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I BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON"
While working on a farm at Tlgnrd
Lloyd Peterson, n doaf mute, lost hit
ft hand when dynamite exploded pre
maturely. Much IntereBt la helng manifested In
the loganberry Industry around Jef
leraon. About 100 acres, adjoining
town, are being cleared preparatory
to planting.
Almost without an exception fnrm
rs In Umatilla county are compelled,
by reason of a recent heavy breeze, to
reaeed their barley crop, which
aihounta to more than 60,000 bushels
aoh year.
The Charles K. Bpauldlng Logging
oompany has leased the plant and
property of the Newberg Brick ft Tile
oompany from the receiver In whose
hands they were placed several
months ago.
When the county court recently at
Pendleton made a cnll for bids for
burying paupers, John 8. Baker, of
that city, offered to enter Into a con
tmct to bury the county's dead at 1
Cent per head.
Governor West, Game Warden Fin
ley and Game Commissioner Kelly
will hunt cougars and wildcats east
of KuRene, to learn the extent of dam
age done by the animals. They wll'
be gone three weeks.
Dr. L. Victoria Hampton In the first
Woman to file a declaration of Inten
tion to become a candidate for city
office In Portland. She will make the
race for the Kepubllcnn nomination
for i ouncllman-at-large.
The city treasury of The Dalles was
welled 11000 by the failure of the
Hydro-Electric compnny to comply
with Its aKr'ment with that munici
pality, and tli- concern likewise loses
It franchise to furnish electric light
and power there.
Announcement to the effect that a
railroad will be built from Albany Into
the timber on the west slope of the
Car. cade mountains I roustrui 'I to
Bean construction of the first link
of an east and west line across the
state by the Hill system.
The Howl River Apple Growers un
ion has taken it In hand to supply Its
members with all kinds of material
asm on the farm at a wholesale price.
Spray material, spraying machines,
bay, grain, and like things will be fur
nished the growers and the retailer's
profit will be saved to the consumer.
The coroner's Jury, InvestlcatliiK the
death uf John Vuu Slyke, who was
killed at Weaton In a aaloon fight,
brought In a verdict slating that S. B.
Couch, with wliuiii Van Slyke had (he
fight, was responsible for the killing.
but did not charge him with murder,
and he has been held to the circuit
oourt In J.' ball.
Forty thousand dollars In gold,
greenback, silver and chucks (cer
tified), were turned over to County
1 1 surer Dlmmlck at Coqullle by
Hh r if Gage. Tin amount re resent
ed i . .4 collected In the last week,
and It tvtin by far the lara-cxi amount
received r.iiice the recant rush to pay
taxej has begun.
With 1. 1' coming of the railroad
Myrtle P ...t hue developed an unus
ual thirst tin! now desires to possess
aaloon of Ita own ao that the dry
oiu can be accommodated right at
home. Ai least so a petition filed with
the comu nut states and the court
has set apart April 7 us the duy on
which to vote on the question.
The ; reatest fruit crop the Ro,rne
rtver valley has yet experienced la
prtM'.tt.i! by nil orchard men In that
loculity. There remain but one ele
ment to darken the prospect, frost,
but proliubly by continuous smmltdnK
the growere will vanquish even that
foe. Borne fruit men say they would
like to have a few buds nipped ah that
would do away with part of th- MsPJ
moub hummer thinning.
The Duliois l.umh.r company, which
owns lafffg bodies of fine timber In
the Ntli.ilcin country, 1 making tenia
live plans for an outlet lor the timber
by the construction of a railroad to
the Columl la river. The road will be
built from the heart of the N.h.ilem
country to a point In the vicinity of
St. Helens. It Is understood that It
will be u staudurd road and thus made
available for general traffic.
As tin- rcult of a flht In which a
Urge a-ul ugly knife and M ax were
freely used, Prank Day occupies a cell
in the county jull at Salem, and Kred
Oorbln Ilea at his home. The flht
occurred In a rooming house, and the
men tt 11 different Btoriea. Day re
oolved a bad scalp wound from the
ax wielded by Corbin, and Oorbla 8
deep, ugly gash from a kulf used
by Day. as well aa other wounds.
First through-train service over the
Stun Palls City ft Western since it
was taken over by the Southern Pad
A. was inaugurated out of the state
oneltal The aervloe is made possible
through the completion of the bridge
acroaa the Willamette between Balem
and West Salem, which haa Juat been
turned over to the operating depart
meut The th.ough trains will be op
eratod from ialou. to D Has, Falls
Oaty ud Bit " WotM, a1"1 ulso u
tweeu Balem .aid IndeyenJeuos, Ioa
mouth and A rile.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAL INTEREST
Events Occurring Throughout
the State During the Past
Week.
$4,000,000 TIMBER DEAL
Porter Brothers Buy 102.000 Acres of
Land In Linn County.
Portland Porter Brothers, railroad
contractors, agreed to pay $4,000,000
to the Oregon ft Western Colonisation
company for 102.000 acres of land In
eastern Linn county, containing 4,000,
000,000 feet of the best yellow fir tim
ber ever grown, and will begin imme
diate development of the property by
building a railroad to It from Albany,
26 miles away, aud by erecting two
sawmills on the south fork of the
Santlam river, which suns through it.
They propose to cut the Umber on
their newly acquired land as fast as
it can be hauled away.
The property Is located entirely be
tween the Willamette meridian, which
forms the western border and the
crest of the Cascade range, which
forms the eastern border. It Is 12
miles wide, but includes only every
alternate section.
Good Roads Association Organized.
Roseburg. --Believing that passable
highways are Important In the devel
opment of a community and that they
can only be brought about through
the co-operation of the common peo
ple, delegations from various locali
ties of DoiikIiis county met and or
ganized what will he known ns the
Douglas County Good Roads Associa
tion. The object of the local asso
ciation Is to get as many auxiliary
organizations launched In various
parts of the county as possible. In
Interesting the people living In the
rural districts, It Is believed that the
membership of the association can
soon be Increased to 1600 or 2000.
NEW FARMS MADE POSSIBLE
Reclamation of Hundreds of Thou
ssnds of Acres May Follow Survey
Salem. With 1100,000 available, the
work of making a detailed survey of
the resources of the Deschutes river
can be commenced Just ns Boon as
John H. Lewis, state engineer, and the
chief of the reclamation service agree
on the provisions of the contract be
tween the state and the government
for the expenditure of this fund. At
present, the contract Is being held up
because the state engineer wants to
have Its provisions broad enough to '
cover other streams besides the Des- I
ohutes, and the chief of the reclame- j
tlon service has drawn the contract
so as to confine the work to that one
river.
This fund of $100,000 i made up by
an appropriation of $60,000 from the
state and $60,000 from the govern-
ment This Is said to be the first time i
the government has agreed to co-op-erate
with a state on such a large i
soalvi In a matter of this kind. Its Im
portance Is much greater than Is gen- I
erally understood.
Success of Apple Sale Astounding.
Portland. Portland's first general
apple sale, the biuuest In the history
of the United States for the same
spa'-- of time, ended with a record of
between 20,000 and 25.000 boxes of
appels sold, an average of about eight
apples for each man, woman and child
In the city.
Compared with the famous apple
sale at Chicago, hint month, when 84,
000 boxes of apples were moved, and
considering the difference In popula
tion. Portland families purchased near
ly three times the quantity of fruit.
uirrr Center of Big Game Preserve.
Salem. When senate bill 206 goes
into effect the city of Batem will be
ths oentsr of a now game preserve,
to be oaliea the Capital Oeme rerag a
Oldtlme Malheur Camp la Revived.
Malheur. Following the example of
Ita alater town of Brogan, 18 miles
south, this old mining camp, In the
extreme northern end of Malheur
county, held a mass meeting and rala
ed a large rash bonus for the estab
lishment here of the Malheur Mining
News, a new weekly newspaper. The
kubllaher receiving the bonus will put
In a plant here, aa well aa at Brogan,
timl the Malheur Mining Newa and
the Brogan Herald will make their
Initial appearanoe about April 1, one
on Tueaday and one on Friday.
Moore Livery 4 Grain Co.
Baled Hay, Seed, Mill Stuff,
Grain
Finest Livery Turnouts in City
Come in and give us a chance.
Phone 95
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Closing out sales have thier attractions, but for real
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One piece is a portion
and a luscious dessert Preferred Sunk Peaches.
from the Highland of California. These
mountain peaches are universally conceded to
be the finest peaches in the world.
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