Industrial accidents reported to the
Fred K Ward, millionaire stockman
state industrial accident commission
of Hemet, Cal., has notified A. H. Lea,
during the past week totaled 438, of
secretary of the Oregon state fair, that
A Warn I-WaaMy Newspaper.
which three were fatal, as follows:
the directors of the Loa Angeles fair
Orville W. Holford, Baker, mining;
have
Mr. Lea’s name under considera
Fablished Twioe a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on
Bert M. Bivens, Ontario, lumbering;
tion for a possible secretary of that
Tuesday and Friday
Cans A. Weod, Portland, traveler on
Principal Events ef the Week public highway (automobile collision). Principal Event« ef the Week association at a salary af $5000 a year.
Thirty-one residents of Swiss Home,
Briefly Sketched for Infer*
Nearly 1000 applicants for work,
Entered as secoruf-class matter March 26, 1018, at the postonica at In
Briefly Sketched for Infor
Lane county, have petitioned the pub
many of them recently discharged sol-
lic service commission to order the
dependence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3,1879.
motion of Our Reader«.
mation ef Our Reader«.
dlers, are being placed dally in Oregon
Willamette Pacific Railway company
by the United States employment serv
to maintain a station agent at Swiss
Sabecriptioa Rates« $1.50 a Tear Strictly In Advance; Six Months
Senator Chamberlain, of Oregon, waa Home. They contend there is enough
A. T. Bonnett, well-known Oregon ice, despite the surplus of unskilled
«1.00; Throe months SO cents. All subscriptions stopped at expiration.
business at that point to justify the
pioneer, a member of the third family labor and increasing scarcity of posi 85 years old January 1.
The Willamette river at Albany expense.
to settle In Eugene, died there at the tions, according to statements given
out by Wilfred S. Smith, state federal reached a lower point in the year just
age of 76.
School children of Oregon were In
CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor.
passed than at any time since 1861.
Deschutes county may spend $134,- employment director.
strumental in selling more than $2,-
Oregon poultry breeders are asked,
A disastrous fire that occurred at 500,000 worth of thrift atamps during
930 during the coming year. This was
The death o f Theodore Roosevelt is the passing o f a the amount named In the budget ap to send data on their breeding atock Halnea destroyed five buildings and 1918 and in every way joined In keep
to U. L. Upson. O. A. C., Corvallis, fed caused damage that 1* estimated at lng “ Oregon first” in war activities,
great man. While a large portion o f the American people proved by the county court.
according to the biennial report of
Official compilation of the Red eral poultry representative. Breeders $14,500.
did not agree with him on many questions, each and all Cross membership returns for Oregon, are aBked to give name of breeds car Herbert Speckhart, aged 25, com Superintendent o f Public Instruction
conceded his ability as a leader o f men. One who can com as reported by the various chapters, ried, number of breeders, incubator mitted suicide at the Speckhart ranch Churchill.
give the state a total of 220,417 annual capacity, estimated number of hatch near La Grande. He and his wits had
The bodies o f George H. Sims and
mand such as he did is extraordinary.
ing eggs for sale a id total of chick* quarreled.
members.
his wife were found in bed at their
A total of 2407 cars completely filled home in Bend. A revolver was clutch
A law that veterans of the Civil war to be hatched next spring.
P E R T IN E N T CO M M EN T OF TH E N A T IO N ’S P R E SS and their widows be exempted from
The new milk-condensing plant built with Klamath county products were ed in the hand of the woman, and the
taxes of all kinds is proposed by the at Bandon laBt summer by Giebisch £ exported from Klamath Falls during police declare there was evidence to
and now owned by the North the year 1918.
show she had shot her husband while
E M PO R IA (K A N .) G A ZE T T E ; W e are surprised members of the Albany post of the Joplin,
west Process company of Portland,
Landowners In the vicinity of West he lay asleep and then had turned the
Grand Army of the Republic.
that the Chicago manufacturers o f genuine Indian pottery
will begin operating March 1. The Stayton and Turner, In Marlon coun gun upon herself.
A. C. Hampton of La Grands was
and beadwork have not gone in for the German trench elected president of the Oregon State plant has a capacity of 1000 cases a ty, are planning the organization of
The department of agriculture, in
Its annual aggregate crop value com
Teachers’ association for the ensuing day, and will afford a market for all an irrigation district.
helmet.
the milk produced in southern Coos
Mrs. Roy Herrick and her two chil parisons, says that the total value of
year at the close of the annual session
and northern Curry counties.
dren were fatally burned when their thirteen crops In Oregon embracing
of the representative council In Port
LO U ISV ILLE C O U R IE R -JO U RN A L: There was a
Following an appeal from the Baker home at Silverton was destroyed by all the crops raised on the farm for
land.
commercial club, the public service tire. All died shortly afterward.
man in our town and he was wondrous wise. He jumped
1918 was $83,287,000. This waa a rec
An increase of tenfold in the num
into a bramble bush and scratched his nose and eyes. Of ber of registered dairy cattle and commission telegraphed to Director December was a month of exceptlon- ord-breaker yield. In 1917 the aggre
Prouty, of the railroad administration,
for these crops was $78,457,000.
course, his face looked pretty bad, but that was better far breeders of registered dairy stock in asking that some steps be taken to ally wet weather In Astoria. Accord gate
Mail service to Canyon City aad
ing to the official records the rainfall
the last five years is reported from
than if he’d let himself be hit. He jumped to dodge a car.
save the Sumpter Valley railroad from during the month was 11.22 Inches.
Prairie City, Grant county, having
Tillamook county by the county agri
a threatened strike and possible dis
been
cut off by the strike on the Sump
Instead
of
having
the
compensation
cultural agent.
CHICAGO N E W S: An Arkansas paper notes as sig A 400-page history of Oregon by astrous consequences to the section law optional with employers, a bill ter Valley railroad, Second Assistant
which that railroad covers.
will probably be Introduced in the Postmaster-General Praeger has prom
nificant o f something or other that Arkansas hens and J. B. Horner, professor of history at
The state and local granges and sev legislature making the law compul- ised Representative Sinaott that spe
the Oregon Agricultural college, Is in
pullets are crowing. A blind prophet could interpret that.
cial service will be provided by stage,
type and will be ready for distribution eral woman’s clubs will be behind an »ory.
But the phenomenon is not peculiar to Arkansas. The soon. It is profusely illustrated and effort at the coming session of the Harvey Wells, state Insurance com either by way of Condon and Fossil
i
legislature to have repealed chapter missioner, has been under quarantine, or via Yukiah.
hens and pullets are crowing everywhere. And why describes S00 events.
381, laws of 1917, establishing certain .uttering from an attack of influenza,
The Sumpter Valley railroad com
Use of sulphur as a fertiliser on 7000
shouldn’t they? A ren ’t they getting the vote?
dower and curtesy rights of wife and In Los Angeles, where he spent the pany has filed with the public service
acres of land in Oregon this season
husband. The main argument against holidays.
commission a new passenger tariff, in
Increased the alfalfa yield one ton an
JEFFERSON (O R E .) R E V IE W :
Government rail acre At present prices the Increase is the present law is the claim that it Publication of retail prices as a creasing the rate from 4 cents, the old
way management is not popular with Jefferson people. worth $140,000. The cost of applica interferes with the right to make wills, jheck on food dealers has been dis rate, to 5 cents a mile. On the basis
Salem has been closed tight again continued by the food administration of the passenger business done on the
For the past 2 weeks there has been no fire in the waiting tion ranged from $2 to $3 an acre.
because of th# rapid spread of Spanish following advices from Washington road for the last three years, this
Lime corrects the soil acidity that
room at the depot, owing to a lack o f fuel, and patrons
influenza since the ban was lifted a that this check is now considered un- would mean an additional revenue of
interferes with maximum crop produc
about $12,000 a year.
have suffered from cold while waiting for trains. Some tion and a circular telling how to use few weeks ago. Schools, theaters, necessary.
churches, poolrooms and public places
With but 264 appeals filed in 1918, a
In
justice
court
at
A3toria
E.
P.
generous individual should contribute a load of wood.
it to best advantage has just been is
of all kinds have been shut down, the Bailey, as manager of the Pacific Poor remarkable decrease In cases coming
sued for free distribution by the soils
use of pool and card tables being pro er & Light company, was found guilty before the supreme court is shown la
department of the Oregon Agricultural
»
J E L L Y , J U IC E S A N D J A M
hibited entirely. In addition restric in a charge of permitting crude oil to a statement issued by Court Clerk Ben
college.
tions are placed on the entire business flow into the waters of the Columbia son. In 1917 there were 332 cases.
Captain Ivan D. Applegate, a widely
The falling off is attributed largely 4«
river and fined $250.
known octogenarian, and a pioneer of section.
DAI) D IDN ’T “ F IG G E R ” ON SELLING
F. L. Kiger, a Umapine rancher, was
the prohibition law and the workmen’s
Thirty
guests
escaped
in
their
night
Dav Boydston, an Oregon drayman, did some hauling southern Oregon, was fatally burned fatally burned when a five-gallon can clothes when the brick building occu compensation act removing personal
while standing before an open fire at
for a stranger. The latter having nothing less than a ten his home in Ashland. His nightrobe of distillate which he was carrying in pied by the Albert hotel and the Op- injury cases from the courts.
Figures Included in the report of
dollar bill, tendered jt in payment. Dave looked at the ignited, burning the flesh from his , to his house exploded, setting fire to .imist Publishing company at The
his clothing and to the house. He Dalles, was destroyed by fire. The the state industrial accident commis
bill a moment and then said: “ Gosh, 1 wasn’t figurin’ on shoulders to his feet.
jumped through a window and man loss is estimated at $40,000.
sion show that accidents reported to
Business men o f North Bend and
sellin’ but you can have the horse.”
aged to reach an irrigation ditch,
O. S. Blanchard, of Grants Pass, has the commission during 1918 have av
Marshfield again are discussing the
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where he was found by a neighbor. seen appointed by Governor Withy- eraged 84 for each day of the year,
plan of consolidating the two cities.
W HE N THE G I R L ’S MAMMA IS A YOUNG W ID O W By combining North Bend, Marshfield, He was taken to a Walla Walla hos combe as a member of the Oregon bu or a total of more than 25,000. For
reau of mines and geology. Mr. Blan 1917 the total was slightly more than
A young miss said the other day: “ Men must be awful Englewood and Bunker Hill, and pos pital, where he died.
While the great majority of the log chard succeeds J. F. Reddy, of Med 15,000. The increase is due largely
sibly
Eastside,
there
would
be
a
city
scarce. Every time Lee takes me out, mamma goes along
ging camps in the Columbia river dis ford, whose terra has expired.
to increased activity in shipbuilding.
o f about 14,000 population.
trict have closed down for several
too.”
While no definite action has been
Warden Stevens has proposed to the
Two days after celebrating the 57th
weeks, the Palmer camp, on the Wal- .tate board of control to install a light taken by state or United States author
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anniversary of his marriage to Eliza
luski, is still in operation. The com ing plant at the state penitentiary at a ities, the federal government, it was
FU LL P A R T I C U L A R S OF THE HACK BONE
beth E. Butler Christmas day, 1861,
pany expects to finish cutting its tract minor cost to provide 150 horsepower recently announced, may apply $64,000
Lycurgus Davis, aged 80 years, died
(B y Sammy.)
there about the middle of February md furnish night lighting for both to the construction of the proposed
“ The backbone is a long, straight bone. Your head sits on the donation land claim three miles if the weather conditions permit, and he penitentiary and asylum.
Loop road, which will connect the
north of Eugene that has been his
so will continue operating until then
on one end and you sit on the other.”
Withdrawal of the Spruce Produc- Columbia highway with the old Barlow
home continuously since 1847.
without interruption.
ton division soldiers from mills and trail, located in the upper Hood River
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After more than two months of com
Three Portland boys in the United ogging camps in the Coos bay district valley. In this case Oregon will ex
parative
inaction,
during
which
the
TOAST FOB A FIRE ENGINE DEDICATION
States army in France have been dec cas caused a marked shortage of help, pend a like sum.
“ May she 1 m * like the dear old maids o f our village; al influenza held sway, Klamath Falls orated simultaneously with the dis ind woikmen can obtain work wher
County Clerk Brown estimates that
has again resumed its normal activi
tinguished service cross for bravery in ever industries are operating.
4000
Umatilla county citizens whose
ways ready, but never called fo r.”
ties. A few cases of the Influenza are
action, according to information re
Much valuable war work was done names appear on the registration
still in quarantine, but the epidemic
ceived. They are Major Sereno E. in Oregon by home demonstration books of the county have failed to
is believed to have spent Us force.
Brett, tank corps; Major Karl J. Swen »gents, according to a summary just vote at any of the three elections dur
One thousand employes of the Sump
son, medical corps; Private Ernest C. -ompleted. Beginning the year with ing the past two years. The office ia
ter Valley railroad, a narrow guage
Kyle, stretcher bearer. Two o f them » single worker the work has enlarged now engaged in eliminating these
line serving a large lumbering dis
were born in Portland.
intil the close of the year finds 10 names from the rolls. Four thousand
trict contiguous to Baker, decided to
Wooden five-masted fore and aft workers in the field.
names is about 40 per cent of the total
strike on December 31, following fail
schooners are by far the best type of
registration
for the county.
D
B
McKnight,
Linn
county
judge,
ure of the road’s management and em
vessel to be constructed for lumber who ha# had the distinction of offlei-
The Baker Commercial club will
ployes to agree on a new wage scale.
carriers, contends Captain William I. ittng at more weddings than any other send Joseph N. Teal, of Portland, and
For the second time in two months
Eyres, of Astoria, inspector ef hulls ceraon in the county for several year» D. C. Ecclea and Frank Gardiner, of
the Eugene city officials have lifted
for the emergency fleet corporation. cast, maintained his reaord in 1918 Baker, to Washington to confer with
the ban on public gatherings made
H# urges that coast yards which are He performed 40 marriage ceremonies railroad administration authorities
necessary by the recurrence of the in
practically idle as the result of the n the year just ended.
satisfaction without extra A .
Ed never could see any
there on the situation on the Sumpter
fluenza epidemic. The health authori
cancellation of government contracts
cost, I’ll buy your plug for j
chew but a big hunk of
All employes of the Pendleton Wool- Valley railroad, provided the railroad
ties say that danger that the disease
be utilized for the construction of that
a month.” Hanged it E d 5 '?
oversweet tobacco. “ You
mills who have been on the pay- administration has ‘‘an open mind” on
will spread to any great extent is now
didn’t walk in next d a y . £ i
class of vessels.
take this p fu g o f R ea l
•oll during the past year will partici the subject, according to advlcoo re
past.
Failure to make required reports to pate in extra earnings amounting to ceived by the public service commis
grab off a plug o f G ravely &
Gravely,“says Hank.‘T a k e
The first car of ground limestone
and throw down his m oney j f '
the food administration has caused th# several thousand dollars, th# manage sion.
a small chew—two or three
from the stnte lime plant, ordered co - 1
just like a little man!
revocation of the milling licenae of the ment has announced. The earning»
squares. See how long it
A state fund for providing subsidies
operatively by Lincoln county farmers
Fischer flour mills, a large concern of will be baaed ea wages.
holds its pure, rich taste.
for high-elass bulls in order to elim
through the office of the county agri
It i f fttrtktr tkmt’i m tf Ms « a H I
Silverton. This Is the first milling
If you don’ t admit that
The $7th annual convention ef th# inate entirely low- brooding strains, la
tké m W u » u »/ t U t tls — i f u f o iw t ‘
cultural agent, arrived at Toledo. At
license In this district to be revoked. Dregon Dairymen's aaeoetatton will be a plan which ia being advocated by
Gravely gives you tobacco
m i a m m l.
least half a dozen cars of lime will be
A representative of the grain corpora aeld January 14 aad 1* 1» Hillsboro. cattle men of the state, particularly
ordered for use in the county during
tion dlviaion ef the food administra The convention will take the place of for dairy herds and legislation to pre
the coming year.
tion was placed in charge and will he regular fanners’ week and ahert vent the sale of bulls for breeding
Burglars forced the rear door of the
remain at the mill until the ban on •nurse that ueually is held at th# Ore- purposes unless *Heh arc eligible to
McMinnville post office and made an
further business is lifted.
ion Agricultural college.
j registry, will ho presented to the legis
attack on the safe. After knocking
The report of the fir production
Charise H. Oram, labor eemmisslo*- lature, State Veterinarian Lytle has
w
»
off the combination knob, they filled
board. H. B Van Duzer, chairman, •r-alect, haa aanounead th# pereonaol announced.
P 0 CHAV E LY T O B A C C O C O . , D A N V I L L E
VA
the safe with nitroglycerine, but be
shews the remarkable record of $30- if hit deputiee. with one eaceptloa.
Organisation of an $800,000 oemcern
fore discharging the blast they were
000,000 worth of timber, allocated and 3 . h . Haaeoa. Pertlaad; J. C. Brad-, with R. B. Kingman as presideat aad
frlghteaed away and left their teola
expedited at an expense of but 14 lord, Oarvallia, aad J. H. Weal, Salem, A. W. Miller, vlce-preaident aad treas
and the unfinished job.
cents per thousand for supervision and u-e the three deputlaa named under urer, te build aad operate a sawmill
Appropriation ef $10,000 for pur
accounting, representing lean than he factory taapecMon law.
ef 100.000 feet capaeltr, either at Bu
chase of additional land for the south-
pens or in the company's timber ia
half
#1
1
per
c*“
1
of
th*
tot*1
Talu9
Attorney-Dan»**
R
e
»
*
>
“
*
tien at Talent, by the county oeurt of
of lumber product» handled through .truoted by the state haard nf coatrol the Alaea coumtry, haa beea anneuacad
Jackson
county,
is
a
remarkable
trib-
Established .1889
the medium of the fir production « start ojootaaoat proceeding# again» at ffiugeae. Coastrao44oa work on the
ern Oregon branch experiment * te
taard. wKh the lumber manufacturers he Salem Hospital aeeoeiatton. pro- plaat is expeetad to atart seen and the
nts to its value to agricultural Inter
•I Oregon and Washington.
fidlng the building tt now oecuplaa mill probably wiH be la operation
ests, thinks Deaa A. B. Cordley. direct
J. H. Scott, engineer for the atnte 1 »ad which U the property of the niata, early In the spring.
or ef the state experiment ntatieas.
IN T E R E S T P A ID ON T IM E
highway department, haa been in I a not vacatod hy January 1$.
A flock of IT! milk geatn, inspected
Soldiers from the Pacific roast and
Mood River going over the route of
A decided decreane ia th# number of and graded by experts ef Oregea Agri
D E P O SITS
northwest states, whs are with the
the MoelerHood River exten.lon of nduetrtal acotdente te show, la the cultural college, will arrive at the
91st division, which was organised at
Ue Columbia R i w highway with i itatemeat iaeued last weak br the Portland Union stockyards about Jaa
i Camp Lewie. Wash., are net slated for
Officers and Directors
prospective bidder« on contract» for itate Induatrlal accident communion. uary 30 aad will be offered for sale to
early return home, according to a let
the construction of the six mile unit However, la the list. which total# $77 the ehlldrea of Portland elty schools
ter received by Governor Wtthycombe
H. Hirsehberg, Pres.
D. W . Sears, V . P.
of the scenic thoroughfare. Rida on Occidents, there are five fatal acoi- In the hep# of developing an Important
from Maj. Gen. William H. Jehastern,
Ira D. Mix, Cashier
the contract» will be opened by the lants aa MIowi; R A. Bealer, Oa- industry ameng elty children. The
commander ef the division. General
etate highway commission Janaary < ario. loggia«: J »• " * « » K w p a . milk-goat project ban received the la-
W . H. Walker
I. A . Allen
O. D. Butler
Johnston pointed out that the list had
In order that smaller contractor» may oggtac; Thoma# W FhUMga. Poweea, > dorsemeat of the school authorities
bean selected as one ef thirty combat
A Successful Business Career of
be given an opportunity to bid on the owing; T H ffihoaor. Partlaad. thlp the city, who have arranged far the
divisions designated to remain la
work, the • ti«n e u«tt ha* hoen dt- »»tiding; A. H. DuraaL Portiaad. Jam- format loa of "goat clubs” aatong the
Twenty-Five Years
France for further training aad pa»
TMtd into thre« otctlana
•eheel ehlldrea.
' tar
si bin service.
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