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HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1916
No. 45
VOL. XXVII '
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RECORDS
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RECORDS OF
FIRST FARMER
EXCERPTS TAKEN FROM OLD DAIRY
Twelve Votes Cast in Congressional Elec
tion 60 Years Ago Tragedy
Of an Indian Doctor
IThia ! tha fifth anil taut nf aeries
of articlei written by H. G. Coe, ion
of Nathaniel Coe. Hood River's first
permanent settler. Tbe article ap
peared in the Glacier April, 1903.
Mans nf Hnnd River'a ninneer real-
itanta hiva nil alert tha atnriea in their
crap booki. Early files of the Glacier
having been burnea.meso articles were
reprinted through me courtesy oi mr
and Mrs. W. L. Clark).
Exclusive Styling
When you want one ault of. clothes or sev
eral more, call on Dale & Meyer, as we have
said before, their goods are thoroughly shrunk
and ready for use. Why you shouldn't order
your Spring Suit there Is not an excuse, for
their garments are style perfect In every way,
that being the case, why put off until tomor
row what you can do today. You" should
consider yftur local tailors, Dale & Meyer,
whose services are prompt and efficient, and
their workmanship considerable higher.
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Fishing and Hunting Licenses
We are showing a full line
of the famous hand made
Shakespeare Fishing Goods.
Don't cost you any more
than the other kind.
A large assortment of new
and second hand rifles offer
ed at wholesale cost.
The Franklin air cooled
car eliminates nearly; 200
parts as useless, except to
create repair bills. "
Easiest riding car made.
Most economical in gasoline,
32. 8-miles to gallon, r
1050 on 1 gallon oil. .
12,000 miles on set tires.
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Sporting Goods
Lawn Tennis, Baseball, Cro
quet, Golf the proper goods
for any game.
Tennis and Baseball Shoes.
Wading Boots.
Lubricating Oils
We carry 30 kinds of oil.
The correct oil for any purpose-ask
for the right oil
for it is often one-half the
price of a kind not suited
to the need.
Our Furniture Department was never so full of bargains
5 allowed for cash on lowest market price? ,
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In your search for clothes that will give you the
clean, live, up-and-doing look of youth
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Their size graduation, held to fractional ex
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At $18, you can get a suit you would be
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spondingly at $20, $22.50 and $25.
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STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
OF THE
Butler Banking Company.Hood River.Or.
AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS. ON OUR 16th ANNIVER
SARY, APRIL 4, 1916.
RESOURCES:
Loans and Discounts ..$400,805.56
Bonds, Warrants and Stock 27,588.80
Savings Department Loans . . . 60, 404. 20
Office Fixtures and Furniture.. 5,500.00
Real Estate... 10,186.82
Cash on hand and in other banks. .....119,834.26
$624,319.64
LIABILITIES:
Capital Stock... .........$100,000.00
Earned Surplus and Undivided Profits.. 29,762.74
Notes and Bills discounted...
Deposits ...
Deposits on April 4, 1915...
Deposits on April 4, 1916...
26,132.95 i
468,423.95
$624,319.64
..$392,695.70
.. 468,423.95
Increase during the year $75,728.25
For Building Purposes
frame houses, scaffolding, shoring tim
ber, or any work that calls for lumbec.
come and pick it oat. You can have
your choice. If you don't find what
you're after in our yards, yon might jost
as well stop looking. Our prices are low
Bridal Veil Lumbering Co.
tondinyuterW ai Box Shoois
Phon S181
Curtis Ripe Olives
Are the black kind and have much food value.
Small Tins 10c, contains; about 18 olives.
Pint Tins 15c, small standard pack. ,
Fancy Pints Tins 25c, contain 50 olives.
Fancy Quart Tins 45c, contain 100 olives.
Extra Black Quart Tins 60c, contain 100 olives.
Ask for Curtis Quality Olives
AT :
The Star Grocery Perigo & Son
Our meteorological record commences
February 1, 1867, but no family record
was kept until June, 1858. I"read from
tbe record :
"Snnrian CIptnliAt 1R. 1BR7- Ther.
mometer broke by the first frost tbst
touched it" , .
Thia aoaa a aarinna loaa. as were
unable to obtain another one until tbe
following June.
Almnat the first entry I find il IM
June 3-"Took 19 bushels potatoes to
uaues ; sota ior i.ov per uuiaw.
Farm hands came high those days.
From an old account book I read :
"William Psige, by worn commenc
ing, Man 1 IRK?, to October 225 mos..
22 days $238" (or $40 per month and
board), mis man raige wu an oiu
English sailor whom my father picked
up in Portland and hired for a year at
$40 per montb and board. He after
wards obtained unenviable notoriety
by his connection with the noted Ma
gruder murders near Lewiston, Idaho,
about 1864 or 1865. Paige, with three
others, brutally murdered a packer
named Magruder and his entire party
of five or six, for their money, and es
caped to California. They were cap
tured in aan r rancisco ana lanen dbck
In I omiatnn Pnira turned atate'a evi
dence and saved bis neck ; his three
companions were banged. He was af
terwards shot in a saloon brawl.
August 10, 1858, a young man by the
name of Arthur Gordon, who, witb his
cousin Henry, had been at work on the
river, took up ine ciaim aiterwarua
known as tbe Peter Neal place, and my
brother, Eugene, took up a claim he
afterwards sold to Jesse Neal, a son of
old Peter.
August 15, I read, "Peaches and
plums begin to ripen." And on the
20th. "Took two bushels pesches to
Dalles ; these brought . 25 - cents a
pound."
Sometime during the summer S. B.
Ives and family and A. C. Phelps
.n.il nn frnm tha flaacadea- Ivea ln-
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cated on what we called Round Prairie,
west and north of tbe Belmont church,
and Phelps directly west, en the creek,
later known as rneips creea, ration
oai, anH Rail hroolc. Later an old
sailor named Cowpertbwaite took up
the place souui oi me ivea piece, n nc ir
is ard owned by Ward, Whitcomb, Pratt
and others. Amos Underwood and John
M. Marden also located on what is now
known as the Haynes-Morton farm,
and a man named wuson on me Bar
rett place. -
N. S. Benson, who went east in the
early fall, to get him a wife, returned
in November, bringing, aiso, m.-s
Maggie Williams, J. M. Benson's fian
... ThARa na arrivals made a wel
come addition to our little neigtiDor
knt .1 M Ranann had taken un a
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farm on Indian creek, so called from
the Indian village or some len or
twelve houses ouut oi spin ceuar
boards and used during the winters.
January Z2, loos, irom our recora i
read: "Killed two hogs; weight 280
pounds; 14 cents, or $39.20."
There was money in raising hogs
then.
"February 14 -sold one yone oxen to
John Day ; price $160." This was the
man for whom the John Day river was
named. .......
Our record does not ten oi tne nrsi
postofflce and postmaster, but it must
have been rpened in 1859, witb Mrs.
n . a 1 I. . .4
bertns censon r. m., mu aey
the N. S. Benson place, just east of
the Lost Lake Lumber company's saw
iii Thia apaa a irreat convenience.
as before that time the mail came
through the pursers oi tne Doats ana
was frequently delayed and lost.
"Tuesday, reoruary u oicamci
Mo aimk at Hnrn'a landing: ran On
submerged stump." This landing is
on tbe Edgar Locke farm. Broke
thermometer again, and it could not be
replaced until June i.
In March Mr. and Mrs. ouuer ana
Mr. and Mrs. Whiting came. Mr.
Butler took up the place afterwards
known as tne uaeu rancn, ana munn
took a place adjoining on the west.
"Mnnrfav June 6. 1859 Commenced
papering tha rooms; won't they look
nice witn sucn prey paper i im.
in mother's handwriting.
"Tuesday, June 7 Walker and Max-
.li niiil matrara r.ama to SUDDer.
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This was the party tnat openea wnai
wasnown as the Walker trail to the
Willamette valley via tbe west fork of
Hood river and Uittwooa lane.
"Monday. June 27-Election returns,
precinct of Hood River: Congressmen
D. Logan, rep., 8; Lansing Stout,
dem., 4." . . ....
Cvma lima in tha anrlnff oi una sear
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. man namart Staddea took UD the
place now known as the Turner farm
and built a log cabin on ii. mw caum
was used by Butler snd Whiting as s
store room while tbey were building
their bouses; Stsdden assisting them.
On returning to tbe stadoen nouse one
.u.rino thav were aurnrised to find
that some person or persons had
broken into tbe cabin and stolen tbe
bulk of their provisions. Inquiry at
k. ..hin nf tha f.nrdnn bOVB elicited
the fact that a band of Indians had
passed up the valley that day by way
of Sudden's. Of course, it was the
Indians that were guilty, ana on a
return of the band they were accused
of tne theft. This tbey indignantly
denied, and opened their packs for in
spection. Tbey men aeroanaea w
.i.. ..kin Af tha flnninna be aearcbed.
and declared they would do so If the
whites did not So tbe only thing to
be done wss to go ana prove uat a
white man was incapable of violating
one of the Ten Commandments. The
Gordons deelsred they wouia not nave
the cabin searched, bu. seeing k wj
useless to resist, tbey stood by and
witnessed tha indignant searchers haul
out the missing provisions 'from under
tha Ann ami nut fif the bunks. The
two young men could well have thanked
their lucky stars tnat mey aia no.
grace tbe limb of an adjoining tree ;
but more moderate counsel prevailed.
Tbey were shown the trail and advised
to "hit it" without undue loss of time.
And, needless to say. tbey took we
gentle, bint without unnecessary delsy
and made themselves scarce.
An incident or two that occured
about this time will illustrate the pe
culiar ideas of Indisn justice and tbe
dangerous character of a medicine
man s job. I be beaa man or cniei oi
the Hood River Indiana was a tall, dig
nified man named Ba-al, whoas tbe
proud possessor of two wives. One of
them having offended her liege lord and
master, wss very promptly and vigor
ously disciplined, the result being s
htslran arm and aarinua internal iniur-
tes and her ejection from tbe regal
n.nslnn intn an adinininir. unuaed
shack, where she wss left with little
or no cere. A brother of the womsn,
bearing of her pitiable condition, came
mwiA mi nnoa nrdarad a nntahlA medicine
man. named Te-al-lop. to attend tbe
injured woman. His skill, however,
uaa nn auail and tha AC-nuaan died.
: Tha csmp was located oh the ground
now covered by tbe Mount Hood hotel,
hlavt Avanino after tha aauaw'a death.
as 1 was driving my cows home past
the camp, I besrd the report of a rifle.
Going to see what had happened, I
louna me oia aocior iace uownwaru
tka 8m milh a hnllat hnla in tha back
of his head. He bad been sitting witb
his back toward the entrance, when
the brother, Jack Wal-Iu-pi-ke, con
cluding that the doctor alone was to
blsme for his sister's death, stole up
behind him and blew out bis brains.
As I telt a little lonesome, not know.
ing just bow zar jack s idea oi ven
geance might go, 1 took my departure
with as mucn dignity as I could mus-
... and . flatter mvaelf that I did well.
considering the creepy feelings up snd
down my spins! column. The incident
wss closed, however; the wrong man
killed, snd honor snd vengeance satis
fied. Another case was that of one of
Chief Mark's tribe, of Tbe Dalles, wno
CLUB ADOPTS
RESOLUTIONS
NEW LUMBER ASSOCIATION BACKED
Chamberlain 0.-C. Land Grant Bill En
dorsed, bat Salem Club's Text Book
Petition Is Not Favored
was killed in a drunken brawl by one
nf Phiaf Wal.la.phin'a men. Wal-la-
chin ruled half a dosen camps located
about three miles west of Hood River.
Chief Mark at once demanded satisfac
tion either by delivery of the guilty
party or a satisfactory number of
ponies. Both demands were refused on
the ground of contributory negligence.
Mark nithnnt further delav. marshal
ed his warriors and started for Wal-la-chin's
csmp on a strictly business
proposition. About iuociock one
bright spring morning the beating of
tnm.tnma nntiKAd ua ot their arrival.
They bad crossed Hood river near its
month and marched single file down
the entire length of the sandbar.
There were 60 or 60 of them on- horse
back, armed with flint-lock muskets,
hows andlarrows. etc.. and made a pro
cession one-half a mile long. It is
needless to say mat old Wal-la-cbin ca
pitulated.at once, and in tbe afternoon
tbey returnea who me Diooa-mgne;
horses, leading them away in triumph.
In tbe fall of 1860 Peter Neal visited
Hood River valley and decided to lo
cate on the abandoned Gordon place,
and in the spring of 1861 moved down
with his family, including his son-in-law,
Jerome Wincbell. If I remember
rightly, Hardin Corum came to Hood
river the same spring and built tbe saw
.a m a. 1 1 mi 17 (IIJ. ikaa
mm ior neat, ine E.ast oiuo men
kmmflaji in ntafvniHpAnt nine timber.
and tbe Neals made use of it, cutting
it wherever found, regardless of loca
tion. Uncle Sam then made no kick at
those who despoiled his forests. Neal's
lumber business was run very much on
Uncle Sam's protective tariff plan. We
paid $10 and $12 per 1000 for his lum-
L, Kara thnnah ha mould shin better
lumber to The Dalles and sell at $6 and
$8 per 1000 there. That is, we could
buy identically the same lumber at Tbe
Dalles, snd psy freight back to Hood
River as cheap as we could get it st
home; out mat was one vi untie
Pete's little ways, and we could buy it
or let it alone, just as we chose. Jesse
Neal. son of Peter Nesl, took up s
place adjoining tbe Butler place, which
was afterward purchased by John W.
Hinrichs, and a year or so later Corum
took a farm west of Jesse Neal's snd
built a saw mill on a branch of what Us
now known as Odell creek.
, 1 mnat nnt forffet to mention a well
known character of these early days,
known as George P. Roberts, later
Hog Roberts, tbe squaw man. I think
it must hsve been in tbe fall of 1857 or
the spring of 1858 that Roberta located
on tbe land wnere me wwn oi rr ana-
ton was afterwards laid out, and bunt
a aback on the little hill where the
Smith cemetery now is, and some years
later look up me piace on wnicu now i
the little town of Viento. Roberts was
then the most notorious liar easrof the
Cascades, and he bad no equals and no
superiors west of them. It was simply
impossioie ior tne man mj ten mis
truth, and no one expected it of him.
A sample yarn which afterwards be
came famous In tbe country, was told
me first by Roberts. Up to the fall of
'61 he had collected quite a band of
cayuse ponies. These, as tbe winter
came on, were driven onto the moun
tains east oi nood river, wnere tne
grass wss abundant and high. The
ensuing winter wss noted for it sever
st hiHar anld weather and dean snow
covered with a heavy crust which at
ona time waa strong enough to bear up
amaii nnni Roberta never saw hide
nor hair of his bsnd of horses after
January 1 until near the first of Msrch,
when be found them on the banks of
iind riar in fairlv cnod condition.
and not one missing, sltbougb the snow
mnat hasa been fullv live feet deeD.
According to his story he had spent
many days looking in vsin for them.
CANNING PLANT TO
DOUBLE ITS CAPACITY
Trumsn Butler, who left for Chicago
last week to arrange finances for tbe
Hood River Canning Co., wired from
that eity Tuesday that negotiations
km a . annoinded that would ensble
the esnnery to double its espacity. The
canning company has already com
pleted excavations for an addition to
I its building, and tbe new structure, it
is ststed, will ansa at once.
The Hood River Canning Co.. which
ia headed .by H. H. Larkina and E. B.
Cloud, baa'for the most pan during iD
paat two yeara of its existence bandied
Clark Seedling atrawnemea. nowever,
nnantitiaa nf cherries. Dears
.A m nrlu kt haan panned. Tha OUt-
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put of tbe cannery last year resched
6,000 esses.
Tbe consideration and adoption of
resolutions characterised tbe Monday
night meeting of me Commercial club.
The club members took measures to
offset a recent resolution adopted by
tbe Portland Chamber of Commerce,
whereby that body endorsed the action
of Portland lumber manufacturers. in
tbeir fight to secure from the Inter
state Commerce Commission a' parity
nf rataa tn Utah and intermountain
points with those from points east of
tbe Cascades.
In the resolution adopted by the local
club, Charles D. Mehaffey, a Portland
attorney, is asked to present the docu
ment to me interstate oommerca vum- '
mission on behalf of the organization.
Tbe resolution calls for a freight reduc
tion for all mills east of the Cascade
equal to any that may be granted to
tbe Portland mills.
Attention is called to the fairness of
sone rate basis tbat has formerly ex
isted, the topography of the country
east of the mountains as compared with
that on tbe west slope end the differ-.
ence in the quality of the lumber: J.
E. Robertson addressed the club mem-.
harm nn hehalf nf tha lumber interests.
stating that every mill man of the
Hood Kiver vaney, manuiacturing
much as 5,000 feet daily, as a member .
of tbe newly formed Hood River Lum
berman's Association. He declared
that if the Portland demands were
granted existing commercial relations
in the east Cascade districts would be
disrupted.
A communication from the Salem
Commercial club, which asked that the
local body endorse a resolution provid
ing for the publishing of elementary
text books for the state schools at
borne, was read. Prof. McLaughlin,
after a motion was made by W. L.
Clark, seconded by Leslie Butler and
Dr.Brosius, that the move be endotsed,
took tbe floor in opposition.
"1 believe in doing all we can at
hnmA " aaid Prof. McLaushlin. "but
the failure of California's attempt to
print its text books at home, shows the
inadequacies of our Pacific coast print
ers to handle matter of this kind. In
California the home published books
lowered the cost to the public very '
little, yet a very poor quality of work
was produced, both in text and in work- ..
manship. The buy at home movement.
In mtj nnininn can ha overdone, and ia
sometimes not the best economy. Very
few men on the Pacific coast really un-
derstand the business of text book
malrina "
' Dr. Brosius took the opposite view.
"Granted that the work may not be
quite as good," he aaid, -"as a matter
of policy I think we should print the
books at home. Having a little girl in
school 1 have recently become rejuven
ated. Personally I am disgusted with
the text books we have in use today.
Except for the individual efforts of
teachers I do not see such advancement
over the books used when 1 was in
school."
President Cruikshank also stated that
he considered some of the text books
as not equal to the old books.
While the vote oi me ciud memuera
conformed with a former action taken
by tbe board of directors and refused
to endorse tbe Salem request, it was
stated that the capital city's commer
cial body would send further detailed
information at tne request oi toe iocbi
club.
Leslie Butler expressed the opinion
that Oregon had men capable of issuing
as good text books as those produced in
tbe east, provided the matter were
placed in the hands of a capable com
mission and kept out of politics.
l anaa at atari at the cluh meeting
that Robert E. Smith, of Grants Pass,
of the Oregon Rational Tax Reform
League, would be in Hood River the
latter part of this week. Mr. Smith
will attend a meeting st the club rooms
tonight.
' Tha nlnh andnraad tha Chamberlain
Oregon-California Land Grant bill, now
before congress. A resolution was
adopted urging Oregon congressmen to
stand by tbeir guns and demand that 40
per cent of the fund from tbe great
area of grant lands be given to the
Oregon school funds. Another 40 per
cent will go to roads, while 20 per cent
Kill ha oisan tha general reclamation
fund. An effort has been made to
amend the Chamberlain bill, so that
only 20 per cent, instead of 40, will go
to the state school funds.
Oregon s representatives in congress
are all endeavoring to secure passage
of tbe Chamberlain bill as originally
introduced. Mr. McLaughlin read let
ters he had received from Congressmen
Hawley and McArthur. Congressman
Sinnott ia taking a vary active part in
the land grant legislation, having ap
peared before committee meetings, ap
pealing for tbe 40 per cent school fund.
I Tk. .a.nlntinna adontad hv tha club
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have been drawn by Judge Derby.
Through a combined move on tbe part
ef tbe Commercial club, business men
of tbe city and the county court an
effort will be made to open tbe Colum
bia river highway in this county before
tbe apple trees of the valley have blos
somed. The work of tbe club at tbe
Monday night meeting waa piacea in
the bands of a committee composed of
Leslie Butler, E. W. Birge and W. L.
Clark. The club has suggested to the
county court that an engineer be sent
over tbe line of the road to secure
.n..;n..tinna nf tha amrk neceasarv for
clearing the road, and that the work
then be let to contractors. It was de
clared that too much delay will result
if supervisors of road districts through
which the highway passes are allowed
to complete the task. '
Belmont Mill Starts
The mill of the Hood River Forest
Products Co., located in the west Bel
mont district of tbe vslley, began the
season's run Tuesday, cutting a daily
average of 85,000 feet The lumber will
be transported to nuinion in num.
tbst extends from tbe Green Point mill
of tbe Stanley-Smith Lumber Co.
The latter company will start its
mill, which has a espacity of 100.000
feet dsily. In about two weeka. At
present the snow in tne rureata w w
deep to permit logging. -The two cor
csrns win employ aoout ow aiu,
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