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OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERALINTEREST Events Occurring Throughout the State During the Past Week. State Editor Hold Meeting. Oregon City. With an elaborate banquet, tendered by Franklin T. Grif fith, of the Portland Railway, Light Power Company, the annual con vention of the State Editorial associa tion was brought to a close at Hotel Estacada. Officers for the coming year were elected as follows: Presi dent, E. E. Brodie, Oregon City Enter prise; vice-president, Snm Evans, Klamath Falls Northwestern; secre tary, Phil S. Bates, Portland. A. E. Voorhies, of Grants Pass, was chosen to succeed the retiring member of the executive committee. Wallowa Land Deal is Big, Enterprise. Three deeds placed on record at the courthouse here trans ferred 28,069.79 acres of Wallowa county land, by far the largest real estate deal or trade in the history of the county. In one deed the George Palmer Lum ber company, of La Grande, transfer red to the East Oregon Lumber com pany, of Enterprise, 13,830.86 acres of timberland. In two deeds the East Oregon company and Duval Jackson, its president, transferred to the Pal mer company, 14,238.93 acres. Oregon Short Line Pays Big Dividend Salem. The Oregon Short Line, Salem, Falls City & Western, Sumpter Valley railroad, and Coos Bay, Rose burg & Eastern Railroad and Naviga tion company have reported profits in their annual reports to the state railroad commission for the year end ing June 30, while the Portland, Eu gene & Eastern Railway company re ported a profit on its electric lines and a large deficit on the steam lines. The report of the Oregon Short Line is for the entire system, only a small part of which is found In Oregon. The report of this line shows an especially prosperous condition, a dividend of 10 per cent having been declared and a large surplus being on hand. Divi dends totalling $10,000,000 were paid. NUMBER EMPLOYES LARGE Labor Bureau Statistics as Gathered for Biennial Report Salem. Figures prepared by Labor Commissioner Hoff for his annual re port show there is a total of 1230 gen eral merchandise stores in the state, and during this year they employed 9480 people to whom a total salary of $7,384,000 was paid. The following figures show the num ber of other business Institutions en gaged in business in the state, the peo ple employed, and the total wages paid, as compiled thus far for II r. Hoff's biennial report: Electricians, 85; employment agents, 35; engineers, civil and surveying, 250; engineers, consulting and con tracting, etc., 60; engineers, mechani cal, 50; engineers, mining, 30; engi neers, supplies, 30; express, dray and transfer men, 378; dealers in farm im plements, 190; dealers in fish and poultry, 50; florists, 74; dealers in traits, wholesale, 34; fuel dealers, 178; furniture, retail, 390; general mer chants, 1230. Farm implement stores In the 190 farm implement stores of the state an average of 760 persons were employed during 1914, to whom a total wage of $608,000 was paid. Fish and poultry The 50 dealers In fish and poultry employed 98 people and paid them $79,000 In wages. Fuel dealers The 178 dealers In fuel gave employment to 490 persons and paid them a total wage of $41,650. Furniture, retail The 390 retail furniture dealers employed 840 people at a total wage of $58,800. Transfer and . express The 378 transfer and express men employed 756 people at a total wage of $52,920. PRINCE GEORGE Recall Law Upheld by Supreme Court. Salem. On every count the state supreme court upheld the validity of the amendment to the state constitu tion providing for the recall of public officials. The decision is in the case appealed from Columbia county arising" from the recent recall election in which Andrew L. Clark was elected to super sede W. A. Harris as county Judge to determine which of the two is entitl ed to the office. Registration for Multnomah is 95,926. Portland. Ninety-five thousand nine hundred and twenty-six voters, by far the largest number ever listed in Mult nomah county, had registered when the books were closed. Voters who have qualified are di vided between 58,135 men and 37,791 women. Divided into parties, they are as follows: Republicans, 69,795; Dem ocrats, 22,506; Progressives, 3895; In dependents, 4417; Prohibitionists, ST29; Socialists, 1584. V I rv i Prince George, son of the King of Servia, who is leading the Servian army against the Austrian. BANK ROBBED OF $20,000 Sedro-Woolley First National Held Up By Six Men. Sedro-Woolley, Wash. Six masked and armed men robbed the First Na tional Bank of Sedro-Woolley of more than $20,000 at 8:50 o'clock Saturday night and escaped into the woods, af ter slightly wounding three citizens whom the robbers shot while fleeing from the bank. Cashier J. Guddall, the assistant cashier, a bookkeeper and three citi zens were in the bank when the rob bers arrived. Two of them stood out side, shooting up and down the street to keep the citizens Indoors, while the other four kicked in a large plate glass window and climbed into the bank, firing volleys from their pistols to enforce their commands to those inside to hold up their hands. While two of the four robbers who entered the bank kept those inside at bay the others went through the cash drawers, taking all the money in sight ranging from $20 gold pieces and bills of every denomination down to the last cent in the tills. The quartet then dashed outside, where their companions awaited them, and then all ran down the street one block. Turning off into Ferry avenue, they disappeared in the darkness. Chicago Profit by War. Chicago. Supplies and food worth $150,000,000 have been sent to Europe from Chicago since war was declared, according to figures made public by John Arnold, chairman of the foreign relations committee of the Chicago Association of Commerce. Seven Americans at Naco Wounded. Washington, D. C. Seven Ameri cans, four troopers of the Ninth and Tenth cavalry, and three civilians were wounded in Naco, Arizona, by bullets fired by belligerent Mexican forces across across the boundary. BRIEF NEWS OF OREGON STEAMER BURNS ON COLUMBIA Portland. The steamer Santa Cata- Una, a huge $700,000 steel freighter of the W. R. Grace Co.'s line, plying be tween New York and Pacific coast ports, including Portland, took fire and was beached against the Oregon shore of the Columbia river, two miles from St. Helens. She is practically a total loss. The great vessel, one of the largest entering the Columbia river, caught fire as the result of an explosion in her engine room. Two car-loads of ammunition in her cargo exploded with the fire adding horrors and dam age. Forty-two members of her officers' staff and crew are safe, but one fire man, Gus Johnson, Is dead. He was entrapped in the engine-room instant ly when the explosion occurred, and heroic efforts of Captain J. F, Rose and his aides to rescue him before the ship was abandoned were futile. The Santa Catallna is beached with in two rods of the dock at Columbia City, two miles coastward from St. Helens. THE MARKETS Portland. Wheat Club, 95c; bluestem, $1.01; red Russian, 90c. Hay Timothy, $17; alfalfa, $13.60. Butter Creamery, 35c. Eggs Ranch, 30c. Seattle. Wheat Bluestem, 99c; club, 96c; red Russian, 89c. Hay Timothy, $16 per ton; alfalfa, $13 per ton. Butter Creamery, 36c. Eggs 32c. Albany was 60 year old October 16. T'ae Moose lodge of Hillsboro has decided to build a $30,000 lodge build ing. Martin Angle, the first white male child born in Jackson county, died at Grants Pass of Brlght's disease. The state railroad commission has ordered the Oregon Electrlo railroad to establish a flag station between Sidney and Talbot. J. D. Mickle, dairy and food com missioner, will recommend to the leg islature that a law be passed requir ing the reporting aud branding of Chinese eggs. The annual conference of the Pa cific coast district of the Danish Lu theran churches begins at Portland Thursday and will last through the following Tuesday. Polk county prunegrowers have har vested a smaller crop than in several years. Although no figures have been compiled, nn estimate places the yield at 65 per cent of that of last season. The Southern Pacific operated at a profit in Oregon, as well as over Its entire system during the year which closed June 30, from the annual re port filed with the state railroad com mission. Sluslaw port commissioners met at Florence and decided to proceed with the jetty work, in spite of the fact that the harbor bill contains no ap propriation for Siuslaw harbor im provements. In the circuit court at Crants Pass Judge Calkins senteuced E. Dennlson, found guilty of an attempt to extort money from Oslln M. Jackson, to from six months to two years in the state penitentiary. Astoria's public docks and water front measure and the municipal wharves and dock bill is opposed by the Port of Astoria commission on the grounds that they are not for the best interests of the state. Columbia River commercial fishing interests are raising $5000 to turn over to the department to enlarge the scope of fish propagation, under the system adopted by the fisheries department of the Oregon Fish and Game Com mission. A sawmill will be built at Klamath Falls to cut 26,000,000 feet of timber in the Crater National forest recently purchased by W. E. Lamm, of Dan ville, 111. Mr. Lamm's contract with the forest service requires that the timber be cut within four years' time. Sixteen outside states are represent ed in the university student body, ac cording to the registrar of the Uni versity of Oregon. Washington leads the list with 14. Idaho, California and Wisconsin follow in the order named. There is one student registered from India. R. E. Clanton, superintendent of hatcheries, at a meeting of the state fish and game commission, said that the take of salmon eggs for hatcher ies this year was the largest In the history of the state. He said the take, which Is principally of the early Chi nook, will total more than 30,000,000. Labor Commissioner Hoff an nounces that there were 70 accidents In Oregon industries during the week ended October 14. Only one was fa tal, B. Namba, of Baker, a section hand, was killed by a train. As usual a majority of the accidents were in connection with railroad work and log ging. The state land board at Salem has called for separate bids for the leas ing of the beds and waters of Albert and Summer lakes, In central Oregon. The tenders will be opened December 14 instead of December 10, as original ly planned. Bonds of $5000 will be re quired from the person securing a lease of either of the lakes. Oregon's population has increased nearly 200,000 since the 1910 census was taken, according to researches Just completed by the promotion de partment of the. Portland Commercial club. Of this gain 75,000 has been in Multnomah county. All the counties except four show marked increases, the four showing decreases being Sherman, Morrow, Josephine and Hood River. The reclamation service has Just issued a bulletin on the Deschutes riv er projects. The booklet deals with the North Canal unit of the Central Oregon Irrigation company's Carey act segregations, and the discharges, diversions and storage requirements of the Deschutes river; the cost of the works and their present value. An appendix has been added by John H. Lewis, state engineer of Oregon. The book contains a map of the project. At the recent city election in Rose- burg the proposal to Issue bonds in the sum of $500,000 to finance the con structlon of a railroad to Coos Bay carried. This bond issue provides that the railroad must be built from Roseburg to Coos Bay before the bonds are available. The company accepting the contract to build the road will be required to furnish ap proved securities of $500,000 as evi dence of good faith before the bonds are Issued. The commissioners who are to ponstruct the road are now making arrangements for the Improvement 1915 Brack Cars Supreme in Speed Supreme in Power Supreme in Dependability Speed, Power and Dependability go hand in hand. You cannot have one without the other. These attributes and fuel economy are the important requisites of all motor cars. J All are exemplified in the highest degree in The Buick Cars PRICES OF 1915 CARS Roadster Model C24 $1010 Touring Car Model C25 $1085 Roadster. Model C36 $1335 Touring Car, Model C37 $1385 Big Six-Cylinder 7-Passenger Touring Car SI 800 Send for 1915 Catalogues to HUFF-NOBLE AUTO CO; O. L Huff PRINEV1LLE, OREGON w. riot AGENTS FOR CHALMERS AND BUICKS notice for Publication. Department of the Interior. U. S. Land Olllee at The Dalles. O e. October IB, 1U14. Notice Is hereby given that Richard H. Rluipler of Prinevllle, Ore., who on March 2S, 1S10, made botntwtvad entry No.0632H, and on January 28. 1914, made addi tional homestead entry No. 01249, for nej-v section 14, ni nci, nei nt j, section 23, and swj n wj section 24, township 16 south, rauge 1" emit, Willamette meridian, has tiled notice ol Intention to make final tlir.e year proof to eHtaldlnli claim to the land above dcHcrlbed More Warren Brown, county clerk, as Prinevllle, Oregon, on the 28th day ol Novem ber, 1914. Claimant names (is wltWHHes: Curt WIIhod, Paul A. MertHchlng, Edgar Bundy, Frank Meruchlng, all of rrlnevllle, Oregon. H. Fhank Woodcock, 1022p Register. Notice for Publication. Department of the Interior. U. S. Land Cilice at The Dal low. Ore. October lit, 1914. Notice Is hereby given that Hbellle Holland of Held, Oregon, who on February 6,1911, made liomeHteud entry No. 080S3 for nel, ncj t i, section 27, v hwJ, section 26, uw nwj section 35, township 18 south, range 19 pant, Willamette meridian, Iihh tiled notice of Intention to make final three year proof to establlHh claim to the land above described, before A. 8. Fogg, U. S. Commissioner, at Hampton, Oregon, on the 28th day of Novem ber, 1914. Claimant name an witnesses: Paul Held, Jeforson F, Houston, Thomas Hickman, of Held, Ore., and Floyd Maker, of Robert. Ore. 10-22p H. Fhank Woodcock. Register. The Brosius Bar Finest brands of Wines, Liquors and Cigars. LAGER BEER ON DRAUGHT F. E. BROSIUS, Proprietor Lower Prices on Ford Cars Buyers to Share in Profits Effective from August 1, 1914, to August 1, 1915, and guaranteed against any reduction during that time: Touring Car $490 Runbout 440 Town Car 690 F. O. B. Detroit, all cars fully equipped. (In the United States only). For further particulars regarding'the low'prices and profit-sharing plan see C. W. WILSON 1-15 Crook County Agent, Prinevllle, Ore. Garage Opposite Post Office A BANK BOOK overtops almost everything in importance in business life. It means freedom from worry, freedom from disputes about payments, better standing with those with Whom you do business. We shall be glad to have your account and you will be glad to have one here after you learn its advantages. The First National Bank Of Prineville, Oregon. The Oldest Bank in Central Oregon Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits, $150,000.00 LTJTDVCB Shingles, Mouldings, Windows, Doors, Glauses, Etc. Eto., Etc SHIPP&PERRY TT TATT7TTT T W rtT tH I f KT Ull