The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1916-07-13


of bananas at the Kinsey grocery last
week discovered huge tarantula.
Vern Lii has had the huge spider
placed in alcohol in a bottle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gus Miller and their
visitors. MIR. and Mrs. Edward Leslie
and son, of Convoy. Ohio. spent last
Thursday fishing near the Punch Bowl.
The trip to Winans City was made on
the Mount Hood rail auto.
Merrill Gessling and brother, Mark
Gessling. who is here from Tacoma Wis
iting, W. J. Mckee. W. L. Clark and
J. ii. Fredricy spent Sunday on Sandy
Flat section of the West Fork fishing.
All had fair luck.
The new fish ladder installed by the
Oregon Lumber company at Dee, at a
cost of $4,000, to provide way for the
trout to overcome the 40 foot falls at
the dam site, has been completed. The
new ladder is said by Deputy Fish and
Game Warden Hadley to be the best in
the state. 1t is approximately 300 feet
long and seven feet wide. The slides
are of rs inch dressed lumber. bolted
together, making the sides six inches
thick. The apertures are one foot by l6
inches wide, with ponds Six feet square,
and an eight inch drop every six feet.
The box at the turn of the ladder is
eight feet square, with four inch
current. Shortly after the water was
turned into the new ladder the fish
we're seen TO come up over it in great
numbers and with ease.
Formerly Oscar Vanderbilt kept
Plymouth Rock as we'll as Rhode Island
Red chickens on bis orchard place. But
on March 10 the Plymouth Rocks, to the
last hen and rooster, were caught and
sold IN the local markets.
Tuesday one of the East Side orch
ardist's Rhode Island hens came from
a patch of weeds behind granary and
in her brood were two perfect speci-
mems of Plymouth Rocks.
IL can only figure it out this way"
says Mr.. Vanderbilt. Before | sold
the Plymouth Rocks, one of the hens
had evidently made nest behind the
granary. Later the Rhode Island Red
discovered the nest and laid her own
eggs there. She hatched out the DOM
mick chickens along with her brood of
red fowls. Those eggs laid there on
the ground for nearly Is weeks without
spelling. | have never known that
record to be beaten"
Long will Mosier, Ore., be remem-
bered by small party of easterners,
and often will itss:name be mentioned
in connection with Sights seen on
western trip" 1t is worth noting how
fame came to this little apple growing
community.
A prominent railroad official, with
Offices in Portland. was a bit lonely in
rather crowded Pullman coming west
ward from The Dalles. He was lonely,
not for company. but for some new
tenderfoot who had never seen the Co.
lumbia-for he likes to extoll the beau
ties of this mighty stream. At last
there entered the car motherly look.
ing woman, who seemed new to the
country. Few seats were vacant, and
the official made room for her beside
him.
He told her of the Oregon wonders
the Columbia River, Crater Lake.
Mount Hood-of the abundance of un-
settled land, of the large numbers and
variety of game, and about the protec-
tion given animals and birds.
I'VE have such good laws for protect
ing our wild things that unlimited
numbers of big ganie-deer, bear, wild
cats and birds of all descriptions
abound. Everything that is wild is
found in" He stopped and could
hardly believe his eyes. As the train
slowed down at Mosier, be saw an ele-
plant rubbing itself on tree. "Yes,"
he went on, every thing that is big and
wild is found in Oregon. You can see
for yourself: even elephants roam about
unmolested.
The woman looked sure enough,
there was a real elephant, and no hu-
man being within sight. Then she
rushed to the forward car to tell the
members of her party about the free
dom the animals have in Oregon. es-
pecially around Mosier.
The railroad man went out to inyes.
tigate. and found that small circus
was showing in Mosier and that the
elephant had been chained to the tree
to feed on the grass. Neither the chain
nor the circus cars were visible from
the train windows.-Portland Specta-
tor.
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