The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1907-10-31
GENERAL I5MS OF
LOCAL IsTEREST
ITEMS FROM NEIG : RING TOWNS
A Resume OF the Weeks DOings Com.
piled from Our Ex-
changes.

L. u. MdDOney snlppeu 43 pair or
homer pigeons to Addison Bennett at
lrrigon last Monday and very soon we
will expect to see hem soaring home.
ward ladened with this word, "Irri-
gon is a pretty good place, but back
to the wheat fields tor the pigeons"
lone Prociaimer.
The work of Iebu lding the mill
plant at Cascade Locks Ia pi ogressing
nicely. The bunk house is about COM
pleted. Piles are being driven for the
foundation of the mill. The concrete
walls of the boiler house are going up
and the concrete foundation for the
pump house is laid-Optimist.
At meeting of a number of Lane
county fruit growers steps we're taken
to form fruit growers union for the
purpose OF mutual protection and to
facilitate the shipping and handling
of fruit. A committee was appointed
to. draft bylaws and constitution and
to prepare articles Of Incorporation.
Walls Walla farmers complain that
because of the failure Of the railway
companies to furnish cars, the ware
houses OF the county are full to over
fiowing and hundreds OF thousands Of
sacks OF wheat are stacked in fields
With no protection but covering of
straw. Ii heavy rains set In as may
be expected soon, much damage will
be done.
The Bartlett pear crop of the Wal
lace orchard, in Polk county, this
year amounted to about 200 tons.
Three carloads we're shipped east by
the company and sold so as to net
little over $50 per ton (. O. b. Salem.
The balance of the crop was sold In
Oregon for about $40 per ton, which
brought the total receipts for the crop
to over $4,000. Pacific Homestead.
The chamber of commerce of North
Bend is preparing permanent ex.
hibit Of the various products of the
city and the surrounding country.
The exhibit will be arranged attrao-
lively in one of the warehouses; on the
wharf 80 that 1t may be inspected by
passengers on the boats which stop
here. There will be samples of many
different kinds OF products.
Wholesale destruction of juniper
trees in Crook county ought to be
stopped In some manner. 1t has
commercial value which is only
equalled by the finest quality OF Coos
bay myrtle. In fact commands $3.50
per 1000 feet more, at comb, brushes
and pencil factories, but it will all be
burned In log heaps, we aIe afraid,
before the advent of the railway
Moro Observer.
Ten years ago Hood River apples
i ma month pasthau Ia H.,
any other Oregon apple. Today the
fruit rivals any In the world and costs
s6 box. Hood River lands cost one
thousand dollars an acre. These re-
suits are due largely to the fact that
the Hood River people take the great
est pains In the selection OF their
fruit. Bad fruit Is condemned and
the reputation maintained. .-Tilla-
nook Herald.
AS result of the long, dry spell
and resulting lack OF succulent feed,
sheep are dying all over eastern Ore.
gon and the total loss to the growers
will be considerable. Thus far the
losses to the individual Il overs have
not been heavy, but almost all of
those sheep have been placed on win
ter ranges have suffered some. From
reports that have been received here
1t appears that the loss has been
heaviest In Morrow and Gillian coun-
ties, though Umatilla county growers
have also been hit to some extent
East Oregonian.
Douglas county people read OF great
returns from the orchards of the
Hood River and Rogue River valleys
without even pausing to think what
veritable bonanzas the orchards Of our
own county have become. The local
citizen who had placed valuation of
$500 or $3.50 per acre on his orchard
was regarded by many as being Wis.,
ionary to degree, and holding his
property above its real worth. Now
these skeptics are beginning to realize
that those valuations are far and away
below the real worth of properly cared
for Douglas county orchard. Rose
burg Review.
John Watti, an Indian, is now held
In the county Jail while charges
| against him are being Investigated by
Commissioner John Haley, jr. Watti
is accused of having driven to his
home on the reservation several weeks
ago with liquor upon bis person and
likewise within Upon reaching home
he, like others who are not of the red
skin tribe, began to whip his wife.
On earning of the affair the Indian
police on the reservation took after
Watti, but he had fed to Washington.
Thinking doubtless that the matter
had all been forgotten, Watti uncau-
tiously returned to the reservation
day or two ago and his arrest follow
ed. East Oregonian
Two new trains will be added to the
o. r. & N. time card into PendIeton,
II plans of the officials are carried in.
to execution While it is not offiially
announced as yet, it is known that
ths officials are working on a new
time card which may possibly be
ready for November l, which will give
Pendleton an early morning train
from Huntington and northbound
train early in the morning to Spo-
kane. But meager details of the ar
rangement are to be had at this time,
but 1t is said that the company is
making arrangements to run a train
out of Pendleton to Spokane, early In
the morning in order to carry the
passengers who transfer from the
main line in the night, for the north.
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