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About The Cottage Grove sentinel. (Cottage Grove, Lane County, Oregon) 1922-current | View Entire Issue (March 10, 1922)
OREGON NEWS NOTES OF GENERAL INTEREST Prtnolpal Events of the Week Briefly Sketched for Infor mation of Our Readers. Fifty nudent» will graduate from Albany high school In June. Wasco county during 1921 paid nut a total of 2666 In bountlee ou preda tory animals Beginning March 1 Klamath coun ty lumber Industries will operate ou a nine-hour day buHls The annual meeting and election of officers of the Linn County Jenn y Cat tle club will be held at Albuuy March 4 The freight rate between Medford asd Central Willamette valley points was recently reduced 41 HP per ton on cull apples. For stealing 20 pounds of cuudy from u box oar at llakcr, Charles Wilson was sentenced to Iwo years In the penitentiary. Haleiu Is to huve one of the new atute and federal Industrial schools as soon as the shop can be fitted up for operation The Callfornta-Oregnn Power com pany liae Just pluced an order with the Gold Hill Cement company for 10.000 barrels of cement. The first anuual Head poultry show opened lu Mend Friday with 60 peas of fowls from Deschutes uud (Took counties ou exhibit. A totul of 272 new members was ob tained during the membership drive conducted by the Josephine County Farm Hureau association Ben F. Chambers, aged thirty-five. Indkited on u statutory charge, shot himself to death with a bullet through the head at his home In Eugene. Salem Is In the grip of unotbor In fluenzu epidemic, physicians estimat ing thut there are between 600 and 1000 cases of the disease In the city French A Co., of The Dulles, the oldest financial Institution In eastern Oregon, closed Its dourB on udvice of A B Hnhertson, state bank examiner. Oregon Is the second state In the union lu the amount of developed wa ter power. Oregon lias 74 plants with a total capacity of 185,21b horsepower. The central stage terminal ut Salem Is now handling about loot) persons dally Approxlmataly 4b stages arrive and depart from the terminal each 24 hours. A choral society composed of more than 60 voices and representative of Redmoud. Powell Butte, Terrebonne and Lowor Bridge, was organized at Redmoud A total of 370b cosh claims, filed by ex-service men entitled to bonoflts un tier the ao called bonue act, have been certified by the world war veterans’ state aid rommlaslon. The winter fishing season on the Columbia river closed at noon Wednes day and the catching of salmon will be unlawful until the opening of the spring season ut noon on May 1. A survey of stute Institutions In Salem to Investigate dental rare of Inmates will he made soon, aceording to Dr. Clyde Mount, of Oregon City, president of the mate Dental assoc I a tlou. A $200,000 furnace for manufnetur mg pig Iron will lx- started within the next alx weeks upon Its property a mile west of Hcappoose by the Oregon Charcoal-Iron company, according to announcement. L. L. Thomas of Marshfield was elected president of the Oregon Retail Merchants' asstieiatlou and Eugene was aslerted aa the next convention city during the annual convention of the association at Hnaoburg. An amendment to the Interior de partment appropriation hill offered by > Senator McNary providing $8d,(MI0 for a new dormitory at Chmnnwn Indian sshool, Salem was adopted by the state Indian affairs committee. Representatives of Oregon sports men’s associations will meet In Port land March 1$ lo discuss fish and game laws aud the preparation of n definite program toward the Improvement of hunting conditions In the slate. The Huddle Mnantuln Logging com pany and Lewis A Malone logging camps on the line of the Lewis and Clark railroad la Clatsop county re sunied operations Inst week after s shutdown since before the Christmas holidays Rlity-two aliens, representing 14 na tlonulMlea. took the oath of allegiance to the Halted Mates and wee- granted citizenship at the municipal auditor ium before an audience of nearly 3000 citizens In Portland’s first public na turalization ceremony. The attorney-general has advised William H. I-evens, district attorney of Baker County, that a county clerk must pay from the gnacral fund of the county treasurer, the bounty provided for In the laws of 1909 and acta amen dntory thereof Also that the county court may or may sot In Ita dlocre tlon. provide funds for payment of the additional bounty authorised In the Oregon laws of 1907, and acts iMigri Uiersqf Unless the number of easea of Infltt- enzu at the slate hospital at Haleru de creases the Institution will be guar untlned by the superintendent and vis itors will not be allowed. The state penitentiary has Irten under quaran tine for more than two weeks. A party of 600 Swiss farmers Is pre paring to come to Oregon for colonisa tion purposes, according to Arnold K el ler. of Portland. He ho» returned from Bnropo, where be was commissioned by the 8wlss government to take up the colonisation matter with Oovornor Olcott. A total of 3210 checks, aggregating $805,879.20, Issued by the secretary of state at the direction of the world war veterans’ state aid commlaslon to op plleants for cash benefits under the so-called soldier cash bonus and loan law were mailed to the reclpleuta from Salem Friday. At the request of Crook county post of the American l-eglon the business and professional men of the city met with the legion members and the Crook County Co-operative association wus formed. The association has as Its main object settling Crook county with white settlers. Damages In the sum of $20,000 for nllcged alienation of the afft-ctlons of Ills wife, Mrs. Pearl Lindsey, Is asked In a "heart-balm” suit filed In the cir cuit court ut The Dalles by H. H. Lllid- sey of Huleni. J. T. McCulloch and Noel McCulloch of Antelope are named us the defendants In the suit. When Joseph Laundy, under two years’ sentence for vlolutlon of the Oregon criminal syndicalism act, ar rived at the state puuitentlary from Portland to start serving his term, lie was agreeably surprised by Warden Compton, who refused to accept him for the reason that a few minutes be fore he reached the prison his case hud been reversed by the supreme court. Approximately 11,500 acres under the proposed Powell butte high-line canal will he Irrigated by water stored In the Crane prairie reservoir of the North Canal company If directors of the district accept an offer mod« by ex-Oovernor West, secretary of the North Canal company. Mr. West pro |nmed to furnish storage, do all uecea- sary engineering and complete canals to the lunds for $03 75 an acre. Fred C. Baker o f Tillamook, secre tary of the Hooaevelt Memorial Coast Highway asmadatlnu, has received a telegram from Washington, D. C.. slat lug that Heuator McNary had submit ted data to the secretary of agriculture urging that the Roosevelt highway be designated a road of primary Import ance. Tlila I s the brief that was sub mitted to the state highway eoiumla- alon and was written by the secretary of the association. That the district forester will grant a concession for the operation of a summer hotel at Diamond lake within the next few weeks wus the luforma tlon received at Bend by Forest Huper- vlsor Plumb. A 10 or 20-year lease would bo given and an Initial Invest ment of from $12,000 to $16,000 re quired. In the last few years Dia mond lake has become one of the moat popular central Ovegoa camping spots, both from the stondpolot of the tour ist and the angler. Members of the Portland aRy council voted to withdraw Ita application filed several months ago with the Oregon public service commlaslon, requesting that body lo make an appraisal of the physical properties of the city water department. The withdrawal w«s made. It was auneuuced by Mayor Ba ker. because It was the belief of mem hers of the city council that "any con fidence reposed In tie- public service c ii iii iii I hh I ou by th e cltlxeus of Portland has I teen forfeited by that coiuuitoaloii through recent acts and decisions I f the so-called "cabinet” form of government now In operation In Wash ington. Idaho. Nebraska, New York aud other state« Is found by Investiga tion to be superior to and more eco nomical than the present Oregon sys tem of handling governmental affairs. Governor Olcott will lend every In fluence at hand to obtain Its adoption In this state This statement by Gov ernor Olcott followed the appointment of a committee o f five prominent Ore gon men to investigate the measure of Hucoeas attained by the ’’cabinet" form of government In state« where It has been established and file a re port lu his office for submission to the. legislature at Its next session Oregon’s river« and harbor« fared especially well In the bill for improve nients reported out by the house rivers and harbor« committee Provision la aarrled In the bill for the Improvement of the Columbia and Willamette rivers below Portland by wldeulng o f the .hansel to *00 feet and maintaining a depth of Stl feet This Improvement would eventually cost $1,760,000. ac cording to the engineer’s estimates. Another provision Is for the improve ment of Willamette slongh and still mother tor the coast ruction of two Jet tins aud the Improvement of Isth mus slouch at Coos Boy at a final coat of $*,140,000 Improvement of the "latshaale river also Is tnnluded la the hill. Surveys are provided for Umpqua river. Tillamook bay and har bor. Deer Island si DANTE'S INFERNO OREGON NEWS NOTES OREGON BRIDE MOTHERS 2,000 OUTDONE IN ARMENIA OF GENERAL INTEREST The Southern Pacific company, which sometime ago was ordered by the public service commission to Im prove Its station facilities at Oregon City, has been granted an extension of 90 days. Information received at Crater na tional park headquarters In Medford Is that there Is 9Vk feet of snow at the rim of Crater lake and SVfc feet at Anna Spring camp, five miles lower The tragic progression of famine down. This Is more snow than there conditions In Armenia Is strikingly Twenty-two cases of Influenza have has been In the park for several years. shown -In the personal reports brought Assessors from nine Oregon coun back by State Director J. J. Hand been reported at Tiller In Douglas ties west of the Cascade mountains anker of the Near East Relief when he county. A night school has been organised held a conference In Salem to discuss visltud Uiat section lust August, and a more uniform system of taxation In the letters thut have been received at Halfway for persons over blgh- zchool age. Counties represented at the confer at Intervals since. "When I was there in the late sum Dairy demonstrations will be held In ence Included Benton, Clackamas, Lane, Linn. Marlon, Polk, Wasco, Yam mer," said Mr. Handsaker, “ The con Linn county this week under the direc ditions were truly appalling, despite tion of the county farm bureau. hill and Washington. the fact that the orphanages were fill Caroline Testout rose slips from the The $800,000 highway bond Issue ed to their utmost capacity and every voted by Klamath county Tuesday oar thing possible was being done. I my state capitol grounds at Ralem will be rled by a majority of about six to one. self selected a little naked girl with set out In many rural school lots In J. A. Churchill, state superintendent nineteen others from among hundreds Lane county. The port of Port Orford has con of schools, has gone to Chicago to at of starving children to fill the only tend the annual convention of the de pouslble vacancies tn the orphanage at tracted for a 60-by-160-foot extension partment of auperlntcndents of the Na Erivan at that time. However, the to the shipping dock at that city and weather was warm, and the refugees work will be started at once. tional Education association oould manage In some way to keep More than 700 acres of flax land In Establishment of so-called joint alive. Reports from Erivan in late rates on hay from east of the moun September told of the coming of the Marlon county has been signed up by tains through Portland to points west. cold weather, and how the reserves ths Willamette Valley Flux and Hemp Including Marshfield, Astoria, Salem, were drawn upon for the opening of Growers' association, It is announced. A light form of Influenza which huB Starving Tillamook, Kugene, Albany and other additional soup-kitchens. western Oregon clttau. will bn at men women and children from all sec attacked many residents of Dufur has tempted by the Oregon public service tions were flocking desperately to the resulted In closing of the schools and commission, according to announce Near East R elief stations in the hope placing of a ban on public meetings of getting work, food and clothing. in that town. ment made at Balem. Two months later, under date of Nov. Stage service between Grants Pass Market conditions, as far as they 29, we have news of the frightful situ relate to prunes, will show a marked ation that followed. This news came and Crescent City is hampered by Improvement this year as compared to Dr. Esther Lovejoy, of Portland, deep snow in the vicinity of Monu with the past few seasons, according Oregon, who is national chairman of mental, the highest point between to W. T. Junks, manager of the W il the American Women’s Hospitals, these two cities. Assets of the state Industrial acci lamette Valley Prune association. He from Dr Mabel Elliott, in charge of alae predicted that the prune crop In the American Women's Hospitals in dent commission at the close of busi the Near Ra«t section. This organ ness January 31 aggregated «4,766,- the Wallamette valley tills weapon ization Is co operating with the Near 730.65, according to a report prepared would exceed In quantity that of last East Relief, und is handling the med by the department. year ical work of the latter at Ertvan. Be The state board of control opened Napkins and other linens made from low is an excerpt from Dr Mabel bids for the installation of a ventilat Oregon flax are being exhibited in Elliott's letter to Dr. Lovejoy: “ I cannot begin to tell you, doctor, ing system In the capitol building at Salem by Robert Crawford, formerly at the head of the prison flax Indus of the misery here in spite of the enor Salem. Six bids were received, rang try, but at the present time manager mous amount of work being done. ing from $14,492 to $16,514 A return of the municipal railroad of the Willamette Valley Flax A Hemp Since I have been here 862 is the low est number of cases we have had in has been tendered Grants Pass by the Growers’ association. These articles our hospitals at any one time, and were manufactured la Belfast, Ireland, yet they are dying on all corners of California & Oregon Coast railroad, purchased under contract from the from flax gathered In the vicinity the city. Last Sunday we went out of Balem. on horseback to see bow things were city by Twohy Brothers. Wildcats are unusually plentiful In The snow and Ice on the pavement beyond the tow n; we passed a dead between Hood River and the Mult horse by the side of the road, and some parts of Tillamook county this nomah county line has caused consld three wretched human beings were year, and the trappers are having good Albert Auhermaunr of Hebo arable damage to the Columbia river sitting beside It, taking the flesh off luck. It was a most re trapped 29 wildcats this year. highway, acoordlng to J. R. Nickel- with their hands pulsive sight. Four persons were killed In traffic sen, superintendent of maintenance of "A ll day long you can hear the tha road In Hood River county The groans and walls of little children out accidents In Portland during January. pavement has been cracked In spots. side our building In hopes we oan and There were 866 automobile accidents Fences have been smashed and walls will pick them up. If the sun shine« in the month, in which, besides those pushed dawn for a little while they quiet down, and killed, there were 106 Injured. Judge Stephen A. Lowell, well The postotfioe department has an then when It rains they begin again. nounced the following appointments of One day the rain turned into snow known throughout the state and for fourth-class postmasters In Oregon: E usd It was awful to listen to them, many years a resident and practicing i The note of terror that oame Into the attorney of Pendleton, has announced Oscar Rlokll at Dothan, Douglas coun general wail was distinctly perceptible, ty: William £. Evans at Kamela. In although my room was upstairs and his probable candidacy for governor. Salem’s new stage terminal, which Union county; Minnie Oustafson at j the window was closed. They well Rnlth. to Umatllle county; Minnie 1 know what a single night out In the was completed recently at a cost of Kramer at Tup, tn Grant county, and -now would mean to them. W e are approximately $30,000 was opened Sat Burton K Lawson at Wedderbura, In j piecing them up as fast as possible. urday The ceremonies were featured ‘'You can see by my report how by a dance and other entertainment. Curry county. There were 50 per cent more births A shaving hrunh of cheap manufac many more pet tents we have than beds, and the same holds good In the orph and less deaths In Medford last year ture, thought to have caused the anage«. There Is no use crowding them than during any year In the city’s death by anthrax of Rev W. J. Bow < In bo that they will all die." history since official records were ermau, who died at Albany, has been kept, according to City Health Officer seat to the laboratories of the state Plckel. health department at Portland for In An agreement is being circulated vestigation. These brushes are under among the merchants of Eugene and stood to have been Imported from signed by all members of the Lane China where they were made of Stber county credit association, binding lan horsehair or boar bristles. themselves to abolish all forms of mis E. E Elliott, director of the state leading or false advertising. board of vocational education, has a The Penn state college debate team deed for 1000 acre« of land lying be will appear at O. A. C. Friday. John tween the Miami and Bciolo rivers In Gray of Santa Rosa, Cal ., Paul Knoll of Ohio. It was Issued by the governor Corvallis, and Ernest Abbott of Ash to Archibald Blair, as assignee of land will represent the Oregon A gri Jump« Wood, wt^o was a colonel In the cultural college In this contest. American array during the revolution Nine prisoners tn the Eugene jail ary )*Rr. The deed was signed In the made a dash t* freedom Friday night handwriting of John Adams, president. ifter opening seven corridor doors and There were tour fatalities In Orugou iwo outside doors with passkeys that due to Industrial accidents during the the prisoners evidently had fashioned week ending February 28, according from materials they had obtained In to a report prepared by the elate In JaU. dustrial accident commission. The vic F. M French, W. A. Eastburn and tims were Hefauo Lupen, laborer, Glen C. H. Stewart have been appointed dale; George Strleiner. fuller, Port by the Albany chamber of commerce land; Ham Zamo, fireman. Banks, is a committee to arrange plans for and A. G. Van Reaueu. machine opera the home-coming next summer of ex tor, Portland A total of 366 accidents residents of that city who now live In were reported Portland. Complete exoneration of Mr. and Marshfield was chosen as the meet- Mrs. J. F. Myers of any fault in con ling place for the 1922 convention of nection with reports alleging mlscon- the Oregon State Fire Chiefs' asso duot In the maaavement of the Oregon ciation, at a meeting held by repre employment Institution for the blind sentatives of that body in Portland In Portland aud rocommeudlug the fune 29, 30 and July 1 are the dates Immediate dl«mleaals of Charles G. set for the session. Bishop, 0. L. Johnson, Ellen Blvereon, Charles 8. Went and Sylvester Mayer, A conference of all attorneys and ap Iu mates of the school, were the out praisers In Oregon appointed under standing feat urea of a report submit the provisions of the so-called soldiers' ted to the state board of control by a bonus act will be held in Portland committee of prominent Portland resi February 17. The conference will dis cuss bonus problems and pollutes re dents. appointed recently to make a thorough Investigation of the Institu lating to appraisals. tion. Wool growers of this state met in Public Service Commissioner Wtl their twenty-fifth annual convention Hams a a * representatives of the state Friday at Pendleton aud undertook the bridge and highway departments, the consideration of the problems facing Houlhnm Pacific company and the their industry In Oregon. More than e e u n g y court, met In Itoseburg for the 100 of the biggest producers in the Mrs. Ethel Long Newman, Oregon state attended the session. purprtse of oonstdertag the overhead sroaelngs to be built at once on the Agricultural Collage, 1920. who is now Persons operating motor vehicles Pacific highway at Oakland, Suthertln. in oharge of a Near East Relief or who cannot show that they have made Wilbur and Shady Point Each sits phansge In Armenia She mothers hsr ipplication for 1922 licenses now are family of 2,000 IIMIs war vlstims while was Inspected and a hearing then held her husband rune a 20,000-eore farm subject to arrest and prosecution un la Roaehurg The osete of the creas whish is a part of ths conservative ier the state traffic laws, according ing will be upixvrttoned by the com wsrk being dons in Rusaian ArsieSh to a letter Issued by Secretary of missioner between M m State Kozer and mailed to all peace bv the door hast Relief. of||u*r» In Oregon. Ethel Long Newman Writes of Walls of Starving Children As Principal Events of ths Week Life in Armenia, Where She sail the Ears of Relief Briefly Sketched for Infor Manages Great Orphanage. Workers at Erivan. mation of Our Readers. PRETTY OREGON BRI0E RR0THERS 2000 ORPHANS wi Some vivid picture« of life in Rus sian Armenia, where gaunt famine •talks In the wake of devastating war, are given by Mrs. Hamuel Newman, formerly Miss Ethel Long, graduate of Oregon Agricultural College, cla«s of 1$$0, In letters to friends in Oregon. Mr«. Newman aud her husband, the latter a graduate of the Idaho Agri cultural College, were married In Port land lost spring, and soon after left for Armenia to join the staff of Near East R elief workers In charge^of two large orphanages near Alexandropol, where an extensive agricultural recon struction project Is being Inaugurated by the Near East R elief organization The Soviet government, unable to oope with the appulllug condition* fol lowing the warfare waged In that re glon almost continuously since 1914. last year turned over to the Near Hast Relief three mammoth military posts which had been converted Into orph- anages, together with 118.000 acres of land to be put under cultivation. “ It' Is a staggering task the Near East Relief baa undertaken,” writes Mrs. Newman, "but we are working hard and making progress In the face of overwhelming odds Sam has 20,- 000 acres of farm lands under his supervision, and Is toiling early ami late getting his farm units started. 1 am busy every hour of the day with my work In the orphRiiuge here, which shelters 2,000 children and gives em ployment to the mothers and fathers of many hundreds more. The farms, you know, are operated In connection with the orphanages. Besides receiv ing Instruction In manual training and other useful things, the larger boys are taught modern scientific methods of farming. The orphan girls are taught to weave rugs and to sew and cook. We aro also operating several Industrial units where cloth is woven and garments made for the children. “ It was all very discouraging at first," Mrs. Newman continues, "but now wo are taking heart and work ing harder than ever. Sam had an awful time getting his first unit started. However, after scouring the whole country he got together a few plows and harrows and things; also, a’ little later, the modern maebin ery contributed by friends of the Near East R elief began to arrive, and Sam had the gtx>d fortune to round up 32 d reliable mules. He has sixteen now at work, and expects to ove a tractor in the field soon. « * • he poor peasants here had never done ijr real farming, and It was very hard tor them at ftrut, but tholr eagerness to learn axd to help Is very pathetic. The grout deep furrows Sam plows with hi« good American equipment are a never-ending marvel to them. When Sam gets one unit started with men trained to operate It, he begins an other and the orphan boys take to the training with great zeal. When the Newmans arrived at DJela llogbu, the orphanage there sheltered only 400 boys and girls, and Mrs. New man writes of these; “ There wore 1.900 in this lot last spring, but becauso of malnutrition and sickness. 600 of them died during the summer, s« the Soviet officials had only 40$ left to turn over to us. Enough have been brought down from the over-crowded orphan age at Alexandropol to make 2.090 here, and as you can Imagine, I have my hands full, helping to mother them. It Is wonderful to see how the wretch ed, dirty, starved little newcomers be gin to blossom and grew as soon as they have hqgn bathed, olotbed and given a few rations of wholesome food.” Mrs. Newman says there ore thutgs the relief workers must think of as little u^ possible, and must turn away from when outside the orphanage gates, To attempt to aid all tbs starving people, or even children, would he utterly futile, she says, and would exhaust the Near East resources without permanently helping any. The orphanages lake la Just as many as ca« be managed safely “ We simply must Ignore the rest,” she writes. “ Just outside our Rites there ore scores of star ving children lying or sluing about listlessly, shiver ing in fikby rag«, with their little bone« fairly protruding through their skins. Many of them are sick and in pain, and they all beg piteously to be taken In every time they can catch the attention of any of the workers Many timpa wu have token In 'just one more’ mull It cannot be done again, else there would not be food enough for the one« we nlreudg have. Anothrr awful thing one may sec any day. are (he little qul»t bundles of rags lying on the sunny side of a wall or s hill side, just able to atlr feebly now aa 1 then, or to Hft up pleading little * k fui arms in supplication, If aayoi. passes They will lie In the same sp* t for days sometimes, before they b some qulf« still Then the Soviet can with Me itailp load of the dead, eomts sad picks up the little bundle. Jig I picture any one tjf the many mothait- la this tragic land—half-starved sad despairing aiad In rags and Uttui- wMh her naked babe In her arias, the little thing trying feebly to dsaw nou IflU ltr* from her drled-up breast- I toast not write of It. nor think of It. We muet all keep strong tor tti work that Is before us. and think aoD • f ths great good that we or*' Join. But I beg of you, never believe ths - there oan he any exaggeration In th> stories you hear at the sufferings and here In thto unban nr 1s