em. WW VOL. XXIX HOOD RIVER, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 1G, 1917 No. 11 KOBERG Non Pareil Vegetables and Plants yE are picking green beans now Burpee's Stringless Green Pod. True to our standard we don't grow any thing but the best in quality, and this bean as grown by us for many years is certainly Non Pareil. & Have you tried some of our Cauli flower? The seed was sown on March ?0th, and it ought to be tender ? j& How are your plants doing that we grow for you? When we sell plants we want you to get the most out of them, and if you have any trouble that we can help you out on, you are welcome and entitled to our advice and service. Twentieth Century Truck Farm J. H. KOBERG, Owner PRESTIGE THERE IS NO SAFER or Better way 'of Paying Bills than by check. Your checK acts as a receipt and keeps you from carrying around an extra amount of money. A checking account is a valu able asset to any business man, and a checking ac count in our bank will add prestige to you with other business men. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK HOOD RIVER, OREGON NEW SAMPLES Just arrived. Nifty woolens, latest patterns, correct styles and right prices. What more do you want? You don't have to go out of town to get good clothes. Let us make you a suit. We guarantee our clothes in every detail. Before you buy that new suit, see what we can do. If we can deliver the goods at the right prices, why shouldn't we have the business. Volunteer Suits We have about fifteenNm hand. Some are almost new, many of them tailor-made, every one a good bargain. A little money goes a long way here. From $4i00 to $1 OiOOi Cleaning and Pressing The only power machine dry cleaning plant in the county. Send it to us, we'll clean it. Prompt service assured. MEYER & WOOD HOTEL OREGON BUILpiNG, SECOND STREET HOOD RIVER "OUR TAPELINE IS WAITING FOR YOU" BUTLER BANKING COMPANY Established 1900 OI-FICKRS AND DIRECTORS LESLIE BUTLER F. McKERCHER (Secretary Kqiiilnhle Savings and Loan Association. Portland) E. H. FRENCH - (President French Ac Co., Bankers The Dalles, Oregon) TRUMAN BUTLER -C. H. VAVGHAN President Director Director Vice-President Cashier Keep Your Kodak Busy ! "The Army lives on letters" is the way the boys at the front put it. And when those longed for envelopes with the home town post-mark contain pictures of the home folks and home doings, they go far toward making lighter hearts and happier faces. Keep your Kodak busy for the sake of the lads in the trenches, the boys in camp and on shipboard. Help keep tight the bonds between the home and those who are fight ing for that home. Yest Pocket Kodak -It Fits the Uniform, $6.00 Other Kodaks, $9.00 and Up KRESSE DRUG CO. Store All of our deliveries in all parts of the city are made by our exclusive automobile service. Your purchases of Meats, highest class fresh and cured, Butter and Eggs and Fish, will be taken to your home promptly. - We believe that we work for our own best inter ests, when we give our customers the best service that we can possibly render and supply their wants with the best product at the best values. This is our aim. W. J. FILZ MEAT MARKET We give Green Trading Stamps m Meats and Groceries Delivered at any residence in Hood River Prompt service and courteous treatment E. M. HOLMAN, ?hTl?ireet Telephone 2134 V, per Callon ''' v ' ' '' MSLT 111l n When 1092 cart of the same make average 27. IS miles on one gallon of gasoline each when 2040 cart of the same make average 29.04 on one gallon each that car must be mechanically right The figures cited are the certified scores piled up in the historic Maxwell gasoline economy contests of May and June. They were made by privately owned Maxwell cars in actual daily use by the purchasers. Only the highest standard of efficiency in engine, clutch, transmission every mechanical detail permitted the achievement of such results. ', 9 Touring Car $745 Xo.J.t.r ST45; Town Cmt tlOtS StJan $W9S. All pric f. . . Dttrtttt ANDERSON &KEIR l 1 i I LIFE LOST IN . FOREST FIRE FLAMES CHAR BODY OF ENGINEER Oregon Lumber Co. Loses Equipment and Bridges Mystery Surrounds Recent Actions of the Dead Man With Robert' Owens, engineer of a logging locomotive, fatally burned and logging equipment and two bridges of a logging road of the Oregon Lumber Co. destroyed, Hood River county suffered one of the worst forest fires in the valley's recent history last Thurs day night. The cause of the fire, which was dis covered Thursday afternoon about 4.30 o'clock near a logging road of the Ore gon Lumber Co. penetrating the coun try on the West Fork of Hood River, has not been determined. While I. W. W. incendiarism is hinted at by some, such theory is scouted by officials of the lumber company, (who think the fire was set by a logginglocomotive. In addition to the two bridges of the logging road, about a mile of track, a logging locomotive and five cars were burned. Several donkeys were dam-' aged. Since logging operations of crews of men will nave'to stop until the road is repaired, the indirect loss of idle machinery and men at the bus iest season of the year will be heavy. The fire, which burned over an area of about three quarters of a mile square, spread l.ike a flash through heavy slashings. ' Trians were run out from the lumber company's plant at Dee and 300 men battled throughout the night to prevent'the flames from spreading to uncut timber. Mystery surrounds the recent actions of the young locomotive engineer who met death. An unmailed letter, just written and addressed to Mrs. John La Rocque, of Shelton, Wash., was found among his effects at a bunk house. The young man addressed Mrs. La Rocque as his mother, and in the let ter he told her that he had recently left Sheridan, where the I. W. Ws. were strong, and that he had changed his name and hud come to the local camp to be free from their influences. His mother, it is stated, had recent ly written to him urging him to return home, show his patriotism and enlsit in the army like so many of his former neighbor boys. The engineer, whose age was about 25 years, and a bucker, A. Andregg, were with the locomotive and a string of five cars, when the outfit was sur rounded by the fire. B. B. Smith, con ductor of the logging train, had gone to a telephone to call for more help. On starting back for the train, he was beaten back by the onrush of the fire, and was thusjprobably kept from se rious burns or fatal injuries himself. Owens, or La Rocque,' died at his post. His charred body, all the cloth ing, except his shoes, burned away, wad found a few feet away from where his engine had stood when Jthe flames overcame him. A chain used for lock ing the wheels of the train 'was found near him, indicating that his last thoughts were on his duty. The engine and train of cars, after the fire had consumed woooden brake adjustments, had ran away down a grade and plunged into a burnedtrestle. It is considered a ; miricle how An dregg, who was with the fatally burned engineer when the fire swept over the train, escaped with his life. The bucker says he laid down on the ground and rolled to and fro in what ever dircetion he felt the least heat. He was brought to the hospital Fri day afternoon badly singed and with his lungs raw from inhaling smoke. LIVE NEWS FROM TWELFTH COMPANY (By Sergeant Forrest L. Moe) Twelfth Company, Oregon Coast Ar tillery, the official name given to the men after having been drafted into the regular army, is now located in bar racks at Fort Canby, Wash. The com pany has been assigned to the three 6-inch disappearing guns at Battery Allen, on the extreme west end of the Columbia river coast defenses. The move from Fort Stevens was made Friday afternoon on one of the government transport boats which plies between Astoria and all of the Colum bia river forts. All of the men have been equipped with everything needed at the present time and strict army life has begun in earnest. The quarters for the men are two large private ad joining houses, which have teen con verted into barracks and which have all the necessary conveniences for com fort. There are no stores whatever at Fort Canby, but a Post Exchange, where the men can purchase tobacco, candy, etc., is being planned. The town of Ilwaco, with about 1500 inhabitants, is three miles and Long Beach about seven miles distant by wagon road. The soldiersjat the fort have an opportunity of visiting these places in the evening and on Saturday afternoon or Sunday. The summer outing season at the beaches is now on in full swing and the soldiers from the several forts are falling right in line at every opportun ity. The weather so far has been almost ideal. There has been- only about one full day of light rain and the thermom eter never rises above 80 degrees. Several members of the Company have been enjoying the usual pastime of the sea shore clam digging and fishing, and several good catches have been made. Several members of the Company have received packages from home folk containing eatables and refresh ments of various sorts. It is suggest ed by Captain Wilbur that this be cur tailed somewhat at present, because very good rations are being provided by the government, but during the fall and winter months the diet will be come more or less tiresome and possi bly limited, when such donations from home will be better appreciated. Uncle Sam feeds his soldiers light fruit rations, mostly from dried stock, and most of the men, being accustomed to the real thing and any quantity of it, sorely miss the home products. While the Company was encamped at Fort Stevens seven or eight parties from Hood River visited the camp while on their way to or coming from Cannon Beach or Seaside. Automo biles can get to Fort Canby from the Long Beach road and civilians are free to visit the post at any time during the day. HELEN DAVIDSON SUSTAINS INJURY .Miss Helen Davidson, was seriously hurt Friday afternoon wben a falling boulder rolled down from a cliff, as she and a party were starting on the descent from the summit of Mount Hood, and struck the young woman on the forehead. Miss Davidson was rendered unconscious. Unable to carry the injured girl down the almost perpendicular 1,500 feet of the icy face of the east side of the mountain, members of the party succeeded in lifting her back to the summit, where a stretcher was impro vised, and with six men carrying her. Miss Davidson was borne to Govern ment camp. She was removed to Portland Saturday. A party of seven, all residents of The Dalles except Miss Davidson, left Cloud Cap Inn at four o'clock Friday morning. At Pilot Rock, Miss Helen Gray, exhausted, was unable to pro ceed further. Left alone on the moun tain side the young woman expected her companions to return at 2:30 o'clock. Because of the accident the other climbers all returned with Miss Davidson down the south side of the peak. A message from Elijah Coal man's lookout house on the summit of the mountain informed Cloud Cap Inn of the predicament of the young woman, and H. W. Acton, ass't mana ger of the resort hastened to her res cue. Mr. Acton reached Miss Gray at five o'clock. Suspense, worry and suffering from thirst had rendered the girl almost frantic. In addition to Miss Davidson and Miss Gray, the other members of the party were: Mrs. W. O. Hadley, Chester Huggins, Wilma Donnell, H al bert Selby and J. R. Bain. ' News of the accident did not reach the girl's mother Friday evening until all westbound trains had departed for Portland. Mrs. Davidson, accompan ied by Miss Mae Davidson, an aunt of the injured girl, who is a graduate of the Portland Academy and who recent ly received appointment as teacher of domestic science at the Wasco high school, went to Portland Saturday morning to meet Miss Davidson when she was brought down from Govern ment Camp. Miss Davidson was returned to her home with her mother Saturday even ing. Despite the fact that the blow resultd in a slight fracture and indent ation, Miss Davidson is making a most satisfactory recovery. PROBLEM OF BOX SHORTAGE WORRIES Strikes of woodsmen and mill em of lumber concerns. the plants of which are located on Puget Sound, unless terminated at an early date, allowing mills to proceed, may result in a heavy loss to Hood River valley fruit grow ers. Local sales associations have contracted for the most of their con tainer supply from Puget Sound mills, now tied up by labor troubles. Market men admit that their gravest worry now is the impending box shortage. Through the Northwestern Fruit Ex change the' Fruit Growers' Exchange had contracted for enough boxes, not only to supply its own affiliations, but to stock growers shipping independent ly. The material is in kilns, dried and awaits the saw, but not a wheel is turning at the plant where the lumber is stored. "I try not to be pessimistic," says F. W. Buff, manager of the Fruit Growers' Exchange, '"but the situation is a grave one just now. While we are hoping that something may be jarred loose at the mills, we are looking in other directions for containers, for we must have them, and it may be possi ble that a good percentage of Hood River apples will go forward this sea son in corrugated cardboard boxes. For a package about half as big as the regulation apple box, I believe the corrugated box will prove very popu lar." AUTOS BRING INDIANS FOR HUCKLEBERRIES In years gone by Indians, who annu ally flock from adjacent reservations to harvest the crops of huckleberries that grow luxuriantly on hundred acre burned over tracts around Lost Lake, have journeyed on the backs of faithful ponies, other cayuses carrying te pees, bedding and camp equipment. But the Redman has adapted himself to the progress of modern times, and the first of this week, according to D. I. Stone, a party of Yakima braves, their families and. their dogs arrived at the huckleberry grounds aboard bright new automobiles. The Indians were garbed in their customary gay Jclothes, some of the papooses were swaddled in time hon ored woven baskets and camp equip ment was in no wise different from former days, but the ponies, formerly consuming so much of the time of squaws in attention demanded, were missing. Mr. Stone says that the huckleberry crop is fine, and in addition to the Indi ans scores of white families are headed toward the fields of luscious fruit. KAESSER LAUDS PORT LAND HOSPITALITY E. E. Kaesser, who was in Portland last week to attend the events of Buy ers' Week, declares that he was never in his life so royally entertained as during bis several days' stay among the Portland people. "Nothing was too good for us out of town merchants," says Mr. Kaesser. "We were dined and given loganberry and grape juice to drink, and were taken on a number of delightful excur sions. I had the pleasure of seeing some of the big new shipyards, where a bustle of activity prevailed, and also .visited the woollen and paper mills at uregon iiy. me inp was one worm while." Other Hood River merchants who were down for the occasion were Geo. Ertle, who was accompanied by his wife, and Hubbard Taylor and family. MOUNT HOOD VIEWS APPEAL LOCAL FOLK ARE VERY INDIFFERENT Lovers of Natural Beauty, However, Jour ney from Afar to Glory in Won derful Panorama On almost any summer day you may journey to Cloud Cap Inn and you will find there a roterie'of guests made-up ' of a few Portland people and the rest from distant points of the United States. While Hood JRiver people re main indifferent to the charms of the inspiring scenery, Cloud Cap Inn and the base of Mount Hood have become known almost as 'well Jas any?other northwestern mountain resort. Travel through the Hood River valley today and you will be surprised to find com paratively few who have ever visited the base of Mount Hood. Many say they do not want to make the trip be cause they do not care to ascend the summit of Hood. Among this class the impression seems to have gone out that it is necessary to make the top in order to witness the wonders of the mountain. But this is not at all true. While a trip to the top of Mount Hood is decidedly worth while, the strenu ous jaunt should not be undertaken by the timid, weak or unhealthy. Yet any man or woman can put inlajday, and on the return it will always be counted a red letter day, on the base of Mount Hood. The 'exertion of vis iting the pinnacles of Eliot Glacier will not overtax any one. On clear days, ' when one is privi leged perfect vision of the surrounding country, almost as much can be fseen from the top of Cooper's Spur as from the summit of the mountain. Off 1 to the south may be seen the Three Sis ters, Jefferson and innumerable lakes dotting the green of thousands of acres of fir forests. The brown fields of eastern Oregon wheat fields soft and velvety in a summer sunshine, are spread out in a great panorama for the climber. To the north are Adams, St. Helens and Rainier, in the foreground of which may be seen the landscape gardening of the Hood River valley orchards. With glasses one may pick out the places of friends from Coop er's Spur. If one does not feel like the strenuous bike up to the Spur, all of the above mentioned sights, except Jefferson and the Three Sisters, may be seen from Cloud Cap lookout. The lack of popularity of Cloud Cap Inn among local people has come in a great degree through the bad reputa tion that hasjbeen given the road lead ing up through the national forest to the resort. The bad reputation of a name lasts a long time and is hard to overcome. The Cloud Cap road does not deserve all that has been said about it. The chief drawback is the extraordinary grade, a climb for six miles with a minimum grade of 10 per cent, and by far the greatest portion of the road 15 per cent But the road . is smooth, and all cars of the standard makes of the day will make the route as far as the Upper Turn-around with ease. Above this one encounters China Fill, where the grade reaches 25 per cent. The fill is made up of loose ma terial and traction is poor. The last steep place is encountered just at the entrance to the Inn grounds, where there is another short grade of 25 per cent. The road to Cloud Cap Inn is at its worst during August each year. Earlier in the season, just after the snow has melted and later, when the first rains have fallen, the surface of the route is soft and velvety, the kind of a road that autoists like best. It goes without saying that no ama teur driver ought to attempt to drive a car up the side of Mount Hood to Cloud Cap Inn, but as for that matter no mountain road should ever be at tempted by one learning how to handle a car. Most Hood River car owners will be able to reach the beauties that may be beheld from the timber line. The writer and party last week jour neyed to the Inn with Chaa. Rathbun, of the Fashion Stables. If there were no scenery to look at en route, the journey will still be a pleasure, if one goes with Mr. Rathbunf just to see his careful handling of his machine.' Charlie Rathbun is a great "josher," and he may be cracking some pertinent joke every few minutes, but bis eyes never miss a rut or a bump and he eases the big Chalmers over the roads of all kinds, although his legs are so short that he has to stretch them mightily sometimes if reaching for pedals. Noboay ever has a grouch who makes a trip with Charles Rathbun. And the unpopularity of Cloud Cap Inn in recent years has been added to because of a lack of judgment on the part of the management of the hostel ry. Up to this season a heavy toll has been charged for automobiles using the route. Formerly the sum of t5 was charged for each machine. This was later reduced to $3, and this year only $1 is charged. It is true that the road is difficult of upkeep, and hundreds of dollars have been spent in rebuilding it each summer, but a toll, especially a heavy one, will not be tolerated by the traveling public, 'and those heavy charges have kept many people away from Cloud Cap Inn. Then, too, the hostelry has not catered in any marked degree to local people. The few people who visited the place became disgrun tled "and their Jstories did not make business for Cloud Cap. But the day is coming when the Mount Hood loop road will be built, and then, it is safe to predict, a road of easy grade will lead np to Cloud Cap. Already Commissioner Hannum has started agitation that has resulted in the construction of part of luch highway. The time will come when no Hood River man or woman will say, "I haven't been to the mountain." It will be as popular as the Columbia ' River Highway and will be the goal of as many as Mitchells Point tunnel. Cloud Cap Inn some day will be a far larger as well as a famed hostelry. Baker is Permanent First Sergeant It was erroneously stated in last week's Glacier that Kent Shoemaker had received a telegram asking him to return to his old placejas first sergeant of Twelfth Company. This position, however, had already been permanent ly supplied by promotion of W. J. A. Baker to that rank. The artillerymen, however, are very fond of Mr. Shoemaker, and he was in vited by telegram to return to them. '