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HOOD RUTBlt OLAOIEB, THURSDAY MARCH 31 1010
HOOD RIVER
Manufacturing Engineering Co.
(successors;- j. j. luckey)
GenerallMachine Work and
Blacksmithing
Phone 305M Hood River, Oregon
Waucoma Abstract
Company, Inc.
ABSTRACTS, LOANS, CONVEYANCING
SURETY BONDS. FIRE, LIFE, PERSONAL
ACCIDENT, PLATE GLASS LIABILITY,
BURGLARY INSURANCE. H. L Howe,
U. S. Commissioner, Land Office Practice. All
Work Guaranteed.
HOOD RIVER, ORE.
Eliot
Wanted To Trade
For Improved Portland Real Estate: Hood River
Orchard Lands. Improved or Unimproved.
WHAT HAVE YOU?
HARTMAN & THOMPSON
Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Portland, Oregon
J. F. BATCH ELDER
Temporary Office, 215 Cascade Ave.
Phone 70 Hood River, Oregon
WARM ROBES
More than half the pleasure of driving is in being com
fortable. When driving a person wants to keep warm.
I do, and I believe you feel the same as I do. Doesn't
make much difference whether you drive for pleasure or
business you need a good warm robe anyway one
that you can wrap yourself in and feel comfortable.
That is the kind I want to show you. Drop in and see
the robes and get prices. Yours for more business.
FRANK SALFICKY
Successor to Geo. Irvine.
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Hood River, Oregon
New Residents
We are always pleased to extend courteous assistance
to new residents of Hood River and Hood River val
ley by advising them regarding any local conditions
within our knowledge, and we afford every convenience
for the transaction of their financial matters. New
accounts are respectfully and cordially invited and we
guarantee satisfaction. Savings Dep't in connection.
Hood River Banking k Trust Co.
iWe Furnish Fixtures
7
Dean
Phone 3
4 Investment
Bldg, Next Door News Office
Harness & Saddlery
A FRESH SUI'PLY OF W
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FROM j THE CARS
& CLARK
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in Special Designs
Call in and see
our stock
under
Hood River
Banking &
Trust Co.
Everything
Electrical
Shaw
Res. Phone 272H
LIGHTNINGAMYSTERY
This Phenomenon of Nature Is a
Puzzle to Science.
THE THEORY OF THUNDER.
In General Way It It Understood;
but, as a M attar of Fact, the Bolt
From tha Storm In Its Erratic Tend
nci Defies tha Investigator.
In a general way we understand the
theory of thunderstorms. As u mut
ter of fact, there is no phenomenon
of nature, but excepting even earth
quakes, of which we know so little.
Man-made lightning that is, elec
tricity of the highest power, which
we can artificially produce will act
according to certain known luws. tt
will, for Instance, travel along a con
ductor of metal.
But a Bash of lightning will fre
quent leap from a well defined metal
path and launch Itself through the air
or some adjacent object which Is an
infinitely poorer conductor.
This may be due to the almost In
conceivable force of a flash of light
ning, says a writer In Pearson's Week
ly. It Is estimated that a flash of
lightning a mile long represent a
pressure of discharge equal' to 3.000,
000,000 volts.
As such a flash lasts only about the
thousandth part of a second the en
ergy dissipated by the dtscharge Is
equal to 300,000 horsepower. I'm In
other words, if we could Hud some
means of saving and using lightning
we should be the richer by a good
round sum for every flash.
Lightning is, as wo know, usually
accompanied by a peal of thunder,
which is louder the nearer the hearer
Is to the point of the discharge, hut
this Is not an Invariable rule. There
are cases on record of most destruc
tive lightning flashes which were un
accompanied by sound.
Such a phenomenon occurred at Brad
ford some years ago. What is de
scribed as "a silent thunderbolt" fell
In a graveyard, destroying one monu
ment and smashing to atoms nearly
seventy glass cases containing wreaths
and flowers.
In the same summer Swauscombe,
in Kent, was terrified by a freak of
llghtnlug. All of a sudden "a great
mass of blue fire" swept along the
street, and next moment it was seen
that the fine old parish church, built
nearly 700 years ago, had been struck.
The building, with all its flue old
carved oak, was soon a roaring fur
nace, and only a part of the chancel
was saved.
Scientists are still hopelessly at sea
as to the cause of that peculiar phe
nomenon known as globe lightning. At
Coventry some years ago during a vio
lent thunderstorm it passed along a
street like a soap bubble built of blue
tire and drifted into a shed, where it
exploded, blowing the roof off the
place.
At Rhetms, In France, a similar Ore
ball came Into a cobbler's shop
through the open window. The soli
tary occupant of the place sat perfect
ly still, paralyzed with terror, while
bis fearful visitant hovered for sever
al seconds overhead. Then It moved
toward the fireplace and presently
passed up the chimney.
Next moment there was an explo
sion like a shell bursting, and the up
per part of the chimney came crashing
down.
Not long ago Count O. Hamilton
made a record of a similar freak of
electricity. He was sitting at dinner
at a bouse on Lake Wener, in Swedeu,
when just after a vivid flash of light
ning a brilliant white ball appeared
over the table and after banging poised
there for some seconds went off with
with a loud bang.
Fortunately it did no harm to any
one, although it was quite close to
several people. Those who saw it sug
gested It wag like a ball of cold light
ning. In November, 1002, Sydney, Austra
lia, was visited by a terrific dust
storm. In the midst of which a perfect
rain of electric fl e balls began to fall.
These set fire to a number of houses,
and a most appalling panic set In. A
cry was raised that the end of the
world was at hand, and people rushed
out of their houses into the Ink black,
dust deep streets.
The most amazing and terrifying
displays of the power of lightning are
seen on mountains. In 1H0O a party
was on the top of a mountain In the
Caucasus when a huge violet ball, sur
rounded by vivid rays, struck a rock
near by and. exploding like a bomb,
burst Into atoms. Oue of the party
was badly hurt.
Stilton Cheese.
The secret of making Stilton cheese
was for some time confined to the fam
ily of the original Inventors, who were
under an engagement to sell all they
could make to the famous Cooper
Thornhlll of Stilton. Being thus to be
obtained of him alone. It received the
appellation of Stilton cheese, but It
would have been more appropriately
named Wlchcote cheese, being first
made In that village, on the eastern
side of Leicestershire, about thirty
miles from Stilton. London Standard.
Helping Him.
Mr. Backward Well er yes. since
you ask me. I was thinking of consult
ing a fortune teller Miss Coy To find
out whom you will marry, eb? Mr.
Backward Why er yes. I- Miss
Coy Why not ask me and save the
fortune teller's fee toward the price of
the ring?
The thicker the grata the easier tp
mow Alarle.
THE PUMA AND ITS PREY.
Ease With Which a Patagonian Lion
Killed a Colt.
The puma la so fond of horseflesh
that In Patagonia It la difficult to
breed horses, as the colts are killed by
this American Hon. A native told the
author of "The Naturalist In La
Plata" that on oue occasion while
driving bis horses home through a
thicket a puma sprang out of the
bushes to the back of a colt following
behind the troop.
The ourua alUrhted directly on the
colt's back, with one fore foot grasping
its shoulder, while with the other tt
seized the head and, giving it a violent
wrench, dislocated the neek. The colt
fell to the earth as if shot
Next to horseflesh, the puma prefers
mutton. He does not like veal, al
though he will kill a calf upon occa
sion. A cunning puma trhli h on cloudy
nights raided a sheep ranch used as a
place of concealment the pen here a
dozen calvea were kept while it waa
waiting to attack the sheep, but It did
not injure a calf.
Pigs when In large herds defy the
puma by massing themselves together
and presenting a serried line of tusks
The ass also resists success fully the
puma's attack. When assaulted It
thrusts Its head between its fore legs
and kicks violently until the puma is
drlveu or thrown off.
One day an Indian while ruling saw
a young cow watching his approach
Her manner showed that it was In a
state of dangerous excitement, and the
Indian conjectured that some beast of
prey had killed Its calf. He began
searching for the calf's body. While
thus engaged the cow repeatedly
charged him. Presently he discovered
the calf lying dead among the long
grass and by Us side a dead puma with
a large wound just behind the shoul
der. The calf had been killed liy the
puma, for Its throat showed the
wounds of large teeth. The cow had
driven one of its long, Sharp horns Into
the puma's side while it was sucking
the calf's blood.
SLOW NEW YORK.
It Actually Made tha Hustling Western
Barber Sleepy.
"Why, say." said a visiting barber
from the wide untrauiineled west, "you
folks here In New York are narrow,
limited, shackled, contra' led, far be
hind the age. You think you are the
human limit when really jour gait is
very slow.
"I went Into oue of your shops here
yesterday. Nice shop, good equip
ment, everything flue and elegant, but
when I saw how slow you were here
on the work it made me nervous. A
good plant, but not worked to capacity.
"They had a man In a chair with a
barber cutting his hair uml a mani
cure fixing his bands and a bootblack
blacking his shoes all at the same
time, and I suppose you think here
that that's going some to have three
people work on a customer all at once,
but, goodness me, you ought to look
Into my shop nd see how we do things
in my part of the country!
"I've got a shop that's every bit as
modern and up to date to the last lim
it as anything you've got in New
York, but out there we utilize our
plant. What do you suppose we do
when a man comes in that's In a hur
ry to catch a train? Think we all He
down and take a nap?
"Why, we put ojie barber to cutting
bis hair and another to shaving him,
and two inanlcurers tackle his hands,
one on each side. We take off his
shoes, and two boys work on them,
ejeh blacking n single shoe, while two
chiropodists get at him, each taking
a foot, and at the same time we havo
one boy brushing the customer's hat
and another brushing his overcoat,
while uuother dusts the clothes he's
got on with a vacuum duster.
"You put three people ou a man at
once and think you're doing something.
Wo put on eleven and think nothing
about it at all, and our town ain't a
quarter as big as New York not a
quarter.
"Why, honest, this New York at
mospbere makes me sleepy!" New
York Sun.
An Old Machine.
The Tubingen Morgenblatt of Oct.
31, 1820. contains a description of such
a machine as then lu use In the Lon
don coffee house. It was in the shape
of a tobacco Jar, which stood ou the
table and had slot Into which n pen
ny had to be Inserted to obtain a pipe
ful of tobacco. The weight of the coin
depressed a lever and released a lock.
The writer adds that a halfpenny
would not do the trick, and the would
be cheat could not recover bis money.
London Notes ami Queries.
The Judge Agree!
It Is recorded that Lord Mansfield,
the famous English Judge of the sec
ond half of the eighteenth century, lis
tened Impatiently to an argument of
Sir Fletcher Norton upon a case lu
volvlng certain manorial rights.
"My lord," said Norton, who was In
sufferably dictatorial, "1 can Instance
the point In person. I have myself two
little manors."
"Wo are well aware of that," re
sponded Lord Mansfield, seizing bis
opportunity.
Caution Extraordinary.
"You hate a night key?"
"Of course," answered Mr. Meekton,
"only I'm so careless that Henrietta
keeps It locked up In the safety depos
it so that 1 won't lose It" Washing
ton Star.
After Their Quarrel.
Mabel Of course you speak to Lena
when you pass her? Helen Indeed, I
do not Why, I don't even notice what
be baa on 1 Puck.
The Government pays Railway Mail
Clerks $800 to $1,200, and other em
ployees up to $2,500 annually.
Uncle Sam will bold spring exatnina
tidns throughout the country for Kail
way Mail Clerks, Custom House Clerks,
Stenographers, Bookkeepers, Depart
mental Clerks and other Government
Positions. Thousands' of appointment
will be made. Any man or woman over
IK, iu City or country, can get instruc
tion and frer information by writing at
once to the Bureau ol Instruction, 16M
Hamlir Building. Bochester, N. Y.
Trio Orchestra
Music Furnished For All Occasions.
Instrumentations from three to any
number desired. Address or phone
C. O. NEWMAN, Hood River, Ore.
Phone IM-X or 29-L.
C. EVERETT.
The Practical Shoemak r,
At Kiggs' Old Stand.
Fine Work a Specially
Painless mm
Out of town propifl I
ran thttir plat) 1
.'and britlgttwork fla .
iahrvi tn one dj
it ntKTMss.ry.
Viwiil Civt you rood
22k roU or porciii ,
crown (or $3 50
Molar Crowns 5.00 j
22kB v,W".3.50
liold Fi'.'iniri I.QIj
1.00
.50
2.50
5.00
Silver f iWmf
nliy FiHirtft
.ed Rubber
Ptitet
Best Red Rutv
br Plate
H ftiai itnii m wenr ? Pa'nlets Extr'tlcn ,50 I
WORK GUARANTt:i FOR IS YEARS !
Pain I m Eitract ion rw r -n rlirtoaor brulgo work
leorJenI. Consultation Fro iVo cannot mt lttr I
lnm)-M work dOM anywhere All ork full) Ktitir- j
Wise Dental Co.
Kstl.lsn Hi ll.e - l iriecr.soRSTSD
rmiioiWAMi Bis, PORTLAND. OREGON
OmoS HOOKS: ' A. 4 to 8 t. It. Sod.rt. I to L
Ross & Richards
Confectionery Parloi s
K LWOOI) DAINTIES
Best line of Tobacco and
Cigars in tne City
Hot Lunches Served at all Hours
Agency On iron Pally Journal.
Booth's Eastern Oyst1 r.
FOUST & HOWE
Mechanical Experts
Automobile Repairing)
Qai and Bteara (Cnginei
Rebuilt Shafting, I'ul
levH ii ii. I hII iloM'rijitions
of Machine Fitting uml
Repairing Uonr
BICYCLE REPAIRING
Comer Sivtli anil
Columbia street Phone lixi-X
HOOP rtTVFR, OREGON
Model Bakery
DUFFY & ZIMMERMAN. Props.
Bread, Pies and Cakes
Fresh Every Day.
We limo reopened the Williams link -eiy
under the allow name and invite
your )HtMnagr,
liockenberry & Bartlett
ARCHITECTS
Bine 1'rititfi rXrme to Order,
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Davidson ItuililiiiK Phone hi
Lace Curtains
Washed and ironed in lirsi
chiss !sliaj)( by
Hood River Laundry Co.
Home Phone 1 2'-
Real Bstate
LOANS, RENTING A COLLECTING
A Hpet'lHlty of City Properly, Uewldcncf
Lot, timt Muirtll Tnu-tH ClnMf tn. For
KriiguiiiN cull on or h-Mithm
T. D. TWEEDY
HkhI Klvrir
Home l'hone 147-L
Taft Transfer Co.
DRAYING, WOOD
YARD, FEED STOiil
At McReynolds old stjuiil.
OFFICE PHONK 2i. RES, PHONE
PHONE 282-M
Hood Kiver, Oregon
C. F. SUMNER
Opposite Postoffice. Head
quarters for
PLUMBING
Come in uml examine our
line i f
Pumps, Bath Tubs. La
vatories, Sinks Etc.
Spray & Garden Hose
Ai'iits For
RIFE RAM
SURVEYING
and BLUE PRINTING
P. M. Morse
City Engineer Davidson Bldg
Hoot River office for Newell,
Gossett & Walsh, Consulting
Engineers of Portland.
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The Dalles Nurseries
Successors to R. H. Weber
Groweis o! Choice Fruit and Ornamental Trees,
Grape Vines, Small Fruit Plants and Shrubbery.
We do not employ agents, hut sell direct to the
planter, making commercial orchards a specialty.
All Correapondence Should ft.fll!iC Mlircorioc '22i Qrtnd Avi
be Addrened to The MfllHCa illllXllvS Portland, Ore,
ReneeibW Our trees, ro grown'etrlctljl without irrigation.
Land
I have about 1.0(H) acres of No. 1 Apple Land, .
most of it under ditch at prices ranging from fOO
per acre up. In tracts
J. R. STEELE
Hood River - - - Oregon
CUPID FLOUR
The hrst Flour made from th best selected bluestem
wheat. THE CLEANEST ROLLED BARLEY
ON THE MARKET.
Hood River Milling: Co.
Hunt Paint & Wall Paper Co.
Complete line of PAINTS, OILS. BRUSHES, Etc.
HEATH & MILL1GAN MIXED PAINTS.
PRATT & LAMBERT'S VARNISHLS. CALCIMO. For room tintlna mlxd
to order. CHINAHEL, Forold furniture uml wood work; iiny color, ROOM
MOULDING. Plate and Card Rail. DryPaate. oil.i'l.oi'H for walls and a
nice line ol Wall Paper. Pain ling, l'aicr Banging, Bign ami Carriage Wi ik.
Carriage shop phone Hf.)l. Store phone 116 Onk Btrt-et
PiiHIOlT STABLE
.Livery, Feed and Draying..
ADVISE, YOUR FRIENDS
"The Best Way"
TofcecBccd liven Canyon and Valley is
via
Mt. Hood Railroad
A RIDF: ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM DUST
Train leaves Hood Kiver 8 A. M. every day
and returns 6:10 P. M. Spend your Sunday
in the mountains.
A. WILSON, Agent
CHAPMAN
Successor to
Dealers in
Staple & Fancy Groceries. Flour,
Feed and HARDWARE
We solicit- a portion of your pal roii!iic.
Hood River Height Free Delivery Phone 78-K
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TRANSFER & LIVERY CO.
AGENTS FOfl THE REGULATOR LINE OF STEAMERS.
Hauling, Draying, 2 aggageTransferred, First
Class Livery Turnouts Always Ready.
Phones: Wharf float No. 14-F. OfliceS
....Employment Wanted....
We can furniwh men for all kindH of work
Cleaning, Grubbing or any kind of work
on farm or ranch, Experienced orchard
ist s. Phone 160 or call at
Niguma & Co., 14 Oak St.
For Sale
from ten acres up.
STRANAHANS & RATHBUN
Hood River, C ve.
II ra bought, aohl ui tkuliMigvd
Pleasure pr I can .fur. rti I elan rigs
Sp' dal atutuiioii gi i u to moving lurnlti re una
p aim-.
. i do everything horeta can do.
& CHAPMAN
Chapman & Co.
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