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TRIBUTE PAID
PIONEER WOMEN
V ALLEY MOTHERS POSSESSED FAITH
D. A. Turner, Earliest Pioneer Surviving.
Tells Interesting Stories of Days
Before The Orchards
Bv Joe I*. Thoudson
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that shelf yon promised the wife'’ And that broken step
in the cellar step ’ And did you entirely forget that you
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the attie for the children with a few dollars worth of “ Tum-
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Enli>rp<1 u HH-orut r j u i matter March 12. 1909 at
th* poat ufVkoe at Monier. O refon . andar the A ct o f
M arch :t. 1*7V
Winter Time
ProfaMiuoal Cards..
MOSIER BULLETIN
ROGER W. MOE
Just lilt down all those little items
and let us give you a price on the whole lot. It'll be so
small an amount that you'll have no valid reason to give
y.air wife for not "flxin* up” . Ia*t's talk it over. Won t
cost you a rent. Ami what a difference it will make in
your HOME this winter
"S ee J. S. Anderson about it”
The Home of ‘Tum-A-Lumber’
The Bulletin Office
wants your
JO B P R I N T I N G
Quality of W ork the Best
Prices are Right
On land, some of which has since
sold for $1,000 per acre, the Hood Riv­
er valley homesteaders a half century
ago found difficulty in making a living.
Some of these pioneers are today
among the apple district’ s wealthiest
orchardists.
“ Hut had it not been for the wives
o f those settlers,” says David A.
Turner, the earliest surviving pioneer
of the community. " I do not believe
a single one of them would have re­
mained here. ”
No man knows better the history
of the mid-Columbia region than does
Mr. Turner; for he has lived it.
Mr. Turner was born in Randolph
county, Missouri, September 21, 1836.
His mother was a Kentuckian and his
father had emigiated to Missouri from
Virginia. The lure of gold carried Mr.
Turner to El Dorado county,California,
in 1857, but after four years of the life
there he came with William Odeil to
Hood River, settling where he pur­
chased the squatter’ s rights to a home
stead plot in the Odell district, the
place now being owned by Dr. M.
'lhrane. Mr. Turner has lived more
than 10 years longer in the Hood River
valley than any other surviving pio­
neer.
" I pay my tribute to the wives of us
pioneers,” he says, “ because 1 have
seen their husbands pleading with them
to pull up stakes and leave for a more
fertile region. 1 have seen women
helping their husbands saw wood day
in and day out; I have s^en them assist
with the farm work. Hut a woman is
mure home loving than a man. These
mothers of the Hood River valley had
grown tired of the ceaselesa moving
from place to place. Perhaps they had
some foreknowledge of the days of
prosperity that were to come. They
certainly had more faith than the men
had. and they have deserved all of the
reward they have received."
When Mr. Turner and his partner
reached the district now known for its
hundreds of acres of flourishing orch­
ards, the families residing in different
parts of the community could be num­
bered on one's Angers. Nathan Hen­
son was occupying the place now
owned by F. H. Hutton. Nathaniel
Coe, known as the founder of Hood
River, was residing on the Hood River
townsite.
William Jenkins,
whose
name is known to pioneers and who a
few years later was to meet with a
tragic death by drowning in the Co­
lumbia, was residing on the place later
owned by Dr. W. C. Adams and now
known as Paradise farm.
On Indian
cieck was the pioneer home of|James
U, Henson. On the East Side, now
the most thickly populated section of
the valley were hut two families, those
of Peter Neal and Jerome Winehell.
Mr. Turner recalls tut one other man
in the valley at that time. This was
A. C. Phelps, who was engaged in
making whiskey kegs on a little creek
west of the city that today hears the
name of the valley's first manufacturer.
"F or many years,” says Mr. Turner,
"this keg manufacture was the chief
industry of a present dry community.
The hillsides west of town were all
covered with oak trees, the timber of
which was of a fair quality.£ there
was great demand for the kegs at The
Ifalles. Whiskey was shipped there on
hoard the Columbia steamers in bar­
rels. But the barrels were too heuvy
for burros, and the fire water would be
transferred to five and lu]g;illon kegs
to he packed to the mines of Idaho and
the eastern part of the state."
The first man ever to drive a team
of oxen direct to the Hood River valley
was Davies Divers, who with his fam­
ily settled in the Summit district on
the ranch now owned by Gso. T. Pra­
ther.
" I remember how astonished we all
were when he drove down by the way
of M osier," says Mr. Turner. "There
were no trails even, in those days, and
the feat was considered the most re­
markable one we had any record o f .”
The winter of 1861 and 1862 was
the moat severe in the records of Ore­
gon’s history.
"The country was paralyzed from
Portland to Walla Walla,” sayB Mr.
Turner. "On New Years Dsy the ice
that had formed in the Columbia put
an end to boat traffic. One of the bnats
was fotced to tie up here at Stanley’s
landing.
The caretaker, who swept
the decks of the craft each day, meas­
ured each day’s snow fall. His records
showed at the end of the snowfall a
total of 13) feet. The river remained
frozen until March 19.
" I t would be imposaible to tell you
what we went through that winter.
My partner, who had taken up an ad­
joining claim, and I had laid in a lot of
barley. Our food for weeks consisted
of barley and poor venison. The Neala,
our nearest neighbors, were without
flour for a period of five weeks. We
Anally grew so desperate that Jerome
Winchelljand I set of! for , The Dalles
for provisions. The entire trip con­
sumed four days.
"W e came down to the Columbia and
walked up on the ice. At Rowena
George Sniper had a settlement. I be­
came terribly thiraty when we were
opposite thia place, and fearing to
drink from one of the air holes in the
ice we went ashore and called at hit
place. There were five dead cows on
the man's front piorch, and between
the Sniper place and The Dalles we
counted hundreds of dead horses and
cattle. 1 shall never forget the horror
of that winter. It caused the death of
all the cattle in the Hood River valley.
Of course, the Neal and Winehell fami­
lies slaughtered some of their animals
for food, but the beef was to poor that
it had but little nourishment in It.
Actually, the cattle were so thin that
they would scarcely bleed when alock
“ On our return trip from The Dalles
we were arrompaned by George Car-
rnir, a saddler. He. too, earned a hag
of flour thrown over his ahouldrea. As
we passed up through a lot by Stan­
ley's landing the las1 poor |row of the
community was standing in the path
ahead of ua. Cerroin was ahead. You
know a starving cow it vary fractioue
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to the party ordering them
at legal rates, and
paid for before affidavits are furnished.
1 lie animal thinks ms., should feed
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her. She attacked Carr’ m. However,
she was ao weak she could do him little
harm. But her wild bellowing and
lunges frightened the man, and drop
pirg his bag of flour he took to a will
iow tree. The cow then turned her at­
tention to the flour bag. making wild
hooka at it with her horns. Flour,
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Hit Brand of Turkay.
however, was too precious for cows,
The followiug story la reported from
and we drove her away as quickly as
the trenches in France:
possible.
A young German lieutenant and his
"When spring came you may guess
we were all ready to leave, hut toe orderly were doing patrol duty. All
faith of those women held u s."
day long they had been riding through
For the next 25 years, according to the woods without a bite to eat To­
Mr. Turner, settlement in the Hood
River valley did not prorgess very rap­ ward evening they came to a battery
of heavy artillery, where they dis
idly.
" I know of at least 50 families whn mounted and usked for some supper.
carne, lingered a while and then went The captain tu charge o f the guns told
somewhere else," he says. "The real the young lieutenant that he could
development of the valley did not begin i have some nice turkey. The young
until about 25 years ago, after David man took a hearty bite of the offered
Sears and J. C. Porter, the pioneer
Eaat Side orchardists, had planted a meat; theu, looking up suspiciously,
large tract of commercial apples. T. j asked:
F'l- l-l-l-l- l- l -F-l-l-l-l-l- l -l- l 'I 'I 'l 'I 'l- l-F-l-F 1- M - l-l-M ■H - I F l - l-l- l- l- l- l- H -F-H -l- l-l- j '
•'lleg your pardon, captain; did you
R. Coon, too, had given the valley a
boost by demonstrating that strawber­ say tlda was turkey7"
ries could be grown here successfully.
“ Why, sure, that's turkey!"
“ The pioneer settlers in the Upper
He took a few more bites and asked
V alley." says Mr. Turner, "w ere An­
drew H. 7 ietnan and Mason Baldwin, again, "Are you really sure, Herr Cap-
who took up land in the meadowland tuln, that this is turkey!"
P e o p l e ’ s n a v i g a t i o n C o m p a n y
"Certainly, Herr Lieutenant; turkey
country of that region and began stock
raising.”
It la!"
CHARLES NELSON, M a n a g e r .
Mr. Turner was married March 18, ■ The lieutenant finished hia meal lu
1866. “ I cooked my own wedding din- j alienee and thanked the captain for
Leaves The Dalles 7:00 A. M., Sundays, Tuesdays and
ner,” he says, "and it was a good din- ¡ his hospitality. Theu he called his oi
Thursdays. Arrives at Mosier at 8:15. A. M.
ner, too, if I do say it myself. The Í
minister, Rev. Thos. Rsmsdell, had to derly. "Fritz," he directed, "saddle
Leaves Portland on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays
walk a part o f the way to my Odeil our turkeys!"—Everybody's.
place, where my bride, Mandy J. Neal,
from Oak Street Dock.
Passengers and freight.
and her family had assembled, on skiis.
F a ith .
"The next day 1 went out and began ! S ecurely cabined In th e ship below ,
Mosier Dock in charge of J. W. Huskey, who will meet ull
grubbing hushes on my homestead. j T h rou gh d a rk n ess am i th rou gh storm I
boats and attend to transfer. Phone No. 85.
As soon as my wife had finished wash­
cro ss the sen,
ing up the breakfast dishes she joined A p ath less w ilderness o f w a v es to me.
me and burned the brush while 1 grub­ But yet I d o nut fea r, b eca u se I know
bed. You see, pioneer wives helped all > T hat he w h o gu ides the g o o d ship o 'e r
that w aste
they could.”
Three sons and a daughter were gees In the sta rs her sh ining p a th w a y
traced
born to thia hardy, pioneer couple.
B lin dfold I w alk this life 's b ew ild ering
Following the death of his first wife
m aze.
Mr. Turner was married again 19 years U p ilinty steep, th rou gh fro z e n m ountain
MOSIER, OREGON
ago, his second wife being Laura E.
pass,
Frost. Mr. Turner has now retired T h rou gh th orn set b arren and throu gh
C A P I T A L A N D S U R P L U S $ 1 1 .8 5 0 .0 0
deep m o ra ss;
from active business life. He and his
B ut stro n g In fa ith I tread th e uneven
wife resdie in this city.
w ays
DEPOSIT YOUR SAVINGS IN
Mr. Turner devotes his time to the ¡
protection of songbirds and to his gar­ A nd hare m y head u n shrinking to the i
A CAREFULLY M A N A G E D
blast,
dens. He delights in getting a crowd ) B eca u se m y F a t h e r s a rm la round m e
BANK.
of children around him and telling
cast.
them of the joys the birds will bring And If ti e w a y seem s rou gh I on ly cla sp
J. N. M osier , Pres.
them, and many a local lad has learned T h e hand that leuda m e w ith a Mrmer
L. J. M errill , Cashier.
from him not to molest the robbint and
grasp.
blue birds that come here in spring- j
—A n n e C. L y n ch B otta.
time to build their nests. Mr. Turner '
usually has the first sweet corn in the ¡
D is g u s t e d , b u t C a r a fu l.
valley.
Secretary of War Garrison has a
"1 have been amused the past year,"
he says, “ over all this talk about Hie friend who Is constantly ou guard
possibilities o f corn raising in Hood against being a spendthrift. The mat­
River. I have known for f>0 years that ter of expenditures Is ever on Ills mind.
S te a m e r "D a lle s C ity ” a n d "S t r a n g e r ”
Hood River would grow fine corn. 1 Not long ago he took up golf and made
L e a v e s P ortla n d 7 a . m , a r r iv e « T h e D alles »1:30 p. in ., M on d a y , M o n d a y . T u e sd a y ,
bought 10 pounds of ear corn in The fair progress. One day Garrison asked
W ediieM da.v, T h iijN d a y . [n o t F r id a y ] a n d S a t u r d a y . A r r iv e s u p nt M o«| .r a b o u t f>
Dalles 50 years ago, paying a dollar him how he was getting along at the
p. m . L ea ve« T h e Dnllt-« 7 a. m ., a r r iv e « P ortla n d ti: .0 p. rn. M unday, M o n d a y , T u e s ­
for it. I planted the seed, and since game.
d a y , W e d n e s d a y , T h u r s d a y , F r id a y , (n o t H aturday I A r r iv e s d o w n at M deter a b ou t
ft 46 a. in
W e d n e s d a y o f eaoh w eek I* set a s id e a « •■Stork Y a rd l>av' a n d th en the
that time I have not been without
"Oh, Just fair!" the tnau replied sad­
H ie«m er ••Dalles C i t y " w ill ta k e liv e stock fo r d e liv e r y t o P o r tla n d U n io n H tock Y a rd
corn, Hnd plenty of it. My neighbors
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e w III p e r m it the I n d iv id u a l to s h ip as few a n im a l« as d esired a n d g et the
always used to grow it. In the early ly. “ I’ve already lost three balls."
b en efit o f low freig h t rate«. F o r B lith er I n fo r m a tio n te le p h o n e n u m b e r til.
The same man went out to golf one
days we hauled oui grist to the old
Harbison mill on Neal creek. 1 have afternoon and became so Impatient
seen wagon loads of corn brought from with himself for Ills mediocre playing
1
Mosier to be made into meal.”
that he picked up one of his clubs and
Mr. Turner carries his 79 years well. almost started to break It across his
His life hss been one of temperance. knee to show his disgust; then he tried
He is one of the oldest members of the
Anbury Methodist Episcopal church in again and controlled his temper fairly
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the city, having become a member of well until he made another especially
this faith in Caliofrnia almost 60 years poor stroke. Once more he started to
ago.
break up one or more of his clubs, hut
Mr. Turner is an optimist, and likes exerted his will power and held him­
tn leave smiles. He is a musician, too, self back as be exclaimed:
and a pioneer meeting ia never com­
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“ I'll never play this confounded game i
plete until after Mr. 7 urner has ren­
dered some old time melody on his be­ again! I'll lake my gosh blamed clubs
A FULL LINE OF SCHOOL BOOKS A N D
loved fiddle. At a recent pioneer re- and I'll I'll sell then»!” —Boston Her
ui.iun some one mentioned tile quest of eld.
SCH O OL SUPPLIES A T
I’once de Leon for the fountain of
eternal youth. Fi. I.. Smith, another
I
W h s i Booth Laughed.
Hood River pioneer, was still smiling
William Mestayer, tho comedian, once
at the rendition of “ The Arkansas said: "I never saw Edwin Booth laugh
Traveler" by Mr. T urner on bis violin,
heartily but once. We were playing
and speaking quickly he said:
" i ’once do Leon did not come far ‘Julius Caesar* at Baldwin's, In San
enough west. That fountain, 1 think, F rancisco. Booth was Brutus, McCul­
is located up here on Davy Turner's old lough was Cassius, Hurry Edwards was
farm. ”
Caesar, and Charley Bishop and I were
plain, everyday citizens. It was the
last night of the run, and we all felt
frisky. Ho when Caesar s|s>ke the well
known Hue, ‘Let me have men alsjut
me that are fat,’ Bishop and I, both
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fat men, walked boldly up to Caesar
fFrom Hood River Glacier)
and shook him heartily by the bund.
As far as Hood River is concerned, it Booth laughed outright.”
seems likely now that the Northwest­
W h y g o to P o rtlan d fo r den tal w o rk ? I)o y o u atop to c o n a id e r
H ook's B i g Hoax.
ern Fruit Growers’ Council,formed last
t h e s e r v i c e y o u r e c e i v e f r o m t h e h a n d a o f t h e d e n t i a t w h o is h i r e d
Hoaxers exist In every profession and
February at Tacoma, Wash , will go
b y t h e w e e k t o o p e r a t e f o r y o u ? Have y o u r w o r ' i d o n e a t h o m e
the way of the North Pacific Frnit Dis­ walk o f life. They flourish In every
h y t h e d e n t i a t w h o d o e s t h e w o r k f r o m s t a r t t o f i n is h .
age and dime. They ply their art el
tributors, from which the Apple Grow­
titer as a mentis of livelihood or from
22k G o l d C r o w n s
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ers Association withdrew last spring.
the sole desire to gull the credulous
S il \ » r I l i l i l í e s
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B ridge W o r k , p e r t o o th
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The rock on which the Council i s 1 public. It was the latter which Incited
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breaking up, that ia, in the eyes o f lo­ that prince of piactlcal Jokers. Theo­
P o r c e l a i n C r o w n » - - tttl.ñO
E x t r a c t i n g • - • • - •»Of
cal growers, ia the demand of a cent a [ dore Hook, to perpetrate the most au­
box to be used next season in the ad­ dacious of all hoaxes, the Berners street
vertising of the apple and in a cam­ hoax, that for the time aroused all
paign for a broader distribution of London to laughter and Indignation.
northwestern fruits. The sentiment of
local men is for an expenditure for the Hook ls*t a guinea that a certain mod­
advanccmnet of Hood River's products. est dwelling In a quiet thoroughfare
O f f i c e H o u r s 9 t o 12, I t o 5.
P h o n e 2401
As the Association centralized all o f its lending out o f Oxford street would be
effort the pant season on its two main come the moat notorious house In town
R o o m s 18-19 H e i l b r o n n e r Bldg.
H o o d R iver, O re g o n
varieties of apples, Spitzenburga and and set about winning his wnger by
Ncwtowns, so it ia proposed to special­ addressing over a tbouaaii'J letters, con­
ize in advertising the Hood River | r• ■ 1 taining orders to tradesmen, with the
uct.
However, the Association, according request that they would at n certain
to Wilmer Sieg, will remain absolutely hour on a certain day deliver their
Better Equipped than ever in our new location
goods at a certain house In Berners
neutral in the matter.
"T h is,” says Mr. Sieg,” i* something street Besides the unfortunate shop
for High Class Protraits. Open Evenings
for the growers to decida for them­ keepers, who suffered much loss
selves, and we will make no recom­ through damage to their goods, others
mendation either way. If the taz of a wera Included In the fun. The lord
rent a box ia voted by growers, then mayor, the lo rd chief Justice, the arch­
we will act as collector for the Coun-1
bishop of Canterbury and the com­
cil "
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mander m chief were among the many
vlci.ms that fell Into the trap and,
216 Third Street
duly arriving at the appointed spot.ez-
perlenced most unceremonious treat
The Dalles
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ited throng.
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AT HOOD RIVER
ELEC T R IC T H E A T R E
Thorsda) and Friday
An Egg In the WJdtrness.
An amusing little Incident concern
lug an egg ts told by Captain Htlgand
In his "Hunting the Elephant In Af­
rica:"
It was a solitary ostrich's egg that
I found In the open. I sup|xioed It had
lieen dropped by the ostrich before she
Saturday
bad decided where to make her neat.
Robret Kdaaon in "The Absentee.”
I ate that egg In omelets for three
days, thinking myself lucky to get an
Sgrday and Monday
egg ao far from civilization, but mar
Louie Meredith in "H elp Wanted." l veltng much at Its peculiar flavor
From later ei|>er1ence o f oetrlcb egg*
Tacnday and Wednesday
t now know that that egg was bad!
Madeline and Marien Fairbanks in
"The Flying Tw ine,"
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The Electric has installed its nee
pipe organ, and now each picture it sc-
companicd by appropriata music. The
mufic is even better than that of a full
orchestra for accompaniment.
Hazel Dawn in a flva reel Paramont,
"N io te ."
T H E R E S A H EAP
OF COMFORT
In a bos of gcxxl cigars. They make a
man's troubles seem less, make the
world look brighter for him. A box of
cigars means fifty hours of solid enjoy*
went. It means having smokeson hand
that have all the \irtucs of good tobacco
ami none of the faults of poorer kind.
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