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VOL XXV
N. THÜB8DAY, AUGÏÏ8T 21, 1913.
NEWBEEG. YAMHILL 00
No. 45
W E BELL WINS THE
FIFTY DOLLAR PR]
OUR
was served as usual, and soon and entertained ns r o y a l l y ,
the drowned passengers, was
some tugs came from Alert Bay showing ns the principal build­
from Cornwell, England.
to pull the Dolphin off the rocks. ings of the town, and telling ns
The State o f California was go ­
Failing in this attempt, the pas­ how these Indians bad been
ing at full speed when she struck Mrs. Marietta Law « Gives
sengers
were transferred to the transformed by the Gospel from
the reef and a great portion of
i Vallay I
I» Be
Forty U vw Loot Including Two the ship’s bottom was torn off,
tugs and taken to Alert Bay, savage cannibals to qniet, sober,
forth«
where we had kind treatment progressive people. They have a
letting in a great flood of water
Eugene & Eastern.
and
some shelter from the driz­ large salmon cannery, a sawmill
which quickly engulfed the boat. Editor Graphic:
zling rain which fell nearly all public library, dub house, town
Most of the passengers and
It was like the regular vacatiolg
By suggesting the plain, com­
hall, large achoolhouae and the
day.
Juneau, Alaska, Aug. 18.— members o f the crew who
fever. It comes up very regu'
Thirty-three p a s s e n g e r s and perished were in their staterooms
Here an efficient wireless sta largest church io Alaska. All mon sense name, “ Willamette
ly once a year, and someti
seven members of the crew o f the and there was not time to get
tion called for help and about these buildings, together with Valley Line” for the nickname for
much oftener. This time we
were the Portland Eugene & Eastern
Pacific Coast Steamship Com­ them out before the boat went
noon the Princess May, a Cana­ dwellings, stores, etc.,
cided the cure was to be a t
pany’s iron steamship State of down. The crew numbered 52
dian boat, came to the dock, and erected by the natives. The doc­ railway system, Mr. Bell o f the
by steamer from Seattle to K<
California perished at half past men. Captain Caan and 40 men
- g and after hours of delay caused tor and school-teacher are na­ Imperial Hotel, Newberg, won a
chikan, Alaska. After a
8 o ’clock Sunday morning in are on the Jefferson returning to
by so much red tape necessary tives, and the large pipe organ is prize of $50 and at the same
journey to Seattle, and a view of
time placed his hometown in the
Gambier Bay, 90 miles south o f Seattle, seven perished and First that flouriahing citj, from it. *" a ' « " « ‘« .o a bttwcra two played by a native.
Juneau, when the vessel struck Officer Abinethy and three men
The sea was quite choppy as limelight.
noted "tallest Wilding," to it.
wa were taken
an uncharted rock and sank in are standing by the wreck. The beautiful Lake Washington, w . i ' ”,aI d and re.nmedonr,oorney. we returned to Ketchikan in the
three minutes, with many pas­ ship is sunk in deep water and
went aboard the Dolphin, and P
Prln“ “ MV “ a l«rge fast afternoon, hut not rough enough
sengers imprisoned in their state­ there is no hope of salvage.
to be exciting.
promptly at 9 p. m. Jnne 24th, f ° at- verv fi,K “ « » P“ «K «lar.,
rooms.
Our opinion o f Alaska? Well
The Jefferson was only a short the whistle blew and we slowly *"'l » e were treated with great
The steamship left Seattle last distance aw ay when she picked steamed oat from thedock.n-ally k,ndn' ”
the
part we saw o f it was nearly
Howeeer onr family
Wednesday night for Skagway up the “ S. O. S.” call and when
.
c
was now too large for even the all water or steep mountain
on our first voyage
and w ay poiots. Travel to the she arrived at the scene the
rincess M a y’s splendid accomo- sides, with rain more than half
much length. There were about
north is unusually heavy on ac­ survivors were in tfie lifeboats
lations, and many o f us found the days. The fishing was gooff,
one hundred and fifty passengers,
count o f the stampede to the and on life rafts. It was broad
ileeping quarters on c h a irs * the people sociable and nice, bwt
and the Dolphin was well pre­
Shushanna gold field. The purs­ daylight. There is no possibility
nches, and even on the dining we were glad to get back to the
pared to care for the wants of
er lost all of bis records, and it is that any of the missing reached
ble. (Ask P. H. L. about the land o f fruit and vegetables, with
everyone. The main saloon was
not possible to give a complete shore.
t named bed.) The extra pas­ plenty o f good clean soil to walk
roomy and pleasant, the state­
list o f the missing.
sengers, baggage ami mail de­ on.
B odib 8 of T en R ecovered .
rooms conveniently furnished,
M. L. and P. H. Lewis.
- H ole T orn in B ottom .
The dead whose bodies have the berths clean and comfortable, layed ns many hours, and we
A great hole was torn in the been recovered are:
were very glad to be put ashore
the table fare and service excel­
bottom of the State o f California.
s t Ketchikan the afternoon of
Mrs. A. Birnbaum.
lent.
Fifty-four passengers sailed
July 1st. Our friends were wait-
Mrs. Stella Reardan.
Instead of “ going to the coast”
from Seattle on the State o f Cali­
~
.
.
. . ing anxiously for us as they had
Mrs. Clara Van De Lass.
as we Oregonians do, our neigh-
,
*
. .
J ,
On Monday morning Mrs.
fornia last Wednesday night and
John Van De Lass.
_________h
i,
bo
o
.M
« hcard sorac report of the troubles
bors north o f us take passage . « oa
John
Shearer was struck by the
were booked for Juneau and
of the Dolphin.
Miss Lillian Ward, Seattle,
some boat and in a ten or twelve
WM. BELL
Skagway and presumably were daughter of Edward C. Ward,
Ketchikan is the first port of southbound train, which is dne
days’ trip, visit the most im
at
Newberg
at
9:10,
and
was
on the ship when she struck the assistant manager Pacific Coast
tl in Alaska and is built on a
Six months or more ago the
ant towns on the Alaskan coast,
rock. Tw enty-tw o passengers Steamship Company.
Aside, with the business section severely injured.
officials
o f the Southern Pacific
stopping from tw o to six hoi
She
had
left
her
home
on
West
were taken on board at Prince
long the seashore. I t is sur-
Mrs. Nellie B. Ward, mother of
announced that they would give
each at all the larger towns,
Rupert, Ketchikan, Petersburg, Miss Ward.
ounded by a copper district, and First street and on reaching the a prize o f $50 to the person who
mg the fish canneries and the
Wrangell and other points, and
here are some gold prospects. railroad track at the street would propose the most satis­
Four unidentified women.
mines. Thus the greater part o f
P.
,
these also were on the boat a t
It has a large salmon cannery, a crossing was apparently some* factory nickname to be applied
Follow ing is a partial list of
the time.of the disaster, making the „rissing, who are believed to our company were round-trip- f i g * . » ■ him ,»f IfiT knjtisl fuTi w hat confeted e s account
<tn the various lines o f the P ort­
.
pers, out for a vacation and a
a total of 76 passengers. Forty- foe dead:
ing and cold storage plants on teams and men s t work street land; Eugene & Eastern system,
good time. The principal amuse­
three passengers were rescued
the Pacific Coast where thou­ grading at that point. She which were being electrified.
Miss Anna L. Cassidy.
ments on board were card-play­
and taken to Juneau by the
sands o f tierces o f halibut are glanced doom the track looking
Mr. Bell saw the notice in the
Miss M ay Dixon.
ing
and
dancing.
W
e
f
o
u
n
d
steamship Jefferson, leaving 33
frozen and shipped, the Standard south and started forw ard as no papers and while seated, in the
W. A. Dwyer.
pleasure and quietude, sitting on
who have perished. Seven o f the
Oil Co.’s tanks and docks, the train was in sight in that direc­ lobby o f the hotel one day con­
Blanche Fridd, Monmouth, Or.
the
upper deck watching the
crew are dead, making the total
United States Customs House, tion, failing to look in the other cluded that he would risk the
Minette E. Harlan, Monmouth,
somewhat
monotonous
scenery
dead forty.
the usual. number o f business direction from which the train price o f a tw o cent postage ^ a m p
Or. •
and
forming
acquaintance
with
P urser ’ s R ecords L ost .
houses and thirteen open saloons. was coming. Those-who saw |p„ the nanW| “ Willamette:Valley
Lellie Hobro, manager of the
The figures o f the number of Pacific Coast Steamship Com pa the few who, like us, did not care There are three churches in the her, say she hurried forward and j^me.” which looked good
good to.
ta
for the amusement provided or
when
almost
across
the
track
passengers are given by the ny’s office in San Francisco.
town; the Catholic, the St. Johns
----- He said nothing to Mrs.
were prohibited by strict church
Panifie Coast Steamship Com­ J. Holman.
Episcopal with a good hospital was struck by the bumper oa Bril about it, and in fact dis­
discipline, from indulging therein.
pany. They cannot be verified
Miss Alice Johnson.
in connection with it, and the the engine and knocked off the missed the matter from his mind
Secretly in our hearts we had
by the purser, who lost all his
Methodist Episcopal. The con track.
Lillian B. Norman.
so completely that he was great­
always
wanted
to
be
in
a
wreck,
She was carried to her home ly surprised a few days ago o n ,
records.
It is barely possible
gregations at this latter one are
Nick Pittnlas.
if only no lives were lost, but
that some o f the 54 passengers
pitifully small, notwithstanding near by and medical aid sum­ receiv ing a letter from Mark
Miss Reardan.
there seemed no chance to gratify
booked to sail from Seattle
Mrs. C. E. Spithill and child.
the faithful efforts o f the pastor moned when it was found one Woodruff of the publicity depart­
this
desire
as
we
rode
so
smooth­
changed their minds at the last
and a few earnest helpers. We arm was broken, a shoulder was ment, informing him that he had
Ben A. Wade.
ly over the quiet waters o f this
moment.
Miss Wilson.
did not learn about the atten­ fractured and her scalp severely been awarded the prize.
i n l a n d passage. No breakers
cut. She is reported to be get­
The vessel and cargo, mail and
S even of C r ew D ead .
dance at the other churches.
Daring the contest, names were
washed
over
the
decks
and
-even
ting along nicely however and suggested .by 2765
express are a total loss. The
Members of the crew dead:
different
The catching and putting up
the rolling o f the boat was not
her early recovery is expected.
ship was valued at $400,000.
Fourth Officer I. Anderson.'
people and more than 100
of
the
salmon
was
quite
interest­
violent enough to prevent us
Both the evesight and the hear­ columns of publicity matter ap­
A number o f horses for use on
Wireless Operator D. C. Per­
ing to tourists. Traps are built
starting
for
the
dining-room
at
ing o f M r s . S h e a r e r are peared in the newspapers with
the Shushanna trail were on the kins.
of wire netting extending from
the first sound o f the gong.
defective
and these handicaps reference to it. All this attracted
vessel. The steamship Jefferson
Deck Officer N. Lawson.
But as we were soundly sleep­ the shore about a mile out into are no doubt largely responsible
o f the Alaska Steamship Com­
Deck Officer L. Mezxene.
attention to the electrification o f
ing during the second night out, the channel and the fish are lifted for the accident.
pany, southbound, heard the
Waiter P. Smith.
the valley railway lines through­
suddenly the boat went bump- in nets from these traps into the
wireless call of the sinking steam­
The train was running slowly out all parts of the United States
Waiter J. Clark.
scows
and
towed
to
the
canner­
bumpity-bump-bump, a n d w e
ship and turned back to rescue
as the point is only a short which was the purpose of the
Waiter B. Madiger.
ies.
thought
if
that
performance
were
the survivors, who had taken to
distance from the station, and contest.
V essel B uilt in 1879.
An average sized scow holds
continued for some hours we
small boats and life rafts. Ten
Engineer Casey, who is one o f
Our fellow townsman is to be
The State o f California, an iron might be seasick. The next in­ about twenty-eight thousand
o f the passengers had suffered so
the most carefnl men on the congratulated on account of the
steamship o f 2276 gross tons, stant we were fully awake and salmon, o f five to eight pounds
severely from exposure that it
road, was able to stop the train handsome prize received, but
was built at Philadelphia iq realized we were on the rocks. each, and they sometimes take
was necessary to take them to a
within a few feet after Mrs. most of all for suggesting a name
1879, and carried a crew of 75 Our stateroom was well forward one hundred and seventy-five
hospital in Juneau for treatment
Shearer was hit. Had the train that is the most appropriate and
men. For many years she had and on the side next the rocks, thousand from a trap at one
Miss Lillian Ward died after be'
been going at full speed, she suggestive out o f the large num­
canned passengers between Pu­ and we could see from our win­ catch. The work in the cannery
ing taken off a life raft. The un­
would doubtless have been killed. ber furnished.
get Spund and San Francisco.
dow that the water was shallow is nearly all done by machinery,
injured survivors o f the crew
Tlfe wrecked vessel was com­ and the rocks near; but other and with great rapidity, accur­
and passengers are being taken
manded by Captain Thomas H passengers who were not so for­ acy and cleanliness. F ifty salm­
to Seattle on the Jefferson, and
Cann, Jr., who had command of tunately located (for the water on a minute are run through the
At the regular business meet­
will arrive there Thursday.
On Saturday o f this week a
the steamship Valencia on her was fathoms deep on the other “ chink” and a d a y’s work totals ing o f the W. C. T. U. held Aug.
The 43 surviving passengers
harvest
picnic will be held at
last trip from Seattle to San side o f the boat) were terribly from sixty thousand to seventy- 13 much business was transacted
will leave Juneau for Seattle on
Francisco, and who was trans­ frightened and there was some *** thousand nine hundred forty- by way o f bringing up reports o f Sherwood. The principal speak­
the Northwestern tonight. All
ferred to another command when confusion. Many were putting four cans, this being the largest the past year’s work and formu­ er of the day will be Dr. James
are able to travel, having re­
Other
the Valencia reached that port, on life preservers, the crew run­ day’s work while we were there. lating plans for the coming year, Withycombe, of 0. A. C.
covered from the effects o f their
thns barley missingbeingonthat ning here and there getting the This cannery’s contract for this and also for the county conven­ speakers will be C. O. Spence,
rough experience.
steamer when she went ashore at life-boats down, nailing boards year is for three million three tion now in session at Friends Master of the Oregon State
W. A. Dyer, a student at Mar­
Grange, and H. A. Darnell,
Cape Beals, B. C., January 22, or canvass over the leaks in the hundred sixty thousand cans, church in Newberg.
quette Medical College, was
grange
lecturer.
1906, with a loss o f 117 lives. side of the boat, and assuring us and the same company operates
The next meeting will be held
drowned while his roommate, P.
There will be good music, songs
there was no immediate danger twelve canneries.
at Mrs. G. O. Bassett’s, 717 and recitations, and a ball game
Nearey, o f the same college, was
Aubrey Kramien who has been and that all would be safely
One of the most interesting Sheridan street, on Wednesday
rescued.
will be played by the Sherwood
actively
connected
with
the
cared
for.
days was the one spent at Met- at 2:30 p. m., August 27, gives White Sox and one o f Portland’s
A . J. Wilson,
who was
The night was not very dark lakahtla, on Annette Island, with promise o f interest to all who
drowned, was from Prince Rup­ Bloomington, Illinois, Y. M. C.
best amateur teams.
A.
for
several
years,
is
in
Newberg
and
confidence was soon restored. Father Duncan at his famous attend, being a parliamentary
ert, B. C.
The eugenics baby show will
Mrs. Nellie Ward, of Seattle, visiting with his parents, Mr. A few passengers returned to Indian mission. This is seven­ drill, the subject for debate, Re­ be held during the day to select
was drowned after getting to the and Mrs. J. W. Kramien while their berths while the most o f ns teen milesfrom Ketchikan, and as solved—That we declare against contestants for the show at the
deck from her stateroom. Her Mrs. Kramien and the children waited for day. When it was we went over on the tug Rough all carnal warfare as irrational, state fair.
daughter, Lillian, was struck by are visiting her parents in In­ light, and the wireless man had Rider, the captain told us we unpatriotic and unchristian.
Everybody welcome.
a falling streamer mast, and died diana. Since his arrival he has failed to get any response to his had not seen Alaska until we had
Go and hear Mrs. Unruh at
been
taking
a
hard
at
harvesting
calls,
a
boat
was
sent
ahead
to
seen
Metlakahtla,
Father
Dun-
Frances Matthews,
several hours later on board the
Friends church, this, Thursday
Alert Bay for help. Breakfast can gave os a hearty welcome
Jefferson. J. H. Holman, one of and says he enjoys it.
Press Correspondent. evening.
STEAMER STATE OF
CAUF0RN1A WRECKED
f
MRS. JOHN SHEARER
STRUCK BY TRAIN
W. C. T. U.
I
HARVEST PICNIC AT SHERWOOD