The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, September 09, 1915, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textei ft r mm I HOOD IUVEIt, OREGON. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 0. 1915 No. 15 vol; xxvii (ftW 8K68 WW it MM 1 U Safety is the watchword for up-to-the minute banking. 11 If you are looking for absolute safety combined with all the essentials of sane banking, we respectfully solicit your patronage. Every precaution is taken to safe guard the interests of our depositors and in this con nection we urge our customers to consult us regarding transactions involving the investment of their funds. 4 Interest Paid on Savings FIRST NATIONAL Capital $100,800 B-ZVjNK. Surplus $37,000 Butler Banking Company Capital One Hundred Thousand Dollar Established nineteen hundred Four per cent interest OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS LESLIE BUTLER President TRUMAN BUTLER .... Vice President C. H. VAUGHAN Cashies F. McKERCHER Director E. H. FRENCH Director FALL 1915 Millinery Opening Your are cordially invited to the formal opening of our new store Friday and Saturday, September 17-18 at which time we will be prepared to show the latest in Pattern Hats Novelties The Ila F. Smith Millinery New Location Heilbronner Bldg. Fords, Dodge Bros., Cadillacs, Franklin Motor Cars Columbia Auto ightyou the value of LSUI H UVWUI lb "'teach your u:u 79 paid on Time Deposits & Machine Co. A Cold Proposition is the refrisrerator. and we keen all of our stock inside in cunse)iience; but if vou don t see what you want ask for it. You won't ask for anything be it jniey Gteuks. luscious chops", prime roasts, fresh poultry or fish that we can't produce and cut up for the most fastidious house keeper. Safety first. E. M. Holman The Sanitary MarKet ' Phone 2134 Orchard Supplies Monroe Picking Bag $1.50 Barnett Picking Pail 1.25 Palmer Picking Pail 1.00 Security Ladders, 6 to 14 feet at 40c foot Mitchell Ladders 50c foot Steel braced ladders 31c ft. Metal covered ladder 30c ft Paint The best paint will last longest if put on in the Fall. We have an immense stock. No advance prices. Varnish Lead Oils Glass Possibly we are to blame for the fact that you are buying box nails below manufacturers' cost. But get the real reason. Not price per keg, but nails per keg. See that yours reads rd-39700-5d spec 3100a G-23i00 If not, buy from us. Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co. $3,000 in Cash Prizes For Picture Illustrating Kodak Advertising Slogans For the beet photograph illustrating any one of the five following slo gans we will pav $:l00.00. For the second best photograph illustrating any one of the live following slogans we will pay $200.00. THE FIVE SLOGANS Class No. 1. Take a Kodak with yon. Clans No. 2. All outdoors invites your Kodak. ('lacs No. 3. There are no game laws for those who hunt with a Kodak Class No. 4. Let the children Kodak. Class No. 5. Write it on the film at any. time. (For autograph ad.) A NEW SLOGAN Class No. fi. For the best new slogan, together with a picture illustrating same, we will pay foOO.00. Literature pertaining to cash prizes may le had at the KRESSE DRUG CO., The Rexall Store Victor Viclrolas and Records The Only Place to get Accurate Abstracts of Land in Hood River County is at the office of the Hood River Abstract Company Insurance, Conveyancing, Surety Bonds ICE CREAM Have you tried our Ice Cream? We are selling it in any quantity of from a pint up. It is going to all parts of the valley and town and we are also shipping it out side. Everyone who has tried it comes back for more. Hood River Watermelons! Grown at The Dalles and every one guaranteed RIPE. 10 cents to 30 cents each THE STAR GROCERY " O O O D THINGS TO EAT" PERIGO (EL SON War News will look better under rood light We are agents for Shell iy National Mazda Lamps 10-15-20-25-40-60-100 watt sizes in stock. LOWEST THICKS Automobile electric lamps for all cars, and we have the new gas filled bulbs. Flash lights, carbon lamps. Automobile Owners and buyers generally of lu bricating oils are taking no tice of the fact that we not only have oil needed tor the purpose, but we have the prices that pay to goaf ter Come in and hear the new Auirust Record Creamery Co. AT: FIRE FIGHTERS SAVE HOMES RANCH WILDINGS THREATENED Fire Discovered by Train Crew Sweeps Hoist ein-Bloucher District Wilson lias Narrow Escape The motit alarming forest fire of the year started and spread through the district between Hotatein and Uluucher station on the line of the Mount Hood I Railway Co. last Saturday afternoon. 'I he flames spread with great rapidity and threatened fur a time to wipe out the homes and barn of a number of ranchers of the neighborhood. The bridge leading across Collins canyon was destroyed. 'I he tire was discovered Saturday af ternoon by members of the Mount Hood train crew, as the train was returning rum Farkdale. The hsh distributing ar, Rainbow, was attached to the rain. Only a small space was burned over, and Ashley v uaun, superintend ent of the line, l. McDonald, president f the Hood River County dame Fto- tective Association, and W. O. Hadley, deputy state game warden, of Hie Dalles, armed themsevies witn tome wet sacks that were on the fish car and ushed to the tire, thinking they would be able to extinguish it. However, the ames licked into an old dry brush heap, and in a few moments was be yond the control of the few men. The train proceeded to this city, members f the crew telephoning as soon as they reached the first station, for a crew of men from the Oregon Lumber Co. plant at Dee. A crew of men was also taken back from the city. It was reported that the fire had been aused by a spark from the locomotive. us is erroneous; for the train was being pulled by an oil burner. 'And too, says Mr. McDonald, who remained along with Mr. Wilson and Mr. Hadley, until six o clock that even ing to ngni tne nre, 11 wouiu nave been impossible for a tire starting from spark from the engine to nave gained uch headway. None of us know how the lire started. We attempted, as soon as we saw that we could not check the Humes, to keep it on the right side f the county road, it was very dry. and the (ire at momenta would rush through the forest like a race horse.' The Mount Hood line s crew or men and the Oregon Lumber Co. men fought valiantly and their assistance made it possible for the ranchers to save their homes. D. L. Kowntree and Gust Westerberg had their household goods n WHtfons. ready to be moved. At one time it seemed that the ranch buildings of Julian P. Scott would be burned in spite of all the fighters could do. Mr. Scott had given up hopes. The fire was checked within a short distance from the place. While at tne nead 01 a crew 01 men who were ditching and backfiring, Ash- Icy Wilson came very near being caught by the flames. He outran the flames by a slight margin. Men fought the tire all Saturday night. Sunday Warren Cooper, county lite warden, took charge and held the Harries in check. The heaviest loser by the forest hre was D. L. Kowntree. A hundred acres of Mr.'Rowntree's place was burned over. He lost several rows of apple tree, and his entire crop of fruit was ruined by the heat. COUNCIL JUSTIFIES EXISTENCE, BUTLER 'The Northwestern Frjit Growers Council." savs Truman Butler, who returned Thursday from North Yaki ma. where he and other members of the committee made personal investi gations as to results obtained by pear and peach growers who followed the Council's plans, "has certainly justified its existence up to the present time. The orderly control that its activities have made nossible for the peueh and pear men will have a salutary effect on the aunle market. "However, because oi tne ngni crop of the vear. the apple marketing pro!) lems of this season will Handle tnem- r - .... . i . . srlvea. Annie growers are going to cot izood returns this season. The del ude is to come heieafter. and the Coun cil is already making plana for the fu ture. According to present plans Bpple crower8 of the northwest will be invit ed to attend a erowers' congress at the coming National apple show in Spokane in November. At this meeting aennue proposals for next year's activities will be worked out, and when the Council holds its annual meeting in January, it will not be necessary that all the time taken no with outlining plans. From our investigations up to me oreHent time, we feel that our greatest work will be that of educating the grower, making him a fit subject for membership in a cooperative fruit ship ping organization." Mr. llutler says mat ne mums an growers will be willing 10 pay me quarter of a cent box charge that will be levied on packages 01 iruu 10 pay the expenses 01 tne urowers council. The deluce of aimleB. according to Mr. Butler, is not far withdrawn lrom tins year, it is estimated, ne says, mi the North Yakima district will have 20,000 carloads of this fruit next year HIKE MADE FROM LOST LAKE TO INN Curtis McKinnev. Victor Hesse, Wil bur Carl and Ferris liagely, Jefferson high school boys, of I'ortland, arrived here Fridav afternoon from Homer Kogers' Mount Hood Lodge, after hav ini? performed the difficult feat of hav ing crossed the forest reserve at the base of Mount Hood to Cloud Cap Inn from Lost Lake. It is the first time anvone has ever completed this dis tance through a country as yet not hrnken bv trails. For fear that they might get lost tlw boys, who left here Sunday before last, blazed a trail that they might back track. Wednesday, after a day spent in a drizzlingjrain, they reached a point in the heavy timber. It was so cloudy that they could not see the mountain and did not know where they were. "We knew we were at great alti- tude," aaya Carl, "for clouds scurried though the treet all night. these clouds drenched us. It was a miserable night. We were camped at a point where water was not accessible, and we were getting very thirsty. The rext morning made up our minds to turn back. However, the clouds dis persed about daylight, and one of the other fellows, climbing a tree, saw the shiny aide of Mount Hood not over a mile away. Encouraged, we plunged on ahead, but we did not get any water until about midday. We were without drink, except for what water was sucked from foliage of the trees for 18 hours." The boys saw tracks of many deer and bear. "We must have been camped close to a cougar den Wednesday night, too," says young Carl, "for nearly all night these animals cried around us. Al though we were armed with a revolver, we were pretty badly scared. The next morning we saw tracks of cougars in the wet sand not a hundred feet away from us." On arrival here the hoys enjoyed a feast of Hood Kiver peaches at the store of S. E. liartmess. Thy left for Portland on the Bailey Catzert. SUCCESS PREDICTED FOR STOCK SHOW The stock show is an assured success as far as exhibits are concerned. About 50 head of cattle and over 45 of pigs have been entered. All sections of the valley are represented. K. A. Collins, of Dee, has entered hve ani mals. Gust Westerberg has entered seven. Joe Katagama, the efficient custodian at the Commercial club, has entered what he says is the finest calf in Oregon, E. L. McLlain, Jr., has entered his 50-pounds-of-milk-a-day cow, and so have Wuest & son. S. U. Sutton, of Farkdale, has entered his registered Jersey bull, Howard Pealer comes in witn tour entries; J. r. Thomsen with six, and so on down the ine. Dickerson & Feck, A. W. Feters, Calligan Bros., K. F. Batten and Rus sell U. Fond have all made entries. Next week a complete list will he printed and on Friday morning at 10 o clock ine naps oi me oig leni ai Fourth and Cascade will be thrown pen and the first Hood Kiver live lock exhibit will be on. The judging will begin at one and it ia hoped to have this done by Saturday morning, so that on that day all the bright col ored ribbons will be flying on the win ners. GROWERS SHOULD HELP; SAYS LARAWAY 'The fruit growers of the Hood Riv er valley should now get behind C. N. Kavlin and help to make the exhibit at the ' Panama-Pacific exposition one of the best at the big fair," says W. r. Laraway, who with Mrs. Larewsy has just returned from ban francisco, where he attended tne uenerai council of Royal and Select Masters. Mr. Lar- way is Itight illustrious uranu Master of this order of Masonry for Oregon. 'The Hood liiver people have not been sending down as good fruit as they should," continues Mr. LBraway, when telling ot tne lair, "some oi the other districts have made a better showing of green fruits. However, Mr; Kavlin is encouraged, lor accord ing to htm (he other districts have spent most of their thunder and funds on cold storage stuff, and the judging of the fruit will be made on the crop to come in. Every grower should take it upon himself to see that Hood Kiver IB properly represented." Mr. Laraway speaks in tne MgneBi praise ot the Canadian exniuu at tne fair. 1600 CARS HAVE GONE OVER MITCHELLS According to the record kept by War ren Miller, county roaa supervisor, more than KiOO cars have passed over the'old Mitchells Foint grade since the Columbia river highway was opened on July 6. This number does not include arize number oi machines tnat Dassed over the route before Mr.Miller took charge of the road there, nor the machines that made'the road at night, when the county had nobody stationed on the point. After the road was opened the county placed a watchman at the top of the grade. The watchman, who. by meant of a telephone system dispatched nil chines over the route, was easily able to keep a record. A good portion of the time Mr. Miller's son has been stationed on the hill. RAND WILL CRUISE TIMBER FOR COUNTY The countv haa let a contract to Wil liam Kand to cruise tne timber bold ings of the entire county. The step was taken by the officials alter air Rand had cruised several sections, find ing, as is ttated, a larger amount of lumber than the court had supposed was in the territory. The court ia hav ing the timber cruised as a basis for tsx readjustment. "Some of the timber companies have ctutaea oi tbeir timber, ana tney may submit these to us," says Judge btan ton. "In this ease it will not be nec essary for . our man to racruise the tracta covered." LOCKE MAY SUE FOR RIGHT OF WAY Litigation may follow the opening of the Columbia river highway through the Mitchella Point tunnel and over the viaduct at this point. C. W. Parker and Edgar Locke, who own the basalt nromontorv. declare that it was under stood by them that the old right of wav would be entirely vacated when the new route was opened. The Pa cific Telephone and Telegraph Co, however, refuses to abandon the right of wav over the hill. Mr. Locke threatens to bring suit unless the state causes the telephon people to vacate the right of way. Glacier Stamps always print and arP duraMe as well as attractive. NEW WORK WAS OPENEDMONDAY LOCAL FOLK VISIT MITCHELLS POINT Completed Portion of Columbia River Highway Brings Universal Expression of Praise - Work Attractive The Mitchells Foint tunnel and via duct were olticially opened to.tratlic by the atate inghway officials at 7 o clock st Monday morning. 1 he scenic third mile stretch, built at a coat of r0,00u, had been completed four sever- I days. However, the engineers preferred to ait until the concrete masonry of the iaduct, y5 feet above the tracks of the ,-W. K. & N., was thoroughly dry. The first car to pass over the near portion of the Colubmia river highway as driven through the tunnel and over the viaduct on Sunday aftarnoon by H. . Mitchell, of the M.tchell Motor orks, cf Fortland. T he old slate road, passing over the smaller of the two points of Mitchells. as closed at 4 o'clock Sunday after noon, when men of the Standifer-Clark-son Co. began a cut through the old grade to connect up portiona of the est appoach of the viadcut. This ork was finished Sunday night. the Mitchells Foint work, aaid to be the most scenic along the entire Colum bia river highway, was thrown open to traffic just six months after work was begun. Since the crews of men began' the bore through the solid basalt of the point Hood Kiver men and women have been attracted to the place. During the past few weeks, with the work Mar completion these crowds have hetn gradually increasing. Scores of people isited Mitchells Sunday, leaving their conveyances at the east end and walk- ng through the tunnel over the via duct. The grandeur of the view ob tained from the windows of the former, nd the artistic touches of the latter ave aroused universal expressions of praise. Kubble stone walls will.be built at the base ot the five pig- win dows. The viaduct ia lined by Ibroad, ubstantial concrete railings of pleaa- ng pattern. The rails are finished in white. The "nuts," ao called, who have a mania j for scratching . their names in public places have already been busy, and hundreds of initials may be teen defacing the neat structure. T he' builder of the railing, when, he pies a new name on the wall, stops nd vents his anger on the perpetrator of the deed. In hia opinion these ini- ial scratchers are the meaneat and most despicable persona in the world. Monday people from all parts' of the valley motored to Mitchella Foint. Many aulomobolusts continued on to Benson park to participate In "lnapec- ion Day exerciaea. 5. A. Mitchell nd hia family motored down to Fort- land Sunday. They returned Sunday ight. Miss O'Keilly, a new member of the local teachers staff, accom panied the Mitchell party as. far as Latourciie, returning lrom there in or- er to take up her work Monday morn- ng. We had hoped to return and be at Benson park for the dedication 'exer cises," says Mr. Mitchell, "Out -we were caught in a jam of. automobiles nd it was simply impossible for us to get away for hours. It hss been truly tated that two Columbia river high ways were needed to handle the traffic f Monday. 1 have never enjoyed any trip more than that down to Fortland n our automobile." Inspection day was promoted bythe ortland Ad club,! the. members, of which operated a special train over the W. K. & N. track as far as Benson park. It is estimated that more than 10,000 people were at Benson park Monday. MARTHA ALEC PLACES FAITH IN HIGHWAY In her clucking Chinook. Martha Alec, an old Indian woman, ia now tell ing all her white friends of her faitb in the Columbia river highway.-, Martha believes that she is going to be able to make much money from sales of .bead work, gloves and moccasins to tourists who pans thia way next year, whan the completed thoroughfare is, opened to spring automobile traffic. t he old woman a last pony aiea tnree weeks ago. After a week of deep and sincere grief for the departed cayuse. Martha came to the city lor the purpose of determining ways and means of se curing a successor to her combined sad dle and pack animal. She found from her guardian, ueo. l. alocom,, mat ner funda were low. But a small supply or wampum wolud be left after the pro posed purchase. Along witn many other commenoaDie attributea Martha has tha faculty of providing for a rainy day, and ao .the buying of a new horse was postponed. A white friend overheard her talking to Mr. Slocom. He proposed the. man ufacture of beadwork. After his wards were interpreted by Mr. Slocom, Mar tha's eyes sparkled. And after the scenic highway and its hoped-ror hun dreds of tourists were arefully. ex plained, the old woman s enthusiasm knew no bounds. She has already .begun the work on her stock of novelties. Martha is the widow of the late Joe Alee, who after an eventful, career passed away last fall. Je Alec for many years, until the b. r. ei s. k. k. was completed, carried tne man irom this city to White Salmon, Wash, When winter freezes made it impossible to cross the river in a boat, tha old man was accustomed to carry the mail on his back, making his way by jumping from one ice floe to another. Barge Struck, Man Drowned Drowned by the laughter and bappy screaming of scores of children return ing from a Sunday school picnie on barge, towed by a launch, the warning whistle of the steamer Tahoma went unheeded as the vessel rounded the east head of Lady's island, In the Co lumbia river at Camas, Wash., late Wednesday, and bore down upon the merrymakers. In the collision that followed, two men, who had realized that the Tahoma could not be prevented from raming the barge, were thrown into the - water as they tried to push the barge out of harm'a way, and one of them, Allan Buffin. an old merchant, resident of Camas, was drowned.