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OREGON RIVER
PORTLAND, Ore., July 30 (by As
sociated Press).—Hundreds of white
painted bungalows, built on floating
logs or pontoons and moored to piling
driven in the bed of the Willamette
river some distance from the shore,
furnish all-the-year-round homes for
perhaps five hundred Portlanders, and
make an attractive sight along the
Willamette, within three or four miles
from the center of Portland. The
houseboats, moored in groups of from
ten to one hundred, are reached by
floating sidewalks, also built on logs,
leading from the shore and along the
rear of the houses. Gangplanks con
^ nect the individual homes with this
float.
Telephone and electric lighting
if wires, gas pipes and city water mains
extend along the float and are con
nected with each houseboat, giving
these river dwellers “all the comforts
of home,” including running water
from mountain streams, so that river
water need not be used for drinking
and cooking. Gas meters, furnishing
gas for cooking and heating, are placed
for each house, and gas and city water
are led into the homes by rubber gar
den hose connected with the mains
along the float.
Gay blossoms in window boxes and
hanging baskets adorn the broad
front porches or decks of these dwell
ings, which have their fronts toward
the middle of the river and their back
doors toward the nearest shore. The
decks are furnished with porch
screens, hammocks, swings and artis
tic furniture. The interiors of the
bungalow are luxuriant, and often in
clude a large living and dining room,
one or two bedrooms, a bath room arm
kitchen. From three to five rooms is
the average interior arrangement.
In some cases one-half of the float
ing home is fashioned into a boat
house, in which the owner parks his
motor boat. There are one or two
two-story houseboats, in which the
motor boat occupies the lower "floor.”
Canoes are customary adjuncts to the
homes, as canoeing, swimminig and
surf-board manipulating are among the
popular pastimes in summer.
A constant downstream current of
two miles per hour in summer and
four or five in winter carries off garb
age and impurities. Waste matter is
thrown overboard from the rear of the
houses and is not carried to midstream
but sinks or is carried toward the
bank. The Willamette is from a quar
ter to a half mile wide at Portland.
STRAWBERRY CANNERY
TO BE ERECTED IN HAWAII
HONOLULU, June 26 (by mail).—
if Japanese strawberry growers of the
Wahiawa district are planning to
erect a cannery. Strawberries were
first grown at Wahiawa twenty years
ago by farmers from California, but
the pioneers later turned to pineap
ples. In recent years Japanese re
vived the strawberry industry, and it
is spreading rapidly.
HAWAIIAN POPULATION
IS RAPIDLY GROWING
HONOLULU, July 2 (by mail).—
The annual report of Governor C. J.
McCarthy to the secretary of the in
terior for the year ending June 30,
1918, has just been made public here.
Governor McCarthy estimates the pop
ulation of the territory at 256,000, an
increase of 64,271, or 33.49 per cent,
since 1910, when the last official cen
sus was taken. Honolulu is estimated
to have a population of 75,000. Of
the total population of Hawaii, 106,000
are Japanese, according to the gov
ernor’s estimate; 38,000 Hawaiians or
part Hawaiians; 20,000 Filipinos,
22,000 Chinese and 42,000 divided
among the Caucasian races. Figures
are not given for Koreans and other
Asiatic races.
Exports for the fiscal year exceeded
$81,000,000, with imports aggregating
■$11,374,718. Sugar to the value of
more than $70,000,000 was exported,
with pineapples taking second place.
The governor called attention to the
fact that in recent years the Philip
pines have been the chief source of
labor for Hawaiian plantations.
The birth rate for the territory is
given as 36.71 per 1,000. Board of
health statistics show that the Japa
nese birth rate in Hawaii is 42.87 per
1,000. These figures recall the pre
diction made a few years ago by ex
Governor L. E. Pinkham, that within
twenty years voters of Japanese pa
rentage would control the political des
tinies of Hawaii.
“Mystery Man of the A. E. F.” Brings Woe and Joy
WfOBOIvEJs, N. J. \\ hen Private Roland Phillips arrived here the other day
11 oa the Mount Vernon from Brest three sorely disappointed mothers
watched him walk past on the dock—Mrs. Roland Phillips of Flushing, L. I.;
Mrs. Emma Phillips of Evanston, 111.;
Verily, as General Sherman said, “War is hell.”
And he might have added—“for the mothers.”
JUST RECEIVED
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A LARGE SHIPMENT OF
| LIVE CHICKENS
Good Friers
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FOR SALE
JOE FREY
Phone 22
The Burkhardt
Hand Laundry
and Bath
Burkhardt Flats
Neatly Fitted up with Large
Porcelain Tubs. Everything
, Clean and Sanitary. Open All
^g Night. Phone 61—three rings.
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i igart & Ri ibin i in
DEALERS IN UP-TO-THE-MINUTE
Wall Paper
AND DECORATIONS
We also Do Painting, Decorating and Paper-Hanging. Estimates
cheerfully furnished for the best of work by experienced workmen.
“Bevo” Is Here j
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it’s a drink that surely fills the bill.
Delivered to the trade or families in
large or small quantities
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FRED HAEF, Distributor
Keist Furniture
Company
Is the Place to Buy
New and Second-Hand
Household Goods
OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT
Next door to Alaska S. S. Office
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SPECIAL SALE
All of Next Week on
Entire Stock
No prices set. but come and get
some Good Bargains
THE REGENT
(MRS. JOHN NELSON)
Across St. from Modern Laundry
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STEAM HEAT ELECTRIC LIGHTS
(Iverland' 'otel
MRS. J. W. KENNEDY
Chitina, Alaska
POOL TABLE IN CONNECTION
BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS KEPT
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