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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (Jan. 13, 1922)
OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. The atate sealer of weights and measures office Inspected a total of 10,602 scale* during 1921, according to a report prepared by W. A. Dalzlel, deputy sealer of welgTTts and meas ures. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Baker county stock growers are of the opinion that the Industry has passed through the worst that can come to It and that 1922 will see much better times for all Baker county stock men. Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. Mr*. Oraoo Cunningham ha* been More than $200,000 was disbursed by appoint«!) poet must.-r at Chico, Wallo the federal government among the wa county. Active preparation* arc being made members of the Oregon National Ouard for the erection of a number of new units during the past year us com pared with less than half that amount realdeucea In Monmouth for 1920. Ml** Kuhy O. Kngelmau ha* been Lane county's hop crop this year appointed iwiHtmlHtre** at lone to suc sold for nearly $500,000. The crop In ceed Mr* Karl lllnke, resigned. the county amounted to 6600 hales, The Scottish Klto Club of Southern and an average price of 36 cents a Oregon wu* organized by 32d-degree pound, or $70 a bale, was received by Mason* at a dinner In Medford. local growers. Approximately $111,000 lea* In tuxe* According to the records In the As will be assessed In Baker county this toria customs house, 569 vessels loaded year than were collected In 1021. at lumber mills In the Columbia river Mr*. Manila A. William*, 68 year* district during the year 1921 and their of age, committed suicide at Salem by combined cargoes amounted to 637,582,- Jumping o ff a bridge Into Mill Creek. 057 feet of lumber. Iturlug the year Ju*t closed Clat*np With the Carey act contract with county hu* «pent $98,264 for new the state executed and a definite allot bridge* and repair* to old structure*. ment o f water made hy the stale water * Total fire In*» In A*torlu for the l>ourd, the North Canal company Is year 1921 wa* $ir.7,:i(>0, for which In now ready to proceed with develop nurance amounting to $122,200 wa* ment plans In the vicinity of Bend. paid. Mrs. C. K. (hippie, wife of a Hood Kugene property owners will pny River orehnrdlsi and hanker, received taxes till* year on a levy of 65.1 mill*, from I). Tancred of Kent, Wash., a which I* an increase of 2.1 mill* over White Leghorn cockerel for which she last year. paid $250. Thl* Is the highest-priced Kxcept several flllH and the bridge chicken ever brought to the valley. over Cuke creek, the Oregon Cave* I’ortland Is to have a new Orpbeum highway near Crania 1‘asa 1* about theater. In addition to the four-day- completed. u-week show now running In Portland, There were a total of 242 accident* a $1,000,000 structure to house *hows reported to the atate ImlUHtriai acd under the junior Orpheum plan will dent rnmmlHnlon during the week end be opened within the next 18 months. Ing January 6. Methodist Episcopal churches of the H J. Klierly, UHHlRtant *tate forester, Portland urea, which Includes Wash while on hia way to Seattle Sunday by ington und Oregon, have set aside the automobile, »uffered a fractured arm first week of next April as "clean-up" and other Injuries. week, when churches und parsonages During the puat Henson ClatHop coun and surrounding grounds will he reno ty uperated five state-owned truck* on vated. highway Improvement work at an ex The largest gain In postal receipts pense of $21,400 45 ever made In Oregon City was record The farmer* of the Ittrkreall vicinity ed at the local postofflce for the year will meet Junuury 11 to take action 1921. The gain Is 19.7 per cent over with relation to ucipilrlug flux acre last year and places the office high age fur the year 1922. among the others of Its class In the The former Clatsop mill In Astoria, state. recently purchaaed by the Astoria Box A well defined plan Is said to be un company, will h ih iii begin operations der way at Astoria to form an organi with 180 men at work. zation which will control the output A block o f $150,000 6 1-2 per cent of the various logging camps In the Tillamook county road bond* wu* Hold lower Columbia river district and thus at Tillamook to a Cortland bond houae regulate the prices at which logs shall at a premium o f $3772.00. be sold. A lath mill will be Installed In Al Only 67 out of a total of 7642 claims liany thl* month by the Anderson Fuel for ca*h bonus and loans examined company, which will al*o operate a by the world war veterans' state aid lumber yurd with Its mill. commission hBVe been rejected, accord The county agent work In Coos coun ing to a report prepared by Captain ty has been cut from the expense ar Harry Bruinbuugh, secretary of the count of the budget, uh well ua the commission. ilemoiiHtrater approprlutIon. The Lukevlew chamber of commerce A Bhort course for commercial club has udopted a resolution urging that aeorelarle* will be offered by the lint from the money to be derived from the varsity of Oregon during Easter vnen sale of Lake couuty road bonds the tlon from March 27 to April 1. slim of $90,000 he set apart for con The Cendleton Cocking company hn* structlon of a road from Lakevtew to nearly doubled It* output during the Kluuiath Falls. lew weeks It bus been In existence and Seaside probably will be the site of now hu* 24 men on ItB payroll. the next state Klks' convention, accord The Orogon Aggies In the aeu*nn of ing to a decision reached at a meeting 1921 won 10 championships, broke two of the officers of the Oregon State Elk* roast records und played Oregon to a association at Portland. Final deci scoreless tie for the state football title. sion was left to George Collins of Med 8 M CalkIna of Kugene, for IB year* ford, president of the usHoclatlon. reporter of the circuit court of the dis W. C. Henderson, acting chief of the trict comprising Lane, Benton and Liu United States biological survey, will coin counties, has reslgni-d his pool be In Portland January 20 to confer tlon. with the attorney-genera! of Oregon A rotary diamond drill capable of on the controversy over ’he Malheur drilling a 4 1-2 Inch hole to a depth of bird reserve, raised by the uettlers In 4INMI feet has been shipped to Med the Harney valley Irrigation district. ford for us«' by the Western Oil com Owners of automobile Htage lines op pany. erating between Portland and Bslem Arrest* by the Clackamas couuty Intimate that some action probably sh eriffs office for the year of 1921, will be taken In the near future to more than doubled those for 1920. nc test the constitutionality of at least cording to a report compiled by Sher two of the highway conservation laws, iff Wilson. approved at the recent special session Kvldeuce of Medford's continued of the legislature. The most objection prosperity and growth of poHtuffIce uble of these laws. It wa* said, Is the receipts Ilea In the fact thut the Med one providing for an Increase In the ford postoffice Is now In the first clusa license fees. of post offices. Following receipt of a pledge from Thirty-five thousand cords of white members of the state fish commission fir wood to be used in the manufacture that they will not again appear before of paper hua been cut during the year the legislature m quest of appropria in the upper basin of McDowell creek tions, and a statement to the effect in Linn county. that the fishing Indusry of the state Many of the small sawmills on the Is at present Imperiled because of in Iswnr Hluslaw river and In adjacent sufficient funds to repair damage to territory are resuming operations uf hatcheries resulting from recent ter an Idleness In some cases of a storms, Governor Olcott signed house year's duration. hill No. 6 carrying an appropriation of The Oregon Agricultural college $64,600. I make! ball team opened the northwest Governor Olcott vetoed house bill conference season at Corvallis with a No. 31, providing for a special election victory over the Whitman college five on May 19, to be held In connection hy a score of 36 to 18. with the regular primary 'contests, for The Industrial rush at Marshfield the purpose of referring to the voters and stories of demand for large lum of the state two resolutions and an Iter shipment* during 1922 are bring enabling act, approved at the recent ing Into the Coos county district more special session of the legislature. One laborers than can get employment. of the resolutions, which was sched The state limestone plant at Gold uled to go before the voters at the spe Hill, authorised by the legislature for cial election, authorised an Increased the purpose of supplying Oregon farm gasoline tax with which to provide ers with limestone fertilizer at cost, funds to finance the proposed 1926 has become a white elephant. Esti expedition In Portland. The other res mates were that from 20.000 to 60,200 olution authorized Linn and Renton tons of llmestonp fertilizer were need counties to levy a tax with which to ed annually on Oregon farms, whereas redeem outstanding warrants. The total sales during the existence of the enabling act provided for putting tbs plant have aggregated only 412$ Ulna- srsrU's fig maahlaery U n a tion Industries on Poos Bay reopened after a suspension of but two days for the Christmas festivities. The Dailey Clay Products company's plunt at Warrenton has begun opera tions on a commercial basis. Five house bills and two senate bills passed at the recent special session of the legislature were vetoed by Gover nor Olcott. The Southern Pacific company will expend $47,000 or more In bellermenl of Its tracks within the city limits of Marshfield. Plans for erection of a community hall are being developed In the vicin ity of Oakville, about ten miles south west of Albany. Approximately one out of every four marriages In Deschutes county I* an unsuccessful one, according to official county records. Reports at Washington, D. C., are that Jonathan Bourne, Jr„ former (ten ator from Oregon, is In a serious phy sical condition. Salem will witness a building pro gram Involving the expenditure of more than $1,000,000 In the year 1922, according to C. P. Bishop. Oucar Hoffman, 16, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoffman, of Needy, In Clackamas couuty, accidentally killed himself while out hunting. The Christmas business of the Med ford postofflce was greater by 20 per cent thlB Christmas than the Christ mas business of any year In Its history. Gaston has started work on a drain age system along Front street and Is ruBhlng the work through and giving employment to a large number of men. There were 222 Industrial accidents In Oregon during the week ending De cember 29, according to a report pre pared by the state Industrial accident commission. Robert J. Burkhardt, Albany dairy man and dairy breeder, was elected president of the Oregon Dalrymeh’s association at Its 29th annual session At Corvallis. A conference of representatives of various western Oregon cities will be held at Roseburg, February 21, to con sider the regulation of free automobile camp grounds. Ho much shipping is coming to the port of Coos bay's new dock that the port commissioners are discussing the need for a turning basin opposite the 800-foot frontage. Thtrty-one persons were killed In traffic accidents on the streets of Portland In the past fiscal year, ac cording to the annual report of the police traffic bureau. Bearers that have been destroying fruit trees on several farms In the river bottom north of Eugene will be trapped, according to Ed 8. Hawker, district deputy game warden. In spite of the low price of quick silver and the total suspension o f the Industry In the United Btates, there is considerable activity In the quick silver mines In the Gold Hill district. No further steps have been taken with reference to the second murder Indictment pending against Carson I). Beebe, acquitted at Albany on the ground of Insanity, of the murder of John Painter. In order to be sure that every child In La Grande of toy age was not forgotten Christmas, two of the largest stores of the city turned over to the Red Cross all toys left on bands Christmas eve. The stute board of control has ac cepted from the contractor the new dormitory recently completed at the state borne for the feeble-minded at Salem The structure cost approxi mately $50,000. I)r. W Carlton Smith, physician at the state penitentiary, filed a report with Oovernor Olcott In which the doc tor expressed the opinion that Abra ham Kvaus, under death sentence for murder, Is Insaue. Extremely heavy loads will be kept off certain roads In J.ane county, ac cording to an order made by the coun ty court. The roads Included In tbe order are said to have been cut up badly this wlater. The Oregon public service commis sion has denied the application o f the Southern Pacific company for an in crease In fares on the lines of the Sa lem Street liar company and the Eu gene Street Car company. First appraisals of property to be used as security for loans under the so-called Oregon bonus bill probably will Is* made this week It Is expected that funds on these loans will be forth coming about February 1. In response to a telegram announc ing the plan for breaking ground for the new $1,006,000 Klks' temple In Portland, President Harding telegraph ed the Portland lodge of Elks, con ■MtulAttM L **» oa U * ooaziug ovent- Bend eornmercial club directors went on record as strongly opposing the King bill, Introduced In the United States senate, with the object of chang ing the national forest service from the department of agriculture to the Interior department. OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAUNTEREST Principal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. Sales of gasoline In Oregon during the month of November, 1921, exceeded those of the same month a year ago by 70,416 gallons, according to a state ment complied by Sam A. Kozer, sec There were 36 holdup robberies on retary of state. Distillate sales showed Portland streets during November. an Increase of 70,709 gallons. The delinquent taxes in Marlon The Oregon sulo law, passed by the session of the legislature last winter county for 1920 aggregate $67,580.84. North Bend’s schools are closed on and under which this year’s licenses were Issued on the weight of cars, will account of five new cases of diph be tested In the courts In an endeavor theria. Construction ot a new building for to have It declared unconstitutional hy Attorney Lindas of Medford, who will the Kugene municipal market will be gin at once. bring the test car case Bhortly. Thirty-five cars have been freed Three bridges In Marlon county, which were washed out as a result of from snow drifts on the Columbia the heavy rains a few weeks ago are river highway, between Eagle creek to be replaced. One of these bridges and Cascade Locks. As a result of high tide, heavy rains will be built on the Ablqua river, ten miles southeast of Silverton, another and strong wind, about 2000 feet of on the North Hantlatu river near Stay- the Spokane, Portland & Seattle rail road track near Astoria was washed ton, and the third near Marion. out. A force of 200 men Is being recruited The steamer La Center, en route to combat the pine-destroying beetle from Kelso to the Portland stock In the yellow pine forests south of yards with 40 head of cattle, was cap Klamath l.ake, beginning March 15, sized In the Columbia river and 35 It was announced by T. D. Woodbury, head drowned. assistant United States forester. An The Clackamas county farm bureau appropriation of $150,000 for (he work has gone on record as supporting the will 1 h > available In two months. principles of the Co-operative Dairy Because of Governor Olcott’s veto men's league, which Is at present fac of the hill passed at the recent ses ing dissolution. sion of the state legislature, amend More than 11,000 Portland residents ing the charter of the Eugene lodge paid In excess of $26,000 In police- of Masons, the plans of the organiza court fines for traffic violations on tion to erect a $150,000 temple may Portland streets during the fiscal year have to be postponed for a year, ac ending November 30. cording to members of the lodge In Unemployment has reached the terested In the project. point in Portland where Immediate ac At the annual venison feed at La tion Is necessary In the Judgment of Crar.de of the Wing, Fin and Fleet- the members of Mayor Baker’s un foot club, the fish and game club of employment committee. Union county, more than 150 sports Portland and the commission of pub men helped dispose of sevoral deer lic docks expended $17,244,130.60 dur that had been Illegally shot, the club ing the fiscal year of 1921, according having purchased the carcasses from to a financial statement given out by the fish and game commission follow City Treasurer Adams. ing their seizure and use as evidence. Tbe prune market Is strong and In The University of Oregon grade bul dications are that the price will hold letin indicates that the women lead steady or advance, according to W. T. the men by a narrow margin In scholar Jenks, manager of the Willamette ship in the university for the fall Valley Prune association. The Southern Pacific company has term. With a total of approximately 1060 men and 940 women registered notified the Oregon public service for the term, a total of 33 women and commission that it has canceled Its ap 31 men received no grade lower than plication for an Increase of fares on II, next to the highest possible mnrk. the West Linn street car lines. Oeorge Stlckney, cashier of the Carl “ Get rid of the water before 1925” was the new slogan adopted by the ton State bunk and owner of a con Oregon State Drainage association, trolling interest In its capital stock, when 100 of the members met at the was placed under arrest on a charge seventh annual session held during of embezzlement of funds of the bank. Released from Its position beneath Fanners' week at the Oregon Agricul tural college. More than 750,000 acres a bank of snow and Ice near Frieda, of wet land In tho Willamette valley tbe Oregon Trunk train Imprisoned in will demand community outlet ditches. the Deschutes canyon since Saturday, November 19. arrived In Bend Fri It was reported. It took only two hours and 30 day. A petition Is being circulated among minutes to raise Toledo's quota of $15,- 000 In the proposed Toledo Invest the land owners of the Coburg district ment and Improvement corporation, in Lane county asking that the Co which organization has been planned burg drainage district be organized. to finance the construction of houses This will reclaim 12,000 acres of val to be sold and rented to employes of uable land. A special 2%-mlll road tax was vot the Pacific Spruce corporation mill, which will begin operations after the ed by Oregon City. The tax, which will raise $7600 on the assessed valu first of the year. William A. Douglas of Gold Hill, ation of nearly $750,000, will be used who acquired the Iliuu Danielson gold for permanent road Improvements quartz mine, three miles southwest within the city limits. Seven University of Oregon stu of Gold Hill two years ago, hHs com pleted a 125-foot drift Into the main dents who won distinction as marks ledge of the mine, uncovering a large men, sharpshooters and expert rifle body of ore. The new works are urv men at the encampment last summer der the old works, where many thous have Just been presented with United ands of dollars of rich ore wus re States government medals. Fees from motor vehicle licenses covered some 20 years ago. Unless the proponents uf the pro during the month of November aggre posed 1925 exposition are able to de gated $8,756.76, according to a re termine by Thursday whether the fair port prepared by Sam A. Koter, secre legislation considered at the recent tary of state. Total receipts thus far special session of the legislature was this year are $2,331,326.75. The work of remodeling and enlarg legally approved, It Is probable thut Governor Olcott will veto the bill ing the Salem postofflce will start passed during the closing hours of the within 60 days, according to a tele assembly authorizing a special elec gram received from Senator McNary. tion to be held May 19 In conjunction The cost of the proposed improve ments has not yet been determined with the regular primary contests. The county court bus called for bids definitely. A terrific wind and rain visited the for the final cruise of tho Douglas county timber lands. For the past western section of the state Thursday The storm three years Douglas county has been and did much damage having cruises made o f Its standing broke down Innumerable telephone timber for the purpose of obtaining and light poles and hundreds of trees, definite Information and data upon broke plate glass windows und played which to base a cash assessment. Next havoc with signs. Cargo lumber shipments from the year will mark the completion of the task and the 1922 assessment rolls are Columbia river during the month ot expected to carry the timber lands on November were quite heavy. Accord ing to statistics compiled, 64 vessels a baals of their cash value. Sam A. Kozer, secretary of state, loaded at the mills on the river and acting upon the advice of the attorney- their combined cargo amounted to 63,- general, refused to accept for filing In 527,508 feet of lumber. Roy Klein, secretary of the Oregon his office bouse joint resolution No. 3, providing for submission to the voters state highway commission, and C. B. of the state at a special election May McCullough, bridge engineer of the 19 the question of amending the con same department, left Salem for stitution so as to authorise the financ Omaha to attend the annual meet ing of the proposed 1925 exposition ing of tbe National Association of through a gasoline tax. The secretary State Highway officials. Among the miscellaneous shipments of state, In explaining hla action In refusing to accept the resolution for from the port of Astoria terminals filing from F W. Drager, chief clerk during November were 10,176 cases of of tbe senate, said It had not been canned salmon to foreign ports. In signed either by Roy Kltner, president cluding points in Europe and Austra of the senate, or L. E. Bean, speaker lia, and 63,805 cases to domestic of the house of representatives. Be points, principally on the Atlantio In addition to this a consid cause of the omission of these signa coast tures tbe secretary of state held that erable quantity of mild cured and frozen fish was sent to Euroya Us rsMiatio» wan u t oompUud. i Btx hundred turkeys will be given a* prises In s big trap shoot to be stag ed on the grounds of the Eugene Ouo club by the Eugene lodge of Elks Sun day, December 11. The shoot will bs given 0« 6 means of Increasing the lodge's Christmas charity fund The Nevada-Callfornla-Oregon Rail road company has filed with the In terstate commerce commission an ap plication for a certificate of public convenience and necessity to enable the company to abandon Its line be tween Hackstaff, Cal., and Lakovlew, Or. When the steamship Nebraska clear ed from Portland last week, It took the last shipment of apples exported by the Oregon Growers’ Co-operative association for the 1921 season This lot will make a total of 131 cars ot apples shipped hy the association this year. The white pine blister infestation which has been discovered In British Columbia, will be the subject of a con feronce to be held In Portland Decem ber 19. Because of the seriousness of the pine blister, many leading path ologists of the United States will at tend the conference. There were two fatalities In Ore gon due to industrial accidents durlns the week ending December 1, accord Ing to a report prepared by the state Industrial accident commission. The victims were H. O. Neal, policeman McMinnville, and Thomas H. Howard powder man, Vemonla. Oovernor Olcott granted to John L Rathle and Elvle D. Kirby, alias James Owens, who were to have been hanged In the state penitentiary al Salem Friday for the part they played In the murder of Sheriff Til Taylor of Umatilla county In July, 1920, a re prleve until Friday, February 3. Further Increases In the shipments of lumber from the northwest by water Is Bhown by the weekly lumber review for the week ending November 26, Is sued by the West Coast Lumbermen’s association. The report shows thal of shipments for the week a total ol 45 per cent was shipped by water. Oeorge HUes, a Medford high school boy, has Just received word that hr won first prize In the recent national composition contest conducted by ths Hampshire Sheep Breeders’ associa tlon, with headquarters In Chicago The subject was "W h y the Hampshire Is the Best Sheep for the Farmer.” Approval will not be given by thr board of engineers this year to the re quest ot Portland for a 32-foot pro Ject In the Columbia and Willamette rivers to the sea. Major-General Lan sing H. Beach Informed Senator Me Nary and General Manager Dodson ol the Portland Chamber of ComraercA Progress with the rotary plow u$ the Deschutes canyon from Bend it becoming Increasingly difficult, it thick coating of Ice over the rails which the rotaries will not affect, it said to be the cause. Hope haH beer given up for direct railroad communt cation with The Dalles or Fnllbrldgt before next week. L. E. Bean, speaker of the house, lx a letter received recently by Frank Davey. member of the lower branck of the legislature from Marlon coun ty, suggested that the expense of tht special session called for Decembei 19 be reduced to the minimum through tbe elimination of an army of need less clerks and stenographers. Eastern railroads have concurred li reduction (n transcontinental rates ot lumber proposed last September bj the western roads. Rates from tin Pacific coast on carload shipments ol lumber to Clnclnnatl-Detrolt terrltorj will be 85 cents a hundredweight, t« Pittsburg-Buffalo territory 88 tk centi and to the eastern seaboard, 60 cents Members of the state Industrial aool dent commission report that many e a ployers of Oregon apparently have n« knowledge that a law was enacted ai the last session of the legislature pro vldlng thut children under the age ol 18 years cannot be employed legall) In hazardous occupations unless the) shall have received a permit from th< proper authorities Under the old las the age limit relating to permits wai 16 years. Douglas county timber wtl be classl fled according to Its cash value al a meeting of timber owners to b« held In Portland on Deoember 21. Th< county cruise Is almost completed an4 the timber owners have decided t« divide the timber Into groups, baslni the segregation on the relative valut of the timber. The accessibility ot the timber and facilities for markst Ing will largely form the basis el valuation. The Women’s Home Missionary so clety closed a two days’ session al Salem with the election of the fol lowing officers! Mrs. Matthew Simp son Hughes, Portland, honorary prosl dent for life| Mrs. William OrviU« Shephard, Portland, president; Mrs H. O. Jennings, Buttevllle, first vice president; Mrs. Oeorge W. Lilly, Port lsnd, second vice-president; Mrs. Katz Burleson, McMinnville, third vice president; Mrs. T. O. Herme. Medford fourth vice-president; Mrs. G. L Alden, Salem, recording secretary! Mrs E. F. Collins, Portland, record Ing secretary, and Mrs K. Staples Portland, treasurer.
