The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1905-08-24

c. w. Shurte was down from Arling.
ton during the week.
W. b. Davidson of Mount Hood was
in Hood River, Wednesday.
Miss Clara Blythe returned Monday
from visit Of two weeks in Portland.
Mrs. A. d. Charlton and son of Port.
la ID were guests at the Mount Hood
hotel during the week.
John Douthit, financial agent of the
British Columbia Land and Oil CON-
pany, was down from The Dalles,
Tuesday.
b. +. Gray of Portland, who orders q
change OF address to 504 f. Coruthers
street, says the Glacier is very well
come visitor at his home.
Professor and Mrs. L. A. Wiley are
home from an extended visit with friends
and relatives at Albany, Lebanon and
other Willamette valley cities.
Fire at The Dalles, Saturday, des-
trOyed the residences of b. S. Hunt
ington and w. II. Wells, with several
barns, incurring loss of $l2, 600.
Because of illness, Miss Katherine
Davenport has resigned as a teacher
in The Dalles schools. Her position
will be filed by Miss Gertrude Phil
lips
Fredericks & Arnold of this city
have secured the contract for the cree
tion of several government buildings
at Cascade Locks. They were the
lowest bidders at Sl4, 900.
d. Stone states that the settlers on
the West Fork have completed ditch
and now have all the irrigation water
they need. The new system Is called
the Bonnie ArbOr ditch.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. II. Shoemaker left
Tuesday for Portland where they will
visit the exposition, Later in the week,
Mrs. Shoemaker will go on to the coast,
J. II. returning to Hood River.
Wyers and Krepp have disposed OF
their telephone system connecting White
Salmon with Trout Lake and Gilmer, to
Wade Dean; consideration, $500. This
system has over so phones in operation
The following business was tran
sacted at The Dalles, Or, land office
during the month of July, 1905:
Homestead entries, 3d. timber land
applications 81, homestead commuta-
tions, 6.
Robert Thompson and grand son OF
Walla Walla, arrived in Hood River,
Tuesday, and are the guests OF G, f,
Day. Mr.. Thompson is on his way TO
the exposition at Portland, He hopes
to visit G. NJ. Wolfard at White Salmon
before returning.
Harrison Miller of Calton, Utah,
and Robert Gambill of Pueblo, Colo.
are new arrivals in Hood River. They
we're here last summer, guests OF ID.
Stone, and became so In love with
the country that they went home to
return.
Mary Cuheer of Peoria, ILL.,, and
Emile Cuheer of Albion, N. j., left
for their homes August II, after
spending few weeks with friends in
East Hood River. The ladies' will
Join Homer Cuheer at Seattle, who
also visited in the valley. They win
return via the Canadian Pacific.
Il. f.. Lewis of Minneapolis Is In
the valley visiting his uncle, Herbert
Vannier of the East Side. Mr.. Lewis
represents the Minneapolis Times and
the Chattanooga Times, and will sup
ply these papers with write-ups of the
Oregon country and the Lewis and
Clark fair.
Monday was the regular council meet
ing night, but with the mayor and two
counclmen absent, adjournment was
taken until next Monday, when the
closing of a contract with the Water Co.
for water for flushing Il sewer system
will come up for consideration, also an
ordinace providing for the preliminary
work toward a sewer system.
II. l.. Woodruff from Kansas, droped
into Hood River, August l3, on visit
TO his sister, Mrs. G.. d. Eatinger, whom
he had not seen for nearly thirty years.
He saws of the town and valley, 81 am
surprised, "why you are up to date. |
supposed before coming here that Hood
River was way behind the times" Mr..
Woodruff is a large stock raiser.
An unknown man, apparently about
30 years of age, was shot and killed at
y 80 yesterday morning in the Anal
bar, on Main avenue, Spokane, be-
tween Stephens and Washington
streets. The shooting was apparently
an accident. Gus johnson, one of the
proprietors of the saloon, was show
ing a revolver to two friends. He
opened it, and five cartridges fell out.
He then began to snap the trigger and
at the third conclusion a shell inad-
vertently left in the chamber was ex-
ploded. The bullet hit the unknown