H. S. Gile and the Salem Fruit Union. Coos county has a creditable plate exhibit o f sp ies, and other communities are well >resented in the classes o f smaller plate and box exhibits. Wasco county has devoted its con cession to a general display that does not play largely on fruit features, but runs the whole gamut o f the garden truck, from potatoes to pumpkins, with a sideshow o f fine grains, hops and other staples. Oregon Agricultural College, Cor vallis— Professor Dryden, o f the poul try department o f the Oregon A g r i cultural college, announced at the close o f a year’s test that the college has captured f the world’s champion ship for maximum number o f eggs laid in one year by a hen, the total number o f eggs laid being 259. The test just completed shows an odd coincidence. A full-blooded P ly mouth Rock and a Leghorn have tied for the world’s record. The former shows a maxiumm o f 27 eggs laid in October, while the latter does not run so high for any single month, but falls below 20 eggs a month only in March. The former record o f 251 eggs was held by a hen raised at the Maine ex periment station several years ago. Prof. Dryden says in regard to this method: “ This is a matter o f breed ing, feeding and care. For example, A P P L E IS K I N G IN L I N N . in the same pen with the record P ly mouth Rock hen we had another Ply- month which laid but six eggs dur Splendid Exhibit at Albany is Viewed By Large Crowds. ing the year. She received the same care and feed. ” Albany— W ith a magnificent display o f splendid apples and many other in DRY LAN D S T O G E T W ATER. teresting and attractive exhibits, A l bany’s fifth annual apple fa ir opened White Lake District Likely to Get today. A large crowd viewed the ex Needed Irrigation. hibits in the Alco club gymnasium, in Klamath Falls— Prospects for se which the fa ir is being held. The apple exhibit this year is no curing irrigation in the district known as W hite lake, and across the C alifor larger than at some past fairs, but nia line in the valley lyin g along the masuret up to form er standard* in Eastern edge o f Lower Klamath lake, quantity, while in quality the fru it seem very bright just now, as the Van displayed this year is far better than Brimmer Ditch company has made an that shown at any former fair. J. N. Duncan, county judge o f Linn agreement to permit J. H. W ise and others to use water from the com county, delivered the address o f w el come and the other address o f the pany’s canal. W. S. W iley, form erly attorney for afternoon was by Professor A. G. Bou the Klamath project o f the reclama quet, o f the Oregon Agricultural col tion service, represents the new com lege, who spoke on "C atering to the pany formed to use [the ditch water Vegetable Markets o f the State.” ? J. O. Holt, o f Eugene, manager o f supply, which proposes to take about 50 cubic feet o f water a second from the Eugene Fruitgrowers’ union, was White lake through the Adams cut to the chief speaker at the evening’s pro afpoin t where it will be lifted by a gram. Lane and Benton counties are com pumping plant and then spread over the lands through two ditches. The peting for the grand prize o f a $100 lands to be improved lie in township silver cup and $50 in cash for the beat 41 south, range 10 east. W. M., Klam county exhibit o f 20 or more boxes. ath county, and townships 47 and 48, McMinnville Oil Active. range 3 east, M. D. M., Siskiyou McMinnville—The recent purchase county, California. in the East o f a complete well-drilling equipment is indicative o f active pros A rm ory Nearly Ready. Dallas— The new armory building pecting for oil and gas in this section is nearing completion and the con within the next 60 days. A. D. Lord, tractors say that it w ill be ready to o f Portland, and his Portland and turn over by December 1. The official Eastern associates, hold leases on up dedication w ill not take place until wards o f 10,000 acres o f land lying in the latter part o f January, for ar numerous tracts within the territory rangements are making to bring the bounded by the Coast mountains snd annual meeting o f the National guard the W illam ette river, and Holmes' association o f Oregon to this city Gap on the south and Wapato lik e on the north. then.