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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
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Meats and Groceries
Delivered at any residence in Hood River
Prompt service and courteous treatment
E. M. HOLMAN, ?hTl?ireet
Telephone 2134
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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.
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Touring Car $745
Xo.J.t.r ST45; Town Cmt tlOtS
StJan $W9S. All pric f. . . Dttrtttt
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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. '