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About Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893 | View Entire Issue (June 8, 1888)
a- i. p.m. US'. w I! r ft, ' rf w i WOODIIUItN. lis Location, People, Climate ami Prom ising Future. ITS LKAHi.VCI IX1HJSTKIK8. A Chat Willi Hh MrrrlmnlH ami JIunI newt .Men. Woodburn Ihoiiu or (he bent loca ted towns, from many points of vlow, hi llio Willamette valley. It Ih located on the (). fc C. J. It., sev enteen miles north of Baicm, and tlilrty-Ilyo iiiIIuh mmiIIi of Portland, In the hcarlof what has been known formally yearn iih French I'ralrle. Krom Father (jiilmhy, an old resi dent of the place, wo learned during a recent trip, that the Hudson Hay Company Huttled a numlr of faml Hen on thin prairie hi 1810, for the purine of holding It for (limit JJrlt aln. The company at that time hud Hh headquarters for these parts nt Chumpwg. It Ih h remarkably fertile section, Woodburn being the center of one of the finest agricul tural districts In Oregon, which all will allow N Haying a gieat deal. In a conversation with Dr. Hy land, the licallhfiilucsx of the local- Ity WIIH IMlllltfdollt. It Ih Hltui.ted at u jiolnt where Jirevalllng wIiiiIh (tan eome laden ul(h no taint of malaria, (here Ih lug no swamp or Htandlng water for iiiIIch to the hoiiIIi or west. It Ih Hiilllcluntly high for the moHt per fect drainage, the ground falling away on thice shies. The heiiuly of the plaee altraelH the stranger Immediately. Far to thowesl the J'olk eoimly IiIIIh are strongly outlined agaliiHt the sky. while Mounts HikmI, .leflorxoii mid HI. IleleiiH are ever In view. Clustered about the outskirts f the town giant remnanlH of a once primeval forest linger an If loath to depart. Tin: nimu'iiiM uro well loprewontcd. The Cunilx'r latid Presbyterians hold service on the third Halibut h of each month; the Methodists every fourth ; the JlluitlUhbon club mielx every sec ond. Prayer meeting on the llrst or eaeh month. The Heventh Day AiU'eiitlsts have a neat new church building. They hold services twice il mouth, mid Halibut It sehixil regu luilv. wixiinuniN (iiiANdi: no. "i haven line new hall, whleh they meet hi on the fourth Haturday of eaeh inontli. hciiinii.h. There are two excellent scluxilw, running nine month eaeh year. Prof. Clark teaehcM In District No. 18, and ItuMiW pupils. J. i, father liiun tenches District No. IiKI, with 8i pupils, At the minting of tax imyurNofthlH lust mimed district, In Muroh Innt, It wan voted, with but olio dissenting voice, to levy a six mill tax for the purxwe of building an addltloniil scluxil hulldlng,whli'h will double the present facilities. Tlio ..it., t .NOT IMXlltl-OltATIJll but il bill will Ixt prodded at (bo nwvt iMjlHlntuiv Air a charter. J. II. HlrTTI.ILMIlill'ri Nl'IMKIIY. It would lx Impossible for iih to give mi iHijK'ia full and coiiiprohcu hive description of a nursery such ih wo worn shown through on lust Tiiediiy at Woodhtirn. Itvorylxxly Interested In the culture of fruit In Oregon known that there Ih iio one In tho state who IiusIxmii more dcci ly Interested In or given more atten tion to fruit culture, tluui Mr. Set tlemlor. Coming here in 1SIH, he litis from Ixiyluxxl lovtxl and followed bin proseut exiling, until he now own probably the largont nursery in tho northwest. Ho now him f xcrw under oultlvntlon, In which OMi AMWA'IIAI.r' MILLIONS of young trvos wro grow lug- HIx hundred tliouuiid young stxks are coming on to wipply the immense demand. Kvery conceivable vtirle ly of fruit, nut, shade ami ornament Ml tree, tlwl hiv adapted to thbt ehnwte, aiv here Annul In profusion. Anion; hUkKx4MltlMH for ornament nl trees ie notice the XurttH)' pnkw, the Iawmiii cyitrcMi, MVurwl vrttf Japaii codut, arUw 1. taw, jMUlpwt, ete. Nut llV III (MMlhtM Mtity HtV fiMiml Imkv, frotu one ywr wMup n t wtMity-rtxv. TUt (VIIAmiU Hlmtt Mmk iw h Wring of MtrpAxJHg Uuty. ltHtttHrwut, Ih WttrtMg, dlf fcHMNt writtf UM Hut, hlk l-y UUtk, IHMJlWi, p.plt, et. ' 000 IlartlettHtokH,35,00a Iloyal Ann cherrloH, 30,000 Yellow Newtown Pippin, M.OOO Italian prunes, 25,000 Petite pruncH, etc. Mr. H. has JuHt imported from France, ut conHlderable expense, cloven vnrlelleHof the bet winter apples, nnd twenty-one varieties of winter pears. He also linn the fain- ouh PrmiUH Bumone, n new variety which Ih neither prune nor peach. It Ih highly thought of by those who have Been the fruit. Mr. B. in constantly adding to his stock everything that can In any way be of use iih a Hhrub or tree. His nursery Ih a Llliputiau forest, where in every tree grows geometrically in order. A small army of men ore kept busy.nnd the soil Ih kept In the Ixwt iKll)Ie condition. We noticed the Immense growth the young graftH are niaking.some of the prunes having grown four feet and over this season. Ah an Item of Interest we mav hiiv that over sixty saekH of jK-'aeh seed were used during the past season. Mr. William J. Sears, U reman for Mr. Hettlemler, showed us over the entire grounds, and we very soon learned that that gentleman wuh no novice In the business. We alwayH feel like taking oil' our hut In the presence of a man who Ih u thorough master of some one calling. We have hi America so few of whom this can iHisaid that we seldom find It necessary ; but In the person of Mr. Hears we found such a man. Think of nearly I(K) varieties of roses, each with a latin nume, readily pointed out and known by sight. Then Imagine shrubs without end, trees by the hundred acre, every thing with Its correct name. All this Mr. Hears kept In mind as a child knows the alphabet, while he was foreman for the California Nur sery Company of Hun Jose, which jmhIIIoii lie tilled for six years. Klscwhere may Imj found the vlewH of Mr. Hettlemler on mutters all fruit cultiulstH are Interested in. Hut before leaving this subject we wish to say that the wholesale trade Is receiving very careful attention. No one has Isjtter facilities for bring ing trees to perfection, and it seems to us unwise to semi away from homo for young trees, which have been grown in a climate dlll'er ent from our own, when we can se cure them here. TIIK VAM.KY NUltHKKY was started by R M. Hicks three years ago. He graduated as a nur sery man under the kindly eye of Mr. Hettlemler. who still takes a fatherly Interest In IiIh welfare. Ho makes a six-clalty of thu retail trade, handling only the leading varieties of fruit ami shade tries, leaving the fancy sorts and wholesale trade for Mr. Hettlemler. We tixik a stroll through his grounds, and found his young trees well cared for, and thrifty. We Ixispeak for him an Increased trade. Till: WIHIDIIUKN I'AOKIMI COM. l'ANY conducted by llemlow A Hall, is lo cated in the building formerly occu pied by the Narrow Oaugu machine shops. These gentlemen bring with them Into the business rlx expe rience, and cannot fall to make a nueoe of their enterprise. They have an extensive plant for making cans, and can turn out by aid of this Improved machinery which Is as gixxl as din lx) found In the United Status, several thousand eamt per lay. They have Just lxgun work, and are now busy cunning gooselxirrles, strawlxTrles and ltoyal Ann cher ries. Fifty acres of jwiw ami bcuus, and I00 lion's of com, have been pluntcd, lxh!ct smaller lots from the various fanners which will nut orally come In. This speak well for a commencement, and In anoth er year or two ie expect to see the bUhlnes ANtuiue very considerable proxirtloiiH. V noticed a number of girls em ployed handling the fruit, Ixwldos men and boyn. The foreman, Mr. W. llemlow, n brother of the senior member of the tlriu, bus heretofore Ujii connected with the Wlnslow Packing Co, of Portland, Me. HU experience has Uvn such that siuvcm U assured. It U hiieh Industrie hh these that will yet make Oregon a great and Holt commonwealth among the slster lMxxlof status. lltwhlwi their Minnery Messrs, lletubiw A Hull conduct a wheat during the coming season. Both of these gentlemen are thor ough .business men, nnd have the capital to carry on extensive opera tions. THKimua nuBi'B39 of Woodburn is In the hands of Mr. J. M. Poormnn, whom wo found to be a very pleasant gentleman, al- wnvH surrounded by a host of friends. Because of this well de served popularity, thoJouiiN'AL Is fortunnte In having him ns Its agent in Woodburn. Ho does a general drug business, carefully prepares prescrlptloni.kceps a full lino of pre pared preparations, also pockot cut lerly, fishing tackle, fancy candles, and school books. His place Is kept as neat as a pin, and his goods ore all first class. He has a specialty In the cigar line, the "Red Letter ci gar" It Is called, which Is pronoun ced by every one the finest In the market. He also looks after TJIK INHUHA.NCK HUHIKKSa of Woodburn. By reference to our Woodburn page It will bo seen that nine companies are represented as follews: The Northwest Firo and Marine, of Portland, Is one of the strongest companies on the coast, with some of the very best men in the state at Its back. It has u capital stock of isoo.ooo. The Columbia Fire and Marine, also of Portland, is recognized throughout the northwest, as being oue of the most solid financial Insti tutions In the state. The cast Is well represented by the PhuHiix and Home, of Hartford ami New York with $12,000,000 in vested funds, and the Hartford Fire Ins. Co. of Hartford, Conn. These are the leading Eastern companies, and are too well known and well es tablished to need further mention. California has made an excellent reputation for her fire Insurance companies, and has done a large business in Oregon. Mr. Poormun represents the Home Mutual, the Commercial, and the California, all well and favorably known to our readers. Foreign companies are also well represented, In the Northern As surance of London and Aberdeen, and the Louden and Lancashire of Llverpixjl. UKAI. KSTATK. There are n number of choice pieces of proixirty offered for sale by Messrs. Todd A Hayes, Woodhurn's enterprising real estate agents. Over forty excellent bargains are listed, which will apx?ar In these columns In a week or two. They consist of town lots, Improved farms, and un broken tracts,and wo were privately assured that some very desirable projxjrtles wen In the lot. Mr. Todd is also an attorney, notary pub lic and collector. Mil, J. I,. LKONAItn dow ii general grocery business, cur rying a Hue lot of groceries, tobacco and cigars. He came to Woodburn three years ugo.und Is forging ahead as fast as industry and hononiblo dealing will allow of. He Is very ably assisted by his good wife, and Ix'twcon them they have just fin ished a very deslmble store build lug, occupied In part, by Hall & Wil son. WATKIllll'llY & KA8H can supply you with harness, sad dles, boots and shoes nt Portland prices. They manufacture their own goods, and you may bo Hiiro that ev ery piece of leather used Is Just what Is claimed for It. Hermann's Majority I The last reports from the state swell Hermann's majority to 7,000, and the republican majority ill the legislature to 60, making only 20 democrats In that body. WOODBURN ITEMS. Gleaned at Home by our Reporters. Resident Mrs. Layman, wife of Hon. S. Layman, is able to be about again after her sickness. J. IL Mosler, Bllverton's new postmaster was In towii this week. John bears his honors easy arid will make a good ofllcer. The republicans have a broad smile on their faces since the election. Mrs. E. L. Smith, of Sllverton, passed through town on hor wuy to Ellensburg, W. T. to visit her brother, Will McGinn of that place. Dr. Byland and S. Layman both feel proud over their election. The many friends of W. I. Bay feel very sorry over his defeat, but are proud of the race ho made. Cherries are coming in bo fast tha the cannery has to run night and day to care for them. It. Burtch, conductor on the Ore gon railway, is laid up with ono of Job's comforters. Judge Todd feels highly elated over his election and says Wood burn Is equal to Portland both got a democratic justice. Crops never looked better. The recent rains will insure big yields of vhcat, oats and spuds. D. L. Bcmingtou is having his dwelling remodeled and painted in good style. Look out for 4th of July posters from Woodburn. Mrs. F. A. Ford who has been visiting friends in Portland mtd East Portland for Boveral weeks past returned homo last night nnd Frank smiles again. The oxcitement over the election has diet! eut: aud the Salt river craft will sail with the defeated can didates, for tha Salt river cemetery sometime this month. SCORN FOR SCORN. A CONTINUED STORY. MKNilKAI. MKIU'IIAMUKK UIXINHS, l'UOKHSHIONAL The card of Dr. Uyland appear among our Woodburn ndverUers In this Issue. His selection by the jxHiple of Marlon county for coroner, shows In what high estimation ho is held. W. It. OOUI.KT, does general livery business, hav ing n very complete outfit In every particular. He has mime very nice teams aud single horses, which are let out at reasonable rates. He also buys and sells as occasion oilers. UK.VTI.K UKADKlt, Did you ever plod over every smiaru yard of an SO acre nursery, that had been kept cultivated until your feet sunk Into the soft loose earth nt ever step? If so you know the un feigned Joy with which we drew up to the generous table spread by mine host of the Woodburn hotel. For the tired nnd hungry wv know of no pkuv on earth we would rveom Miss Alice nicks, daughter of M. Hicks, of this place, Is lying seri ously 111, with consumption. It is now rejxirted that the demo crats who were so badly defeated last Monday, in this county, have concluded to give up their trip to Salt river, and all come to Wood burn on the 4th of July, and help celebrate. If so, we extend our right hand of fellowship, and say to one and all, come ahead. And we will all meet where there Is but ono party, and that a party of putriotlo American citizens. Tho Woodburn base ball boys are having some nice suits mado for the now club, Tho boys havo fixed up their grounds and nro beginning to pructleo In earnest. Mr. D. L. Remington, of this place, who went to California with his new traction engine, has been heard from. His engine is doing more than he claimed for It, and he feels confident that it is an entire success. Walter Tooze and wlfo both havo tho mumps ; and there are several other cases In town. Walt Is nblo to whisper so as to bo heard. Dr. Slatten the dentist Is kept quite busy lately. Our base ball Ixjys are practicing dally and some of tho crack clubs had better look a "letlo oud." Saint Paul's aud Indians on tho 4th for f50. Come and Bee the best game ever plnyed In tho county. The wife of ono of our merchants went to hear Gov. Woods at Gervuls on the tnrlfl question, and when she cause homo at midnight she woke her husband and they began to dis cuss the tarlll question, and have kept It up ever since aud were still nt It up to the hour of going to press. wrryluit tlw henvUwt stock of good mend mow readily than tub quiet In the pkee, Thy ktw complete rvtrwit. It U kept Uy K, M. Cam Hue of groceries, di.VKoods, booUnml luok, who employs ouly white shoo, erookwy, wall txipor, eta. , cook. Tho hotel luw recently Ixvu Prodwv frtHH. tHOMitrouudlHi; funus rvtHtod. w HtmKiii ami miiHxxi, TUtty ttt )Ht m Irtmlle Urge quantltK ( Sutortbo fer the Jouuau Tub following logical rvasoulng wo find in several of our exchanges: "A Walla Walla court has sn tencvd a woman to be lumged. This la consistent. A woman, in Wash ington territory, has Just as much right to kill a human being ma man has, and If she seen tit to userobe that right, she has tho same privi lege to bo hanged for it as auy man would have, 'Hint's fair enough. Hang the lady by all means. It will ii a lesson to her, "Tke care what you are about, Ken rlcltl We mnit all bo very kind to her, poor child she is so utterly r'epeddent upon ui; but too much kindness froiri yon will be the greatest cruelty." 1 had been dreaming about the Queen and the Prince of Wales out in the garden, in the ahade between the laureM.ushes and the corner of the house. The draw-iDg-room windows were open to the ground, for it was a drowsy summer alter, noon. I had felt sleepy and stupid in the houoe, eo I had come out Into the garden and made myself luxuriously comfortable in the ahade, with a sola cushion for my elbow anu" for a prop for the big sheet cf the Timei, settling myself to an unit terrupted half hoar of enjoyment over the account of the previous day's drawing room. Every girl's name in the list of presentations was a story to me; I did not envy them in their glory from the depths of my poverty and dependence. Thu radiant light in which they lived shed its beams into my dull life when 1 read their names and pictured their faces from the bare and quite untrustworthy material before me. I pictured my own name in the list "Miss Violet Luce, by her cousin, Lady Tredennick. "There was not tho very smallest chance in the world ol my being presented by Lady Tredennick, or any one else; but, if 1 had been a rich orphaned relative instead of a very poor ono, of course Lady Tredennick would have presented inc. As it was, she gave me food and shelter and a place in her household infinitely less comfortable than a housemaid's. Lady Tredenuick and Helen barely noticed my existence, so 1 could hardly call them friends; and, because I ws their cousin and guest, and because I was so poor aud so proud in my extremely doubtful position, 1 could not have social inferiors for friends. Just one friend I had made, and that a few days beforeanother cousin Ken rick Trcdonuick, who had come down with Lady Tredennick and Helen lor to or three days' rest and "setting up" to carry them on to the end of the season . I was never taken to London, of course; my mourning was the reason at first, and then common sense was the reason for what should I do in London a poor dopendant who ought to have been work log tor my living, but that my crand relatives would not allow it! They felt themselves bound to give me shelter aud clothing, but not to present mo at court and introduce me into society; and I my self was grateful for their kindness in taking me in and shielding me from the hardships of the world outside. It was a spiritless sort of gratitude perhaps, but then I had Tredennick blood In my voins, and I had not been educated in the modern independent style, or taught that women wern sent into the world to linht for themselves like men; and it seemed to me a simple impossibility that a girl born aa I was should become a paid governess or companion, aud, unpleasant as my life at Crix Knowsloy was, it had to be sub mitted to as the only possible life for me. They did not take me to parties even in the country. They told me at first that it was because of my mourning, and then because the parties were stupid, and that 1 was not quite strong enough tor the long uight drives or the violent tennis by day. They also agreed that I was too voung for the homo dinner parties. Mrs. Berdell, the rector's wife, who did make an attempt at Intimacy with ne, said they would not let me o out with Helen because I was o much younger aud prettier; but 1 disliked Mrs. llerdull and her proffered friendship, and would not be pitied or flittered by her, oi admit that there waa any need for consolation in my lot. Even in my loneliness I would not havo a friend whom I thought beneath my standard; and Mis. Uerdcll's friendliness consisted of flattery and patronage, and endleis demands for information about my cousins' doings, and sympathetic remarks on their supposed unkindneis to me. I despised the flattery of a woman who, as I considered, inflamed pride and was too vulgar and ignorant to know what was really worth prabe; and wild horses would not have drawn from me an acknowledgment that even a Tiedennick ould dare to despise or be unkind to a Tredennick-Luce; and I would not profane the sacred secrets of the Treden nick household by revealing ihera to the vulgar inquisitive eyes of Mrs. Uerdell, who was not "born" at all as the Ger mans uy. I waa happy enough between my pride and my power of imagination and the boundless young hopefulness of eighteen. If I could not expect to be presented at court aa Miss Violet Luce, were there not limitless poulbtlltie that I might be presented as "Mr. Somebody," if not "Lady," or even the "Ducbeta of Some where!" Picturing my future probable glories cot uothlog to anybody, and I obtained an infinite amount of enjoyment hem the task. It was not until Kcnrick Tredennick ame down with them oaa Saturday in May, and I had met him smoking in the orthud. that I leaned far the first how sweet it waa to havo a friend cousin wno insisted upon being tnori cousinly, though he was only a coutia three or four times removed, and we hid never met or even heard of each other's existence before. He asked me who I was; and, aa I knew from the housekeeper who he waa, I saw no occasion for ceremony, ana i introduced myself u blj coustn a few time removed Violet Lue He askfd me if I was always buried down in Cnx Knowsley, and why I did not come up 10 town wun my cousins. H. glanced sympathetically at my black frock, and said I ought to come up with them to have lessons, at any rate. I told him that I was eighteen, and had don with lessons long before; I did sot tell him that I should have done with mourn, ing too, since my father had been dead two years, hut that I had to wear out my oiauic iiocks. Kenrick and I became very friendly and intimate. He had the kindest face and manner I had ever known, besides being very handsome and noble looking, When the dressing bell rang, and we walked round to the front of tho house and met Helen, I was quite surprised at seeing her look vexed, and could not imagino what I had dono wrong, unless it was to let myself be caught in my very oldest frock. "Violet, where have you been?" sh asked. "Iludgell has been waiting tea for you. Go at onco." "Good bye," I said regretfully, but still quite fcuiltleasly, to Kenrick. "But why 'good-bye?' he asked. Don't you sit up to dinner at eighteen! Surely the days of nursery tea and pinafores are overl" "Violot still has nursery tea," said Helen, laughing. Where did you pick each other up!" "In the orchard. I say, Helen Violet Miss Luce, I mean, nursery tea at eighteen.its preposterous! In Sir Humph rey's absence, aa hi only male relative and representative, I protest against It. Violet must dine with ua to-night." Of course he saw the delight fn my face, and perhaps I only imagined the annoyance in Helen's, as he did not acorn to see that too. However, he won the day. I dined with them that night and on every one of the four nighta of hit visit. On the day alter that last dinner they all went back to town, and I was left to my dreams. . Althouxh we two were great friends all the time, Kenrick always treated me somewhat like a little sister. That very morning he had taken me for a long ride, and we had been late for luncheon; and that was what had made me tlrefi and sleepy in the afternoon. Helen could not ride, not boing possessed of sufficient nerve; but I had been accustomed to ride all my life, and went out constantly with the coachman at Crix Knowsley on the horse that was kept for Helen, bnt which alio never mounted. I rode him became he had to be oxercised; and it never oc curred to me to ask leave from Lady Tredennick or Helen. Tho horse wa there, the coachman offered him to me, no one elso wanted him, aud riding came to me aa naturally as walking; and, as they never troubled themselves to wonder where I was or how I amused myself, nor made any inquiries so long as I kept out of the way, I dare say they did not know about my riding till Kenrick came, and he insisted on taking tae out every day. We had been much farther than usual, and I was really tired. After luncheon he was taken by Helen to see something new in the conservatory, and I took the Times into the garden to read about the drawing room. Tho sunshine, the hum ming of bees, the drowsy swishing ol scythes behind the laurels, and my bodily fatigue, all helped to send me to sleep. The drawing room became a vivid reality; I was curtseying before the queen, hold ing her white hand in my own, and the Princess of Wales was telling the queen to be kind to me because I was sLy and very much afraid of ber; and then I found that I was listening to real voices and just waking in time to hear Helen telling Kenrick that tuo much kindness from him to me would be the greatest of cruelty. I was puzzled, for I was not fully awake; the drawing room was still very vivid in my mind, and I could hardly separate the funny unexpected things tho princess had been saying to tho ladies-in-waiting from this inoomprentnaible speech of Helen's. Listening was tho very last thing I should have thought of; but, while I lay there in tho delightfsl latiness of half waking, and amused my self by disentangling the real from tht unreal, I found I waa hearing s great deal more that was incomprehensible and unexpected. "What nonsense, Helen!" Keaiiek was laying. "As if one might not amuse oneself by petting a child like tbatt I have no sister, and cousins are doubly delightful to me. Surely one may talk to a little cousin, and even rid with ber, wlti tropunltyj" (CbnUnurd next week. Foriy tm in lie Chorea of Roar. i Julv tkse I , By Father Chlolqur, rrle tj.54 Bead to jour onler InnsMlatety. IMIrertd in 1. A. KAlLSiUX. A?ot.