VOL. XXXI
HOOD RIYEU, OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 0, lOlii
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THE SAFE ROAD
The piesont era of extravagant liin
and hih prices is cause for much concern.
Too many aie inclined to sjend not only
their present income but the savings which
they have accumulated.
War prices will be reduced only by
INCREASED PRODUCTION
and by
DECREASED CONSUMPTION AND
TAXATION.
The Bond' Department of the FIRST
NATIONAL. BANK is preened to furnish you
Government and Municipal Bonds in de
nominations from 5)0 up to $1,000 that are
a safe and profitable investment. Deposit
your sui plus earnings in our Savings De
partment at l'y interest until you accu
mulate enough to buy a Ijond earning from
5 to 7't annual interest, payable every six
months. This is the sure and safe road to
wealth and happiness.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
FOR
We are offering the Dobbin forty acres, on the
River Road, near Summit, for $12,500. This has
34 acres assessed under the East Fork Ditch, thirty
of this in cultivation, and the rest light clearing.
Thirteen acres of orchard, ten and twelve years
old, about 3000 boxes this year and in good shape
for next year. Plenty of excellent strawberry land,
or for fruit. Good house and fair barn. This is a
good buy.
HOOD RIVER ABSTRACT
J. W. CKITKS. I'r. suU nt
We are distributors for the
INTERNATIONAL
HARVESTER COMPANY
of America
If you are interested in Tillage, Grain, Hay
Machines, Plows, or Implements of
any kind, we would be pleased
to have you call
REPAIRS FOR
McCormick Harvesters
anil
P. & O. Tillage
HOOD RIVER
RIVERSIDE CHURCH
SPITZENBERGS
The call fur F.xtra Fancy, Fancy and Combination wrapped and
packed is good. With nil oit stuff off the market and the season now
at its best for Box Apples. Sales at $2.00 to t'J.5n per box for well
colored fruit and good pin k.
CHILLED SPITZENBERGS
For immediate use, slightly chilled Spit'eiiberg wrapped and
packed will go to the consumers nt a popular price. Will mve the
grower from a total loss and gi o the trade that want to hu fur less
good value for their money. We suggest you slop al omv. (for charge,
for handling is l-V, of sa os. Hefer's: Hibernian Hank Free Stencils'
SHERIDAN BECKLEY CO., 126 Front Street, PORTLAND.
SALE
AND INVESTMENT CO.
h. W. SINCLAIR, Secretary
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FRUIT CO.
The Church Calls You !
ll doesn't mutter here
hut
Somewhere
if ll' ! elseW hero lit
worship
RIVERSIDE CHURCH
Will. JAM It. BODOY
MINIS ll R
Morning Worship ll:lilt a, in.
Sabbath School . t:ti a. m.
WmA ,
KRESSE DRUG CO.
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BUTLER
BANKING COMPANY
ESTABLISHED 1900
TOTAL RESOURCES
One Million Three Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
Member Federal
Grand Benefit Ball
(Hood River Volunteer Fire Dept.)
Friday, October 31st
9 P. M.
Heilbronner Hall, Hood River
MUSIC BY
The Liberty Orchestra
Tickets On
Admission, $1.00
War Tax, .10
Total, SI. 10
Admiltinu: One Couple
IT IS TIME
to anticipate your wants for
TIRES
'INNER TUBES
and
WEED CHAINS
we have them
in stock
V
Hartford Tires are Good Tires
PINE GROVE STORE
A. F. BICKFORD, Prop.
On Saturday, November 1
In the Suites formerly occupied by
Drs. Vauh and Kanaka, In the Eliot Building
I will resume my dental practice
in Hood River
II. D. W. PINEO, D. D. S.
VICTROLAS and
Victrola Records
The October Records are Here
General Persian March lSr'07
'I've ti..t Mv Captain Woiking
Fur Me .Nov' InWI
'Our Yesterlavs" 4-MtiiJ
'Li Travuta" Ciittii-t'urci . .oiSlM
U.WCE RKCOKUS
'I'm Forever Blowing
Rubbles'' Waltz. .Kelvin's
Ore! tstri IS',03
Fv'rvholv Shimmies Now"
Fox Trot. All-Mar Trio 1812
Come in and hear the new
October Records
Reserve System
Sale Now
Extra Ladies, admission
War Tax,
.22
.03
Total, .25
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CJOD FISHING DECLARED AN ASSET
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Men who Participated in Banquet Last '
Night Look to Future in
Tourist Attraction
Izaak Walton.patron saint of anglers
t trywhere. in his reveries, eontem
l atirg the alluring stream with its
r imerous and eager tinny denizens,
i ever for a moment dreamed of the
t ds to which subsequent generations
c; men would go to participate in his
beloved sport. Could the spirit of the
philosopher-angler be brought to Ore
gon today and taken for a tour of the
big state fish hatchery at Bonneville
and lesser plants in other paits of the
state, undoubtedly it would be inordin
ately pleased.
The maintenance of game and fish
preserves, restocking them and con
trolling the poacher, who it seems,
must remain in existence as surely as
the poor, is an old story. The game
keeper and the poacher recur at fre
quent intervals in the novels of Sir
Walter Scott and Thomas Hardy.
They were and are types of earlier and
contemporary English and continental
European history. But over there,
both then and now, fishing and hunting
have been perpetuated as the sport of
the rich men and aristocrats.
In America, and we deal more es
pecially with Oregon, the barefoot
farmer lad and the millionaiie may
with equal pleasure and each just as
freely, w hip the stream for mountain
trout or troll for the royal chinook.
All that is required is a state license
that costs annually $1.50. Healtful
recreation is a nation's greatest need,
and the section of country equipped
t:.r furnishing that recreation enjoys
ana set just as surely as do the rich
f irm lands of the-Mississippi valley in
tteir adaptability to corn. Oregon
long ago realized this, and her enter-
0 ising citizens are beginning to rear)
profits from gifts of a prodigal Mother
Nature. A quarter of a century ago
Oregon mountain streams fairly teemed
with gamey trout. The early adoption
of conservation might have avoided
much of the later day expense of prop
agating fry and restocking the moun
tain waters. Hut in the days of plenty
t obody thought of the future.
Ten years ago the Hood river, once
1 ne of Oregon's tinest fishing streams,
bad lost bo many of its finny inhabit
ants that it was in disfavor with an
tlers. In order to catch a mess of
trout it was necessary to travel far to
v.ard the headwaters. Only the species
permanently living in the stream's
waters were caught. Chinook, steel
1 eads and salmon trout, migratory
tpecies, ceased their annual runs. It
v. as in 1912 that the cause of the de
cimation of the mirgatory game fish
whs discovered. Formerly Hood river
entered into the larger stream oblique
ly. Men's meddling with the conllu
i rice, however, had caused debris to fill
.nto the old channel and the Btreain
bad formed a great sand delta. In
stead of the formerdeep, swift chan
nel, Hood river entered the Columbia
oer shallow bars, the numerous small
stream joining the Columbia almost
at right angles. A study of the habits
of the migratory game species of fish
developed that they were attracted,
when on their spawning runs, only to
tributaries of the Columbia entering
the northwest's mighty river by deep,
swift channels that penetrated the
greater stream in an oblique course. It
happened that Burnette E. Duncan in
HU2 received an appointment to the
Oregon State Game and Fish Commis
sio. Naturally, he had at heart the
betterment of fishing in Hood River,
and receiving a nominal appropriation
for improvement of Hood river, de
dared a closed salmon spawning stream
the year before, he raised a larger ad
ditioral fund by subscription from local
anglers for construction of a diversion
dam at the mouth of Hood river. Mr.
Duncan supervised the work himself.
Many men contributed their labor to
the cude dam. The structure lasted
only long enough to prove its worth.
The old channel was swept, clear, and
immediately the game chinooks, salm
on trout and steelheads began to
swarm again in Hood river. A winter
freshet, howevr, swept away the dam.
The temporary success of Mr. Dun
can's improvised dam attracted the at
tention of subsequent State Game and
Fish Commissions, and further funds
were appropriated for building a
permanent diversion dam. Sportsmen
again contributed libeaally and the
city, interested because the old chan
nel was needed in clearing an outlet
sewer, made an appropriation for the
work. Today, with the stream made
available to the migratory fish and
with millions of mountain trout,
rainbow and steelhead fry planted
here. Hood river is again becoming one
of the favored, streams of Oregon and
vi uting anglers.
The diversion dam incident is im
portant in two ways. It has made
Hood river a practical spawning
stream for roval chinook, the Colum
bia's great commercial fish, and it led
to the organization of the Hood River
County Game Protective Association,
the members of jwhich have ceaselessly
worked for restocking of streams, for
est highways, makingavaliable former
remote fishing waters and the general
policy of fish and game protection.
The late D. McDonald, lover of out of
doffr spoits, has been known as. the
"daddy" of the game protective asso
ciation. Its promotion was a hobby of
the last years of his life.
A criticism, oftime a merited one,
directed at sportsmen's associations is
that they usually are formed of city
business men and merchants, who pro
mote the conservation of game for
their own selfish ends. Mr. McDonald
and his fellow officers succeeded in or
ganizing a membership with a major-1
ity of ranchers and orchardists. Its
members are drawn from all sections I
of the county and are representative of 1
Hood River county interests. i
In its activity the Hood River Coun
ty Game Protective Association has
not been thinking of todav or tomor
row, but has been working for the fu
ture of years to come. J. H. Fredricy,
vice president of the organization, de
clares :
"We have come to realize here, as a
result of the Columbia Highway and
the promotion of the Loop Highway
around the east base of Mount Hood,
that the mid-Columbia's scenic attrac
tions are almost as much of an asset
1 to us as our 13,000 acres of hearing
apple trees. The time may come w hen
i we will reap a bigger harvest from the
scenic attractions. Good fishing is g.-(
ing to be a fine stimulant to an ex-!
, ploitatiun of the scenery, ami fur that
reason members of our organization,
have cooperated with the State Fish
and Game Commission in restocking
Hcod river and its tributaries and in
improvements to the stream that wiil
better fishing conditions, sv. o. Hsd-
ley, of Ihe I'aues. nas seen our point
of view and has helped us.
During the past year the Rainbow,
distribution car of the State Fish and j
Game Commission, has made innumer-
able tr ps here, leaving at Hood River l
ami way stations of the Mount H'd i
R. R. Co. approximately 4"0.00o trout
fry. Ranchers ana business men meet '
the distributing car with automobiles, '
horsedrawn rigs and pack horses. In j
instances the fry have been transmit- ;
ed more than 10 miles on horseback,
over hazardous mountain trails. Since
the car began to make its annual trips
here in 1912 it has brought for plant- j
ing in local streams an annual average
of 300.000 young fish.
The fish distributing car is filled
w ith interesting apparatus. The little
fish are transported in ordinary milk
cans. But the usual capacity of l.Ooo
minnows to the can crowds the recep
tacle to such an extent that the oxy
gen is soon exhausted. But for an air
compressor, stored at one end of the
car, which sends a constant trickle of
air bubbles into each can by means
of rubber tubes, the little fish would
soon die. When the trout are trars
ported for long distances by motor car
or rig, it is necesary to change the
water frequently or to keep it agit.-ted
thus forming new air bubbles to fur
nish oxvgen. The agitation that is
caused, when a can is placed aboard a
pony's packsaddle avoids the necessity
of changing water.
T. J. Craig has been superintendent
of the Rainbow since it was put into
commission. He has visited every rail
way station in Oregon within proxim
ity of streams that need restocking.
Because of his frequent visits here
every sportsman knows him. While
life aboard his fish car, which carries
kitchenette and berths, is one of rou
tine, each day's journey is to some
new point and, f ir that matter his love
of ttansporting the little minnows in
good condition, prevents monotony.
From early spring until late fall the
Rainbow, like a shuttle in a giant
loom, the state of Oregon, travels
dally in and out. At some time or
other its metal wheels sing their song
along steel rails on main line and the
remotest feeder.
The work of the Hood River County
Game Protective Association, although
it hus been lacking in ostentation, has
won repute throughout Oregon. It has
attracted the attention of men bent on
fish and game preservation in other
parts of the nation. Although Repre
sentative Sinnott, while on a visit to
the home of a fellow congressman
from Rhode Island, declared that he
believed an eastern Oregon jack rabbit
would make the state in two jumps,
the Union's littlest state is interested
in game and fih conservation, and a
members of the state's commission for
such work. B. Cecil Burgess, spent
several weeks here last summer in
vestigating the accomplishments of
the Hood RiverjjGame Protective Asso
ciation. He journeyed up and down
Hood river, felt the thrill of landing a
10 inch steelhead, inspected fish lad
ders that have been erected over a
dam of the Pacific Power & Light Co.
on lower Hood river, and a way that
enables fish to mount a clam erected by
the Oregon Lumber Co. at Dee. He
left declaring that his course of study
would assist him in helping his home
state.
The members of the Hood River
Game Protective Association have not
ended their labors with n promotion of
game preservation and the restocking
of streams. They believe in opening
the wilds of the county's forested area
to the transient motorists. From pio
neer times it has been a strenuous task
to penetrate the Upper West Fork of
Hood river and to reach the shores of
Lost Lake over mountain trail, wind
ing at times around the edges of dan
gerous precipices. Such journeys were
mainly limited to rugged hunters and
fishers who, when the organization
was formed, became members of the
game association. Thus it fell about
that this sportsmen's society began an
agitation for the construction of a
highway to Lost Lake. As a result of
years of hope and appeal the United
States Forestry Department was inter
ested to such an extent last winter
that $10,000 was appropriated to cut a
highway through the national forest.
Hooq River county appropriated $2,750
approximately $1,000 additional was
raised by public subscription conducted
by the game association. The county
crews connected up existing county
highways with the end of the national
forest road. The work of building the
long dreamed of highway to Lost Lake
and thus opening up the virgin trout
streams of the Upper West Fork is al
most complete. By next summer the
tired business man of Hood River, or
the visitor from Portland, New Orleans
or New York may travel in a few
hours to the mountain fastness, there
to let the charm of mountain grandeur
fill his soul or to enjoy that harmless
intoxication, the concurrent kick of
which has a lasting good. It is a kick
that he isn't ashamed of, but of which
he likes to muse and relate to friends.
Indeed, through the agitation of the
Hood River County Game Protective
Association Lost Lake has been found.
The forestry service hopes that it will
be refound every day during coming
summer seasons. Warren M. Cooper,
in charge of Hood River county rang
ers, has supervised the construction of
numerous permanent wickiups at forest
road turnouts. At least a dozen of
these little woodland shelters for the
motoring tourists will front on Lost
Lake.
It is the aim of the Hood River
County Game Protective Association
that llood River in time be known as
i well for its fishing, its scenery and
1 the hosnitality of its sportsmen as it is
today for its apples.
HALF HOLIDAY ON
ARMISTICE DAY
At a joint meeting of committees
from the American Legion and Knights
of Pythias, it was decided yesterday
to celebrate Armistiep Day next Tues
day with a half holiday. The com
mittees are arranging fur a public
patriotic program with an address by
some prominent citizen.
LEGION AijAIXST
ALIEN OWXERSNir-
BODY INAMMOIS IN IIS Af;,: ,
fah Ronusps in I-i.er. Vi I.t,;! !,,t
Of Vnerican Lcpioii :up,i.i!U
Land D-.veL.pa.fnt
The members of i he Howl Rjver 1 .. .
of the Ameiiean l.i g: n a! a tin et . l
in the court house Moi;.iav i.jgnt, y i
the recently organized a.-M.-.-.uu.m
orchardists their umhm.i.ous mi-.'i :.
A resolution a lopt.l by the 1. ; .
commends a pledgv-niit-le hy nm...
of the newly I'oMmd ami-Asiatic a -ciation
not to sell or lease 'real !
to the Orientals. The resolution tei .- -the
danger of a Pacific Coast u
problem, if Japanese are allowed t
arrive in numbers in America and .:-
sue a policy of buying lard. Tue , -
tion ot the Hood River fust sum ; -an
amendment to the cor.stit.i'u.
which would prohibit citizeiu-.ioii t i
any child born in America of pari i
incapable of naturalization.
The Legion acted separately on ;,
question of general im.nigration....I ; -
ing a resolution calling for more u
strietive measures than now i.i ti.
forced. The Hood River ex-service men i:;lil
iated with the national organization of
great war veterans are opposed to con
gressional legislation that would m.
viJe soldiers with cash bonuses. Dr.
V. R. Abraham, who will represent
Oregon and the local Post at the l.rst
national convention to be held at Min
neapolis next week, was instructed t.)
vote against any money bonuses. Tbj
Legion, however, favors bind bills be
fore congress, riot so much because.
they believe they will benefit soldier-,
but because, opinion was eprev',l,
they believe any move toward a devel
opment of new laud will be of general
benefit to the nation.
The members of the Legion, who
will give a dance next Tuesday rt..l '.
at Heilbronner hall in celebration of
Armistice Day, will wear their uni
forms. All ex-service men present nl
the dance are requested to don the
olive drab.
The Hood River Legion is opposed to
a large standing army. Its members,
however, are in favor of a system i,i'
universal military training. Graduate)
of the universal military courses would
be attached automatically to a power
ful reserve corps.
SAYS A MOTE
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In response to an appeal of Keel
Shoemaker, president of. the 11 oil
River Post of the Airiet Le;u l.eg-.j,.,
who asked sentiment of the woiiui. o i
the question of ex-st-rvie men ;ip;f .'
ing in uniform ai a dan.-o to he pi.vi
by the Legion on Atmistice night.
Mrs. L. N. Blowers stiongly or s
that the men don their olive drab, lo
a letter to Mr. Shoemaker, M.-s. PI .
ers writes :
"I read in the Oregonian thai lI e
women of Hood River were to he i -ed
w hether the soldier of the A -i. i i
can Legion should wtar their unifo ow
at a dance to be given by them on No
vember 11, or not. As tt mother of
one of the boys i will say that I ;hn.k
they should wear them, and 1 bth 'e
every loyal American mother loves t let
uniform as she dues her country m l
her Flag, and is proml to s-ee her h, n
or sons in it. k seems to me t r:t
wearing the uniform now an 1 ther, .-,
help the boys remember the debt t -ey
owe the biave men who sleep in Kl ii.
ders fields. The cannon's Ih.indi i if
lips and the poison gas fumes hit j i :
terror for those brave men, when .h-;
virtue and innocence of the world . : 1
the progress of On ci Muries were
ing ravaged ami laid waste by .,'ij
ruthless hun.
"I am very proud of the record n iJei
by my family in France, as 1H oe li
bers of it, on my mother's sine, v. re
fighting over there. They are all o if-,
ers in the regular army and they r li
around the old Flag every day in pt . e
and war. My cousin, Brig. -Gen. ill, k,
was presented, by Gen. Por.-.hii.g, villi
the Service Cross, the highest in; ior
that can be bestowed by the Amen -an
Army. With personal risk Gen. Buck
led his men over the top toward Bayzel
Sar, a strongly fortified village soith
of Soissons, which was captured a tcr
strenuous and terrific fighting. 1 am
also proud that my son is a member ot
the American Legion, and I hope toat
every member of the Post will pray on
Armistice Day that liberty may not
perish from the earth."
SIRE ASSOCIATIONS
BEING PROMOTED
With representatives present, f r.im
all of the valley stock raisin;? districts,
a meeting of orchardists will be Kli
at the Barrett schoolhouse next Tues
day night for the purpose of urp;n is
ing bull-owning associations. Ihod
River has a large number of purei ;ei
Jersey milch cows, but the dist;ict
lacks high class sires. It is hope i to
initiate a movement at the approach
ing meeting that will result in al least
four such organizations, one for each
of the grand divisions of valley on-hard
8.
The Barrett meeting will be held at
7.30 o'clock Tuesday evening, accord
ing to Roy Hays, one of the communi
ty's most successful stock men. "vVe
want every man interested in better
cattle to be present," he says, "ll is
an important move.
CITY TAXES WILL '
SHOW AN INCREASE
The tentative budget prenared for
the city council by Recorder Howe c tils
for an increase of from one to wo
mills in taxes for the city the coming
year. An increase will be nc-e-.sKr to
pay salaries and labor hire. For.mrly
the city hired a teamster for lf'.Jo ner
month, w hereas the coi-l is lit A
A $10 per month increase wiil be
granted all city officers. ,