The Hood River glacier., November 30, 1916, Image 3

HOOD RIVER GLACIER THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 191G
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mers at our new location, one door east of
Clark's Drug Store. We would be glad to wel
come you there. Groceries of Quality.
CASH GROCERY
Grocery of Quality
E. E. KAESSER, Proprietor
Phone 1012
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Statement of the Condition of the
Butler Banking Company
of Hood River, Oregon, at the Close of Business
November 17, 1916
Resources:
Loans and Discounts $447,284.62
Bonds, Warrants and Stocks 9,092.39
Savings Department Loans 76,059.49
Office Fixtures and Furniture 5,350.00
Real Estate 21,393.99
Cash on Hand and in Other Banks 81,934.35
. ... $641,114.84
Liabilities:
Capital Stock '. $100,000.00
Earned Surplus and Undivided Profits.. 34,284.85
Notes and Bills Rediscounted 28,480.00
Deposits 478,349.99
$641,114.84
November 17, 1915 $375,532.34
November 17, 1916 478,349.99
Increase 102,817.65
An Orchard Necessity
The Hood River Box
Nailing Press
Do you know that no time saving contrivance for or
chardists has ever become so universally popular as this box
nailing press? These presses have been shipped to Siberian
orchardists, all over the United States and to the far away
fruit districts of Australia. The reasons are simple. The
cost of the box is but normal when compared with the saving
made by the efficient service it renders.
W. G. SNOW
Phone 2611 Fourth Street
The Purity Dairy Co.
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users waited months before they were willing to try it.
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seemed to improve matters. But common sense was
bound to win. Rich tobacco, shredded, lightly salted
ao exceaa eweetenin that't far tobacco satisfaction can to, and
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RECOLECTIONS OF SIID
COLUMBIA INDIANS
(A piper by Cspt. H. C. Coe)
Rearing Children : The life lot the
Indian child alter discarding twaddling
clothes wal very carefree. Paterna
influence wai the least of their troub
les. They had no duties to perform, no
noxious chores to attend to tne whole
day was theirs from sunrise to sunset.
They were early taught the ue of; the
bow and arrow and how'to build snares
for trspping animals. I never koew
of a pans of cornoral Duniihment.
Fishing and Food Resources: Fish
ing wss the main support of the wu
lamette and Wasco tribes. During the
spring freshet In the Columbia river
salmon in vtst numbers entered its
waters making their way to the spawn
ing grounds in the upper reaches of
the stream. At; the Cascades, the
Granddalles and Tumwater, or Celilo
Falls, the Indians from all over the
country would gather to secure their
salmon, generally by buyingthem from
those hsving stands at favorable pointa
in the rapids ; hot only at the placea
mentioned, but at any point along the
river, where there was a swift current.
but in no such quantities as at the
great rapids.
In early days before the dsy of can
neries salmon would come up the river
in unbelievable numbers unless actual
ly seen. One year I operated a salting
establishment at tne five Mile rapids
st The Dslles. One dip net took out
3.500 in 10 hours. The farmers from
the bsck country would come in to put
up fish for the winter, which I told to
them for five cents each, many of them
being royal chinooks and weighing
from 30 to 50 pounds each. In the fall
of the yesr after spawning time the
old salmon would die and millions of
them would float down the stream. At
that time the farmers along the river
raised many bogs, which were allowed
to range at Jarge. and they, or course.
fond the dead salmon on the river
banks. Feeding on them they became
very fat. But the flesh was ruined for
the year, being thoroughly impreg
nated with the salmon odor, even the
flesh being colored with a pinkish hue
lu the fall came the steelhesds and
the white salmon, or dogfish. These
latter fish swarmed in countless mill
ions in the smaller streams west of The
Dalles, and a very singular fact in his
connection was that only the streams
coming in from the north were used by
them, being the Big and Little White
Salmon and Wind rivers, with the ex
ception of Lindsey creek near the Cas
cades. 1 have seen the latter stream
so packed with them that one could
have walked across it on their backs
dry shod. .
The Indians valued these fish for the
faet that tbey were not so oily as the
ehinooks, steelheads or silversides.
Another source of fish supply came
from the lamprey eels. These, how
ever, were not used to any great ex
tent, except in case of a shortage of
the salmon run. They were strong and
oily. Sturgeon were also used fresh.
These fish were caught with hooks or
frequently in dip nets when fishing for
salmon at the rapids. Many of them
were of immense size, and were the
terror of the swift water dipnetters.
Many an Indian has lost his life by
being jerked from his platform into
the raging waters of the rapids by one
of the leviathans. These fish now al
most extinct in the Columbia river,
were in the early days of an incredible
size. One year something happened.
What it was was never known, but
dead sturgeon floated down the river in
vast numbers . and of prodigious size.
One that lodged on the sandbar oppos
ite the mouth of the White Salmon, I
measured. The head alone was five
feet long, and the body 13, making a
total of 18 feet. It must have weighed
over 1500 pounds. One year I saw two
of these monsters shipped to The
Dalles. They weighed 900 pounds each.
Another source of fish aupply was
obtained from the smaller streams by
trapping the salmon and dollyvarden
trout. These fish were not put away,
but were sold freish and brought many
a pretty nenny into the seller's pocket,
selling lor from 15 to 25 cents each at
The Dalles. .The method employed in
obtaining these dainties was to build a
V-shaped dam across the mouth of the
stream, when the water was low and
shallow, so as to raise the water from
three to four feet, and at the lower
point to build a weir of cedar slats.
The impounded water would rush
through, falling through the slats,
leaving the unfortunate trout high and
dry, to be later strung on a withe and
sent to market, as many aa three or
four dozen would often be taken in one
night. Other food sourcn came from
game, berries and roots.
Acorns were used in large quantities.
They were gathered in the fall and
taken to the river bank where clay was
to be found. Tbev were then piled in
large conical heaps of perhaps eight to
JO bushels each, covered over with
trass and green stuff and then a layer
of mud. A slow fiie was built over
them and continued until they were
roasted to a black coal. A pit was
then dug close to the water's edge and
the blue clay and acorns were thor
oughly mixed. Tbey were allowed to
remain for a month or mure in the
slimy hole. They were then taken out,
washed and dried and put away in
sscks for winter use. I never consid
ered tbem a great dainty. Many times
I have tried to enjoy them, but (one
bite was more than sufficient to satisfy
my curiosity.
As soon as the white man imported
vegetables and fruits the Indians rele
gated the acorn crop to the hogs. I
always felt that they were like the
J am prey eel, used only when other food
was scarce. Camas was obtained from
Camaa Lake across the river in Wash
ington. This was a root about as large
aa an English walnut, and when washed
and cooked as the Indians cooked it, it
was a most palatable vegetable.
Another singular article of food was
wild sunflower roots. In the early days
this plant literally covered the ground
everywhere. It had a large mealy
root, something like a parsnip in
shape, when young, but became tough
and woody as it aged. It was a great
nuisance to the ploughman. In the
summer the tender root wss taken,
washed and cooked by digging a pit in
the ground and heaping wood over
them. It had a sweet syrupy taste.
On the Blue mountains in eastern
Oregon a root, called couse, was gath
ered. This was cooked and dried in
the sun, and resembled cot ton wood
chips ground up. I was stranded on
the upper Columbia once; my small
boat used in crossing the river from
my ranch on the Washington shore, bad
gone adrift. There was not a white
man within 25 miles on either side of
the river. The second day I began to
get pretty hungry, when an Indian
family came in from the mountains
and camped near by. I at once applied
for something to eat, and a slab of
dried couse and a generous portion of
dried horsemest, which the donor in
formed me was part of an unforunate
animal that had fallen over a cliff in
the mountains. But it had been so
long desd before they found it that I
could not ait beside it. to say nothing
of eating it. I thanked bim, taking
tha couse and soing to my sagebrush
eamp, tried to aat enough ot the stuff
to quiet the hunger pangs.- It was
useless, and 1 watched the daylight go
and coma again, bringing a steamboat
and rescue.
The glorious huckleberry I season
eomes in the early fall, and glorious to
the Indian it certainly is. I once vis
ited the noted Cbequssb mountaina in
the eastern foothills of the .'Caacadea
on the beadwatera of Wind river in
Washington. This wss a famous place
and Indiana gatnerea nere curing me
season from all over the country, from
as fsr'east as Spokane '.and ;Nes Perce
reservation and from the Grand Coule
on the north to gather the luscious
berries, race horses and gamble. It
was certainly the Siwash Newport, and
joy reigned supreme. The seance gen
erally endedlwith a'horseload or two
of firewater, and then pandemonium
reigned instead of joy.
In the winter snowshoa parties would
bring in large quantitiea of deer meat,
especially when unusually heavy snows
prevailed, and deer or elk, as the case
might oe, were siaugawrcu who ciuui.
And here my story ends, my dream
of the ahadowy past, a history that
tells of;the redman of the wild, whom
the vices of civilisation have driven
almost off the fsce of the earth. Civ
ilization and education are not for the
Indian they are hia curse, his death
knell. As a child I knew them.roamed
at will through their camps, was the
ssme to them as their own, was
watched over, Tared for and loved by
them. They taught me sneir language,
their legends and superstitions, and I
have ever found them truthful, gener
ous and affectionate. ' Now your
thoughts wsnder back to tales of tor
ture and treachery in their wars of the
past. True every word, and words can
not tell all of its awful horrors. For
generations unknown ' it had -been
taueht them, instilled in them as part
of their religion. In battle they are
not human beings, but demons.
(To be concluded)
LAND FRAUD CASE
UP AT THE DALLES
' '
One of the most notorious land fraud
cases for which F. A. Hyde, who took
the initiative in the gigantic swindle.
and was tried and convicted in Wash
ington. D. C. is being tried before
Judge Bradshaw in The Dalles this
week, according to a dispatch from
that city to the Oregonian. . The case
involved achool lands in the forest re
serves of Hood River county, but for
reasons of convenience is being tried in
The Dalles.
The case is the State of Oregon ver
sus F. A. Hyde, A. S. Baldwin, Charles
U. Jameson, the California uonr fac
tory, a corporation; the Western Lum
ber Company, a croporation; Palo Alto
Livestock Company, a corporation; F.
A. Hvde & Co.. a corporation: and C.
W. Clarke Company, a corporation.
The state is trying to regain title to
the school lands under the contention
that the defendants gained title by
fraud while the various corporations
implicated contend that they were in
nocent purchasers of the land script
from r. A. Hyde and hia associates
and that they are not a party to the
fraud.
During the wholesale making of for
est reserves in the west, while Roose
velt was president, it is charged that
Hyde and others gained fraudulent ti
tles to school lands in the state of Ore
gon, and then induced the. western con
gressmen to create forest reserves
around the school lands, - which were
sold to the United States government
for land script which could be laid on
any vacant land in the United States.
Hyde and the other men in the get rich
quick game sold the script to'the big
timoer companies now named as de
fendants in the present suits, and they
used it in purchasing from the govern-
men valuable timber holdings, and now
contend that they were innocent pur
chasers. In the transaction the state
lost millions of dollars. It is expected
that the suit before Judge Bradshaw,
which commenced Monday,' will con
tinue for three or four day.
District Attorney Derby was not
cognizant of the litiagtion which is
probably being handled (.through .the
office of the state's attorney general.
Henry Serr Undergoes Operation
Ted. Serr last week received word
from Des Moines, la., that his father,
Henry Serr, proprietor of the Hotel
Oregon, of which the son is manager,
had just undergone successfully at a
Des Moines hospital an operation for
abdominal trouble. Mr. Serr, who was
formerly proprietor of the Hotel Gail
at Dallas, has been traveling over the
Middle West in the interest of Willam
ette Valley prune driers.
Young Mr. Serr says that it is ex
pected that hia father will have recov
ered sufficiently to come home in time
for the Christmas holidays.
Association Gift Cars Roll
Yesterday the Apple Growers Asso
ciation forwarded fur its members and
residents of Hood River and neighbor
ing towns two cars of gift apples, one
being routed to New York and another
going to Chicago. From these points
the fruit will be shipped by express to
all parts of the Middle West and East
ern states.
The two carloads will contain ap
proximately 1,500 boxes of apples,
which will form the Christmas gifts of
local folk to their Eastern and Middle
Western friends.
Norton Buys in Vinegar Company
J. R. Norton, formerly a business
man of Minneapolis, Minn., has pur
chased an interest in the Hood River
Apple Vinegar Co., of this city, the
plant ef which now tuins out an aver
age of 10,000 barrela of vinegar and
cider a season. Mr. Norton is owner
of a West Side orchard tract. He has
removed to the city with hia family.
Record Motor Trip Made
A record round trip from here to
Portland was made Thursday evening
by Walter Shay, accompanied by Wil
liam Bailey. 1 he young men, motor
ing down over the Columbia River
Highway, left here Thursday after
noon at 4 o'clock. They arrived at the
Perkins hotel at 7 o'clock.
After seeing a theatre the young
men returned to Hood River, arriving
home before 3 a. m.
Do You Have Sour Stomach?
If yon are troubled with sour stomach
you should eat slowly and masticate your
food thoroughly, then take one of Cham
berlain's Tablets immediately after tap
per. Obtainable everywhere.
Films left with us up to 4 o'clock p. m.
are ready for delivery the next evening,
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ONTHANK'S ELECTION
MUST BE CONFIRMED
Other than to furnish the county
court, who will appoint the successor
of Justice of: the Peace Buck after
January 1. with an expression of tha
will of the people, the naming at the
general electionj of A. W. Ontbank aa
justice of thej peace, was a hollow
form. While it was tboueht that Mr.
Buck's term would expire at the end 1
or this year and thejelection of Mr.
Onthank was considered legal, accord
ing to an interpretation of a constitu
tion! amendment, the.terra of office of
the incumbent will continue for four
more years. Mr. Buck, however, has
definitely decided to resign with the
end of this year.
Mr. Buckfis a native of New Hamp
shire. At the age of 11 years he went
with his parents to Wisconsin, where
they resided for a short time, going
later to Minnesota. Mr. Buck served
three years during the Civil war as a
member of Company D of the Seventh
Minnesota Infantry. He participated
in the battlesof Nashville and Tupelo,
the latter a severe engagement in
Mississippi. In 1873 Mr. Buck moved
to Kansas. He came to Linn county,
Ore., in 1892, where he engaged in
farming. In 1902 he moved with bis
family to The Dalles, eomlng to Hood
River the next year.
Mr. Buck has served?as justice of the
peace in Hood River county for the
past eight and a half years. He held
a similar office in Linn county, and
was a justice of the peace in Kansas
before coming west. During the terms
of his office he has officiated at 64 mar
riage ceremonies, one of them in Linn
county, one in Kansas and 62 in Hood
niver eounty,
FRUIT DAMAGE LESS
THAN ANTICIPATED
As the weather has moderated last
week and orchardists bessn to nack
out apples that were considered badly
damaged by frost, it has been found
that the loss to Hood River growers
will fall below estimates. On the
East Side Aug. Paaach had 14,000 box
es or fruit unpacked. Mr. Paasch
learned that the applea are practically
uninjured. His neighbors met with
the same experience.
the cloudy and rainy weather that
followed the clear period of low tem
perature has been ideal for thawins
out without loss the cider and cull
stock without damage. If warm sun
shiny weather had prevailed, causing
tne maw to oe sudden, many apples
that will now be accepted for vinetrar
stock, would have been ruined.
Because of the constantly increasins
estimates of the 1916 apple crop, asso
ciation plans for furnishing wrapping
paper have been badly upset. A short
age of paper has existed, end it be
came necessary to draw on the supply
oi southern aiitorma orange growers'
wrapper to meet the demand. Because
of the necessity of cutting down the
size of the wraps to fit small apples,
an added expense in the packing of
iruit nas oeen incurred by local grow
ers this season.
ARTILLERY COMPANY
EQUIPMENT HERE
The members of Com Dan v 12. Coast
Artillery Corps. O. N. G.. recently
organized among the business and pro
fessional men of the city and Valley
ranchers, will be privileged now to
participate in their drills in full
regalia. The outfits of the members
of the new company arrivedlast week.
Heretofore the militiamen have ap
peared one evening each week on the
streets uf the town in civilians'
clothes. Among the new equipment
will be paraphernalia for an indoor
target to be set up in the Heilbronner
hall, which has been secured as
Armory quarters.
Postoffice Petition Signed
While a number of representative
business men ot the city have voiced
the sentiment that Hood River is in
no need of a postoffice building, for the
construction of which the sum of $60,
000 has been included in a bill soon to
h acted on by congress, it is not likely
that any - concerted protest will be
made against the proposed appropria
tion. To offset any opposition caused
by the publicity that baa been given
the objections to the federal structure,
a petition signed by the mosr of
the merchants of the town will be for
warded to Representative Sinnott, who
declared while here last week that
everything was favorable for the pass
age of the bill carrying the appropria
tion. Girls Sell Red Cross Tags
A dozen young women, dressed in
ulsters and braving the rain storm that
prevailed in this city Saturday, stood
at the prominent street intersections
selling red cross tags to raise a fund
for the recently organized Allies Red
Cross Relief Association. The sum
collected reached $50. The money will
be sent to headquarters of Red Cross
organizations for the relief of the
widows and orphans of soldiers of the
warring countries of Europe.
Sufferer from Indigestion Relieved
"Before taking Chamberlain's Tablets
my husband suffered several years from
indigestion, causing him to have pains
in the stomach and distress after eating.
Chamberlain's Tablets relieved him of
these spells right away," writes Mrs.
Thomas Cae-y, Geneva, N. Y. Obtain
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The Firm That "Mahes Good"
Phone 1691
Oak and 1st Sts.
The Bank of Personaf Service
You are invited to give the officers of this
strong Bank suggestions regarding improve
ment of service to its customers.
We welcome criticism an as aid toward
efficiency.
Open an account and we will convince you
that it will be of material benefit to you.
4 paid on Time Certificates and Savings Deposits
First National Bank
Hood River, Oregon
CROWN FLOUR
FOR SALE
Taft Transfer Company
Hunt Paint & Wall Paper Co
Complete line of PAINTS, OILS, BRUSHES, Etc.
TKJfAUP . Heath &Milligan Mixed Paints
JH Glidden's Varnishes
A Boom Mouldings
M Bulk Calcimine Mixed to Order
1 Plate and Card Rail
Dry Paste
Anderson Undertaking Co.
C. C. ANDERSON, Sole Proprietor
LICENSED EMBALMER AND
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
312 Cascade Ave.
Phone 1394
S. E. BARTMESS
FDNERAL DIRECTOR AND LICENSED EMBALMER
Licensed with Oregon's first diss or Embalmers. Phone 1381, 3821
HOOD RIVER, OREGON
Go to Law, The Cleaner.
Auto Transfer Service
Baggage, Express and Freight Handled
on Shortest Notice. Office in Foust &
Merle Store, Mt. Hood Annex.
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