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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., February 24, 1911, page 2

ARE A DEN OF THIEVES

The Suksdorf Observer at Bingen is set out with another grist of grouch, by which it undertakes to have the world believe that White Salmon is a den of thieves, an aggregation of incurable kleptomaniacs, a gang of highbinders, an organization of cheap, peanut-headed politicians, coercers of a great railway system, and town-kidnappers that would make Raisuli, the Moorish bandit, look like thirty cents. Yes, and it looks as if White Salmon had stolen all the steam, sagacity, foresight, hustle, town-building vim and vinegar, all that well-directed liberality that makes for municipal greatness. Would that Bingen would start something -- it wouldn't matter much what it is was -- so that White Salmon could play the part of a capper and charge them with "stealing something!" So far it has been altogether to one-sided, White Salmon doing all the starting. Nothing that White Salmon could do would please the townsite owners below the bluff. If the town where to develop the dock road into an uptodate highway and move down to the landing tomorrow the owner of Bingen would call out the militia and apply to the court for an injunction until every man, woman and child had the name "Bingen" branded into their shirts. White Salmon hasn't time to snarl, to do the dog-in-the-manger act, to kick and grumble to the exclusion of commendation for any good things done. She has taken the lead as a town, and will endeavor to keep it, at the same time shelling out its coin for purposes that will materially affect the whole section.