The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1910-01-06
0'RILEY COMMENTS
ON THE VERDICT

Say, Moike, hin radin the Ore
gonian WHARF II sez that lvHns wan
his suit. | don't name suit OF
clothes. He wan all he axed for, but
they expiot he will appale 1t. Phat
the divrl will he appale on, Moik 7
Siz Meike, mabe Its on that technical
victory. | hin tauld thin are the
best things to appale on.
And who done that lithefay stunt
anneho, RileyY | suppose 1t was the
iditor OF the News after the owners
had wakes toim to fix 1t for him.
That rapport see that ii cancels s23, 67b
OF stock and Iaduces the valuation of
its property s22, 600 Akordin to that
the value of the property IL in the
stock, and with over halt Of 1t can
oeled phat Is thare back OF thin
S76, 800 of bonds they say is soldY
They must have intindid that rapport
for kind of liniTent or intmint
for the bond haulders. Iez see 1t
was printed In the Orsgonian on the
10Th, the same day 1t was printed in
the News, hut the News says action
to examine the lite kompanies affairs
was not cominced ontil shartly after
the racint wather illiction. Phat the
divil did that have to do with 1t
anneho, whin they are 30 well plased
with it2
Yis, sez Muike, thin fellers all say
they ale plased NTH the wa her il'ic.
tiun aud the vardict. suppose they
are plased TO think they want all hung
on Christmas trees, hauld on thaie,
Moike, they didn't stale sack OF
10 oh fnE hu a
her. They jist done something to II
lite ani wather corporation Thin
corporation fellies in the aste call II
sharein the lambs, so they was iist
sharein lvans | suppose that's the
rason he wantid to win that SUIT.
Thin, Muike, have rid the i1laioei
this wake, In wan place it se2 that
ii. T. Davidson, Leelie Butler and j.
l.. lien 'er+on Purchased the Coon
tract and SohenCk aud Eliot lases al
not more than s., OUO--GOst to thin,
to sell to the lite kompanIe and after
II f. Davidson ha arranged to sill
thin to the lite kompanie tor Sc, 600,
phat's that, seq Moike, s26, OOUY
Howley Mother, tut that q goin some
kape still, Moike, thin. Leslie Butler
aud }. l., Henderson sold their two
thirds to Davidson tor two thirds OF
phat they paid for 1t or thin %, 600
Tut, tut, 20 on Oft, Riley, do ye2 take
me for Il tG0lr
Hauld on, Moike. that's the ivi-
dince. That's phat they swore, OF
the hort wouldn't have knawu.
The" sSore to that, did they? BE
the powers OF Saint Patrick, | don't
behave word OF it, at all, at all. Do
yeH thiuk banker and a pittitoger
don't know bether than thatY They
niver was that ginerOus whin the con
tribution basket come around Jlst
think OF the j0y rides, and trips aste
or wist ather OF thin oud have on one
third of $40, 900 and how many tonnes
good looking man mite git married
with that much money
Want yez kape still, MOike, till
tell yez how that moight lie? They
moight have had one OF thin mintil
transactions WHARF, they thot think
loike this: We will sell for two thtirds
of S5, OCU aud take Il farm for 81 and
Henderson's overdrait paid up In the
Bank, That's phat the paper printed
in that ividinoe last summer.
Tnin thRre IL that Smit dale. The
papel wantid moIe wather, and their
stock wantid wathering some, too, and
they give 1t $1,000, worth. Thin to
iucrase the property aud phase the
Portland thrust company, they made
anithir wathering of 80 l.3 pei oint,
Say Riley, they was CRATE on thirds,
want theyH Yis, Moike, ye2 see,
thare was three OF thin; that made 1t
work aisy. Tn got their thinkers
in that habit, but that ividinoe print
cd last summer said wan OF thin whin
he got into Kort oud not ramimber of
baing thare at all, at all.
. Riley.