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in a box of good cigar». They make a
man’s troubles seem less, make the
world look brighter for him. A box of
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that have all the virtnes of good tobacco
and none of the faults of poorer kind.
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T h e
Winter Time
Repair Time
D a lle s . O r e g o n
“ A hoard and a nail,
And a can of paint,
Make nianv a house
l.ook new that—ain’t.”
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There'll be a whole lot of day» when building out o(
door» will he impo-sihleordisagrepahle. Those are the days
to do those jobs of R E P A IR I N '* ! and R E M O D E L I N G yon
have been potting off " ’ till you had time ”
tha? shelf you promised the wife?
in the cellar step ’
Remember
And that broken step
And did you entirely forget that you
fi.-ured out just how much von could make a play room in
the altie for the children with a few dollars worth of "Turn-
A-T.mn” Wallboard?
.Inst list down all those little items
and let ns give you a price on the whole lot.
I t’ ll be so
small an amount that you’ll have no valid reason to give
your wife for not " f i x i n ’ up” ,
cost you a cent.
l e t ’ s talk it over.
Won t
And what a difference it will make in
yonr HOM E this winter
" S e e J. S. Anderson about it"
The Home of ‘Tum-A-Lumber’
Better Equipped than ever in our new location
for High Class Protraits. Open Evenings
T h e T 210 o w Third n e Street St udi o
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MOSIER, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1915.
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INDIAN LEGENDS
ARE BEAUTIFUL
KLICKITAT LANGUAGE WONDERFUL
E. L. Smith H u Gathered from Red Men
Many Stories of Interest Mem-
aloose Island
Bv Joe D. Thom ¡sou
Beautiful though they are when one,
ignorant of the charms that Indian
legendary lore weaves around them,
beholds them, how much more interest­
ing and appealing is a view of the
grand pointa of the Columbia river
highway after the aightseer has learned
aomething of their significance in the
history of the Redman I While many
beautiful stories are extant in the
writings of contemporary authors and
in the articles and books of pioneer
men and women, who have passed
away, an investigator by talking with
the older Indians that survive along
the mid-Columbia district may find that
many legends have ever become but
little known.
Every Indian tribe had its historian.
The histories and stories were passed
from generation to generation by word
o f mouth. Each tribe had a different
dialect. The names of the gods and
heroes are different. From The Dalles
down the Columbia to the sea. where
the Chinook and .ClalBup dialects pre­
vailed, the Great Spirit was known as
Talapus. While across the Columbia
in southern Washington, where the
Klickitat dialect was supreme, the
chief god was called Saghalic,
In all the Pacific northwest no man
has ever taken greater interest in the
legends of the Indians, among whom
his close friends have been numbered
by the scores, than E. L. Smith, who
removed 40 years ago from Tacoma,
Wash., where he had been secretary of
Washington territory, to Hood River.
While he has retired from a life of
active business, Mr Smith maintains
an office in a building owned by him,
and he may be found in hia office a
part of every week day. In former
days the Indiana o f the region came to
ask his counsel, and his pioneer neigh­
bors came to consult with him on mat­
ters o f business. Today the few In­
diana left in the district continue to
confide in Mr. Smith us to their troub­
les, hopes and joys. He will ever re­
main their "Boston Man,” and they
and Mr. Smith often recall incidents of
early history and talk over legendary
history of the scenic region. W henever
anyone desires to secure information
on pioneer days ot Indian legendary
history, he makes a visit to Mr. Smith.
Nor is the list of visitors limited to
local people; he receives callers and
queries from numerous diffeier.t points
in the northwest.
“ O f all the 30 dialects of tribes with
which 1 have been fam ilia r,” says Mr.
Smith, “ that of the Khckitats is the
most beautiful. Their names f o r our
pointa of grandeur along the Columbia
should be preserved. 1 made an at­
tempt at one time to have the Smith­
sonian Institution collect the words o f
the language. A Catholic priest at
Guldendaie was engaged for many
years in the task, but 1 have not heard
of him for several years. Rev. Waters,
of the Toppemah community, a full
blood Indian who won marked recogni­
tion as a Methodist minister, is per­
haps more familiar with the language
than any man in the northwest.
During the early days of Hood River
history, Mr. Smith was accustomed to
make long trips of exploration in the
neighboring mountains. Indiana were
used as guides, and on these journeys
of penetration into the wilds while
others of the party would be asleep or
engaged in conversation, Mr. Smith
would be seated in seclusion at the
foot of some leviathan of the forest
hearing marvelous tales Irom hia In­
dian guide. Often Dr. T. L. Eliot,
pastor emeritus of the Kirst Unitarian
church of Portland, would accompany
Mr. Smith and other friends on these
long jaunts o f investigation .of the
wilderness country.
" I recall a time when Dr. Eliot and
I were on a trip of exploration at the
base of Mount Ad am s," says Mr.
Smith. " W e have often laughed to­
gether since at the philosophy of our
guide. It was in the evening, and as
we sat around the campfire after sup­
per I asked the guile where an Indian
went and what he did after he died.
The fellow, a strapping and handsome
buck replied: ’ I don’ t know. I find
out after 1 get there.’ ”
Just opposite Hood River, near the
town o f White Salmon, high on the
mighty precipitous aide of the Co­
lumbia gorge, is a huge dial ihspid
rock. Mott of the people of Hood
River have seen it and have wondered
i f it had a meaning. To the Indians,
according to the legends gathered by
Mr. Smith, it had a very significant
meaning
The great rock is supposed
to be Waupash, a mighty chieftanesa
of tne White Salmon Indiana in early
days. The Indian woman was proud of
her people and was zealous in her pro­
tection of them.
For many days Waupash had aeen
Spelyai. the next of the goda in author­
ity to Saghalis, the chief diety, prowl­
ing over her beloved hills. She accoat-
ed him one morning as he came up
from the Columbia and ordered him to
leave the region and not show himself
there again, for she feared that he
meant harm to her tribe. Now this
waa no way to address a god, and Spel­
yai, angerd beyond reason, cast a spell
over tne woman and turned her into the
great rock, and she aits there on the
great gorge and watches until this day.
The legend that has come to Mr.
Smith ahont Oneonta Falla, known for
the roost part aa Horsetail Falls, is
somewhat different frem other legend­
ary history. Far back in the old grand­
fathers' days, according to the story,
there were two handsome Indian chiefs
who fell in love with a beautiful
maiden. The men fought over the girl,
who by her coquettish ways angered the
Great Spirit, aa did the men, and to
punish them, one of the chiefs waa
turned into Rooster Rock and the other
into Castle Rock. Tbe girl waa trana-
fortrd into Oneonta Falla. The great
stream of water fa supposed to repre­
sent her hair, which ever streams out
from the great barrier of rocks over
which she la trying to climb.
Just beyond the Hood River eour ty
line, or * ot Mr Smith's old Indian
tre nds boa told him, is the falls of the
Widow's Taara. A tiny atraam datbaa
over tbe top of the high canyon and is
soon lost in spray. “ The Indiana called
it the Widuw’s Tears,” said Mr. Smith,
“ because it disappeared so quickly."
One of the moat beautiful of all the
legends told by Mr. Smith ia that con­
nected with Memalooae Island, the In­
dian burying ground near tbe middle of
the Columbia's stream just west of
Lyle. Since time immemorial tbe In­
diana have placed their dead on the
island. The bonea of thousands of war­
riors, men and women have bleached
and decayed in the »anda there. For­
merly the Indiana visited the island
frequently. The legend, which fo.iows,
explains why the Red Men have ceased
to go to Mvmaloose except to deposit
the bodies of relatives whose aoula have
passed on to the Happy Hunting
Grounds.
In ancient days the Indiana were ac­
customed to assemble in large numbers
at Wishram, a village just opposite
The Dalles, on the Washington side of
the Columbis. At one of the gather­
ings came a handsome young chief, as
perfectly
formed as Apollo, and a
maiden, the daughter of a chief, whose
beauty was known throughout the
land. The girl was wooed by the hand­
some young man. and tbe two were
wed.
This young man and woman made a
prolonged honeymoon,traveling through
the country and visiting the peoples
of many regions. But their happiness
was finally smitten by the death of the
husband, whose body was borne away
in state to Memaloose. The grief of
the young widow knew no bounds. One
night she dreamed that the spirit ol
her hnsband came to her and urged
that she come to visi him at the island.
The girl complied with the withes of
her husband and visited the island. At
the sun went down behind the Cascade
range a wonderful metamorphosis was
worked at Memaloose. lhe graves gave
np their dead. Sounds of music tilled
the air, and the spirits o f the dead,
with the form of mortals again taken
on, danced and made merry. Dressed
in a gelorious raiment, the husband
came to her and the two spent the
night together in happiness.
They
finally repaired to his couch, where on
the next morning,on being awakened
by the sunshine, she found a skeleton
arm around her body.
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Returning to her home she told her
story. A great council o f all the wise
men waa called. A fte r much delibera­
tion it was decided that since the
maiden hau belonged to the man outing
life, she must still be his even though
he was dead, and she was commanded
to return to the ialand to live with him.
The dead were permitted to return
from the graves at night, and during
the hours of darkness all was as though
aome great fes»t were being partici­
pated in on tbe islands, but Hie forms
gradually lost themselves as daylight
approached, and during the days Mem
aluose presented only sights of horror
White bones glinted in the sunlight
and the stench of decaying tiesli tilled
the nostrils.
Finally the girl gave birth to a child,
l h e Indian maiden desired thst her
mother conic sec her grandson, and a
messenger was sent to carry her the
giau tidings.
lhe mother came, but
she was enjoined not to look upon the
little one for at least HI days after her
arrival; she was told that it she aid so
her grandson would die. But with the
eagerness
of a grandmother
she
thought it would do no harm if she
would lift up his little blanket and
take a single look. However.no sooner
bad her eyes fallen on the little form
than it sickened and straightaway died.
This death of the infant was taken
by the Indians as a sign to point to
them that they had erred in allowing
the girl to visit the island, and it was
ruled by a great cuuncil that thereafter
none should visit Memaloose except to
deposit the bodies of the dead.
Memaloose until this day is the bury
ing ground for the Indians of The
Dalles region. Because of the treas­
ure of beads and elks’ teeth buried
with the dead it was formerly visited
by numerous curio seekers, who de­
spoiled the graves, sacred to the Red
Men. The government has now pro­
hibited the visits of white men for
this purpose.
Passengers on river steamboats are
attracted by a single white shaft rear­
ing itself from a rock base on the isl­
and. This is a monument erected to
Victor 'lreavitt, the only while man
buried on Memaloose. Victor Tresvitt
was a great friend of the Indians of
the mid-Columbia district. His body
was placed among those of his friends
at hia own request.
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CITY AND V ALLEY MEETINGS HELD ::
-D EALERS IN -
Talks by Director and Representatives of !!
Oregon Station Tend to Change
Sentiment.
G en eral
M e r c h a n d is e
The series o f meetings held in the
Hood River valley lest week in order
that orchardiata might be supplied with
correct data concerning the benefit of
the local branch of the Oregon experi­
ment station it ia now believed will
save tbe station for the community.
Because of a misunderstanding between
numerous growers and the station's •
representatives a menacing opposition 1 ■.1-.H - I 'H "I " H - H H- I- I-I- H - H - I - I - H ..| 1 4-t- H - H - l ■4-I-H --I- H - 1-H I -I--H - H I I I !
had sprung up and the proposed appro-;
priation of $2,000 by the county for
next year's maintenance of tne institu­
tion lias been attacked.
The meetings, the last of which waa
held Saturday evening at Pine Grove
P e o p l e ’ s n a v i g a t i o n C o m p a n y
hall under the auspices of the Pine j
Grove grange, were attended by A. B. I
C H AR LE S N ELSO N, M a n a g e r .
Cordley, director of the Oregon station.
Prof C. I. Lewis, R. W. Allen and Le- |
Leaves
The
Dalles 7:00 A. M., Sundays, Tuesdays and
Roy Childs.
Director Cordley explained the rela­
Thursdays. Arrives at Mosier at 8:15. A. M.
tions o f the branch station to Hood
Rivet county. He told the growers
Leaves Portland on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays
that aa far as the main institution it­
from Oak Street Dock.
Passengers and freight.
self, was concerned, at mattered little
as to whether the horticultural branch
Mosier
Dock
in
charge
o
f
J.
W.
Huskey,
who will meet all
was located in Hood River or in some
other community, but he pointed out
boats and attend to transfer. Phone No. 85.
th* benefits that would accrue to local
people because o f ita maintenance.
Director Cordley diagnosed the trou­
bles of the station in its relations with
growers. He declared that Hood River
county should make an appropriation
for the purchase of a plot of ground to
be UBed permanently for an experiment I
fnrin, citing the good work resulting
from such action in Sherman county. ;
Heretofore it haa been customary for
the representatives of the station al
work here on orchard problems to con- j
duct their tests in orchards acatteied
over a wide area. Growers, whose
tracts were not chosen, have become
jealous. The representatives, too.have j
been subject to call at any time. These
visits to inspect orchards have hamp­
ered them in their work o f experi­
menting to determine the cause and
cure of diseases.
By the display of a set o f charts
Prof. Lewis showed the value of exper
¡mental work of past years. In the
year 1907 the Oregon Agricultural Col­
lege working in conjunction with the
United States Department of Agricul­
ture made a soil survey of Wasco coun­
t y ’s fruit lands, Hood River county al
that time having been a portion of
Wasco. It was lound that much of the
fruit land was badly lacking in nitro­
gen. Growers were urged to make up
this deficiency by use of cover crops or
the use of commercial fertilizers.
However, the orchardiata did not heed
the advice, and aa a result the effects
have been more apparent than any local
orchardist has comprehended.
Prof. Lewis declares that the resident
orchardists have failed to note the de­
creasing size of the leaves, while the
difference is noted at once by a man
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accustomed to visit the region at inter­
vals of six months or a year. The hor­
ticultural expert showed by charts the
benefits derived from experiments with
commercial fertilizers, nitratea of soda,
on the ranch of M. Dragscth for the
past three years. The quantity of ap­
ples where the fertilizer had been uaed
waa made to increase 1,0(10 per cent
A FULL LIN E OF SCHOOL BOOKS A N D
over untreated tracts. The coat per
tree reached 20 cents, or two cents per
SCHOOL SUPPLIES A T
box.
Similar results have been ob­
;
tained by ether orchardiata by the per­ -
sistent use of cover crops to restore
nitrogen to the soil.
Mr. Allen, a soil and Irrigation ex­
pert, who for the peat several yeara
has been stationed at Hermiston, de­ »
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clares that he knows of no place where -
the ranchers are su ignorant about irri­
gation aa in Hood River. Before they
get full reeults from the systems in '
use, he taya, it will be necessary to j
rotate the use of their water aa in other
places. He declares thst the distribu­
tion system prevailing would have to
he changed.
Until a few yeara ago ranchers never |
used cover crops, and although much
water went to waste down the irriga- I
tion ditches, but little waa ever used
on orchard trarti. there were school»
W h y g o to Portland for dental work? D o you atop toconsider
of growers who preached the non-uae '
the service you receive from lhe hands o f the dentist w h o is hired
of water, declaring thai it impaired J
by the week to operale for you? Hav e your w o r k done at home
the quality of the fruit.
by the dentist w h o does the w o rk fro m start to finish.
Mr. Allen said that he had examined !
aome soils in parts of the valley that, I
Porcelain Fillings - - $1.50
22k G old C r o w n *
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because o f lack of irrigation and be- j
cause of the peraiatent clean cultiva­
Silver Fillings - - $1.81,50
Bridge W o rk , per tooth
85
(From Hood Rivtr Glacier)
tion followed, showed but three per !
Plates • - • - 8 » to 812
G old Fillings
- - 82 to $•>
The N-wfown crop of apples a* yel cent moisture, no more than could be I
remains in local storage house*, except found in the dust of a road. Ha ad - 1
E xtrac tin g - - - - - GOe
Porcelain C r o w n * - - 8* 1 . 50
for a negligible quantity that has al­
vised the rotation of cover crops and
ready been sold abroad.
clean cultivation.
“ We are holding back the Newtowna,
"Where the orchard land ia constant
the longest keeping variety produced ly planted In cover crops and kept 1
here,” says Salve Manager Sieg, " f o r heavily irrigated, there ia danger of
the demand that will come from Eng­
producing too much wood growth ana |
Phone 24*1
O ffic e Hours 9 to 12, I to 5.
land after the Christmas holidays. We thua cutting down the production of
expect to realize high prices for the
fruit.”
H o o d River, O regon
R oo m s 11-19 Heilbronner Bldg.
fruit unlees eome drastic condition!
Mr. Childs, who I* in charge of the
that are not now foreseen arias in the
branch station, attended the meetings
war situation.”
end told of the experiments carried on
Mr. Sieg declares that America ia a
for the control of leaf roller and hop­
red apple country end that Newtnwna
pers.* Mr. Childs aaya that a spray haa
ere an ezport product always. While
now been found to control this peat,
most of the other varieties o f fruit
which in the laat few year* hae been
have been cleaned up, the amall re­
constantly increasing.
maining stock is going out with a reg ­
The Oregon agricultural men met
ularity and at a fairly keen demand.
lest Friday night at the Commercial
Oregon
:: Mosier
STEAM ER TA H O M A
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j The Mosier Book Store j
Painless Dentistry
PERSONAL SERVICE
NEWTOWNS ARE HELD
FOR EXPORT TRADE
Dr. W m . M. Post
The Bulletin Office
Ixxip Sarny A boat ( omplttcd
With but two days' work more before
them for the completion of the surveys
of the main loop road and laterals
around Mount Hood to connect the
Upper Hood River valley with the old
Barlow road, the crew of government
engineers have left the acenie region
of high altitude because of snowfall.
“ By use of hand Icvela the remain­
ing portion of the line was run,” says
Al. Cruikvhsnk, who was a member of
lhe erew of engineer*, “ end sufficient
date was gathered for the making of
eetimates."
Mr. Cruikahank »ays that he has
never seen a more beeutiful country
than thst through which the proposed
the forest reservs will pas*. A crew
of 10 men was engaged on the work.—
Glacier. __
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For Hole—Trojan blasting powder for
rock* and stomp*
Poaitivaly no head-
arbe* and no thawing, strong a* anv
powder made
Write for pried. 8. I.
Frank, A f t , Hood River, Ore
tf
club to diacuaa the station's problems
with business men, about GO o f whom
were present.
Rams ( aoM Columbia to R im
The ram storms that have prevailed
th* past week over eaetern Oregon and
Aaahirigton are row showing in the
rapid rise of the Columbia river. The
local office of the Regulator line report!
that the Columbia is shout three feet
higher than normally at thia season of
the year, and the etreain continue* to
rise
Up to two weeks ago the Colum­
bia waa far lower than normally at thia
■eaaon.
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A liva graaehopper will eat a dead
grasshopper. A Missouri farmer mixed
peris green and bran together and let
a grasshopper eat it. It died, and 20
ate it up, and they died. Four hun­
dred ate 20, and they died. Eight
thousand ate those 400, and they died.
A hundred and •ixty'thouser.d ate thoea
8,000 and died, end tbe farmer wae
troubled no more.
wants your
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Quality of W ork the Best
Prices are Right