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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1912)
IIOOD RIVER GLACIER. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1912 " - THE LURE OF GOLD WHEN FACING DEATH. -T " . Ill III EfiBreakfast iih. 3r'" iff a i i i h iS&r Warm fSM i Room pjSUFECTlO Romance and Tragedy of the Old Bonanza Trail. A ROAD TO WEALTH AND CRIME i r 4U kt-r.. that srnds ' w!3rTT nrpflkiasi uic - you out ready braced for a good day's work- should be eaten in a worm iwm. You lose half the good of the meal if you are shiv ering in discomfort while you eat it. A Perfection Smokeless Oil Heater makes break ft a cosy meal for the whole family. No .moke or smell with . Perfectioa Bas Iy ck.ii. d. E.s y rnowd from room to room. An orn.ment ny where . luxury w the bedroom; . necewty in the wir.g-room o. the bathroom. W.r. v,r,wh.r,: or -tit. ht , Wr. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (CaUfouua) 4(1 Mfc.t Str.rf 5" Fre TO MY PATRONS: I wish to call your attention to those beau tiful dishes I am giving out FREE to cash customers. A new lot just arrived. Those paying their bills on or before the third of each month will be considered cash custom ers and will be entitled to dishes the same as those paying at the time of purchase. I carry a Full Line of Fancy and Staple Groceries. Everything guaranteed. - "THE BEST THINGS TO EAT" WOOD'S GROCERY J. M. WOOD, Proprietor. Dr. M. A. Jones DENTIST FORMERLY OF HOOD RIVER N'ow located at ,245i Washington Street U. S. Deo tUt - PORTLAND, ORE You've Wanted Something Better Than Printing for a Long Time. You Will Find it in the EMBOSSED WORK LETTERHEADS. NOTF.HF.Ans CARDS, INVITATIONS, ETC. At ih GLACIER OFFICE , , CHRISTMAS PHOTOS NOW Make arrangements for your sittings for Xmas Pho tos at ONCE. We must have time to dc your work satisfactorily. Ph.tos make the nicest Xmas gifts and the most inexpensive ones. Make your anointment NOW at Ua Deitztftudio Fifth National Apple Show Spokane, Wash. November 10 to 16, '12 $12.40 Round Trip Hood River to Spokane and Return VIA For Sale... 80 acres located 3 miles frotv (ol Washington, in Little White Sal' mon Vulley. l r purtinilnrs, write R. H. BUNKER, Cooks, Wash. (MY. A. S. Time! able. WKST HOUND No. 0, Fart Mail (Mail Only). J -.V, a. in Ko. 7, Portland Local .7 :,'.' a. ni' No. 11, Soo-Spokane-l'urllaml !:;!7 a. m No. 6, Ore. & Wash. Kxp... . .10 :H:1 a. m No. 1, Portland lxx-al S:0ti n. m" No. 17, Ore. & Wash. Limited 5 :4: p! m.' EAST liOU.ND No. 2, Pendleton Local 10:XI i. m No. 18, Ore. A Wash. Ltd 1 1 :55 a. m No. 8, The Dalles lxcal 0:20 p. mi No. 10, Fast Mall (mail only) 8:24 p. mi No. 6, Ore. and Wash. Lxp...l(:2" p. mi No. 12, Poo-Spokane-Port.. ...10:55 p. ni. J. H. FREDRICY, AKent. TICKETS OX SAI.K No V I'M 10, 11 AM) ls "! KHnrn I.imi, November io Don't Miss It Many Valabi0. Ppixe9 tor further particulars ask P- S. SMITH AntO.-W. U.AN.i,00dRiv It Led to tho Richr.t Depo.it. of Gold, In a Relatively Small Territory, Ev.r Di.covered Day of Strenuous Life and Frenzied LaMilei.neM. Tli Bonanza trail began at Fort Luramie. Wjo. It ran cast of tbe Owl Creek mountains, west of the Big Horn immn'aina, In a uortbwest direc tion to Livi.igston and Bozeman, then fjrl.i l,' to the present Helena and Vir ginia Citj. In war and Indian depart' incut annals It Is known as tbe Boie mati irH U. Immediately, however, it was gHeu tlj more romantic name, and fr tKe 'oest of reasons. It led to v bat 'v.-re the richest deposits of gold, lu a relatively small territory, thut the I world had ever seen. Out ot Alder guleb and Last Chance gulch, within 200 miles of each other la Montana, was taken, in ten short 'ears, considerably more than $500, iXWmO In pure gold. It was anybody's fortune, and the wonderful luck cf the California gold diggers a few years be fore roused men to brave every hard ship for these prizes. It did not matter at all that these gulches were 2,000 miles from the nearest railroad and that other gold fields were far easier to reach. Here was the jrreat El Dorado, and with out a qualm the gold seekers hurried Into the uukuown territory, defying lied Cloud and every other Indian, out law, renegade and holdup man. How many lives were sacrificed along this trail to wealth will never be . known. All that Is certain Is that there never was another chapter in the world's history like this. The long road Into the mysterious country and the settlements of mining camps grew up almost in a single night. There were only five men in tbe little party when l!l!l Falrweather "washed" the first pun In Alder gulcb and made a dis covery even more wonderful than any In the palmy days of California or even lu the later era of the Klondike. Two years later Alder gulch, at one of the Bonanza trail's two ends, was among the most picturesque places In the country. The world was ransacked for men and women to give perform ances at the theaters, to offer free en tertainment to tbe patrons of the vari ous resorts. The gold hunters, gorged with prosperity, wanted amusements. Fine restaurants were opened and food brought in at great expense from be yond the seas. The smallest money was a twenty-five cent pinch of gold dust, taken from a pouch. It bought less than a copper ceut does In any part of the United States today. Meantime an unending stream of people poured into the new country. It is estimated by some that 90,000 In all took the trull at Fort Laramie. The days of tbe trail were those of frenzied lawlessness, and many are tbe picturesque stories that have come down. Over the big road disputes about cards were of dally occurrence. Tbe man who started an argument did so with the knowledge that it was bis life or the other nianj, for he was call ing into question the "honor" of the "shark." Swindlers sold "mines," fought with their proposed victims and killed without compunction. Armed robbers ran off stock, stole horses from one class of Immigrants and sold them to another. As the horse was the sole means of transpor tation and valuable lieyond human life, 'boss Mealing" was set down by the "districts" as a crime punishable by datb. There were few courts, and such as there were were" miles from the trail. A Jury would hence be at once Impaneled among those present, the man tried and If found guilty hang ed to a tree without ceremony. Hotels flourished and were prosper ous beyond imagining, for every one spent money, and there was much flaunting. In the higher grade estab lishments beverages were served In cut eluss; champagne wns common. Every resort was crowded with people. The newcomers frequented these places in quest of information, paid 25 cents for h glass of Wr made from hurley grown by the ex-fontVdenite soldiers at Bozeman mid sold to the Virginia breweries for 8 cents a pound, aud not enough could be received to supply the U-umnd. Table board cost $7 a day for the very cheapest, and if one slept lu a chair In the hotel lobby at night, when the rooms we'o all rented, he I'ttld $UjO 'or the privllccy. Gold was the only medium cf ei-chang-. A pinch of it, twer. the forefinger and the thumb, as has bwn said, counted 25 cents. There would he a tendency wish li.; mjn to take JHt a llitie hit m.,re. YViu that ten demy was not: vd h, a man he was 1:1 ven hours b. U-avo towu-and it was seldom over two horns. The wise man did not stand on ceremouv or protest he "vamoosed." In camp vehicular The i.espapers of the city sold for ... cents a copy, r.-d illlt fro, tUt, pross and full of news of lynching, new digi P'as. "clean tips," 'Ould ups," "bat' men" ami gossip of n breezy charac ter, "am ami epgs to order cost $2 50 l'Xi 'erc W01tSi cents splece and .t ordinary meal of a,w , i,,,-..,. ouu uio with po!s:.h-s r coffee and was ver less than $1 50. A boor to get down to fare Pain or Fright, It Would Appear, I - Rrly Preeent A distinguished British phjilcian who has been at some pains to collect data on the .uhject asserts that few persona about to die have really any fear of dissolution. There Is cited the case of the African explorer who n partially devoured by a lion. He de clared that be feit no pain or fear and tnat his only sensation waa one of In tense curlokity ,0 what Prtlon 01 nia body the lion wou'd take next Rustem Pasha. Turkish ambassador at London, used to tell of an attack made upon him by a bear during a bunt In the east The beast tore off a bit of the Turk's hand, a part of his arm and a port! ! of his shoulder. Rustem solemnly averred that he suf fered neither pain nor fear, but that he felt the greatest Indignation because the bear grunted with so much satis faction while munching him. Grant Allen, whose scientific habit of thought gave weight to bis words, says that in his boyhood he had a narrow escape from drowning. While skating he fell through thin Ice over a p'a o whence several blocks had the dav before been removed. He was carried under tbe thicker ice be yond and when he came to the surface tried to bresk through by butting his head against It. The result was that be was stunned, then numbed by the cold and so waterlogged that artificial respiration bad to be employed to re store him. These are the impressions as recorded by him with reference to the pain he suffered: Tbe knowledge that I have thus ex perienced death In my own person has bad a great deal to do with my utter physical indifference to it 1 know how it feels. I had only a sense of cold, damp and bi e ithlessness, a short strug gle, aud tbeu ail was over. "I had been momentarily uncomfort able, but it was not half so bad as breaking an arm or having a tooth drawn. In fact, dying is as painless as falling asleep. It Is only the previous struggle, the sense of its approach, that Is at all uncomfortable. Even this Is less unpleasant than I should have ex pected. There was a total absence of any craven shrinking. The sensation was merely the physical one of gasping for breath. Harper's Weekly. THE AGE OF MAN. Don't ride miles out of your way to get Rub. tjer Stamps, but drive direct to the 7;V GLACIER STAMP Works for Your Perfect Prit.int fab. .-r. meat, bread, man was vry so coarse th,lt made no dre,,nce wh.t a man mlMt have been ba, k lu "the states;" If he whs "on the s,p,are" ,n vlrKlu,a bawas accepted at par.-F. J. Atk"n2 Hayper's Weekly. 8cience Placet It Between 400,000 and 3,000,000 Years. It is quite possible, said Professo A. Keith In a lecture to tbe British as sociation at Dundee, that man as we know him now took on his human characteristics somewhere near the beginning of the pliocene period, and while the exact date Is simply a guess tbe best estimates available indicate 4118,000 B. C. as not .far from the truth, if the evidence of tbe flint collectors is accepted as authentic. pliocene man is a possibility. Professor Keith was sure we had traced ourselves back to the middle of the pleistocene, when we were ac companied by another form of man almost, aa distinct from us as the gorilla is from tbe chimpanzee. At tbe beginning of the pleistocene there were at least two varieties of man the pre ueauderthalold of Heidelberg and the small brained man of Java but the "representative of modern man at that early period" has not as yet been found. If the claims of M. Rutot are accept ed, the antiquity of man is at least 3,000,000 years. According to Professor Keith, the orthodox (by which presum ably he meant scientifically orthodox) opinion Is that "the dawn of the very earliest form of humanity lies 400,000 years behind us." From-all of which It is plain that the beginnings of the age of man are still shrouded In mys tery. "The Idea I wish to leave In your minds Is," said Professor Keith In conclusion, "that In the distant past there was not one kind, but a number of very different kinds of men In ex istence, all of which have become ex tinct except that branch which has given origin to modern man." New York Post. Ha. His Own Death Certificate. You never know when a man is really dead. Not even If you are a doctor. I know a man who walks about cheer fully now and occasionally pulls out from his pocketbook his death certlfl cate, duly signed by the doctor some years ago. Just to amuse you. Tbe doc tor said he was dead. He disagreed. And ids protest Is the humorous pre sentation of the death certificate when you ask for bis card. London Chronicle. Th.ck.ray and Roast Mutton. Tha.-keray often dropped in to din ner, sometimes announcing himself In verse. The following tfl one of bis ellstles: A alee leir of mutton, my Lucie, I uruy thee have ready for me; Have it e noklnff and tender and Juicy, . For bo uetter meat can there be. - Recollections of Janet Roes. Wit Child. "You may give three Important lllu tuitions (,f the power of the press," s i the reacher to the' class. The pupil who has not hitherto dls-tln-i'.bhed himself Is first to reply: "'idor, courtship and politics." Commercial and Fruit Stamps ClacierStamp Works Still Looking. lie Fie years ago when I saw her she was looking for a husband, but she's married now. She Yes. and she's still looking for him, especially at sights. A wise physician Is more than armlaa to the public weal. Pope. Spokane Apple Show Excursion Fares Via the North Bank Hound trip tickets will be sold by the N"rih Hank Road, November 10 to 1(1. ouiuMw to Spokane from Underwood nor!:-; white Salmon, fiz.io; good 1 1,1 return in.til November 20. I Spokane trains leave Underwood at j 11:17 a. m. and 8:27 p. m.; White Sal : m", 12:04 p. m. and 9:33 p.- m. daily. ! It W. KFSSELL. Agent, White Salmon, Wash. Don't forget that we carry a large line Fruit and Number Stamps- Anr7 . uj vy ju Is the Biggest Word in the English Language ACT NOW And you will realize how big the meaning is Thanksgiving Linens Priced Low NOW Silks and Dress Trimmings Laces, Ornaments and Bands At Attractive Prices NOW French Wool Challies And Flannels At the NOW price of 43c Duckling Fleece and Eden Cloth NOW - 15c 12k. Outings Plain and Fancy NOW - lOc Hand Made Mexican Drawn Work, in Real Linen Collars, Handkerchiefs, Center Pieces, Scarfs, Doilies, etc. We have a beauti ful assortment NOW, and the prices are unusually low for these goods. We have the Exclusive Sale here Select Your Suit and Overcoat NOW And Be Royally clothed Royal tailored Suits and Overcoats are guaranteed to be all wool; to be a perfect fit and hold their shape. "ROYAL"' Suits and Overcoats Can be bought NOW for $16.00 TO $37.50 And you take no chances. We in sist on keeping the orders that are not satisfactory. There are 500 Samples to choose from; Colors and Patterns to suit all tastes. NOW is the time to Act BRAGG MERCANTILE COMPANY Try the New WHITE R IV E R FLOU Made By Oregon's Finest Mill Notice the Taste-You'II Like it. Not Bleached . --But Pure and Clean If your Grocer doesn't have it, call up Stranahan & Clark Hood River, Oregon I I