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MOSIER BULLETIN PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY BY RO G ER W. MOE SUBSCRIPTION RATES On« Y mt Month. ti.fio Thfw Month» Entered aa M.ond-claa« matter March 12. 1909 at the post office at Muster. Oreron. under the Act of March 3, UT79. VOL. VII MOSIER, WASCO COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 19 1 « . HOOD RIVER 60 YEARS AGO W h a t T im e Is It? Everyone asks this question many times daily. Our lives are regulated by our watches. You are beginning a New Year. Begin right by having your watch thoroughly cleaned and adjusted. Our repair work gives splendid service and will prove worthy of your patronage. SHIP THROUGH AGEN CIES, IS ADVICE W. F. Laraway, Jeweler and Optician , E X P E R T SW ISS W A T C H R E P A IR IN G One day he asked his neighbor, Why his chickens laid so well. He said, ‘‘Not feed nor labor, But my hen house built so swell.” See ‘‘Lumber Bill” for “Tum-A-Lumber” and built your hen house snug and warm. And the eggs roll out from under. All the chickens on the farm. •SEE J . S. ANDERSON ABOUT IT'* Tum-A-Lum Lumber Co. AT T H E HO M E O F M o sier, O re g o n transportation Electric Light Globes T h e kind best adapted to Mosier Service First Winter Recorded X «e n » < * it e « ♦ ec ■o » 3 O u bú 10.00 teeal advFrtiMmmta will ln all cum I» charevri to the party order in g them, at l«*ai rat««, and paid for before «Aidavit» are furnished. Nichol & Company General Merchandise -D E A L E R S I N - OREGON t i l l M i l I I I I l-H I i I I |..; H ; r i i i e-i-l-t .i i l-H -l -i !■ H -H -H -l- Painless Dentistry P E R S O N A L S E R V IC E W h y g o to P o rtla n d fo r d e n ta l w o rk ? D o y o u s to p to c o n s id e r th e se rv ic e y o u re c e iv e fro m th e h a n d s of th e d e n tis t w h o is h ire d by th e w e e k to o p e ra te fo r you? H a v e y o u r w o r k d o n e a t h o m e hy th e d e n tis t w h o d o e s th e w o rk fro m sta rt t o finish. J J k G o ld C ro w n s - - #5 B rid g e W o rk , p e r t o o th 8» G o ld F illin g s - - » ¿ t o So P o rc e la in C ro w n s - - Sil.50 P o rc e la in K illings - - A l.5(1 S ilv e r F illin g s - - t l . S l . M P la te s . . . . 8 » to » 1 2 E x tr a c tin g . . . . . 50c Dr. Wm. M. Post O ffice H o u rs 9 to 12, 1 to *. P h o n e 2401 R o o m s 18-19 H e ilh ro n n e r Rldg. H o o d R iv e r, O re g o n Weather We have had lots of weather the past month,—not all agreeable. "Rainy days” come to all of us. If you have a hank account you will be prepared for the rainy day that is sure to come. MOSIER VALLEY B A N K M o sier - O re g o n Udiio, runidiiu ac /iMuua navicatimi Gumpuuj Steam er “ Dalle* City** and “ S tran ger*1 I«e«v(*N P ortland 7 a. n»., arrive« The D>»ll**« fl:30 p in., H tinday, M onday, T uesday. W ednesday, Thu isday (not Friday] and M aturday. A rrive« up a t Moelei about A p. m l-eave« The Dalle« 7 a. m ., arrive« P ortland 6:30 p. in. H unday, M onel«/, Tues d ay, W ednesday, T hursday, F riday, (not Saturday). Arrive« dow n at Mo«ter about H:4A a in. W ednesday of each wee* 1« «et aside a« “ Stork Y ard Day " and then the Bteamer "D alles City will take live stock for delivery tt> P ortland U nion Htock Yard T his «er vlna «vili perm it the Ind ividual to sh ip a« few anim al« «« desired and get the benefit of low freight rateN. For further In firm â t Inn telephone num b er Ml. .1. O. B E L D I N , A g e n t P h o n e i Cheer Up! > ■V % S.(9 Busin— local« will b* cbar#*d at 5 cent« p«r tin« for aach insertion. ii M OSIER John Davis, he often to me said, ‘‘My chickens will not lay; I feed them dollar wheat for feed. But cannot make it pay.” I*r month t .BO On« «guara Un*-quart«r Column. On«-half Column ... On« Column No: 50 grove for shelte r. Our own cows came night to post the moon on the events to ua for protection and all the rest of the preceding day. The m ornin g ; \ followed. Mr. Laughiin felled trees to proved pleasant and the re st of the trip !! m ake a large enclosure to keep them was uneventful. away. When the storm abated he sent an Indian with a message to those men to come and take their stock away. But the men abandoned the stock and SON OF PIONEER WRITES STORY went to their homes a t the Cascades. The c attle stayed in that grove until every one died. All of Dr. F a r n s w o rth 's and all of Mr. I.a ughlin’s but However large they may have been, 14 head also died At t h a t tim e there was quite a deep ravine running from cam paigns and m eetings among fruit j u s t below the spring down through the growers of the n o tth w e s t dwindle in grove. By spring t h a t ravine was full comparison with the propaganda of ed ucation proposed by no less an in s t it u of dead cattle. (H. C. Coe in Hood River Glacier) A f t e r Christm as Dr. Fa rnsw orth be tion than the D e p artm en t of Agricul tu re of the United States, which is Hood R iv er has j u s t passed the half came discouraged, so he and Mr. now looming, according to advices r e c entury m ark of its first settlem ent. Laughiin felled a large hr tree, dug ceived In Hood River by Wilmer Sieg. The ranks of those haidy pioneers, who and burned and hewed out a very large C. W. Moornaw. C. E. Bassett ami alone can tell the story of its earliest canoe, in which he loaded e verything W. H. Kerr, re p re se n tativ es of the s e ttle m e n t, a re being so rapidly deci he had and drifte d away from Hood Office of M a rkets of the United S ta te s mated by the G re at D estroyer t h a t very River forever. I hia left Mr. L aughlin's family very I ’O 'a r t m e n t of A griculture, « h o have soon the last of these forerunners of civilisation shall have crossed the dark forlorn. They had a w inter of struggles been ,n W ashington since the middle of river and passed into the g r e a t un and hardships. With the help of Indi- J \ n, ^ ry, ip r e p a r ‘n8 a r. W r t , on . * n ana whom he hired he felled trees to ''eal 8a.t , ° n ..™ade f r u ,t IR0™’ known beyond. Those of you who now, with wonder m ake corrals to se p a ra te the weaker in8, 8 u te8,' ' )r,!8“"' Washington, Idaho havu b««n • "•tr o e te d to ing friends, as you pass from f a rm to c attle and try to save some if possible, *nd fa rm , point with pride to the magnifi hoping from dav to day for a Chinook f f turn V? the .n or‘h " e' t ' *nd “ >»«««>« wind. Finally flour gave out. Then h « * " ' 1 1 ‘" T 1 . w ,th tb,> » « « h e r s of cent orchards t h a t are sc a ttere d e v e r y b,ca*}ue a t hpokane. At w h e r e ; as you pass the steepled church- he hired Indians to go to the Cascades . es and overflowing schoolhouses, can to buy some. They were gone for a thls l !me i bey,,,wl .ma.ke ,, nu)?n tbclr ittle a p preciate the vast wilderness— long time and re tu rn e d with short«, ; report ,*nd « ' ll undoubtedly offer some g g e s t i o n a to the League, but the pn - i the u t te r loneliness t h a t surrounded the and demanded half of th a t, of which i ^ inary purpose of ‘h<‘ the '»evting. meeting, as as aug- Very soon ,nar.y p? r P°“ of pioneer se tte rs of this lovely valley. they brought but little gested by a letter received by Mr. Sieg \ F o r lovely it was, even in its solitude, this, too, was gone. Tbv*n Mr. Laugh from Charles J. Brand, chief of the l Deer, be ar and elk roamed a t will iin dug out a small canoe for himselt .office, will he to outline plans for .. , , .. through the park-like f o r e s ts ; cougar, and went up to The Dalles for sup-i wolves and coyotes were in plentiful plies. While there he made arrange- ! meetings of fruit grow ers in every sec m ents with Major Alvord to lease land l,on of the four states, evid ence; gre use and pheasants were Judging »rom Mr. Brand a correa- | found in abundance, while the stre a m s for a f a rm on the g ove rnm e nt reserve- were filled with trout and the river lion (the sa m e land which he a f t e r po" d e i,ce the g o ve rnm e nt investigation with salmon. N a tu re was indeed lavish wards held as a donation claim ). As 088 . ^?und JO8 eb,le* failures in the in her anim al and plant life th a t could soon as the snow had gone off he gath- m*r l ie l|ng o t boxed apples due to leek ««operation on the w r t of Individual tie used by the pioneer for himelf and ered what horses were left and hired the Indiana from White Salmon, who * r° W8r8' who m ake shipm ents to d.f- ! his herds. five canoes, to take the family up i e r e n t m a r k e ts direct. Mr. Brand evi- | But when w inter came w ith its had - - - - - - ------ ■ - I uence* a feeling of dreary snows and storm s and he was the Columbia to The Dalle*, while he uen" ' * .f 8el!"K of confidence in the and bis son, Jam es, drove the p.tiful “ V i * hh,ppfri and the unable, work however hard he mey, to handful ndful ol ot stock back over those hills "b 'l.ty of the organisation of shipping provide sufficient sustenance to proper ha concerns to stabilize to a g r e a t degree ly care fur his dumb beasts, then a nxi where so lew months before they had the m a rk e tin g of th e ir product. But ety hovered over the pioneer's h o m e ; driven such a large herd. before the work of the governm ent can he eBgerly watched the sunset skies for Early in the spring of 1854 a family ! be made effective, it is declared, it will the first signs of the coming west wind be necessary to carry a message direct th at m ea n t w arm th and s tr e n g th to his excursion party consisting of N. Cot to the growers them selves, and edu and wife and the w riter, then a hoy of famished stock. cate them to the necessity of coopera Sum m er cam e a t l a s t ; hia herds be nine ye ars, left Portland, Ore., for a tion, not merely in name, hut in reality came sleek and round as they fed upon t r ip to Fort Dalles, a t th.it tim e head -c o o p era tio n t h a t will he practiced. the nutritious grasses, and all natu re of navig atio n on the Columbia river. All grow e rs will he told to form some seemed to Bmile upon him. But anon Our first d a y ’s ride was on the little affiliation with a re p re se n tativ e and r e d i s t a n t rum ors chilled his blood. They side wheel s te a m e r Fashion, VanBerang putable shipping organization. came neare r and nearer, until an Indian m aster. The J a m e s P. Flint was the 1 It is probable th a t the plans of hold w ar in all its horrors was upon him. pioneer boat on the middle Columbia, ing grow ers meetings have been more The sickening, monotonous heating of but trade seemed b e tte r on the lower thoroughly workeil out for the s t a te of the war drum , the yells of the i n f u r i river, so she was taken over the Caa I d''«»!0» than for any other o f the ated sa va ges, the blazing walls of bis cades the ye ar before and renamed > n o rthw e stern boxed apple states. Mr. neighbor's h o m e - a l l these have been Fashion. says t h a t D r.H e cto r McPherson, An all d a y ’s trip brought us to the Brand the e x p e n e n e of the early pioneers of * ' Ol - ■ - ■ - - lower Cascades, where we were very , . . Hood River. hospitably e n te rta ined a t the home of h* a to collaborate with 1 am under many obligations to Mrs. E lzabeth Lord, d a u g h te r of Ju d g e Will B. B. Bishop, brother-in-law to the tbe offlc® °,f M arkets and a ssist with Bradfords, then in the l be proposed meetings. An absolute : iam C. Laughiin, the poneer se t tl e r ot [ neutrality, as between the different j Hood River, for a very graphic and business a t the Cascades. The portage of six mileB was a r a th e r j m ark e tin g organizations will be pre thrilling account of th e ir aw ful w in se rv ed ; apple grow ers will merely he t e r ’s experience in our valley. You complicated procers. F r e ig h t for trana told to join some selling agency, and j who. these w inter evenings, ait by your portation was first loaded in schooners, working in conjunction with thejgov- j c om fortable fireside, the room flooded which, when the wind blew sufficiently l e m in e n t the S hippe rs’ League will be with electric light, let your thoughts strong, were driven to the landing then 1 wander back to the horrors of that known as the middle blockhouse, but expected to work out the a ctual task of j the best m anner of distribution and j dreadui w inter j u s t n a n a century ago. i , Im agine if you can the little log cabin they were unjoactol’ Plans of an incorporation of the 1 alm ost buried in snow, surrounded by th a t came around Sh e rid an ’s Point, and Shippers' League were held in abey hundreds of s ta rv in g cattle ; the de spe r was hauled up by a windlass run by a ance until a f te r the re p o rt of the Office a te fight for life itself, the sickness, ve ry p a tie nt and inte lligent mule. of M arkets had been subm itted. It is hungei and cold within, and then tell When the car reached the sum m it of expected t h a t this incorporation will me if you can the quality and number the incline the mule was unhitched be effected along lines to he su ggested of joys t h a t paia dise should hold to re from the windlass, attached to the car a t the Spokane m eetin g tomorrow. quite the pioneer, even in part, for the and s ta r te d for the upper Cescudes The report made lsat week by the alone over a wooden tram w a y , with a privation he has undergone. couple of boards in the middle of the Office of M arkets on the distribution of n o track for the “ e n g in e " to walk on. ! rthw e stern boxed apples is c h a r a c t e r Arriving a t his de stination, the mule ized by Mr. Sieg as being of little was unhitched, turned m ound and , value. This report, however, is dis coupled onto an empty flat c ar and tin ct from the one to be made tom or By Mrs. E lizabeth Laughiin Lord row. D ata from the form er was g a t h Hood River was first settled by Will s ta r te d on his return trip. A pole was ' ered by r e p re se n tativ es of the Office of iam Catesby Laughiin and his wife, . lashed to his aide and then to the car. M arkets sent to Spokane early last Mary Laughiin. Both of them w e r e 1 This acted as a kind of auto m atic brake fall, ’i h e s e men planned merely to se ; , . born in K entucky. They moved to Illi to keep the car from running over the i • nd nois in 1832; were m arriedjand moved " e n g i n e . " T h i. a rra n g e m e n t worked points to which it was shipped. to Missouri in 1840. They crossed the well for a while, and saved the services “ The report i t s e l f , ” says Mr. Sieg, plains to Oregon in 1850, lived in The of a conductor, but the mule got onto "show s t h a t grow ers tailed to cooper Dalles two ye ars and moved to Hood his job, and when well out of sight ate with the governm ent, in th a t out of would stop to g e t up more ste am and River in the fall of 1852. 9,407 cars of apples reported, hut 4,313 Having accum ulated quite a number incidentally to take good long napa thereby seriously interfering With the " ere, « p o r t e d ny shippers. The delm- of c attle and horses by trading with the Eventually 9««»1 shippers, however, were not Indians and im m igrants. Mr. Laughiin tran s p o rta tio n business. decided to locate on a good range and a fireman had to be added to the list of »m°"K ‘he * '«««"> associations, but " ere made UP from Kr« « ers " ho were m ake a home for himself and family tr a in hands. At the upper Cascades the Bradfords shipping independently. , Dr. Karnwaorth, an old friend and fam- --------------------------- family physician, having arrived from had j u s t completed a »mail schooner of « Missouri e arly in the season, they con about 40 tons burden, which was mak- i i a a t , n , 1 , 1 / ■■ » , r ing trip* to Fort Dalle* when the cluded to s e ttle at Hood River, then called Dog river. Mr. Laughiin had winds were favorable. At th is point looked the country over and thought it stood B ra d fo rd ’s store,w here two years the loveliest spot on e a rth . However, a f te r w a r d a handful of brave, fearless they delayed moving down until the men for three days held at bay hordes im m igration was all in. when they took of Indians, in what is known as the T here ia little chance th a t congress, all the stock they could get to winter Cascade massacre. We hoarded the schooner and with a this session, will auth orize the creation for a sta te d price per head. Mr. of the Mount Hood National park. Laughiin had about 100 head of horses fine breeze blowing we made good The lands, other than private hold and the sa m e n um ber of c attle of his progress and about noon reached Hood ings, t h a t could he embodied in the j own, and a bout 200 head of c a ttle to River, then known as Dog River. We Mount Hood park are today included in ; herd for others. Dr. F a rn sw o rth had were all very .much pleased.w ith the a forest reservation, under the juaria- j general aspect of the country and my about 100 altogether. diction of the A gricultural d e p artm e n t, i Some tim e in October they e ngaged a l a t h e r dete rm ined to te t u r n a t his If the park should be created the pub e flat boat to t a k e the families and sup a r lie st convenience and exam ine the lic lands involved would he tr a n s f e r r e d i plies down the river, the doctor going lands with a view of locating if s a t is to the jurisdiction ot the Interior de- ' down with them . Mr. Laughiin, with factory. We reached our destination p a rtm en t. two hired men and the docto r's 16-year- th at evening at F ort Dalles,which then Discussion of the Mount Hood park old son, drove the stock over the trail consisted of a governm ent post located in Oregon has brought to m em bers of The boat made the run down and land a bout half a mile south of the few the Oregon delegation numerous pro- ed where the ferry landing now is, in sc a tte rin g houses on the river, where st.eep and stockmen w h o . one day, while the stock took two days now stands the city of The Dalles. We test* J rom using the ra nge on the east have been to m ake the trip. A f t e r driving the remained over a day a t this place, and south slopes of Mount Hood for stock across Dog river. Mr. Laughiin which had at t h a t time but few a t t r a c sum m er range, under pe rm it of the and his men joined the families in tions. The only steam vessel then on the Fore st service, and they are loudly pro- camp, and the next day crossed the middle,Columbia was the little propel tesin g againat the creation of the park, riv er by fording with ox teams. Mr. Laughiin landed on the Coe place ler Allen. Capta in Tom Gladweil, th at because it would deprive them of their grazing privilege. Sheep and cattia and built a small log cabin. Owing to was capable of c arrying few paasen the latenesa of the season and the se ri gera and little freight. She only made grazing is not allowed in national rks. ous illness of hia eld est ton, Jam es, a few trips, however, when she was pa Another fe a tu re has developed in who had typhoid fever, he hastened to wrecked or c as t away, and her old iron connection with the park project tn a t g e t a sh e lte r over hia family. Dr. hull may still be seen a t any low w ater may have the effect or delaying action. Fa rn sw o rth took more time and built a abort distance above Mitchells Point As long as Mount Hood and the s u r a b e tt e r and larg e r cabin on the place on tha E dgar Locke farm. As the rounding territo ry re m a ins w ithin f o r a f te r w a r d s known a t the Jenkins place. schooner t h a t we came up on would not e st reserves roada and trails can be E v er y th in g now teem ed propitious to he ready to re tu r n for some days, and built by the Fore st service out of tha the m aking of nappy and perm anent a down river t r ip was likely to be a receipts from tim ber sales, g r a ti n g homes. But a short tim e elapsed until tedius one, we determined to take pern.its, etc. The Fore st service, and a very heavy snow fell. 1 have no passage nn the Allan, which was to iarticularly F o re ste r Graves and the date, but know it was in November, s t a r t the next morning. The trip down the river was a rough oal officials in Oregon, have shewn and much of the snow remained on the strong desire to open up thia scenic ground until March. The cabin was in one, and a f te r an all day battl* with section as f a s t as fund* ara available. the edge of a beautiful grove of medi the wind* and wave* we reached White um sized fir tree s, and all of the cattle Salmon, then tho only se ttle m e n t be from fa r and near made their way to tween F o r t Dalles and Cascade*. The Mr Arthur IntrodscM Road Bill t h a t grove. There were eeveral men sole white resident here was K. S. Joa- R epresentative McArthur, of P o r t down near Mitchells Point herding over lyn, who with h n wife had located 500 heed of cattle, and they all came there, if my memory serve* me right, land. last week introduced in the lower the year previous. I t was dete rm ined house of congress a bill appropriating up to the Laughiin cabin. No one who has not witnessed such s to rem ain here over night, and a t there |2flO,non for a Mount Hoad roadway condition can imagine w h a t it was like was no accommodation on the b o a t— from G overnm ent r a m p to the Hood They came In the night, end all erewd not even a cold handout—Mr. Joalyn, River valley, with late ra ls to Elk and ed around our poor Titte cabin, bellow who was a t the landing, very cordially Brook meadows, and to connect with ing and horning each other, until it invited all hand* to Ms homo, which in I hifur ai.d The Dali**. The original plan of the bill was to •eemed as if pandemonium bad broken vitatio n it ia needle** to aay was gladly pay the eoat from the national foreat loose. On looking out th ere sppeareo accepted. receipts and reim burse the sta te for its It i* rem a rkable how a m a n 's p e r ■ te a of heads and horn* as far as the eye could reach. They broke in the sonality is reflected in e verything that share of the funds. McArthur sa ys he door eeveral time*. The f a an ly was autrounda him, and the welcome e x abandoned this because of objections terrified, as it seemed as if the walls tended to the hungry and tired p a sse r from other parta of the s ta te , and b e would give way. Mr. Laughiin fought ge rs and crew of the Allen by Mr. Joe- cause the proposed national pa rk would them aw ay until morning, when be lyn and hia e a t i m a il c wifa seemed to remove jurisdiction from the foreat tried to drive them off. bat they were extend down to even tho old watch service, m aking a direc t appropriation ell gentle animal* ¡ a n d came to the dog. who** bovine«« it was d a rin g the r.ccevaary. H. C. foe Tells of White Man's First Winter in Community Early Indian War Account ADVERTISING RATE«« Prof— tonal Cam* n on -a* «— »- ,« * M * 321 **»- Prosperity is on the W ay. Business is good. The Mosier Book Store ( BE HELD UP fK H)l) lAKH MAY H otpoint Electric Irons, Stoves. Ovens, Coffee Percolators, Electric T oasters and all other elec tric appliances. For sale by our agents Arthur Pharmacy, Mosier, Or. Pacific Power & Light Co. * A L W A Y S A T Y O U R S L R V I C C " A Popular Confec- fectionery Store where th e most delicious candies r a n l>e proenred, is alw ays a aource »f attraction to th e girl with a aweet tooth, which is th e reason for th e d em and upon ua at all times. Everyone t h a t likes rich snd luscious chocolates, da inty marshmel- low*, fine bons-bons and cream carmels, m ade from high grade and pure ingre dients, always find their way to The Oaks S. E . F r a n c is c o P ro p rie to r " T M l O A K I" Better Equipped than ever in our new location for High Claw Protraits. Open Evenings T he T ow ne Studio 216 T h ird S tre e t T he Dalles . . . . . Oregon 1 f f «asea- •* STEAM ER TA H O M A P e o p l e s n a v ig a t io n CHARLES NELSON, C o m p a n y M anager . leaves The Dalles 7:00 A. M., Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Arrives at Mosier at 8:16. A. M. Leaves Portland on Mondays. Wednesdays and Saturdays from Oak Street Dock. Passengers and freight. Mosier Dock in charge of J. W. Huskey, who will meet all boats and attend to transfer. Phone No. 85. Bulletin Office wants your : J 0 PRI NTI Quality of W ork the Best Prices are Right BUTTER WRAPPERS According to Requirements of the Pure Food Law