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.