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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1906)
HOCD RIVER GLACIER, THUKSDAY, SEPTEMER 20, 1906, FATAL ACCIDENT NEAR LYLE The men were working on bridge ahont a mile below Lyle and at It o'clock Thursday afternoon were en gaged iu moviug the pile driver. While they were letting it down an in oliue the anchor rope broke, allowing it to sll mid turn over, burying un derneath it the engineer, Mill Wil liams. Another man, Cieorge Lund, waa also caught, but after a half min ute succeeded iu crawling out. Three others who aere injured were M. L. Potior, Edward (Jong and W. S. Dav is. The scene was a distressing one, the groans of the injured men uunerviug their fellow workmen, who were en deavoiing to assist them. Finall) Williams was extricated from Ois aw ful position, and juet as they were debating wont to do with the injured, the steamer Keling came iu eight and they were placed on the boat land brought to The Dalles, reaching here at 4 o'clock, the trip boing made in thirty minutes. They were at once taken to the hospital, where Drs. Ferguson and Reuter and the eutire hospital corps were kept busy during the eutire night. Engineer Williams was found to he in a pitiable condition his body be ing simply oooked by the steam from the engine. The wonder is that he lived to. teach the hospital. All that could be done for him waa to relieve bis sufferings and he died 7 o'clock iu the evening. lie is a single man about 50 years of age and has a moth er living In Santa Rosa, California, with whom the undertaker communi cated. George Lund was also badly scalded about the back, hips and arms. A finger of bis right hand was also brok en. The doctors believe that be will recover. Edward (Joi.g has a broken leg aud foot, five broken ribs and is injured in the pelvis. He is in a critical con dition, but his injuries are not con sidered fatal. M. L. Petier has a broken band and arm and a cut on the he.d. W. S. Davis, who received thu least injuries, has bis right arm broken in three places. YV it 11 Imitate Hood River. I'i ci uri.ged by the strides Hood Ri.er is making in the fruit business, the Dufur Dispatoh remarks: The recent reports in the papers shows what may be done, and is being done, in the fruit industry by our neighbors at Hood River, and !e there any reason why we in the neigh borhood of Dufur - should not do the same thing? For the past two years we have bad at least a partial failure of the wheat crop, and it seems to ni that it would be well to try the grow ing of fruit. There is no plane along Fifteeu Mile creek that will not raise good fruit if properly taken care of. U. P. ISaloh has some peaches this year that cannot be beaten for lus oiousness aud flavor, and the size is very good for the amount of fruit the trees bear. John Havely brought us n sample of some esobes that were raised on his plaoe in Dufur without irrigation that were very One, and George Johnson tells us that up Fif teen Mile creek, in a fence corner, are peach trees that bear fine fruit which are not oared for at all If this be true of trees without oare or water what may we not do if the trees are oared for in the proper way? The land all along Fifteen Mile creek is well adapted to the raising of fruit and if planted to fruit trees would make the laud worth $100 per aore where it now is worth but from 140 to 50. Wbat we have here said concerning peaches may be said of apples and pears, both of them are adapted to this climate and country particularly the New towns and Spitzenberg. With a 20- acre pieoe of land planted to these trees a yield of 1,500 may be realized while from the present products of the land at the best, we can get but $50 returns. TO "Elmdale two-four-ought What la your name" "Mr namn ia .Inhn HAnurr Miopia I live at 65 Blicken street. Violet Park, my bouse 'bone is Violet Park eight seven-seven or eight-double sev en, as you choose; 1 am married; have no children; we keep dog and a cat and a perpetual fern and Bos ton fern and' "All that is unnecessary, sir. Wa merely" Aud last summer we didn't have a bit of luck with our rosea. 1 tried to have a little gurdea too, but the neighbors' chickens got away with that; the house is green with red sa bles ; there it m cement walk from the street ; I am 40 years old ; my wife is younger, and looks it ; we have a pi ano; keep a cook and an upstairs girl; had the front bedroom papered laBt week aud I want to" Did you want Elmdale two-ousht- four seven" "Yes." gasped Mr. MigglBS. "Well, the oirouit is busy now. Please call again." Hut Mr. Migglea wrote a letter. A Miner's Inch. The Mining World savs: A miner's inch is the anantitr of the water de livered through each square inob of opening, and which varies from 1.4 to 1.7 cubic feet of water er minute. The custom among enginrera is to take 1.5 oubio feet of water per min ute as the equivalent of an inch. For illustration: 1,000 miner's inches of water (25 oubio feet per second) is about the quantity which would be carried by an ordinary wooden flume 30 inches wide, flowing 18 iucbes deep if the flume had fall of oue inch per box of 12 feet (36 feet per mile) this giving a stream velocity of 0.7 feet per second UNIVERSAL STOVES interests you because of the variety shown for your selec tion, and the price impossible under ordinary buying. We invite inspection An Unconditional Guarantee with Every Stove i selling thousands of these Universal in the years we have never been called on to make guaransee on a single Universal Hlgrh Valuation Placed Sheep. Many prominent shepnien of the oounty appeired before tbe county board of equalization and made pro test against tbe increase of taxes on their flocks, says the BakerCity Dem orar. This year the assessment nat been made on tbe basis of 94 bead valuation. The sheepmen say tbe ani mala are not worth that with tbe feed bills added. Tbe owners of flocks have decided to carry the matter before the oouuty court i'i an appeal for readjustment of valuations. A Serious Pest. Wbat is the meaning of the word "producer " as applied to tbe fruit industry? Tbe man who plows up pieoe of ground, digs holes, buys a miscellaneous assortment of trees and sticks them in the boles, grows any old-kind of fruit, is careless in spray ing, pruning and cultivating, gathers half a dozen boxes of a kind, all wormy, scaly, measly, tasteless, all sizes, all colors, all worthless except for bog feed, is a holy terror to the middl -man and the despair of tbe bnver and oonsumer. He is not a pro ducerhe is a pest-breeder. Like tbe lilv referred to in tbe Good Book, he "toils not," neither does he produoe fruit, and oerttainly "Solomon in all his glory" was not arrayed a one of these. He dumps bis - worthless wares in the packing house and de mands of the middleman top prices; and, when be cannot get them, turns "knocker" and runs down tbe Indus-t-y aud everyone connected with it. Let . as try to forget bis existence, and hope for the happy days wben be may no longer be tbe only fruit pest that it is murder iu tbe 9rst degree to deliberately kUl -W. a Offner. One Thousand Year Old Roue. One of tbe interesting horticultural curiosities of Kildesbeim, Germany, of which our staff correspondent, who Is spending bis sunnier vacation there, sends a photograph, is a thous and year old rose ("1.000 jariger Ro-enstock"). Judging from tbe il lustration it is still vigorous, and covers, or appears to do so, quite a large building. It seems also to re ceive .careful attention, and, quite likely, is in charge of oue ot tbe rose experts, for which Germany Is noted. It would be a matter of interest to know the history of this rose, as well as of tbe political and social obanges which have taken place since It was first established iu - be fertile soil of Ilidlesheim.-Gem State Rural Urants Pass Fruit Growers' Association A meeting of tbe Grants Pass Fruit Growers' association will be held on Saturday. September 22. at 1.30 p. m One of the principal matters for ac tion will be tbe adopting of a petltiou to tbe county court asking for tbe Bp pointment of a county fruit Inspector and the reoom mending of a suitable person for tbe position, to enforce tbe new state law that makes It obligatory on all owners of diseased fruit trees to either free them of pests or destroy them under penalty of it being done by tbe Inspector annd thejoost beoom Ing a lean upon tbe land. When two strong men come to blows, eveu if they are well matched, it is not a pleasing sight, but if the man who gets tbe worst of it will use DeWitt's wich Hazel salve, be will look better and feel better in short order. Be sure you get Dewitt's. Good for everything a salve is 'used for, including piles. Sold by Williams Pharmacy. Indians Violate dame Laws. Tbe Salem Journal says County As sessor Fred Kioe. who has lust re' turned from an outing atCascadia and in tbe mountains beyond, tells bow the Indians from tbe Warm Springs reservations are flagrantly violating tbe game laws and playing havpo with tbe deer Iu the mountains around Trout Lake and all tbe ooun try on tbe headwaters of tbe Santiam Starving to Death Because her stomach was so weakened by useless drugging that she could not eat, Mrs. Mary H. Walters, of Ht. Clair street, Columbus, Ohio., was literally starving to death. She writes : My stomach was so weak from useless drugs that I could not eat, and my nerves so' weakened Jtbat I could not sleep; and not before I was given up to die was I induced to try Electric Bitters With the wonderful result that improve ment began at once, and a complete cure followed." Best health tonic on earth. 50c. Guaranteed by Chas. N Clarke, draggift. Death of Charles B. Prathar. Charles B. Pratbar died at tbe Sol diers' Home at Roseburg, Septem ber 10. aged 71 years. The deceased was an old resident of tbe valley, liv ine at Pine Grove several years ago. and later took up a homestead in tbe Mosier valley, on Rock ereek. .Health failing him, and feeling tbe weight ot years, be went to tbe Soldiers' Home about a year ago where be remained until bis death. He was bora In Illinois, enlisted June L 1861, was discharged Septem ber 5. lau4. served in company u Twepty fifth Illinois Infantry, and was admitted to the borne uciooer in. 1905, from Hood Biver, Oregon. He married Leah Thompson near Forest Citv Mo. May 25. 1879. lie left a wid OW ana (wo cnuaren.a ooy auu a giri. In these davs of rush and hurry cour- lesy is often forgotten. In the mad pell mell rush of our life little tilings are done which offend that we rather they remained undone. A hastily ealtn meal and its resu taut headache may cause os social or fi ai cial loss. The arse man or woman is the one who re lieves little ills of this soil by a little dose of Kodol For Dysj eptit. It digests wbat you eat and puts your tniac back into shape. Sold by Williait Pharmacy. . . , (Jetting "Lons Distance." Mr. Miggles was trying to call up a frieud who lived in a suburban town, savs tbe New Orleans Picayoune. Mr. Mk'cliu looked uo the nuinier, thin otit nMiitrnl "Hello f lie taid "Give ine Eiiu- dnln tn-nuulit-four-seien '' "Kludale? I ll gne you the long flihtflitfA ' Lonu di-tauce asked. "What is it?" "Elindale Uo-ougbt-four-seren. -"Klmdale tao-onght-fonr-ieven? "Yes." vthi.t is your number?" "I jnst told you. Elirdale two ought" "1 n.ean your house uiinihei." Sixty-five ulickeu ttrtet "Oil, that isu't wbat 1 mesn 'nl.miA iiimihar " "Whv didn't vou ear so?" asked Mr. Minnies, who is uoted for his quick temper. "I did. What is it?" "Violet Park eight-seven-seven.' "Viol, t Park eight-double seven "1 reckou so." Your Coe's Addition the Market. We have Disced in our hands for rate all tbe lots belonging to H. C. Coe In Coe's Addition to Hood Kiver. Lota will be sold at the price ol saw and uo for the next 30 days. I In is tli best opportunity w secure iois in iui beautiful portion of Hood Kiver ever offered the DUblic. The number is limited and the choice should be made earlv. One lot wn bouse, was sold last week, rive Ms and house were sold yesterday. T aiore to-day. They will not last lonji a these prices. For further information see W.J. BAKER A CO, past 22 the good TTardwarft OTT7"r A "OrTC Tinware Paints VJ 1 XL, W rM A 3 Crockery JOHN LELAND HENDERSON, Pres. Attoruey-at-Law and Notary Public J. M. BCHMELTZER, Sec.-Treas. Notary Public True-to-Name Nursery Have for the coming reason's paw in a few thousand choice Newtown. Sujlxenburg and a few other leading varieties for poleinzera. Cherry, pear, and peach of the Wading vari-tie, adapted to this locality. All buds ami scions used in propogating carefully selected from vigorous, pnililiw trees. Past seasons have been unable to supply the demand and our stock fur tbi a-.-son is limit-d. Would Ihett-fore u uest you tile your orders at an early date to gat choice stock, li. S. Galligsn. Phona farmers 84 J. H. FURGU80N, Vice President and Manager. ..Hood River Land.. Emporium INCORPORATED Real Estate, Loans, Insurance, Abstracts, Collections, Conveyancing and Surveying We are prepared in a special manner to handle all kinds of business in any of the above lines and have a large list of improved lands and city property from which to make your selection for a fruit ranch, a stock farm or a home in the city. With an Extensive Correspondence We are able to handle your prop erty advantageously and will be pleased to have you list same with us CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED The president of the company iH the city engineer, and is prepared to do surveying and civil engineer ing work of all kinds. Abstracts furnished and opinions given on property titles. Collections a Specialty. Phone Main 141. We arc Making it Easy For You to Buy Here We are pursuing different methods perhaps than you have been accustomed to, selling goods on a different plan. Why not become familliar with the idea iu ....VOGT BROS." CLOTHING CIRCLE.... We will stand behind it with a broad If we don't please we will pay niaranttv. vour mon v back. There is Nothing that Could be Fairer than This This is the One-Price Store and that prii'e the Lowest made in the city on Good nu-rcluutdise VOGT BROS. LEADING CLOTHIERS P J MILWAUKEE NURSERIES MILWAUKEE, OREGON. N. B. HARVEY PROPRIBTOK GUIGNARD& ROSIGER, Local Ajtnts, Hood River We will have for the Fall trade 5(1,000 one and two year old Yellow Newtown Pippin and Spitzenburg apple trees, also all the leading variedies of Apple. 1'ear, l'lum, 1'rune, Peach, Cherry and EuglMi walnut tret'a, ornamental trees, ahruiia and Rosea. Our trees are true to iiaiiie and give good satisfaction. For nrines call on Auiriint (iiiiunard, Hood Kiver. or address N. B. Harvey, Milwau kee, Oregon. Phone If You Would Crow Choice Fruits BUY of the Russelville Nursery Co. PORTLAND, OREGON. GROWERS OF FINE NURSERY STOCK VABIKTIKH OK HI'KOIAL MKK1T Careful and "reliable attention given to filling evnry order with filBt-class trees and plants. Hatisfacrlon Guaranteed G. H. Wilson, Hood River, local agent. Phone 1221 Box 52 ByloTalcum Powder Whether you pay 2e or r0e you can get NONE BETTER THAN BYL0 AT 250 BIG CAN BEST TALCUM A LETTER I wish to say to all pur old friends and custom ers who for so many years came to our shop for their meats, that it is useless for me to introduce Wood Bros., our successsors, as their 18 years in the butcher business in Wasco county has made them so widely known that un introduction is un necessary. Being honest, capable business 'men, they have the means and ability to rwn a business as it should be run, and in a way that will be a credit to our city. I expect to stay with the new firni for awhile, and will be glad to see-you all at the old stand. 1 will guarantee that you will get just as much meat for your money, just as courteous treatment and just as prompt service as can be had in the city. We will have a full line of everything good to eat for the Spring trade, Respectfully yours, E. S. MAYES. Box Wood FOR SALE AT THE Box Factory Phone 71. G. II. ltoHIIINS C. D. Thompson ROBBINS & THOMPSON NURSERYMEN, HOOD KIVER, ORE. We offer Hood River grown nursery lock and do all kinds of Orchard and Xnrsery work. Lay off, plant, prune, trim and cultivate younu. orchards in the most thorough and up-to-date man ) i. fflanj 0 Arabnmj tki DAixxa. oaxooa. 4r t tt direction f Ui Ititan t tat Wtf m uf Jhui ind lUry. Tb 4U MkcUMif vH-ni StptrmlMr 4, ISO, t tmiotat M4 uuutli. AriAtmla, oaHMHMI, rialtr. Uat lor huUim, m (44mm Buptrur. . TOO IMMT tft IttVtA utile iaciwd far ftnM afialra (ml yam to Ton BMf lam tx colbctr mi m layraanv nm w tat aaiaafanaat of yarn fata atof pew coaauk thai Comptay. It also fcls atpoalta auefcet tocjhatay aadaavinti aaflRf canto! hilmal Ifccraoav AcHMtruMMbalproBHfr ailatlQMNOjtaVtof eacft-awvloiaj toys asal ataa Bonds, afiacts ool la aaaay osW vayt I can bs fsarrtct. Crforvratkr frtt ptfmm avtiaaj Kaih dm soqbv mmi To the Farmer Do you know our Feed, .Fresh from the mill has Double the feed ingyalueof stale feed"? AH the pro gressive Dairymen are buying feed from us. Beware of Bargain Feed. It is worth Less than they charge for it. We will sell you the right kind of feed for just what it is worth. No more, no less. Our prices are the Market prices. Pa tronize Home Industry. ' It's to your advantage and ours. Headquarters for all Toilet Articles Trices lowest in city on all sundries, and qualify the best Look at the Sponges in the Window Registered Graduate Pharmacist HOOD RIVER'S GREATEST DRUG DEPOT Thp Williflinc Phnrinacv A aar T a s v a a aiar a aw n CHARLES HALL, Proprietor, g r Don't Forget -THE- When you want first-class work done at home. All kinds of Laundry Work and Cleaning Lace curtains, 50c; blankets and carpets, 25c to 50c. Phone mll-U Clan Fabrlek, Prop. Patronize Home ...Industry... Our Work cannot be ...Excelled... I The Club Cafe C. C. HOLMAN PROPRIETORS Meals at all Hours from 250 up Best Two-Bit Meal in the City T-Bone and Porterhouse Steaks our Specialty Next Door to Reed's Cigar Store, Hood Kiver, Ore. Hood River Milling Co. S. J. FRANK M uuier in Harness & Saddles AH Repairing Promptly Attended to HOOD RIVER OREGON Ol Jj The Hood River Bakery pur- jj chased 200 barrels of our Golden j Tlrmim Flrmr fW 1 TW U V1VII11 J. 1VU1. VXV. J.J A V V - AliVJ have just placed another order with us for 100 barrels more. At Mr. Williams' Bakery can be found the best bread in the city, and it is made from our Golden Crown flour. The bread speaks for itself. Job Printing at the Glacier Office Our White Kiver and Golden Crown flour can be found for sale at all the lending gro cers. Try a sack. Once used, always used For Sale By STRANAHAN & BAG LEY Hood River, Oregon 30) II II 0 0 0 0