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She Wo VOL. XXVII IIOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1916 No. 41 A. D. Mo, President C. Dathman, Vice Pre. E. O. Bknchar. Cuhirr EuMihe4 lM Cipiiti tm.m First National Bank Hood River, Oregon Many ways to earn money. Lots of ways to spend it. But one sure way to save it is by depositing regularly at this strong National Bank. Members of Federal Reserve Agents Bank Advertisement No. 83 "The Nature of the Banking Business." By H. S. McKee (SERIES EIGHT) "A third service, so commonplace that its value is perhaps not fully realized, lies in holding the customer's deposit balance and paying it out as ordered by the custo mer's checks, under the risk of forged checks and numerous other risks, to say nothing of expenses. Besides these, there are the numerous minor or special services, like making collections of all kinds; fur nishing business information, suggestions or occasional advice, if desired, relating to business in general or in particular; obtain ing special information through its corre spondents; transferring funds from place to place by telepraph; and, in fact, any re spectable service that an obliging bank is capable of performing with its extensive facilities, or having performed by any of its officers or employees." BUTLER BANKING COMPANY The Spray Factory will be Ready This Week. Kelly Brothers and the Apple Growers Association are hand ling our spray, or you can buy it direct. The price of Lime-Sulphur will be $6.00 Net Better get your order in. J. C. BUTCHER GROCERIES " 1 1 1 The Quality is Guaranteed and the Price is Right at the CASH GROCERY Grocery of Quality E. E. KAESSER, Proprietor Phone 1012 STATIONERY Lord Baltimore Linen box paper Cascade Linen box paper Lotus Fabric Linen pound paper. Ustaco Linen Box paper. Tulip Linen box paper Symphony Lawn Stationery, box Envelopes at 5c, 1 0c 30c; pound paper. 35c; pound paper. 40c; pound paper.. .35c; pound paper. 50c; pound paper and 1 5c package .25c 25c 25c -35c .35c .....50c Kresse Drug Co. 7fi KOXOJUL Store mcIL RECORDS! COME IN AND HEAR THE LATEST MARCH RECORDS EASTMAN KODAK AND SUPPLIES HOOD RIVER 60 YEARS AGO INDIAN WARS WERE TERRIFYING Klickitat Attacked Pioneer Settlers in February, 1856 Friendly Indians Forced to Leave Homes (This ii the third portion of a series of articles written for the Glacier in 1903 by H. C. Coe, son of Nathaniel Coe, the first permanent Hood River settler) 1 will here eopy a letter written to the Glacier of November 7, 1897. des cribes many incidents that occurred during those triyng times: A Bargain Purchase of the O. P. Dabney & Son stock was made after several negotiations, This bargain be came so apparent that we made few advances in the proposed closing out prices and in hundreds of items. Reduced These Figures Beyond All Consideration of Cost This stock has been consolidated with our own to re duced selling expenses to lowest cost. We are adding bargains to the line from our own stock, so that you may supply any want at figures far below the greatest bar gain hunter's fondest hope. We have added extra salesmen and are prepared to serve you promptly. 11 You will also be favored with our regular credit terms and the popular 5 for cash. Stewart Hardware & Furniture Co. Your Credit Is Good. You may pay cash and save 5 per cent ft Dalles, MM k Moi liati Cipj Steamers "Dalles City" and "Stranger" Leave Portland 7 a. m., arrives at The Dalles 6:30 p. ra., daily except Sun day, arrives at Hood Rivnr 4 :20 p, m. Leave The Dalles 7 a. m., arrives at Portland 6:30 p. m., daily except Sunday, arrives at Hood River 9:20 a. m. Wednesday of each week is set aside as "Stock Yard Day" and then the Steamer Dalles City will take live stock for delivery to Portland Union Stock Yards. This service will permit the individual to ship as few animals as de sired and get benefit of low freight rates. For further Infonnition phone 4532 R. ROBERTS, Agent, The Regular Line Keep Your Money In Hood River By Having Your Clothes Tailored to Measure by Dale & Meyer We have a large asssortment of novelty suings as well as the ever serviceable blue or black serge or cheviot. DALE & MEYER 108 Third Street Tailors to Men Tailors tiO Wotnen The year 1856 was one of anxiety to the few and scattered inhabitants of eastern Oregon and Washington. Ru mors of an impending Indian outbreak filled the air tame with the winter's snows, but did not go with them. For a year the columns of the Weekly Oregonian had been filled with ac counts of the barbarous tortures in flicted upon helpleBs immigrants who fell into the hands of hostile hordes in the eastern part of the territory. The question then with the wretched pris oners was not how long before a ran soms or exchange would set them free, but how long before death would re lease them from the infernal tortures inflicted by their captors. Once in their clutches few escaped to tell the awful tale. The powerful Yakima nation, led by the noted Chief Kamiaken. were prac tically on the war path, and their emis saries were everywhere urging me Columbia river tribes to join in a war of extermination against the whites. The Klickitats, an important branch of the Yakimas, withstood for a time the importunitites of their inland brothers and gave up their arms to the authori ties without a word ; but the magot oi unrest was industriously working in the "military biain," and the arrest of three of the principal chiefs of the tribe was decided upon. Mr. Joslyn, the pioneer settler of White Salmon, a warm-hearted Christian gentleman and an earnest friend of the Indians, pro tested in Vain against the outrage. The unsuspecting chiefs were easily trap ped, loaded with chains, sent to Van couver and placed in charge of the reg ular army. They soon found means to evade the vigilence of their guards and returned to their tribe, who, with a few notable exceptions, at once joined the hostiles. v This occurred during the latter part of February, 1856. Mr. Joslyn, satis fied that trouble would follow the ar rest of the chiefs, had removed with bis family to Portland, leaving a hired man named Galentine and a boy named Hawks to look out for the place. An attack was at once planned by the anorv chiefs, but the friendly Indians notified them of the plot and they left the place and crossed to Hood River, after beine chased all night by the hostiles. For this act of friendship to the whites the friendly Indians were compelled to leave their homes and .:k l.aiv mtum nW JiHIa iin,i Alan L'oma t Hnnri Riser There were at that time but two families living here William Jenkins and wife and two hrnthers-in-law. making with our fam ily and the man named Galentine seven men, two women ana two uuys, cum peeing the entire white population be the Cascades and The Dalles. Our farm work thus far bad been done very much as the Jews had re builded Jerusalem, with implements of war in one nana ana a irowei in an other. Manv a dav have 1 urged on the tardy oxen with a goad in one hand md a riHe in tfie other. These were troublous times. The hostile Klicki tats made themselves very conspicuous ftlang the bluffs on the Washington shore above White Salmon. For days (ho war drama had beat continuously, fiilin our hearts with forebodings of trouble. The Hood River Indians had been, so far. verv ttronounced i their iriena shiD toward us. and in conjunction r .. . . .. L J unth the iTienniv n iickiihs. nuu cup' inrprf and hrnuirht to the Oregon side . i . u i a vprs canoe or coat mat couiu ue f und which was in reach of the hos tit es. So fsr so good ; out ine roiaia Ilia he (sandland) Indians under old r.hi'tif Wnllaehin. living on what was afterward the Haynes ranch, about two miles west of Hood Kiver, were knewr.' to have a very oecioea leaning toward the hostiles. We at once ap pealed to the military autnoruies ai The Dalles for protection, and Lieu tenant Davidosn was sent down with a Anmnan nf cava rv. How well I re' .7 .'! TL. 1 ill mmtur xneir cominei me uubuicd ht hPM unususllv active that morn .mi hA hnv. wooonurn nanus. and' myself had been sent out to gather m th rattle and drive them borne. w did not much like the job, but could not help it ; but before we had fnund the cattle we ssw the smoke fVnm Jnalvn's house and barn and bur ried home as fast as our feet could carry us. We found the cavalry had arrived, and their coming was the stg Kfll for the burning. Tbe valorous lieu marshaled his forces on the anrihar. and hsilins the steamer Was co on her way to Tbe Dalles, started for the seat of war. My two brothers and the two Benaona bad gone with tbe troops; also Amos Underwood, who was on his way to the Cascades, was one of the party. How the Indiana did yell I The cliffs were alive with them, and their war whoops echoed and re echoed across the river. The valiant lieutenant, ere he reached the landing. suddenly remembered that he bad or ders not to molest the Indians in Wash ington, but merely to protect the set tlers and their property at Hood River, and ordered tbe boat to land him again on the uregon snore. Discretion in this case was certainly the better part of talor, for it undoubtedly saved him his scalp and that or every memDer oi his party that was to have landed on the hostile shore. That night, by some means, a band of hostiles crossed tbe river and at tacked the camp of friendly Klickitats, near where the section bouse now stands, and after a sharp exchange of shots, in which one of tbe invsders was seriously wounded, the friendlies left their camp and came trooping up to the house. Soon after the hostiles came across some of the cavalry picket guard and opened fire on tbem, which sent them scurrying to camp. These men were posted on the brow of the hill near where my house now stands, so that evidently the Indians were recon noitering and unexpectedly ran across the guards. Everybody was, of course, un and under arms, dui noining eise occurred during the night. The next day all was quiet across tne river, the Indiana naa gone; not a sauaw. DBDOoae nor duddv was leu. They had disappaered as completely as if the earth had swallowed them up. Even the friendly Klickitats were at a loss to account for their absence. Ah, but the Cascade massacre wss the dreadful sequel of their vanishing. A few dsya later tbe cavalry re turned to The Dalles, and the daily routine of farm work was resumed, un disturbed, until the awful horror of the 26th day of March. What a bright beautiful dav it was 1 Tbe broad bos- som of the Columbia was like mirrored glass. My two yoke of oxen were yoked to tbe wagon, and brother Charles was denutiied as special guard ior tne day's trip to Rail gulch for a load of rails. Just as we were ready to start a faini halloa was heard from over the river, near the mouth of White Salmon. Again and again it came. Finally, two figures were made out, waving their blankets. The Indians collected at the house, hesitating, fearing a trap, but finally, fully armed, a party started over to investigate. Before their re turn we had gone for our day s worn. About two o'clock, when on our way borne, my brother, Eugene, came tid ing up on horesback with the news that the Cascades had been attacked and that the battle was then raging, and told us to hurry home as fast as possible. The appalling news tell like thunderbolt irom tne clear saies. The battle going on, or possibly over, and an elder brother there, perhaps dead. RAINFALLS UN PRECEDENTED TOTAL FALL SINCE JAN. 1, 18 INCHES While Unusual Precipitation Delays Orch ard Work, Crops for the Year Will Be Benefited The rainfall for the eeason has been unprecedented. The records of Co operative Weather Observer Birge, of Edgewood orchard on the West side. showed that about 171 inches of rain had fallen up to 5 o'clock Tuesday night. More than a half inch of precip itation has prevailed aince then. The amount of rain since the first of the year is more than a half a foot more than fell last year between January 1 and November 1. However, the rain fall for the first of last year was slight ly under normal. While the rain is delsying the early spring work of orchardists. it is consid ered that it will be of inestimable ben efit to crops of all lines the coming summer. It is predicted that the strswberries will be of excellent size and quality. The rainy winter, it is prophesied, will be followed by a dry summer sea son, an ideal condition for an apple crop, and with the keen interest that prevails In better spraying, riood Kiv er fruit should be of a clean, excellent quality the coming year. While the loot oi snow tnat prevailed over the Lower Valley last week was the cause of a great deal of inconven ience, it tended to retard the growth of friut buds and delay the blossoming season. This condition is welcomed by orchardists, as it is hoped the blooms will not open until after the usual cool rainy weather of eary May, when pol lenizstion of cherries is often prevent ed. Two feet of new snow fell in the Upper Valley around Parkdale, and it is re ported that at the present time a blan ket of four feet of snow is on the ground at Homer Rogers' Mount Hood Lodge. At the Green Point mill of the Stanley-Smith Lumber Co. the snow has been 15 feet deep, having been piled up to the second story windows of the company's office building. While the heavy fall will delay the operation of the big mill slightly, it will insure water a plenty for the transportation of the lumber by flume to Ruthton. The winter's bad weather has given the greatest trouble to the Mount Hood Railway Co. Traffic to Dee was again retarded last Saturday when a slide 100x20 feet blocked a cut just south of the city. The debris was cleared out by Monday. Slides, however, continue to block the line between Dee and Parkdale. ASSOCIATION PRIMARY TO BE HELD SATURDAY Apple growers are looking forward with interest to the annual primary nomination meeting, to be given at 10 o'clock at Heilbronner hall next Satur day morning, when candidates will be named for tbe board of directors of the organization. A report of the year's business up to date win oe renaereo. Association officials state that the meeting will be of especial interest to strawberry growers, as a comprehen sive survey of the results of last year's sales campaign in conjunction with the neighboring Washington districts will be msde. with tne oerry growers oi Kennewick and Richland, Wash., on an organized basis this year, the berry sales bid fair to be made tnis year on a more orderly basis than on any former season. The bv laws of the Association re quire that six members of the old board of 11 be elected. However, nine old members may be chosen. WATER CASE WILL - BE AGAIN ARGUED Geo. R. Wilbur and E. C Smith, at torneys in tbe case of the Oregon Lum ber Co. against the East Fork Irriga tion District, were advised Tuesday that the case recently heard before the Supreme court with some of the jus tices absent, had been remanded for arcument before the court en banc. The case appealed from a decision of Judge Bradehaw in circuit court last year, involves the rights of several thousand inches (of water on the East Fork of Hood liver. Superintendent Has Free Seeds A number of packages of free flower and vegetable seeds have been sent to Countv School Superintendent Gibson for distribution. Anyone desiring pack ages of the seeds may obtain same by calling at the office of the superintend ent at the courthouse. All of the free flower seeds sent the Glacier by Congressman Sinnott have been distributed. WOMEN WILL URGE "BUY AT HOME" The Oregon Federation of Women's clubs will launch a campaign for "Western Club Woman's Consumer's week," to be observed the week of April 3-9, this week. Mrs. Chas. H. Castner, president of the Federation, will take an active interest in spread ing the "buy at home" propaganda, and circular letters will be mailed to all affiliated clubs by Miss Ava Milan, of Corvallis, chairman of the economics committee. The letter calls attention to the fact that the governors of Washington, Ida ho, Utah and Oregon have issued pro clamations, setting aside April 3-9 as Club Woman s Consumer s Week,' and the local clubs are asked to appoint committees to work in conjunction with similar bodies from commercial organ izations. The remainder of the letter follows: "Ask the editor of your local paper to make one week s issue a special home industry number. Suggest to your merchants that they advertise, advocating"Buy at Home" telling what western made goods they have for sale. "Ask the manufacturers of your town to make a window display in one of tha retail stores. Ask the grocers to dis play western food products. Ask the hardware merchant to display western paints, or any other articles they may have from western manufacturers or jobbers. Ask the dry goods merchant to display western woolen and knit goods, overalls, blankets, etc. "Serve a home product dinner. Have a bread baking contest using home flour. Have a special day to visit home industries. If possible, have a home industry program at your club, and above all urge every member to buy western made goods for this week, and get the habit." Mrs. H. C. Oliver Dead Mrs. Anna Oliver, wife of H. C. Oliver, traveling freight agent of the O.-W. R. & N. Co., passed away last week at St. Vincent'a hospital in Port land. Mr. Oliver.who frequently visits Hood River, has many local friends and acquaintances. Ell A Mass Meeting Big Sweet Juicy Oranges For this week we have some extra fine aral extra large Navel Oranges to sell. This is the best brand tiszt grows in California. Special Large Size, 80's, 4 flc dozen Special Medium Size, 150's 30c dozen Extra Large Florida Grapefruit, lize 54's, 2 for 25c Star Grocery Perigo & Son "GOOD THINGS TO EAT" OF THE TAXPAYERS AND PATRONS OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NUMBER 3 WILL BE HELD AT THE Commercial Club, Friday evening, March 10,8 p.m. - ALL TAXPAYERS, BOTH MEN AND WOMEN, ARE ESPECIALLY INVITED TO BE PRESENT AND TAKE PART IN THE OPEN DISCUS SION AS TO THE CONDITION AND NEEDS OF OUR CITY SCHOOLS. CORDIALLY YOURS, FRANK A. CRAM DR. C. H. JENKINS MRS. ALMA HOWE Board of Directors.